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| Thursday, January 17, 2002 |
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Floating for perls 
| | Even more enjoyable is the Geek Internet Cafe in the Library after the sessions, a true geek chat room, that often does not close down until 5 am. There is a wonderful Internet culture going on aboard this cruise, a relaxed low stress web ecology that is a pleasure to be absorbed in. The "conversations" are concurrent live verbal circles of dialog and Internet communications to sources off of the ship. |
Living up to his nickname
I am Zeus, god of thunderlinks
| | I was just looking through the referer logs for some OS X stuff when I ran across a single inbound visit from Girlrepair.com, one of the most artfully personal blogs (and home pages) on the Web. There I found this in the January 6 entry: |
| | i was plowing through the server logs midday yesterday and i came across a single referral from doc searls weblog. i had a peek around the site and rather enjoyed myself there. what i didn't realize until about half an hour later is that if you get mentioned on doc's site, you get hits. massive amounts of hits, sometimes up to six uniques a minute. such things make me happy. |
| | Kind of a blog pong game, no? Makes me happy, too. (Just wish he had his permalinks working, so I could point to the day in question, but: whatever.) |
Beauty is in the blog of the beholder
| | In a parallel life, I'm a photographer. I don't do as much as I used to (even though I have all these fantasies about organizing everything digitally, since I certainly have the means — and the stockpile — if not the time); but I'm always noticing good work. |
Hear here
| | Paul is going to be on the radio tomorrow. Also the webio. His subject: copy-protected music CDs, the idea behind which is to subtract value. I suggest he ask the audience for a show of hands (or mice): How many of ya'll want CDs you can't copy? |
| | Here's one of my favorite lines from my wife, who is the smartest businessperson I know: never bet against your customers. |
Fun with Google
| | Inspired by Crackmonkey, let's mark today as a baseline for "denial of civilization" as a rallying meme against the mass market spam attack that's going on right now. (current Google count: 3) |
| | By the way, I just did a search for something in my inbox, and found myself in the midst of more than three thousand pieces of spam that I never saw before because they were dated in the past. My current inbox only dates from November. All these came in with dates from 1946 forward to dates in 2001, but earlier than whatever the dates were when they arrived. In other words, all of them got auto-sorted out of sight by Eudora when they arrived. They arrived old. Amazing. It was like opening a book to find it filled with termites. |
Zip your sleeve
| | After a guy lost his tool in a urination accident (women may not know this, but guys will pee on anything, including high voltage cables), Russian doctors grew one on his arm. (Link from Romenesko's Obscure Store) |
Help me! I'm being filterrrreeed....
| | Sometimes we don't even know what the hell we're getting into when we drop a one-liner on a newsgroup or something. I did that yesterday when I called the spam storm in our email boxes a "denial of civilization" attack. |
| | RageBoy put the acronym together this morning... |
| | Is Topica making money? I gotta wonder. Maybe somebody should archive this list elsewhere before it's too late. |
What would you buy from this guy?
| | Since we're on the subject, here's one reason why I'm glad I quit the ad biz a long time ago (even though, frankly, I often enjoyed the hell out of it). Some of what this guy says makes sense, but it's still the same old top-down stuff. It reminds us that the only difference between pushy advertising and pushy salespeople is just the medium. (Got that link from RageBoy, by the way.) |
Relemurations
For the birds
| | Blue jays are the smartest birds. At least around here. A couple weeks ago we put up a bird feeder outside our kitchen window. So far the only birds that have found it are the blue jays. Actually, they're western scrub jays, but I'm from New Jersey, and they look like blue jays to me (or, in my native vernacular, "some kinda fuckin' bluebird"). |
| | Somewhere around here I have a parody of a bird guide I wrote a thousand years ago. The only entry I remember is the "nut-crested bloodwrench." |
Nice blog, eh?
| | My friend Bill Stratas lives in Toronto, where he's a local marketing and cultural force. I've been wondering when he'd join the blog revolution, and the answer is: now. He's on Radio and making it rock, too. |
CQ CQ CQ
| | Tony Collen has a whole blog — Ham Journalism — devoted to its worthy subhead, Exploring independent & amateur journalism on the Web. |
| | Though a young guy, Anthony is an old hand at ham radio. And he draws some interesting parallels between his old passion and his new one as a journalism student at the University of Minnesota— and as a blogger. |
On the other head...
| | In OS X I don't need to go into a panel and tell the machine whether or not I'm connected by Ethernet or wireless (even though there is a panel for just that purpose). I dunno how, but: it just knows. |
Bvvvt...
| | I've discovered one shortcoming of OS X on laptops: it cuts battery life in half, or worse. And the grace period after the low battery warning can be measured in seconds. |
How did she get so good so fast?
| | Happy birthday to Jennifer Balderama. She's 25. That's younger than our three oldest kids. And 20 years older than our youngest. Somehow we got three generations out of two. |
What hath clues wrought
| | Wealth Bondage is so full of stong shit I'm almost afraid to go there. Samples: |
| | Without hypocrisy, all we would have are Brands and the Flag. |
| | TheÝSioux worshipped the Buffalo, from whom all goods flowed: needles from bone, blankets from the hide,Ýthreads from sinew, pemmican from the flesh,Ýceremonial headdress from theÝhorns, fire fromÝdried dung. So, we worship the Market. |
| | As a kid we used to go down to the dump on Saturday night and shoot rats with a bb gun.ÝFrom there it was a short step to thrashing clients for a living. |
Uh oh
| | Received a fancy package today from Cox Communications, my ISP, announcing the company's new Internet services, which presumably replace what they used to resell (or still do — it's not clear) from Excite At Home. They even show the package here on their support page. It's full of consumer-oriented stuff about email and browser settings. But I don't use the supplied email address. In fact, I don't even know what it is. Searls.com, with its mail server, is hosted out of my old ISP, Xo. |
| | Anyway, all I need to know is if I need a new ID for the router's relationship with the cable modem. Doesn't look like it's an issue. It's DHCP all the way. |
| | Anyway, if I suddenly go dark, you'll know why. |
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