HELLO FLIRTS! Jill Spiegal identifies herself as a Flirtologist and seems to have constructed a complete philosophy around the idea of "flirting" with things. The page may be an excellent work of satire -- some of the text seems to be bear the mark of such absurdity, but the VW Beetle decked out with daisies and the caption "It's pure flirting magic" seems too elaborate for a joke.
posted at 5:15 PM

The Site of Yooco: This is My Another Space, contains dozens of boldly colorful and cute illustrations by the (presumably) japanese artist.

Flash Experiments presented in the standard bewildering designer's shroud. Some of the visuals are impressive, but to no purpose. But you can borrow them for better things.

The Internet Archive has a 43+ terabyte archive of the internet plus digitized versions of emphemeral films from the Prelinger Archive with such titles asParade of Invertebrates, How to Say No: Moral Maturity, Things Expand When Heated, etc.

THE CREATIVE LIFE: SCIENCE VS ART an interview with Gregory Chaitin, the man who came up with the Omega Number which is a number you can't calculate. Sounds pretty useless to have a number you can't calculate, but the interview is interesting. He gives much credit to the social and political aspects of the development of scientific knowledge as opposed to a step-by-step march forward it is often portrayed as.
posted at 5:09 PM

My mother got me the best toy ever.

from explodingdog, a site with a huge number of similarly-styled illustrations that become weird cartoons when paired with the phrases people send in.
posted at 12:30 PM

Personal website of Clay Shirkey with links to numerous articles about "Economics & Culture, Media & Community and Open Source" topics. Shirky has made a very compelling argument against micropayments because they conflict with the psychology of purchasing.
posted at 12:24 PM

Delivering best-of-breed dialoging solutions for business professionals is this web site's core competency
posted at 12:15 PM

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website suggests how to shape peer-to-peer applications and protocols that will stand up to legal challenges. by Fred von Lohmann
posted at 12:13 PM

I'm sure you've noticed that Flash won't allow you to make a local copy of Flash content you view on the web. There's no technical reason for this of course, since you've already downloaded it all to your harddrive. It's a weak form of content protection that prevents people from enjoying Flash movies whenever/where ever/how ever they want, reserving that decision for the content provider. I find this very annoying, but it's easy to work around.

To save a flash object embedded or a page, or a page that is entirely a flash object, figure out the object's URL (http://www.../*.swf) and make a simple html file with a link to that URL in it. For most browsers, you can just make a file that contains flash -- you don't need and tags.

Open the page you've created in your web browser and right click on the link. You should see an option called "Save Target As" or "Download Link to Disk". Select this option and the web browser will download the Flash file to the folder you specify. Now you can view the Flash whenever you want, add it to your archive of interesting Flash techniques and always have it handy for reference.

This is the only way I've been able to save Flash content. IE's archiver/ripper will not save Flash files embedded in a page.
posted at 10:19 AM

The Napdeck is a disk based MP3 module with docks that let you use it with your computer, home stereo and car (boat). A model for a music appliance when the hardware is too expensive for people to buy seperate devices for multiple uses.

It's strange that there are so few mp3 devices on the market from major consumer audio companies. Especially since they're into pushing formats like MD, DCC and DVD audio that don't have half the momentum behind them that mp3 does.
posted at 10:59 PM

Essays on topics relevant to the future of the web and computing environments
posted at 4:50 PM

"What is wrong is that we have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from scarcity." What's wrong with the idea of content protection Interestingly, it seems that we're moving decicisively from toward
by John Gilmore of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
posted at 4:48 PM

The Rag Time Ephemeralist

From Chris Ware, publisher of the Acme Novelty Library as mentioned in this New York Times article.
posted at 12:04 PM

Using the Sony DCR-TRV900 CamcorderJumping off point for information about this popular Sony DV camera, along with comparisons and reviews of other cameras, technique and advice about how to get the best video out of DV.
posted at 11:10 AM

enormicom
Satire of cookie-cutter tech slogans, naming and logo design. Funny to a point, but pointing out web-based foolishness is like making fun of the mentally retarded. It was edgy and dangerous the first time you heard it -- when everyone thought people in sweatpants and foam mesh ball caps were going to change the world. The fifth time you hear it, it's just petty and trite.
posted at 2:51 PM