archGFX » ads http://archgfx.net Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sarah Marshall is evil http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:09:33 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil Chicago's been overrun with the faux-ARG billboards about Sarah Marshall, which point to the faux-blog for one of the characters. From there, you'll land on the site for the trailer:

DL validation
The most shocking thing is that they're not kidding: they're actually validating against your driver's license or something close to it. For sites that don't require any sort of "real life" presence, I don't use my real name. I usually use sunburntkamel as a last name. This time, the site wouldn't let me enter without using my real last name. Don't believe me? Here's a thread full of people sorting it out.

I don't know who sold that list, but I'm shocked that people aren't more upset about it. Not only does it teach people to be phished1, It doesn't even come close to protecting minors. C'mon, how many kids don't know their parent's names and birthdays?


  1. Providing private data across unencrypted channels to untrustworthy parties
]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil/feed 0 I want my own tags http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/i-want-my-own-tags http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/i-want-my-own-tags#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 02:20:19 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/i-want-my-own-tags

also, this is funny and cute.  you tube is cool and all, but sometimes i miss video quality

]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/i-want-my-own-tags/feed 0 Freedom 4 – The Freedom to claim others’ work as your own http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:16:00 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/freedom-4-the-freedom-to-claim-others-work-as-your-own The GPL is a pain in the ass. seriously. It seems that lullacons are the only GPL game in town. I went to check out the Microformats Icons, since i figured that an open standard would have to be devoid of attribution, and owned by a governing body. looks like microformats aren't that globally minded yet.

they do have cool icons, though:

tag-lt-blue

but they can't be distributed with wordpress themes. It's not that i don't want to attribute the author. it's the the FSF doesn't want that to be a requirement upon users of the software. which is why most linux software uses the standard KDE or GNOME icons: it's too difficult to find their own, or make an entirely new set.

In other news, after the last bit of ads-in-themes arm-waving, and free beer license wavingpointy-headedness, a solution from scott's themes occured to me:

with a little bit of str_replace() and printf() magic (that i'm especially proud of learning), that input produces this footer:

footer credit

which of course, allows a user to maintain my credit or not, without having to touch code. of course, they could also take the opportunity to say 'based on', if they've modified it, but i'm not sure how likely either course of action is. It would solve the 'ads-in-themes' issue for most people, i would think, since it makes it dead simple to change/remove, if the ad is included the same way. except, of course, it won't solve it for matt, who's thinks he's protecting google's algorithms. for him, it'd have to be done in javascript. which i won't do because

UPDATE: The tag icon is here. Here are some light blue ones to match the microformat icons:

tag square add tag tag rss

(obviously these are CC-by-sa, based on the work by  Wolfgang Bartelme).

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  • How is it that automattic can complain about users not knowing the difference between their commercial service, and the open source blogging tool, when they continue to blur and erase the line themselves? and if we assume that it's not a mistake, and they meant to use their 2nd most popular plugin to advertise wordpress.com in user's sidebars, wouldn't that contradict Matt's whining about PPP and TLA?
  • Reverend Ted has novell's jab at the mac vs. pc ads. Novell continues to distance themselves from other linuxes (linuxi?) by not taking a whiny nerd-boy stab at apple, but actually shifting the discussion. making linux a woman makes apple immediately look sexist. remember the one woman in the mac ads? she was a peripheral(second class citizen much?) and involved in substantial confusion between networks and peripherals (typical of most mac fanboys, in my experience).
  • i don’t know what these stats are. or why they keep showing up in my dashboard. they could be my overall stats if the years were different.
  • I really like the ideas forum. as much as opensearch and noindex could be theme competencies, they make more sense as wordpress core competencies. i really don't want to be responsible for correctly addressing introspection.
  • this slide is brilliant. yet another reason i love last.fm. i'm not quite sure why that woman has become such a "receptacle for people's rage" (the wifest's words). lettting that sort of slander be a defining characteristic of last.fm's service was bringing them down.
  • i have a twitter page now, but no use for it. other than keeping track of the wordpress.com servers.
  • i'm using mr. messina's filigree graphic everywhere, because it's so easy to color. i need to find a GPL replacement for it, or draw my own, though. GPL graphics are damn hard to find.
    • ]]>     http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/buckshot/feed 5     surely the horse is dead http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/surely-the-horse-is-dead http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/surely-the-horse-is-dead#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:09:31 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/surely-the-horse-is-dead i thought we beat this thing pretty good the last time we had it out?  i guess not.  When the producers of halo: the movie hire the skins factory to design them a wordpress theme, can we sell tickets to watch garry conn's head explode?
    h/t themey

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