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Here’s a strange issue I’ve encountered with NetNewsWire, my RSS reader: sometimes a particular item will change to unread when the feeds refresh, even though it hasn’t been edited. Currently the offending post is “Hawaiian Vacation” from Matt Haughey’s blog A Whole Lotta Nothing; for two weeks now it’s marked itself unread at least once per day. If past behavior is any indication, this will continue until the post scrolls off the list of recent entries.

I haven’t been keeping a close watch, but I believe I’ve only seen this issue with TypePad blogs — I know I’ve noticed it with Brainy Gamer posts before. Even then it’s fairly infrequent. I wonder what the deal is.

In celebration of tomorrow, my first-ever paid holiday:

(NSFW)

• “A Theory of Everything” by unSane
• “Na Na” by InfidelZombie
• “Impossible Edge” by al_fresco
• “Maiquetía” by micayetoca
• “Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” by Saellys

• Sweet Friggin’ Daisies
• A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle (in development)
• The Friggin’ Mafia Movie

(inspiration)

• “Colours of Islam” by dobie
• “La Tarea” by ORthey
• “Olivia” by chococat
• “Fountain” by mikeo2
• “Summer’s Ending” by ludwig_van (see also the studio version)

Josh Millard is the kind of guy I imagine I would be if, every time I had a thought that began “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”, I put it into action immediately. Wouldn’t it be cool if I reviewed every X-Files episode? Wouldn’t it be cool if I made a webcomic out of baseball cards? Wouldn’t it be cool if I sang the news?

All of these projects are not sustained simultaneously, but I think there’s something admirable in the willingness to execute on ideas even when they’re somewhat half-baked. (Most recently Josh launched a site for looking at cats, called Look At This Cat.) As Ze Frank pointed out, even the silliest ideas are better out in the open.