Weird

If I post the Michigan Radio stuff with the "date out of order" flag set, it doesn't show up on friends pages at all.

I experimented with that because I was using the date from their RSS feed as the posting date, but that date is totally wacky, sometimes even several hours in the future, so I gave up and just use current time when I post.

But I had to turn the "date out of order" flag off in order for posts to show up on my friends page.

A good site to send your kids to

Science of Scams

Our kids seem to love paranormal shows. I think that's pretty common for teenagers, I went through my ESP and Bigfoot phase myself (hey, it was the 70s).

Anyway, good stuff at this site. They show a viral YouTube paranormal video, then how it was done. There are still two videos up on Youtube that have yet to have their explanations revealed.

Livejournal scripting

FYI: if you've ever wanted to do something cool with LJ, and Perl is one of your languages of choice, the module LJ:Simple works really well. Last night I ripped out half the stuff I wrote the night before and replaced it with about 5 lines of code calling that module. Nice.

Bats

I loved the bat on the simulated screen for today's Woot item, so I went out and found the picture online.

Isn't this the cutest thing? Bats are so damn cool and amazing.