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Saturday, October 31, 1998
Happy Halloween! Maybe not such a wise move by Microsoft, currently being eaten alive by the DOJ. Just another example of Microsoft playing their damn "we-want-it-all" games. Friday, October 30, 1998More cool DHTML: Oh yeah, cell phone *do* constitute a possible health risk. I've got chips Here's a great article on the possible consequences of a company embracing a Windows-only environment. Dr. Laura nekked. [Over 18 only, please] Compliments of Robot Wisdom Log. Apple: Shutting Down NT: How We Did It. This is very nice... NETFUTURE: Why Information is Not Enough. This is an excellent commentary on information technology in the classroom. Thursday, October 29, 1998A TechWeb article points to the hitlist of doctors compiled by anti-abortionists. The Anti-Dr. Laura site. You know, the nude pictures of her are circulating through the web... Here are the things I think the DOJ should require Microsoft to do:
"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" Trailer Description Yahoo Internet Life's Pretty Strange Sites. AJR has a great article on the changing of morals among the news media. MSNBC wants to "be the people who invent news on the Internet." Philip Morris was considering buying newspapers and news outlets to "improve [the] climate" for its products. Hmmm, sounds like something Microsoft would do. George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language." (circa 1946) Here's a copy of Apple's Web Design Guide, which Apple took down earlier this week. Wednesday, October 28, 1998Robert X. Cringely explains Microsoft's bullying tactics, and how most of their threats are hollow. Dave Winer asks us to "Think!" I think this is a mistake. Changing the name Windows NT to Windows 2000 is a bad move. When 1/1/2000 rolls around and computers crash all around the world, the ignorant American public is going to mistake Windows 2000 as the source of the problem. Year 2000...Windows 2000. Yeah, people are stupid, but it's going to happen. It's word assocaition. De-motivational posters, from Despair.com. The Abuse-A-Tron. Project Appleseed: Macintosh Parallel Computing. Barnes & Noble Opens Book Superstore in Cambodia. Hee hee. Adbusters Uncommercials and Spoof Ads. Tuesday, October 27, 1998It's Peter Merholz Day here on Camworld. Enjoy! An outstanding collection of information architecture links from Peter Merholz. Peter links to the book Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, a book I've been ranting about for over two years. One more from Peter: 10 Commandments For Producers. Finally! Monday, October 26, 1998Matte Elsbernd has updated The Firm List. Nice stuff. DeadlineOnline.com is a journalism resource that sounds promising. Lee Clontz writes about Frank Napoleon from the Kaufman Astoria studio in New York: "I remember once a woman who was pregnant, she was squatted down, shining shoes," he said. "All at once, she just had the baby, right there on the street. Her family came and took the baby away and she just kept on shining shoes." Paul Schindler has a huge list of journalism movies. [Paul's the guy who interviewed me a while back for CMP.] Sunday, October 25, 1998Ben Turner archived this example of blatant theft, which has been floating around the various mailing lists. Unfortunately, these examples are becoming more and more common as the multitudes of undertalented web designers hit the web with their sky-eyed money-making schemes. Saturday, October 24, 1998Here are some rumors about the new Macs coming out soon. Smokin'! Netscape's "What's Related" feature is less than kosher. One of the questions on webcamworld.com is "What is a WebCam?" Hey, I am! I'm having loads of fun with domainsurfer.com. For instance a "Yahoo" query returns 382 domains with the word "yahoo" in it. Wow. Oops. My brother, who teaches an "Intro to Windows 95" class in a rural area told me about one of his students who tried to find airfare prices at www.northwestairlines.com. Dave Winer has created an HTML/XML interface for Netscape's "What's New" feature. Interesting! Friday, October 23, 1998How to take advantage of our pathetic school system. Bizarre stuff you can make in your kitchen. Well, we knew it wouldn't be long. Microsoft is now porting software to Linux. On a related note, here's a screenshot of the now-defunct Microsoft domain linus.microsoft.com. [This is documented in my Archives...] I linked to this "Unix As Literature" piece back in early September, but I feel it's such an important article, I'll link to it again. Erasmatazz is an "Interactive Storytelling Tool" for writers. Interesting concept! Thursday, October 22, 1998Another example of discrimination at school. "Of 575,000 messages posted to Usenet newsgroup public bulletin boards in June, 35 percent were unsolicited spam," according to the new book "Stopping Spam" from O'Reilly. If you have MacOS 8.5, try out the new Borders.com Sherlock plug-ins I wrote: Books, Music, and Video. Wednesday, October 21, 1998CamRant: How the Phone Companies Are Ripping You OffJeffrey Veen spouts about how low-bandwidth can be a good thing. Bravo! It's FleshMouth. (Not for the easily offended.) Battle of the Internet Heats Up, by Rhonda Hauben. barnesandnoble.com launched a revised site yesterday. I liked their older one better! Ad Age's Marketing 100 (of 1998). And the 1998 Best Agencies. Tuesday, October 20, 1998Rebekah is a loud girl. Check out the alpha release of Philosophe.com, another Web Usability and Quality Assurance site. Webword is yet another one. I said it back in August, and I'll say it again. If you want to make some easy cash come December, buy as many of these as you can. They are hot! Monday, October 19, 1998Jon Postel died Friday after heart surgery. Postel was one of the earliest pioneers of the Internet, and up until his death resided as the director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the organization that oversees how IP numbers and domains work. Rest in peace, Jon. You will be missed. Drunktank is a collection of cutting edge web sites from the Northwest Pacific. Sunday, October 18, 1998Yes! The Southeastern Michigan Frontier Users Group meets for the first time tonight at 6:00 P.M. See you there. Saturday, October 17, 1998Does BuyComp know something we don't? Check out who owns yahoobooks.com and yahoomusic.com. Is Amazon.com the next Microsoft? This irks me to no end. Rageboy attacks with "Bring Me the Head of Carl Steadman" and Carl counters (sort of) with "The Six Degrees of Carl." Did aliens kidnap Art Bell? Publicity stunt or intergalactic conspiracy? You decide... Friday, October 16, 1998Here is one of the best explanations of RGB-to-Hex color conversion I've ever read. Read this and click the link provided. Whooo-eee! Lots and lots of freeware fonts. Some good, some bad. Color specifier for Netscape v.3x. Hmmm, why would I want cam.tv? More Microsoft whining. I love it when the bully gets his ass kicked. The C|Net crew on board a pirate ship. Did I mention that we've got a pirate theme going at Borders.com? I'm still trying to find a lifelike cannon. Here's a picture of our Jolly Roger. From 1995: Going Where No Network Has Gone Before. [Cam dusts off the old bookshelves and digs up his past.]The new Mazda Protege commercial is catchy! Charlie, the hip web guy looks like my co-worker Matt. Thursday, October 15, 1998The phone companies are at it again. I'm so tired of these mergers and acquisitions. You'd think that as these companies get bigger and bigger, the prices would be going down. Nope. [Repeat after me, "Monopolies are bad." "Monopolies are bad."] AT&T & Ameritech duke it out in Wisconsin. A critical review of Vincent Bugliosi's new book "No Island of Sanity: The Supreme Court on Trial." Excerpt: "One would like to think that the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest Court in the land, is the one island of sanity still remaining. But if what you folks are about to read is any indication, we've all got a lot to worry about. The question that presents itself is whether the near pathological dizziness and irrationality in our society has so invaded this nation's marrow that, like a wild-infectious virus, even the Supreme Court is not immune." Vonnegut's Artificial Family Utopia. "To put it shortly: the problem with modern life is that people are too lonely. We are folk-society organisms and should live in large extended families with many close relatives. But industrialization has made this ideal state impossible. We must follow the money--away from extended families--into isolated nuclear families." Apple's MacOS 8.5 looks very promising. Does anyone else see the uncanny similarity in layouts between thestandard.net and bookweb.org? This isn't a bad thing, it's just an observation. Wednesday, October 14, 1998An outline for one of those new e-book devices that will be hitting the market later this year. Nice collection of links pertaining to website usability for the disabled and handicapped:
The trAce Online Writing Community. Next time you're in Ann Arbor, look me up and I'll take you out to the Mongolian Barbeque. Mmmm Mmmm, smack! Michael Moore wants us to vote Democrat next month. However, I've always been concerned by Mike's way of doing things. Hmmm...what do you think? Tuesday, October 13, 1998CamRant: The Amazing, Fantastic Story of Cameron BarrettDid Microsoft Steal Oracle's Database Mindshare? Online agencies are changing roles. More examples of Microsoft's unethical actions. This time with WebTV. Turning a web site into a dead-trees book. I liked San Francisco, but I think I'd like Maui even better. Well maybe, I lived in the South Pacific for two years. Not sure if it's changed at all in the past 16 years. Advertising spoofs. Microsoft, Godzilla, and corndogs. Scientology Related Legal Filings. [I love that picture. - Cam] Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. World Transhumanist Association. The folks at Immortality Systems are into Gene Engineering and Extra Terrestrial Migration. [Whoah. - Cam] Jeff and Marc's Mopar obsession. Monday, October 12, 1998Here's a story about how a high school kid was yanked from a school networking project, a network he designed. This comes from the new Geek Opression website. "Microsoft said the change in plans was due to a lack of bugs in [Windows98]." Ha ha! Oh man, someone stop me before I bust a gut. So Microsoft is changing the name of WindowsNT 5 to Windows 2000. So let them. When half the computer systems crash on Jan. 1, 2000, guess whose OS will get most of the blame, simply because of word association? I love it when dumb marketing decisions are made. Another excellent, positive use of the Internet. We've got about 20 copies of this book floating around the ofice. This reporter is correct in his assessment. It's not really that funny. (No relation to the illustrator, Ron Barrett.) Here is a well-thought-out critique of Java. [I will not endorse Java until its browser implementation stabilizes. - Cam] Bob Garfield tears into the new Joe Camel advertising. Yay! Sunday, October 11, 1998Camworld: Trips: 1998: San Francisco. My trip from last week is now online with lots of pictures. On my trip I saw a giant iMac and a pathetic vanity license plate. Saturday, October 10, 1998NETFUTURE is an awesome resource on Technology and Human Responsibility. Why I never want to serve on a jury. Metallica to appear on Friends? Well, not quite. Sean A. Simpson tells us why television sucks. Sigh, Rod needs to practice his grammar a bit more. Telecom Merger Mania: New Strategies, Players & Markets. NYTimes: Newspaper Suit Raises "Fair Use" Issues. Friday, October 9, 1998WebMonkey linked to my Screwed page. I bought a new CD using the new Quick Order feature at Borders.com. The CD, called Booth and the Bad Angel is an awesome collection of songs from an unlikely duo, Angelo Badalamenti and Tim Booth. Badalamenti is the Italian-American composer behind most of David Lynch's movie soundtracks and Tim Booth is the lead singer of an amazing British pop band called James. Here's the story of how they came together, and their biographies. Miss America vs. the President. An online entrepreneur with guts. "Mom, the phone just crashed!" "Mom, my book just crashed!" And um..., "Mom, the car just crashed!" You heard about this, didn't you? Nine Ways to Think More Creatively. Snap.com finally realized what they were missing: Advertising. SearchZ: Required reading for the new economy. Thursday, October 8, 1998Ten alternative websites the mainstream media doesn't want you to see. Making Screen Readers Work More Effectively on the Web and the related List of Critical Needs (for browsers). Good stuff! Tips on Marketing and Writing Marketing Materials. Saturday, October 3, 1998Well, I'm off to San Francisco for 4 days. Camworld will resume publication on Thursday, October 8. Mother Jones, "the most dangerous woman in America." d[k] fonts. Nice. The Angle is an online magazine from Wyoming. Woo-woo. Don't look now, it's BrazenHussies.com. Hmmmm....what is Devil Shat?. Lots of interesting opinions. Where do you find good content and good design all in one place? Why, in your freezerbox, of course. What the...? "You can Eat Devil's Food, but you can't Poop God." Electric Poop God. The Most Teacher-Friendly Country... Da Bears! Hee hee. Ooh....those crazy LEGOmaniacs. Wow! This is one of the most clever and bizarre things I've seen recently. The big thinkers might get some really cool ideas from this. Like, an OS embedded in your browser. Hmmmm.... I'm hearing incredible buzz about this new Robin Williams movie, What Dreams May Come. Sounds like a surprise hit. What will they think of next: Scary Squirrel World. Friday, October 2, 1998Travis from Boxtop Software has a new product and a new company. Mizer promises to reduce the size of your HTML files by removing unnecessary HTML and Javascript syntax. Free K-6 science curriculum for teachers. Great resource! Steven Champeon says, "I think this is so funny. MS is going to crush Netscape if they don't stop doing stupid things like this." How to Make Money in College. [Sigh...] I think I found what book I'll be reading on the plane to San Francisco this Saturday. This Ain't No Deadbeat Band. I love this music! Christopher Locke has a great missive on web writing. A weird analysis of the Muppet Movie. The Archives of Unusual Poetry. Microscope is a really good site that rates banner advertising. Awesome! Thursday, October 1, 1998Well, we finally launched the new version of Borders.com. Feel free to send feedback. And to celebrate, half the team is flying to San Francisco this weekend to blow off some steam. If you're in the Bay Area, drop me a line and you can show me all the wonderful coffee shops I keep hearing about. Hmmmm.....Amazon's stock has a "stated book value of 79 cents." Fascinating post. The WELL's Online Writing Contest ends today. [Thanks, Rebecca.] Who else thinks barnesandnoble.com's IPO is gonna flop? We'll see. This Church of Scientology gets weirder and weirder. Of course there's people like Grady Ward who are "resisting Scientology's attack on the Internet." Building Your Brand, One Hero at a Time. I wrote a related piece back in August. Huh? I can't quite figure out this article. I guess I need to freshen up my knowledge of Malaysia's laws. |
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