Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Fun with Google
Went to the Reuters News site and came across the headline "Bush Denies Iraq Headed for Civil War". That's funny, I thought, Bush seems to have to deny a lot of stuff lately. So I googled the phrase President Bush Denies and got over 9 million listings.
Design so bad it's funny
Long boring yet hectic day at work. I've been trolling around looking at sites all day trying to get good links for more Squidoo lenses. Sometimes I feel like I want to find the simplest thing on the web and discover that for all the billions of sites out there, nothing fits the bill. At one point I clicked onto three sites in a row that were spider traps. I would try to use the back button to surf away from the site and the page would simply keep loading. Really evil!
I found webpagesthatsuck.com on J. Jeffryes' lens on web design. Thank you J!
I found webpagesthatsuck.com on J. Jeffryes' lens on web design. Thank you J!
Monday, February 27, 2006
23 Squidoo!
After having gone through a state of being del.erio.us for the past couple of weeks, I found a link to squidoo.com on Pye in the Face and now I'm hooked. This is a natural progression that was just waiting to happen. Del.icio.us is pretty addictive. I have to confess that I've spent way more time than I've meant to collecting links about everything from baby care to RSS. I've become a virtual pack-rat.
Apparently so haven't some other geeks out there, so thank you to the fine folks at Squidoo for coming up with the perfect outlet for all that tagging and posting out there. Sign up for free and you become Lensmaster of what ever domain you wish. List your favorite links relating to a particular subject and include a brief description of what you are linking to. So far I've only done one lens which can be viewed here.
More lenses coming soon!
Apparently so haven't some other geeks out there, so thank you to the fine folks at Squidoo for coming up with the perfect outlet for all that tagging and posting out there. Sign up for free and you become Lensmaster of what ever domain you wish. List your favorite links relating to a particular subject and include a brief description of what you are linking to. So far I've only done one lens which can be viewed here.
More lenses coming soon!
Cool Slideshow on BBC site about Jain Festival
Since I'm currently reading the book, "Color, A Natural History of the Palette" by Victoria Finlay, I thought this was a pretty cool demonstration of what she talks about in the book. For a book that's an exploration of the chemical discoveries in history related to pigments like indigo, cochineal, and indian yellow, this is a real page turner.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
It's a small world after all...
Doing the usual lunchtime browsing and I found this site on kottke.org.
I get a ton of charitable solicitations in the mail every week so I bookmarked it in my del.icio.us account for future reference. I love it when I find a site that is something I was always thinking would be a good idea. charitynavigator.org rates charities on an impartial basis so one can see how they do with distributing your hard earned cash.
Then, lo and behold, I'm scrolling down the page and I see that the site's search engine optimization is done by Spidersplat, an internet consulting firm located in the building I work in and staffed by Dave Pye of Pye in the Face fame!
Between all the tagging and posting and blogging people do, it feels like that Six Degrees of Separation thing, just with a few degrees less.
I get a ton of charitable solicitations in the mail every week so I bookmarked it in my del.icio.us account for future reference. I love it when I find a site that is something I was always thinking would be a good idea. charitynavigator.org rates charities on an impartial basis so one can see how they do with distributing your hard earned cash.
Then, lo and behold, I'm scrolling down the page and I see that the site's search engine optimization is done by Spidersplat, an internet consulting firm located in the building I work in and staffed by Dave Pye of Pye in the Face fame!
Between all the tagging and posting and blogging people do, it feels like that Six Degrees of Separation thing, just with a few degrees less.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Did IQ's just drop sharply while I was away?
To see why this question popped into my mind, click here.
I'd love to say more, but it's a busy day and the article speaks for itself.
I'd love to say more, but it's a busy day and the article speaks for itself.
Friday, February 03, 2006
5 Reasons why I do not own an I-Pod (yet).
I'm not a Luddite, but I play one in real life.
As I've stated before, I use a cell phone for things like calling my husband after someone sideswiped my car and as an alarm clock. I suppose if I was ten years younger I would use it for things like taking photos of me and my friends as we careened drunkenly around the subway and/or at concerts, or I would download episodes of "Friends" to watch as I wandered down a crowded sidewalk like a confused cow in Mumbai.
Apparently having just a cell phone is not enough these days. Now I NEED an I-Pod to join the rest of humanity. I see those white cords hanging from everyone's ears like mental floss EVERYWHERE. I have gone around town with a cd player and headphones once in a while and it's a nice vacation from having to listen to other people's conversations. But now we've reached the stage where, if one is out in public, everyone else is: A) Tuning out on their I-Pod. or B) Talking in a language that I can't understand anyway.
After a few short years, the I-Pod accessories market has reached one billion dollars and websites are springing up like mushrooms to feed on the mania for downloading and filing one's entire human existence.
Here are the 5 reasons why I haven't donned the white earplugs yet:
1) The price. Apple sells refurbished I-Pods on it's website at the "low low price" of $199. Since I will be spawning in a couple of months (see: Spawn of Jenns Web), shelling out anything over 5 bucks on myself seems kind of self-indulgent right now.
2) The time. Closely related to reason one. I will have a baby in a couple of months; screaming, eating, spitting and otherwise eliminating every few seconds. Downloading The Perceptionists' entire back catalogue will probably be low on my list of priorities for a while.
3) I want to save my hearing. Not that I would plan to listen to Swedish Death Metal at ear-drum piercing volume 12 hours a day, but I'm sure the baby will do enough damage to my ears as it is.
4) I need to be able to hear what's going on around me. I just mastered walking and chewing gum for chrissakes. I know myself well enough to know that I would be the type to be bobbing my head to something and forget that I'm in the middle of an intersection.
5) If I don't have the initiative to spend two hundred bucks on the inital hardware, then I am not going to want to shell out for all the little trinkets that come with it. Then again, I can see myself knitting a little I-Pod pouch, given the right circumstances.
As I've stated before, I use a cell phone for things like calling my husband after someone sideswiped my car and as an alarm clock. I suppose if I was ten years younger I would use it for things like taking photos of me and my friends as we careened drunkenly around the subway and/or at concerts, or I would download episodes of "Friends" to watch as I wandered down a crowded sidewalk like a confused cow in Mumbai.
Apparently having just a cell phone is not enough these days. Now I NEED an I-Pod to join the rest of humanity. I see those white cords hanging from everyone's ears like mental floss EVERYWHERE. I have gone around town with a cd player and headphones once in a while and it's a nice vacation from having to listen to other people's conversations. But now we've reached the stage where, if one is out in public, everyone else is: A) Tuning out on their I-Pod. or B) Talking in a language that I can't understand anyway.
After a few short years, the I-Pod accessories market has reached one billion dollars and websites are springing up like mushrooms to feed on the mania for downloading and filing one's entire human existence.
Here are the 5 reasons why I haven't donned the white earplugs yet:
1) The price. Apple sells refurbished I-Pods on it's website at the "low low price" of $199. Since I will be spawning in a couple of months (see: Spawn of Jenns Web), shelling out anything over 5 bucks on myself seems kind of self-indulgent right now.
2) The time. Closely related to reason one. I will have a baby in a couple of months; screaming, eating, spitting and otherwise eliminating every few seconds. Downloading The Perceptionists' entire back catalogue will probably be low on my list of priorities for a while.
3) I want to save my hearing. Not that I would plan to listen to Swedish Death Metal at ear-drum piercing volume 12 hours a day, but I'm sure the baby will do enough damage to my ears as it is.
4) I need to be able to hear what's going on around me. I just mastered walking and chewing gum for chrissakes. I know myself well enough to know that I would be the type to be bobbing my head to something and forget that I'm in the middle of an intersection.
5) If I don't have the initiative to spend two hundred bucks on the inital hardware, then I am not going to want to shell out for all the little trinkets that come with it. Then again, I can see myself knitting a little I-Pod pouch, given the right circumstances.
In A Nutshell
"The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's passenger count hit its lowest level in a decade during the first half of last year, with average weekday boardings of 1.12 million, down 8 percent from a high point in 2000. While T officials blamed the cancellation of the National Hockey League season and station repairs, riders blamed shoddy, undependable service and an aging fleet of vehicles."
Sometimes you just have to love the dry cool wit of boston.com.
Sometimes you just have to love the dry cool wit of boston.com.
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