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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!

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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From the editorial announcing a News.com redesign and site upgrade:

From the Brunching Shuttlecocks: Your Roommate Plays the Indigo Girls.

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

Russ Weakley's Max Design has a useful presentation on Building A Site Using Web Standards. I always enjoy seeing the process other designers go through.

Tim Bray is upset that Keynote does not have an HTML export feature.

Russ Weakley (of Max Design) responds to my previous comments about the lists on the Max Design site. He also kindly points us to a new tutorial he's put together on using background images with CSS to build even more creative lists.

ChartAttack has a list of 21 Reasons Why Johnny Cash Was Cool. What a great celebration of the original Man In Black.

As I begin to work on writing cleaner HTML, with a goal of proper accessibility and standards compliance, I'm learning about HTML I'd never used before. A good example: I was looking for a way to semantically mark up an FAQ. In another context, I stumbled across definition lists (DL, DT, and DD) which I'd never used or understood.

Jason Kottke is talking about codeswitching, a phenomenon where several multi-lingual people will switch between languages in a single conversation. Having had some first and second-hand experience of this, I posted the following in the comments: