Tag: FARK

Last week I covered RogerART, but this week I'm going to look at a great source of ugly sites. Three sources, in fact. The first is known by millions of people: Fark. Yes, I picked Fark because it has, traditionally, carried a lot of links to local news sites or personal sites. And let's be honest: most local affiliate sites (like your local ABC/NBC/CBS TV station's site) look like crap. They ...

If you've got a unique phrase that is clearly associated with your product, you can apply for a trademark and prevent other groups from using that phrase without permission. For example, an advertising jingle or slogan. We'd give you an example, but we don't want to get sued, so just hum the latest Coke, Pepsi, or any other beverage. But there are some phrases that you would think would be ...

Sociable is a plugin for Wordpress that adds cute link icons to each of your blog posts that users can click on to quickly add the post to their favorite social bookmark service like del.icio.us or news sites like Digg, Newsvine, or Fark. The plugin can be configured to show icons for any of the 24 (and counting) supported services, and installing it is, as with most Wordpress plugins, a snap. ...