Monday, December 30, 2002

Yeah, but they probably have more visitors than I have. So what's the problem? (Could it be the navigation of those sites? The content?) Mhmmm... Official websites leave public cold. Politics: The government's £1bn plan to put all public services on the internet is in danger of creating 'online millennium domes with just as few visitors', a new report has warned. [Guardian Unlimited] 7:21:29 PM    comment []

You see?! Walking the dog can be dangerous! Get a cat instead a dog. Should I stay or should I go? BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Funeral for punk hero Strummer: "The funeral of Clash star Joe Strummer, who died of heart failure last week aged 50, has taken place in west London. The singer died on 23 December at his home after taking his dog for a walk." 7:16:00 PM    comment []

This is very old news indeed, and I have mentioned it before, but then - why not again: Google Mac Exclusive! Looking for an easier way to find Mac information on Google? Well, look no further. All you need to do is visit Mac Google and search away! For example, while searching for "Microsoft Office" on Google's main search site, the first return will be about the Windows version of Office. Searching for the same term on Mac Google will bring you directly to the Mac version of Office. This is a simplistic example, but one that illustrates the convenience of this service nicely. Google even has a Mac-oriented logo for the service. Via MacObserver. (Guys, you're late...) 7:09:59 PM    comment []

Didn't I mention this already? Online Literature Library - Classics at the Online Literature Library Probably the same stuff you're getting everywhere else. 5:14:02 PM    comment []

This always seems to happen at Banks. Japanese banking giant faces new sex bias claim [This is London: London News] 5:06:48 PM    comment []

Gold! Rum! Adventure! All about Treasure Island here: Treasure Island - Home "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" 3:29:42 PM    comment []

Now they've gone completely mad over here. Terror cordon panic warning [This is London: London News] 3:18:57 PM    comment []

Garageland. No, sorry, that's supposed to read: Theatreland. The West End's restoration drama. Arts: London's antique theatres need gold not gilt to keep up appearances. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:17:47 AM    comment []

This is brilliant. Tarot cards with Peanuts characters. Fantastic. The artist "Valerian" pleads online, "Don't sue me," and offers this explanation of the offbeat project: "An absurd, heretical, really cool view of an ancient ritual of divination: This is a joke. Six-year-old suburban kids enacting adult emotions and situations, breaking them down and magnifying them into hilarious crumbs of childhood experience - tragedy, pain, and measured triumph. With children as protagonists and innocent humor as the disarming tool, the emotions are simplified and magnified (as are the physical features of each cartoon drawing) and the exchanges between the children become both an ironic parody of adult emotions, and an impossibly close and meditative study of them." Via BoingBoing. 9:09:08 AM    comment []

Jeffrey Zeldman is right. Awkward and non-existing things in OS X: View By Date Modified Considered Harmful : If there is a way to change the sort order from the useless default, we haven't discovered it yet. (Jeffrey Zeldman via MyAppleMenu) 8:54:52 AM    comment []