Phantom Mong8se

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May 13, 2013

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True achievement of man juxtaposed with wide-eyed wonder from the dawn of the Space Age. And a David Bowie cover.

Transformers as a Cultural Landmark

May 5, 2013

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My 6yo and I were cruising in my car yesterday, windows down, enjoying Spring. We were listening to Van Halen’s 1984 on the stereo.

My son asked, “Is this Transformers music?”

“No, do you like it?” I replied.

“I do, but it sounds like Transformers music.”

Evidently my son’s sense of 80s music is based around the 1986 Transformers movie.

I find this awesome. Bah weep gragnah weep nini bong!

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Apr 15, 2013

They broke the Mitch Hedberg rule! They’re supposed to be temporarily stairs.

The first outdoor game to feature an NHL team was held on February 2, 1954. The Detroit Red Wings played an exhibition game on an outdoor ice surface, in 21 °F (−6 °C) degree weather, against inmates at Michigan’s Marquette Branch Prison. After the first period the Red Wings led in the game 18–0; the score for the rest of the game was not kept.

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Mar 18, 2013

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jaymug:

Guns replaced by a thumbs-up by Thumbs & Ammo

Brilliant.

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Filtering tweets on your tumblr

Mar 17, 2013

If you’ve followed these instructions for adding your tweets to your tumblr theme, and you have your tumblr auto-tweeting, you may have noticed something redundant: tweets from your tumblr appear on the tweet list on your tumblr.

You may have also noticed there isn’t a way to limit the number of tweets returned by recent_tweets().

Here’s how to fix both issues. Starting with the example code from the custom themes page, tweak it like this:

function recent_tweets(data) {
    var tumblr = /tumblr/;
    for (var i=0,p=0; p<9 && i<data.length; i++) {
        if (tumblr.test(data[i].source))
            continue;
        document.getElementById("tweets").innerHTML =
            document.getElementById("tweets").innerHTML +
            '<a href="http://twitter.com/{TwitterUsername}/status/' +
            (data[i].id_str ? data[i].id_str : data[i].id) +
            '"><div class="content">' + data[i].text +
            '</div></a>';
        p++;
    }
    document.getElementById("twitter").style.display = 'block';
}

The p<9 will make sure that the upper limit of displayed tweets is 10, but if there are fewer than 10 tweets i<data.length will limit it to the actual number of tweets.

The tumblr regex test will ensure that if tumblr appears in the source of the tweet, it will be skipped.

Remember if you want to do additional filtering, if you console.log(data) you can discover what is available via firebug or chrome developer tools.

Happy tweetumbling.