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[ 080702 ] nocturne – @Wendy Okay, tmw, I'll (pointlessly) compare an apple and Darth Vader, just for you. @Marq Ooh, my first digg, without coercion or anything. +3 pts. In case anyone's wondering, you don't have to fill in your profile or participate in any way; just get an account and digg all my posts (and you don't even have to "review" it; just cut and paste a nice paragraph). 02 Cancer 2k8 06:33 [ 080702 ] Marquis – I registered on that Digg thing. Yes me, full name and all... I'm not about to go like, fill in a profile on that website, but after staring at the artist's impression that came with this article, I thought that some justice would be done by digging ...it. 02 Cancer 2k8 05:31 [ 080702 ] Marquis – This is good. "Entrance fee" *snicker* 02 Cancer 2k8 05:21 [ 080702 ] wendy – i'm still trying to compare an apple with darth vader. 02 Cancer 2k8 04:54 [ 080613 ] nocturne – @Marquis One day I shall buy you some dango to make up for scarring you for life. I realise that talking about how I drew blood with an illegal weapon might possibly not be in my best interest. @ISDbots I do not have butterfly knives, shuriken, switchblades, or any other sort of easily concealable, yet awesomely cool, weaponry, even though they're really handy to have around the house. Or so I've heard. 26 Gemini 2k8 02:23 …more… 
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I have some non-ping.sg readers now, so I’ll briefly explain what ping.sg is. Ping.sg is an aggregator. From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blogosphere – Aggregators live in the swamps and rivers that snake through the landmasses, near to the blogs that they survive on, but are not themselves blogs (though some blogs also serve as aggregators). In the water, they point their long snouts at popular posts. A shrewd explorer will learn to use them to find interesting blogs, and mayhaps help them to survive by interacting with them. When not active, aggregators look like logs, a meaningless list of data, floating aimlessly in the SUN. Don’t bother looking up The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blogosphere, I made it up for an Alice story. As a note, I didn’t link anything. If you use ping.sg, you’ll already know; if you don’t, it’s not that interesting, beyond, of course, what I’m about to tell you, which you can take as gospel truth. AwardsTurns out, they do have a different interpretation of “Most” and/or “Interactive,” because they decided against handing me the award straight off. In spite of my canvassing, I only got nominated for one award, “Most Insightful Blog,” which is kinda weird, when none of my posts qualified for “Most Insightful Post.” I’m assuming I’m more insightful than average but can’t seem to reach the apex of insightfulness that certain posts can achieve, or something thus. It is, and yet it’s not. Sometimes things are “just” things, but, most of the time, few things are “just” anything (a large part of life is figuring out when a something is “just something” and when a “just something” isn’t). Awards are validation. I remember watching on TeeVee when Steven Spielberg won his first Oscar. Back then, he had played a part in something like 7 of the Top 10 Highest Grossing Movies Ever, but he had no Oscar. He got up on stage, picked up the little guy, looked at it with a big grin, turned to the camera, and said “I have friends who have these.” It must irk Tom Cruise, at least a little, that he doesn’t have the little bald guy. At least Will Smith has a few Grammys. That said, I don’t really care all that much about the ping.sg awards, seeing as I doubt I can win it. Not getting something you feel you deserve is what is irksome, and getting a nom is good enough for me. All I’m saying is that if you ever wonder why people feel strongly about “a stupid award,” it’d be unkind to be dismissive. One Day, You’re In…Daphne and DK are rather prominent in the ping.sg community. As you can see from this screenshot, half of today’s Top 10 is shared between them, with Daphne having three posts and DK two.  In-ness Recently, Daphne made a comment about the most recent gathering being of the “in crowd,” or something thus, and DK took offence – because he feels that “ping.sg is for everyone” and has gone to some lengths to support this ideal, as had a few others. I’ve said several times before that ping.sg has “an elite,” something which I consider to be normal. People shouldn’t bitch about there being an elite, what they should do is figure out how to get in and decide if they want to make the effort. What is curious about this is that “the elite” has always denied their existence; they sing the “ping.sg is for everyone” song, which sounds a lot like the “there is an elite but everyone can join” song, except it seems to be out of tune with reality. However, ping.sg seems to have woken up their idea and now proudly proclaim that “ping is for the ‘in’!”  This is good. People like to know where they stand. If people are wondering why they can’t get into the Top 10 or why they didn’t get nominated or, err, whatever else you do on ping.sg, and “ping.sg is for everyone,” they’ll naturally wonder why they don’t qualify as “everyone.” This can get confusing, particularly since the people saying “ping.sg is for everyone” are all perceived members of “the elite.” It just feels disingenuous. Now that it’s out in the open and “ping is for the ‘in’,” people can try to get themselves in’d and reap the rewards. …The Next Day, You’re OutIt’s probably been a few months now, but a blog got banned on ping.sg for posting “commercial” stuff. Another blog got banned for making some comments about it. This second blog, in a fit of pique, pointed out a blog dedicated to [NSFW] posts. This third blog got banned, along with, I think, several other porn-centric blogs. Actually, I’m a wii bit surprised I’m still around, considering my propensity towards putting pictures of naked chicks with a relevancy that is peripheral at best. This was back when “ping.sg is for everyone,” and after the “We Love Bashing Fags Because Making Homos Feel Less than Human is Exercising Our Freedom of Speech” episode (Remember kiddies, Freedom of Speech is more important than respecting homosexuals, because homosexuals aren’t human and Jesus hates them). Essentially, the bannings prove that ping.sg is for Freedom of Speech, but against Freedom of Dissent. This is like Singapore, where you can say anything, as long as you don’t say anything bad about the government. I’m fully in approval of the bannings, since I stand for strong leadership, and the bannings themselves make things clearer. People like to know where they stand. And now that it’s out in the open, and we no longer have to hear the “ping is for everyone” nonsense, I think ping.sg, at two years, has finally come of age, and matured as a community. As a side note, ping.sg is easy compared to Digg. Getting on Digg’s Front Page crashes weak servers, and the people there are a malicious, vitriolic bunch. So, you know, ping.sg could be a lot worse, and, I, for one, like it the way it has turned out to be.  Heidi Klum is, in fact, topless. Bodypaint is in, clothes are out. Oh yes, vote my insightfully insightful insightfulness. And a big “thank you!” to all those who nominated me for the nomination to be nominated.
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“I think you can learn a lot about history from our games. I mean, a trebuchet? How many people knew about a trebuchet before Age of Empires?”
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