1. “Painted TiBooks and a bottle of wine, mama.” (Yellow!)  ¶ 14a
2. PowerPointism:
   • Byrne does PowerPoint. Well-known now. Might or might not be worth the money. Byrne: “They all make assumptions about what you want to do with them and what kind of use you’re going to put them to, and therefore how you lead you’re life and what’s important to you.... It’s about how the architecture of the software makes assumptions about how you do things.” ToolSpace ⋘ IdeaSpace, as the LettError kids put it.
   • David Rees:

     I created My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable using Microsoft PowerPoint on Windows Office 98 software. Using the computer allowed me to make the comic in a job situation where traditional drawing equipment would have been too conspicuous. I initially decided to use clip art for its convenience; I later came to realize it influenced the thematic elements of the comic.... In many cases the same clip art is used to denote multiple people. Similarly, some strips differ only in dialogue, with identical sequences used to denote different characters in different situations. A few unique characters with extraordinary physical attributes – See-Through Man, the Fingerprint Fighters, etc. – were inspired by what sort of clip art I found online.... Clip art is a good way to introduce the art of comic narrative to people who might otherwise be intimidated by a perceived lack of “artist talent.” Clip art usually serves a strictly utilitarian purpose, and its anonymous, often uncopyrighted [false], perfectly reproducible public nature is an intriguing contrast to other types of art. It can serve as the impersonal structural units through which more creative personal art is produced.

   • Why post an erotic toilet-paper calendar (a world first, shurely?! and ultra-Freudian) in PowerPoint? I made a tagged accessible PDF of it if anybody wants a copy.   ¶ 14b
3. Best. Homosexualist-personals userID. Ever.  ¶ 14c
4. Not related to captioning: Caption Digital Media – “Owen has been called for active duty as a member of the Army National Guard. Because of such short-term notice (seven days), we have decided to sell the business.” Spooky.  ¶ 14d
5. If the Library Were Like Amazon, I’d have to write in for several months after my book was released getting ad-hominem reviews of me rather than the book removed.  ¶ 14e
6. MC May Techno Dance Remix: “Jamie says that orchestration and management is in a ‘rap-singer’ phase: Everybody who has the mic says they’re the greatest.”  ¶ 14f
7. Fashion statement or fashion crime? “The people who used to be West Germans call them Ossis, the arriviste capitalists from the eastern (or ‘Ost’) side of the Wall. In 1989, there was no mistaking them. Ossis wore trademark stonewash denim, long out of fashion in the west. Ossis had terrible haircuts and rough manners.”  ¶ 14g
8. The Digital Michelangelo Project. 3D scans of “David.”  ¶ 1
9. Montreal metablog («metacarnet»). Beats that pukey little site for and by greenhorn gay photographers and their faghag girlfriends.  ¶ 9a
10. Fun with CSS pull quotes. I think they’re a bit gaudy, but the techniques are reusable.  ¶ 9b
11. Make documents multicolumn. Didn’t the International Herald Tribune do this ages ago, and without a separate program?  ¶ 9c
12. Worst and best-ever photographs of John d’Addario.  ¶ 9d
13. Calvin Klein Controversies. (But the page isn’t monochromatic!) Also porn vs. fashion photography: You make the call.  ¶ 9e
14. What Would Weblogs Do? Instead of wondering what effect Weblogs could have on the “real” world, why not concentrate on getting real people to understand Weblogs?  ¶ 9f
15. Speaking of misunderstanding the Web: Don’t Link to Us! (Page is somewhat inaccessible to protans and deutans.)  ¶ 9g
16. Well, I mean, can you get Drum & Bass TV to work? I can’t. And what does one show on such a virtual station? If any genre is unvisualizable, this one is.  ¶ 9h
17. “Purple is a small suite of quickly hacked tools designed to create HTML documents with ‘purple’ numbers. These purple numbers are HTML anchors attached to every paragraph in a document, which allow you to link to these paragraphs.” Cf. “Plumbing the id.”  ¶ 9i
18. Best-ever rap-artiste name: Biggie Smalls. What Would Biggie Smalls Drive? Wonderful small cars, obviously. “This Daihatsu rude boy matches wild with the exhilarating freedom of a sports car.”  ¶ 9j
19. Spoofing personal ads. Are you revealed on BigMuscle(Bears)? You may be next.  ¶ 9k
20. Every K10K-like design site. I keep losing this list.  ¶ 9l
21. Josh Allen, “I started writing” (emphasis added):

    A very consistent voice cropped up among the new writers: casual, chatty, inoffensive, usually a dash of false self-deprecation, and a kind of subtle condescension—the sound of someone who has been chosen to pass along valuable information to others. This tone of I am interesting, right? was underscored by the guestbooks and comments and karma points and permalinks and trackbacks and refer[r]er logs. Even the current vogue of [W]eb standards often boils down to: Everyone should have access to what I have to say, I don’t care if they’re blind or reading my words off a cellphone – the message must get through.  ¶ 9m

22. Gayest. Lord of the Rings poster. Ever. (Enlargement.)  ¶ 9n
23. A-list technology Webloggers’ linklist selections rendered with screenshots. An exercise, but a useful one? (Cf. Google Viewer.)  ¶ 9o
24. iTunes for Windows: Far from Perfect. I like the thoroughness here. Trust the experienced users; trust the experts.  ¶ 9p
25. Gallery of Centrefold Librarians. One, it’s safe for work, not that I care very much, and two, it’s all boys, and three, none of them’s a libearian!  ¶ 9q
26. Zeeland: “Does this obscure dead star look as though he might conceivably have been a candidate for Smiths or Morrissey cover art? If you said yes: Thank you. This is my dad, photographed in 1958.” (Cf. a really sad sack; “In The Eyes of a Soldier.”)  ¶ 9r
27. Dissecting Leah McLaren (RIP).  ¶ 9s
28. Big sites on small screens. Web standards in action, baby. (Cf. “I broke the Newton.”)  ¶ 9t
29. “Obscure but cool Panther features”: “You can now alter the screen’s contrast via Universal Access. Looks horrible.”  ¶ 9u
30. Yes, there is an entire site devoted to (new) sneakers.  ¶ 9v
31. Comic Chat goes queer? How about using actual photos as icons, or something? (Actually, Anarchie used to do that in the registration screen. Andrew Tomazos would stare purposefully at you from Perth.)  ¶ 9w
32. “Inspired by Brad Chaote and Adam Kalsey’s never-say-not-possible [Movable Type] plugins, I came up with a weird thought of plotting the post times of my blog in a timespan of 24 hours.”  ¶ 9x
33. “Easyjet 737 HB-III departed August 15 at 09:50 from Geneva, and flew 10 minutes later into a thunderstorm. They returned to Geneva for an emergency landing.”  ¶ 9y
34. Microsoft (and someone else) producing valid XHTML. Inconceivable? Pretty much.  ¶ 9z
35. Speaking of Microsoft: My pages look less good in the somewhat-noncompliant IE for Windows because it does not understand adjacent selectors. Far too much indention and much too much leading above and below heds. Anyway, Selectoracle: “English and Spanish translations of CSS2 and CSS3 selectors. Ever wondered what a particularly complex CSS selector really means? Here’s your chance to find out!”  ¶ 9aa
36. Sortable table demos. Do we even need these?  ¶ 9bb
37. Printable DVDs, CDs.  ¶ 9cc
38. The Skinhead Hamlet.  ¶ 9dd

    Claudius

    Fuck! Laertes isn’t half going to be browned off.

All dates in December 2003.

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