Practicalmadness

From our friends at AT&T Broadband:

"We regret losing you as a customer and hope we may serve you again in the future. To avoid additional collection actions, you must settle your account balance immediately and return all cable equipment. Thank you."

This, as much as anything else, is why my exposure to the Full, Non-Stop, Continuing Coverage of the Anniversary of the Attack on America Under Attack on any of the major media outlets is today limited to whatever's on NPR, which is probably for the best, provided I resolve this dispute well in advance of next week's Survivor: Thailand premiere.

So I spent far too much of yesterday and today working on the site, and among other things, I finally have a working Reader Service: if you use my Gleaner news service and happen to have a Practicalmadness Reader ID, you'll find that you can now make your own damned bookmarks and quit mooching off of mine.

I'm really proud of how I ended up doing the authentication page, partly because I've made it really easy for myself to add other services down the line, and mostly because I think that picture of keys on the login page looks cool.

So having solved that basic problem, I can add other much-needed features, like the ability to choose which sources are displayed on Gleaner (so that I can filter out Slashdot without having to impose my preference on every visitor), the ability to have your chosen Gleaner feeds e-mailed to you every morning, the ability to have Gleaner brush your teeth for you...

Speaking of feeds, Plastic is now being Gleaned, which means that you can now link to a link which features mostly other links, which I think adds something to my piece. It gives it sort of a postmodern quality, kinda like, um, surrealism? It's, like, self-referential, and that's really nice. I like it.

Art student-mocking sponsored by 9/11™ Brand Patriotism: Why believe in your country when you can just mourn it?