Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Kevin “Keep messing with my family and you’re through” Federline has had his first single leak onto the internet, where it is available for download via rapidshare. The aspiring rapper’s hot track is called “popozão,” which apparently is a rough term for a hot ass. Interestingly enough, the urban dictionary definition has already become a vocal playground for Federline’s detractors:

To have everything in the world handed to you, despite neither deserving nor earning any of it and then throwing it away, all while ruining other’s lives. Becoming a running joke and existing solely as a caution to others not to emulate you. To rise to mediocrity and pseudo-celebrity status, only to fall back into the depths of obscurity long before your fifteen minutes have expired. In short: to blow it.

Kevin Federlines ENTIRE LIFE is popozao. You have been warned.

So, for your pleasure, here’s a transcription of the full lyrics of the song Popozao by Kevin Federline:

[random streaming, laughing and grunting]

Toy all your thing on me, baby.
Toy all your thing on me.
Toy all your thing on me, baby.
Toy all your thing on me.

Gatinha sai do chão, vai descender popozão,
gatinha sai do chão, vai descender popozão.

In Portugese it means “bring your ass”,
on the floor, and move it real fast.
I want to see your kitty and a little bit of titty–
want to know where I go when I’m your city?

Girl, don’t you worry about all the dough,
because a cat is coming straight out of the know,
ready to rock those shows all the way to Rio.
Bring that Brazil booty on the floor.

Up, down, all around:
work that shit to the funky sound.
Going to see where I’m going, oh?

Po, Po, Po, Po, Popozao, Popozao
Po, Po, Po, Po, Popozao, Popozao
Po, Po, Po, Po, Popozao, Popozao

Gatinha sai do chão, vai descender popozão,
gatinha sai do chão, vai descender popozão.

Po, Po, Po, Po, Popozao, Popozao
Po, Po, Po, Po, Popozao, Popozao
Po, Po, Po, Po, Popozao, Popozao

Toy all your thing on me, baby.
Toy all your thing on me.
Toy all your thing on me, baby.
Toy all your thing on me.

[repeats]

With so much filler and only a single verse, it’s not very impressive. And he doesn’t sound very black. Oh well-the world needs more white rappers! Thanks to J for the Portuguese.

My friend Zenchic writes about Wordpress versus Typo:

So, me? I’ll take Typo any day. Sure, it does about 1/10 of what WP does, but I’m okay with that. You watch, tags and live-search will be in WP 3.0. Even Wordpress can’t hide from Web 2.0.

But, I just can’t leave this alone. Let’s first look at Typo’s feature set, and see how it stacks up against Wordpress 2.0:

# Instant publishing, no rebuilding necessary

Check

# Comments

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# Built in spam protection

Check–via the slick Akismet

# Textile and Markdown and Smartypants support

Check–via content filters

# Ping / Trackback

Check

# Categories / Tags

Check–tags can be enhanced with plugins

# TadaList, del.icio.us, Flickr, 43 Things, and Upcoming.org syndication

Check–but with third party plugins

# Ajax based live search and commenting

Check–with plugins. See the K2 theme.

# Ajax based comment moderation

Check? You don’t need to moderate comments in Wordpress, usually.

# Fulltext search with live preview

Check–with a plugin.

# RSS2 and Atom feeds as well as feeds for comments and trackbacks

Check

# Comment feeds

Check

# Modern caching. Typo only creates the xml files when needed and serves static copies to your subscribers.

Check–Wordpress’s is better.

# Supported databases: Mysql, Sqlite, and PostgreSQL

Nope. I think WP is MySQL only…

# Easy to type permalinks (like blog.leetsoft.com/articles/2005/01/29/syndication-and-tada )

Check–totally customizable, too.

# Web based administration and posting interface

Check

# Migration scripts from MovableType 3.x, Text Pattern 1.x , WordPress 1.5x as well as plain RSS

Check

OK, so why are you using Typo, and why does it even exist? It doesn’t have any super-awesome new features….

I just finished watching the movie Cellular, which was surprisingly entertaining. It stars Jessica Biel, William H. Macy, Jason Statham, and the ever cute Chris Evans. The plot revolves around a woman who’s kidnapped, along with eventually her entire family, by crooked police officers trying to bury a tape of them robbing drug dealers. Tied up in the attic, she manages to call a random boy who decides, on a whim, to help. I’ll just drop the recomendation along with a few snapshots:

I need a charger!

Uh oh–they’re cops!

On the hunt

The knight with a cell phone

The phone

Anyway, you can read more on IMDB if you’d like.

My recent DVD ripping guide was featured on digg.com, a popular technology news site. The site is user-moderated and run, and purports to be soon more popular than slashdot. Unfortunately, a traffic analysis does not bear that out. Despite achieving 1254 diggs to date, digg has not brought substantially more traffic to my blog:

There were only 7.2 thousand visits the first day, with traffic rapidly falling, for a grand total of around 10,346 new humans who, as a result of the article, visited my site. This would be considerably less for a less popular article on digg.com! Google Analytics also tells me they visited 1.3 of my pages per human, which means that maybe as many as one in three of the digg visitors clicked to another one of my pages.

The worst of it: money and return rate on advertising. Check out the following earnings overlay:

There was a little rise in earnings, but not really enough. Lesson learned: digg visitors are stingy, and I should put pop-ups on for visitors from Google, Slashdot, Digg, etc.

Love Our Children USA emailed me the following misguided takedown notice:

Hello,

We found this on a google search page 10 and would appreciate you removing this as it is copyright infringement and we do not sell or promote video games. Your cooperation would be appreciated.

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Thank you,
Love Our Children USA

To this, I wrote the following excessive reply:

Hello,

You are either extremely uninformed, in which case I suggest you simply stop reading, or else incredible stupid to write me what amounts to a certain kind of copyright takedown notice.

First, copyright protects your intellectual property, not your name. Your name is called a trademark, and may or may not be protected by trademark law.

Second, the content displayed on that page is clearly marked as originating from Google and MSN search results, and as such, is covered under the fair use section of copyright. Snippets of page text are linked back to their source–there is no infringement on your IP.

Third, to the dilution of your name, clearly your inclusion in that list is a kind of AUTOMATED mistake which no one would confuse as a partnership between my video games blog and you.

Fourth, the process is automated and I cannot remove you. Google still indexes the page as pointing back to you, but the page itself is always changing and doesn’t link to you anymore, which makes this email you sent me rather pointless.

Fifth, I have the right to link to your page in whatever context I wish. Perhaps I’ll start an adult hardcore fetish porn site and plug you as our favorite family site.

I do not know why Love Our Children USA would be concerned with a Google 10th page association with a video games blog and their name, but I strongly suggest you review the relevant rights you possess before threatening any more web site operators.

I wish I had a stupidity category for this site, because this is dumbest thing I’ve seen yet.

Update:

They write me back, but I won’t dignify a response:

Instead of being so nasty why don’t you try helping us to help America’s kids! Our mission has nothing to do with Video games. We did not threaten you but asked you nicely to please remove any mention of our organization.

The FBI will be informed of your intent to start an adult hardcore fetish porn site and plug us in as your favorite family site.

If your goal is to be obnoxious you reached your goal!