A friend of mine was asking about the effect I use for the social media icons in the sidebar here. I told him that's personal and I would prefer he not bring up such iniquitous filth in the polite company of my daughter. When I realized he was talking about my website, I figured I would apologize by writing up a quick article about it and some of the caveats I ran into.
Read moreYou may have noticed the little "Support Us" image off in the right-hand navigation over there. Yea, right over there... go ahead and take a look. See it? Great. Now you may have just asked yourself, WTF is that anyway, and how can I support my favorite authors whom provide me with the quality content I enjoy reading on a near daily basis? After you've pondered that a moment, you may then drift off and ask yourself "And who was the frickin' genius who came up with the coloring code for milk jugs, and why doesn't skim milk have those pretty lil' pink tops anymore?".
Of course, I would then have to pontificate; Yea, what the hell did happen to the pink caps, and are you sure they were the skim milks? And why does Canada have to be so retarded* about the whole deal?
But I digress. SprinklePenny provides an extremely easy to use service that allows us to support the sites we love by way of what they call tiny payments *cough* Micro-Payments *cough*. When you register with them, you decide how much you want to spend, and you decide how much goes to which sites that you want to support, and distribution is handled automatically simply by visiting said sites. It's a brilliant frickin' idea, really!
So far I've seen only one issue with the service... no Mootools integration. Well now, we can fix that quite easily.
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