Hrmmm....

The Museum of Useful Things .

ae-shorts: worth exploring...

You know what I miss? The old chat programs, in which you could see every keystroke your chat partner typed. It was almost like having a window into their stream-of-consciousness... *sigh*

DevX's 2000 Web Developer Salary Survey.

Hmmmm... what does this mean?

Wow. The first satellite appearence of Jesus.

You know I love free online reading...

I sent this to everyone on my team a few months ago. Most of them appreciated it.

Online and free, for... uhm... er... Perl 5 by Example, TOC.

I haven't finished reading this dense bit of information, but you may enjoy it: Lingua Francas for Design: Sacred Places and Pattern Languages

Always amusing... And there's plenty of other goodness here, too...

The Skeptical Internet User Does Not Search. Nice analysis.

Good interview with the Nielson-Norman Group.

I found this site intriguing. Very.

The International Herald Tribune has some really great DHTML on the front page. Click on one of the little cross icons next to the headlines.

Nice (if basic) article on personalization.

Bookface has a buncha good reads for free! Can't dowload them, but the java applet ain't bad. And did I mention they're free, and not part of Project Gutenberg? [this means that the copyrights are recent in many cases...]

Although it requires a download, DOORS fans will want to check out this - one of the final American interviews with Jim Morrison. It's a complete multimedia presentation with a text transcription that fans can follow from beginning to end.

Work sucks! But we all knew that already, right?

Some good thoughts in this article about software triumphs of the last decade.

Information Architecture Guide from Argus Associates.

This just seems a little extreme. But then, that's the point, right?

Parsec looks real interesting. But when would I have time to play games?

Overheard on a mailing list:

NetScape to IE: "I am your father!"

IE: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! It can't be true!!"

In my inbox this morning: "I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College." - Al Gore 11/08/00. Funny. Even better than dubydubyadubya.thief.con

It was my birthday yesterday. I wasn't online. More later.

A nice new edition of Digital Web Magazine. I particularly liked the articles on Web design critiquing and Multitasking attention deficit.

A good op-ed piece on Extreme Programming. I don't agree with his dismissal of pair programming, though. I've written some tight, elegant, clean code in my life. But some of the best, most error-free, cleanest code I've ever written has been in pair programming.

Now these are just silly... I mean, really! What's next? The Lexus X400 collectible card game?

Tomorrow's my birthday. The big thirty-two. Of course, there's actually nothing special about thirty-two, other than the fact that it's a birthday. For me, and for many other men that I know, the big impact really hit at twenty-five. Whoa! A quarter of a century! Dooooood!! Of course, for women, the big one seems to be thirty. For some reason it hits them hard.

The Tao of Programming.

For a while, it seemed like SETI@home was the best way to use up your unused computing cycles. But now it seems that you can win prizes or get paid for those cycles too.

I really like this web site interface.

Hmmmm....

"Light methodology" offers e-consultancies a way to complete large, complex Web application projects quickly and efficiently, despite the changing nature of e-project environments.

Although this guy should be free to sell his... um... urine, I can totally see the government's point. Perhaps a triple-strength penalty if you were found to have used his services? Gosh I don't know.