Monkinetic Weblog

Upon waking this morning, the first thing through my head was: The only emotion I feel from fruitcake is Fear.

According to Rogers Cadenhead, Anita Rowland is recovering from surgery:

Mark Pilgrim has some simple to-the-point comments about Rush Limbaugh and his addiction to pain meds.

Ok, as a confessed color-junkie, this article on ways to distill natural color pallettes from photographs simply kicks ass.

Russ at MaxDesign continues to provide great CSS resources: this time it's the Floatutorial, on how to properly use css floats. Huzzah!

Bill has some good comments on Microsoft's acknowledgement that Longhorn is not going to ship until 2006.

Argh!! NBC finally kills the last reason to turn to channel 12, as they remove #39;Boomtown' from their lineup. Boomtown was my best reason to watch TV, actually tied with CBS's

Posted 2003 Oct 11 00:00

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction. What else is new? This article is about CSS, but it could have been about any number of technologies. Bah.

Mike McCracken's web hosting at disco.ucsd.edu blew up on him, so he's moved his site. He can't get at it to redirect the old one, so I told him I'd pass on the info on his new site.

This rocks:

This is your regularly scheduled reminder:

I don't use Apple's iCal much b/c it's slow. But this nifty little alternative viewer for iCal events makes me want to put everything I can think of in iCal, just to watch them crawl inexorably toward "now". Wheee!

Jodi and I have been learning some of these lessons over the 16 mos.

The Italian R.E.M. fanzine, BAZAR, has a list of what I believe to be various bootlegs, rare tracks, and duets done by R.E.M. and/or Michael Stipe (lead singer) with other artists.

Good grief. Dell has taken the "wait-for-Apple's-success-then-clone-it" strategy a bit too far with it's new Digital Jukebox ("DJ" heh).

Local boy Jiva Devoe just released a cool project management tool for Mac OS X, called Power Card, that has Rendezvous-enabled shared editing built in. Check it out!

Wow, I actually had to find out about this from Lockergnome (Thanks Meryl!) - R.E.M. has a cool mock news site up at morningteam.com promoting their new release, "Bad Day".

Jeffrey Veen wrote an essay on "The Business Value OF Web Standards". A good read if you're wondering why your designer is recommending you get rid of the gunk in your pages.

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Jon Udell points to Kimbro Staken's new XPath-searchable weblog software. Very cool!