Lots and lots of New York City maps in this Metafilter thread. Yeah maps!
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The Internet Advertising Bureau approved new ad banner sizes today, each one larger than the last.
I’m designing a 1024×768 ad banner for a January 2004 launch. Looking forward to IAB approval next fall.
I should have begun regular reading of the Christian Science Monitor long ago. Its reporting and perspective are regularly impressive.
About the Monitor explains the publication in detail. “The idea is that the unblemished truth is freeing (as a fundamental human right); with it, citizens can make informed decisions and take intelligent action, for themselves and for society.”
I always liked the Yahoo directory tree. In this space in the past I have lamented the continuing destressing of the Yahoo directory in favor of more profitable, and cluttered, services.
Happy as a clam I am to now have a direct destination for Yahoo Directory. Does anyone know whether Yahoo is keeping its records up to date anymore? (via Anil)
Also: Try the beta Google shopping engine, aka Froogle.
A furnident is the indentation left in a carpet by heavy furniture that has settled into place.
Somehow not everyone knows this word, but everyone should. Even mighty Google turns up just one search result for furnident. Let this be number two. furnident
If you’re like me, you a) love media, b) love getting stuff cheap, and c) have stuff that you can’t bring yourself to throw away because it is potentially worth something to someone else.
Time was, you’d go to half.com, but the site’s been overrun by two-bit commercial entities that undercut your sale prices, and you started to feel a bit dirty buying stuff from unknown retail outfits in Idaho, so you stopped going there. Plus the deals weren’t that good, and you didn’t get much money back from your sales.
Good news! Now you can go to Trodo and get new stuff for free. All you have to do is share some of your stuff in return. All users pay their own shipping costs, and it’s a give-one-get-one model. It’s peer-to-peer filesharing for physical media.
Trodo is the brainchild of my top-notch colleagues Adrian Holovaty and John S. Rhodes. Go forth and share.
I’m in sunny rainy Florida. I’ll be back in the daily routine Wednesday. More news as events warrant.
Update from last week: the Times ran those conflicting editorial columns after all. They weren’t very exciting, although the national news about their withholding certainly was.
Venerable online music retailer CDnow has been soaked up by the Amazon juggernaut. The transition completed this week, and now CDnow looks and operates just like Amazon. So tell me, why would I go to CDnow over Amazon.com? Will they really have price and product differentiation? How long before CDnow redirects straight to Amazon Music?
The New York Times sports section chose not to run editorials by esteemed writers Dave Anderson and Harvey Araton because the editorials’ viewpoint didn’t match the opinion of the main editorial page. Marginally understandable, but surprising to hear. Isn’t this exactly why newspapers have editorial columns?
I’m getting search requests for “charley pictures,” and who am I to disappoint?