April 30, 2004
Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act (washingtonpost.com)
In other news, the universe is imploding
ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel
I'm linking to "Nightline" because it's simply not right for one media conglomorate to start deciding whether another media conglamorate's programming is legitimate news -- that should be up to the cable companies and the government!
AtomicLife - An Online Magazine
Instead of fitting everything above the fold, this site puts every single item on the extremely long home page. Counterintuitive, yes -- but in this case, it works.
The political jockeying over the position of National Archivist
I can't think of a less likely gov't role to become politicized, but the Bush White House really wants to keep the lid on its records, even after it's out of power.
If you waste 12 minutes in each of thes games...
...you'll have wasted as much time as both Matrix sequels together, plus The Phantom Menace.
April 29, 2004
GPS Drawing Gallery
It's like etch-a-sketch art via satellite, tracing where these people actually walk.
Bloggers in New York to Meet up at the Apple Store in Soho
I'm guessing it will attract slightly fewer viewers than the Victoria's Secret Webcast
Randompixel is a photo art experiment six years in the making
From The Dead Parrot Society: Pictures from cameras released into the wild
April 27, 2004
A used wedding dress on eBay
Nothing special, but it has been viewed 1.7 million times. (Update: That was yesterday. Today it's 6.9 million times.)
April 15, 2004
A Curious lack -- A9.com has 0 search results for penthouse
There are no search results for this query. (But there are many "Letters to Penthouse" books...)
Amazon's snoopy search engine: A9's Privacy Policy
If you were concerned about Google's GMail privacy invasion, you better read this line: "IF YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON AMAZON.COM AND AN AMAZON.COM COOKIE, INFORMATION GATHERED BY A9.COM, AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, MAY BE CORRELATED WITH ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT AMAZON.COM HAS AND USED BY A9.COM AND AMAZON.COM TO IMPROVE THE SERVICES WE OFFER." On the other hand -- WOW, I'm impressed by the features they offer...
April 14, 2004
Prints the Chaff plans an unofficial Bloggers Day baseball outing
Or as I like to call it, Slowest ... Moving ... Flashmob ... Ever!
April 13, 2004
This is the latest example of poor Google ad juxtaposition
If I had to guess what happened, I'd predict that the automatic filter here saw "man pleads guilty" and "2nd charge" and used that for one ad with the headline "Accused of Rape" and the other ad for "Microsoft License Experts." While it's bad that a piracy case gets an ad for rape, I think it's twice as bad that rape and Microsoft licensing are somehow associated.
April 12, 2004
Font makers House Industries made a book of fonts
The plot is something about a lazy dog and a quick fox who does a lot of jumping.
April 10, 2004
Norman Borlaug has saved move lives than any other living human
Do you know who this American Nobel Prize winner is?
April 08, 2004
My old job is posted on Monster (Editor, Variety.com)
Can you spot 15 errors in this job posting? Then maybe you're right for the job!
Here's the exact text... can you spot 15 errors?
Variety.com, the premier online entertainment resource is seeking an Editor for it's online publication.
This key role will be responsible for providing overall editorial direction and oversight to the website and the online editorial staff as well as ensure proper site functionality. Other responsibilities include serving as the liaison between print and online editorial staff, develop new editorial content and relationships, contribute to the general layout of the site and the development of special mini-sites, oversee and edit blogs, along with contributing blog editors and will monitor and edit web board comments. Additionally, the Editor will manage projects with third party vendors and content providers report technical issues in development and, provide training for the editorial staff on the content management tools.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have a balanced history in editorial and internet/web experience. Understanding of website layout and production, HTML, database and XML knowledge is required. Javascript knowledge is desirable as is familiarity with Access. Experience with online news site a plus. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, be articulate to communicate issues and help resolve them and must be technically savvy to oversee a daily updated news website.
To apply, send resume to: hrlosangeles2@reedbusiness.com please include job title ''Variety.com Editor'' in the subject line.
Salary/Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience
George W. Bush, the War President: A photo mosiac
Via Eclectism, Michael Moore and ultimately from American Leftist.
XML.com: Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content [Apr. 07, 2004]
If you read this, you'll go insane. And you wonder why RSS hasn't taken off in a big way yet...
Kathryn Cramer's good analysis of the use of mercenary workers in Iraq
It's true that most of what she wrote here is summarized from newspapers, news Web sites and books as opposed to in-the-field interviews and reporting -- but it's broadly constructed, well summarized, cogent and interspursed with Socratic questions (not bully pulpit opinions). And the fact that these posts are intermingled with posts about breast feeding and salad dressing recipes just reinforces why I think blogs are so damn fascinating: here's a woman who is actually helping to develop a civil (meaning citizen, not polite) debate over the use of private military personnel by security firms in Iraq, simply because she decided to put her mind to this issue. Amazing.
April 07, 2004
April 06, 2004
This headline was NOT a good idea
Then again, perhaps in this case it's appropriate to have a headline that blows.
bIPlog: ONA Last Panel: Back to the future
I was wondering if anyone recorded the question I asked about Google at this "superpanel" session
The Onion | The Onion | Yahoo Launches Soul-Search Engine
The screen shot is hilarious: Search (What is my destiny?) Sponsored ad: (Destiny on eBay -- Find Destiny at low prices)
Belated thanks: Prints the Chaffmentioned this blog
Tom and I go way back to early Web days. You whippersnappers ... ah, nevermind.
TheStar.com quotes me for th
"Rabbit-crazed ladies make fine bloggers" and who am I to argue that premise?
Lost Remote gve me some electronic ink
"Variety.com editor steps down," they say; I see it as more of a step up.
Reason magazine customizes 40,000 covers with pictures of each subscribers
Interesting that a print magazine did this, while many media Web sites still don't know who the heck is coming to their home page. (Thanks, L.A. Observed)
These Pulitzer Prize-winning pictures are worth $10,000
Carolyn Cole made Liberia's civil war a story about real people: scared, angry, aguished.
April 05, 2004
Gibson's 'The Passion' a Hit Among Arabs
Article quotes Middle Eastern Muslims who have seen the movie as saying the film reveals the "crimes committed by Jews against Christ"
Why home prices are about to plummet--and take the recovery with them
Reading things like this makes my chest hurt: In California, the price of a home stands at 8.3 times the annual family income of its occupants
Boredom is a lost art form.
I read this article as I was listening to iTunes and updating my Palm Pilot with tomorrow's to-do list
April 04, 2004
Europeans have an innate ability to open triangular spread cheese packages
On the other hand, so this funny article says, root beer makes them spit
Electronic Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number o
And this doesn't even begin to talk about the practice of simply pressuring employees to work off the clock.
Wonderful photos
I think you need to move really slow to see beauty the way this unknown photographer does. It's hard not to move too fast.
Photo Friday: Atmosphere
My entry for Photo Friday: Atmosphere. It's a fish at the Long Beach Aquarium. He seems quite at home in his atmosphere.
Fish faces don't have much range of expression, but different types of fish have faces that seem "frozen" in states that resemble various human emotions. This one appeared to me to be a combination of curious and sleepy.
This is a huge tank, and far up above his watery home, you can see the atmosphere that you and I can breathe. It's an interesting reminder that different things thrive in different places.
I am a grammar god; are you?
On the down side, I'm really irritating when you ask me to "quickly look over this memo I'm writing, would you?"
There are 3,419 songs with "love" in the title, according to Lyrics Planet
There are 124 songs with "work" in the title. Just something to ponder.
April 02, 2004
Beautiful cemetary photographs come to life
Taken over two years, this grave yard is amazingly shot and given a flash sound and animation treatment that makes it even more striking.
Métrorama - Panoramic photos of the Paris métro
Quite amazing, showing the variety of stations built.
why content management fails
Because you can have the best system in the word, and still not hire someone who can manage content well
Jackson County's government-run porn emporium
This can't be true -- not the porn part, but the "efficiently run by county government" part.
'Passion' prompts confession from neo-Nazi bomber
However, he said he was surprised to be arrested: "I was expecting eight Hail Marys and a 'Go forth and sin no more.' "
Peeps Doing Research
Quickest way to one million hits on the Internet -- make a site with photos of Peeps.
Google's E-Mail Strategy Criticized
Google's AdWords "computer" is going to (*gasp*) read all your email? How is that different from when you do a "search" at Hotmail and Microsoft's computers "look through" all your mail?
April 01, 2004
visual analysis of data changes in group information sites
Sounds boring, but it's really a great way to see how sites produced by groups change over time, and recover from cybervandalism
Dear Microsoft, your Word software often leaves old edits in documents; even in your own publically posted Word documents. Just FYI.
