Heinz releases a commercial. In the commercial, a stereotypical family is starting a stereotypical day. The mother is preparing lunches for the family, getting it right for each of the children. The father comes in, of course, in a rush, and takes his lunch. The wife calls out to get her kiss, just like in every 1950s sitcom ever.

The catch in this commercial is that "Mum" was actually a guy in a deli outfit, little paper hat included. And the father shares a kiss with the man. And retard parents got in an uproar over that.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/24/asa.advertising?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront) (follow the link to see the commercial) (more…)

Most of you will recognize the image at left, the share icon that has taken over the blog world. I forgot who came up with the icon, but (edit) Tom gave me the proper link. My first thought was, "Oh god. I hope it doesn't become popular." But it did, and now everyone has a horrible, non-semantic icon littering their blog or news source. (edit) Pre-iterating, I'm not knocking Alex King's icon, just the semantics. (more…)

Just some bug fixes. This post was actually testing the plugin so give it a few minutes to appear.

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Removed user's need for developer API to match Ping.fm's API changes. You should update if you are using an older version.

On my todo list was: make s3nt timestamps based on milliseconds instead of seconds

And I didn't do it. What happened was that two people posted a link at the same second, and it wasn't returning the right latest row and therefore the new hash for the short link had already been used by the real latest link.

This has been fixed. I wish I had been notified by someone because it was that way for a couple days…