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Knocking Down Walls and Stuff
Posted on 03.30.08 by Widge @ 6:04 pm

Okay, so we've made a couple of changes. First of all, welcome to the center of your screen.

I dunno, I kinda like it out here. Feels a bit roomier, you know? It started to get to where we were jammed up against the website that was right off the lefthand side of your screen. I know you couldn't see it, but man, talk about not having a side yard. Felt like living in one of those subdivisions where you can literally lean out your window and step into the open window of the house next door.

So we've done that. Also, in case you've noticed, we use tags. And when we are talking about something or somebody that we've written a few things about, we have a tendency to link to our tags so you can read more on that subject. So if I were to mention Mike Patton, and if you were to click through, you'd see something like this:

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I Have an Offer For You
Posted on 03.29.08 by Widge @ 3:54 am

Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point book cover art
Magnificent Desolation cover art

Howdy, friends. I have a proposition for you.

As you are probably aware (or maybe not, because I frankly suck at self-promotion), I have two books in print. I'm working on some other things to bring back into print even as I type this. But for now: two books. One, a novel of regular straight dramatic fiction--that's Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point. The other is a short story anthology--that's Magnificent Desolation.

They're available from Amazon right now. People continue to buy them, for which I'm grateful. I can see the purchases come through our Amazon affiliation. I've released them under a Creative Commons license as well, so you can download them for free. I realize my One Tusk site is dormant at the moment so here's some direct links here for Mystics and here for Desolation.

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We Pause to Say Thank You
Posted on 03.17.08 by Widge @ 1:29 pm

Samsung LNT4671F 46" 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV

So, let me set this up. As you know--and as we try to remind you in a gentle, non-annoying way (one of the few gentle, non-annoying things we try to do on this site)--when you make purchases from Amazon through us, we get kickbacks. We figure if you're going to shop at Amazon anyway (and you are--if you read this site, chances are you order online a bit) we'd hope that you'd do it through us and so we get the kickback and everybody wins.

Everybody wins because while there are a few ads on the site and a few blatant reminders about our affiliations and eBay and other subtle hints about where to buy things (CLICK ME!!) there are certain things that annoy the shit out of us and we want to shy away from. Like those peel away ads that you see the corner of some sites. Feh. And those ads that pop up and suddenly you've got cavorting pygmies when you were trying to read an article and you have to find the miniature Close X button. I hate that crap. And ads that overlay themselves on videos. It's like when you're watching television and suddenly characters from another show pop up and cavort and advertise for their show, thus distracting you from the show you're trying to watch. Does anybody think, 'Oh, Psych, of course, seeing your cast's tiny bodies take up the bottom quarter of my screen suddenly fills me with a desire to see you!" No. No one thinks that.

Anyway, we don't do that shit. And we hope you appreciate that we don't. Even though, as we've mentioned before, we're trying to go pro with this so day jobs can be killed and we can give you more of this mayhem that you, for some twisted reason, seem to like.

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January's Greatest Hits
Posted on 02.01.08 by Widge @ 12:23 am
The Champions!

January is over. Everybody still with us? Still have all your limbs? Good. Let's take a look at the top posts for the month:

Needcoffee.com:

Daily Kicksplode:

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Needcoffee On The Go
Posted on 01.31.08 by Widge @ 10:48 pm

Mobile Needcoffee.com

Hi folks. A quick word. For those of you who think, "Man, if I only had the ability to read Needcoffee on my phone while I'm stuck in line at the grocery store...but damn, the site takes so long to load..." fret no longer.

Point your phones to http://mobile.needcoffee.com or, if you really want to conserve time, http://m.needcoffee.com. Either one works. That redirects to a Google Reader filtered, stripped down version of the site that breaks it down and makes it nice and clean and easy to read in your phone. Granted, the embedded videos don't show up, but I've not seen a phone that those work on. If anybody knows how that works, give me a ping.

If you have any issues with it or suggestions, let me know.

Idea skimmed from Google Tutor.

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