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Sunday, November 27, 2005

RSS and Atom feeds are nice.

I had two posts about rss feeds earlier. You can find them here and here.

I thought I would link to the feeds I have in thunderbird:
http://grumpygamer.com/rss2.0 - Ron Gilbert's blog(the creator of Monkey Island)
http://www.osnews.com/files/recent.rdf - nerdy stuff
http://www.kahvi.org/kahvi.xml - free electronic music
http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=13 - Fresh Air, NPR
http://www.bitter-neko.blogspot.com/atom.xml - Bitter Neko's blog. Updates are infrequent, but sometimes good.
http://tangentmind.blogspot.com/atom.xml - My own blog, for vanity's sake.

You can actually add "atom.xml" to any blogger blog, I think, and get the feed.
Slashdot has feeds for all it's news too, I might add that(you can find them in a small link that just says "rss" at the bottom of the page).
If linuxgames.com, telltalegames.com, Doublefine.com, Penny-arcade.com, or mixnmojo.com had an rss feed, I would add those.
I also have a jastplanetojakarta.com feed, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Correction, mixnmojo.com does have an rss feed. Have to read the tiny letters at the bottom of the page.

Also, here is a wikipedia article on RSS, because wikipedia is awesome like that.

Friday, November 25, 2005

Everybody loves to sweat.

I already knew that converse shut down all it's US factories, but I didn't know that they did that because Nike bought Converse. Nike bought Converse in 2003, closed down all the US factories, started manufacturing all the Converse shoes in sweat shops in other countries, and raised the prices on the shoes. Converse All Stars had been a favorite shoe of social activists, because it was simple and Union Made, and social activists also dislike Nike, so some of them decided to do something about this.

There are at least two products that came out of thise. No Sweat footwear and Blackspot shoes. I personally, have 5 pairs of Union made converse shoes, but I only wear one of them.

Edit: Wow, almost a whole month since my last post. Too bad no one got upset about it, because no one reads it. That's ok though because I usually only post when, A. I have some information I'm going to forget so I want to put it down or I learned something new and want to share it with everyone. That means, that in the month of November I didn't learn anything new and probably forgot a lot of things. Oh well. Everything will one day be forgotten.

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