Dial Comes to Town comes to town:

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Another WikiMsting by the cappers at the capper wiki.

Thanks to all who participated! Thanks to all who participate in the next one.

Thanks to all who promote it.

I just felt that was the first thing I had to say. I know some people are going to freak when they see that password box. But if you leave it blank, and you’ve never registered at sector7g-zz9 or lustforlunch, you can cap just the same as you always have.

Anyway, inspired by equal parts competition, thinking about updates, and procrastination, I’ve finally finished the long promised use of WPT handles on IS. Of course it turned out that 90% of the remaining work was on tweaking the page layouts and a single bug. I hope it’s all pretty self-explanatory. If you want to protect your handle, register it. All that requires is a working email account (and they’re free and plentiful these days), and a minute. From there on, you’ll just have to occasionally enter your password along with your cap. You can still use whatever unregistered handles you want at any time. If you want a link to your capper wiki profile, once you’ve logged on, you can go to your profile link (it’ll be on the upper left of the screen, just under the mothership menu), and enter your wiki profile.

I also made a few other small fixes, including eliminating a weird wrap around that would occasionally happen with the paypal ad, and sending you back to the gallery after mailing a caption.

Ok, this is me being mercenary, take it or leave it. There was a request to add spellcheck to IS in the gallery today. Here’s my offer, $200 in tips earmarked for this purpose to my paypal account, and it’ll happen not long after. We’re already at $50 earmarked for that purpose (I’ll update this amount daily as it changes), so only another $150 and we’re there.

Yes, if you’re running Firefox 2.0 and some other browsers, you probably get spellcheck for free. Yeah, this is a little like guilting you into it, but well, this request feels like work, so I’m treating it as such. If you’ve made a previous donation that didn’t go towards something and would like to see spellcheck, lemme know. If you have another feature you’d like added, contact me before tipping, I’ll let you know how much it’ll take to make it happen.

As for other improvements like logins, they’ll come eventually, I just haven’t been in a feature adding mode lately. So there.

It’s official. I’m not good enough for you any more. At least, not the old timey nite shift cappers. Tired of being under my public domain thumb for their once a week gatherings, and not getting to cap the infomercials they used to sit through endlessly, Jazppie and Hizsoda have built the new captioning site Hipsoda’s Caption Crack. Starting 1 AM eastern, March 18th, they’ll apparently be running it every Saturday overnight, offering grabs more to the discerning tastes of the people who used to sit through night after night of Thriller and Lapre.

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As usual, the notice is short and the details are sketchy, but Matteus is coming into town from Boston, and he’ll hopefully have time to meet up with some cappers.

The exact day, time and place is tbd, but it’ll probably be somewhere between 3/9 and 3/11, probably in the evening, somewhere in Manhattan. If you’ve got a good restaurant/bar combo to suggest, feel free.

Drop me a line if you’re interested, or would like to take charge of things.