Monkinetic Weblog

While I'm linking to Meg, I might as well point to her roundup of ways to get yourself insured when you don't have an employer to do it through.

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Mmmm, yeesss. New Hulk trailer online at Apple.

We all thought the Space Shuttle was fast, but we had no idea.

I got iMovie 3 when it came out, and spent a few hours hacking together this short video to R.E.M.'s Low Desert.

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.

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.)

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."

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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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.

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.