pop-culture for the people

I’ve been noticing a lot of blog spam on here lately so I turned the comment system off for now.  Also found spam abuse and weird linking on the gallery pages so I updated the software and patched a number of things.  I’ve also completely blocked China and Russia from the site as they are the source for most of the bot attacks I’m seeing.  Sorry Chinese and Russian folks but them’s the breaks.  Tell your comrades to stop and maybe I’ll unblock ya.

Right now I’m reworking the site and finally getting it out of its neglected state.  I’ve gotten so sick of the way the site looked but was too busy to work on it so I let it rot.  Hopefully the research I’m doing into some real upgrades for the site will pan out.  As always I’ve got big things planned but we’ll see how reality and plans work out…

-Hollywood

This day makes me proud.  Thank you America.

These are some podcasts I’ve been listening to in the time between not writing articles for MvsR and not doing other important things.  If you haven’t gotten into listening to podcasts, turn your radio off and tune into some of these:

Internet Superstar
Beer School
This Week In Photography
This Week In Tech
This Week In Media
Boing Boing TV
The VFX Show
Cranky Geeks
NPR: Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
NPR: Fresh Air
NPR: Car Talk Call Of The Week
This American Life
Web Drifter
The Totally Rad Show

There’s got to be something in there to interest most anyone.