Month: May 2002
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Another important piece of my childhood has fallen by the wayside. The WWF is now the WWE. That story makes it sound like the World Wildlife Fund was being all unreasonable and litigious, though, when I thought that the wrestlers were the first ones to sue over copyright. *shrug* Oh well. Excuse me while I…
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No more Celebrity Jeopardy. It is a sad, sad day.
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Sorry to be so absent. I’m working on releasing GoddessBlog to the world. Still have lots to do…
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Since you guys did so well with the whole Thrustmaster/Stickmaster quiz, here’s another creative consumer challenge for you. There’s a commercial currently running on Australian TV that infuriates me. It’s shot like a 1940’s crime movie. With tense music pumping in the background, a well-dressed woman is cleaning up after a murder she has just…
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Holy crap! Gretel was just getting ready to announce this week’s Big Brother evictee when the whole Channel 10 feed went black. No sound, no picture. It came back ten seconds later just in time for us to catch Aaron picking up his bags. (Good riddance, asshole.) But man! Somebody’s going to lose their job…
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If you’re into comics, May 4 is Free Comic Book Day in the U.S. Apparently you can go into any comic book store and get one free!
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As the weather gets colder here, my urge to bake kicks in. Yesterday I got a hankering for monkey bread. (Hey, even Cindy Crawford likes it!) Unfortunately they don’t seem to sell any kind of pre-prepared bread dough at my grocery store, so I decided to make it from scratch. I’d never even done a…
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I just received this from a friend. You’ve probably seen it already, but it gave me a chuckle. When Mark Shuttleworth (that very rich space tourist) returns from space, everybody dress in ape suits. Pass it on.
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My newest web project, Purple Weasels.org, has finally launched! It’s so fun to see people using this thing that I have created. I think it’s a pretty good “community” site overall. I had originally planned on using phpWebSite for it, but I found myself spending most of my time turning off parts of the thing…
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Following his report on usability for kids, Jakob’s now come out with one on usability for senior citizens. Very interesting stuff. And as he notes, it’s the one user category we’re all likely to join someday. As you might expect, bigger text is the number one priority for older surfers. Hmmm, in OmniWeb my text…