Now Dorothy Gambrell is writing C&G strips just for Erin and me.
Archive for July, 2005
Dear music-geek lazyweb: How do you deal with the problem of consolidating bulk-ripped CDs with your existing iTunes library? Here’s the scenario:
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I watched Edward Scissorhands for the first time last night. (I confessed to Erin that I had never seen it; she colluded with the TiVo to remedy the situation.) Now I know what those barbers were on about!
Today’s OK/Cancel comic features a cameo by not only David Siegel’s seminal (and now somewhat outdated) Designing Killer Websites, but also the “soothing green light” Slashdot t-shirt. Thanks, Tom!
Jeff Rowland’s Overcompensating for today is unstoppably awesome (if you are a webcomics geek).
So, we’ve been playing a lot of Tetris recently, and I guess I kind of have it on the brain now.
I still intend to implement many of the thoughtful suggestions you offered back in April when I freaked out about the usability of this site. In the meantime, I’ve adjusted the tag browser on the left to only show tags which apply to two or more entries, in an effort to keep the clutter down. [You can still view the entire tag list.]
Danah Boyd’s strained metaphors for modern corporations as geopolitical entities are pretty funny—
Microsoft is Germany. They did some pretty evil things a while back but you don’t remember the details, you just know that you really hate them. Even though they’re really no worse than any other large corporpation/country, you can’t help but distrust them permanently because, well, you always have.
Google is the United States. It has never seen trouble on home turf. It is arrogant and loved by the elite. You know you’re supposed to respect them for being better than everyone else, because they think they are, but you actually kinda resent them for being so rich and powerful. Yet, you really like their cool toys.
—but Danny O’Brien’s addition is not to be missed:
Sun is France. Big, bit slow these days, defends against accusations of evil by referring to its part in a revolution hundreds of years ago that no-one but them now remembers. Own evil propensities overshadowed by outrage whenever any one else wanders from true path.
Keep on going on about how great their language is.
