- Not one email about the opening of Bubba Ho-Tep tonight. Well, if it’s just me, maybe I’ll do a matinee on Saturday instead.
- Remember BlogShares? It’s closed down now:
It’s a little sad that it’s gone, but the server had been slow enough that I haven’t even checked it in months. [boing boing]I am sorry to announce that BlogShares will not be reopening after the current technical difficulties are resolved. Currently, the database server is dead and looks to be for the next few days.
The latest system crash has highlighted to me that deliverying a fun, useful service for the BlogShares community requires an active operator and developer. As most of you are no doubt aware I’ve been neither for the past couple of months. That has led to a decline of quality service, new features and ultimately income for the site and it looked likely that there wouldn’t be enough to pay for next month’s hosting.
- Here’s the real reason why geeks stay fat. Sad, but true.
- What’s the Newest tattoo trend? Removal. That’d be a big part of why I’ve never gotten a tattoo. I have a good enough imagination to see how stupid things I think are cool now will look in five or ten years. [fark!]
- Alice Cooper gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. More at CNN too, including the money-quote:
I promise every time I walk down this street I will polish that little star.
Pictures at Alice’s official website (for now). [jim] - A Single Guy in the South has a description of how to Get the Number of that attractive person you’re looking at in the bar.
- If that doesn’t work out for you and you decide to just get bombed, Modern Drunkard Magazine presents The 86 Rules of Boozing. Fine advice.
- Interested at all in the business of making hooch rather than drinking it? Or just curious why aged whiskies cost what they do? Go read The Malt Whisky Yield Curve and find out why whisky that’s sat longer in a cask is worth more. [colby cosh]
- And after you’re good and boozed-up, you can play Truth or Dare Online? The people on cam do dares that you ask for. There is a section called “dare or not” where you can rate images of dares. There’s also Darester where you can auction off you audaciousness, or bid on making someone else look like a boob. Safe for some workplaces, since there’s no graphic imagery unless you start clicking around. [some college student]