::sunday, april 29::

I/O Magazine - Features

I had no freakin idea that this interview ever turned into an actual article...(!) Go figger.

insomniacathon.com - history

Wow. Was it really nine years ago???

The 1st Insomniacathon happened two days later on November 6th 1992 as an instant event at Twice Told Coffee House.  Readers and musicians signed-up as the event happened.  Performers included Carmen Embry, W. Loran Smith, Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, Andrew Hinton, Susanne Turner among others.  The event raised over $700 dollars to bring in E. Ethelbert Miller.

About Ron Whitehead

I used to do literary stuff with this guy back in the day. You know, "before the Internet." The Web is perfect for Ron, though, and I imagine I'll find plenty more. I suspect he's having more fun with literature than any of the more "serious" writers I knew (including myself) back in that other life I had in Louisville.

::saturday, april 28::

The Mr. Showbiz Interview

Found this great interview with Coppola. Quoting some here . . .

Like with Dracula, my concept was always that the costumes were gonna be the sets. And the sets were just gonna be minimalist empty stages, or drapes, or projection, and these incredible costumes would be the sets. Well, although everyone agreed, "Oh, yeah, it's so far-out," in the end they won't do it. Little by little the sets crept in more and more and more and more and more. It's one thing to be creative, but very difficult to inspire everyone else to be creative.

::friday, april 27::

"The Debate So Far" :: Toles nails it again.

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Torpedo

Cool new Palm app for creating, viewing, even ftp'ing web pages. So, when they gonna port Dreamweaver?

::thursday, april 26::

Meet Rumble Robots

Add this to your extensive Stuff To Buy Andrew list

Rumble Robots feature a rich use of technology, packing state-of-the-art software into each Rumble Robot that reads the exclusive Rumble Cards when scanned into the bot, and produces the appropriate reaction, depending on the personality and battle-worthiness of the individual robot.

JOHO - April 20, 2001

New JOHO up!

It's the duality of bits that make them useful. On the one hand, they are instantiated in physical, measurable ways so they can be manipulated by machines. On the other, they carry meanings we impose upon them, as when we determine that this bit will be part of the description of the color of a pixel in Aunt Agnes' lovely smile.

::monday, april 23::

coolio_1024.jpg 1024x768 pixels

Sweet desktop pic from fontosaurus.

::sunday, april 22::

MuchMusic | Alternative Medium

Preview radiohead's video for Pyramid Song from the upcoming Amnesiac here.

Cemetery Culture: City of the Silent

My wife passed this link along. Not sure how she ran across it, but it's quite touching. A site all about one of our most ancient customs; stone villages of our dearly departed.

Welcome to the web's most extensive cemetery site. Information about cemetery symbols, epitaphs, history, consumer protection, folklore and folk art, last words, tombstone rubbing, and other aspects of mortuary culture. Also free email and postcards.

::saturday, april 21::

The Dune You'll Never See

A better explanation of Giger's involvement with the early never-produced Dune movie. It also involved Moebius and Pink Floyd. Wow. Still, I think I prefer the Lynch version, from what I see here, except of course for the soundtrack by Toto. (eeek)

H.R. GIGER'S DUNE

Giger was the production designer behind an aborted attempt to film Dune (before Lynch ended up with the project). I've been re-reading the books, which I last read about 20 years ago, and gotten interested in the culture that's grown up around them. They are strange stories, and masterfully written, which I can't say for most of the stuff I read as a teen. Most of it doesn't hold up, but these do. Anyway, Giger's interpretations were even more extreme than Lynch's, but still pretty amazing. Here are some images.

::friday, april 20::

Salon.com Technology | Playing God

Internet communities are fast becoming influential social forums, and the growing numbers of Internet users will only amplify their importance. Online multiplayer games are playground and theater in this new social realm -- but up until now, they've mostly been about pseudonyms and false fronts . . . Peter Molyneux's Black & White suggests a new route, and a new way of thinking about online interaction.

drewspace

Egad, I just realized it was a week between posts! I've obviously been too busy on billable work in my job! How dare I...

Well, then in order to make up for it, in part, I hereby use this web space to declare "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" as one of the greatest songs of all time. (Listening to it right now, right before I listen to another of the "GSOAT": "Karma Police.")

Internet Developer-Information Architecture with Mac OS X

Apple gives a nod to IA on the Mac.

::friday, april 13::

iaslash

iaslash is a slashdottish joint for info-architecture nerds. So far (as of today) it seems to all be content posted by its creator, one "jibbajabba," but it's a noble enterprise. I'll be curious to see how many others use it. I've already registered as "electropoet." Hrm... wonder what they'd think of a bunch of stories on Kate Hudson?

::wednesday, april 11::

Dave Barry: I changed my name to bilk you better

Then I started seeing TV commercials for Cingular, but of course they did not make it clear what Cingular is, because the First Rule of Modern Advertising is: ``Never reveal what you are advertising.''

::thursday, april 5::

Yahoo! News - Comics

Doonesbury sums up the stereotypical dot-com experience.

::wednesday, april 4::

Finally, it's not butt-ugly anymore. Yep, I got around to making this a slightly more colorful place. While I was at it, I managed to get my contact page and archives working with the stylesheets. It's such fun doing actual HTML now and then.

::sunday, april 1::

Welcome to BattleBots.com

I've been working kinda hard lately, finally took a day off on Friday, and not updating anything here. At the hotel I can get cable channels I don't get on my skeletal TimeWarner cable tv setup, and finally saw an episode of BattleBots. Now I'm hooked, but I can't fulfill my longings because I don't actually get Comedy Central. Perhaps it's too much to hope that somebody will pirate these episodes and post them somewhere? Oh well. At least I'll have the website.