It’s been a good run, but now I must bid adieu to my old avatar, Frank, the lovely creation from the mind of Jim Woodring.
Old avatar:
New avatar:
This new avatar (a portion of a screenshot from the game Elevator Action) shows that I mean business, and won’t hesitate to knock you out with a well-placed ass-hit to the face.
You have been warned!
Did you know that the fictional comic book character Peter Parker, who would later become Spider-Man, grew up in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens?
Did you know that the punk group the Ramones were from that same neighborhood in Queens?
Did you know that the Ramones covered the theme song from the 1960’s Spider-Man cartoon?
Well, you do now.
The Ramones – Spider-Man
When I was a kid I used to always see images of faces in my surroundings. The closest term I have found to describe this phenomenon is pareidolia. It doesn’t happen to me as much as it used to, but every once in a while I’ll see one.
Tim has a nifty little set of photos on his photography page of everyday objects that appear to have faces.
Today I happened to glimpse the USB end of my iPod connector cable and saw a face looking at me.
So here it is. For some reason, I think the cable looks very pleased with itself — maybe because it’s proud of the bitchin’ pitchfork t-shirt it’s sporting.
Hey, let’s visit with another domain name extension. This time we’ll be visiting the pages of Cuba (.cu).
I’m going to be linking to pages that are in the English language. Please realize that whatever I’m reading might be tailored for an English-reading audience. If I wasn’t estúpido I would speak Spanish and be able to read a lot more pages in their domain.
Oh well. Soy estúpido.
One thing I noticed about Cuban webpages is that they were quite slow to load. I’m not sure for the reason of this. If anyone not in the US wants to try and visit some Cuban pages, let me know if it’s any faster, wouldja?
So what’s on Cuban websites?
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Frequently Asked Questions about the cuban radio (Portal of the Cuban Radio in the Internet)
179 countries vote against the blockade at the UN (Cuba vs Blockade)
Discuba Home Page. Cuban Music Shop
Alfredo Guevara will Make his memoirs ( CUBA: News and informations of art and culture-CUBASI.COM — April 3, 2008)
Okay, this last link isn’t in English, but I saw that it was some sort of baseball page. I just thought it was too nifty to not include here.
CubaSi.cu: Béisbol Cubano
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If you want to do your own searching of the .cu domain, you can use Google to enter your search criteria, adding the text site:.cu.
For example, here’s a search for Splotchy:
I’m happy to inform you that A Blog Of Notes continues to expand into unexpected, interesting directions.
My fellow sounds contributor Tim has taken a lovely toy elephant toy sound and set it to a beat here.
It’s quite the dancy love jingle!
Okay, one last test. Though I am not promising this is my last test.
I predict that if there is only one word in a post title and it’s a normally omitted word, it will be used in the HTML filename regardless.
I imagine they have some extra little bit of logic in the Blogger code to handle this situation.
UPDATE:
Interesting! They actually don’t keep the omitted word, but substituted a generic “blog-post.html” as the HTML filename.
I imagine no one reading these test posts think they are remotely interesting, but I’m all geekily proud of myself. Good job, L’il Splotchy!
Another test.
This one is going to rawk.
UPDATE:
Oh Blogger I am so on to you.
The HTML file name is “an-a-the-an.html”.
A An The A An The A An The
Another test. You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?
UPDATE:
Name of the HTML filename is “the-the-the.html”.
I think my theory may be correct.
The The The The The The The
Hi, I’m just testing something here.
I don’t know if you notice this kinda stuff, but I do.
If you have “Enable Post Pages” set to Yes on the Archive section of your blog settings, each post you create actually results in the creation of a separate webpage.
The name of the webpage filename will be some form of what the title of your post is.
For example, for my Negative Space Signage Update post, the name of its HTML page is “negative-space-signage-update.html”.
There are rules which cause deviations from this naming convention. For example, if your post title is really long, your HTML filename will just use the first handful of words (if I am bored at some point, maybe I’ll figure out the length where the cutoff occurs). If your post title has punctuation, the punctuation is omitted from the HTML filename.
I have also noticed some common words (“a”, “an”, “the”) are omitted as well. For example, Here Come The Birds becomes “here-come-birds.html”.
Which brings us to this post. What if I have a post that only consists of words that are normally omitted?
I don’t know what’s going to happen.
So, I publish this, and hope Blogger doesn’t break. Although it would be kinda cool if I broke Blogger.
UPDATE:
Crazy… The title of the webpage of this post is “the-the.html”.
I’m wondering if the first “The” is disregarded, then it takes whatever follows the “The” as a word for the post title.
Something like this
The The The The The
Oh you can bet I’ll be testing this some more. More excitement to follow!
Hey, let’s visit with another domain name extension. This time we’ll be visiting the pages of Iraq (.iq).
I’m going to be linking to pages that are in the English language. Please realize that whatever I’m reading might be tailored for an English-reading audience.
One might think that there would be a plethora of Iraqi pages in English, but one would be mistaken.
So what’s on Iraqi websites?
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Ministry of Electricity – Rationalization
University of Baghdad working to be active partner at the Proposed Initiative of MIT LINC (University of Baghdad e-Portal — 03/16/2008)
Traffic Martyrs Pictures (Iraq Traffic Police)
Ministry of Trade discusses impediments conveyance the ration card items and make the solutions in front of the council of ministers. (Iraq Ministry of Trade – News)
Iraq Operation unit in Amman (UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency)
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If you want to do your own searching of the .iq domain, you can use Google to enter your search criteria, adding the text site:.iq.
For example, here’s a search for Splotchy: