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The only IA link in today's fat gleaning: http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange002.html making the case for qualitative research. good article! davenet.userland.com/2000/07/08/whyICameToSilconValley he gets it: "The rage of Napster is not P2P, it's music! Get a clue." http://davenet.userland.com/2000/07/08/whyICameToSilconValley http://strom.com/awards/205.html he gets it: "A number of web storefronts are offering up specialized shopping sections for women. Call it eCommerce for her. It is almost always a really bad idea." http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/technology/29brie.html "NY Times: From March 29, 2000; Since Women Ask for Directions, the Web is Being Remapped" not really certain that I like this. "The Alertbox for July 9 is now online at: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000709.html Experience with WAP in Europe shows that it is hard to use. Because of the miserable usability of the small phones, services must be re-designed for each handset, increasing maintenance costs." if you like pop-philosophy, read ten principles for the 21st century http://werbach.com/whirrled/ten_principles.html some are true, some are obvious, some are useless, and some are little koans to think about. Today, glassdog is the source from which all good things flow. http://glassdog.com/ I got my glassdog newsletter today. in it were these sites (these are my descriptions of said sites) http://www.pinstruck.com/ You can send a voodoo curse to anyone anonymously. As well as it being a fun site, I also really like the navigation, especially the way they show where you are in the site. http://www.waytoopersonal.com/ tales of online dating.. the ads and the response from sweet and mushy to friggin bizarre "at the mit media laboratory aesthetics + computation group we work toward the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces" Which means you are on your own here... http://acg.media.mit.edu/ glassdog has a fun feature called Overheard. http://glassdog.com/overheard/index.html a few OVERHEARD for June 5, 2000 The Setting: At work The Players: Two Delivery drivers The Witness: I was watching ladies' tennis on TV in the office OVERHEARD: He said: That mobile phone is gonna give you cancer! He observed: It's nothing compared to those cigarettes that you smoke! He said: Yeah, but I have enjoyed every cigarette and you haven't enjoyed every conversation on that phone. - - - OVERHEARD for June 12, 2000 The Setting: On the street The Players: Two guys The Witness: They were walking toward me OVERHEARD: He said: That's Serbo-Croatian for "We are all dentists here." and finally glassdog offers some odd suggestions for .sig's, which lead to lovely strange musings "to the girl sitting next to me in math class: if you don't stop clicking your tongue stud, i may actually stab you with my pencil. and be warned; i sharpen it often." - http://ginger.diaryland.com/ "a totalitarian dream-- i was surrounded by four japanese soldiers and four british soldiers. they were thought police, rounding up people and herding them into a mall. matt ran up the down escalator and escaped. lael, smoking because he thought it was a godard film, went invisible-- literally--but he was still pushed into the "soft biology" wing where he was to work. drew langhofer was herded into the sculpting wing. i was almost herded, but then i woke up with my alarm." - http://lastnite.diaryland.com/ now you can go to glassdog and sign up to receive his occasionally published, quirk filled newsletter too. ------------------------------------------------------------ The Word of the Day for today, Mon Jul 10, is: **** 7:13, Seven thirteen **** You can hear all the translations spoken at: http://www.travlang.com/wordofday/46.html The translations you requested of this are: french: 7h13, Sept heures treize ................................................................ sick of me? Go to www.eleganthack.com and unsubscribe. Can't get enough of me? Go there and read my 'blog. |