CONTENT DAY AHOY: Josh of Arc on Lou Dobbs (in print, not in real life): http://ping.fm/hqIw8

Told you it was NEW CONTENT DAY! Emily C. just interviewed Nick Abadzis, creator of "Laika"! http://ping.fm/rC2fF

It is CONTENT DAY! New: Joe Meyer's Furreh Nuuz Teevee #1! http://ping.fm/sIn53

Just posted! A new feature: Things That Are Neat! This time: GOATS! (the animals, not the comic.) http://ping.fm/1T9ke

New! A (real!) review of Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut! http://ping.fm/DuyAi

Enjoy this repost of Kittysneezes' review of "Trauma Center: Under The Knife 2" for the DS! http://ping.fm/31aoM

New! Smacklin' Kennedy Onassis writes about Mental Illness and the Stigma of disabilities! http://ping.fm/PxiFZ

New! A review of the @Criterion edition of Costa-Gavras' (brilliant, yet a little difficult to watch) film Missing! http://ping.fm/Xb5Zf

I've had the week off work! That is kinda awesome. I'm not sure if I'm ready to go back tomorrow, but as it turns out, payday was Friday, and I liked that so, y'know. YOU WIN THIS ROUND, GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT!!

Most of the week was just relaxing, though I did see DEVO last Sunday and Monday, and that was SO awesome. They are still amazing to watch live. I wish the shows were longer (each was the first or third album, plus a 2 song encore), but still, it's DEVO, so yeah. I can't wait for their new record and tour next year. And apparently the Residents are touring again next year, too -- I was bummed I couldn't see the Bunny Boy tour, as they didn't really come much of anywhere near Seattle, but hopefully they will this time. Otherwise, I might have to kick some eyeball ass.

And then, Friday, Andy came over and we played San Juan, Race For The Galaxy AND got Puerto Rican food at La Isla. Dang but that is a good place to eat. And yesterday, a bunch of people came over for games. So that is also good. Game days are awesome. Perhaps soon, once the more casual gamers finish their conversion into game geeks, I can bust out Diplomacy. I'd kinda like to play that again.

After everyone left, I watched Costa-Gavras' Missing, which was a great film, but I think even more of a political/emotional gut-punch than Z because while the point of both is that it could happen just about anywhere, Missing actually involves the Americans, and, yeah. One of those sorta things where you KNOW we propped up Pinochet, and helped along the coup in 1973 Chile, and you KNOW it was an absolutely horrible dictatorship, but when you see the film, like Z, it combines the political and the personal. Highly recommended. (Yes, I'm totally gonna write a review for KS for this one, too.)

Today, I'm just screwin' around. I'm thinking it might be a movie day, but I'm not sure. It IS quite chilly, so, yeah.

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Speaking of Kittysneezes: I asked this on my FB, but just got joke answers. (Not that I am complaining as I was right there in it, because jokes are funny.) But I AM actually kinda serious on this one. And since this is LJ (and soon to be a FB note, I guess), I can go into a bit more depth as to what I'm looking for/why I'm asking.

AND BUT SO: If'n you've not seen Logan Arias' new article posted yesterday, Ronald Reagan: Success or Failure, go check it out. I mention this, not because it's an awesome article -- which it IS, but because he sorta prompted my idea. joshkassel/Josh Kassel discovered Logan on Newsvine -- a site Josh frequents -- and put Logan and me in touch, to see about getting Logan to contribute to KS. Logan does REALLY insightful political articles (and, unbeknownst to Josh or anyone, I'd actually been thinking about seeing to find someone for a Political Bureau of KS).

The thing we were talking about is that KS'd basically be syndicating his Newsvine articles as they're posted. And the issue came up "Is there a way to import directly using RSS". So I went and found a plugin for such a thing after a bit of searching around. Bad thing is, it turns out it only imports what's in the feed -- so if there's a cutline, it only goes up to the cut. So, for Logan, it wouldn't work, so he's just (at least for now -- if'n there's a way to fix it) copy/pasting his articles in manually. HOWEVER: This is cool if anyone DOES want to syndicate, say, their LJ on KS, assuming you don't use lj-cuts. As they are the tool of the devil.

Likewise, a little bit before, llivejournal mentioned that while his recent awesome article "A Straight Person's Top Ten Guide To Movies About The Gay People article got picked up by a few bigger sites (like After Elton, a blog run by the Logo network), it'd be cool to have the Digg button more prominent. So I figured out which plugin'd let me do that, and I swapped that in instead of the Social Bookmarking app I'd previously had, which was hidden, and didn't always seem to work for some of 'em. And, really, I think Digg's kinda the big one anyway -- does anyone really use Reddit anymore? Or the one that got eaten up by Wired? Unless that is Reddit? -- so, it's probably better to focus on one than be all "Hey, throw it wherever!"

SO, all this jibber-jabber is to explain the question further:

What other sortsa stuff would you like to see Kittysneezes do/have? If'n you wanna suggest plugins for Joomla (my CMS), that's cool, but I'm mostly just thinking of responses like "It'd be cool if it could do XYZ", and I can figure out how to do XYZ.

Likewise, I guess, too -- if'n you wanted to contribute but were turned off by having to submit an article different places, let me know that too, and I can see if I can set up the syndication thing. Assuming you don't do cuts. OR, alternately, you're smarter than I am and can help me work around that cut thing. Which'd end up helping Logan out too.

(so, yeah: Though the robot/zombie goat porn ideas were pretty good, not exactly what I was looking for.)

Also, the RSS thing might be a good solution for the comic idea I had a while ago. I'm not sure how that thing handles images, but it'd be worth a try.

I'm always just a tryin' to make KS better, and I like having input on there, so I can. So, yeah -- if'n you can help, that'd be awesome. And I'm ALWAYS up for more input on ANY kind; like articles you'd like to see more of, design tweaks, etc.