(Anti) Social-Lists 6/14/09
As with many of my posts, this one has been done in advance. While this is being published and you are starting to stop by and read it, I am still in the midst of the slumber party. I might need extra recovery time ;-)
This week we have WordPress, IE6 hacks, a lot of humor, and more … Where’s my coffee?
- Geek Chart – I found this one via my friend David Bradley. Put in your usernames from the social networks you belong to and get a pie chart telling you which ones you are most active on. Surprisingly, I was most active on delicious – I bookmark a lot but I thought twitter or my website would be first. You don’t have to create an account to use this tool although the site makes it look as if you do.
- 30 Sites Every Freelance Should Visit and Utilize – An awesome list of resources for freelancers. I haven’t gotten through all of it but I plan to.
- Using Custom Taxonomies to Create a Movie Database – Custom Taxonomies are going to be used mostly by developers in WordPress 2.8. I understood them theoretically but was really please to see a practical use of them. I would like to try this with a video game database.
- 24,504 Reasons to Burn Books – A really funny look at really crappy self-help books.
- Why Wait Buy Now – Valerie might not be a celebrity but you can buy all kinds of her crap from Vbay ;-) I’ve got dibs on the remaining show from the monster chase.
- 10 Properties that “were” impossible to implement in IE6 – Ask any developer or designer how she feels about IE 6 and I bet you get a really negative response. Here’s a list of workarounds for things that we didn’t think could be done in that “browser”.
- Poke My Name – All kinds of fun and silly facts about your name. Ever wanted to see your name as a barcode? Seriously, who hasn’t?
- People Who Need Pupa Are The Pluckiest People The Original Gross Lady is back in her kitchen cooking disgusting things, photgraphing it and then making her brother eat it. He’s a brave man.
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Karate Cat
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The Kitten and the Couch
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Hammer Pants Dance – The Best Flash Mob Ever
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June 14, 2009 at 7:03 am
Awesome, I’ve always wanted to know which other names are arithmetically compatible with mine!
I love the book-burning article too – how in the world did these books actually get published?
June 14, 2009 at 8:11 am
Hi Adrenalynn – The advice in those self help books is really funny. And
that someone went through those books and pulled out all of that info.
June 14, 2009 at 11:51 am
Awesome list, Kim!
The self help article was REALLY funny. And I love karate cat.
I’m not going to comment on the Hammer dance. ;-)
June 15, 2009 at 8:12 am
Hi Jim – I love the Hammer Dance – it makes me laugh every time I
watch it.
June 14, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Thanks for the link to “10 Properties that “were” impossible to implement in IE6″, as many others I hate IE6, but many of the visitors to my site still using it so I have to take extra steps to make sure web elements works fine for them too.
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June 15, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hi – That is a great list of workarounds – but I can’t stand dealing with
IE6.
June 15, 2009 at 2:39 am
The freelance resources is definitely a good find (saved to delicious). Thank you for posting that.
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June 15, 2009 at 8:13 am
Hi Carla – That’s a good one. :-)
June 15, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I dislike Poke my name immensely after getting this message:
“We couldn’t find name SIEL in our database which has 74,738 names that are compiled from 702,203 Americans. Have you spelled it correctly?”
Why must name-related sites always treat me this way!? :P
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June 15, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Hi Siel – I bet it’s like that with anything personalized like fridge magnets ;-) What does Siel mean in English?
When I was a kid I used to have a hard time finding Kim – the assumption is that your name is Kimberly – and my parents named me Kim.
June 17, 2009 at 8:10 pm
My husband loves kitten in the couch. Is the Karate Cat video-shopped though? The first cat seems a bit strange.
I tried out Geek chart a while ago… I’m trying to keep myself from overloading the sidebar, but that one is tempting!
~ Kristi
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June 18, 2009 at 8:40 am
Hi Kristi – I was wondering that too – the first time I saw that video I thought the cat was fake – until it moved.