My linkblog is now up on ReadBurner

For those who don't already know, I use Google Reader for all my RSS needs. It's a great, simple interface, with tons of useful bells and whistles under the hood. It also gives me the ability to share RSS items into a "linkblog", or a listing of all the items I've shared, as you can see here: Dan Russell's linkblog (which is, quite excellently, also available via RSS)

Now a site called ReadBurner comes along which allows anyone with a Google Reader linkblog to submit their linkblog RSS feed for aggregation. It's like digg for Google Reader. The idea is that by going to ReadBurner, you can see which news stories are being shared by thte most Google Reader users, and are hence more popular. You can also easily who (if any) have shared the same items as you. It's quite awesome, and I'm looking forward to seeing it develop. It may end up having some excellent SEO/SEM applications as well.

Have a look at my linkblog burned by ReadBurner.

High Note - The Cartoon with the Drunken Musical Notes

This is one of my all-time favorite Warner Bros cartoons. It features musical notes getting too drunk to be played properly, and I love it fantastically.

CT Sketch Comedy by ApostropheNow

Rob and Fransisco from my improv class put this one together. Rob plays Valentine Jenkins himself.

Internal blog linking... the clip show of the blogosphere.

Because almost every blog I read does entries where they link to other entries on the same blog, I thought I'd do the same with some of my favorite entries, but in true clip show style:

So, today I got out of bed and looked over to my Wii, hoping it would be sporting a rich, glowing blue, indicating that I have a message waiting for me. No luck. But it sure reminded me of that time I made a portal for the Nintendo Wii browser called Wii Links. It's got links to a ton of neat Wii sites.

I can't believe that the Wii dropped support for MP3s in the Photo Channel. Not that I ever used the feature, but it was nice to know it was there. I love the way Excite Truck uses MP3s from your SD card as the soundtrack. Speaking of soundtracks... do you remember that time that I linked to a page I made of every single MP3 from the 2006 SXSW festival's website? It sure beat clicking through the site's levels-deep structure for every single song.

I'm pretty sure SXSW features a comedian or two each year. Comedians are funny. John Hodgman's a funny guy, but I wouldn't exactly call him a comedian. I guess he falls under the unfortunate label of "humorist", which usually means you try really hard to be clever, and you get someone's grandmother to laugh. This year, I "read" (I'm already getting sick of my own qualifier quotes) Hodgman's audiobook The Areas of My Expertise. It was a free iTunes download. I didn't recognize the name when I downloaded it, even though I was previously familiar with his work on the Daily Show and in those ads where that hacker from Die Hard 4 makes him look like an ass. The book: brilliant. But I feel the writing style infringed on something I wrote well before I read The Hodg's book: a brief piece entitled: A History Lesson. I also liked that the audiobook introduced me to Jonathan Coulton, without which I would have lived my life forever deprived of the sweet joy that is Code Monkey [MP3].

Man, it sure was great to look back on all that old content and call it new content by adding contrived segues. It's great to look back, but don't call it retro. After all, is it retro if it's not YOUR past?