Random Factoid #354

17 07 2010

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This is a question mainly for WordPress bloggers – mainly because I don’t know how Blogger/Blogspot does things.

You know that weird section on your “blog stats” page called INCOMING LINKS?  It’s where you see who has linked to you; I guess a sort of alternative pingback.  Mine is usually filled with LAMBscores, LAMB Chops, etc.

But recently, there has been a strange link in there that just will not go away.  It’s a post from a sketchy looking site called “The Blog Conglomerate” called What Are New York’s “Boyfriend Politicians” Doing to Single Women…

Now, I don’t write about anything other than the movies, so it struck me as very strange that I would be linked to from this post.  I looked around and eventually found that my Random Factoid #325 was listed under their “Related Websites.”  That factoid, for everyone’s information, was about the late Pixar animator Joe Ranft.  Nothing to do with politics.

So I have to ask – has this happened to anyone else?  This is just really, really strange, and I don’t quite know what to make of it.


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Random Factoid #245

30 03 2010

It gets pretty hard to come up with a factoid every day once you get in the hundreds.  Thankfully, I discovered a nice tool for inspiration courtesy of WordPress.

They have a nice button called “Random Post” that randomly selects some post that I have published, in case you couldn’t figure it out from the title.  Since I’m fairly factoid heavy, most of the time, I get a factoid.  Sometimes I’ll see an idea or thought that I liked and expand on it.

Several factoids from the past week have taken their inspiration from this button.  Including this one.


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Random Factoid #127

2 12 2009

There is more than one “Marshall and the Movies” on the web.

Don’t worry, I am the other “Marshall and the Movies.”  When I had the idea to create a blog, I wanted to explore a great series of hosts.  I had previously used Blogger, but I settled on WordPress because I felt that it provided much more tools for growth.  The site still exists, and I stumbled upon it the other day.  There’s nothing there but my first post, but I just thought you might find it interesting.

The link is http://marshallandthemovies.blogspot.com/ if you want to see what could have been.


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