::wednesday, october 31::

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Interview

The Onion's AV club has a thoughtful interview with one of the coolest directors working.

Pixture Studio

Happy Halloween! I love this guy's icons. These monsters are pretty good, but you really need to see his guitars, computers, and just amazing everyday objects like furniture. Incredible.

Holy Bears: Halloween & All Saints

Lucid description of the holy day's history, mixed with a disappointing idea to dress up as Saints instead of scary stuff, and a truly kitschy All-Saints stuffed bear. Ain't that America.

::tuesday, october 30::

Weekly Review - Oct 30, 2001: Harper's Magazine

Americans were drinking more beer. Sales of puppies were up 30 percent. Syphilis was on the rise in San Francisco.

Note: This link will show a different week after 11/2.

Novel Security Measures

Kid nearly gets locked up for carrying the wrong novel through airport security. Welcome to the world as imagined by John Ashcroft.

Semantic Studios LLC

Peter Morville, IA extraordinaire, has a new site & company happening. Check it out.

::monday, october 29::

JOHO - October 11, 2001

Completely forgot to blog Weinberger's JOHO on the eleventh. And don't miss his September 27 issue either, which bares some soul about the tragedies of 9-11.

::wednesday, october 24::

IAwiki: IAwiki

It's taken me a year to finally take the time to figure out what the hell a 'wiki' is... but Eric's IAwiki gave me the incentive. It reminds me of the excitement I felt back in 1992-93 when I was first discovering things like MUDs, MOOs, IRC, Gopher and the Web itself. This is the kind of thing that truly fulfills the promise of hypertext.

::tuesday, october 23::

Measuring Information Architecture Panel at CHI 2001

Pick a powerpoint, any powerpoint! Some of the more vocal IA types panelized at the CHI conference back in April, and here are the decks to prove it.

::monday, october 22::

The Rev. Howard Finster died today, at 84

I had the pleasure...no, the blessing...of meeting Howard Finster at his home in the midst of his beautiful and bizarre Paradise Garden back in 1987. He played his banjo and served us Coca-Cola (an ordained drink of God, according to Howard), and wrote a poem on the back of my guitar. I still have the guitar, and the memory. I'm sorry we don't still have Howard.

::friday, october 19::

Ideo's Dilbert-Cube

Ideo and Scott Adams designed the perfect cubicle for Dilbert. I think I like the Self-timing Guest Seat feature best

::tuesday, october 16::

Google Search: kandinsky

Google's image search is one of the best things to hit the web in years. Combine this with the super-cool screen saver that uses images from a folder on your drive in OS X, and you got a party!!

::friday, october 12::

global_view.jpg 1108x1074 pixels

Shows Afghanistan's position on globe, and relative size to southeastern United States. Check out the main page for more maps.

::thursday, october 11::

Frontend Usability InfoCentre - "Search Engine Optimisation"

People keep reading my mind! This one is about how meta tags aren't the only answer anymore... that with new search engine architectures such as Google's, sites will increase traffic only by being very good at providing the content people are looking for.

::wednesday, october 10::

Web Entourage: Mac OS Scripting Solutions

BlogScript allows anyone using OS X to create a blogger entry and upload it from their computer, no matter what program you're in.

::monday, october 8::

A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation

Whoa, I think this one looks even better.

Web Hal - Chatter Bot for your Web page

The accessory any true web geek should have. If they get around to putting one up, which I might not, since I'm so freakin' busy lately.

::wednesday, october 3::

Iconfactory - Windows XP

Props to the guys out at Iconfactory on their excellent work on Windows XP. (I hear the theme to the Jeffersons' in my head as I type this...)