I’m nowhere near as clever at this sort of thing as Mr. Ruff, but, sadly, he hasn’t posted anything in over a week. So, dear readers, I’ll give it my all, but I can make no promises as to quality.

VIVA LA SHAKRALUTION

The Most Beautiful Quote:

Clocks and capitalism stand unmoved, like phallic monuments constructed in the name of progress and condemning the unprivileged to death. This is nothing but slavocracy in modern day disguise.

I, for one, have always hated my penis-clock and have for some time been looking into one that’s a little more vaginal, or perhaps breast-like (boobular?).

DJ Serpentine Makes A Triumphant Return: The rhymes, oh the rhymes…

Nature is dying. Governments keep lying. And no laws can keep in check a culture of death.

And the puppeteers of the masses produce the entertainment that keeps us on our asses.

This boy is sitting on the shore wondering what it was he came here for.

I’ll lay even-odds that he’s got a bright future in the rap/metal genre. Oh, Shakra, it’s so good to see ye return!

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PS: Dear Oliver, please come home. Your family misses you so.

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UPDATE: Link Added.

Check out the front page of today’s Oregon Daily Emerald.

Most of the headlines look messed up and the names of recently announced ASUO Exec and Senate candidates in the green bottom-left box are difficult to read. Every page of the Emerald has distorted headlines and other text elements. According to murmurs over at the Emerald, it may be the printer who is at fault and not a staff member.

The Oregon Commentator weblog will probably go through some changes over the weekend as we switch our blogging client from Blogger to Movable Type. Blogger seems to have issues with our host, as posts sometimes don’t get published on our blog until hours after they were initially submitted. We’ve had many good days with Blogger, but there have been some bad days where posts written in the afternoon don’t get posted online until midnight (no matter how many times we click the “Publish” button in Blogger).

Additionally, the comment system by backBlog Pro (which is not free) occasionally goes down, and Movable Type provides its own comment system (which is free) that uses our host’s server instead of a third party’s. Movable Type also provides Trackbacks, which would allow us to let other Movable Type users know that we’re linking to one of their posts (like Michael J. Totten or World Wide Pablo).

When Movable Type gets installed on the website this weekend and everything seems to work fine, I’ll send out e-mails to current staffers and alumni to invite them onto the revamped weblog. Our Blogger archives will remain, along with the backBlog comments, but all new blog posts should be in Movable Type form.

So please be patient as our weblog goes through some growing pains in the next few days. We’ll try to keep the downtime, if any, to the evening hours (PST, of course).