Stupid Registration Schemes

Occasionally I want to mention or point to something that was posted at CreativityOnline.com. Except they have this policy that articles posted to the site,

… is free for 7 days after it is posted. The article …  requires a subscription. If you are a subscriber, please login below. Otherwise, subscribe now.

The kicker is that the subscription is completely free, except you have to enter all sorts of demographic information including name, address, type of business you work at, job function, etc.

Riiight. Sorry, there’s never going to be anything captivating at your site to make me waste my time going through that process.

Broken Link Checker Plugin for WordPress

Broken Link Checker is a plugin for WordPress that will periodically check links in your blog posts and alert you in the Dashboard of links that no longer work. The frequency of link checking can be set by the user, and the plugin allows a range of options for the admin to deal with the broken links, from ignoring them to removing them and a number of intermediate steps.

Gilligan’s Planet — Where’s the DVD Set with Commentary?

One of my favorite pop culture blogs, BooBerry Alarmclock, highlights some screen caps and YouTube vid of the classic 1980s Saturday morning cartoon, Gilligan’s Planet.

Even if you’ve never seen it, the title probably gives it away. The Professor manages to build a spaceship (of course — why didn’t he think of that before!) to get off the island, but of course things go awry and the castaways end up marooned on another planet.

Except for Tina Louise (who obviously had issues with the whole Gilligan gig), all the original cast provided the voices.

So my only question is how come its 2009 and this still isn’t on DVD?