Sunday, October 01 2000

Monday, October 02 2000

Evan Williams estimates that there are currently 20, 000 active weblogs. What does this mean for the Idea of Weblog? Doubtless, it can only mean nake...
CBC : Artist Trading Cards sweep Calgary This is pretty cool, but don't beleive the hype. Artist trading cards have been around for a l...
Why are Americans so terrified of food? Perhaps a better question is : Why do they willingly eat such bad food? via rc3

Justin Trudeau "So I clamboured over the snowbank, was boosted up to the window, rubbed my sleeve against the...
James Spahr : LogTools I am not much for OpArt, but there's just something about logfiles...
The nice people at Ars Technica have posted their thoughts on OS X PB1

Simson Garfinkel : "The real privacy issue, I realized, has less to do with the selling of the information, and more to do with what is do...
bibelot.pl "is a Perl script that formats and converts text documents into compressed PalmDoc .pdb files,...
Webreview : Using CSS2 to Layout HTML Pages for Print On the off chance you've got a browser that supports CSS2...
Slice of life : "Is that a camera?"

My friend Susie (that's Susan to you) got written up in the Globe yesterday "Weinthaler contributed a piece she calls Godzilla Golf, in which contestants don a gigantic l...
Meanwhile, my friend Justen wrote a poem about dessert I confess poetry, like dance, is one of those things I rarely "get". I know there's something ...
Ultimus : 150 Essential Features of Workflow Automation via cms-list (pdf)
Slice of life : "What is weblogs anyway? sounds kinda foul... like a big electronic turd."

Talking to Americans : Do you, the American people, actually care whether your political candidates are sitting at a desk or standing behind a pod...
Sightings : swooshy lights I have no memory of taking this picture.

Michal Wallace : Socratic methods "The idea is you figure out the cause-effect relationships that lead to a current undesirea...

Sarah Musgrave : How the New Economy Turned Me Into an Old Capitalist "I can only imagine some ending like that of the first Star Trek movie, where the computers of...
A List Apart : The Web is Like Canada Ten points go to the American who can identify the funniest thing about this article that othe...

NY Times : A Happy, Scary New Day for Design "Environmentalists use the term ecotone to describe the area where two adjacent ecosystems — a...
New Scientist : Tetris-playing amnesiacs reveal why dreams can be so weird "By blocking declarative memories and forcing the system to work with these weak associations,...

Paul Tough : "[A]s of this morning, if you have one of those handheld personal digital assistants, you can automatically download each day's open letter into its memory, and then read it later,...
A.P. : "Data taken from the [body] scans will be stored on password-protected sites on the Web and can be used by consumers to help mak...

Thomas Homer-Dixon : The Ingenuity Gap "[T]o understand the determinants of social adaptation to scarcity, analysts should focus on t...
Morning Becomes Eclectic : Rhinocerose (real evil g2) see also : Grim Skunk : Rhinoceros (scroll down)
Douglas Coupland : "These glass towers strike many visitors as a key element of the city's character. A friend from the States told h...
Michael Floyd : Roll Your Own XML Editor "I created a Web-based editor that generates and saves fully validated XML documents based on ...

Teleweb.org "LE SELF-MEDIA, c'est l'idée que chacun est en mesure d'inventer son propre média avec les nou...
Michael Best : "The act of participation seems to entrap us at once into becoming captive markets of information economies."
Chris Fofiu : GIMP Aqua-pill Tutorial
developerWorks reviews The Camel Book v3

Peter Y. Sussman : How stupid can an e-mail program be? "Words become offensive by the nature of the attention that is paid to them. When a corporatio...
National Post on Economy Class Syndrome "On airplanes, [deep vein thrombosis] can result when passengers sit for too long without movi...
Kyle Smith : XML2SQL "is a collection of Perl scripts used to convert XML files into SQL scripts for creating table...

Guido van Rossum "[S]tarting today, Tim Peters, Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake and myself are working ...
Bryan Boyer : "Nomadicism is thus no longer lamenting the lack of Home, but redefining it altogether. Home as series. (This makes a rather large assumption that one's...

Todd Gitlin : "On Earth, the only land ahead is the compromised land. Politics means satisfactions and dissatisfactions, not redemptions. There is this truth: We ar...

Disturbing Search Requests "This website serves the purpose to reflect upon the process of finding web sites by using sea...

Adbusters : Chris Woods Art Gallery I had no idea you could do that with french fries. Beautiful!

It's not online yet but the latest issue of The Perl Journal has an article by Lincoln Stein titled "An IP Telephone...
Wolfgang Stobl : "Now that the beta version of the Zope Book is out, I've just created a fully indexed [Windows] HTMLHelp version."
Frontier on BSD I don't want to sound unduly critical of the nice Userland people because I think I understand w...
I'm going to stick my finger in the pie and ask why it is that people bother to put the slides from presentations they've given online? D...