G’day, Bingo Viewers!
There’s been an uptick over the last few weeks in site visitors clicking on links to Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo #2 – since comments on those posts have been long closed, I invite you to comment here instead, should you feel so inclined.
Downfall parody: #QantasLuxury
An example of when STFU might be a wonderfully good idea: attempting to get a pissed-off customer base to give you warm PR fuzzies might just not be the best idea within weeks of stranding 80K of them a long way away from where they actually wanted to be
Redux: Hey, I’ve been busy, how about you?
Too busy for normal blogging, so I thought I’d let you in on some of the webwrangling work I’ve been doing:
Bingo Card: My Need For Female Attention Outweighs Your Lack of Interest or Sense of Safety
Reading an old thread about self-proclaimed “nice guys” who refuse to take no for an answer, I realised that we had thrown around the idea of a bingo card in comments.
Blogrolling
I’m in a tinkering mood rather than a writing mood today. Also: Segue Time! Thank you, internets.
Admin note: RSS feeds
If you changed your subscription a couple of years ago, as requested, to our new Hoyden feed for the new domain, then you shouldn’t be seeing anything different in your feed-reader. If you are not a content-aggregator site, then you can now ignore this post. If you are seeing a change in your feed, and you are one of our personal subscribers via a feed-reader, here’s how to get your full feed back:
Were you online in ’95-ish?
Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.
Sexist joke bingo
In collaboration with Hoydenizens and others, a bingo card for arguments in defence of sexist jokes, specifically, the variants on “but it was FUNNY”.
On the not Grokking of Internet Bingo Cards
Let me hand a depressingly large number of people an embarrassingly obvious cluestick: nobody gets to yell BINGO! on marking just one square.
Maintenance Note: offline for a while
Something in the backend is going a bit off-kilter. I’ve put the blog into maintenance mode while I try and sort it out. That means only those of you on feed-readers will see this post for a while.
Reporting in
My computer is being silly, and I’m having to debug. This is going to delay the carnival even more…
Signal Boost: Do Your Own Homework, Please
After the umpteenth email over the last few months that uses almost exactly the same words, I have written An Open Letter to US College Students over at FF101.
Testing twitter auto-update
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