Category Archives: Geekery

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Out of 2732 user submissions, I just collected and added 35 words & phrases to Hipster Ipsum.

That means that only 1.281% of the stuff that people gave me was actually usable. The rest of it was names of people, inside jokes, repeats of stuff already in the database and a staggering amount of slurs and insults.

So thanks for nothing, crowdsourcing…

Go Duck Yourself

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Following Ben Brooks’ lead, I’ve decided to replace my site’s search engine with DuckDuckGo. But all of the solutions he’s linked up have been a little fiddly and require editing your theme files. And while I’m okay with doing that, I realize a lot of folks probably aren’t.

So I pulled together this little bit of form code:

All you need to do is change “example.com” to your domain and drop the code in a text widget. Like this:

Easy, right? Now nothing is stopping you from using DuckDuckGo as your WordPress site’s search engine!

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Like the new theme? Want to play with it on your site? Well, it’s not in the WordPress theme directory just yet. But it is in Automattic’s SVN repository…

Grab Reddle via SVN and give it a whirl. And if you want to see what it’s capable of (or I’ve managed to change my theme) check out the demo at WordPress.com.

Swissted

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I really wish these posters from swissted were real. Swiss design and punk rock are two things that I love like crazy.

To be honest, if I had the opportunity, I’d probably buy way too many of them. So maybe it’s a good thing that they’re just images on the internets… [via]

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If anyone notices a significant speed increase on the site here, it’s because I’ve finally gotten around to moving it from a well meaning but poky VPS over at DreamHost to a shiny new supercharged account at WP Engine.

Peel Slowly & See

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Does anybody want to buy a lightly used, month and a half old Peel? It’s a pretty great little device — and its complimentary iOS app is fantastic — but we’re just not using it as much as I thought we would.

What can I say? Sarah is too damn fast with the normal remote for me to even compete. The show discovery functionality is top notch tho, and that’s what I’ve been using the most.

They normally go for $99 (and they’re on sale for $79 right now) but I’d be willing to part with mine for $60. Dive into the comments and make me an offer if you’re interested.

Update: Seriously? No takers? Even if I say that I’ll take $50 for it? Am I going to have to try to sell this thing on eBay?