Monkinetic Weblog

Massive, giant, enormous, huge, terrifying, flesh-eating centipede.

In response to Ethan:

A while back, I registered deliciouslymeta.com and setup a simple Wordpress linklog. I posted to it for a while, but it fell out of use.

Chuckle. Merlin Mann on today's MacBreak Weekly:

1. World Leader Pretend
2. Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix)
3. Country Feedback (6 minute Green tour version - from L.A. I think)
4. Turn You Inside-Out
5. Begin The Begin

It seems to me that Cory Doctorow is working a little too hard to make Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, his work of science fiction set in a world where the artists and geeks of Disney World have taken over operation of the park in a sort of anarchistic revolution - come true. At least, for some virtual version of "true", as realized in the huge virtual world of Second Life. From Rough Type:

1. Document (3) - Finest Worksong, It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), The One I Love
2. Green (3) - World Leader Pretend, Orange Crush, Turn You Inside-Out
3. Out Of Time (2) - Belong, Country Feedback
4. Automatic For The People (1) - Man On The Moon
5. Eponymous (1) - Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum-Horn Mix)

Chatting with Dad about buying a new Macbook pro...

Scott Adams just got over the flu:

>"I sat in the Situation Room in secret meetings for nearly twenty years under five Presidents, and all I can say is that some awfully crazy schemes might well have been approved had everyone present not known and expected hard questions, debate, and criticism from the Hill

I've added a subscribe-by-email box in the sidebar, provided by FeedBurner, so if you're the email type instead of the RSS-in-a-newsreader type, you can now get tasty morsels of tech, trivia, and R.E.M. delivered to your inbox. Oh happy day!

Tips for efficient tantrumming.

Nice cover I'd not heard before.

I was reading over on Yahoo and tried clicking the little purple arrow next to the world Iraq...

Interesting article on color in Digital Web Magazine, but I find it deeply ironic that the article is completely in black and white.

I was reading an old article on ars technica (IBM and OSDL to help Patent Office get organized -Jan 2006) about IBM's work with the USPTO to help reform the patent system, and ran across this quote:

Preview for Mike Judge's new psychological thriller. digg story

it's the end of the world as we know it

I'm a little over the whole "tag cloud" (a simple weighted list, really) thing as applied to blog posts, but applying it to more socially "interesting" texts is a clever idea. Here Chirag Mehta has run a series of tag clouds on 360 speeches and documents by Presidents of the United States - US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.

From the Creating Passionate Users blog: