Lore Sjöberg offers The Ultimate Blog Post(s).
Category: BlogTalk
Pocket IceRocket
Hmmph. Why didn’t I hear about this before? IceRocket is a search engine for blogs; Type in “Thoth-Amon and you get both my last blog entry and Shiffer’s entry referencing it; enter בוג’י to get Vered’s friends talking about her or הטור השבועי to see that Yossi ownz0rs that phrase, at least for today.
I added it to Firefox’s search engines, but I find myself feeling embarrassed when I use it: the service’s already problematic icon looks even more disturbing when sized down.
So that’s what turned off LJ
Jason Levine on how a DDoS on Blue Security brought down Livejournal. Blue Security allegedly espouse flooding spammers with unsubscribe anti-spam-spam; Spammers attacked their site two days ago; in response, they apparently switched their main address to point to a typepad site. Levine: he best analogy I can think of is that it’d be like you dealing with a water main break in your basement by hooking a big hose up to the leaking joint and redirecting the water into your neighbor’s basement instead.
Israel’s greasemonkey user script to fix my theme with Superman colors.
Pinkosity, begone.
Still not 100% happy with the sidebar, but at least it doesn’t float anymore.
I like these colors better. Although, I’ve also dropped the background image that inspired them.