Two in two weeks, with a fairly streamlined production process. This is a good step.

Mūlamadhyamikakārikāḥ Translation Project: Podcast 18:2

If you know, you know I love looking at where people are coming to my sites from. Here’s the latest batch:

Google Search: sticky foam 1
Google Search: tentacles porn, squid 1
Google Search: meta porn 1
Google Search: LG’s XNOTE TX ultraportable laptop with DMB 1
Google Search: apple porn 1
Google Search: starkist history 1
Google Search: tentacle monster 1
maczot.com/discuss/?p=35 1
Google Search: garfield comics altered 1
blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=”jordana paige”&btnG=Search Blogs 1
Google Search: “worlds toughest animal” 1
blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=jordana paige 1
Google Search: “back origen” 1
Google Search: knitted cephalopods 1
www.google.com/ 1
Google Search: getting around blocking software 1
Google Search: tentacle monster 1
Google Search: forklift cartoons 1
Google Search: sticky foam 1

Who’s up for an FTM podcast?

TechCrunch » Get Ready for PodServe (and more)

Why would we be the top hit for “girly laptop case”...but only in the UK?

girly laptop case – Google Search

Gilford went down today, and one of the aftereffects was that FTM had some database problems. Not sure exactly what happened, and not sure exactly how I fixed it, but I appear to have done so.

This is good, because my last backup was a while ago. I’ll endeavor to do them more regularly, and encourage you guys to do them as well, if you like.

Note: If you don’t know what jism-coping is, see this entry at UGP.

Please solicit submit your ideas for how to best discuss, collaborate, etc. on and/or about FTM—both for stuff like the site roadmap, and also for more mundane stuff like how to go about blowing up a planet.

[Stickied for the day—do we have an expiration feature? It’s probably not difficult to write.]

So I noticed we’re getting a lot of hits possibly not related to our usual banter and interneting. (Actually can someone—Nick—explain how to read the stats page?) I figure it may be time for some kind of executive pow wow about page styling, organization and some state of the FTM stuff.

List Possible topics (contribute please):

• Design
  • Color scheme
  • Pictures
  • Rotating header graphics
• Usability
  • Too eay to navigate away from page
  • Site could use an (improved?) About page,
  • Cleaner front page
  • Cleaner category structure
• Style
  • Consistent methods of presenting links
  • Guidelines for the status fields
• Theory
  • A Mission Statement!
• Users
  • Do we want to keep open user registration?
  • Do we plan to expand the blogger pool?
• Best practices
  • We should have a central location for planning and to-dos vis-a-vis the site, and a standing “roadmap” page, whether on the site itself or somewhere else. (E.g., Backpack, 43things, etc.)

This sucks. But on an unrelated note, I like the idea of handwritten blogging…so long as there’s also text-searchability and cut-and-pastability. Hmm.

The Morning News – I’m Your Biggest Fan, by Christopher Monks

Re: a question on the usage of “metric fuckton.”

Neo-Measurement in Unlikely Glossary Project

Curry and dills and they put it in pills,
That’s what a little tumeric’s good for.

(and chemical x)