June 12, 2004
How Canadian Elections Work
We're having an election in about three weeks. It will cost about 1% of the American election, and be about 99% less annoying.
June 11, 2004
Japan's NHK is
With 32MB images at 60 frames per second on a 450" TV paired with 22.2 surround sound, Friends reruns are 19 times funnier!
brianstorms weblog: An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
A San Diego blogger gets paid $2,000 by a print publication to reprint his previous month's postings for their cover story. Later, bloggers everywhere have odd, semi-erotic dreams of same.
June 10, 2004
A selection of great broad quizzes from the Merseyside Quiz Leagues
"Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?"
The complete set of letters between two British lovers, separated by the war
From North Africa to Leicester, transcribed 60 years later by their son -- a lovely site, to be sure. They were found when Eric passed away in the late 1980's, just a few years after his wife, Olive.
A quote from Olive: "Let's hope this war will soon be over for I for one have had just about enough of it. I little thought what it would mean to us. Do you remember that night after Chamberlain had been to Munich and I said then it worried me that there should be a war little knowing that we should be separated by the beastly thing. "
Infographic: How to work a room
Things are much more memorable when there's an image to go with them.
PRWeek.com "Exclusive": PR bloggers push forth the medium
What's the exclusive part? That PR people are using blogs? Stop the presses!
June 09, 2004
Nice site, but the eye reminds me of Lord of the Rings
Of course, even cheerios remind me of LOTR -- I gotta stop watching that film.
Apple's Software Update 10.3.4 promises "Happy Chocolate Fun Time"
I installed it, and, yeah, whadda ya know, it's true!
Travis just bought a spectacular tower of dual 2.5 GHz G5 fun
It's beautiful, and it's bringing a sexy friend home with it: 
June 08, 2004
A checklist of 100 items which, when completed, show you have complete personal freedom
My own checklist is much shorter: [] I have $10,000,000 in a numbered Swiss bank account.
CustomInk automatically posts all customer feedback, unedited, to its front page
Does your company have the courage to do this? Why not?
Three-quarters of the ads aired by Bush's campaign have been attacks on Kerry.
Didn't his mom teach him right? When you don't have something nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all.
June 07, 2004
Amazon, fearing "blog" isn't a stupid enough word, creates an alternative: "Plog"
And my plog, like many blogs, seems to be rather hard to find.
George Washington and the Horrid Squatters
A long piece about another side of the father of the United States. From the Washington Post magazine.
My grandmother had one of the first remotes, using ultrasonics
The technology was called "Space Command"
Remote Control Anarchy: Given their 50 years' development time, why do TV remotes suck so bad?
Jakob Nielsen says: "Non-standard designs reduce users' confidence in operating [anything that does standardize its features]"
Search for Nigritude Ultramarine
And you'll find out there are a lot of people who care deeply, scarily deeply, about how pages get top rank at Google
