Nasty letters from lawyers have been sent. Fans have been irked. I don’t see the problem.

I’ve heard Kevin Rose explain in 2 instances (Diggnation 102 and Cranky Geeks 72) the root of the problem with Diggnation fans getting the show from Diggdown is that Rev3 can’t accurately count their viewers because Diggdown does not report numbers to Rev3. Due to these circumstances, they can’t portray the correct number of viewers to advertisers and thus can’t sell as many ads.

First of all that’s borderline corporate asshole talk. Second of all, Striker (the guy who runs Diggdown) claims he DOES report numbers to Rev3. And most importantly, the simple solution would be to download each episode twice. This is what I’ve been doing for over a year now. I get the show on Saturday night, the day it’s released AND Rev3 can count my download on Tuesday or whenever I happen to open iTunes. In fact, I have the feed in iTunes on BOTH of my computers so they’re actually getting 2 downloads per episode from me. This whole situation is stupid.

Thanks to Amber and Leo from net@nite for the heads up on Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey.” This song is hilarious and pretty catchy as well.

Just check out the first verse:

Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
But his output stink
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
What do Code Monkey think?
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud

And then there are the remixes. My favorite is the Speedmonkey remix. So funny!

RPS means Rock Paper Scissors.
Ok now that you know that, the first thing you need to do is go to http://worldrps.com/ and marvel in the amount of content there. Next, you need to play the online trainer. Then go read the advanced strategy. Last, post comments here.

This post is dedicated to Bev!

Bev, you got your wish. So, here’s to a good friend.