I’m doing a live radio interview with Sohaib of Fictional Frontiers (a comics/pop culture program) tomorrow at 11AM EST. If you live in the Philadelphia area you can tune in at WNJC 1360AM; if not you can listen online via their website.
We’re going to talk about my upcoming monthly comic book series AIR, along with CAIRO, Islam’s relationship with the graphic arts and God knows what else. 
Join us.
We just passed 10,000 visitors to Talk Islam!
FYI I’ve noticed a bug in the Prologue Theme that we use here at Talk Islam: normally, when you create a post, the title for the post is auto-generated by taking the first few words of the post text. The post title is not shown, however, except on the Recent Comment sidebar widget. The bug occurs when your first few words are also a link, in which case the title gets left blank, and then on the Comments widget you see something like:
14 comment(s) on … - most recent by Willow
instead of
14 comment(s) on Late-nite funny story: a couple of Sunda … - most recent by Willow
I’ve been going in and adding titles manually to posts where this happens. My recommendation is to try and avoid having your post start with a link for now, I am filing the bug report and hopefully we will get a patch soon. Anyone with a flair for PHP is welcome to download the source and see if you can figure out a fix.
Late-nite funny story: a couple of Sundays ago I woke up with a dry mouth, a headache and the propensity to stumble into walls and chairs and things. After a few minutes of complete bewilderment, it suddenly occurred to me: “Am I…hung over?” Upon further thought I realized that a dessert I had eaten at an upscale restaurant the night before probably had some kind of liqueur in it. (It was so sweet I wouldn’t have noticed.) The sad part is that I picked that dessert because it was one of the only ones that didn’t have alcohol listed in the ingredients.
Apparently upscale=booze in everything, even the stuff they don’t tell you about. Also apparently, after years of abstention I have become a total and complete lightweight.
salaam all - some minor notes of interest:
- the rotating books widget has been changed to reflect bestsellers in Islamic theology from Amazon, not just bestsellers in Islam, the latter being overly polluted by jafis. Islamophobia seems to sell.
- if you scroll down, you will see a new section for latest user diaries (ie, sub-blogs of the form name.talkislam.info). As yet we don’t have many diaries on the site, so I would like to request that anyone who is willing to give this feature a try please let me know. We need more user diaries for testing some of the site features.
- What are your thoughts on retiring the Carnival of Brass entirely? It seems that Talk Islam has made the Carnival redundant - both the blogs and media variants. Your thoughts much appreciated.
by popular demand, we now have a cool search box up at the top. It should give you the search results in a nifty dynamic scrolling section rather than taking you to a new page, but for some reason this doesn’t always happen. As always, leave comments/suggestions/problems that need addressing in comments.
And now, that for which we have all yearned…Tunak Tunak Tun with Buffalax lyrics.
You’re welcome.
We need a simple, clean logo for the site. Any ideas?
would you call this site a “muslim metafilter”?
Just a reminder - any user, registered and non-registered alike, can “tag” a post. Please do use that feature and tag as actively as you can. Thanks!
Open thread for site suggestions/complaints etc…
TalkIslam is now a true Folksonomy - I have added the WP_Folksonomy plugin which lets any user add tags to posts. This is a good thing.
Got time and inclination? Categorize and introduce links to this article. It applies to you.
Talk Islam is now on Twitter: http://twitter.com/talkislam
Please follow @talkislam if you use Twitter!
UPDATE: seems we are in good company.
some new site flair - details below the fold…
Minor tweaks to the site. See comment thread for details. Also, please chime in with suggestions/complaints, etc.
It’s 1:20am and I just used ‘really’ way too many times. Really.
let’s get meta. In the comment thread, chime in on what you think is working for Talk Islam, what isn’t working, what we should do differently, etc.
Rest in peace, Reverend King. http://tinyurl.com/2ec5eg
It’s like going straight to the comment thread without the annoyance of having to read the actual post…
Call me geert
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