simple pleasures are the best, as is your beauty
mark at circa1977 reviews past writing and sees how much he's changed. when i look back at stuff i used to write i want to punch myself in the face because i was an even more cliche, naive jerk than i am today. so whereas mark doesn't think about the same things anymore, i do think about the same things but i lie to myself more about how much i don't suck.#
also from circa1977, mark thinks about the impending deadlines we all face and the intensity they case as they approach... he describes with great skill.#
chrystal's family looks like fun times ten and a half. i'm not sure if i took a camera to my family hanging out it would be as fun, i think there would be lots of pictures of babies and people covering their faces. i think i should become a waiter#
holy crap, i've seen wallets and stuff but... dam. from the bikini diaries. more from there.. teen sex addiction is bs and the problem isn't the sex, it's the lack of respect of sex. damn right jake. more on sex and sexual images being a good thing.#
krzysztof makes a note about the article he posted yesterday - a key part of progress is the ability to increase the speed and flexibility of information access so that more focus can be put on the problem at hand rather than meta-problems, and this ability flies in the face of the desires of copyrighters. grrr. the man!#
the ward is a funny guy and kids on the internet are idiots.#
irc channel advice from charles miller by way of the smalltalk blog#
jakob nielsen writes that pdfs are a big mess and is the "monster from the black lagoon." the one thing i like about pdfs online, is that you download one file, unlike a website where you must download a bazillion with a special program... but if it was website document download was integrated to my browser and worked i would be a happy puppy.#
blogz is moneyz at a whole lotta nothing through asterisk*#
new final fantasy crystal chronicles screen shots#
editorial about good rpg villains from the new rpggamer editorials#
don park muses on a newspaper that is made up of the best blog posts throughout a day and "value-added" blogs and feeds. an interesting idear.#
tony pierce has simple desires, "tell me nice things. and break up with your boyfriends and molest me with your hot girlfriends as slayer cranks." and is notoriously modest, "but being the greatest living poet, in my opinion is like being the greatest living hairdresser. its like a thanks, but no thanks."#
i never read just words by tony, but it's wicked awesome. saw it from this entry. i think that i need to take a day off and spend the whole time reading through tony's old posts before i read it, then i think maybe, just maybe, my life would have meaning and completeness.#
dan posted the rules of the python vs parrot challenge. it's gonna be a duesy!#
brian carnell on mark pilgrim's winer watcher. i enjoy his commentary.#
interesting note about rendezvous on tim o'reilly's blog.#
loonyboi did not like the league one bit.#
daring fireball goes over the good and the bad about avie tevanian. concluding that it is very good that os x has adopted the "release early, release often" strategy, which i hadn't noticed because i'm dum. it's a good read.#
scott gives writing advice and notes that being able to write is important to being a technical writer. who'da thunk?#
dan hon critiques a pretty silly and simplistic look at the gender/UI design debate. it takes the wonderful path of huge simplification and sweeping generalizations. caka.#
dan hon links media in america: "According to a new Pew report on media ownership, the American public wants pro-American news reporting that's unbiased. Whether this will lead to any more cognitive dissonance is left to the judgment of the reader." ha#
a review of the new MMORPG, "Real Life" at gamespot from brian carnell#
dan hon considers religions and religious people's desire to having their choices made for them, rather than by them.#
new CRYPTOGRAM about crying wolf in computer security and how to fight stupid security. read it.#