March 31, 2004
Wait, spammers drive Porsches? Don't they already have huge ... never mind. AOL puts spammer's Porsche up for grabs
What is an outstanding magazine Internet site, exactly?
'I do' waits for 'We can': straight couples make social protests for gay marriage rights
Is this newsmap a useful way to see what has the attention of the media? Perhaps; after all, it has lots of pretty bright colors
March 30, 2004
Craig's List posting: I Need a New Fucking Job (I saw it on Boing Boing)
Side Salad now has a radio station in the right hand nav. How, um, loud. (It's from Radio.blog)
It's like the opposite of the Mile-High Club: The Volvo Saved My Life Club
March 29, 2004
"Thank you, master, may I have another?" Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson, D-Culver City, kicks Zhang Xiao Ju betweent the legs during a demonstration performed by Buddhist monks in Sacramento.
It's not all gold: Dave Barry's Blog has an entry with about 100 comments discussing whether cutting in line is rude. (Spoiler: Uh, yeah, it is.)
Is that a monkey in your trunk or are you just happy to see me? (From Side Salad)
March 28, 2004
On my computer, Google today has what would be a slightly new look on any other site, but is a huge change for Google. The new "Froogle" link is labelled as such, and there's a "More" in the tab bar that leads to good things. See this screenshot.
Jon Ronson talks about what Stankley Kubrick left behind in boxes, in the Guardian (Thanks, MetaFilter.)
March 27, 2004
Become an e-nabler: Buy This Guy a Beer for No Reason
Tell it to Miss Manners: Ananova - Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it
Michael McDonough's Top Ten Things They Never [explicitly] Taught [Him] in Design School -- or any school, for that matter.
This was my idea! My idea! My idea! (I thought of it last month, but forgot to build it.) Future Me.org lets you send email to yourself or anybody else in the future -- my idea was more of a n e-time capsule, but worked the same.
March 26, 2004
The Trixie Update: Baby's first blog! Sample: "Next week is Bath Week on the Trixie Picture of the Day. Come join us for 5 days of wet and wild TPODs starting Monday."
This is quite the well written look at how our culture treats those who dare to age: All Things Weren't Considered
March 25, 2004
About time somebody invented this: My RadioTime (TiVo for radio)
This totally misleading press releases says: Free Audio Downloads of 9-11 Commission Hearings Available at Audible.com, but you have to be a subscriber at a cost of $14.95 / month to be eligible for the "free" download.
March 24, 2004
secondhand suicide: could this possibly be "an entirely true story"?
This is the most amazing damn thing: A video of a real rotating saw blade that can tell when it touches a finger, and instantly stop
My alma mater newspaper, the Daily Trojan, has a new Web site powered by CollegePublisher Network. It's nice, though the "Rate a Pic" feature's a little cheesy.
March 23, 2004
This T-shirt store sells some really cool stuff
Join us tonight for the amazing true tale of "The Girl Who Got Chris Rock's Old Cell Phone Number"!
Budapest downtown map -- of interest to very few people, unless you're lost in downtown Budapest
And you say *I* have too much time on my hands -- this gyu built a computer that fits in the windows xp box
Easter is coming: What to do with leftover marshmallow Peeps
Can you Spot The Fake Smile in this BBC quiz? I did 15 out of 20.
Sharon Underwood's Letter to the Concord Monitor eloquently expresses the depth all mothers' love for their sons, regardless of what sexual preference those sons may have.
Semantic data extractor lets you see what rich meta data a Web page provides (or not). From Holovaty
March 22, 2004
Quite the correction: "Contrary to an item in the print edition of the March 22 edition of Broadcasting & Cable, in TV Fax and earlier on our Web site, [NBC anchor Brian] Williams wasn't subjected to a strip search or a body-cavity search [at the San Diego airport]. (Broadcasting & Cable)
March 21, 2004
Note to self: How to Configure Email virtusertable (virtuser) so you can direct email to the right places from various domains
Overly enthusiastic, ugly but comprehensive, photo guide to L.A. uniqueness, by David
essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective about the role of blogs as a part of media and corporate-shaped culture
March 20, 2004
CSS Drop Shadows: A List Apart -- I will do photos with drop shadows in my blog this way, someday.
March 19, 2004
USATODAY.com headline: Ex-USA Today reporter faked major stories. What they only mention in the second-to-last paragraph of the story: Before he resigned in January, Kelley spent his entire 21-year career at USA TODAY.
Twenty-one years of possible deceit. They review 720 of his stories from 1993 to 2004. Why 1993? Why not 1985, when he started?
March 18, 2004
Variety.com just added Trackback to all their articles and reviews, making it the first newspaper to use trackback, to my knowledge. Here, for example, is an article I wrote for Variety with a trackback link to here.
March 17, 2004
A How-To article about a guy who set out to determine what language was the greatest influence on the words J.R.R. Tolkien chose for his own Elvish language
March 16, 2004
What's with the unhappy, kind-of-not-smiling face? (Kumon North America)
fucking hilarious video (if you don't like swearing, don't click this link)
Are ye a true pirate or a wily ninja? I ain't made up me own mind yet...
March 15, 2004
My wife's first book in French: Livre Dreamweaver MX 2004 pour Les Nuls. Mais, que je suis fier!
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can with the help of a mechanized exo-skeleton
March 13, 2004
This was the job I wanted when I was 9: Senior Editor at MAD Magazine
March 10, 2004
You Can Only Marry Who We Say: Bush / Cheney '04! (from Jeffrey McManus' Grind)
March 09, 2004
Can anyone tell me, is StumbleUpon a scam or a great idea?
Some absolutely stellar close-up photos of brightly colored bugs, by Frank Phillips
March 08, 2004
15 Facts about Vancouver, from Hemisphere magazine
