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Lots of Images

The reponse to Blogger Images has been huge! There's LOTS of images being posted and we're psyched. Some users did experience a template issue which I just posted about here and we're working that out now. (Keep an eye on the status blog for that.) Otherwise, post 'em if you got 'em. Like so:

Portabella's are $5.00 a pound. How about that?

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Blogger Images!

As you can see by this screenshot of the Blogger.com front page featuring my cat, we have launched Blogger Images. Now you can put a photo (or any JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF or BMP format image) into your blog posts easily and for free. From your hard drive or from the Web. How do you like that? Also, since I can just click a button, here is a photo I took earlier today:

I'm pretty sure local laws require a doctor to be on-site wherever deep fried twinkies are being sold. (If they don't, they should.)

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Squatter City

Found via BoingBoing is this blog called Squattercity about squatters and squatter cities around the world. The blogger, Robert Neuwirth, is a writer who spent two years living in squatter communities on four continents and has published a new book called Shadow Cities in an attempt to humanize these maligned settlements.

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Survey Says

MIT's running a Weblog Survey, if you've got a few spare minutes.

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Nothing Wrong with That

Jason Mulgrew, is named one of the "50 Hottest Bachelors" of 2005 by People magazine because of his blog, Everything Is Wrong with Me. His blog posts are funny:

When she first asked me, I immediately thought, "This girl wants me to go to a five-hour open bar with her and then we're staying in a hotel room. We are going to have a baby."
He posted the page from the magazine here. People asked him, Why Blog? to which he responded, "I'm better in print than in person." Good stuff.

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Five Links for Friday

Here's five links I spotted recently rounded up for your clicking pleasure (in case you didn't spend all week reading blogs).

In other news, I hope to see Batman Begins tonight. Hope it's okay-ish. Goldman seemed to like it but he was hopped up on Reece's Pieces and something he calls "cheery icee" which might be French, I'm not sure.

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Savage Chickens!


Doug Savage can't stop drawing chicken cartoons (a good amount of which are funny). So yeah, I thought I should point that out to you.

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