Blog: Oh Word

I decided to do some good for the world today. It's been bugging me that Complex.com runs so many articles that require n clicks to get through where n ranges from 10 to infinity. So today I created a bookmarklet which fetches all the slides of the Complex slideshow you're visiting and loads them up on that one page. To use it, just drag the link at the end of this article to your Bookmarks bar and when you're at Complex looking at a slideshow article, click the button for it and [...]

I decided to do some good for the world today. It's been bugging me that Complex.com runs so many articles that require n clicks to get through where n ranges from about 10 to infinity. So today I created a bookmarklet which fetches all the slides of the Complex slideshow you're visiting and loads them up on that one page. To use it, just drag the link at the end of this article to your Bookmarks bar and when you're at Complex looking at a slideshow article, click the button for it and the magic happens. [...]

Video via Walasia The Oscar Grant verdict comes in as guilty on the charge of involuntary manslaughter. BART police officer Mehserle killed 22 year old Grant while he was unarmed and subdued on a train platform, and would claim it was an accident - that he mistook his gun for his taser. Leaving the obvious question of why Grant needed to be tased while cuffed. Mehserle was exonerated of 2nd degree murder and voluntary manslaughter charges but some took solace in the fact that there was a conviction at all - even if it seemed to [...]

Have you ever learned that two friends of yours have hooked up? It can be cool or super awkward. Tonight we will witness the coupling of two of our friends when funding platform Kickstarter showcases some of their successful projects (but not Stadium Status ) at Rooftop Films . The lineup looks great so you should come on through as well if you're in NY. I'm most excited about this chess team one , Putty Hill and the Atlantic Yards story - Battle of Brooklyn . [...]

Stadium Status is our latest (and possibly greatest) video:

Stadium Status is our latest (and possibly greatest) video:

Busy week for me and my fellow Internets Celebrities , Dallas Penn and Casimir Nozkowski. This morning's New York Times has an article about us by city reporter David Gonzalez, " Three Men and a Video Camera, Out to Reveal Urban Truths ." We had a great time speaking with Gonzalez and Librado Romero, the photographer who accompanied him for the story. It's perfect timing because the article also plugs the screening we're hosting tonight June 1 at the Central library in Brooklyn at Grand Army Plaza . The event runs from 7-9pm and [...]

I'd be negligent in my duty to my readers if I didn't mention that Global Grind seems to have stopped their policy of full content scraping and framing other people's content . This happened because of the ruckus blogger Patrick O'Keefe raised by calling them out on their abhorrent practices. So if you installed my frame-blocking code last month you may want to remove it. Although honestly they're still wack and you don't need their measly traffic.

So, Bol shared this post from The Smoking Section on the death of print and how you know, they had it coming. We all got it coming, Schofield Kid. I had my issues with the post's very bullish take on the future of writing online. So I grumbled a little something in the comments but didn't say much. Then I grumbled a little something on Twitter but still didn't say much. That seemed to be the end of that. Them not saying much and me mad, but not saying [...]

I just wanted it out there that the free wordpress setup offer I announced in February is going to be offered indefinitely so I'll be taking all the "limited time only" bits out of that offer page this weekend. I had announced it as limited time only originally because I wasn't sure if I'd be overwhelmed with requests or if the experience would be worth it. As it turned out, the demand was strong but not overwhelming. I've set up almost twenty blogs for people since then and it has also led to a nice amount [...]

I just wanted it out there that the free wordpress setup offer I announced in February is going to be offered indefinitely so I'll be taking all the "limited time only" bits out of that offer page this weekend. I had announced it as limited time only originally because I wasn't sure if I'd be overwhelmed with requests or if the experience would be worth it. As it turned out, the demand was strong but not overwhelming. I've set up almost twenty blogs for people since then and it has also led to a nice amount [...]

I just noticed that the Global Grind frame protection I posted in the previous post didn't render properly in my RSS feed this morning. So if you used the code from RSS instead of from the blog post... You should use this instead: <?php if (preg_match('/globalgrind.com/ ', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) ) { echo "<p>Because of Global Grind's <a href=' http://www.patrickokeefe.com/2 010/04/26/global-grind-copies- content-submits-it-to-google-n ews/' target='_parent'>evil policy of content scraping</a>, I am blocking all traffic from Global Grind. Please support those who create instead of those who steal.<br /><br />You can [...]

I have been comfortably ignoring Russell Simmons' lame urban aggregator Global Glind for years but it's just been brought to all of our attention that they've gone and crossed the line from parasitic to Evil. No longer happy to merely index, excerpt and link to your content, Global Grind is now duplicating it - putting your entire page in an iframe on a globalgrind.com url under their toolbar. So when you write a post at your site, the whole damn thing will become material for GlobalGrind traffic and you'll actually have to compete with your own [...]

While I was away from here, we started this other thing over here . Trying to set things right. Dallas Kicks Off IC Fit Club Rafi's Kids Watch Dallas' Video Rafi Jumps in on IC Fit Club Dallas outside the fast food spot opting for arguably better choices like candied yams and creamed spinach Rafi's Wii Fit Weigh-In [...]

Hip-Hop is a funny business where people all talk about keeping it real while everyone's got more game than a crackhead from Hempstead. Let's talk about just a few examples. Just before New Year's I got this email: My name is Stu. I run an online hip-hop ghostwriting business called Rap Rebirth ( www.rap-rebirth.com ). We [there ain't no we!] write for aspiring and established [yeah right] artists around the world. We're longtime fans of your blog [liar!] and we'd like to collaborate with you on an article [...]

The IC's got a very favorable assessment as "a Hollywood comedy franchise waiting to happen"(!) in the intro of a Smart Money article on junk food tax . I assume we'll actually be in the April issue of Smart Money magazine because if the article was just for the web it would be even weirder that they didn't link to Bodega or Ghetto Big Mac when discussing them, let alone our site. It's just a good rule of thumb that if you're writing about something on the web you should link to it. [...]

Box Tops and Big Star singer/songwriter Alex Chilton has passed away of an apparent heart attack. 59 is too young to go.

Last week it was pretty awesome when Rek pointed out that rapper Smoothe da Hustler was on MySpace pushing property listings these days in addition to lyrics. Of course Smoothe is best known for the classic '95 single " Broken Language " with his brother Trigger tha Gambler . Then I got an email from former Oh Word staffer David Donald pointing out that Will High is also flaunting a potential second career with this damn clever verse mocking the situation in the comments at Rek's post. You may remember Will High [...]

Handsome Boy Modeling School The Truth is the Youtube beat du jour. Vast Aire asks "What is this, a trend?" Infinito 2017 displays his " theoretical medical genitals " style. Money line: "your whole style is faker than Kenny Rogers' face" And for this self-conscious homage a crew of YouTube musicians collaborate via the Internets. Handsome Boy Modeling School - The Truth The originator... Galt MacDermot - Coffee Cold Oh No - Coffee Cold [...]

This is an essay I wrote in the spring of '98 while in college. I was inspired to go dig it up after a Twitter conversation I had with Sam Han a while back about anxiety and permanence. Pause. Saturn Never Sleeps also had a post on Mandala sand painting at the start of this month which reminded me to actually follow through on finding this thing. The photo to the right of this post ran alongside the essay in our campus arts magazine. It shows the visiting Tibetan monks at work on their [...]