If you read my brother’s weblog
Art Machine by RSS, you should know that the feed URL has changed. It is now
http://www.art-machine.org/feed/. Normally I’d set up a redirect, but for some reason I can’t get one working this morning. Brain freeze, I suppose.

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When I posted my
review of “Outside” I didn’t expect too much attention, but I recommended it to StumbleUpon anyway. (First rule of self-promotion: toot your own horn.)
It wasn’t too long before I got back an abusive commenter who whined — in between four-letter words — that my post was not original, was in fact [...]

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I am contemplating a “troll blog.” The basic idea is this: I’ll look at
Google Trends every day and blog about how the first five items on that list suck. Unless it’s something like Britney Spears’ latest stage performance, in which case I can blog about how everyone picking on her sucks.
For example, I could [...]

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This kind of comment bugs me. Gibberish name, fake email address, no url, insulting and ignorant comment usually demonstrating the coward hadn’t even bothered to read what I wrote before he or she unloads and then runs back to the bushes. I delete similar ones when they come in. I just needed an example for [...]

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So, for starters I’ve removed the “no-follow” attribute from comment URLs using the
dofollow plugin. Why have i disabled this anti-spam measure? Well, it wasn’t hurting spammers. Between
Bad Behavior and
Akismet my comment spam problem has dropped to nill; Bad Behavior stops most bots, and Akismet picks up the leftovers. So the only people [...]

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