May 2008 Archives

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I know this is derivative, but there is a movement and I'm part of it.

I took the plunge and upgraded a system at home to XP SP3. No problems so far. Nothing seems amiss.

So google docs has added support for "forms" to their spreadsheets. Not only that but I can embed the form in a web page. This is pretty neat.

I'm not joking, fill out the form about and go to my spreadsheet and you can see the results for yourself.

Need help setting one up yourself? Check out the page "Creating Forms".

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I didn't buy anything today, woohooo!

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.

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?

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, 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.

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!

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.

I love a good fixed width font. Microsoft released one with Office 2007 that I love. It is called Consolas & it's available for download.

I don't know how it looks on a traditional monitor, but it looks great on an LCD. Try it!

You can now download your own copy of "Little Brother" under a Creative Commons License. All your favorite formats are there. I you seen one missing be sure and add it yourself.

My fall sailing trip in the Apostle Islands is now officially under way. I've got the boat reserved and now I just need to find the crew.

Someone is working on a novel written 140 words at a time. Neat stuff! [Link from Jeremy]

This is a book that is about right now. It plays out the tension and intersection of privacy versus safety in the after math of a terrorist incident in the SF Bay Area. The book will probably seem dated pretty quick since the technology and lingo are so current, but the story is still great. This book marks a turning point in Cory Doctorows writing. This book is a real turning point for the author, Cory Doctorow. Previous works like "Eastern Standard Tribe" or "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", or even a novella I truly loved "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" were good reads but it wasn't something I would try and get friends who weren't sci-fi/cyberpunk fans to check out and read. This book changes all that - I know I'll probably mail my copy off to my nephew to read. If you are too cheap to get the book, the txt download will be posted soon I'm sure.

The week's "Ralph Nader Overcoat Award" is hereby awarded to Reverend Wright. I believe we haven't heard the last of you yet. Will you be the Billy Beer of the new millenium? It's too soon to know.

I would really like to find and purchase a set of major religion dashboard deities. If you know where I can find them, please leave a comments. If you knew where I could find the bobblehead version that might work as well. I would really like at least Jesus, Mary, Ram, Buddha, Zeus, Pele, Freud or Darwin and Thor or Loki. You'll notice at least one missing religion, but their anticonistic stance plus their sensitivity to cartoons means I'll skip that one.