It’s been a hectic couple of weeks folks! As I’m writing this from the desk of my new stylishly beige-coloured, yet slightly less secluded office, keeping a handy webpage within reach for prying corporate eyes (beware of secretaries and fax machines), I think it’s safe to say I’m back — and may I never have to live another week without broadband. Let’s kick off the weekend with a Friday Boot, why don’t we!
Category: Site News
He’s got it!
His first taste of big city life…Ain’t that cute?
On Moving And Testicle Crushing
Service Announcement. I’m back at work now, and the company I work for is in the process of moving to another city. Hence: no internet connection for the better part of this week – posting is going to be scarce. I will of course be monitoring comments and such from home, making spammers’ shit rise up to kiss them where possible. In the meantime, here’s some ways by which you can crush your own testicles in your own home. Thank me not.
Les Vacances de Mr. Barry Part Deux
Ladies and gents, I am now off for a week of holidays. Catch you later!
FZ Gig List Now With Playlists
If you head over to the FZ Gig List (at least, my version of it), you’ll note that I’ve now cross-matched it with Jon Naurin’s FZ Shows. When available, the play-list for any given concert will now be listed underneath the city/venue/country. This cross-match is not perfect though, as both txt-files were formatted in very different ways so I’ve had to jump through quite a few hoops to make them hook up. From brief testing, I’d say the match is about 99% accurate. Have a look and tell me what you think…
FZ Gig List Goes Live
Back in early May I mentioned how I was trying to create a database-backed version of Charles Ulrich’s FZ Gig List (which is an incredible work of dedication and stamina in and of its self). The idea was to make searching through all that information a little easier. So here now, is my version. Real programmers would call my disorderly bit of code-fiddling “beta”, so I’ll refrain from using that term ;)
Try it out, and tell me what you think. Usual lay-out disclaimer: Hey, it looks good on my computer!
Chicken…
Three years of Hot Poop (you might wanna click the above graphic for full view)! Kill Ugly Radio’s Staff couldn’t be more excited, and we hope you feel the same. While we uncork the Dom Perignon, here are some of Hot Poop’s greatest highlights we deemed worthy of unearthing from the dark grey depths that are the archives. For them to grow to be highlights dear reader, more than once had to do with your invaluable input. So whip out the proverbial chicken and rub the circular motion, as we present you with some Vintage Hot Poop:
4. Meanwhile, lemme tell you Ive found a solution to, you know, that little problem Ive had with Under-Ease Underwear.
5. A blind psychic claims he can read peoples futures by feeling their naked buttocks
6. from Memory Hole to “spit or swallow”
8. No War.
10. Danish blue
11. OMG WTF
13. isep kontol gua!
15. the Crapper Poll
20. Joe’s Chicken
21. Search Results: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
22. Collages: YellowMudShark and Sofa, Webmaster and General Publisher of TheBigNote.com | the original HotPoop Headquarters collage| Barry’s Forehead l moonbug collage | Friday Boot
Lossless
There won’t be a “lossless music” Uncle Beat variant. Here’s why.
Son of Uncle Beat
Peter (of United Mutations fame) just wrote me an email in which he makes an interesting proposal: “I like the Uncle Beat idea, but I’m allergic to compressed music, so here’s what I suggest: If you can create a relative to Uncle Beat, for lossless music sharing only, I will take part in this. (read: I will start a vine a month)”
Well how could I be against such an excellent proposition! What say ye Brethren of the Great Moustachio’d One?
6A Dummy Up
Gee, thanks Moveable Type. Introductory price for MT 3 Personal Edition: $69,95 – which allows me to have 3 authors and 5 weblogs. I currently have 6 weblogs and about 10 authors contributing which means I’d have to cough up $149,95 to upgrade. Guess I’ll just stick with my current install – although Textpattern suddenly looks very tasty…
Browser Check
Windows users please hear my plea! While at the local library yesterday I took the opportunity to browse this site using one of their Windows machines. Needless to say things looked rather horrible in their version of MS Internet Explorer (v5.x, I believe). Hence, this slightly tweaked testpage, which I would like you to scrutinize in order to report anything weird. Upon which we shall return to our regular schedule of funny porn movie titles and silly IQ tests.
Frank Zappa Gig List
Feeling a bit bored today, I went to check out Charles Ulrich‘s fabulous Frank Zappa Gig List (version 04/04/04). Much as I appreciate this treasure of information, I’ve always deplored the fact that it wasn’t searchable in any way — I mean, you have to sort of drill into the “HTML version” quite a bit to find what you’re looking for. So, since I was bored, I grabbed the txt version and dropped it in a database. There’s quite a bit of flaws in the txt giglist formatting (superfluous tabs, bad date-formats, etc), but I’m weeding them out as we speak. Watch this site as, soon, it will offer a fully searchable, database-based version of the FZ Gig List!
Izzy La B
Have a look at this marvellous example of contemporary webdesign, authored by a certain someone whom we shall name Izzy La B. Then click on the Kill Ugly Radio links on that page. …back? That was fun eh?
When In Doubt…
I can’t help myself. I had to go and make some adjustments to the stylesheet. Redesigning in public! It’s the new cool. When in doubt, reload…
Oops I Did It Again
Umm… red enough for you?