This one will be everywhere this week…

The creator of Wordpress, the CMS underpinning this site and thousands of others was approached about hosting hidden articles in order to game Google PageRank system for a significant amount of money. He took it and set up the spam without disclosing it to all of the saps running Wordpress linking back to his site.

I consider this more astroturfing than spam, given the lack of a direct human audience and complicit host. You are kidding yourself if you don’t think every major media producer and services provider doesn’t do the same thing every day. They hire professional advertising firms who then create a campaign visible in print, film and television media as well as the web. Where there is an advantage to be had in maybe hiring a few people mildly familiar with online communities to infiltrate and hype, it will be taken. They hide behind proxies. They feed fans pre-release information that ‘leaked’. They justify it in thinking that they are providing a service. Thoughts?

An acoustic dreadnaught 6-string is next.

9:30
Paul Westerberg
Late Show! 10pm Doors
FRI. APR. 29
$25.00

I’m going.

Google -> a blog post on sg:

Thursday March 31 @ 7:00 PM*

VENUE:

NATION
1015 Half Street
Washington DC 20001
USA

DETAILS:

NIN - “With Teeth” Listening Party!
Everyone who attends this party will receive a limited edition poster, and if you pre-order With Teeth at the listening party, you get an exclusive promo 7" vinyl with “The Hand That Feeds” and “Home” (a non-album track).

• Time is unsure.

No point here, just a ‘this happened to me’ story:

Two days ago, I’m skateboarding downhill on the sidewalk, park-side, of 16th St. By the halfway point down the hill the grade is steep enough that I stop pushing and just relax at a good pace and let gravity do the work. At the 3/4 point along the length of the park heading south, I notice some commotion around where the “th” in “16th” is in the map pictured.

A man backs into my path on the sidewalk with his hands up. A flashlight flickers up the street in my direction and then goes out. The man with his hands up walks out of vision again into the park as I register what is going on and decide that slowing down, which I normally do to keep from careening into Florida Avenue, might not be worth bothering with. I shot past the park’s south entrance, wheels screaming, and looked to my left to see a cop arresting the guy with a bit of resistance. I realized where I was and snapped out of watching, quickly looked to my right to make sure no cars were coming across Florida. Coast clear, I shot across Florida and pulled into the driveway at John and Ben’s building.

I’m a little more than an hour away from buying her…

Just need to wait for the shop to open.

Ralph Wiggum: Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck…

So I want a new guitar. The '93 Mexican Strat (stock) I saved minimum wage dollars to buy used has lasted me almost 10 years. I can afford better.

Last night I tried out two guitars at a local shop:

2005 Gibson Les Paul Studio

Seriously.

And not so seriously, my favorite has to be: Explosively space-modulated by an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

Oh, and near the bottom under submitted but not Earth Shattering: gay marriage.

I Did it. I think the note at the bottom of each is enough.

Re: blogging-since

I’ve also moved the litestep, winamp skins, and other shit into the searchable blog system. I’m now considering reposting all old spy shots by the date they were taken. I went from proto-blogging in 99 to what I guess is a format of photo-blogging or caming which at the time I called spying by just pushing screenshots up to a website pretty regularly showing what I was up to on my machine and didn’t return to text until '02. I have a tiny chunk but not nearly all of the down-to-the-second script.

Will: lol blogging at wikipedia down
Grant: haha
Grant: mm
Grant: normal to me
Grant: better than say
Grant: blogging about blogging
Grant or blogging about not posting in a while
Grant: fuck I hate when people do that
Will: true
Grant: or blogging about /.
Will: or blogging about cutting yourself
Grant: right