Monkinetic Weblog

Via Slashdot: Hoom! Maps and Walking Directions To Mordor!

[Correction 10/20/03 2:21 MST] Ok, Dave sent me an email pointing out that that page on Google is © Google, and it points out that the page has been modified by Google from the ODP listing.

Howard Dean's blog posted this clever spoof of the campy sci-fi flick "Soylent Green": Soylent Dean!

Sen. Leiberman is calling his Democratic Presidential opponents rookies who aren't ready to be President.

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:

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

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

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

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

Argh!! NBC finally kills the last reason to turn to channel 12, as they remove </a&#39;Boomtown&#39; from their lineup. Boomtown was my best reason to watch TV, actually tied with CBS&#39;s <a href="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/without_a_trace&#39;Without A Trace&#39; for the best drama - maybe even best show - on television, IMHO.

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.

This rocks:

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 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!