Charles Johnson always talks about how he has to softly cajole the LGF server hamsters to get them to cooperate when the site has technical hiccups. That's kind of like what we've been going through with MR's corrupted Movable Type backend - except instead of hamsters we have emaciated rats and instead of being gentle we're at a point where we're going to audition them for a Hamas children's show (content warning for sadistic cruelty to animals):

Before that happens - we're going to take the site offline, make some changes, and see if we can't talk some reason into the obstinate little beasts. As part of the upgrade, we're going to move our RSS feeds over to Feedburner. In theory, you should not notice the changeover. A couple of lines in Apache's .htaccess file are supposed to make the switch totally transparent. In practice, we anticipate results closer to "how the UN manages Palestinian refugee camps" than "something that works".

So: if you are reading this in your RSS reader after 9am PST and you still do not see a more recent post - titled something like "MR Outage Over, RSS Switchover Complete" - then something has gone awry. You will need to manually resubscribe by going directly to the page and clicking on what should be a very large RSS button on the sidebar. Apologies in advance.

References:
* MR Tech Update - MT Must Die [MR]
* PETA Springs Into Action, Drafts Strongly Worded Letter to Hamas [LGF]
* Cruelty to animals on Hamas TV [pmwvideos / YouTube]

Previously:
* Bad Week For The Future Of Humanity. Great Week For Future Robotic Overlords.
* Israeli Hottie Wednesdays - The Ultimate Bar Refaeli Sports Illustrated Montage, Plus Interview In A Bikini [Video]
* CNN Tries To Describe Maxim's Israeli Hottie Issue, Fails To Adequately Convey Sheer Hotness [Video]