Our relationship hinged on an unofficial association, like how you associate Crown Vics with sitting in the backseat—either a taxi ride, or an arrest, or in my case, maybe both. #
Archive for October, 2005
Knowmore.org: a MediaWiki-powered corporate watchdog project
Sage Francis is playing the Fonda tonight under the “knowmore.org tour” banner #
A9.com Maps
Google Maps interface wannabe, but with their super-duper-secret-spy street front images integrated #
Don’t know what to do on Saturday night? Gee, well there’s the Upcoming.org farewell party, Nada Surf at the El Rey (or thetheking, as I like to call it), pinewood boxcar racing (!?) at 1018, Okkervil River over at the Echo, and Tortoise w/ Daniel Lanois at the Avalon. Can’t they try and break this stuff up a little? #
McSweeney’s: Reviews of New Food
Dove Ice Cream Miniatures: “When do you ever want a Dove ice-cream bar but only one and a half bites of it? Breakfast.” #
Flock first impressions
Posting this from Flock 0.4.8. First impressions:
- Blog tags don’t correspond to WordPress categories for some reason. (flickr hasn’t been able to figure this out either, so maybe it’s an API problem?)
- This rich text control is not so intuitive (can’t seem to create more than one entry in an unordered list, no matter how hard I try). It posts to my blog in full HTML, which is theoretically nice, but that doesn’t agree with my WordPress settings (I’m using Textile2 and SmaryPants in WP). It would be good to optionally turn it into a plaintext control.
- The shelf is a great concept (it’s like a NeXT browser!) but, again, I’d like to optionally turn off all the <blockquote> stuff when dragging a clip out.
- del.icio.us integration is on the right track, but the posting modal is tiny and it didn’t propagate my tags to del.icio.us.
- The UI needs a lot of work (try pressing “use small icons” in the Customize Toolbar dialog!)… It feels like Firefox with the Flocky stuff tacked on.
For now, I’m all cmd-Q and back to the Fox. But this looks promising. #
architecture in helsinki at ucla
I drove up to UCLA today to catch the Architecture in Helsinki show. It was supposed to be outside, but they moved it into the ballroom because of the rain.
Surprising turnout, great sound. UCLA’s events people (the Campus Events Commission) really have a leg up on USC’s Program Board. #
Last Monday’s New York Times featured a review of Broken Social Scene that was pretty much made-up
The central reference point in the review is the band’s hometown—Montreal, according to reviewer Jon Pareles. Actually, BSS is mostly from Toronto. You know, they don’t even speak the same language in that city. #
A new NBC/WSJ poll finds that just 2% of black adults approve of Bush’s performance
Well, actually, with the minimum margin of error, it’s anywhere from -1.4% to 5.4%. #
Find the Brownie
“The objective of this blog is to find an important government job occupied by a person with no apparent qualifications other than strong personal, political, or business ties to a member of the administration.” #
cssQuery: a sweet drop-in replacement for getElementsByTagName()
It uses CSS (including level 3!) selectors to return arrays of DOM objects. This should basically abstract away the need to ever iterate over the document tree. #
