via eHub: Who thought that calling a webservice gookbox was a good idea? I mean, I'm only a GenXer, and I seem to remember that "gook" is a fairly vulgar slang term (IIRC) for Asian (see WordNet).

Wow. Via digg, a video of the world's largest nuclear bomb being exploded.

So postulates CNN in Sleep Inertia. And be careful when waking folks up - some people are mean drunks. :-) [Thanks Jim]None

Yes, I want a MacBook Pro. Yes, the name sucks. "PowerBook" was such a strong brand - and it came about long before the CPU had "power" in it, so why drop it now?

Man, neato stuff in the new GB. I wonder how they're doing the nifty animations? wmf thinks maybe it's a Flash track in a QuickTime movie.

Nothing really visible from out there, but redmonk.net is now running Wordpress 2.0. Yummy.

Wow, Adelina started pre-school yesterday. She had a good day yesterday - a bit teary when she realized that mommy wasn't staying, but then she had a great time! Today... man, she did NOT want to get out of bed!! :-) After we got her calmed down and reminded her about her new friends, she perked up and was out the door with few problems. Jodi dropped her off at school and she linked arms with her classmates and off she went!

I'm "watching" the SteveNote over on TUAW and MacRumors.

I *heart* StarGate.

Hanging out on[#swhack](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/swhack)](irc://irc.freenode.net/swhack), and remembered this old post, about an even older site of mine. Found the site in question and got it back online.

Man, I am SO BEHIND on the blogging thing. Since I last posted we've had Christmas, visits from family, a trip to the Christmas fair, and today Adelina started school. Wow.

I've been doing a major filesystem re-org lately in my ongoing mission to Get More Done. In the spirit of GTD, I created several directories starting with an "@" -- @ARCHIVE, @PROJECTS, etc.

Useful: quicksilver:command_keys

If you're new to using JSF like me and are trying to figure out how the heck to use javascript's document.getLementById () with JSF's dynamically assigned HTML ids, this might be a solution, if an ugly one:

Oh, man, this does my designer's heart good. Elements OF Typographic Style Applied to the Web. When I was first starting out in Graphic Design I was studying print design, as there was no Intarweb yet to speak of. Typography was near and dear to my heart, and I could spend an afternoon looking at type samples. Web typography gets us back somewhat to those days when there were rules on how you used type, because they worked.

I've recently rediscovered UIE's blog on User Interface and User Experience issues, UIE Brain Sparks. I saw Jared Spool back in '98 at the Thunder Lizard web conference in Atlanta, and was impressed then as well. While I don't agree 100% with UIE's conclusions in every case, I like their approach and attention to detail, and the information is the kind of thing I want to file away for future reference.

I've recently been reading UIE's blog again - and I like the short but pointed analyses of how various web sites implement the web design patterns that have evolved over the last 10 years.

Welie.com: patterns in Interaction Design. Also, time-tripper.com: UI Patterns and Techniques

Interesting post from Alex Bosworth about the uses of scripting and AJAX in "modern" web apps, and what users have come to expect.