Married to the Sea (MTTS
) seems like a nice web comic (well, cross-clicking through the archives I found some episodes featuring the weird humor I appreciate in comics), until you read the FAQ:
We do not offer online syndication of TFD/ND/MTTS. You may not run a daily syndication or create/provide a public “feed” of TFD/ND/MTTS, RSS or otherwise.
[...] Online “syndication” deprives us of this income, as well as the ability to show new projects, bonus comics, and other additional content to our readers.
[...] You may not operate a daily “feed” of TFD/MTTS/ND.
Although I don’t think they actually may refrain anybody from checking the website for new submissions at intervals and automatically create a simple feed that only includes a link to the newest episode (so there’s nothing copyrighted in the feed).
But I really don’t like that attitude. Every popular web comic offers a feed, just as every remotely popular web comic offers a shop equipped with more-or-less witty and/or good-looking t-shirts and accessories. There is no reason, why the creators couldn’t advertise their shop or any specials in their feed… And the creators don’t seem like a .com-era
company, coming from a time where the number of page impressions
counted above everything…
As much as I dislike most aspects of the all-shiny Web 2.0
, the idea of feeds is quite brilliant — and, on second thought, the comic isn’t quite good enough to force me to visit the website manually every day…
Das Gengo
-Plugin für WordPress behauptet mehrsprachiges Bloggen zu unterstützen, was ich mit diesen vollends inhaltsleeren Post ausprobieren werde. In English und Deutsch. Wahnsinn.
The Gengo
-plugin for wordpress claims to support multilingual blogging, so I’ll give it a try with this utterly contentless post (which exists in english and german). Let’s see what happens!
5 Minutes later… There is no way to switch the current language in any human-compliant way. Gengo does come with two widgets, one displaying just a static list of available languages (wow.) and the other is supposed to (judging by the name) switch the displayed language, but due to major bugs in the JavaScript, it never works. And of course there is no fall-back to something non-scripty.
So I’ll keep up with my way of tagging the posts with their language code and some not very sophisticated magic in my custom theme to display some German messages, where appropriate.
On the non-fail side: another plugin/widget puts my currently listened-to albums somewhere (with JavaScript look at the top edge of the screen, without look at the bottom of the page). Yes, it’s really useless but I swear there won’t be anything like the mood
-descriptions or lolcats. Ever.
Google has the annoying habit of ignoring the language-setting in your browser and instead locating its users by georesolving their IP-addresses. Thus I get this message on accessing gmail.com:
If you’re traveling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.
Oh, and we’d like to link the URL above, but we’re not allowed to do that either. Bummer.
I doubt this text will stay online long :)
People might call it unprofessional…
I see no use at all in Snap, the annoying service that pops up a postage-stamp sized, way too high compressed, and thus completely useless screenshot of the linked-to websites when the mouse resides on a link. It only does so on websites which include Snap’s script, when this would be so much better suited as a browser extension that can either be disabled (or just not be installed) or that works on all websites.
This annoying website of mine, probably shows a pop-up message when viewed with Firefox under Windows, whining about missing fonts nobody needs, cares for, nor is in any way likely to download, just because some suspicious-looking pop-up said so. And I’m tremendously pleased to announce, that it also does so on Snap’s screenshot-cluster, which then looks like this:
Spectacular. I wonder, though, why the window has no title-bar… They seem to use Windows, or some Redmond
-themed linux without a window-manager…
