Good housekeeping

Posted on 24 November 2008 by scooterbird

teh worldIncidentally, I thought I would bring to note a couple of changes here at the Hidden Message…stuff we’ve been thinking of doing in order to make this seem a bit more like home, and hopefully draw some more eyes to it.

First, dig our fantastic icons!  That was one of the things I actually liked about LiveJournal, and I had a great deal lying around from my time there – moreso really than I could even store there, in number, size, or format.  Here, it’s a bit different, and once I learned how to put them in place, albeit by fudging things a little, I don’t even have to worry about such things.  And, as an added bonus, I can even put breasts on the icons or whatever I wish without worrying about the LJ/6A/SUP/Whomever Police jumping in and censoring my journal on the complaints of ridiculously sensitive fundamentalist hyperactivist groups!  How nice!  Anyway, much of the “Scooterbird Collection” has yet to be put in place, so watch this space for further details.

Also, you may have noticed that we have another “correspondant” here, Deadbytes.  He hasn’t yet produced anything for us, but that’s okay, as he receives exactly the same from us as he would if he was writing, which is the big squadoosh, so, no harm, no foul.

There’ll be a few more changes in the future as we go forward; nothing that would cause us to go sour or anything (coughBoingBoingcoughcough).  Watch this space for further details.

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Incorrect, but certain

Posted on 13 March 2008 by scooterbird

Recently I posted elsewhere on a disturbing phenomenon* in present-day political thought – that of the 180-degree political flip. Chris Hitchens, David Horowitz, Ed Koch…I suppose you could put David Brock in the going-the-other-way category, though in that case he had some pretty compelling personal reasons behind it; the others, who wrote the ad hominem hit pieces that went after Brock, just woke up one day and decided they were bastards. The referenced article concerns David Mamet, the no-bullshit playwright, who recently chronicled in the Village Voice a similar though perhaps not as dramatic conversion while listening to NPR. Read that through with me: the writer of Glengarry Glen Ross suddenly realized that people were complex and had more than one side after listening to the news on the radio. Pretty absurd when you consider it, but such are the nature of these “conversions”; Hitchens’s came after encountering a bunch of rifle-toting Afghani rebels carrying a picture of George W. Bush, the guy who got rid of the Taliban for them. Continue reading →

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What it’s all about

Posted on 16 January 2008 by scooterbird

Back from the Left Coast, which I will get into later. In the meantime, it occurred to me that I hadn’t let anyone know of the particulars regarding the Hidden Message.

Previously, I’d written all my thoughts in my LiveJournal, which served very well for a number of years. Over the last few months, a number of things changed concerning this arrangement. The first was the launch of my own podcast. The Secret Frequency, as it’s called, focuses primarily on my politics and my work in the Green Party, but it does also fulfill one of the needs that I had in starting my LJ: I wanted my own radio show, in effect…a soapbox where I could sound off on my ideas. There was also the nonsense that LJ has forayed into – from the Great Strikethrough through the sale to SUP, all with a profound lack of attention to customer service, verging on at times an outright disdain for bloggers and their content and privacy. I didn’t feel comfortable blogging there any more…I wished to be more in control of my words and how they were read, be more sure of the sanctity of my content, and be treated as a customer rather than a commodity. Continue reading →

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Hello, Hello, Hello!

Posted on 10 January 2008 by Lise Mendel

It’s nice to be here at the Hidden Message.

Like scooterbird, I have abandoned my old livejournal account (same user name) because I haven’t been happy with their customer service and policies. I also have an existing blog which I will not be abandoning, Penumbral Lore; Shadows of Science. It’s a ‘theme’ blog, which I have described as ‘comments on the intersection of science and !science’. Writings here will be about just about everything else (except, possibly, crafting posts, which may or may not eventually get their own blog). I plan to write more in the way of musings and essays than anecdotes from my personal life.

I’m looking forward to ‘getting my writing on’ here.

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I am WordPress (and So Can You!)

Posted on 9 January 2008 by scooterbird

Welcome to my new home, away from the madness that is LiveJournal. For that page, at least for the time being, sea hear. It will take a bit of time before I’m comfortable with posting here and not referring directly to what has been my Interwebs home for a long period of time, but I did feel it necessary to take this step following some of the rotten customer service and response LJ was beginning to be known for.

I’ll go into more detail later about what I will be doing here on the Hidden Message. Suffice to say, it’s the beginning of a new paradigm for me, and I hope you’ll care enough about what I have to write that it will be that way for you, too.

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