The new DanSays is up. I’m interested to hear about his development experience with .NET.
Escape Velocity: Nova, the latest in perhaps the best Macintosh based video game series ever, has reached final candidate status.
It’s a rainy, Sunday feeling Saturday here in Atlanta. Just munching on some veggie burgers and watching some Kung Fu.
The Register: Back in the Bloghouse : “If I was in a position of power, I’d be delighted to see news reporters supplanted by blogs, because blogs - for all their empowerment rhetoric - are far easier to divert and confuse than a few persistent and skillful reporters. Watergate took fifteen months to break, but a blog meme has a TTL (time to live) measured in hours, as it roars round the world, before the bloggers find a new novelty. ” I completely disagree with this statement. Most of the commentary I find on the blogs I read is far more critical and insightful than this statement implies. Most of the blog authors I read are brilliant people, and are quite skeptical.
Rob Fahrni’s project to get Visio rendering OPML files into diagrams reminds me why I don’t use Visio when I’m doing sitemap work for Web sites. Instead, I use a product called Inspiration. The main reason for this is that Inspiration has a built in outliner that lets you define hierarchical relationships and do all your typing outside of the actual diagram mode. This makes the labor intensive process of defining sitemaps for large sites that have more than 200 pages quite a bit easier.
I’m curious what tools other people use for this sitemapping/information design part of the Web site building process. I believe that I discovered Inspiration via one of Kelly Goto’s talks at a Web Design conference I attended in Atlanta. What do you use?
Bruce Sterling: Information Wants to Be Worthless
Brent’s leaving Userland. Best wishes from here, I’ll be following what you are doing. I’ve thought Brent is the man for years, since the Ranchero software days. I’d still be using his contextual menu plug in if I hadn’t moved over to X.
The below means, I will finally get that asterisk I’ve been coveting.
Despite getting a late start, I’m confirmed now for attending SXSW.
415-564-1347 What is real?
CERT Advisory CA-2002-05 Multiple Vulnerabilities in PHP fileupload
It’s nice to know that AT&T has been spending their infrastructure money in Utah. Maybe that’s why my calls drop out in Central Park.
Depressed? Got tech blues? That dude looks a real lot like Will Ferrell.
I've always been a fan of the Magic Eightball. I've found it to give very good advice at least 50% of the time. This is an astonishingly higher accuracy rate than most people who give me advice. In that spirit, Magic Eightball Everywhere:
Here's an online magic eightball. It's a Web app. You can also see what other people are asking, although I found that this feature was not for the faint of heart and could be downright depressing. People ask all sorts of sappy questions like; "Does she ever think of me now?" It just breaks my little heart.
More impressive is The Public Eightball. It's an actual Magic Eightball that is hooked to a Lego Mindstorm-based apparatus that shakes the ball for you and displays the result in a Webcam image. Unfortunately, it seems to currently be off kilter, and you can't see the result.
If you don't find either of these to your liking, Yahoo actually has a portal category devoted to just online Magic Eightball Apps. A more thorough listing, with reviews, is here. The same site has a listing of the actual Eightball answers. You can find a scientific dissection of an Eightball here.
If you are running Mac OS X, this dockling will allow you to have a Magic Eightball in your dock.
If you are running Windows, this app will let you have a Magic Eightball in your system tray.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but I could not find a standalone Java app or a Linux app that simulates the Magic Eightball. If you know of one, please email me so that I can add it to this post. I'm certain that they are out there somewhere.
This site seems to have the best little history of the Eightball that I could find, but it's not very in-depth.
Wow, this new boards of canada cd I’m listening to is fantastic.
Curious about our President’s connections to the villians at Enron? I know you are. Michael Moore has updated the essay that I previously linked to with links to stories and other Web pages with more details.
“That’ll never be me, that’ll never be me, that’ll never be me."
U.S. Begins Anti-Terror Assistance In Georgia (washingtonpost.com) Well, that headline got me clicking quick, but don’t worry, it’s not the Georgia I’m in.
The one hundred panel mammoth is up over at waferbaby.
I fired up my Tivo last night before I went to bed, and chose to watch yesterday’s episode of The Screen Savers. Who on my screen should appear, but Ben and Mena from movabletype. Nice to see someone who deserves the recognition get it.
dooce becomes another in the proud line of people who lost their job because of what they posted on their personal site. Messed up.
My brother’s newest song, “Just Another Punk” is up on his MP3.com page. Check it out, it’s fun! Let us know what you think over at Radio Bump in the comments. (Made with a Mac)
BETA Palm Conduits for Now Up To Date and Now Contact on Mac OS X. Now we’re getting somewhere on this front. Where is my Missing Sync for Mac OS X?