Hey, Amy: 8-ball.
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“My dear,” said the honeydew to his lover, “you are a peach. Will you marry me?”
“Oh, yes,” she replied, “but we cantaloupe.”
Bring the Olympic Games to New York in 2012! The plans and infrastructure enhancements—to be funded without tax dollars—have little downside. I enjoyed examining the X Map (included as a poster-size ad insert in today’s New York Times) on my morning commute. If the project got approved, it would be mass transit geek heaven.
There’s a professional hockey team for sale. On eBay.
A new OJR article (and relevant snippy Metafilter thread) discusses the rising number of media Web sites forcing users to register before they can read articles.
I have no problems with this policy, but I do think it’s less than ideal. While I’ve been happily registered on nytimes.com for years and years, I grumbled recently when I hit barriers on latimes.com and chicagotribune.com, and I have yet to sign up for either. The necessity must exist before a user is compelled to sign up, and that is not always the case; witness my reluctance to give my data to Web sites I only visit occasionally.
The scheme certainly does work in the long run: Witness the New York Times’ successful revenue streams and its 10-million-strong userbase. But what happened to the ol’ try before I buy (or, more appropriately, before I reveal)?
Square watermelons, developed last year, have gone on sale in Japan. Mmmm.
Finally had some free time last night, so I revised the about pages of this site, thereby bringing the redesign more or less to a close.
There’s a little left to do; the search and contact pages could use a goosing, and the archives are still in the old page format, perhaps appropriately so. I’ve also got to get the database URLs out of ?id= format and into straight page identifiers, but that’s another story.
On an unrelated note, the book’s Amazon Sales Rank dipped to 122 this morning from a high of 114 last night (and the publisher is still not positive why). Not bad, but somehow not yet enough for Amazon to put it in its bestseller lists. C’mon, Amazon, show it off some more! Is that too much to ask?
“The Site Speaks for Itself” is, as I write this, number 237 146 125 in Amazon’s Sales Rank listings.
That’s one hundred and twenty-five. Out of some two and a half million books. Hoo hah!
If you’ve spotted the book being promoted somewhere, please tell me; I’d love to know about it. If you’re not yet familiar with the book, visit Amazon’s main listing or their excellent Look Inside pages.
[See also: Behold the navel-gazing author, posted June 20]
Been meaning to do this for a while: Here’s a list of all the weblogs I frequent. It covers every site in my trio of blog favorites folders, which I recently revised. I try and visit each site on this list at least once a week, and they all get my recommendation.
And by weblogs, I mean weblogs. This list excludes all commercial (e.g. news.com), metadata (Evolt, Metafilter) and semi-professional (The Morning News) Web sites—many of which I visit, but that’s a list for another day.
This list is gently categorized, and in no particular order within each category (it was supposed to be, but IE’s export feature didn’t cooperate).
- General weblogs
- 37signals: Signal vs. Noise
- Anil Dash
- Boing Boing
- CamWorld
- kottke.org
- MrBarrett.com
- shellen.com
- evhead
- Noise Between Stations Blog
- sippey.com-2002
- Blogroots
- maybe i still am!
- LouisRosenfeld.com
- february 7
- brushstroke.tv
- evanrose
- onfocus
- caterina.net
- Off On A Tangent
- rc3.org Daily
- _usr_bin_girl
- what’s in rebecca’s pocket?
- tins Rick Klau’s weblog
- misterpants
- Molly.com – Welcome
- Nick Finck
- Nick Denton
- blogaritaville@scriban.com
- Q Daily News
- ToT
- ODonnellWeb
- Acts of Volition
- Living Can Kill You
- Jerry Kindall
- The Study of Design
- Not updated regularly
- Exposition
- powazek productions personal log
- Mighty Girl
- davezilla.com
- elan.org
- Wrap Me Up in It
- whatever, whenever
- nothing, and lots of it
- Textism
- bazima
- Andre Torrez
- In Spite of Years of Silence
- b-may
- mecawilson
- 0(zero)format
- Ftrain
- LILEKS (James) The Bleat
- a jaundiced eye – the weblog
- eatonweb blog
- bradlands
- benbrown.com daily text
- Tomato Nation
- not.so.soft
- The War Against Silence
- sylloge
- Monstro!
- Design and usability
As I write this, my book’s Amazon Sales Rank is higher than for Jakob Nielsen’s “Designing Web Usability.”