Rubin Starset

While staying in Minneapolis in March, I finally got the chance to see a real Roller Derby game, the Minnesota RollerGirls. I didn't know what to expect, other then girls on roller skates throwing each other to the floor.

As it turns out the game is much more elegant then that. Two teams compete to block the opposing team's Jammer from passing the pack over and over again. Team mates not amming must block the enemy Jammer, while still helping out their Jammer to past the pack. By helping out I mean grabbing them by the arms and flinging them ahead.

All in all I was pretty impressed by how elegant the game is, especially when considering its past history and current candy coated look.

During our last run of Dance Dance Immolation, SF Slim showed up along with Boing Boing Video and recorded a short clip about the whole game. Check out the full post for some more details about the video. If you look closely, I’m the shadowy figure in the upper right hand corner when Slim is talking from inside the suit.

Title thanks to Nicole.

Google Reader has this neat feature where you can share items from your RSS feeds with your friends, such as a neat article you liked. A few weeks ago I noticed that my Google Reader no longer wanted to play nicely with my list of friends by removing them from my list and also removing me from theirs. After some attempts to fix this issue, I left Google Reader and opted to use a desktop client to view my feeds. I also left behind the simple yet very lovely share feature I just described.

Well, I’ve come up with a solution that’s actually far nicer. I’ve created a section of my site dedicated to displaying items I’ve found on the internet which I’ve found rather interesting. I’m calling this section Redundant as that’s what re-posting content on the internet is, redundant. This page also features an RSS feed, so to complete the circle you’re welcome to subscribe to it and see what things I liked reading about without having to visit my site all the time (wouldn’t want that).

Going in the opposite direction, if you’ve got an RSS feed of shared items (such as through Google Reader) and think that I might like it, either comment here or email it to me. I always enjoy finding more new interesting things.

Photo by Drew Brayshaw.