Friday, December 31, 2004

Happy New Year, y'all. Thanks for coming to my weblog. Thanks for reading and writing, thinking and building, daring and sharing and creating something new and powerful, in Greensboro and across the country and around the world. May your 2005 be healthy and prosperous. Count your blessings. I'm counting you among mine.  Peace. 3:13:22 PM    comment []

A great list of links to tsunami info, including ways to help, from Jeff Jarvis. 3:03:19 PM    comment []

Don't forget: Triangle weblog conference, Feb. 12. I'm planning to go, would be happy to share the ride if anyone needs transportation or wants company. 2:42:43 PM    comment []

"(Herb) Sendek's job is in danger," says the resident Woofpack fan over at ACC Hoops after last night's "horrific" loss to St. John's. 9:37:37 AM    comment []

Lance Armstrong, world's greatest athlete? Sam Hieb has some thoughts. 9:34:48 AM    comment []

Hoggard has some advice for sporadic blogger and Greensboro mayor pro tem Yvonne Johnson, who vows to blog more often. 9:33:28 AM    comment []

Slate: How the animals survived the tsunami. 9:26:56 AM    comment []

The Nit Picker's Guide to the Lord of the Rings. (via Backwards City) Induces sympathy for Peter Jackson and dilutes the substantive criticism by mixing the pertinent (e.g., the recharacterization of Faramir and Elrond, the changes at Helm's Deep) with the picayune (e.g., "Boromir refers to Lothlorien as 'perilous' (FOTR p.439). Jackson has Gimli refer to Lothlorien as 'perilous.'") 9:25:52 AM    comment []

FRM went home for the holidays and used her semester of law-school training to advantage during a drunken political argument with her dad. 9:16:37 AM    comment []

Another promising local aggregation site: Urban Vancouver. 9:09:50 AM    comment []

The fine new local aggregator, TriadBlogs, turns out to be the work of...GiT's TheShu. Mr. Sun wins the guessing game and for identifying TheShu gets his choice of an EdCone.com virtual tote bag or coffee mug. Suggestions: move the news feed from Topix out of the stream of local blog posts -- put it in a box somewhere else on the page. (Same to you, Greensboro101.) And limit the excerpted text of a post to a paragraph or two. 9:02:22 AM    comment []