This is one of those things. You’ll either get it or you won’t.

I am absurdly excited about this.

The new washing machine & dryer were delivered today. Thus, Appliance Porn.

Here’s the old one. When I got it, eight, ten years ago, it was pretty much the best on the market; but it’s astonishing how much laundry two little girls can make in that time.

Now, I do the laundry. So I care about this shit. And that thing did an ok job in an un-sexy way. It’s pretty much this, where the new one is more, you know, this.

But the time has come to retire the ‘ol neptune, and move on. So here’s the new one.

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I’ve talked to a few of you about the project I’ve been busting ass on since before xmas – up nights supporting a development team in another time zone, etc.

Here’s why:

It won’t be out ’til june. But I want one.

I knew this already but BoingBoing has a good page on it.

From BoingBoing:

A number of bloggers who cover topics related to human sexuality say they’ve suddenly disappeared (or at least been deeply demoted) in Google search results. Popular “indie” blogs that deal with nonfiction sex ed or indie alt-erotica fare (Tiny Nibbles, Comstock Films, ErosBlog, and others) have suddenly vanished to much lower ranking in relevant search results — even when you have Google’s adult filter turned off. And in practical effect, being buried is just as bad as being filtered out entirely.
The apparent drop appears to coincide with changes Google recently made to their keyword ad program, AdSense.

I saw this sort of thing a couple years ago – google made a change like this and suddenly legitimate sex-related businesses like my friend Doxy’s Phone Slut Diary vanished from the google rankings while sites that spammed and used all sorts of keyword chicanery were still at the top of the charts.

It was fucked up then and it’s fucked up now; they punish the real, valuable sites and do nothing to slow down the cheaters. Our own Chelsea Girl is one of the blogs axed by google, along with Bacchus hisownself, and my man Tony Comstock and a lot of high-profile sex bloggers.

I’m not sure what to do about it; if the team at BoingBoing are head-scratching, i’m pretty well stumped as well. But dammit, it’s yet another reason google are getting up there in competition with m’soft for the title of great satan. Fuck ’em

Update: Xeni at BoingBoing is saying this is fixed, and it may be for high-profile sex blogs, but google hasn’t fixed the root cause; Chelsea’s, for example, is still google-censored.

Firefox 2 was just released, and I have to strongly suggest that anyone not running Safari move to this new Firefox right now, particularly if you’re still running Internet Explorer.

I’ve been running the FF2 beta for several weeks and it’s a seriously cool browser, even without a lot of tweaks and plugins installed. They’ve fixed bugs, plugged security holes, and made leaps and bounds in terms of improved performance.

Go get it. God, please, get the hell away from Internet Explorer, all of you!

I just found a page of cool, simple firefox hacks you can do with no plugins. I love this kinda shit.

Anyone out there set up to convert VHS tape to some sort of digital format? I’ve got a tape I need to transfer to some sort of high-res digital video format (quicktime or some such).