Some people would have you believe Londonontario is all mixed up for the various downtown projects the city has recently undertaken, but we’ve got nothing on Soap Lake, WA (via Burningbird).
Even the Soap Lake project can’t hold a candle (ha ha) to the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota, though. I mean, Weird Al Yankovic even wrote a song about it. There’s no higher praise.
There’s something terribly wrong with a world in which kids think their elders’ culture is hip.
Cecil Adams, What the heck is leetspeek?
(via kottke.org)
(Who who, who who)
63.195.114.133 - - [11/Jan/2003:16:32:54 -0500] "HEAD /blog/ HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.15; Mac_PowerPC)" 63.195.114.133 - - [11/Jan/2003:16:32:54 -0500] "GET /blog/ HTTP/1.1" 200 37548 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.15; Mac_PowerPC)" 63.195.114.133 - - [11/Jan/2003:16:33:01 -0500] "GET /blog/index.rdf HTTP/1.1" 200 8298 "http://peterjanes.ca/blog/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.15; Mac_PowerPC)" 63.195.114.133 - - [11/Jan/2003:16:33:01 -0500] "GET /blog/rss2.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 5420 "http://peterjanes.ca/blog/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.15; Mac_PowerPC)"
63.195.114.133 is a PacBell dialup address, although there’s an occasional Verizon IP thrown in for good measure. You’re retrieving all three versions of the blog every time I update, and checking it via HEAD every hour.
It’s not a problem, I’m just curious–don’t know many people on the West Coast.
Our inspection of Chief Kroeker’s refuse reveals that he is a scrupulous recycler. He is also a health nut. We find a staggering profusion of health-food containers: fat-free milk cartons, fat-free cereal boxes, cans of milk chocolate weight-loss shakes, cans of Swanson chicken broth (99% fat free!), water bottles, a cardboard box of protein bars, tubs of low-fat cottage cheese, a paper packet of oatmeal, and an article on
How to Live a Long Healthy Life.At the same time, we find evidence of rust in the chief’s iron self-discipline: wrappers from See’s chocolate bars, an unopened bag of Doritos, a dozen perfectly edible fun-size Nestle Crunch bars, three empty Coke cans.
Willamette Week Online, Rubbish! (via as days pass by)
My first clue that the police chief might be off his diet is the fact that an article on
was discarded in the recycling bin. Who needs Total Information Awareness?How to Live a Long Healthy Life
Perhaps it’s just from lack of sleep, but the collection of music at 365 days (via glish.com) has got to be the funniest, most disturbing set of things I’ve heard in a long time. I thought I was a novelty-music nut, but Otis Fodder puts my tiny little collection to shame.
Pre-doctorate Theodore Geisel artwork (via kottke.org) is somehow an appropriate complement. Seeing Dr. Seuss’s weird characters and unique text styling in advertisements is very odd… especially because a lot of them were done before the books. Reminds me that I need to look for Thomas Fensch‘s books Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel and The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss (featured on CBC‘s The Sunday Edition).
Well, that’s just weird. I finally got around to playing with GeoURL this evening, after hearing about it Monday (The Shifted Librarian, via dive into mark, which I link to far too often with far too little to say). Within two clicks I discovered jonandnic dot com, and Jon’s post that his company is moving next door (if I’m eyeballing the photo correctly).
It seems Jon and Nic are the only ones in the city (and in a 75km radius) that have added themselves to GeoURL. I’m not, although I’ve got location metadata on my blog’s main page. I’ve made a suggestion that instead of ICBM, GeoURL use the slightly-less-proprietary Geo Tag Elements or the well-defined Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, which also happen to be used by Syndic8.com. Joshua just responded saying he does index the GeoTag geo.location, so I am now: GeoURL.
In an almost completely different context, Eric Meyer has inadvertently said it all about certain recent events I’m not going to detail further:
You know, being honest? How about that? Anyone think of that?
Perhaps more to the (same, but different) point:
The more I learn about corporate behavior these days, the more I think about becoming a hermit.
I try not to think about this option too much, though, because it would (by definition) preclude seeing my writer friend. Maybe I’ll become a hobbit instead.
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I’ve spent a large portion of the last few days listening to tracks randomly selected by my CD changer. I’m constantly and consistently amazed at the exquisite good taste it has in music.
I have several pages on my site that get hit by search engine queries that are mostly unrelated to the content. (Most frequently found is a previous post about search terms… determining why is left as an exercise for the reader.) Rather than mark the pages uncacheable or remove them entirely, I’d prefer to add anti-keywords
that search engines could use to remove the pages from their results for those queries. There’s a short discussion on this at Webmaster World, but no real solution. Anyone have any brilliant ideas?
The lesson is not that everyone should celebrate Christmas, but that every culture can gain by celebrating the best of all the people who contribute to that culture.
Anil Dash (via tantek/log)