/m257 Tucker, sorry about the frustration and the bad luck with the autos. I've been trying to get the thunklist off Google's index since the relaunch. So far, I have managed to prevent any new indexing of the list except for the homepage and am trying to get Google to remove the cached pages with the list. As Will pointed out, feel free to use the UT-QT or if you would like to contact me personally feel free to use the contact form on unthunk.

Until the relaunch a few months ago, the thunklist had required logging in to view it -- something that prevented Google from indexing it. This had been the practice since Unthunk started in 2004. I certainly did not intend for the thunklist to ever be indexed by Google. Unthunk was created as an alternate outlet for googlewhackers (mostly the folks posting on this board) who to some effect were frustrated with googlewhack. Many of us have continued to post at Googlewhack, and the thunklist was kept hidden from Google to prevent interefering with Googlewhack. The recent redesign allowed the list to be publicly viewable for the first time, but unfortunately it did not adequately prevent Google from indexing it. My apologies again, please bear with me until I can get the list off Google.

archaeopteryx

Tucker, I'm a once-a-week unthunker lately, so I may not experience your frustration. Please visit the UT-QT for more information.

I got really frustrated at unthunk yesterday and blasted it badly on GW. Thought I'd should apologize. I was out of line. I don't know why suddenly unthunk is showing up with such ubiquity recently. But it is by far the worst (most prevalent) list that I have to deal with these days (presumably because we all use a lot of the same words ... but that was true three months ago also and it wasn't a problem then). Mysteries of Google, I guess. Anyway, I apologize for the rant and anyone who took it personally. [Wife badly mangled my truck yesterday and I banged up my car ... very slick out ... and rest of day was just as bad and I was *really* in a rotten mood and it seemed that everything I tried to whack ... "unthunk the list" screwed up ... and I just lost it.] Anyway, figured I owed it to you folks to come over here and apologize also (I apologized on GW). Tucker

Saw something interesting on reddit today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-...ng_words_in_English

Karin et al, I took a look at Spoonbill, and while you can view the poems you can't contribute to them (Not Found message). And they all have contribution dates of at least 6 months ago. On the home page it states the following,

"September 2007: The Spoonbill Generator has been offline for some time - the server was hacked and had to be replaced.
A few changes are currently being made behind the scenes, and there are no live poems just yet, but the Golden Treasury is accessible, and other classic works like The rat Fathom and The Mammary Revival."

I poked around the old SG QuickTopic and found this link to the Orange poem:
http://www.spoonbill.org/poem.php?name=poem&value=orange. And if you type in pegleg instead of orange, you will find the pegleg. But, of course you can't contribute to them.

So, I guess big problems over at Spoonbill. It's too bad, I hope it gets fixed.

Evan, glad you're back here and on Unthunk. Spoonbill seems to be back but our bookmarks for our private pegleg poem doesn't seem to work. Has anyone been able to locate it?

On a totally different subject - who'd thunk that Bubbles would become the Prime Minister one day? I sure didn't see that one coming!

/m250 Thanks F, and hi again everyone. Please don't take offense Sam, Arch, but I hadn't Zitied or Thunked for so long that I kinda forgot about it all. It's nice to be back. Life had a very hectic stretch there for a while, but I'll try to improve my attendance from now on. Is Spoonbill still going along? I'll have to check into that, too.

/m251 Some kind of glitch, Will. Reminds me of that SNL skit, "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave."

How many votes does it take to end zp198?

/m249 Your contribution was just fine, Will. No need to modify.

Hey, notice that Evan is back? Welcome back, Evan.

ZP201 should be fun. If anyone has ideas to modify any of my contributions, let me know here. We can collaborate.

/m247 ;-)

/m264 Interesting article! Perhaps I should rant about it ;)

Edited by author 10-30-2007 11:43 PM
Speaking of rants - http://www.slate.com/id/2176968/

I miss your rants too Francine - thankfully yours are quite entertaining without resorting to profanity. :-)

/m244 Thanks, Sam! Yeah, I decided to edit it because it was just another long ramble about stuff I've already posted many a time. How much I enjoy the ziti and the people here, how I've gotten used to the irregular frequency of contributions which I used to rant about, blah, blah.
  BTW, thanks again for all the work you've put into this site. You and arch both (per his Unthunk site). I sure appreciate the Ziti and Unthunk. Whiles away much of my late night leisure time in a most enjoyable and creative way :-)

Edited by author 10-26-2007 11:45 PM
Thanks for the kind words, Kids. (BTW, F, I liked the first version of /m242 better. ;-) As I'm sure you could tell, I was rather discouraged when I wrote /m240, but I later figured out how to manually delete spam pages on a mass-production basis. (Ain't tabbed browsing great?) So, I was eventually able to delete all of 'em. More pages have since appeared, but I've gotten so I kindda enjoy deleting them and blocking their zombie-machine authors every now and then: it's the same sort of misplaced thrill one gets stepping on a cockroach--though without the yin/yang of the sickening-mess/gratifying-crunch, of course. And at least it's more useful than reading Slashdot.

I've researched methods of preventing these things, and it looks like some of them wouldn't be too hard to get going. One of the most interesting involves "captchas". (Try out this--it's a lotta fun for about 15 minutes.) The easiest thing, though would be just to move the Zitipedia to a new private location; I'll probably do that soon after I grow bored with stomping the cockroaches. And when I do, I'll be sure to tell everybody here the new address so you folks will be able to go back to ignoring it properly. ;-)