Monkinetic Weblog

Mmmm, yeesss. New Hulk trailer online at Apple.

Apple better be bringing out 2Ghz PowerMacs soon, or their Pro users are going to be pissed. 1.42Ghz ain't gonna cut it for long. (New iMac here.)

I'd never heard of Moleskine notebooks, but they seem to have quite the reputation. I've long used hardbound unlined notebooks as sketchbooks and journals. Now I find that these really cool bound notebooks can be purchased online.

Graphical summary of patient status (1994): Very cool article from the Lancet (medical journal) reproduced on Tufte's site, in which Tufte and a collaborator define a simple graphical representation of patient status information. Brilliant. Tufte packs more information and meaning into a two-dimensionsal space than anyone I've seen.

So I'm at lunch with my buddy J.P., and we're discussing VCRs, DVDs, and PVRs, and he says to me "What I need is someone who can tell me how to use all my electronic gadgets to make my life better."

New column by Jonathon Peterson: Amateur Hour.

Dave writes eloquently about the Columbia accident, the reality of death in our lives, and how we go forward. It's a good read.

Thanks to two loal Libraries, I am now in possession of three of Edward Tufte's masterful tomes. His books are as interesting as I'd thought they'd be, though still different than I expected. So far I'm most interested in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, the earliest of the three (1983). It may be that this book contains informaiton useful to the understanding and assimilation of the other two. We'll see.

WriteTheWeb has an Awesome interview with Brent Simmons, impressario from Ranchero Software and author of NetNewsWire.

I'm working on a couple new Conversant sites for a client these days. In the process, I'm learning more about some of Conversant's features that I've not used much, and appreciating again how cool Conversant is. Here are some of the interesting things I'm doing:

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Migraine Awareness Group: a National Understanding for Migraineurs (MAGNUM). Good informative site for migraine sufferers ("migraineurs").

Jodi gets 3 or 4 multi-day migraines each month, and we're looking for treatments more effective and less expensive than Maxalt.

Thomas Wilson has started a new weblog related to information technology and theory. The Information Research Weblog is affilliated with the Information Research journal, and covers information theory, the semantic web, trends in IT, and other related topics. In Tom's words:

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Migraine Awareness Group: a National Understanding for Migraineurs (MAGNUM). Good informative site for migraine sufferers ("migraineurs").

Jodi gets 3 or 4 multi-day migraines each month, and we're looking for treatments more effective and less expensive than Maxalt.

Migraine Awareness Group: a National Understanding for Migraineurs (MAGNUM). Good informative site for migraine sufferers ("migraineurs").

Sorry folks, I've been a bit under the weather lately. Gonna blog some more in a bit.

My good friend Jim recently released a Mac OS X installer for Plone, a Zope-based CMS.

Hm. SBC is claiming they have a valid patent on website navigation and is starting to extort license fees from "infringing" sites.

The More Stuff 4 Less Blog is blogging super cheap stuff and great rebate deals in various online stores. This is the way I want to shop. Everywhere. Well, almost everywhere. -)

David Weinberger has put together a really good FAQ about the Open Spectrum movement. It's well done, and gives a glimpse of what spectrum de-regulation might do for us.

Jodi, Angie, some other friends and I all went out last night to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It's the funniest movie I've seen in ages. I was giggling through the whole movie, and quite a few times burst out laughing. It was awesome.