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I've copied the Powell transcript to a new archive url. Please use that to point to it.

Cool! Dave was kind enough to link to the Colin Powell speech transcript.

Warning: I'm futzing with my RSS feed, trying to move to RSS 2.0. My feed may break for a short time.

In reponse to this post by Robert Scoble, I've been Googling for a transcript of Colin Powell's remarks to the UN on Feb. 5. Anyone find them yet?

Meg Hourihan had a wild sci-fi/weblog dream. (Read it first then come back.)

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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Note to self: Jumping rope to the punk station is a bad idea.

Boxes And Arrows: Understanding Visual Organization, by Luke Wroblewski.

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.

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.)

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.

Mmmm, yeesss. New Hulk trailer online at Apple.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.