Michael Barrish: My Heart Laid Bare. Four months ago I did a good thing: I removed all of my business- related information from this site and put it on a separate website. … This simple maneuver freed me, in my own mind at least, to write whatever I wanted, or rather more of what of whatever wanted, whereas previously I felt constrained by what I imagined that people (read: clients) would think. Oblivio has changed considerably since then, as I’ve tested the limits of this new freedom.
Michael Barrish (four months ago): Motherfucker. Never considered the other apparent choice: to tone it down. Felt this would destroy it. Felt that if I had to evaluate each thing on the basis of whether it might offend someone, I was fucked.
Salon: Why college radio fears the DMCA. [via Slashdot]
christmastree.wpi.edu [via Slashdot] Yes, that computer you see in the christmas tree is the actual one serving this web page and music! It is a Pentium 100 with 64MB RAM, running Red Hat Linux 7.2.
Splog: Rudolf Gets Even. [via Weblogs.com] All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.
CNN: Obesity almost as bad as smoking. [via inessential] More than 61 percent of adults and 14 percent of adolescents are affected by obesity and some 300,000 die each year from health problems directly related to obesity.
From the archives: Generation XL.
SatireWire: Net Advertising Opponents Say Online Ads Too Intrusive.”What’s worse, some media sites are attempting to hide advertising inside the content, or unethically alter quotes so they promote the incredible weight-loss programs at eDiets.com, where they’ll help you lose 10 pounds in 30 days.”
I’m watching The Princess Bride on HBO Comedy. It’s been far, far too long since I saw it last. There are so many good quotes, it’s hard to know where to start. “You mean, you’ll put down your rock and I’ll put down my sword and we’ll try to kill each other like civilized men?”
“Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.” <thump>
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
“There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world; t’would be a pity to damage yours.”
Apple Logo Cookies. Ingredients: 1/2 cup real butter and 1/4 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 2-1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt
Mmmmmm. Butter.
Apple: iTunes 2.0.3. [via MacNN]
O’Reilly: An Introduction to AppleScript on Mac OS X. [via mac.scripting.com]
Metacrap: putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia. [via Flangy] I actually read this several months ago when the link was going around back then, but I didn’t have a weblog then, so I’m linking to it now. The problems with metadata?
- People lie
- People are lazy
- People are stupid
- Mission Impossible: Know Thyself
- Schemas aren’t neutral
- Metrics influence results
- There’s more than one way to describe something
Google Catalog Search. [via Wes] Google Catalog Search applies Google’s sophisticated search technology to thousands of scanned mail-order catalogs.
A chat with Peter Merholz. [via Lawrence Lee] I don’t believe any of our clients use weblogs. Our clients tend towards the big and corporate, and such notions of unregulated publishing would likely cause managers to break out into cold sweats.
