Kottu and My Stomach
This is not Kottu. Also, there are some Al Qaeda looking mofo’s at Pilawoos.
Osama’s Bush won Quiz Night. That means Rs. 5,000, most of which were saved for next week. I had some bacon toasties, but everything there is so fucking salty. I have enjoyed one meal while drunk, but today I just I got an ominous rumbly in my tumbly. Going to Pilawoos directly afterwards made matters worse. Ordered whatever Jihad was getting, some egg roti device. I’ve been drinking water for an hour but I think das Popenfuhrer has turned my throat into a pillar of salt.
That is supposed to be a transition into www.kottu.org. I dropped two people temporarily until I can get the editing under control. I like your blogs and I’ll try to re-add you, but today I got home and saw 2 copies of Green Day lyrics and that was it. I like that song and I respect your blogs, but I don’t have time to edit non-original content out. For tech heavy bloggers, I’m going to start syndicating just your ‘Sri Lanka’ category, where possible. Merrill’s blog, in particular, is well designed that way. WordPress also allows per category syndication. By all means continue posting, I never wanted to get into the Editorial business and I’m trying to get out ASAP. This editing is, however, in line with two parts of the Kottu FAQ:
# Be Original: If you’re posting the latest email forward or song lyric you got that’s all good, but Kottu tries to feature original content.
# Don’t Repeat Yourself: If 10 people announce a particular tech launch 9 of those posts will probably get archived. If 10 people write original opinions on that topic they’ll stay, but we only need one announcement.
Desyndication is a last resort, dependendent on the state of my stomach. However, this is a Marxist Community site, not Stalinist. To that end we’ll try to decentralize the management of Kottu as much as possible. Starting with the tags, as soon as jluster develops that plugin. Next thing would be to allow people to add feeds and edit posts without going through me. That basically involves setting up something that’s easy to use and hard to break. Involves work upfront, but when it’s done I’ll have time to actually watch the Bold & The Beautiful and other crap TV. I have no idea if Ridge knows that Mossimo is his real dad, plus I completely missed the white trash soap (with violence!) that was Wrestlemania XXI. Furthermore, I haven’t hustled any work this month. Tanya’s getting married and I need to get my ass to Montreal. Anyways, I’m sorry if I desyndicated you. Here are some community questions, btw -
# Should we allow comments on www.kottu.org? It would be nice, but I’d also rather that people get the comment on their blogs
# Should we mainline photos? Right now they’re in the sidebar, but we can have bigger photos show up as posts.
The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
Today on the 
Janith has updated 
This is highly dubious. Miss Travel is a travel/social networking site that connects ‘Generous’ and ‘Attractive’ travelers. To, like, travel together, I guess. It all seems a bit like arranged prostitution and trafficking. This is part of a broader online trend to connect rich men to younger, attractive women. Sites like 
In addition to only syndicating the Sri Lankan category, it would be good if you could only show the excerpt as opposed to the complete post.
What’s up Merill. I can pick the feed, but for everyone to get full control of their feed I’d recommend something like http://www.feedburner.com. It lets you specify an excerpt, and whatever else you want, including tracking how many people subscribe. I can do for you, but you can get your feed exactly how you want it that way. I personally tell WordPress to only syndicate and excerpt.
Ado show some respect when you are referring to Osama’s Bush. Prefix it with adjectives suchs as ‘feared’ and/or ‘revered’ or a collective like that. It’s not JUST Osama’s Bush. Heathen!!