Hey, look at this: Pyra’s asking for donations to help make Blogger go faster. I was gonna buy a Stalkers CD this week, but I think I’ll Napster it instead, and use the $15 to … um, buy food for my family. Then I’ll find another $15 somewhere and donate it to my favorite company.
There’s still time to nominate Dr. Menlo.com Blogs From Space! and Apathy for the most underrated weblogs of the second millennium.
The text in the Flash intro to the Rage Against The Machine site is something I’ve seen before (actually, quite recently) but I can’t quite place it. Do you know where it’s from?
“No one knows who installed the sculpture.”
The book is called User Interface Design for Programmers, but the principles of UI design that Jeol Spolsky brilliantly illuminates apply to lots more than just software.
Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal.
bonus: Achenbach on Kubrick’s “Odyssey”
From: jorn@mcs.comNot yet, Jorn, but I've come quite close to cutting your robotwisdom out of my rotation. After your recent display of anti-semitism (see 12.28 arblog and this Metafilter thread) I've lost all respect for you, if not for the quality of your links.
Date: Wednesday, April 5, 2000 5:27 AM
Subject: [weblogs] Weblogs as friendships?
Does anybody else _emotionally_ stop reading particular logs in exactly the way they break off friendships, when something offends them?
It took me 12 minutes and 8 seconds to find all six sets in the Set Daily Puzzle, which is entirely too long. Tomorrow I will take half that time. If your handheld runs PalmOS, download Grouper and charge those spare batteries!
Something’s wrong with this picture.
The Sim-Cam (best viewed with Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0) is a great introduction to how aperture size and shutter speed affect exposure in photography.
I hope one day to take photographs as well as Anton. For now, 3 tips: take pictures of everything you want; believe in yourself; do not care about others opinions.
Photo Essays at Impact Visuals: a photojournalism cooperative for social change.
A great photo happens when a photographer sees a situation unfolding in front of them that evokes an emotion that the photographer feels deep down, in the middle of their chest. And in a split second, they then make a conscious choice of exposure, lens, depth of field, lighting, body language, composition, etc., and release the shutter. The film is then processed, scanned, laid out on a page, printed on a press, driven across town to the newspaper carrier who throws it on some guy's porch, who then opens the newspaper and looks down at that photo… and if that guy gets the same feeling deep down in the middle of his chest that the photographer did when they viewed the situation in the first place, they have made a great photo.From Photojournalism from the Soul, an essay by Nancy L. Ford.
If you’re heading to DC for I01/J20, be aware that this guy is not your friend.
I am trying to use ridicule and social embarrassment to change the habits of the American consumer. Increasing publicity will turn the SUV from a status trinket to the badge of shame that it is. In the old days society had a pillory to shame people out of anti-social behavior. Today we have the mighty bumper sticker.
Rules:
- I only tag the big ones. I tag in the affluent suburbs where they never get dirty or use the 4 wheel drive.
2. I don’t tag commercial vehicles like contractors or any business affiliated vehicle.
3. I don’t retag vehicles that I recognize as already tagged
4. I only tag late model vehicles, not some beat up old Suburban some poor soul has inherited.
5. I don’t tag just because it’s a four-wheel drive vehicle. Only the types that never use ‘em (soccer mom’s etc.).
That leaves 85%.
Habari gani? Umoja. If you’re looking for information on Kwanzaa, you can’t go wrong with the Official Kwanzaa Website.
Drawing life to a close with a transcendentally orgasmic bang, and not a pathetic and god-forsaken whimper, can turn dying into the culmination of one's existence rather than its present messy and protracted anti-climax.When is it best to take crack cocaine?
I was surprised to see the degree to which children's television exists to sell toys to children. When you have the attention of that many kids there's a lot of good you can do that doesn't involve the selling of products. But I always got upset when we got more press for the amount of toys that we have for sale as opposed to the educational value of the show. The one thing I was never comfortable with being the host of 'Blue's Clues' is that television in general has too much influence on children. With Blue's Clues we did everything we could to get the kids' attention, and I always felt that was a tremendous amount of responsibility. Luckily we were always so careful that our content is always good.I always knew the Blue's Clues dude was cool. We'll miss you Steve.
If a Black Santa can cause this much trouble (“last year there was a dark-complexioned black Santa, and most of the white families got out of line”), imagine a Black Jesus!
If you’re planning to buy a copy of Blu’s Hanging, be sure to get it from the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
Jack Herer for Agriculture, John Sellers for Defense, Bill Nye in Education – this cabinet has my support.
CMJ presents Smashing Peanuts in “A Billy Corgan Christmas”.
Among animal cases received recently by the Animal Control Division of the Fairfax County Police Department:The rest of today's Fairfax Weekly Animal Watch isn't quite as interesting.
Fair Oaks District, Centreville Rd., 2300 block, Dec. 7. Animal control was called about a squirrel running inside a residence. When an animal control officer saw the squirrel, it jumped into an open baby grand piano. After the officer started playing the song "All I Want" by the group Toad the Wet Sprocket, the squirrel jumped out of the piano and onto curtains, damaging them. The squirrel then jumped onto the officer's head and pounced onto a couch, where the officer was able to catch it. The officer released the animal outside. Neither the squirrel nor the officer was injured.