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Guy #1: She reminds me of this girl I used to know when I was a kid. Her name was Molly, and her whole family was fuckin’ freakishly religious. Guy #2: That’s annoying. Guy #1: Yeah… And this one time she was throwing stones at my bike, and I told her to stop but she didn’t. So I turned around and started riding right toward her, prepared to run this bitch over. I was hauling ass, and you know what she does? She stands there and puts her hands to her hips and says, ‘The Lord will protect me.’ Guy #2: What happened? Guy #1: He didn’t.

–Columbia University

Overheard by: Felix E.

A little Overheard to brighten up your day:

Little boy: Mom, how did the dinosaurs cook their meat? Mother: They didn’t, they ate it raw. Little boy: Oh. [Long pause.] Are Japanese people dinosaurs? [Link]

Del.icio.us needs a mass importer. I recently switched from Google Reader (where I Stared things I liked) to NetNewsWire Lite, which has no such feature. It does, however, let me send things to del.icio.us. As such, I’ve been tagging all the funny things I find on Overheard in del.icio.us, because I want to have a publically accessible list of things I like.

And so, to do this, I need to open up every item from Google Reader in a new tab, select the text of the entry and hit the Tag button in my firefox toolbar. Once I tag them (with the overheard tag), they get submitted. However, since I had about 150 in Google Reader that needed to be imported, I’ve been doing this quickly. Very quickly, to the point that Delicious (punctuation be damned) has blocked me not once, but twice.

They are making it harder for me to use their service. Were they charging me, I could say they were denying themselves potential revenue, but they don’t. So I can only say that it is making me less happy to use their service. If they want people to switch from other sites, they should allow a mass import function, where you provide a link to an RSS feed that they scrape and add. It could make transfering bookmarks simple. Instead, they just lock users out of the system.

Mike