TagsTagsHi, everyone. My name is Charles, and I am a recovering wingnut. %%HTML5AUDIO=http://site2.litt legreenfootballs.com/audio/JoshuaHolland _CharlesJohnson.mp3,http://site2.littleg reenfootballs.com/audio/JoshuaHolland_Ch arlesJohnson.ogg%% Here's my interview with Alternet's Joshua Holland about how I saw the light and left the right: Meet the Former Right-Wing Blogger Who Realized Conservatives Are Crazy. (That headline's not a quote from me, by the ...
Little Green Footballs, Right Wing, Tribalism, Schism, Interview, Ex-Wingnut
A new feature today: you can very easily embed audio tracks and playlists from the cool SoundCloud website (including a lot of music by well-known artists) in LGF comments or LGF Pages. This feature works the same way as embedding videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Comedy Central, or The Onion. To embed SoundCloud ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, LGF Pages, SoundCloud, Music, Playlists
I'm being analyzed quite dispassionately from afar, with the cold eye of science, in an article at Wired on using data from the Memeorandum automated aggregator: Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs. Along with this release, we now have four years of historical activity to work with. The ...
We have a big change in the way our "Recent Pages" area works. That's the place in our right sidebar that shows the LGF Pages most recently posted by our writers. Previously, it would show all the recent Pages in order; but we've noticed that some of you are much more ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Diaries, Tech Note, New Features
Since wingnut blogger Patterico is bringing up, and distorting, an incident from years ago in his latest post, I thought I should write a short explanation of the facts about this incident, so I can point to it when people like Patterico (aka Patrick Frey, a Deputy District Attorney for ...
Little Green Footballs, Comments, Racism, Bad Craziness, Spin, Patterico, Right Wing, Fairy Tale, Bigotry
This weekend we've added several new video formats to the types of videos you can easily embed in comments you post at LGF. We've long had the ability to embed YouTube or Vimeo videos simply by pasting in the URL of the video's web page, but now you can do the ...
Embedded Video, Video, Comments, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs, Tech Note
CONTENT WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. The following video (audio) contains explicit language, hate speech, racial slurs, and violent rhetoric including descriptions of past incidents of violent crimes as described by the subject. ADDITIONAL WARNING: Rodan also drops the N-Word towards the end of the audio. The following is an audio recording ...
Rodan, Trajan75, Diary Of Daedalus, Blogmocracy, Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson, Andrew Breitbart, Donald Douglas, Robert Spencer, Think Progress, Dan Riehl, Rick Martinez, RS McCain, Right Wing Extremism, Racism, Violence, Hate Speech, Islamaphobia, Gang Violence, Latin Kings, Peronist Progressive
We have some new features to announce, designed to make it much simpler to place embedded tweets from Twitter in comments and LGF Pages. All you have to do to insert an embedded tweet is paste in the URL of the tweet's 'Details' page at Twitter. For example, here's the page ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Regular Expressions, LGF Pages, Comments, Tech Note
Our new feature of the day has to do with comments; when you post a comment, your username is shown on the top line. This is how it's been at LGF for lo, these many years. But now, you can actually change the name that shows up in your comment, by ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, Display Name
Here's a very handy Javascript bookmarklet I whipped up yesterday, when I realized I was often searching the LGF archives for phrases on other sites; for example, when I was writing the post about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, I wanted to search LGF for my previous ...
Tech Note, Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Search Engine, Bookmarklet
I'm pleased to announce that Little Green Footballs is now available for Google Currents, their new app for Android or iOS devices. This is a great way to follow LGF on your smartphone or tablet. The link to LGF on Google Currents: Little Green Footballs for Android, iPhone and iPad. And here's ...
Little Green Footballs, Syndication, Google Currents, Technology, iOS, Android
Tonight I'm happy to announce a new LGF web app that I think will prove incredibly useful to our LGF Pages authors: the LGF Pages Dashboard. With the LGF Pages Dashboard, you can browse and search all the Pages you've posted, sort by the various columns, edit your Pages in a ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, LGF Pages, LGF Pages Dashboard
I'm putting the finishing touches on our new LGF Pages Dashboard app before the public unveiling, so here's an open thread for the nonce...
Here's a tech note that will, as all tech notes do, almost immediately turn into a Friday night open thread. I've gotten several complaints about the LGF front page crashing in the Opera browser, or taking forever to load if it doesn't crash. I traced the problem to a recent change in ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, Javascript, Opera, Browsers, jQuery, Fat Lady
This isn't a huge change, but I know that unless I explain what's up, some people will have questions so ... here's the deal. I've decided to eliminate the "alternate" method of posting LGF Pages -- clicking the "Show top rated Pages" link at the top, then clicking "submit a link." Clicking ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet, Twitter
Here’s an open thread for anything at all on a Friday night, with a note to let all LGF Pages authors know that there’s been a change to the LGF Pages bookmarklet to fix a small problem, so you should delete your current bookmarklet and reinstall the new one. The new ...
The religious right is all lathered up about the Rick Perry HPV controversy. They really hate that vaccine. Gardasil. It's an evil, evil vaccine that leads young women into lives of debauchery and sexual promiscuity, not necessarily in that order, by preventing the disease that would otherwise be their just and righteous ...
Religious Right, Anti-Vaccine, Gardasil, Rick Perry, Homophobia, Hate Mail, Email, Little Green Footballs
Here's a Friday night open registration thread, with some reasons you might want to consider registering a free account at LGF: [Item List]
LGF Pages, Registration, Comments, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs
We're tweaking the poll creation feature of our LGF Pages app, and the latest addition is an expiration date. When someone loads a Page with a poll that's past the date, they'll see a message saying the poll is "closed," and won't be able to vote. (The results will still ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Polls, Ajax, Javascript, LGF Blog Engine
Tonight we're announcing a cool new feature for LGF Pages -- each LGF Page can now contain an Ajax-based poll, just like the ones you've seen on LGF front page articles. The interface is very simple. A poll consists of a "topic," and two or more "options." You can think of ...
LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Ajax, Polls, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs
Today we're unveiling a brand new tagging system for your LGF Pages, making it much easier to create new tags and reuse previously created tags with a personalized autocompletion feature. The LGF Pages posting bookmarklet now uses your personal "tag library" (all the tags you've ever used for your Pages) to ...
LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Tech Note, Tags, Javascript, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs
In the 10 years we've been online, the single feature most requested by LGF users has been the ability to edit comments after they're posted, to fix typos, bad HTML tags, etc. Sure, we have a nice Ajax-based preview function that lets you see exactly how your comment will look ...
The bookmarklet that lets registered LGF users post LGF Pages has been updated, to provide better support for automatically grabbing selected text from a web page in Internet Explorer. Here's the new version of the bookmarklet: LGF Pages Bookmarklet To install this in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, you can just drag the link ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet
I can see from our registered user database that quite a few LGF readers have connected their LGF accounts to their Twitter accounts, allowing them to use our Twitter app "LGF Connect" to retweet links to our articles. (And note: you can give LGF Connect a try even without being a ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, API, LGF Connect