Thursday, April 18, 2002

Heh. Just read the Fallen Arches article in Fortune (courtesy of DayPop). Nice synergy on my current reading list. Was heading to bed tonight, after I picked up an actual print copy of The Cluetrain Manifesto (for your own web-based copy, try here, and noticed a reference in the forward to a "tipping point." Of course, I'm all over that particular term lately (is it possible to have a tipping point tip? But the book I was reading at the same time as The Tipping Point is more relevant to the McDonald's article: Fast Food Nation. As the Fortune article states, the tipping point (again), is contrary to everything that made Mickey D's successful in the first place: assembly line operations. Fascinating stuff. They'd expanded as far as they possible could, and once they stopped growing, they started messing with what got 'em there. Wonder if the same thing will happen to Walmart? 11:46:55 PM

Updated with a couple o' links to the right. Links I tend to follow at least semi-regularly. As I spend a fair amount of my time away from my desktop, I figured I might as well use this site as a kind of personal portal, centralized shortcuts, or whatever. Also blew away the category links to the right. Not really using 'em that much, and I'd rather not have stale links cluttering things up. 11:25:30 PM

Completely unrelated to either of the pieces below: woo-hoo! 5:59:58 PM

Breaking news: A small plane has hit Milan's tallest skyscraper, setting the top floors of the 32-storey building on fire and killing at least three people. Interior Minister Claudio Scajola said it appeared to be an accident. Italian police said the plane was carrying no one but the pilot, and radio reports said he was killed. Tipping point? Prior to 9/11/01, I don't think I'd ever heard of a plane crashing into an office building. Since then, there have been two more. Accidents happen, sure, but it seems like it would be pretty difficult to accidentally hit an office building, especially the tallest one on the horizon. 12:56:48 PM

Conclusion. The terrible bites, bruises and internal injuries inflicted on a 3-year-old Lakeville boy brought tears to the eyes of a Dakota County judge Wednesday as she sentenced his murderer to life in prison without parole. 7:59:55 AM

Deep Linking Returns to Surface. The Danish Newspaper Publishers' Association is trying to stop a news service from linking to stories within its website in a case some fear may alter the natural course of the Web. By Michelle Delio. Hmmm. Intellectual property around linking directly to something other than a site's home page. Yikes. It's not like the home page is a mandatory front door or anything, or that there's even such a thing as any front door. I need to think about this one some more, but it smells pretty rotten. 7:58:05 AM