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I'm preempting the Thursday Shout-Out this week for a special announcement: Humor-Blogs.com 3.0 will be launched this Sunday, July 6.

The main change is going to be the way that blogs are ranked. We stopped doing blog reviews several months ago, and I've been trying to come up with a way to fairly rank blogs without so much manual effort. I've settled on a sort of thumbs-up/thumbs-down rating system similar to that of StumbleUpon or Digg. When a user clicks on a link to H-B from a post on your site, they will be given the option to "smiley" the post: They can give it a laughing-out-loud smiley, a happy smiling, or a grumpy smiley. In order to help prevent fraudulent voting, users must have a Humor-Blogs.com account to smiley posts.

A post's score will be determined by adding up the LOL smileys it has received and subtracting the grumpy smileys. Posts will be listed on the H-B home page in order by their score, from highest to lowest. The overall blog rankings will be determined by adding up the scores of each blog's posts for the past 30 days.

The new system will also be more egalitarian. In the past, only the top 50 ranked blogs have had their posts show up on the home page, but with this new system everyone will have a chance. Blogs will sink or swim based entirely on the votes they get. To make things completely fair, I will be resetting the scores of all the blogs (including mine) back to zero. Sorry, Johnny!

If you're an H-B member, don't worry, you don't have to change anything on your blog. You can keep linking to H-B the way you always have. If you have provided your feed url, any posts that have a link to H-B will show up on H-B.

My goal is to make H-B as fair and simple as I can for the members, and to make the site a more useful resource to visitors looking for funny blogs. This should result in increased traffic, which is good for all Humor-Blogs.com members.

If you have a funny blog and haven't joined Humor-Blogs.com yet, what are you waiting for? Join now! If you're not sure it's worth the trouble, ask any one of the eight bloggers who is ranked higher than me what they think.

And if you're a blog reader who would like to help promote some of your favorite blogs (like this one, for example), get a jump on things and sign up now. You don't have to sign up if you already have a blog listed on Humor-Blogs.com.

No caption contest tomorrow. I'm going to take the day off to celebrate the 4th and make sure everything is in place for the upgrade. I will post more information here after the upgrade is complete.

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“Mavis Beacon Teaches Stereotyping”

Does anyone have any idea on the availability of this piece of software?

via KimCalifornia

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Check out this full music video created by capturing applications from a standard Max OS X desktop and editing them together to form the narration of the video. Genius!

The video is “Again & Again” by the Bird & the Bee

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I suspect this has been ’shopped. Sega couldnt have got away with this could they???/

Could they??? via

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(click image for uncencored NSFW’ish pic)

Atlas is going to have his work cut out as time goes by..the poor guy is going to get swamped! via Modblog

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Simple a herb of arses! (i assume thats the plural for collection of arse?)

From the over active imagination of professional doodler Kris Stoddart.via

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Its the same old story isnt it…”I was about to tuck into my dinner and found a whole chicken head in there! I demanded compensation of course!”

In this case, the offending chicken head was apparently found in a pack of frozen ribs and chicken wings at ASDA here in the UK.

(Kids are so picky with their food these days)

Store chiefs gave him £50 of beer and wine to compensate and promised to investigate.

Needless to say, i’m skeptical. Oh, wait..it was reported in The Sun newspaper. Ah well then, it must be true!

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Now this looks special!

I thought it was another example of standard multi touch technology (which is pretty damn impressive on its own) until you realise you can see through the globe to the holographic projector behind it.

I cant wait for this kind of technology to become mainstream in everybody’s homes. The mouse was so 20th century!

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All you need is a handy template, a scissors, a camera and off you go for some cheap geek photography fun…

Dont forget to turn the adult filter off.

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The Writing Looks Korean To Me… If So… This must be a North Korean Communist Takeover Plot. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Floscuatroojos.com%2F2008%2F07%2F03%2Fan-interesting-user-manual%2F'; addthis_title = 'An+Interesting+User+Manual%26%238230%3B'; addthis_pub = ''; Comments (No responses yet)