Wordsmoker.com Is Now Active – Please Change Your Bookmarks

By VirusWithEnormousHeadache

Okay everyone – the site has been migrated over to http://wordsmoker.com/. The old WordPress blog you’re currently reading won’t be updated by any more new posts, as everything will be done on the new site. Please click on the above link to take yourselves there, and update your bookmarks.

For Wordsmokers: To post, on the left sidebar there’s now a link saying “Write Post”. Click on that – it will take you to a WordPress Login screen. Important! It’s not the same as the old one, because you’re on a completely new server which doesn’t know your password, so you’ll have to click on the link that says “Lost Your Password“. It’ll ask for your email address – input that, and a new password for this site will be sent to you.

After that, you can log-in using this new password and change it to what it was or whatever suits you now.

Also - the snazzy new commenting system has not been enabled yet as it’s showing signs of being broken. I’ve contacted the support folks and asked for an answer, but until then, it’s back to the usual system.

Also – the new site is still undergoing changes, so it may look at tad unfinished at the moment. I wanted it to get up and running asap, though, so please excuse the slight differences in looks and behaviour.

Any problems or questions, mail wordsmoker (at) gmail (dot) com and I’ll get to them asap.

Wordsmoker Update: Weekend Upgrade

By VirusWithFingersCrossed

Hello Internet Reader

Over the weekend Wordsmoker is being migrated to a different host. This will hopefully go smoothly. When it re-awakes from it’s slumber, it will look different, and will be enabled with a snazzy new commenting system. We’ll be testing everything out after the migration, but if something looks broken, or doesn’t behave properly, please drop us a line and we’ll look into it asap.

Thanks for your patience!

Somali Pirates 1, Saudi Cowards 0

by AARON ALTMAN

Just one day after the U.S. announced it would lead a game of “Battleship” against the dreaded yet PR-savvy Somali pirates, the owners of a Saudi oil tanker – which was held for ransom for more than two months – caved in and paid $3 million so they could get their boat back.

Impeached Blago Quotes Tennyson, Makes Prop Babies Cry

Rod Blagojevich tries, fails to distract media with collection of human interest stories

by AARON ALTMAN

The Illinois House of Representatives formally impeached governor Rod Blagojevich today, forcing the not-indicted but talkative Blagojevich to come out of hiding and quote poetry in a last-ditch attempt to save, um his dignity?  We’re not sure.

Tax Cuts Are Dumb

By ADismalScience

Barack “Shiny Tie” Obama today laid out plans to offer a $1,000 tax cut to 95% of Americans. Basically, all of America is now defined as the “middle class” except for the psychotically wealthy.  Yes we did invalidate demographics!

The Littlest Loser

By Nard

Lately, I can’t seem to turn on my television or computer without seeing something about “The Biggest Loser.”  While I support the exploitation of the morbidly obese, images from the program fill me with sadness because they remind me that I was a fat child.  I wasn’t circus-side-show fat, but I was very rotund and very, very insecure.  This insecurity led me to voluntarily participate in an event that haunts me to this day.

Sheila Hates Me Kids

by Vaquero

Dinnertime. Grating parmesan cheese for pasta. Madison said, “How do they make so many different kinds of cheese, and why are they all so tasty?”