Here are some random bits for your web surfing pleasure.
Aras wrote up a nice bit on his recent jury experience.
Here are some instructions on "How To Make A Hip End of the Year 'Best Albums' List". Whenever I make up a list like that I worry, will my friends think I'm cool after they read this list? Did I have at least on obscure hipster title in the list? Then I remember, they already know the truth -- the indie movie or unknown cd in my list can't possibly begin to fix my image.
This guy, Harry Eng, put a lot of impossibly sized, weird stuff into bottles.
Microsoft Research has been putting out some interesting software lately. Groupbar is pretty cool. It allows you to create these application groups you can save and then restore later. In the end I don't need yet another task bar. Snarf worked fine, but didn't answer all the questions I have about my email corpus. The thread view is pretty cool. I don't know why Outlook isn't as slick in that regard. I really want to try the virtual wi-fi software. I'll let you know how it goes.
Why do we rename really shabby streets after Martin Luther King? Here is a flickr pool of photos of different streets named after Dr. King. Here is a little more info about this project.
