Things I Bought Today


I didn't buy anything today, woohooo!

Tweet of the Week


New favorite way to cut off people in conversation: "... yeah, I saw your Twitter."

-- alexisgirl

Hey wait, I think people have been doing that to me.

You can also see the cartoon on bitstrips, "Cartoon Goalie".

She probably sucks at free throws, but she could play on my team any day.

I want to go to England just to see this cow. It boggles the imagination. Read all about it in The Daily Mail.

Art


For reasons I don't entirely understand I am fascinated by graffiti art. This movie where the medium is combined with animation blows me away.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo

Anyone know where I can get a ventilator?

Biking Soon


The weather is so nice, I can't wait to hit the road. It's probably why JWZ's bike advice cracked me up today.

" ... always assume the cars can see you perfectly, and are trying to kill you."
-- Jamie Zawinski, "the collected jwz bicycle wisdom"

I liked a lot of his other thoughts on biking, especially that hybrids make a great city bike essentially for the same reasons the elitists eschew them.

New favorite web site


New favorite, other than my own of course ;)

For random web surfing there is nothing to beat alltop.com. It is neatly categorized, cleanly implemented and leads you to the blogs rather than driving the traffic and conversation to itself. I love the design. As soon as I find my ambition I want my blog to emulate that clean look.

This little part of the About page cracked me up.

Q. Couldn't I build my own custom aggregation using a feed reader, customizable home pages, Netvibes, etc?

A. Yes, you could--knock yourself out. While you're at it, you could backup your hard disk, bake your own bread, iron your own shirts, floss daily, tune your own car, and bike to work.

I have done all that at one time or another (hopefully my dentist isn't reading this one) but I have the good sense to not try and recreate alltop.com

Full disclosure, I'm trying to get Guy Kawasaki (who is involved in this venture) to start an enterprise.alltop.com feature which would aggregate blogs related to enterprise software and hardware.

On Wisconsin


When I saw this weird story about a decomposing 90 year old woman I was really hoping it wasn't set in Wisconsin. Wrong again!

Windows


New Album


The Submarines are releasing a new album, Honeysuckle Weeks. If you like pop-folk-electronic you'll like this. I think you can d/l it already from iTunes if you like your music with the burning smell of DRM. Brooke introduced me to the group and since she was under 25 at the time you can trust her recommendation.

Double the Fun


Ephemera

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