1. Veganist names can be simple (two words, eight letters, fits in a DOS filename) or horribly complex (three words, 20 letters, reminiscent of the Katzenjammer Kids).  ¶ 17a
2. “I think of a blind guy single-dadding it through Seapoliver aiport, or maybe just taking his fair turn in the baby-hygiene queue. Now that’s real-life accessibility.”  ¶ 17b
3. How do you get work done? Are you an incrementalist or a completionist?  ¶ 16a
4. “The work of openly-gay film director Kenneth Anger is set to enter the USA’s hallowed film preservation society, in a move that could see his films restored and saved for posterity.”  ¶ 16b
5. Superbly-detailed reminiscence of River Phoenix.  ¶ 16c
6. “In 2000, an anonymous donor brought a transcript of Wilde’s first trial to the British Library, where it was authenticated. It was an astonishing find. Edited by Merlin Holland, Wilde’s grandson, and published as The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde, the document provides the first complete, verbatim record of what occurred at the Old Bailey a century ago.”  ¶ 16d
7. iTunes DRM + Panther = the expected result of DRM.  ¶ 16e
8. “I think the name-calling thing just comes with the territory. It’s just part of the whole experience. And I wouldn’t trade any of it.... [Demigod Tibor Kalman] of course had been through the name-calling and whole bad-boy-label thing and had a ton of great insight. One thing we all agreed on was the people who seem to say the meanest/least-truthful things are generally the ones who don’t know you or have never actually met you and/or spent any real time with you. I don’t think you’d find even one of the hundreds of my workshops attendees who would agree with that [being an asshole] opinion... And very few of the thousands of people worldwide who have heard me lecture would agree with that. I don’t doubt they’re out there – I just don’t hear from them.” A lie from start to finish from none other than... David Carson.  ¶ 16f
9. A ponce who fled Toronto (admittedly after being shot up rather severely) has the gall to tell those of us who live on the waterfront that we really need aircraft buzzing our bald heads. Shût thé fûck ûp, Tyler Brûlé. Jûst STFÛ.  ¶ 16g
10. OneLook: Search many dictionaries at once. (Several listings for my perennial test case, calque.)  ¶ 16h
11. Speaking of calques: I finally found the antecedent to this schuppism.  ¶ 16i
12. Jewelboxing. Not Mark Leduc’s after-hours pastime, but in fact the very nicest single-disc case yet invented. From Jim Coudal, of course. (Tennis, anyone?)  ¶ 16j
13. Best domain name and favicon of the week. Only in Japan does a rainbow heart not mean you’re gay!  ¶ 16k
    
14. ProFont. If you want a monospaced font for “code,” why aren’t you using TheSans Mono? Because it costs, right?  ¶ 16l
15. Via Fireland: “When I’m old, here’s how I’m going to describe the early 21st century: We were always having to provide people with content.”  ¶ 16m
16. “[E]very minute you spend watching TV or playing video games, you could be perfecting your craft. Every minute you spend hanging out with your friends, you could be perfecting your craft.” Then you’d have perfect craft and no friends, developed over a period of no recreation whatsoever. Please, sir, may I have some more?   ¶ 16n
17. Nouveau Wavé Photos: Ann(e) Clark(e) (assuredly no relation).   ¶ 16o
18. Wi-Fi: The only business model is free (I, II). By the way, it’s pronounced “wiffy.”  ¶ 16p
19. What does MathML look like in Lynx? (Skip)  ¶ 16q

    Ron Donagi gave a great talk this morning about a version of Dijkgraaf-Vafa and large-N duality for compact Calabi-Yau’s. DV’s setup can be thought of as a noncompact Calabi-Yau
    [MATH: <msup><mi>y</mi> <mn>2</mn></msup> <mo>=</mo><mi>u</mi><mi>v</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>W</mi><mo>′</mo><mo>(</mo> <mi>x</mi><msup><mo>)</mo> <mn>2</mn></msup> :MATH]
    which, generically, has
    [MATH: <mi>n</mi> :MATH]
    isolated
    [MATH: <msub><mi>A</mi> <mn>1</mn></msub> :MATH]
    singularities at
    [MATH: <mi>u</mi> <mo>=</mo><mi>v</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>W</mi><mo>′</mo> <mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn> :MATH].

20. Don’t suppose it might be a good idea to show us what the font looks like if you want us to download it? Especially if we need it to understand the grandeur of Canadian biography? And what is a NewKwah? Was there ever an Old?   ¶ 16r
21. Yes, that is gigantic homosexualist ex-football homunculus Ian Roberts hypnotized into wearing a pink bra and undershorts on Australian television.
    
    (Actual splotchy and artifactual Windows Media Webcast from high-class Aussie entertainment program.)  ¶ 11
22. BigMuscleEntomologist.  ¶ 9a
23. Free shipping via Amazon.  ¶ 9b
24. Billing for comment spam.  ¶ 9c
25. Read text into MP3s. Faster than waiting for CNIB to someday get around to converting my book into DAISY?  ¶ 9d
26. Someone else who’s cold-natured. I’ve been wearing long johns since September.  ¶ 9e
27. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, amputee triathlete. Historically, triathletism has been spectacularly resistant to the inclusion of disabled athletes. Heaven help you if you want to do the bike component in an handcycle.  ¶ 9f
28. Nouveau Wavé Photos: Blondie.  ¶ 9h
29. “To paraphrase Thoreau: mistrust any enterprise that requires non-ASCII data.” (Plus he writes good porn.)  ¶ 9i
30. Simulacrum of Bill Gates’s videowalls of art? (And by the way, a U.S. museum sign has to be accessible.)  ¶ 9j
31. “I came up with a weird thought of plotting the post times of my blog in a timespan of 24 hours.”  ¶ 9k
32. “GWM, sane, healthy, neg, seeks pharaoh for nights out, cuddling, long walks on the beach.” (By the way, I’ve got his Gay.com personal ad bookmarked somewhere if anybody wants to see it.)  ¶ 9l
33. Cat got Sam’s tongue? (The whole site 404s.) Or has someone else?  ¶ 6
34. On top of the most expensive DVDs in the world, you can buy a pack of the most violent: Twenty “Pride FC—Fighting Championship” discs for $229.99. What kind of reject watches these sorts of things? A high-school dropout with an undersized cock who is frustrated with his powerlessness in the world, that’s who. In other words, a typical New Brunswicker when I was growing up. Or indeed, rather like the family whose four-year-old was mauled by Rottweilers in New Brunswick this year.  ¶ 5a
    
35. Multilingual Messages in Eudora. You just try getting CJK to work.  ¶ 5b
36. The literary Simpsons.  ¶ 5c
37. How much money can you spend on a DVD?
    1. Salò (is that accent correct?), “perhaps the most disturbing and disgusting film ever made,” for a penny less than a grand?
    2. 32 feature films about Elvira for $325?
    3. All-out Tatïsm – Les vacances de M. Hulot, Mon Oncle, Playtime – for $279.99? (I have tried to watch Mr. Hulot’s Holiday.)
    4. “25 hours of Carry On Films” (!) for £149.99?  ¶ 3

All dates in November 2003.

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