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Better blogwidth 
 Thanks to Brent for fixing our width problem on Mozilla. Also to Mike for working on some other issues as well.
 
Improvisational civilization at work 
 JD asks a good question. Here's my answer.
 
Does Google have a doppelganger? Just wondering. 
 A friend there just pointed me to the Zeitgeist page.
 
Call me a weasel in flight 
 One of the things I hate most about publishers' Web sites is a lack of links in text. Like here's Oddball Mogul, great little piece in the Washington Post about Felix Dennis, the publisher of Maxim, among other mags (and to which I was pointed by Eric Norlin). Is there a link to anything in this piece? No. Why? Because most publishers force writers to write in software that doesn't support it. There are reasons, of course, all legacitic (how's that for a neoadjective?).
 The reasons don't matter. The time will come — and it won't be long — when writing linklessly will as impolite as farting in a crowded taxi. (As will pointing almost exclusively to the publisher's own stuff, as this piece does here.)
 I don't know about you, but more linkfully I write, the harder it is for me to write any other way. This, more than anything else, may be what blogs bring to the writing world (along with the kind of software that makes it not only possible, but easier and easier with each new rev).
 
Numbers and letters 
 Dean on sevens and Murray the K. Good stuff.
 
Fasten your asteroid belts 
 Well before the Sun burns out, the Milky Way will crash into Andromeda, Slashdot tells us. Visuals here.
 Best question: Will Mozilla be finished by then...?
 
Ride on 
 Why you might want to avoid Hollister around this time next year.
 
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines 
 I hate dumb humor sites, but I love that line too much not to point at it.
 
Which means I'll turn 1054 on the 29th 
 Got a document here that says I was born in the year 947.
 
Much better than the drinking game 
 Driving over Jakob Nielsen. It's not easy, and not over in a flash, either. But I did score 7 "Jakobites" in my three alloted laps. The link comes courtesy of Adam Gaffin at Network World Fusion.
 
Holy shit 
 #7 already. I had no idea. Last I looked we were #31 or something.
 
Merci beaucoup 
 to elanceur weblog, for its kind links and constant reminders that I am not, regretably, in France (although I'll shift a pointless couple thousand miles closer tomorrow).
 
Why cable broadband doesn't suck 
 I'm downloading new Palm Desktop software at 246 KB/sec. Fifteen megs in <1 minute. Not bad.
 [Time passes, 4 hours of sleep happens]. And it worked! The new Palm software syncs. A harbinger, I hope.
 
Pole rolling 
 Where I'm going tomorrow it's already past 3am. So I just reset my blog prefs to East Coast Time, flipped my home page and got ahead of myself. Not a chance I wanted to miss.
 Anyway,Marek I just wanted to urge ya'll to continue following Marek around and digging what he's up to. Maybe I dig his act because it so clearly isn't one. Or maybe it's because he finds more to what I say than I thought I said. Or maybe it's because he's so good at laying fresh track for Cluetrain.
 Whatever, it's good shit.

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