Attention, Naked Loon RSS and email subscribers. By popular request, beginning tomorrow the default Naked Loon feed will be converted to news-only content.

Q: Huh?
A: Your current RSS or email subscription updates with all news content and blog content, including this blog, Forecast Monkey, and others. The new default will be for news content only.

Q: So how do I get the new news-only feed?
A: Sit there and do nothing. Your feed will be converted automatically.

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Q: You're a doodie-head.
A: I'm not sure how that's relevant. And I am not.

A story in today's New York Times may seem very familiar to faithful Naked Loon readers... Copycats.

April 1st marks the one-year anniversary for The Naked Loon, which seems like as good a reason as any to spend some time patting ourselves on the back.

In the last 365 days, The Naked Loon has...

Whoa, that was a great nap. I feel totally refreshed and ready to take on the world!

So how long was I out? Two, three hours?

What? Thirty-seven days?!? How is that even possible?

Just a quick programming note to let readers know that the "Email This Story" function is now functioning again, after having been broken for around a month (thanks a lot, WordPress 2.7).

You now have our permission to resume your regularly scheduled friend-spamming.

What happened to my daily Naked Loon updates? Read on for the answers...

Um, what the heck, people?

According to The Naked Loon's web tracking software, on Wednesday and Thursday at least 43 people arrived at our recent point-counterpoint by doing a Google News search for "is obama the antichrist", plus over 150 more that searched for either obama antichrist, obama anti christ, obama the antichrist, and many other variations totaling over 200 visitors.

Seriously? People are searching Google News for this?

Anybody remember this story from the Naked Loon's April 1 launch day? Fun Over for King County Fair

The credit crisis is probably the biggest disaster to strike our nation since we narrowly avoided a deadly bird flu epidemic. Or was it SARS. Anyway, the point is that if not for the BIG BOLD HEADLINES and terrifying stories all over the evening news for weeks straight, we surely would have endured massive carnage.

So in the time-honored journalism tradition of relentlessly beating the big scary story of the day with a seemingly unending steam of sensationalist stories, I present CREDIT IN CRISIS: Naked Loon Special Edition.

Public Service Announcement

After a refreshing / costly "vacation," The Naked Loon will return on Wednesday with the latest important local, national, international, interplanetary, and trans-galactic news for discerning Puget Sound internet readers.

Don't you hate it when you're trying to run a consistent online newspaper business, and suddenly your entire staff just up and leaves on a road trip without giving you any notice, and they say they're going to write stuff from the road, but they only send you a couple of stories, and then they give you some story about how they got a tank of bad gas in Oregon, and it cost them over $400 to fix their car, and they're sorry but they just haven't had the time to write you stories, and why don't you just post a cute picture of a raccoon or something, and anyway we'll be back Friday and we'll get right to work, we promise.

I hate it when that happens. Stupid Oregon.

For those of you that are reading The Naked Loon via an RSS reader (or would like to), I'd like to point you toward a useful new page: Naked Loon RSS Feeds.

If you're currently subscribed to The Naked Loon's RSS feed, you're viewing the Full Site Feed. For your convenience, we have created fourteen new feeds—one for each section of the site.

If you like the news stories, but can't stand the blog posts, sign up for the News Only Feed. Or, if you really just like stories in the "Community" section, you can sign up for the Community News Feed. The possibilities are limitless. Okay, that's not true, but 20,922,789,888,000 (almost twenty-one trillion) combinations is nearly limitless, right?

Anyway, the point is, the power is in your hands.

As you might expect, some of the other local papers also picked up on the story about city councilmembers using taxpayer money to pay for personal expenses. As I was checking out the stories in the Seattle Times (here) and the Seattle P-I (here), I noticed something interesting...

As a hip and fashionable news website that is always in-tune with up-and-coming trends, the vigilant staff of The Naked Loon is constantly looking for ways to improve the "web experience" for our readers. In that spirit, The Naked Loon is proud to announce that we are boldly venturing into the world of "blogs."