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What's Up With One-Word Search Hits?
2008-07-18 07:22:00 Dear LazyWeb (as Jamie Zawinski would say), Every now and then, I get one-word search hits from MS's Live.com. Example: It's always like this. Like some bot was going through a dictionary file and visiting every hit returned from each word. It's almost never in groups like this, usually only one or two at a time. I'm not even on the first page for these words. These are the only kinds of hits I get from search.live.com, and every other search engine comes in with normal searches, never with a single word (unless it's a very uncommon word). Just out of curiosity, I was wondering if anybody else has noticed this and what does it mean. Is this an SEO study, or is it really how MSN indexes the web?
Hi There
2008-06-20 08:08:00 Hi! This is Callum here - co-owner of Energise. You will have heard exclusively from Ross on the Blog so far, who does an excellent job keeping everyone up to date. I’ve decided to start writing a few posts on here too, with interesting news, any distinctions I’ve made in the world of ...
TFTS Gets A Fresh New Look [TFTS V3 At Your Service]
2008-06-11 00:45:00 Its been a while in the making and its taken a non-stop 48 hour stint ? hence no posts during this period - to tweak it to match our initial ?vision?, but at last the new look is now live and (touching wood) we appear to have most the creases ...
Movie Updates
2008-06-09 05:57:00 I just spent couple of hours adding more movies to the site. They are mostly Korean movies as I don’t know that much about movies from other countries. If you know the titles or know where I can get more information about other movies, please let me know. The recent additions are… -almost love -happiness -marrying the ...
New England Transgender Pride March: Photos and Reflections
2008-06-08 17:13:00 The first-ever New England Transgender Pride March took place this weekend in Northampton, and I was there with my "Episcopal Church Welcomes You" rainbow tank top and a digital camera to capture the pageantry. I was hoping to blend into the MassEquality contingent, but they were scattered around other groups this time, so I just milled around looking like I knew what I was doing, and took lots of pictures. Next thing I knew, someone had handed me a bunch of purple and white balloons, and I was marching behind the lead banner, shouting "Trans Pride Now". Without either of my moms this time, I felt anxious that I didn't have the right to be there. Straight allies are important, but on the other hand, was I co-opting someone else's oppressed subculture? (I had a Native American Studies professor in college who was apoplectic about this.) The fact is, when you're genuinely weird, and view all human social categories as potential idols to be decons...
By: Reiter's Block
5,445 Kilometers
2008-06-08 10:11:00 My route through Western Australia. Click for a bigger image. That’s 3,383 miles to those of you in the U.S. of A. Since I left Darwin, I’ve been to three World Heritage Sites, seen all manner of Australian road-kill, been next to wild crocodiles, whale sharks, humpback whales, venomous sea snakes. and have gained a very deep ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5,445 Kilometers", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/08/5445-kilometers"- });
Win Probability Updates
2008-06-07 09:37:00 FanGraphs now has Win Probability statistics for 1974 onward, with the exception of 1999. They are also now park adjusted with the exception of this current year. I’m working on that. Roger Clemens leads all pitchers in WPA with 75 wins. Greg Maddux is second with 55 wins. Barry Bonds leads all batters in ...
By: The RotoFeed
Civilization!
2008-06-07 03:40:00 I’ve arrived in Geralton, which is about four hours north of Perth. Prior to arriving here, the landscape changed. Trees appeared where there were only bushes before. Farms, power lines, fences and other things you see in rural areas appeared out of the nothingness. Today I’ll stop in the Pinnacle Desert before arriving in Perth. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Civilization!", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/06/civilization" });
Trans Pride Tomorrow and Other News
2008-06-06 17:33:00 The first-ever New England Transgender Pride March and Rally will be held tomorrow at 11 AM in our very own Northampton, Mass. From the TransPrideMarch website: The event is organized by members of the trans and gender variant community, and their allies, with the intent of taking a visible and positive stand for transgender rights. The March and Rally is dedicated to diverse representation among organizers and participants. We seek to educate and build awareness of the movement against gender-based discrimination.Come join MassEquality in gathering petition signatures urging our state legislators to support HB 1722, an amendment to the Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws that would add protections for gender identity and expression.In other news:*Kittredge Cherry's groundbreaking book Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ and More was one of five Lambda Literary Awards nominees in the LGBT Arts and Culture category. See a video of her reading from the book and telling some of...
By: Reiter's Block
New Website
2008-06-05 09:25:00 I’ve decided to refute the unfortunate website Why Won’t God Heal Amputees point by point. The format will be similar to God is NOT Imaginary. I’ve already got two chapters done! Check out the new website at http://godandamputees.wordpress-.com. Eventually, I hope to give God is NOT Imaginary and God and Amputees their own domain names. That ...
Leaderboard Update
2008-06-05 07:39:00 I’ve made some changes to the leaderboards. You can no longer display all the rows, but there is a handy export button which will let you export all the rows into either excel or a csv file. If this is a real issue for you, let me know, but I have my reasons ...
By: The RotoFeed
Daily Travel Photo - Queensland, Australia
2008-06-04 20:51:00 Looking down on people on 4 Mile Beach, Whitsunday Island Originally posted on Everything Everywhere Travel ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Travel Photo - Queensland, Australia", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/04/daily-travel-phot-o-queensland-australia-4" });
My Story "Dinosaurs Divorce" Published on The Writing Site
2008-06-04 18:02:00 My story "Dinosaurs Divorce", an excerpt from one of my novels-in-progress, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction from The Writing Site, an online resource for fiction writers, and is now posted on their website. (For reasons that are not evident in this early chapter, this post is not actually a departure from our "Pride Month" theme...) Here's the opener: We were gypsies, we were grifters, we were untenured faculty. After I was born, my mother left her beloved Manhattan and we embarked on the wandering life of an adjunct poetry professor, which as you might expect is about as lucrative as it was in Chaucer's day, adjusted for inflation. "And where are you from, Prudence?" Mrs. Litwin or Barone or Vasquez would chirp as I stood up before yet another elementary-school class, and I'd proudly recite, "New York and Cleveland and Durham and Lackawanna and..." I must have sounded like a train conductor.I probably didn't appreciate how little mo...
By: Reiter's Block
Gary Swims With The Fishes (Big Fishes)
2008-06-04 13:40:00 Whale Shark. Images by wjwinoz I saw some pretty cool things the last two days: sea snakes, sand sharks, humpback whales, and the grand whale shark. On Tuesday I did a dive on the navy pier. The pier is supposed to be one of the “Top 10 dives in the world”, a title which probably 100 ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gary Swims With The Fishes (Big Fishes)", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/04/gary-swims-with-t-he-fishes-big-fishes" });
Daily Travel Photo - Sarawak, Malaysia
2008-06-03 20:10:00 The mouth of Deer Cave. This photo really doesn’t give an impression for how big the entrance to this cave is. You could easily put a stadium inside of it. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Travel Photo - Sarawak, Malaysia", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/03/daily-travel-phot-o-sarawak-malaysia-4" });
Player Linker Updated
2008-06-03 07:49:00 For those of you who don’t browse our post archives from many years ago, you may be interested in knowing that we have a tool where you can enter the text of your article and it will put html tags around the player names linking them back to FanGraphs. It’s mainly use it internally, but there ...
By: The RotoFeed
What do you get when you cross a whale and a shark?
2008-06-03 04:00:00 I’ve seldom been in the right place at the right time on my trip. I wasn’t in Tonga to see whales, I wasn’t in Hawaii when lava was flowing, and I wasn’t in Japan to see the cherry blossoms. I finally lucked out and the whalesharks are currently in Exmouth! I honestly had no idea ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What do you get when you cross a whale and a shark?", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/02/what-do-you-get-w-hen-you-cross-a-whale-and-a-sha-rk" });
Daily Travel Photo - Sydney, NSW, Australia
2008-06-02 20:08:00 “View of Sydney Harbor from the Harbor Bridge Originally posted on Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Travel Photo - Sydney, NSW, Australia", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/02/daily-travel-phot-o-sydney-nsw-australia" });
Stats Pages Updated
2008-06-02 07:38:00 Couple quick updates to the stats pages. Each section now has a header and each section is now linkable. So if you’d like to send someone to the Plate Discipline stats or the Pitch Type stats, you no longer need to tell them to scroll to the bottom of the page. Just ...
By: The RotoFeed
Pride Month at Reiter's Block
2008-06-01 22:21:00 June is Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Transgender Pride Month. Why do I care? Perhaps some of you have been wondering why a straight, married woman has such a queer blog. There are several reasons why this issue has become my particular passion.On a personal level, I was parented by two women, and experienced firsthand how homophobia among our relatives and neighbors cut us off from an essential support network. When you can't even admit that you are a family, you can't ask your teachers or friends for help with family problems, which then are compounded by shame and isolation. Growing up with two very different women also taught me that there were diverse ways of being female. You could wear eyeshadow and long flowing blouses, read Victorian children's stories, pretend to be a flamenco dancer, and swear like a longshoreman. You could wear motorcycle jackets, pump your biceps, and cook gourmet French meals. So naturally, at the age of six, I decided I wanted to be a pirate king. I still do. The...
By: Reiter's Block
Daily Travel Photo - Okinawa, Japan
2008-06-01 20:06:00 The city of Naha on the island of Okinawa, Japan Originally posted on Everything Everywhere Travel ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Travel Photo - Okinawa, Japan", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/06/01/daily-travel-phot-o-okinawa-japan" });
Clean Sweep
2008-06-01 01:52:00 I’m leaving Broome today. I have a 6-7 hour drive to Port Headland where I’ll stay overnight before I head to Exmouth. Almost the entire coast between here and Port Headland is beach. It is known as 80 Mile Beach, which is an understatement because it is much longer than 80 miles. If you look ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Clean Sweep", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/05/31/clean-sweep" });
Player Search Update
2008-05-31 18:30:00 I’ve updated player searching. I think it works a lot better now and hopefully you will too. Minor league and major league players now appear on one page and the search algorithm is now much better at picking up misspelled player names and inexact matches.
By: The RotoFeed
1913 Intel Site News
2008-05-31 01:01:00 If you’re new to 1913 Intel then welcome. Thanks for coming. You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been focusing on YouTube videos more and more in the last few weeks. Generally, I post articles then later go back and try to add YouTube videos for each article. I like watching the videos myself, so hopefully you’ll ...
By: 1913 Intel
Spirit of Exploration
2008-05-30 03:32:00 I was asked by Bombay Sapphire (the makers of fine Gin) to write an article for a blog they set up on the Spirit of Exploration. Here is a sample: In the early years of the 21st century we, the human race, find ourselves on a planet where almost everything which can be explored has. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Spirit of Exploration", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/05/29/spirit-of-explora-tion" });
Car Accident!!!
2008-05-29 06:30:00 I had a little too much excitement on my way home from work, a car accident. Read more to find out what happened and to help me select a replacement vehicle.
By: OpTempo
Link Submission Fixed
2008-05-28 09:14:00 Someone has brought it to my attention that our link directory submission form was not working. We have addressed this issue and you may now submit links to your blogs, Podcasts, and other fun gay sites. Please note that we don't require a link back, however sites that do link back with the code provided will get a featured listing. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
TV Hot Spot: SITE NEWS!
2008-05-25 21:24:00 May 25th 2008: Its ALMOST Here!Entry by: Sal(For more Blog Entries, simply look on the right hand side of the blog under the title "Blog Entries")Entry #8 (25th May 2008)All I have to say is...ARE YOU READY?TV Hot Spot, is coming back in ONE WEEK! Mark your calenders now because your No.1 TV Blog is BACK on the Web and back in action on the 1st of June 2008!Not long to go, and I'll be filling you in on all the new shows and the returning ones as well. Believe me, I have tons of new footage, that have been given to me EXCLUSIVELY, that I want to share with all of you. I know your dying to know more, but you just have to wait one more week.Exams are ALMOST over, and I'll be flying home this Friday.Get Ready Summer!TV HOT SPOT......Is BACK!Blessed Be,Bye for now!Sal
By: TV Hot Spot
Jaded City Returns Soon...
2008-05-25 03:38:00 The Jaded City weekly show is coming back with brand spanking new episodes starting this Monday with Tristin and Matty. As you can see above, not only is Jaded City getting a makeover, but so has Tristin. You know what they say, blonds have more fun. Check back Monday to see if this is really true. Our brand new site is completely done and ready to launch, check out this weeks show to find out when and how this will happen. You can also win early access to the new site before anyone else. Sorry for the long delay in the relaunch of our show and site, but perfection can't be rushed you know... Also, Matty is on his way to New York City for Gay Pride and the boys plan to terrorize the streets of the city. Be sure to check out a special extended Gay Pride episode of the show on June 30th. Are you going to be in the city for gay pride? Want to hang out and party with boys? More details on this coming soon...
TFTS Downtime Today 23/05/08
2008-05-23 17:22:00 Just a quick note to apologise for the downtime we have experienced today (23/05/08) and for any inconvenience it may have caused, especially for those being unceremoniously ejected from the site whilst browsing ? the issue appears to have been centred on the fact that the hosting company we rent our server from experienced some major technical difficulties which, obviously, were completely beyond our control.
Videos from Spring Open House at Writers in Progress
2008-05-23 17:11:00 Last week I read from my novel-in-progress with several very talented women who were fellow alumnae of Dori Ostermiller's Writers in Progress workshops in Florence, MA. My husband taped the performances on his new "Flip" camera, which are linked below for your viewing pleasure. Each segment is about 10-15 minutes, except for the intro, which is shorter.Introduction by Writers in Progress workshop leader Dori Ostermiller: Sharron Vaillette reads from her memoir about faith healers and her mother's cancer: Dusty Miller recounts a budding attraction between two young feminists, one of whom has a terrible secret: Jendi Reiter reads her prizewinning story "Julian's Yearbook", a tale of erotic awakening at a homophobic high school: Kate Kahn reads a poignant short story about a young woman in a 1950s trailer park who hopes for a better life: Kyra Anderson relates the comic mishaps of a family trip to Mexico with her young son, who has Asperger's Syndrome: Stephanie Faucher reads from ...
By: Reiter's Block
Couple of New Things
2008-05-21 01:09:00 I just wanted to point out a couple of new things on FanGraphs: - In the leaderboard section you can now filter the pitch type by NL/AL and Starters/Relievers. This can be done for the new plate discipline stats for batters and the pitch type data for pitchers. - The game graphs now have a sidebar ...
By: The RotoFeed
Theory of Travel Evolution
2008-05-19 14:55:00 I’m off to Darwin in a few hours to begin the western half of my Australia adventure. I’m going to miss Cairns because the weather here is so amazing. This is the second nicest weather I’ve encountered on my trip (#1 being Honolulu). I get bombarded by advice from Aussies when I tell ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Theory of Travel Evolution", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/05/19/theory-of-travel--evolution" });
TV Hot Spot: SITE NEWS
2008-05-16 18:11:00 May 16th 2008: TV Hot Spot Returns SOON!Entry by: Sal(For more Blog Entries, simply look on the right hand side of the blog under the title "Blog Entries")Entry #7 (16th May 2008)Hey everyone,First of all I would like to say thank you to ALL of the people who have sent me their condolences to my email accounts, and those of you who commented on the blog entry itself, it really meant alot to me to see everyone being so supportive and caring.Secondly, I would like to say that TV Hot Spot WILL BE COMING BACK! I did not want to leave you all in the dark and not let you know what was happening at the moment and so I decided to come online and write this post up.The blog will be returning on the 1st of June 2008. That is just about 2 weeks away, so I hope some of you can wait until then! Of course this is not only because of the passing of my grandmother last week, but also to the added pressure of Final Exams which I am sure most of you are going through as well.So just as an update, the...
By: TV Hot Spot
Run Lance Run
2008-05-16 13:00:00 Lance Berkman is having a remarkable season. He hit his 15th home run of the season (into McCovey Cove to boot) in the 9th inning last night, giving the Astros an 8-7 win over San Francisco and continuing to push the surprising Astros into contention in the N.L. Central. Berkman is carrying Houston’s ...
By: The RotoFeed
Free Money Monday - 4 Winners - $25 Each
2008-05-14 04:58:00 I’m feeling a little generous this week and I have an extra Benjamin sitting in the old paypal account, so I’ve decided to give away $25 to 4 different readers. Here’s how you can get paid for practically doing nothing. All you have to do is place a link on your website (either a blog ...
Sponsor Soulforce's American Family Outing
2008-05-12 16:30:00 Soulforce, the nonviolent activist group that advocates for gay and lesbian equality in religious communities, is sending out 21 GLBT families to tell their stories to religious leaders at six leading mega-churches: Rev. Joel Osteen and the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas Bishop T.D. Jakes and The Potter's House in Dallas, Texas Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. and Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland Bishop Eddie Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia Rev. Bill Hybels and Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois Dr. Rick Warren and Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California Each family has pledged to raise $2,000 to visit these churches between Mother's Day and Father's Day. Most still have only a few hundred dollars, so your contribution will make a difference. Soulforce families include a mother and her FTM transgender son, a straight couple who have joined the movement to support their GLBT friends, and several gay...
By: Reiter's Block
Maintenance
2008-05-12 15:32:00 Just wanted to let folks know that I upgraded the site's Wordpress software over the weekend. This should be entirely transparent to you, but if you find SOS behaving oddly in any way, please drop me a line and let me know... SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Maintenance", url: "http://sortingoutscience.net/2-008/05/12/maintenance/" });
Win Probabiliy: 1981 - 1988
2008-05-10 08:43:00 The site has been updated with Win Probability stats for 1981 - 1988. Please make note of Dwight Gooden’s 1985 season when he had a WPA of 9.94. The only player to have a higher WPA in the years that WPA has been run for is Barry Bonds. Bonds bested him in 2002 and ...
By: The RotoFeed
Designated What?
2008-05-09 00:00:00 Finding a designated hitter is very easy. The skills required to be a successful DH aren’t rare, and there are an abundance of guys with offensive abilities and defensive problems that a team can generally count on getting quality production from the designated hitter spot. Unless, of course, that team is the Seattle ...
By: The RotoFeed
Iowa wildlife report: bunnies!
2008-05-07 20:38:00 Excuse for not mowing the lawn lately #137: I have a nest of bunnies. The kids discovered a bunny nest on our front lawn. Evidently, rabbits dig holes in the ground, birth their brood, and then cover the hole with some dried grass and bits of their own fur. We have been careful not to touch them so as not to leave human smell on them, and so far they seem to be OK with our occasional intrusion. As I understand it, rabbits lactate like any mammal, and the mother nurses them only a few minutes out of the day, but rabbit milk is powerful nutritious, so it balances out. Bunnies take about a month to mature enough to go it alone. Also, rabbits aren't particularly attentive mothers. We've seen her come back to the nest at night. Usually she leaves it with more grass and fur piled on it, in an attempt to hide it better. With wilderness all around us, I don't know why she chose the lawn of a suburban home for her nursery. So the pics aren't too sharp, because I'm trying to be...
The Theory of Accidental Excellence in Practice
2008-05-07 02:10:00 A look at why I changed my blog description to "The Theory of Accidental Excellence in Practice"
By: OpTempo
New Layout for the Movie Section
2008-05-06 18:44:00 I’ve made the changes couple of days ago but forgot to make a post about it. I have updated the movie pages with the new page format and added the link to the navigation bar at the top. I think it’s much cleaner to easier to see since the movie information and the ...
Angels Big Two
2008-05-06 14:06:00 For years, the Angels have had a couple of all-stars at the front of their rotation, anchoring their team and leading them to playoff contention. With John Lackey and Kelvim Escobar starting the year on the disabled list, however, it looked like 2008 would be the year where the Angels had to win by ...
By: The RotoFeed
Win Probability: 1974 - 1980
2008-05-06 08:14:00 All win probability stats, game graphs, and play-by-play are now available for the years 1974 through 1980. The most productive batter in terms of WPA over those 7 years was Rod Carew with 28.9 wins, closely followed by Mike Schmidt with 28.6 wins. Jim Palmer led all pitchers with 23.2 wins, with closer Goose Gossage ...
By: The RotoFeed
Daily Travel Photo - Borobudur, Indonesia
2008-05-05 20:08:00 A bas relief at Borobudur Temple Originally posted on Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. To insure ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Travel Photo - Borobudur, Indonesia", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/05/05/daily-travel-phot-o-borobudur-indonesia" });
Got back a bit of my PageRank!
2008-05-05 19:32:00 Online Presence today got back a “bit” of its earlier lost Page Rank. Its currently showing a PR2 in Google Toolbar. A couple of months back the blog was “reset” to PR0, for writing a handful of paid reviews, primarily from PayPerPost. I’m not sure what has resulted in a change of mind at Google, but thanks ...
By: Online Presence
"Julian's Yearbook" Wins Chapter One Promotions Short Story Competition
2008-05-04 19:40:00 Marianne Moore may have wanted imaginary gardens with real toads in them, but what's even better is imaginary friends who earn you real money. "Julian's Yearbook", a chapter from one of my two novels-in-progress, has won first prize of 2,500 pounds in the Chapter One Promotions International Short Story Competition. In this episode, Julian grapples with first love and homophobia at his Southern high school, while taking steps to launch his career as a fashion photographer. Here's the beginning: Desire smells like acid in the dark. Its face is a hundred faces, rising out of the stop bath, materializing on grey paper like ghosts. Your ghosts and mine; you knew them too. The football heroes joshing in a group shot, a chorus line of manly awkwardness. There's the clown, the golden boy, the dull and violent sidekick. You've got to remember that snub-nosed blonde with too much school spirit, whose mascara you almost forgot to clean off the backseat of your daddy's car. Mem...
By: Reiter's Block
Northampton Pride 2008
2008-05-04 19:19:00 Yesterday Northampton held its 27th annual Gay Pride March, attended by 7,500 people. My husband and I and one of my moms marched with the good folks from MassEquality, the group that successfully lobbied to preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts, and their Connecticut counterpart, Love Makes a Family.MassEquality is currently advocating for the Equality Agenda, a variety of state legislative and funding initiatives including transgender civil rights, "safe schools" programs, and HIV/AIDS prevention. Behind that sign, I'm wearing my rainbow "The Episcopal Church Welcomes You" tank top, available here from Cafe Press. The leopard-print sequined lid is from Mrs. Dewson's Hats in San Francisco. (I received objective proof of my fabulosity when a young gay man asked to buy it from me. I let him try it on.) That's MassEquality organizer Ryan Brown on the left, with other supporters whose names I didn't catch, as we march down Main Street past the courthouse. An appr...
By: Reiter's Block
Daily Photo - Great Barrier Reef, Australia
2008-05-04 15:29:00 Clownfish and anenome Originally posted on Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. To insure myself on ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Daily Photo - Great Barrier Reef, Australia", url: "http://everything-everywhere.c-om/2008/05/04/daily-photo-great--barrier-reef-australia/" }); |
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