now i can dump core on any web site i want. like this:

“thing”

thing travels all over the streets
but nobody likes poor thing
adults in disgust, children are frightened and crying
when thing tries to look at you
thing can’t order food
unless it’s wearing a mask
even the vampires and wolves don’t like it
no matter how ugly you think you are today
thing is always too ugly to look at

nobody even knows what thing looks like

nobody even knows what thing looks like

(Note: my post title was the original name for the video until someone flagged it for content)

Even though I make use of Amazon ads on my site, I have no ethical problem with usage of Adblock Plus, nor can I understand “ethics” regarding the right to have two eyes. Some claim using Adblock Plus is “theft” based on logic even more ridiculous than the RIAA’s claim that either obtaining or purchasing music from RIAA-unapproved sources is “theft”.

And if Adblock Plus or its users find a way to bypass my tutorial – well, then, it’s my responsibility to come up with a new one.

Anyway, there are several ways for Web site owners using affiliate programs to reach users of Adblock Plus. This tutorial will focus on the Amazon affiliate program. NOTE: Be sure to follow your terms of use when taking into account this tutorial.

#1. HYPERLINKING YOUR CONTENT

By reading the introductory notes above, you’ve already seen this in action ) Here is an example of a post in a personal-journal-type blog:

I went to Stuart’s house yesterday, and watched Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. It was very funny, so I ordered it on Amazon.com. It was listed as “Temporarily out of stock” though, and I couldn’t wait. Then I found out both "Do America" and Volume 1 of the Mike Judge Collection were on sale at Wal-Mart, and decided to buy it there instead.

The code for the text links is generated from “Link to this page” on the Amazon Associates Link bar.

The referral link to the front page, used when I say “Amazon”, is:

http://www.amazon.com/?tag=xcoflco-20

(replace “xcoflo-20″ with your referral tag )

WARNING! Be sure not to over-do this as it makes your site look shady and will lower your rankings in the search engines.

This page has some tips on linking to certain things (comments, reviews, single products, etc…)

#2. TEXT UNDER ADS WITH SAME LINK

Adblock Plus users will see blotches of whitespace where your ads should be. However, you can simply place text under the ad to and hyperlink it to the same place.

For example:

Place the phrase “Buy Video Games at Amazon.com”, highlight it bold (or strong), and hyperlink it with the same link given in the banner:

Buy Video Games at Amazon.com

#3. SELF-HOST RELATED IMAGE

If you make use of Amazon’s Product Link banners, as I do on certain posts, Adblock Plus will remove the whole thing.

However, if you could combine a Referral Link with a self-hosted image, the advertising will still reach the visitor.

Take, for instance, the ad below for Sean Hannity’s Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda:

An Adblock Plus user will not see that ad at all.

Here I have uploaded an image of the book, taken from Google Images, and scaled it down for page loading time using GIMP:

Buy from Amazon.com

I hope you enjoyed these tips, and remember, when it comes to your web site, the visitor is always right!

Transcript available at The Corbett Report

Well with YouTube you’re in luck – as of the date of this post, there have been no changes to the Channel Uploads RSS feed. It has just been hidden from your browser’s “Subscribe” feature. All you have to do is take the existing YouTube Channel Uploads subscription in your feed reading software, and copy and paste into a new one with the channel name changed.

NOTE: These instructions only apply to the Channel Uploads feed.

The Channel Uploads feed for YouTube user HowToVanish is:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/howtovanish/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile

Replace “howtovanish” in the above example with the name of the channel you wish to subscribe to, and you have that channel’s RSS feed.

Enjoy!

I had been wanting to do this for a while, as the old theme’s color scheme was rather dark and grim, and the fonts were unusual for a Web site. I couldn’t just “switch the theme” as I had built up on the theme quite a lot. So I eventually decided to focus on the two stylesheets – few changes were done to the actual theme.

I had been working on this for over a week during my spare time.

I was able to completely sever the two stylesheets from the original theme, enabling me to start from scratch and avoid being forced into the GPL. As of the date of this post, the two new stylesheets are fully copyrighted.

If anyone has any problems, feel free to e-mail me at the address in the “About Us” tab.

Enjoy!

(The blackout on the X-Cop Fly Company blog started a few hours late for EST people such as myself, since the plugin I used here had a bug, and I could not upgrade to the fixed version until I woke up yesterday. Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org followed the full 8AM-8PM EST blackout.)

Why did I not announce this? Especially after posting material from Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org on the VOGONS forum just a few hours prior?

This was done deliberately. When you give the President dictatorial powers over the Internet, your business will just freeze. All financial transactions will be put on hold, including the ability to hire a lawyer. Already Obama has shut down thousands of domains using assumed nonexistent power. Many of these sites had a valid legal case, with Obama refusing to show any justification for his actions.

SOPA/PIPA is being sold in terms of how and when the MAFIAA will use it for copyright purposes. But the real issue is the amount of power given to the President over any business he feels like targeting, a further moving America away from capitalism and towards government-managed Hitler/Mussolini/FDR fascism. SOPA/PIPA enables the President to cut off any enterprise’s commercial activity (including hiring lawyers) and seize any property he wants.

SOPA/PIPA also subliminally targets Wikileaks-like organizations, since they often host copyrighted material as well as material exposing the fallibility of the governments of the world, and were subject to similar cutoffs from capitalism.

In other words, SOPA/PIPA gives dictatorial powers to one man. Obama has already seized banks, investments, and car companies, it’s only natural that he wants to seize the establishment’s biggest enemy, the Internet, and anything else he feels like seizing.

See these two articles and the podcast I appeared on regarding SOPA/PIPA’s non-piracy-related consequences:

• The Blacklist Bills Are Just Plain Silly
• Hussein Obama’s Upcoming Dictatorship: The Virtual World & The Physical World
• Podcast: SOPA, S. 1867, and the Police State

Again, remember that if SOPA/PIPA becomes law, all it takes is a single copyrighted sentence on a Web site, and any business in the country can be destroyed, anytime, anywhere, and forever.

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Fortunately I like to keep at least one spare piece of hardware in case the one I have breaks. You might have heard me mention a 2003 Dell computer used for emergencies.

I don’t know who owned this 4:3 monitor. Probably came free with a Dell computer my parents or sister must’ve bought at some point. It’s LCD but it isn’t widescreen. Two choices: 800×600 or 1024×768.

Very annoying. Windows are crammed and have to be resized. I’d have to reconfigure game settings and would rather wait for a widescreen to watch DVDs I just bought myself for Christmas.

Though I do see that xcopfly.com works with 4:3, as well as the “work-in-progress” version (not yet in a completely working state, but you can see my progress if you are clever enough to find how to turn it on And I guess that’s good.

A new monitor is on the way, probably tomorrow, weather permitting It’s LED backlit, and 16:9 rather than 16:10, gives me both DVI and an analog VGA port for the 2003 machine.

Mitt Romney – Supports abortion. (source) Supports Socialist National health care and private mandates, turning millions of unemployed Americans into indentured criminals in 2014. (source) Supports the homosexual agenda. (source)

Rick Perry – Encourages 11-year-old girls to have sex, even to the point of fighting his legislature. (source) Sympathizes with Muslim terrorist groups (source). Favors public works projects. (source)

Newt Gingrich – Supports private health mandates, turning millions of unemployed Americans into indentured criminals in 2014. Supports food and drug regulation. Supports global warming. Supports domestic non-defense regulation. Opposes gun rights. (source)

Rick Santorum – Supports private health mandates, turning millions of unemployed Americans into indentured criminals in 2014. (source) Occasional weakness on the abortion issue. (source) Opposes gun rights. Supports labor union interests. (source) (more on Rick Santorum)

In 1994 we had a free-market Republican Revolution of Deregulation.
In 2010, we had a limited-government Republican Tea Party Revolution of Small Government.

We had Soviet Socialism. We have Cuban Socialism. We have Chinese Socialism.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is American Socialism.

Welcome to the American Socialist Revolution of 2012.
Brought to you by the Republican Party.

Yes I was very disappointed with Mitt Romney’s 8-vote lead over Rick Santorum.

I was happy though that Rick Santorum got so high, he a least has a Religious Right background to his neoconism.

I was happy that Ron Paul got 3rd place, defeating the anti-deregulation “New” Gingrich.

I was happy to see Ron Paul bring up Cpl. Jesse Thorsen to speak during Ron’s speech, a soldier who was a convenient victim of “technical difficulties” which spread rapidly throughout the Internet within only a few minutes.

But not happy about this at all.

I was unhappy that “New” Gingrich, who came in below Ron Paul at 4th, during his speech, acted sour and criticized Ron Paul rather than offering anything useful to his supporters.

I have mixed feelings about Michele Bachmann’s resignation. While I have respect for her, and she would be my second choice, her resignation could help bring up Ron Paul’s numbers, my first choice.

And most importantly, I was happy that of the pledged Iowa delegates, Ron Paul got the same amount as Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. It’s a great start for an exceptional candidate.

BTW I’m dumping the auto-tagging. It’s been terrible since I started with it.

Adam Carolla breaking down the current occupy wallstreet movement in simple terms for everyone to understand. He dives into the cultural reasons that lead us into this situation, as well as the solution to our problems… Very similar to Ron Paul’s chapter on envy in his latest book, liberty defined.

WordPress took down Bare Naked Islam Blog today after threats from CAIR.

Quoting PR Newswire:

CAIR said visitors to “Bare Naked Islam,” hosted by WordPress.com, now see the message: “barenakedislam.wordpress.com is no longer available. This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service.”

[NOTE: "Bare Naked Islam" was one of the major promoters of the campaign to pressure Lowe's to drops its ads from TLC's "All-American Muslim."]

Last month, CAIR called on the FBI to investigate the threats of violence targeting mosques posted on the blog and urged WordPress.com to remove it for violating the hosting company’s terms of service (TOS), which prohibit blogs that “contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities.” [note: these were comments by visitors, not blog posts]

Three posts (1 2 3) on Bare Naked Islam’s Twitter page read:

BARE NAKED ISLAM has been taken down by WordPress thanks to CAIR terrorists. Looking for a new host now.

CAIR threatened WordPress staffers with violence: [link]

SHOCKER! WP has reinstated my blog and say CAIR did not pressure them. But they still want me gone by Jan 6

Updates will be primarily to the stylesheet, and will include:

• Use of standardized colors
• Use of brighter colors
• Easier to read

And more!

Stay tuned.

If you’re like me, you’re probably pissed off that the crucial Firefox extension Adblock Plus, with its new Version 2 has become crippled by a sleazy payoff to allow “non-intrusive” advertising from a whitelist maintained by the developer. “75% of users agree” with yet another tech-industry sellout based on some alleged “user survey”.

Quotes from the help file:

Which ads are “acceptable”?

We currently have the following requirements:

• Static advertisements only (no animations, sounds or similar)
• Preferably text only, no attention-grabbing images
• At most one script that will delay page load (in particular, only a single DNS request)

These criteria are not final, we are working on improving them. In particular, we want to require that user’s privacy is respected (mandatory Do Not Track support). However, we are not yet in a position to enforce that requirement.

How can I see what you are allowing?

The “Allow non-intrusive advertising” checkbox simply adds one more filter subscription to your list.

And while you can disable this “checkbox”, the whitelist remains available at:

easylist-downloads dot adblockplus dot org slash exceptionrules dot txt

As of the date of this post, the whitelist includes (of course) one of the major godmothers of all tech-industry whores, Google, and a few other advertisers like Sedo’s domain parking.

However, if you don’t trust the “checkbox”, you may stop Adblock Plus from polling the whitelist.
This has been tested on Firefox 8.0 and Adblock Plus 2.0.1.

1. First disable the “Allow non-intrusive advertising” checkbox in Adblock Plus’s Filter Preferences.
2. In your Firefox URL bar, type “about:config” and press Enter. If you get a message about “voiding your warranty”, ignore that and proceed.
3. In “Filter”, type in “extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_exceptionsurl”. This Preference Name, with Value showing the whitelist URL, should appear
4. Right-click the “extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_exceptionsurl” under Preference Name, and click Modify.
5. Delete all the text in the dialog that pops up (usually pressing Backspace will clear it completely)
6. Click OK, close, and restart Firefox.
7. Enjoy the privacy, control, choice, and browsing experience Adblock Plus once gave you!

I also suggest that in addition to Easylist, you use unofficial lists such as Fanboy’s:

fanboy dot co dot nz