1. BBEdit 7.1.2 release note: “Fixed a bug in which trying to Command-drag a window behind a movable modal dialog would result in the dragged window moving to France.”  ¶ 27a
  2. Two (b)logge(u)rs speaking their own language: “ ‘That’s so Nick Denton of you.’ ‘Yeah, well, Joi Ito to you too, pal.’ ”   ¶ 17b
  3. “Beta Is Dead” (but, Michael, I’ve got two Sony decks!): “Friendster is not beta by any definition that I know. There are almost half a million people in my Friendster personal network . You’re telling me that Friendster is Bbeta when there’s an active population the size of Las Vegas just in my personal network? [...] Friendster et al. aren’t saying ‘Try at your own risk’ with their beta label. They’re saying, ‘It’s our call when we’re going to screw you for cash.’ Uncool. Unclear. And disrespectful of the community.”  ¶ 26
  4. M. Cho (overrated, but I’m OK with her): “Like I was driving in my car and I saw this woman in front of me and she had a bumper sticker that said, ‘This car was built with tools, not chopsticks,’ and it was in this super-chinky font that was really like ‘hi-yah!’ – like that kind of feng-shui-hong-kong-fooey font that’s really like ‘aaaieeeaaaiieeaiaai.’ You know, that kind of font?”  ¶ 25a
  5. Switching to Mozilla. “101 Reasons to Switch to Mozilla” has disappeared, but I can mail it if you want.   ¶ 25b
  6. Ceci n’est pas un Flash. W3C apologists, take note: It isn’t SVG, either. No doubt it punks WCAG left, right, and centre.   ¶ 25c
  7. An actual queer cop. Is he less self-aggrandizing than the local analogue, who carefully points out he’s also an engineer?  ¶ 25d
  8. Konqueror (or, as I call it, “Conky”) “site navbar.” Finally see all the link elements I use. (On book-chapter pages, dozens!)  ¶ 25e
  9. Better type in TextEdit.   ¶ 25f
  10. Alternatoids. But – but! – Cf. Clif Bars of the Future.   ¶ 25g
  11. “Friends foil Olympia man’s home: Downtown resident returns from trip to find belongings silver-coated.” Astonishing thoroughness. Curses! Foiled (again)! &c.  ¶ 25h
  12. Doyle: “On the night when CBS airs the Super Bowl, NBC is going to counter-program with a marathon of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Now that took my breath away. I mean, I’m watching that.”  ¶ 16
  13. “How now, Fellatio!”: “I see that I made generous notes on my reading in my personal journal from the era and, despite having already more or less grasped and in some cases carried out the basics of the operation, I clearly learned a lot from the book.”  ¶ 15a
  14. A whole book about typographic tattoos? (They only work in ultraviolet!)  ¶ 15b
  15. DASDUA. Sign me the fuck up.  ¶ 15c
  16. Cops pretend to be gay. What do the gay ones pretend?  ¶ 15d
  17. Anne Rice uses WordStar? On what – a Kaypro running CP/M? “ ‘I don’t even print out until the end,’ she says. ‘I work in WordStar, which only numbers the chapters.’ ” (It does?) Dal refused to install WordPerfect 3.1 on the Victor 9000 computers I persuaded them to buy. Ctrl-J is a command burned into my memory like ritual abuse.  ¶ 15e
  18. 2003 Web-design fashion trends in review.  ¶ 15f
  19. R. O’Donnell: “Just remember this: A lot of gay boys don’t play on sports teams, so they don’t know that when somebody’s sitting on the bench, in uniform, they’re still on your team, even though they’re not scoring the points. So don’t hurt them.”  ¶ 15g
  20. Bizarre and scarifying yet well-realized dog mask. Also: Another BigMuscleCrip.  ¶ 15h
  21. Videogame heroine in needlepoint. Pixels are centuries old, you know.  ¶ 15i
  22. “Now he’s a checked punk”: Am I feeling lucky?  ¶ 14
  23. Insanely, I have never seen a single “Sprockets” episode from that comedy program well beyond its sell-by date. It’s influential nonetheless. “At Dieter’s Dance Party, in response to a record being rated −3 on a scale of 1 to 14, Dieter says, ‘Sadly, there are no integers on this scale, so your gangly adolescent attempt to be clever has proved futile.’ ” Whoops! Integers can be negative! (And I know a Dieter!) ¶ Also: This is the time on Sprockets when we clone ourselves.  ¶ 14a
  24. TLA Video advanced search: Allegedly, some titles have “close caption.” If you do such a search (at your own risk), a suspicious number of “adult” titles come up. These would be firsts, really.  ¶ 14b
  25. Toronto Master, allegedly. (Also Dutch, allegedly, but a mere 5′8″! Dutch teenage girls are taller than that!)

    The Master will not:

    • tolerate cigarettes, drugs or drunks
    • acknowledge clients outside of sessions
    • do outcalls
    • speak or hear
    Listen, shurely?!  ¶ 14c
  26. That’s Not a Picture “converts images into intricate HTML tables. This application allows Web authors to offer superior support for users who rely on browsers which support tables but not images.” Name three of those, please? And what is alt text for?  ¶ 14d
  27. Andrew Ryan: “Ann-Margret took in good grace my sniggering suggestion that watching her as Ann-Margrock on The Flintstones 40 years ago was what inspired me to become a TV critic.... And I thought I was pretty cool until the ride back to the hotel in the stretch limo, when I mentioned my Ann-Margret moment out loud. Four other critics instantly became excited and claimed they told her the exact same thing.”  ¶ 14e
  28. Common XHTML Validation Errors: "& /"!  ¶ 14f
  29. I was there for that picture!  ¶ 14g
  30. “Male Physique Model webpage upgrade”: “Its just really important i present my self as professioanl as possible, yet with some sex appeal. this combination is impt in the modelling world One thing very impt - I like a sharp black background, as opposed to my current pink/grey background” (sic). We don’t hire you for your spelling, dear.  ¶ 14h
  31. “[S]pecial first letter layout hacks”: They’re called drop caps, and I handled them ages ago.  ¶ 14i
  32. Exploded photograph! (Near bottom.)  ¶ 14j

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