Web 2.0. Yay.

So, I've been hearing lately that the Republicans have beaten the Democrats in the only metric that truly matters: Twitter usage.

For instance, John McCain has an account, which he some intern uses to update everyone on his prostate (at threat level yellow today!) and complain about earmarks.

There's even a website listing the "top conservatives on Twitter", that is basically a really long (3,890 entries right now) listing of a bunch of conservatives you've never heard of, with a few known entities sprinkled in for good measure. It's proof that Republicans understand techmologies!

This cannot stand! Republicans gave us "the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

That sort of comedy gold could disappear forever if Republicans begin to understand the internet!

More recently, they gave us Norm Coleman's complete donor list, complete with credit card numbers. If his staff were more knowledgeable about the internet that might not have happened, and then I wouldn't have this nice new George Foreman grill.

Obviously, Republicans + internet = trouble!

To fight this growing menace, I have made a Twitter account myself. In the creepy parlance of Twitter users, it's @unicow. Twits will know what that means, apparently.

In keeping with the true spirit of Twitter, I will mostly be using it to tell you what I had for lunch. It also gets auto-updated when I make a post, so it'll still get updated after I get bored of it in a couple days.

So yeah, follow me if that's your thing. Or don't.

What type of blogger am I?

So, there's this thing called the Typealyzer, which you're supposed to plug your blog URL into and it'll tell you stuff about yourself.

That actually seems pretty pointless, since I already know lots of stuff about myself. But it's not like I have anything better to do right now.

So let's do it!

The analysis indicates that the author of http://progressivefitchburg.blogspot.com is of the type:
ISTP - The Mechanics

[ISTP]
The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generally prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts.

The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and often like seek fun and action both in their work and personal life. They enjoy adventure and risk such as in driving race cars or working as policemen and firefighters.

I don't know what that ISTP nonsense means, but am excited that I'm a race-car-driving policeman (or firefighter)! And I do like things that are fun! This is totally accurate!

I'm not so sure about the avoiding interpersonal conflict part, though.

Apparently, I am extremely manly

At least according to this web gizmo that guesses your gender based on your browser history...

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 3%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 97%

Site         Male-Female Ratio
myspace.com 0.74
youtube.com 1
amazon.com 0.9
facebook.com 0.83
cnn.com         1.35
blogger.com 1.06
imdb.com 1.06
wordpress.com 0.98
weather.com 1.08
evite.com 0.67
bestbuy.com 1.11
netflix.com 0.79
drudgereport.com  2.08
urbandictionary.com 1.13
snopes.com 0.74
huffingtonpost.com 1.35
boston.com 1.08
anywho.com 0.8
staples.com 0.98
rottentomatoes.com 1.17
harvard.edu 0.9
tigerdirect.com 2.23
kotaku.com 1.94
petsmart.com 0.59
ebaumsworld.com 1
census.gov 0.9
mysimon.com 1.04
tomshardware.com 2.33
amd.com         2.13
anl.gov         1.11
angieslist.com 0.77
scienceblogs.com        1.41

Oddly enough, I don't remember visiting several of those sites. Even more oddly, the national census skews female?

Mrs. Unicow only managed a 50/50 split. At least she fared better than this lady, who is just as macho as me (which is obviously extremely macho).

So how about it, readers? Are you paragons of masculinity and/or femininity?