March, 22, 2001 archives
d'oh. if you came here from there, you're probably really looking for here, particularly the things linked to by the dates in the 'news sources' box on the left. those are the rss republishings of the feeds i'm collecting. (there's also this, which is the rss form of this weblog (or blog, if you're more comfortable with that term). just don't pay attention to any stock-picking thoughts i may spout. i "bought" yahoo into a fake portfolio on 3/2/1.)
an email interview with dave eggers. a good quote (a rhetorical question, not an interview question): "do we want or expect conglomerates to make our best art?" another: "no one's preventing anyone from starting new ventures." (but there are certainly companies that would like to, by erecting more tollbooths on the internet to go with the existing ones. setting up an ecommerce site on the net is still absurdly painful and expensive even if you are willing to roll up your sleeves and do work.)
does anyone really care about cybersquatting from the perspective of the big companies? it just bugs me that every time i have a fun idea of something to do, i can't find a decent domain name. i noticed the other day that .ly names are available from register.com. notreal.ly is available. (but .ly is libya's tld, so you're probably supporting libya in some way by registering there.)
who is wfp2.almaden.ibm.com and what is webfountain? looks like an aggressive robot.
this is a long string of emails to the editor of brill's content's all-star newspaper site. quite funny.
william hanna (of hanna-barbera) passed away. that sucks. i really like the hanna-barbera style (which may be why my favorite current cartoons are ones like dexter's lab and the powerpuff girls, which owe huge debts to that style). in fact, as classic as the whole warner bros. looney tunes and merrie melodies shorts are, the cartoons i like to see again tend to be hanna-barbera and jay ward stuff. i think i burned out on the whole bugs/daffy/etc thing.
glenn wins points for his repo man reference. the full quote: "say you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. suddenly someone says plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp. out of the blue. no use looking for one either. it's part of the lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything." (followed by a shot including a restaurant with a "plate of shrimp" sign in the window.)
the full quote is courtesy imdb's memorable quotes page for the movie, which is unfortunately missing "i called bullshit on that," one of the most quotable lines in the movie (that i'm probably getting wrong in some way).
so seamus blackley claims the xbox won't be late and won't suck. keep in mind this is the wanker that headed up the trespasser team at dreamworks interactive, a game that was overpromised and then underdelivered late. and it sucked. hard.
i know i've read this article from dack.com about best practices for ecommerce interfaces, but i'm dropping the link here so i'll see it again.
the register is one of my favorite news sources, these days. internet and technology news with a real sense of humor (mostly manifested through the catty brit tabloid style). get the feed here. (their own rss feed frequently has unencoded html that may cause stricter xml parsers to choke. in fact, i'm scraping the html now, instead of using their feed.)