As Hollywood prepares for the 80th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, prepare to get swept up in the glamour and excitement.

Part of the They’ve got the look promo for the BBC UK Homepage

Part of the They’ve got the look promo for the BBC UK Homepage

Part of the They’ve got the look promo for the BBC UK Homepage

The men with the pinkest jumpsuits in British comedy are back with another series of their outrageously odd sketch show, starting tonight at 9pm on BBC Two.

The great thing about feeds is that there is a selection for any topic, so this time celebrate Valentine’s Day year round. Here are some feeds of interest:

• Love Quote of the Day (Subscribe) - A daily missive on the spirit of love.
• iVillage - Love Advice for Singles and Couples (Subscribe) - A wide spectrum of timely advice on all things love.
• Ask Men - Dating & Love (Subscribe) - A variety of tips and techniques from a particularly male point of view.

While cynics might insist the greeting card industry created Valentine’s Day, romance is always of interest. We would love to hear your stories of how you use Bloglines to improve your love-life.

Enjoy!

- Eric Engleman & the Bloglines Team

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:

• We review the fish command line shell and wonder whether shells can ever be interesting (1.50) [Tell us about why shells are important, or why no-one should care, or your views on fish at the LugRadio forums]
• Pimp My LugRadio, the competition to win an Asus Eee PC, approaches its end: get your entries in (something to promote LugRadio) by the 18th of February if you want to win! (9.15)
• We review the Dell M1330 laptop to see whether it’s any good (11.11)
• Why can’t home users get paid support for Linux at a reasonable price? Would it be a good idea for distributors to offer phone support, or is IRC good enough? (23.39) [Do you want phone support? Do your parents? Why won't it work? Discuss on the LugRadio forums]
• In the second part of the LugRadio Lock-In, we talk about whether distributions should innovate ahead of their upstream projects, or whether new work should happen upstream by default (38.50)
• We want to hear from you! Get in touch with suggestions for the LugRadio Krypton Factor, if you want to exhibit your project or company, run a BoF, or be part of the crew atLugRadio Live USA, and your ideas for Cool vs. Care (71.01)
• Words from you: your emails! This week we’re talked to (and are talking about) audio prompts, Linux Fest Northwest, jokes about fish (not the shell), the MSI Megabook laptop, Frets on Fire (an open source Guitar Hero clone), Fedora porn sites, PyCon 2008 in the US, buying software, buying Windows, KDE 4 again, and vendor lock-in (74.47)
• LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now only two months away! Prepare yourselves. And go watch the LRL2008 USA promotional video and post it on your own blog! (87.50)

If you’d like us to review your project or your product, drop us a line and let us know.

This episode includes music from Lonely Anger from Dystopian Origins II by natlyea, under a CC-BY licence. Many thanks!

Thanks to EfficientPC for donating the EEE PC for us to review and then give away in our competition!

At Bloglines, we experiment with feeds all the time. We wanted to point out 3 easy ways you can keep in touch with your friends on Facebook, Flickr and Upcoming.org via Bloglines.

Facebook

Need to have your Facebook Friends’ Status Updates at all times? You can import your Status Update feed into your Bloglines account. Here’s how you can get your Status Updates in Bloglines. Go to your home page. Look for your “Status Updates” section on the right side of the page near your photo. Click on “See All” and go to your Status Updates Page. On the right side of the page, you’ll see a blue RSS Icon under the header “Subscribe.”

Flickr

Get a photo feed from a friend, family member or other Flickr-ino. Enter the user name in the Flickr Search. Look at the bottom of the user’s profile page. Look way to the bottom and you’ll find an RSS icon. Subscribe to it like any other feed.

Upcoming.org

See what events your friends aretracking. Be sure to sign-in to Upcoming.org. Look for the area on your home page with the title, “My Friends’ Events.” (Be sure to have added friends before-hand.) Click on the link “My Friends’ Events.” Look for the RSS subscribe button in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

Keep us posted on other ways you use Bloglines. If you do post on your blog, be sure to send us an email, so we can highlight your post for other Blogliners.

Enjoy!

- Eric Engleman and the Bloglines Team