Monkinetic Weblog

The More Stuff 4 Less Blog is blogging super cheap stuff and great rebate deals in various online stores. This is the way I want to shop. Everywhere. Well, almost everywhere. -)

Hm. SBC is claiming they have a valid patent on website navigation and is starting to extort license fees from "infringing" sites.

Jodi, Angie, some other friends and I all went out last night to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It's the funniest movie I've seen in ages. I was giggling through the whole movie, and quite a few times burst out laughing. It was awesome.

I've found myself with a growing interest lately in a category of applications loosely known as "Social Software". O'Reilly's Emerging Tech conference has a track on it, and I'm still trying to cobble together a definition thereof for my own use. (For further reading, Clay Shirky has a bunch of writings on related topics too).

David Weinberger has put together a really good FAQ about the Open Spectrum movement. It's well done, and gives a glimpse of what spectrum de-regulation might do for us.

As a graphic designer at heart, I have always held dear to me the tools I use to express myself visually. For many years now I have been a die-hard Macromedia disciple. Freehand (Aldus Freehand, mind you) was my first vector design tool, and I would take it over Illustrator any day. I still think it has the simpler paradigms and is easier to use. Dreamweaver has been my GUI html-editor of choice for ages, and Fireworks was hands-down the coolest thing I had ever seen. I lived in Fireworks for a couple years.

Ok, I'm interested in this and don't have the time to work on it, so I'm going to try invoking the mystical power of the LazyWeb to get it done:

Morbus blogs a comment I made in irc about this.

OOoooooohh, I want one of these. Rebate only good with purchase of a service plan (T-Mobile). (Color screen, Bluetooth-enabled). Rebate good until Jan. 27.

Whew. I went all-out yesterday on the ol' blog. 'Course, that means that absolutely nothing will seem blog-worthy today. Sigh.

Dan Bricklin wrote to point out that he kindly linked to this site on the SMBMeta What Others Are Saying page.

Via my (rather pitiful) Technorati results, I discovered that my recent spate of posts and my re-addition of my blogroll to the template has got me on the Blogging Ecosystem list. I'm at the bottom (48 outward bound links) but perhaps if I keep this up I'll move higher. -)

This weblog will be wearing a black band for the next while to mourn the death of the public domain in America. That source of so much great art, writing, and ideas is going to wither and die in the face of coporate copyright.

I finished another project last night with the client - David Sleigh, a friend who is self-releasing his new CD, Festival. No web site, yet, although we got him his domain yesterday. You can see #folio-1731">some of the work in my portfolio.

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Doc Searls re Eldred:

We don't turn around a pervasive mentality, anchored in conceptual metaphors older than most oaks, in one court calendar, one congressional term, or perhaps even one decade.

Seth Dillingham wants to ride across Massachusetts (!!) to raise money for charity.

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I finished another project last night with the client - David Sleigh, a friend who is self-releasing his new CD, Festival. No web site, yet, although we got him his domain yesterday. You can see some of the work in my portfolio.

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This weblog will be wearing a black band for the next while to mourn the death of the public domain in America. That source of so much great art, writing, and ideas is going to wither and die in the face of coporate copyright.

Yes, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Eldred in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

What does this mean? It means that any corporation with enough cash can hang onto their copyrighted materials for as long as they can afford to buy themselves a member of Congress.

Lawrence Lessig, who argued the case on behalf of Eric Eldred, has links to the decisions.

I finished another project last night with the client - David Sleigh, a friend who is self-releasing his new CD, Festival. No web site, yet, although we got him his domain yesterday. You can see some of the work in my portfolio.

Well, I've fixed some bugs in my redmonk stylesheets, as well as those for a client.