http://brandon.goldsworthy.name Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've (finally) removed the payday loan spam links from the sidebar. Also, you can now see what I'm doing between blog posts in two new ways: I now Twitter, and you can see what I've been reading using my Google Reader Shared feed by either visiting or subscribing ... http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2008/03/05/site-unhacked-plus-new-ways-to-follow-me/ Disney's retrofitting It's a Small World, Pirates of the Carribean, Pinocchio, and Alice In Wonderland rides in order to keep the boats from bottoming out. http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2007/10/30/americans-are-too-large-to-discover-its-a-small-world-after-all/ http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2007/10/12/puppy-video/ The setup: There's a recent news item on WOWInsider about a 'gold seller' (someone selling WOW gold for real world cash) advertising by spelling out the name of their website in dead gnomes. The challenge: Explain this news story to someone living in 1977. Background Information: Computers: 1977 is the year the Apple II ... http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2007/07/06/unpacking-the-zeitgeist/ The Closer to the Bone Baby Got Back You decide. http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2007/06/27/separated-at-birth-and-by-53-years/ Since the claim in the header of the "Vegetarian" style hasn't been true for about 6 months now, it's about time that I've made a new style for the site. Also, since the previous spam-fighting capcha thingy was working so well that nobody was able to post comments, and since removing ... http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2007/02/14/finally/ Day 18 "To this point, I’ve been a vegetarian for the entire month of November...While wandering around the grocery store comparing the cost effectiveness of rice versus beans, I came across some hotdogs. They were 88-cents. They were also labeled in Spanish. I paused for a minute to consider whether I ... http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2007/01/10/hungry-for-a-month/ I've installed the Image Captcha plugin from protectwebform.com to (hopefully) cut down on the amount of spam comments I have to deal with. It's currently running in a 'smart' mode where it will only show the captcha for 'suspicious' ip addresses. It didn't show it for me when I tested ... http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2006/12/12/testing-for-robots/ http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2006/12/12/my-superpower-is-cuddles/ ask wikipedia. http://brandon.goldsworthy.name/2006/09/21/buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo/