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Wednesday, September 30, 1998
Well now, I'll just have to see if I can't get myself an advanced copy of this book. Heh! 1 in 3 Find Online Shopping Difficult. Here's a case where government intervention may be the ONLY solution. I'm tired of this mess, aren't you? Red Herring on TalkCity. Design site. Move to London. Get paid. Hollywood finally gets the web: Have Your People Email My People. Tuesday, September 29, 1998Check out the page of the inventor of the Similarities Engine, the technology that was rolled into Firefly's back-end. "What kind of amateur-hour design and testing process lets 3,000 bugs slip through?" Awwwww....is big bad Microsoft getting angry? That's too bad. [Serves them right.] Who says you need an analog phone line? Cellular is the way to go. Have I ever told you how much I really hate the Telcos? I'm not gay, but I certainly agree with this excellent editorial. NYTimes: For Sale: Free Operating System. Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet.[Favorites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.] On a related note, my good friend Peter Sinclair draws a great strip called Alex's Restaurant. Monday, September 28, 1998Who ever thought the lack of a floppy drive on the new iMac would be seen as a way to prevent information theft? Mmmmmm....horsepower. A PCI card with six 233Mhz processors for $2000. Why easy Linux is a good thing. [Thanks, Wes.] New York Post: Flakes Fleece Suckers Who Pay to Register Web Sites My AOL CD bead-curtain is about to get bigger. The CamList had a great discussion on digital copyrights last week. Here's more info. Saturday, September 26, 1998Intertext: Fun World America in Denial: Essays on American Culture. (A whole slew of "politically incorrect" essays, but some excellent points are being made.) The Dumbing Down of America. (Nice collection of short articles.) The Dumbing Down of America. (More...) Salon: The $10,000 Hoop. Why an American college education doesn't mean as much anymore. Friday, September 25, 1998Are you in favor of Clinton resigning, or against it? The wizards at Trellix have put out a more "readable" online version of the Starr Report. Agent13.com is a site that focuses on "nice fine arts and writing" type sites. A picture speaks a thousand words. Thursday, September 24, 1998CDNow Takes on Amazon. *Yawn...* Tell me something new. Yeah, right...Dell's dreaming. Bertelsmann to Launch Books Online in October. More Microsoft dirt. [The hole gets deeper.] Wednesday, September 23, 1998See what happens when you sell 'Titanic' for $7.91. DailyTish: Get online. Order prostitute. Tuesday, September 22, 1998Learn all about HDTV. [Scroll down for the links.] It's time for the other Bill to grovel (apologize). These people are helping to kill the Internet. IBM's "Clever" search algorithm. Hmmm...as long as it doesn't use db2 (clearly the worst database ever created). Monday, September 21, 1998The Case of the Haunted Keyboard. Newsies.com is back, doing 7-questions interviews with some of the most powerful journalists on the web. Good stuff. [Don't forget to check back daily for new entries.] Sunday, September 20, 1998Out and about with the a cool new toy. This is hilarious. Virtual PC on the iMac. "Here comes the Mac, and not only does it run its own OS, it also runs any Windows version right on top of that--more stable on the Mac than it does on the PC. Why am I not surprised? " Strange and Bizarre Carnival Facts, Fun Fibian Facts, Bizarre Animal Facts and Old Wives' Dog Tales. Space Ghost Sounds Off. An interesting side note: commies.com redirects to the Space Ghost page. OK. Save any work you may have open, bookmark any pages you may have open, and go to this site. I have no idea what it's about, but it's different and strange. Taking the iMac parody thing too far. Yikes! Nude2000.com is not a porn site. Rebecca Eisenberg describes the "perfect moment." Hmmm....what is PowerTV? Saturday, September 19, 1998Taking advantage of typos. Another one. And another. And another. AtNewyork: Greying of Web Deserves Industry's Full Attention (Designing for seniors). Learning to Love My Macintosh. An A-Z of Bad Taste and Extreme Art. Some sick and twisted stuff..... Jim Romenesko from The Obscure Store has written an excellent History of Zines. Lawmakers want conditions imposed on telecom deals I love how, on the web, you can dig up such obscure fascinating facts. Friday, September 18, 1998At Graceworld You can buy ninja swords, death stars, daggers....and web design? Jeez, has the industry become that saturated? "Uh yeah, your total is $16 for the pizza, and $195.99 + tax for the web site." Sheesh... OK, this trend has gone overboard. How many more "best of" sites do we have to see? Plastic Surgery Site of the Week. Do you have GeekGeer? Notice the spelling... Welcome to Africam. "Pass the Crisco, Spock" is a great paper that discusses the origins of Star Trek porn. [Damn, I love the web.] 1M2F: Why is Windows So Cheap? Also check out Rafe's new site. Nice. Thursday, September 17, 1998Ha! One of the funner Bill/Monica things I've heard recently. The History of Alex Trebek's Hair. Whoah, check out that trademark afro. [from Jesse] Hey...nice design. The Letters I Never Sent to David Letterman. More celebrity obsessing. The web continues to amaze me, even after all these years. American Sign Language Dictionary. Ben sent me a link to a very weird ad banner. Funky! Wednesday, September 16, 1998One lucky CamList subscriber has this excellent book on journalism being sent to them in the mail. Look for it in about two days. You know who you are. Attention all Telecommunications geeks: Get your hands on a copy the Telecommunications Industry Consolidation Senate Hearings video tape. Awesome stuff. Airing on C-SPAN2. Good design, good content. You don't find too many sites like this. Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Porn Star? What is infomology? News.com: Microsoft Grovels Some More. [Why am I grinning?] Cool! An automatic Buzzword Bingo card generator....don't forget to take some cards with you to your next meeting. Tuesday, September 15, 1998The Decline and Fall of America (or why living in the U.S. in the 21st century probably won't be as much fun as living here in the last half of the 20th century has been). Rewired analyzes the German web design industry. More people that shouldn't be allowed to design for the web. Sigh...why am I so cynical and depressed about this? Ummmm....I wonder how long antiamerican.com will stay unregistered.... Does anyone else have a problem with the fact that johnengler.com redirects to metrotimes.com, an alternative Detroit newspaper? Monday, September 14, 1998CamRant: Clinton, the Iceberg That Sank the Ship, America NYTimes.com was hacked yesterday. Macintouch has provided the source code. Hint: To read the hacker's real message, view the source code. The Case of the Disappearing Carnival Music. Mice, Carry-Ons, and Self-Flushing Toilets. I really hate being so cynical, but here is an example of the *opposite* of web design. I give the guy credit for trying, but I have one word for him: Photoshop. Saturday, September 12, 1998Oy! Go here. Then here. Do you see what I see? Sniff....sniff....I smell a lawsuit. Got RealAudio? Go to this site, click on the RealAudio link. Funny... The Toaster Museum Foundation HomePage. Anywhere?. A Guide To Country Top-Level Domains. Heh heh. I'm still chuckling over this.... Friday, September 11, 1998CamRant: Hype Camworld is hosting a mirror site of the Starr Report. Mirror sites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and the White House rebuttal. Bud.com has Bill Clinton's Cigar, by Kenneth Starr. Some satire attached... You be the judge: It all started with the Unabomer's Manifesto being published online. Important information is now routinely being put online, including Independent Counsel Report on Clinton, later today. Wow! Apple's iMac is doing very well. Blast from the past: Justin Hall on David Siegel. Drug-Related Street Terms/Slang Words. Hey, Christmas is just around the corner. How about some gag gifts for your net-savvy friends or office-mates. One of the first web sites I ever made a bid on (way back in the Spring on 1995) was a site for Ted Nugent. So, now I'm thinking....why does tednugent.com redirect to GoOutdoors.com, a service of Compuserve? Hmmm... Thursday, September 10, 1998Unix as Literature. An excellent read. The author of Developing Windows Error Messages from O'Reilly, has released the contest winners. Funny stuff. Some people have too much time on their hands. Scot Bitten by Drunken Sheep, Becomes Psychopath, Terrorizes Countryside. Huh? Yep, you can publish just about anything these days. Good idea. OK design. Poor execution. What's with the moving background? Jeez, go ahead and break all the usability rules. Wait...too late, they already have. Wednesday, September 9, 1998Some people are just too clueless to understand the need for the advancement of technology. For instance, here's a web page telling us to boycott DVD and HDTV. For some good reading about this subject, I highly recommend a new book called "Defining Vision" by Joel Brinkley. The subtitle is "How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television." And below that there's the sub-subtitle, "What HDTV means to you and what to look for when you see it." The basic gist of this book is how HDTV has become a "mandatory requirement" for television broadcasters by the year 2006, and how the industry is getting there, despite political infighting and superior products/services coming from Japan/Europe. For anyone in the Telecommunications or Broadcasting industries, this book is a definite read. Steven Champeon's NameSpace Project. An interesting Perl script tells us how many 2-letter domain names are left unregistered with the Internic. IMDb has finally been Amazonified. I wonder about those blue pills they're using for navigation, though. Standard: Barred For Life from Doing Business Online. Ouch. Dvorak: How Microsoft Will Lose. Ahhhhh....I feel very relieved after reading this article. www.linuxstandards.org. However, Flutterby.com reports that it's a big money-making scam for some no-name opportunists. Fianlly, someone (WebReview) has written about web accessibility for disabled persons. www.publist.com. Wow. Tuesday, September 8, 1998Damn, CNN is fast. McGwire just hit his 62nd homerun, breaking Roger Maris' old record. Less than a minute later, they had a picture and short article up. Also on CNN/SI.com Philip Glass jokes. Funny! [BTW, I love his music. I'm trying to track down tickets to "The Fall of the House of Usher" in Grand Rapids (Sep. 10-13).] I love the web. I picked up this book from the "free book room" at work. After flipping through I realized that it's probably on the web. Yep. [A data table shows that 65.9% of people in Ann Arbor use household computers.] Ben Curtis has a page of some interesting javascript tricks. I simply cannot describe Shotgun Etiquette. Read on... If you have some time to kill, take Mitch's Ignorance Test. Monday, September 7, 1998Enjoy your day off, America. The Remidi Project has new content up. [Most of it requires plug-ins.] USWeb and CKS are merging. I'm betting we'll see more of these types of mergers in the near future. Professor in England claims to be First Cyborg. Bob Garfield doesn't like the current state of advertising on the web. FCC: INTERNET OVER CABLE: DEFINING THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF THE PAST: FCC Staff Working Paper on Regulatory Categories and the Internet Interesting newsgroup thread: The Amazon.com "Review War". Standard: The Portal's Y2K Probem. Sunday, September 6, 1998Proctor & Gamble, the evil corporate empire. Ben Brown spews a rant from his brain. Spacebar is a web-based front door to a chat-based community. Hmmm.... Saturday, September 5, 1998CamRant: Knock Knock Wesley Felter rants about High Bandwidth Blues. Draplindustries Design Co. News Gazette #1. A great 3-year old email conversation between Jeffrey Veen and a friend about the fundamental changes the Internet is bringing to society. Nice design... Shari on writing. I grew up with Jacob many years ago in Northern England. His older sister, my brother and I were best friends. Jacob, of course, tagged along like little brothers are required to do. He has a few pieces of writing on the web. Friday, September 4, 1998The CamList is picking up steam. Why haven't you signed up yet? I know have newfound respect for Juno. Tim Berners-Lee says the web will become more intelligent. Copyright problems at olga.net, the best site for transcribed music. Related: www.lyrics.ch and www.lyrics.net. Interface Hall of Shame: Windows 95. As Ben says, "...Windows95's GUI is a mess. Most of it I hadn't even realized before, but they're damn right." R.L. Stine writes pornography? Cintra Wilson single-handedly ruined my good impression of Salon Magazine with her egotistical article about Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Thursday, September 3, 1998The Nude Millunnium is taking place right here in Ann Arbor, home of the much-hyped Naked Mile. Here's an interesting post about last night's Swissair plane crash. HighFive appears to be back up. However, there's been no updates since late July. Maybe, it is dead. designspace is a very nicely designed site, however the designer got a little too happy with the small font sizes. Hopefully he'll fix it before he officially launches this promising resource, as it's frightfully unreadable and thus, unusable. Wednesday, September 2, 1998CamRant: High Five Takes A Dive I'm checking out a site that's apparently been around for a while, but I recently learned of it. The concept can be described as "people networking," but it's through the web. SixDegrees offers the service for free. I highly recommend you check it out. If you sign up for their service, feel free to add me to your Contact List, and I'll do the same. Sorry about the lack of updates lately. Working too many hours. |
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