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• Free Wi-fi
  I'm not sure how I feel about the concept of free wi-fi in coffee shops and bars - sure, we all like “free”, and I'm always careful to order refills and tip the baristas copiously. But, it can be impossible to get a table, because of wi-fi squatters. This afternoon, I'm sitting at Fall Cafe in our new neighborhood, and looking around at the other tables - each with a laptop - and I see a lot of empty cups - these people have been sitting here for hours. As you can see from the new signage in the window...
• First Week in Carroll Gardens
  We arrived last Wednesday, and unpacking is an ongoing project. We sold, gave away, or threw out most of our “big stuff”, so this move is not only about a new space, but also a lot of new purchases. A lot of the stuff we got rid of was from our college days, and had also already made it through our fire. I'm most excited about our new sofa, which Lisa bought from Room & Board in SoHo. Thanks to Jason and Liz for tipping us off to this place - we loved everything we saw there. Their furniture manages...
• Free IKEA Sofa in Cambridge
  Hi - one big piece of furniture left before our move Wednesday. It's an IKEA sofa/couch: There is some cat damage: ...but it would clean up nice with a slipcover from IKEA. Free, but we need you to get it outta' here by Wednesday, preferably earlier. Let me know! nedward AT gmail DOT com...
• “No Reservations”
  Went to the Common today to see a total chick flick: No Reservations [NY Times Review], starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart. I figured, hey, I've got lots of expired AMC Theaters gift certificates sitting around that have to be accepted in Massachusetts by law, and I've got time... why not? This film is a quiet, understated emotional triumph. Sure, we all love to watch Mrs. Douglas mope around the screen in a cute Chef's outfit, and who doesn't like Aaron Eckhart every moment he's on screen? The dude made Thank You for Smoking watchable, so he has talent. But...
• Kittens
  To think that I feel guilty when our little ones' dishes are empty, and they meow at me: The single most effed up thing I've seen today....
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Is Is”
  The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Is Is is out, and it kind of reminds me why they were worth listening to in the first place. From Pitchfork: Each aspect of her (Karen O's) stage identity finds equal expression on these songs, which only makes them sound more immediate and affecting. In fact, Is Is may be their most instantly accessible release, which is not a critical dig but just a way of saying it finds a good balance between alienating and inviting, between song and performance. It was produced by Australian Nick Launay (who recorded Gang of Four, Killing...
• Ravenclaw
  According to The Harry Potter Sorting Hat Personality Test, I'm a Ravenclaw - but just barely: Ravenclaw 75, Hufflepuff 73, Slytherin 68, Gryffindor 65 But, Lisa took the test for me, and is convinced that I'm quite Slytherin: Slytherin 85, Gryffindor 62, Ravenclaw 61, Hufflepuff 38 One of us has a perception problem, at least when it comes to me! What house are you?...

• Two New Free Downloads from Microsoft
  Two great new free downloads from the Microsoft Mac BU this week: Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta)Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect to a Microsoft Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer. Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac (Beta)...convert Office Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v. X for Mac. Just doing their part to promote Mac & Windows cohabitation....
• MTA Subway Map for iPhone
  Since I bought my iPhone on June 30, I've been looking for an easy, high-quality method for viewing the MTA Subway map. The phone's built-in Photo application “optimizes” all photos and images down to a dimension and resolution that doesn't work well for images with lots of small text and details. What I wanted, was the ability to view a PDF, or large PNG of the system map – and to be able to zoom in and drag it around easily. Bill at iSubwayMaps.com outlined one such solution, which involved setting up a Yahoo! mail account, since IMAP mail accounts...
• Good Deed of the Day
  I'm doing some coding (and drinking iced coffee) today at Darwin's, near Harvard Square - and I did the unthinkable. I found a Nikon D80 (with a nice lens) left behind by another customer, and I turned it in to the staff. Yea, I surprise myself sometimes....
• Puppy vs. Kitty
  We had our moving sale this weekend, on our front stoop - and we even put Katya (our five-year old kitty) in her harness and leash, to walk around the yard. So, today is cat day! May I present, “Puppy vs. Kitty”:...
• Moving Sale
  Lisa and I are packing up our Cambridge apartment in advance of our move to Brooklyn in early August. As such, we are getting rid of a lot of stuff - most of the big stuff is IKEA related. We're going to be doing the yard sale thing tomorrow morning, and maybe sunday as well. For more info, map, etc. check these out: Craigslist Ad, with photos Flickr Photoset...
• Smith Street Confronts the Corporate Takeover
  Ooh, Cobble Hill folks are worried that their neighborhood is losing its charm, as cookie-cutter shops are opening along Smith St. Good thing our new apartment is closer to the Gowanus and the BQE... Smith Street Confronts the Corporate Takeover - New York TimesDespite the neighborhood’s predilection for remaining under the radar, compared with more-famous borough destinations like Park Slope or Williamsburg, the cost of opening a store along this stretch of Smith Street can now be twice as high......
• Blogging for 7 years?
  I'm totally getting old! I just realized that I missed my "blogging" anniversary... On this past July 11, this site hit the 7 year mark. wow. FIrst Post? It was about that brick of a digital camera (point-n-shoot) that I bought that summer. My original weblog was on blogger, and then was migrated to a ned.suckahs.org, when we set up the suckahs domain in July 2001. (More on that here.) In February 2005, I decided to split it out into the domain I use today....
• “Designed Deterioration”, and the return of Links
  Now that I have 2 days left at my current job, and a big move to NYC coming, I'm going to attempt to post more often. A new design for the weblog is also in the works, but not sure when I'll get to it. In that spirit, I found myself reading and re-reading Khoi's recent post about how we value objects that deteriorate in a cool way. Khoi is far more eloquent than I can be, so just go there and read it: Subtraction: Designed DeteriorationUnused objects are ignorant; only the ones that have been put to use, that...
• Pownce
  Anybody got a Pownce invite? Pretty please? UPDATE: All set, thanks Rich!...

• Movable Type 4 Beta
  Well that was fun - I tried to upgrade to the new Movable Type 4 Beta, and it completely hosed my MT database tables. Luckily for once, I backed up everything, prior to taking the leap - so we're back up running now. It might be a good time to finally switch over to WordPress?...
• Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience
  I’ve been listening to a few CDs on repeat a lot, these past few months – my chief obsession being The Knife’s two LPs, the earlier Deep Cuts, and last year’s Silent Shout. I’m not a big techno fan, but I am a confessed svensk-phile. I’m excited to hear from Pitchfork that The Knife are getting ready to release a deluxe edition of Silent Shout, “featuring a live disc and a DVD in addition to the original synth-rattled masterpiece.” I’m totally looking forward to the DVD [Pre-order with Amazon] – my favorite track “Heartbeats” was re-worked awesomely. Here’s a preview:...

• SXSW: Day 1
  4 restless hours of sleep, and 1 Jetblue direct flight from BOS to AUS, and I found myself in Austin. Checked into the hotel and met up with the EchoDitto folks, and other friends. There are like 4 Jasons, 2 Justins, a John (me) — so it gets confusing. 70 degrees here, 55 or so at night. This festival totally takes over the city. Met some cool people last night, and the first panel this morning was cool — i started in “why XSLT is sexy”, but bailed for “emerging social and technology trends”. Next up, “How to Bluff Your...

• SXSW '07
  Things have been so hectic with work lately, there’s been no time to update. I’ll be attending the SXSW Interactive Festival this year in Austin, TX. I just couldn’t let another year go by. I’m crashing with Jason and the EchoDitto crew at the Hyatt — can’t wait to meet everybody....

• links for 2007-01-20
  The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2006 An alt weekly from my home town has some snarky observations....
• links for 2007-01-05
  Quinn: a nice Tetris version for OS X Free, and you can play on your local network, with Bonjour support! Chief Justice Rehnquist was on painkillers for 10 years A doctor was cited as saying that Rehnquist, an associate justice of the Supreme Court at the time, tried to escape the hospital in his pajamas and imagined that the CIA was plotting against him. YouTube - OUTSOURCED movie trailer Sounds familiar: After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman (Hamilton) heads to India to train his replacement. Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta3 The best and fastest...

• Sabres as Oasis?
  We're heading home to Buffalo for the holiday, (and my 10-year High School reunion), which reminds me of how well the Sabres are playing. ESPN's John Buccigross compares the Sabres to the britpop Oasis of all things: At full strength, the Buffalo Sabres are unequivocally the best team in the NHL. Not only do they have the full complement of parts, but Buffalo has that confidence that Oasis had when they went head-to-head with Blur back in 1995 in a Britpop mano a mano, or more accurately called boyo-a-boyo. Noel Gallagher said he and Oasis' soul was more pure than...
• Indie Rock and Pot
  Sorry for not posting in a while, but Presley posted something too funny: Weed Makes You Listen to Indie Rock According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, smoking the wacky tabacky turns you into a poseur. Even worse: an indie rock poseur. Listen to this PSA. Just listen to it. And then just try to tell me it doesn’t make you want to put down the bong and start listening to rap music. [mp3]...

• links for 2006-10-18
  Some great Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail conversation preview bubbles, Label colors, & keyboard macros Smart Google Reader Subscribe Button Another cool Greasemonkey script, if you’re into Google apps. Alison from Project Runway Season 3 is getting her own line Kicked off way to early, (I don’t say this just because she was the cutest), it’s good to see her doing well. And, she’s a Cape Cod native....
• links for 2006-10-13
  It’s Windows Freeware day! AIM light Nice light-weight AOL Instant Messenger client. Taskbar Shuffle After installing and running Taskbar Shuffle, all you have to do is click-hold-drag the way you would if you were reordering anything in Windows....
• links for 2006-10-10
  The Good, The Bad And The Queen - “Herculean” Stereogum has an MP3 of the first single from TGTB&TQ… it’s more Gorillaz than vintage Blur, but haunting none the less. More info on TGTB&TQ here...

• Lad Lit in Song
  I always knew there was something wrong with Nick Hornby… now I have proof....
• BU Central
  Man, I’ve taken a long break from this site… a belated welcome back to all the college kids — I almost forgot about all of you. And since it’s the new school year, it’s also time for BU Central to start up. They host bands, comedians and other fun stuff that we never had during our years there. Rainer Maria It makes me laugh when they pop up on Sirius Left of Center, as “up-and-coming!!!”. Beirut I really don’t get what the buzz is about, but, I have to respect their live act. I’ve never seen a room of kids...

• The Good, The Bad And The Queen
  photo by NME The Official Blur mailing list announced today that Damon Albarn’s new project The Good, The Bad And The Queen, will perform their first gig at a BBC festival in October. TGTBTQ is a collaboration between Albarn (Blur & Gorillaz), bassist Paul Simonon of The Clash, and guitarist Simon Tong of The Verve. Damon is already setting expectations high, according to the BBC: It was “a story” rather than a band, said Albarn, adding he was “very, very proud” of the work, which will be performed on 26 October at the Roundhouse. “It’s a very English record....
• �Security�
  Windows is driving me insane at work — all of these little security fixes that get in the way of productivity. Last Friday, I installed the latest Windows updates and rebooted at the end of the day. When I get to work and log in on Monday morning, I get this security warning every time I click on a zip file: Internet Explorer This page has an unspecified potential security risk. Would you like to continue? Um, yes, permanently. It only repros (so far) for ZIPs on network shares and mapped drives. I’ve got Win XP SP2 & IE7… any...
• The Beatings
  I went to see Reverse play at Bill’s Bar Friday night, and got to catch The Beatings for the first time. They’re a four-piece indie-rock act from Boston that’s been around for a couple of years, and they reminded me a lot of H�sker D� and the last Pixies album, Trompe le Monde. It’s a pretty raw sound, but always melodic and direct. And I liked that the two guitarists and bassist each took turns at the mic — (no doubt they also share in song writing).  Myspace : take a listen to some tracks eMusic : download albums...
• Windows Live Writer (Beta)
  I’m posting this from inside Windows Live Writer, a newly released “weblogging” application by Microsoft. It’s a slick little windows app, with support for publishing to Movable Type, Wordpress, as well as Live Spaces, by default. Paul Stamatiou has an extended review, but here are some of the features: WYSIWYG Authoring Spell Check Photo Publishing Map Publishing, (via Live Local) Compatibility with Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress (and many others) Also, like most good WYSIWYG editors, it allows you to toggle over to HTML code view � (taking a quick look at this post, I see that it writes pretty clean code). Note:...
• links for 2006-08-07
  Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black Hilarious spoof of the VH1 staple, with lots of interesting facts about a very familiar typeface. Helvetica: the Film A feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. Thank god for the Swiss. Johnny Marr Joins Modest Mouse Legendary Smiths’ guitarist had been writing and recording with the band, but is now “a full blown member”, according to front man Isaac Brock. OK GO - Here It Goes Again video Hilarious choreography, OK music. I will never look at a treadmill the same again. [via]...
• New Brain Bucket
  I decided to splurge a little on myself this weekend, and buy a new helmet for scootin’ — a Shoei RF-1000 in matte-black. My original helmet was a Korean HJC CL Max, with a flip-up chin bar — but it never quite fit me right, and it looked mildly retarded, all shiny and bubbly. Shoei’s designs are much more streamlined and fitted. I love the matte black — first my RAZR, next this helmet… the only thing left for me to buy is a Darth Book. photos: 1 | 2...
• ICA Boston
  IMG_2306, by droush16. It looks like the new ICA on the South Boston waterfront has to delay it's September opening: In interviews yesterday, ICA officials, architect Ricardo Scofidio, and construction company manager John Macomber said that the remaining work was not major. Among the pending tasks -- termed �minutiae� by one ICA trustee -- was the need to test the building's ticket counter and climate control system. [via]...

• Pitchfork Music Festival
  We didn't make it down to SXSW, but we are heading to Chicago for Pitchfork's festival. 96 degrees and humid... see you in hell, Chicago!...
• links for 2006-07-27
  Fix Keyword Assistant in newer iPhoto Thank god for this workaround - I’ve been stuck in “compatibility mode” since April. Smultron Mac Text Editor The “split window” feature looks sweet, especially for when you’re editing both a HTML and CSS file simultaneously. The Icon Factory’s Animated “Under Construction” Page I’ve enjoyed watching each installment — funny stuff for web geeks....
• Weekly Dig Redesign
  I look forward to picking up the new Dig every Wednesday morning while I’m in line for coffee at Herrell’s. It’s the only readable “alt” weekly I’ve ever come across - anywhere. And finally, the Dig has a new website to match their print offering. There is a daily blog, my favorite column Media Farm, a round-up of local events in the right column. Also, you may subscribe via a variety of RSS feeds....
• (Un)Happy Planet Index
  The Happy Planet Index is a fascinating examination of countries’ economic and ecological footprints. Like much of social science, I’m not convinced that it shows anything concretely useful at all, but it does satiate my need for rank-order and self-examination. Here is how they designed the study: The Index doesn�t reveal the �happiest� country in the world. It shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert the planet�s natural resources into long and happy lives for their citizens. The nations that top the Index aren�t the happiest places in the world, but the nations that score well show that achieving,...
• links for 2006-07-20
  �Sith Abandon Ship� T-Shirt I’m a sucker for these funny Star Wars T-shirts, especially when they’re printed on American Apparel. …features an awesome imagined scene of a Darth water rescue. Man, is he gonna be pissed. Fisher-Price MP3 player No, we’re not talking about Web 2.0 me-too design� this is an actual device for young children. (I can see Apple jumping in here with the iTot.) [via] CoComment launches new features Finally, it will track comments from all readers, not merely other CoComment members. Do yourself a favor and sign up!...
• links for 2006-07-19
  Dvorak is a f*cking idiot Hack piece on CSS, and its supposed deficiencies… maybe John should stick to a Blogspot template, or hire someone who understands the subject. [via] UPDATE: John Allsop picks apart Dvorak’s piece Forbes names Buffalo a �Bohemian Bargain� Don’t let Buffalo’s reputation as a frigid Lake Erie town fool you. There’s plenty of heat here�particularly in the arts. Part of their 150 Cheap Places to Live series....
• Rhode Island of Misfit Toys Rally
  This past weekend was the Rhode Island camping rally… we rented a truck to transport the bikes, drank sangria made from 4.5 bottles of wine & 1 bottle of brandy, and had a good time scooting around, (before the drinking began). I even got to DJ saturday night, with an improvised iPod/radio setup. Even the 90+ degree heat couldn’t keep us down - but I totally understand now the importance of shade, when you’re trying to snooze inside a tent. Rhode Island of Misfit Toys photoset. Presley’s photoset Video of Angie’s gymkhana crash on YouTube...
• links for 2006-07-14
  The Killer’s new song, When You Were Young They updated their web site, with the full version of the new single. Hear the Springsteen influence? The album due out in October. Last.fm update today? The site and service are on hold right now....
• Vox Upgrade
  Well, I finally have access to a blog on Vox… (the starter account is little more than an online profile). Seems like other people also complained: With this release, we are also responding to your feedback that the whole starter account thing wasn’t working and have decided to shelve that feature for now. Last week, we upgraded all starter accounts to standard accounts (yay!) and have turned that account level off. It seems pretty cool, but I don’t have any invites! So, I have no friends. If you’re on Vox, add me to your neighborhood....
• Scooting in the Times
  Presley sent me an article in the Sunday New York Times about scooting: Cheap, Chic and Sociable: The Buzz About Scooters. I give the journalist a lot of cred for accurately capturing the community, (at least in nyc). I especially found this passage funny: Scooter owners will tell you that drivers on four wheels are clumsy and often disrespectful. “They park by feel in New York City,” said Peter Lutjen, a book cover designer. “They back up until they bump into something, and if they bump into a scooter, it’s going down. So your option is, get knocked down...
• links for 2006-07-07
  Upcomingscrobbler Awesome mashup of your last.fm data, and Upcoming.org events in your area… it even provides an ATOM feed, (though the feed does not validate, and gives errors as of now). iCalendar support is coming in the future, which will keep you from ever missing a good show again!...

• Adobe Flash Player 9
  Product Manager Emmy Huang writes in the Adobe Development Center: As we looked at our goals for Flash Player 9, however, we realized that it would be too limiting to continue to evolve the existing engine. We wanted to create a watershed moment in the history of Flash Player, and to deliver it we needed to be able to innovate without constraint. As a result, ActionScript 3.0 is essentially a full rewrite of the ActionScript engine. ActionScript 3.0 executes in a new, highly-optimized virtual machine known as AVM2, which we built for efficiency and performance. Although AVM2 will be the...
• Outlook 2007 & Gcal
  I’m one of those stiffs who loves his Powerbook, but is forced by necessity (and Corporate IT) to work in Windows XP and Outlook all day. Meeting requests come in and tasks are assigned, all using Outlook. However, because I rely so much on Gmail in my personal life, I store personal events online with Google Calendar. Everything works seamlessly on my mac, as Apple’s iCal software allows subscriptions. But there is no way to get Outlook 2003 to sync or share data in the iCalendar format… in fact, I think that Outlook stores its information in some Microsoft proprietary...
• links for 2006-06-26
  Bicycle Drift Get that Fast & the Furious Tokyo Drift action with your bike [via] The Culture of Fugly DxF is back, arguing against those who argue “bad design is good design”… I love the redesign. Project Runway to return on July 12 I became a fan midway through season 2, so I can’t wait for the new crew. It’s a great reality show for creative-minded people. Slate redesigns More, more, more… and, huge-ass rollover menus....
• Asobi Seksu @ Great Scott
  We went to The Plan at Great Scott on Saturday night to see the Brooklyn band Asobi Seksu - I got some good shots of them and two of the opening bands. As I wrote earlier, the new record Citrus is an incredible step forward for them, and the live show succeeded in duplicating the wash of guitars and noise, without completely covering up Yuki’s voice. They’re nice people, too. The other great thing during the set were the lights and smoke effects… so cool. The Plan people are really showing up the old Cambridge clubs, because it was freaking...
• links for 2006-06-19
  Erik Spiekermann trashes the World Cup branding All designers like to talk shit, but I think he’s just jealous of the gig. [via] Colibri It’s like Quicksilver for Windows. [via]...
• Vox Invites
  Six Apart has Opened Up Invites for Vox Can I please have one? Thanks Matt! Now, anybody want to upgrade me to a Standard; account? ;-)...
• Diesel Sweeties
  I love Diesel Sweeties … I prefer to name my computers and devices after imaginary girls who would never go out with me....
• Glass Candy
  Nobuko and I went to see PDX’s Glass Candy play at Great Scott last night… wow, what a fun show. It’s a three piece band, made up of a drummer, guitarist, and a glammed up blonde singer named Ida No. They use a lot of loops and beats, which mix with some relentless drumming and No’s post-punk vocal stylings. She coos, she screams, and she meanders around the stage, barefoot. And most of all, she makes white boys like me dance. She’s Debbie Harry on meth. What’s not to like? My New York City friends can catch them tonight at...
• West Elm in the Fenway
  Apparently, West Elm is coming to the Fenway, in the new Trinity mixed-use complex under construction between Boylston & Brookline Aves. Our house is all IKEA, but if you have a bit more money to throw around, West Elm has some nice stuff....
• The Omen
  Rating: B+ So yea, I went to the movies on 6/6/06, to see the remake of The Omen. I was surprised to find the theater packed on a Tuesday night, but the full house added to the suspense. Here’s my quick review: ready? The story takes its time to develop, but its not “slow”. The production design was incredible, with on-location shooting in Italy, London, and Jerusalem. Julia Stiles is one of the better actresses of her generation, and it was interesting to see her play a wife and mother. Why is the Roman Catholic hierarchy always portrayed as evil?...
• links for 2006-06-07
  Google Calendar Notifier Firefox Extension Exactly what I needed — a little pop-up reminder for my gCal appointments. Google Spreadsheets Announced A limited trial for now, though I was granted access in less than 24 hours - sign up . Om wonders if it’s a waste of time and talent. Google AJAX Search API The possibilities are endless....
• Copyrights Pressure
  The New York Times discovered everybody’s favorite cut-rate Russian MP3 site… allofmp3.com. And apparently, the Moscow-based business is holding up Russia’s application to the WTO, (nevermind that it’s a totally legal service inside Russia). In other news, I found this BBC headline humorous: Website back after Swedish raids - almost conjures up visions of Viking mauraders… anyway, The Pirate Bay is up, and the Swedes are starting to take to the streets. Stay tuned…...
• 30 Rock
  NBC’s 30 Rock will be on in the fall Starring Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Rachel Dratch, & Alec Baldwin. It could be the funniest thing on NBC next year, (sorry Scrubs), if not for this horrible promotional copy: Welcome to the set of The Girly Show, a fictional television show that serves as the backdrop to Tina Fey�s new workplace comedy. Liz Lemon (Fey) is The Girly Show�s head writer and is being pushed to the edge of reason by the show�s two stars and a demanding network honcho. In order for Liz to keep her job, and her sanity,...
• links for 2006-06-02
  THANK YOU SABRES!!!!!!!! My new favorite hometown weblog Buffalo Rising pours its heart out for the black and red, (maybe soon to return to the blue and gold?) Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assembles and analyzes the evidence - disturbing as it is, I don’t think it will stick. We gotta be ready for ‘08. Al Gore’s presentation in An Inconvenient Truth was designed and executed on Macs, using Keynote �One of the great things about Keynote,� [coproducer] Chilcott points out, �is that we could import and export video and images at extremely high resolution to...
• Links for 2006-06-01
  The Movie Binge From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Matt Jacobs and the Movie Binge team will watch every major movie released, and blog about it. Matt was also interviewed on WNYC [mp3]. Yahoo! launches its YouTube killer - Yahoo! Video TechCrunch has a nice roundup, but bemoans the decision not to fold this functionality into Flickr. I’d rather see the Flickr folks implement video sharing on their own - and design it more for their audience. Elsewares - Independent Art & Design A catalog of unique products from independent designers and entrepreneurs, (similar to Etsy)...
• New to You, New to Me
  A couple of music things to post about today - something new, and something new to me… Asobi Seksu, Citrus The New York City band released their 2nd album this week, and it’s very good. They always reminded me of My Bloody Valentine meets Pizzicato Five, only better… and I absolutely love Sean McCabe’s artwork. Check them out on Myspace, or peep my shots of lead singer Yuki dancing with Jenna. Tilly and the Wall, Wild Like Children I am so not into Bright Eyes, but I love this band… The album reminds me of 60’s folk music, as sung...

• Game 7, Thursday
  Danny Briere’s overtime goal sends series back to Carolina Thank God....
• links for 2005-05-30
  You too can be Karen O. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs want you to dress up like them, and video tape yourself performing “Cheated Hearts” GcalSync Freeware program GcalSync offers two-way synchronization between Gcal and your mobile device�s built-in calendar. Too bad Cingular charges me up-the-ass for bandwidth. Is there an effect of information addiction on the life of couples? A lot of interesting questions, which will hopefully be explored further in a future Wired piece: …a couple surfing on two wifi laptops are visiting different sites, having different experiences. They seem more apart than together. [via]...
• links for 2005-05-22
  Todd Dominey released SlideShowPro Director A slick, AJAX-enhanced UI for creating and maintaining SlideShowPro photo albums on your own Linux server. There is no demo, but a slickly produced video. Also, read Todd’s post. $20. Sabres win game 1 in the Eastern Conference Final 2 of 3 goals coming from defensemen. Game 2 is Monday 5/22 at 7:30pm, on OLN....
• California
  Things have been busy lately, so I’m still playing catch-up with Flickr and this weblog… but, I wanted to write up a short post on our trip to Southern California last month. Presley & I haven’t been to the west coast before, so we were really looking forward to spending a week in the sun. Here are some photos that we took: From the San Diego: Zoo set: tear, polar bear chewy, panda bear From the San Diego: City set: trolley, downtown San Diego From the Los Angeles set: pose, Presley & Milch in Jet Rag WeHo, Jeff & Jared’s...
• links for 2006-05-04
  "An Inconvenient Truth" trailer Al Gore's Global Warming presentation has been filmed in a new documentary. David Remnick calls the film, "a brilliantly lucid, often riveting attempt to warn Americans off our hellbent path to global suicide." (tags: movies politics Democrats) Outblush launches it's Uncrate, but for the ladies. (tags: weblogs women shopping)...
• links for 2006-05-03
  Koyono Slimmy Wallets Uncrate suggests ditching your George Castanza-like wallet, and go with this slim alternative. (tags: shopping weblogs)...
• links for 2006-05-02
  Habitual Flyers trying to catch up to new-age Sabres As we head into Game 6, I'm casting my vote for the new NHL. (tags: sports NHL Buffalo) 2006 Boston Zombie Walk What can I say? I like zombies. (tags: zombies boston photos) Yahoo! Tech I've already moved on from CNET to Gizmodo & Engadget... but it can't hurt to have another good tech review site (tags: yahoo tech)...

• links for 2006-04-27
  Who Is 'the Decider'? Funny NY Times piece on President Bush's latest verbal gaffe, and how it has spread into the popular lexicon. (tags: media politics)...
• links for 2006-04-26
  Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 (for Windows XP) ships Improved CSS rendering, RSS functionality, and something called "quick tabs" [via] (tags: microsoft software web ie) Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006 Influential author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities", dies aged 89. (tags: books canada cities)...
• Let's Go Sabres
  It’s playoff time for the NHL, (though you’d never know it here in Boston), and I am loving what I see in my Buffalo Sabres. They’re up 2-0 in the best-of-seven series with the Flyers, after a brilliant double-overtime win Saturday, and an 8-2 rout last night. Best moment thus far was Buffalo’s Brian Campbell’s clean hit of Philly’s RJ Umberger, in game 1: I do feel bad for the guy, and I’m not cheering for injury. But that is just great playoff hockey, and a big reason why Buffalo is up 2 games to none. And, Philly seems to...
• links for 2006-04-15
  SizzlingKeys for Mac OS X Control iTunes from the keyboard using global hot keys [via] (tags: apple osx itunes software) Panic Releases Stattoo 1.5 Because you can't really have enough widgets... these actually do what you need them to, without getting in the way (tags: apple osx software)...
• links for 2006-04-13
  Kiko Web Calendar Putting the pressure on 30boxes, Kiko launches new features, including - RSS & iCal feeds, sharing, and support for non-IE6 browsers! (tags: osx apple software)...
• links for 2006-04-12
  Corripio: Artwork Finder for iTunes The program takes stock of your entire library and determines which files have art and which ones don't. You can then sort the entire list by number of images per file. (tags: apple osx music software)...
• links for 2006-04-08
  stereogum's: Gorillaz, Live at the Apollo The show was billed as "Demon Days Live," and that's exactly what it was: the entire album, in proper order, performed by live musicians, not cartoons. (tags: music nyc) The Gospel of Judas An ancient early-Christian manuscript was found in Egypt, which casts Judas Iscariot into a new light. (tags: religion christianity media)...
• links for 2006-04-06
  Apple - Boot Camp Lets you install and run Windows XP on your Mac. Beta available now, but the next major release of OS X will come with it built-in. (tags: Apple Windows osx)...
• Time
  From Tabea: Today at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. For Europeans, it will happen on the 4th of May… You’ll have to wait another 100 years to see that again. Watch the clock....
• The New NYTimes.com
  The New York Times launched a modest redesign over the weekend, and it does a great job of presenting large amounts of information in a coherent, organized way. Khoi has the details on his weblog: I think it�s a sterling piece of work, a great example of how to evolve a user experience rather than reinvent it: the best reaction it could receive from readers (those not among that vanishingly small subset of the general populace who can be called �design savvy�) would be something along the lines of �The new design looks just like the old design.� That...
• Blondes
  Jenna bleached her hair, and I can tell she’s having more fun already. (and yes, this is just a shameless excuse to sex up the blog a bit…)...
• Google Romance
  Hey, single people! Find your soul mate, with Google Romance: Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search�, see search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we’ll send you both on a Contextual Date, which we’ll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you’re looking for. Be sure to take the tour, and read the FAQ....

• links for 2006-03-29
  Google Careers Google combines job listings from around the web, in a searchable, mappable, friendly Google interface (tags: Google jobs maps)...
• links for 2006-03-28
  Alaina B.'s photos of the Kottke & Megnut's Wedding very nice and simple (tags: jko kottke megnut wedding photos nyc) Jennifer Chung and Jay Wilkins, Married NY Times throws some love in Gothamist's direction (tags: nyc media weblogs) Stewart & Caterina of Flickr on Newsweek Cover Newsweek is officially on the Web 2.0 bandwagon... mark your calendars. (tags: flickr photos media)...
• Hosted Gmail
  This is fantastic - I’ve setup Hosted Gmail for our old domain, suckahs.org, and it’s working fantastic. I wish that I could use this at work, rather than Exchange/Outlook. There are some nice account manangement functions, and you can create 25 accounts for free. They even allow you to upload a custom logo in place of the standard Gmail logo. Go sign up....
• links for 2006-03-23
  "Locker" Dashboard Widget It has a very simple and limited usage: When you double click it, it will lock your computer. You will end up at login window, just as if you had used the fast user switching menu item. (tags: osx Apple software) MacBook Pro is Fastest Windows XP Notebook The MacBook Pro's score for Photoshop performance beats every currently shipping PC laptop running on the identical Intel CoreDuo chip (only an Acer came close) from PC Magazine's testing. (tags: Apple Windows weblogs) Stereogum has New Dresden Dolls "Sing" (the last track on sophomore release Yes, Virginia, out...
• Hockey East Champs
  My alma mater Boston University clinched the Hockey East Championship this past Saturday, winning in 2-1 OT against Boston College. Now, they’re off to the NCAA tournament, ranked #1 in the nation. They haven’t done that since 1997, when I was a sophomore, and had nothing better to do on Friday nights than go watch the games. And, if that wasn’t enough, a guy who played on that 1997 team, Chris Drury, is captaining my hometown Buffalo Sabres this season. They’re near the top of the conference standings, and one of the most exciting young teams to watch. We’ve...
• links for 2006-03-20
  Launchy A free application launcher for Windows... I've been using CandyLabs' AppRocket, but it seems to hog a lot of memory. So, I'm giving Launchy a try. [via] (tags: windows software free)...
• links for 2006-03-18
  Matisyahu fired his Managers Jacob Harris is a friend of ours from college - it sounds like he lost his star Talent... (tags: music nyc media) Snakes on a Plane trailer The best movie title of 2006... can't wait to see Sam Jackson whoop some snake-ass. [via] (tags: movies funny) Digitalmash: Rob Morris's portfolio I like the "mash of work" concept, and the photo treatments. It's hard to do something original with Portfolio sites, and Rob succeeds. (tags: design web) Two Die After Using Abortion Pill This certainly doesn't help - it gives undeserved credibility to the anti-choice yahoos.....
• No SXSW, but...
  OK, so I’m jealous of all of you SXSW‘ers out there… my Flickr Contacts feed has been full of SXSW antics… next year, I must go, (yea I’ve been saying that for years). Metric Meanwhile, back here in Boston, I’ve seen a couple of good shows. First up was Metric, at the Roxy, on March 7th. If you have the chance to see them on this tour, do yourself a favor and get a ticket. I’m not the only one who is impressed. They’ve got the best frontwoman in Rock n’ Roll right now, (step aside Karen O), and are...
• Back-Bay Apple Store, Part II
  Some details are finally starting to emerge surrounding Apple’s plans for the construction of a signature Flagship retail store in the Back Bay, Boston. IfoAppleStore reports that renderings of the proposed design have leaked (see left), and that the backward-looking Back Bay Architectural Commission has serious misgivings about the 3-story modern glass structure. This is a shame… our wonderfully acerbic alternative newspaper, The Weekly Dig, said it better than I can: Putting aside the mental gymnastics it takes to believe that one glass building would destroy the neighborhoody feeling of a three-lane boulevard that hosts a mall, a convention...
• links for 2006-03-16
  Voice123.com Seems like a straightforward resource for recruiting Voice Talents for various languages... the Talents pay a membership fee to the site, so there is no commission or fees for clients. And, many talents have access to their own studios, which is a nice ou (tags: l10n business) InteractiveVoices.com Another recruitment tool for Voice Talents... The free client membership only allows you to manage 1 job - the full membership costs $99/yr. (tags: l10n business)...
• Lockdown
  Thanks Zooomer & OpenID… I signed up for you this morning, and Google suspended my Gmail access: Lockdown in sector 4! Our system indicates unusual usage of your account. In order to protect Gmail users from potentially harmful use of Gmail, this account has been disabled for up to 24 hours. If you are using any third party software that interacts with your Gmail account, please disable it or adjust it so that its use complies with the Gmail Terms of Use. If you feel that you have been using your Gmail account according to the Terms of Use...
• links for 2006-03-15
  Cuisinart Wine Cellar I'm starting my X-mas wish list in March... (tags: home wine)...
• Yea, New York
  We had a nice weekend in NYC… thanks Jenna, Becca, Jason, Matt, & Sharon. Some observations: Saw Mill Parkway is still the best path into the City. I love driving by Readers Digest HQ. Bloody Marys are better when hand-made. I can’t recommend the food at 7A. Or the service. Don’t let your high school friends tackle you in the middle of Tompkins Square Park… your clothes will end up dirty. I could spend every day in the Lotus Lounge on Clinton St… Coffee, Beer, wi-fi. Starfoods has no other customers at 7:30pm on a saturday night… creepy. Jason...
• Spring?
  It’s a nice day out!...
• links for 2006-03-09
  Screenshots of Google Calendar "CL2 is closely, very closely, integrated with Gmail. It includes now-standard web 2.0 features - Ajax, subscription feeds for integration with iCal and other desktop calendars, event creation, search, sharing, notifications (including SMS) and more." (tags: google calendar tech weblogs) Live.com's new look & features I can't imagine actually ditching Google for a Microsoft search product, but I must say that I am impressed with the Image Search functionality - using AJAX, they mimic the iPhoto/Picasa thumbnail view. (tags: microsoft photos search weblogs)...
• links for 2006-03-07
  Metal Adium X Uses the Polished Window theme, matching iTunes 6 and iLife '06... (tags: apple osx chat design) Natalie Portman's Rap on SNL �I don't sleep motherf**ker off that yak and the bourbon, doin 120 getting head while i'm swervin� (tags: funny video tv)...
• (Re) Launches
  It’s the end of a week, so I thought that I’d note a few new things that I’ve seen this week. First, Anna just launched Door Sixteen, which will document the renovation and restoration of the late-1800�s brick rowhouse just bought in Newburgh, NY. I used to read her old blog, Absolutely Vile, every day, so I’m glad to see that she’s back. Veerle launched her redesigned blog this week, using Expression Engine and a whole lot of magic. A complete, beautiful piece of work, which makes my blog feel completely inadequate and irrelevant. Last and certainly not least, Todd,...

• iPod Packaging Parody
  What if Microsoft re-designed Apple’s iPod packaging? So true, and so good. [via]...
• links for 2006-02-27
  Logahead - Just blog. A great slim blogging app that leverages some excellent open source goodies, such as Scriptaculous, Behaviour, and FamFamFam icons. He's on to something here! (tags: weblogs software free) Dr. Gervais's Frankenstein Karl Pilkington, the breakout star of "The Ricky Gervais Show," has become the object of a global Internet cult and the unlikely harbinger of a technological revolution. (tags: podcasts funny uk)...
• links for 2006-02-24
  Hotkeys Great free application launcher for Windows [via] (tags: Windows software free)...
• links for 2006-02-23
  30 Boxes API Can't wait to see what people can do (tags: software ajax api) Google Page Creator Google Page Creator is a free online tool thatmakes it easy for anyone to create and publish web pages. Designers everywhere are getting fired. (tags: google design) Apple announcing "fun new products" next Tuesday So, what'll it be? The touchscreen video iPod? Intel-powered iBooks? (tags: apple weblogs) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion video This won't win them any new fans, but I love it. (tags: music video)...
• Saab Troubles Continue
  What can I say? Last month, I had to get a new short block put into my 9-3, which is basically most of the engine. $6200 worth of parts and labor, gleefully covered under my extended warranty. But, this Tuesday, I decided to venture out of the office for lunch, (this is suburbia, impossible to get anywhere by foot)… and on the way back, my car just quit on me in the middle of an on-ramp. So, there I am, blocking traffic, waving cars along, and attempting to push the car out of the way, simultaneously steering the wheel. I...
• links for 2006-02-22
  Kottke is done with �full-time� blogging It sounds like the one-year experiment is over - he managed to raise $39,900 from micropatrons. (tags: kottke weblogs) Stalkr - Find your contacts on flickr Great little online app that will take an exported CSV address book, and find your friends' accounts on Flickr (tags: photos flickr) Technorati Weblog: Got Favorites? For those of you without a RSS reader/service (tags: rss weblogs)...
• RAZR v3
  After knocking over a cup of wine onto my Siemens s66, I knew the LCD screen would never be the same. So, after scouring eBay and Craigslist, I decided to get the RAZR v3 Black. Everyone kept telling me that the Motorola UI is horrible, but I find it simple and intuitive compared to the mess that is Siemens. The camera size (VGA) seems like a step down from the Siemen’s 1.3 MP, but I think the quality will be better. The lens is easier to clean, and the RAZR seems to adjust to changes in light better. But,...
• links for 2006-02-17
  RIAA says that CD ripping isn't fair use? The RIAA has filed comments with a federal agency in which they claim that ripping a CD isn't fair use. (tags: music weblogs politics)...
• links for 2006-02-15
  mentos + diet pepsi = crazy fun apparently the two are not compatible. (tags: video candy food) Hunt quail with Dick Cheney oops, I missed. Sorry about your face. [via] (tags: politics Republicans weblogs) "Office Pirates" is coming WSJ on Time Warner's imminent launch of new Web site that intends to �tap into a dynamic that once allowed Wall Street's bawdy and frat-boy humor to spread quickly among financial institutions� (tags: media nyc)...
• Camino 1.0
  Camino is out of beta today! Talk about a great Valentine’s Day gift. I use Camino as my primary browser, since it renders Gmail and Google Reader much faster than Safari/Saft. It doesn’t allow for all of the extensions that Firefox features, but it’s quicker, and just feels more like an OS X application. Here are some links today: John Hicks does a way better job singing Camino’s praises, (love the heart logo!) Om Malik has an interview with the Camino team. Scott from Wishingline suggests CamiTools, a Camino add-on....
• Happy Valentine's day!
  Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day - I hope you all enjoy it. I used fd’s Flickr Toys to create a heart with all of my Flickr contacts [via]. Now, all I need for tomorrow’s big day, is a Teddy Bear Holding a Heart… Available literally almost everywhere! UPDATE: Go ahead, and find yourself!...
• links for 2006-02-13
  Get your 30boxes calendar into Outlook A little bit of software that enables iCal subscriptions in Outlook (tags: 30boxes ical outlook) Dick Cheney Shot His Hunting Companion in the Face Vice President Cheney accidentally sprayed a companion... injuring the man in the face, neck and chest. (tags: Republicans politics guns) Two Feet of Winter White Covers Midtown Manhattan Rion's timeless black & white snaps from yesterday... we got about 12-15" here in Boston. (tags: nyc photos weblogs)...
• Snow Infographics
  Aw crap… there goes our weekend in NYC....
• Beer Logos in Vector Format
  I love this site, which offers tons of beer logos for download, in EPS format [via]. For some reason, this amuses me. What didn’t amuse me, was the 20 minutes of frustration last night, trying to get a freakin’ Boddingtons at The Burren in Davis Square. I had to order twice, from the same woman, (as she must’ve forgot the first one)… and finally I grabbed a second bartender to go check on things. And, HE was the one who brought me my freakin’ beer. I realize that a lot of bartenders double-pour Boddy’s, (much like Guinness), but you’re...
• links for 2006-02-09
  Dave Chappelle�s Block Party Brooklyn! (tags: movies video music)...
• Apple to Build 4-story Store in the Back Bay?
  Bostonist links to rumors that Apple will finally open a flagship store in the heart of Boston. Looprumors reports: Apple is poised to announce a major retail store directly across from the Prudential Center on Boylston Street in Downtown Boston. The store is said to be Apple’s most state-of-the-art store to date with 4 stories and a front made entirely of a glass. Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino is expected to announce plans for the store in the coming week. They couldn’t have picked a better spot. photo is of the new San Francisco store, uploaded to Flickr by iPhil...
• links for 2006-02-07
  Stop Paying for Ring Tones nice little overview by Wired, on DIY Ring Tones. (tags: media mobile ringtones music)...
• links for 2006-02-06
  Keyword Assistant 1.9 released Now fully compatible with iPhoto 6. (yay!) (tags: apple iPhoto Software osx) The New Yorker reviews The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new album The entire record seems hopeful. It is rife with cheery catchphrases��we�re just another part of you,� �good things happen in bad towns��and tremulous guitar parts. (tags: music media nyc)...
• links for 2006-02-04
  A Quick Intro To phpFlickr a nice little tutorial from Scott of Wishingline (tags: flickr api)...
• Pink
  I revamped the CSS and a couple of graphics to be more festive… why should Valentine’s Day be for 1-day only? Enjoy, while it lasts… ;-)...
• Jenna's Visit
  God, it’s good when Jenna visits… photo set....
• links for 2006-02-02
  Google Reader makes labels much easier to use with a nice little drop menu, and keyboard shortcuts. (tags: Google Reader RSS ajax) Cindy Sheehan Arrested Before State of the Union The first ammendment is dead, if you can't wear an anti-war t-shirt in the House of Representatives. Even if you're the guest of a member of Congress. (tags: politics freespeech war)...

• Microsoft Live Betas
  I was just sorting through the 500 spam messages in my Hotmail inbox, and noticed that I received both a Mail Beta and a Messenger Beta invitation. Mail looks nice and simple, and the drag-and-drop functionality is showy. But, it only works in IE6/PC, and it’s sluggish as hell. I wasn’t able to select & delete more than 10-15 spam messages at a time without it timing-out. SIGN UP HERE Messenger got a face lift, and they added some VOIP functionality. The “Shared Folder” feature sounds interesting, but I don’t know anybody else with the Beta, so I haven’t...
• FeedLounge
  Casey was talking about FeedLounge a while back, so when the beta finally launched, I plunked down $5 for a month subscription, mostly out of curiosity. They seem to promise you the world, but I’ve found FL delivers what it promises - a hosted, Ajaxed-up RSS reader, complete with Google Reader-esque keyboard shortcuts. Incidentally, I’m a big fan of Google Reader, because it facilitates speedy consumption of a lot information… learn a couple of keyboard shortcuts, and you can quickly read through your favorite websites on your lunch-hour. However, it’s nearly impossible to manage subscriptions once you’ve imported that...
• Waitin' Tables
  Can’t help but pass along this Remainder from Jason Kottke - NY Times food critic Frank Bruni spends a week “undercover” as a waiter at a [Cambridge] restaurant. In the end, he realizes the hell that is being a waiter: trying to be fluent in the menu and the food, calm in the face of chaos, patient in the presence of rudeness, available when diners want that, invisible when they don’t. It’s a lot, and I should remember that. Does this realization dampen his dining expectations? Nope: I’d still like frequent water refills. And a martini from hell. Straight up....
• 9 years
  The years are just flying by, I can’t believe it… on monday, the girl and I celebrated 9 years together, in the best way we know how: sharing a tasty meal. And what better place to have a nice dinner, than a 4-star restaurant in a converted Burger King? Seriously. Rendezvous just opened up in Central Square, in the old Burger King, and it is really really good. The Phoenix loves it. So does the Globe. And we do, too....
• Birthdays
  A couple of January birthdays help continue my trend of posting to Flickr only photos of my friends drinking… Stef’s 31st Birthday Nobuko’s 33rd Birthday...
• links for 2006-01-20
  This Is Broken A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it. (tags: funny design business) Matt's iPhoto 6 mini review I agree that the thumbnail scrolling is 100x better... and I'm excited to try out his suggestion of Flickr feeds and Photocasts. (tags: apple osx iPhoto weblogs) ted: torrent episode downloader I've been doing this with Azureus and its RSS plugin... but now Windows users have an easier option. (tags: bittorrent tv software windows)...
• Pre-mature Upgrades
  Damn… I’ve got a bunch of photos of somebody’s birthday celebration, but no way of exporting them easily to Flickr. I upgraded to iPhoto 6, before I realized that Frasier Spiers hasn’t yet made his indispensible Flickr Export plugin compatible with the new version. Oops. So, I just made a small donation to Frasier… You should too, if you rely on this plugin as much as I do....
• Music for a Cold Sunday Afternoon
  Depeche Mode’s Precious: The perfect track - I want this played at my wedding, should that day ever come. The Sundays’ Wild Horses: I like this better than the Rolling Stones’ original… Harriet’s voice is haunting… As a kid growing up in Buffalo, I used to sit in my basement and teach myself to play guitar. I had a Beatles song book, some records to play along to, and printed-out tablature. Matisyahu’s King Without A Crown: The only hasidic reggae star I know of… incredible live performance. La Laque’s La Sir�ne dort: I’m still waiting for a properly-recorded LP,...
• links for 2006-01-15
  Unsanity's review of the new MacBook Pro A nice counterpoint to the Steve Jobs spin [via] (tags: apple osx intel)...
• links for 2006-01-13
  Boot up Windows before you even log in �...it will automatically log you in to your desktop and start up your programs...� (tags: windows tips tech)...
• 'Eff Sirius
  Still waiting… Thank god for Bittorrent, or I’d be bored out of my mind at work. In fact, I think a lot of people at work are listening to my shared iTunes library - I hear my boss laughing every once in a while....
• Saabs Don't Age Well
  One of the smartest things I’ve ever done, was to pay a little extra for Certified Pre-Owned status on my used 9-3, which more or less just extends the warranty. For an extra $1500 or so, I’ve received more than double that amount in parts and labor over the past 2 years. So, on thursday, I dropped the 9-3 off in Framingham so they could replace the Water Pump, which was going bad. Look at the piece of crap they gave me as a loaner: Later that afternoon, I received a call from the service department, saying that I also...
• links for 2006-01-09
  Shiira for OSX Built with the same back-end of Safari, but claims to improve speed and functionality. (tags: apple osx web software) How to speed up your mac and make it more stable when web browsing in 3 simple steps Matthew Haughey says to dump Acrobat. (tags: apple osx web weblogs)...
• Airfoil 2
  Rogue Amoeba released version 2.0 of Airfoil, one of my absolute essential mac applications. If you own an Airport Express, and are less than impressed by iTunes’ transmitting capabilities, plunk down $25 now. The first version of Airfoil let you transmit audio from any application, but this new version has some great new features: Support For Multiple AirPort Express Units - Send audio to multiple units Audio Effects - New effects built into Airfoil allow for enhancing audio with a 10 band equalizer, volume adjustment including volume overdrive and balance controls Full Applescriptability - Control Airfoil with AppleScripts And,...
• Letterman's Politics
  I still love Dave… he stood up to Bill O’Reilly on his program this week, (video here). There were two main points of contention… first, O’Reilly’s imagined “War on Christmas”, and then his calous attacks on Cindy Sheehan. Dave wasn’t as thoughtful or inteligent-sounding as he can be on political topics, but I love the way he sums up O’Reilly: Letterman: �I�m not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap.” (emphasis added) Indeed. Oh, and get your Tshirts....
• Damn Sirius
  Well, it’s going on damn near a week since I finally ordered my Sirius radio, directly from their online shop, and I still haven’t heard boo. My order status has been set to “checked-out” since last Friday, but I’ve received no shipping confirmation. I decided to order directly from Sirius because every retail outlet that I checked were sold out the day after Christmas… I guess a lot of us didn’t get what we wanted under the tree, (I’m looking at you, mom). And, I’m convinced their customer service representatives’ job is to blatantly lie to their customers, in...
• links for 2006-01-04
  How to Order Wine Without Looking like an Asshole I hate this guy's attitude, but I can't deny that it's good advice. [via] (tags: food wine funny restaurant)...
• links for 2006-01-03
  CBS Radio is offering an RSS feed for David Lee Roth podcasts yawn... the show isn't anything to care about at this point. But, until Sirius gets around to sending me the radio I ordered, Dave's got my attention. (tags: DavidLeeRoth radio podcasts media)...
• Resolution
  Happy New Year, everybody! I’m back at work today, after a (I think) deserved rest. New Year’s Eve was a bit more restrained than years past, but it was a nice cap to a great year. My only real resolution is for us to finally cut the cord on Boston, and move to NYC. Presley finishes Grad school in September, and I need to think more seriously about my career, grad school, and the future in general. A lot of things could happen, but that remains my #1 goal for 2006. What’s yours?...

• Courtney Love does the math
  I don’t know how I missed this, but Courtney Love gave an incredible speech at a May 2000 conference, on the music business, copyright law, and the real music pirates - the Majors. Salon has the unedited transcript, but I recommend reading it on Dave Ray’s site. My favorite excerpt: Somewhere along the way, record companies figured out that it’s a lot more profitable to control the distribution system than it is to nurture artists. And since the companies didn’t have any real competition, artists had no other place to go. Record companies controlled the promotion and marketing; only they...
• On Turning 28
  On this day, in 1977, I was born. At 5 lbs. 6 oz., I was six weeks early, and spent my first Christmas in hospital. I used to think that 28 sounded so old - time for marrying, house-buying, and thinking about kiddos. Now that this day has come, those things seem as far away as they did when I was 20. I’m always amazed that people I know are doing these things now… my younger cousing Maggie has 3 kids, and she’s 2 years younger than me. My first real girlfriend from High School is married. And, it seems...
• Happy Holidays
  I’ve almost got everything bought, but nothing is wrapped… For those that I don’t see this holiday season, I hope you have a nice, stress-free holiday with loved-ones. We’ll be in Buffalo this weekend, so Macy & Jeremy, you better be ready to pound some eggnog!...
• links for 2005-12-21
  Katrina, Tulane, and (Sara's) heartbreak My friend Sara posts about Tulane University's decision to essentially downsize the school. (tags: NewOrleans Tulane education) Top 100 Wines of 2005 The San Francisco gate's list: It's a Pinot heavy and pricey list, partially driven by the demand produced by 'Sideways' (tags: Wine Food 2005) Roger Ebert's Best 10 Movies of 2005 He always bumps up films that cater to his (and my) political leanings... for that reason, I'm more interested to see Roeper's picks. Syriana, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and King Kong are stand-outs for me. (tags: Movies 2005)...
• Google Kwanzaa
  Happy Holidays, from Google. If you search for certain end-of-the year holidays, you get festive borders [photo] on the Google results page, (look between the results and text ads) Kwanzaa Hanukkah Christmas Are there more?...
• Howard's Last Day
  I woke up at 6am this morning, to listen to the final Howard Stern show on terrestrial radio… Apparently, they’re expecting thousands of people on 56th street, and Yahoo! is covering the entire thing, including live video at 9am. In fact, Howard has gotten all Yahoo!ed up - Flickr photostreams, 360� profiles, podcasts, and widgets....
• links for 2005-12-15
  New Da Vinci Code trailer O, Draconian Devil! (tags: movies books trailer) Free mini Icons from famfamfam, [via] (tags: icons free design) Microsoft's IE7 team adopts Firefox's orange RSS logo It�s in the user�s best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in a browser. (tags: firefox rss microsoft icon design)...
• Eat and Destroy
  Pay attention, you Boston-area foodies! Todd is starting up Eat and Destroy, a Boston area food/restaurant blog. I can’t wait to try a Mongolian Fire Pot....
• 24 Ways
  24 Ways is a kind of advent calendar for markup geeks. I’m now in the process of redesigning (as oposed to realigning) my portfolio site, and it’s been fun tuning in to these little tutorials. My favorites include: An Explanation of Ems � I love using ems Introduction to Scriptaculous Effects � for a little javascript splash Putting the World into �World Wide Web� � I work in localization, so I enjoy this kind of thing....
• links for 2005-12-06
  'Freakonomics' Abortion Research Is Faulted by a Pair of Economists This article seems to be much ado about nothing... but, it appears that they've punched at least a small hole in one of economist Steven Levitt's unconventional theories (tags: Freakonomics economics media abortion) Steven Levitt takes on his critics 'Freakonomics' author and economist rebuts the charges against his legalized abortion & crime analysis. (tags: Freakonomics economics media weblogs abortion) VNC Macintosh Apparently you don't need to purchase Apple Remote Desktop for $499... (tags: apple osx vnc remote)...
• links for 2005-12-02
  How To Install Apple�s Front Row nice "how-to" tutorial. [via] (tags: apple frontrow hack osx) Adam Curry caught inflating himself in Podcasting Wiki? good bit of sleuth-work... Adam's response is here. (tags: podcast, adam curry, funny) Steve Jobs to keynote Macworld Expo Intel-based iBooks on January 10? (tags: apple osx media intel)...
• Free Delivery
  Having read Greg Storey’s post about IconBuffet’s Free Delivery, I signed up and received my first delivery: Oslo Finance. Anybody want to trade? Taipei Night Market looks pretty cool. UPDATE: I now have Oslo Atmosphere, Taipei Night Market, and Taipei Buddies 2… and, will gladly trade!...
• IP in China
  Don’t tell the Governator, but you can download pirated music via Yahoo! China....
• links for 2005-12-01
  Firefox 1.5 is out of beta a nice refinement of an excellent browser. (tags: firefox software web free) U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press Great scoop by The Los Angeles Times... "As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq." (tags: politics Republicans media iraq) MP3tunes a music locker that stores an entire personal music library online--making it accessible from anywhere via the internet--and is integrated with iTunes....

• links for 2005-11-29
  Apple Broadband Tuner 1.0 The installer increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. (tags: apple osx broadband software)...
• Thanksgiving
  We spent the weekend eating and drinking to near excess with Matt & Sharon, who were visiting from New York. Presley outdid herself again with the meal- conjuring a delicious turkey, all the fixings, and a couple of pies for our enjoyment. Matt and Sharon even brought along a bottle of 1995 vintage Dom Perignon champaigne. Sharon received it as a gift from her work, but we estimated that this vintage is worth more than $150 per bottle… it was tasty, but we agreed that it didn’t leave any better impression that a $8 bottle of Korbel....
• AT&T Wireless -> Cingular -> AT&T?
  So, having been forcibly converted from AT&T Wireless to Cingular, I read this today: Well, you can say goodbye to Cingular. SBC, which closed its merger with AT&T last week, decided that after spending untold millions promoting the Cingular brand for its joint venture with BellSouth, that they�re going to drop the name and start selling wireless service under the AT&T brand name. Why? On the day we read about GM shedding 30,000 American jobs, I’m having a hard time understanding just what the hell U.S. Big-Business is up to. Somebody is making money on all these shenanigans, but...
• links for 2005-11-21
  Damon's Day nice New Yorker piece on Blur frontman and Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn (tags: music gorillaz blur uk newyorker)...
• links for 2005-11-17
  Analytics - The Play a short one-act play written by Bryan of avalonstar.com... Glad to see I'm not the only one with no data (tags: google analytics stats) Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layouts A nice blend of CSS & Javascript (tags: javascript css webstandards design) It's been 5 years since the New Yorker You've Got Blog, How to put your business, your boyfriend, and your life on-line oh, and Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke are getting married. (tags: blogs megnut kottke marriage weblogs)...
• links for 2005-11-14
  Google Analytics Free stats package, including helpful Adsense tools (for those who do ads) (tags: google stats free web) White House keeps an "Enemies List" And, no, we're not talking about the Nixon White House... "The 'enemies list' dates back to Bush�s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President." (tags: Republicans Bush politics scandal)...
• Saturday walk
  Wow, another weekend with great weather. Like last week, I took another walk around the neighborhood, and snapped some photos: One of the more architecturally interesting buildings to go up in recent years, is the luxury condos at 23 Sydney. They’re really lovely, but likely inhabited by wealthy Aholes. More photos here. This is the famed Good News Garage, operated by Ray Magliozzi of Car Talk fame. A while back I mentioned that they were tearing up and re-paving Brookline Ave, near our house… well, we noticed something cool — they’re going to narrow the road by about half,...
• The Kennedy Kerry Klan?
  Political discourse is in such a sad state, these days. People on the Right viciously brand Democrats and Liberals (capital “L”) with ridiculous comparisons, while simultaneously charging us with doing the same to them. And they get away with it. Here’s the latest example, involving Governor (and likely 2008 GOP Presidential candidate) Romney of Massachusetts, who was introduced by attorney Gerald Walpin at a Federalist Society event: “Today when most of the country thinks of who controls Massachusetts, I think the modern day KKK comes to mind - the Kennedy, Kerry Klan.” Romney laughed along with the audience, The Boston...
• links for 2005-11-12
  Forthcoming Books in the Increasingly Mature Harry Potter Series. a McSweeney's list (tags: McSweeneys harrypotter funny web) Hogwarts Dancers video can't wait for the 4th movie (tags: harrypotter video dance)...
• WBUR Podcasts
  Ask, and ye shall receive. NPR powerhouse WBUR has started offering it’s programming in Podcast packaging. Now, you can download and listen to On Point and Here and Now, on your iPod. There are some limitations, however… due to the music licensing cabal, they can’t offer content that contains music licensed for broadcast only - apparently ASCAP and BMI think that people will rip songs out of MP3 Podcasts, and share it with their friends. Not only is this ridiculous on its face, but it also blindly ignores the inherent promotional potential afforded by Podcasting. So, they have to...
• links for 2005-11-10
  New plugins for Movable Type I just noticed these... now that Wordpress is all the rage, it seems that nobody is developing MT plugins anymore (tags: weblogs movabletype plugins)...
• leak
  Our ceiling is leaking, ever so slowly, above my 20-inch apple cinema display… better double-bag it....
• links for 2005-11-08
  The Penguin Podcast extracts, news and information from Penguin Books (tags: books podcast uk) Arcade Fire play impromptu acoustic set on NYC street another reason why I wish I were in New York (tags: music nyc weblogs) Copy Goes Here short film What Coudal Partners does in their down time... (tags: design coudal movies)...
• Election Day
  Local It’s Election Day, and I haven’t done much research on the City Council race here in Cambridge. The Globe has a special election section for Boston, but I can’t find much information on Our Fair City. I hate to cast votes blindly, but what can I do at this point? Go by the signs in my neighbors’ yards? By how much political mail I’ve received? (Jesse Gordon wins on that count) Or, perhaps I’ll just take the advice of drunkards. National The national media seems to be writing an awful lot into the Virginia governor’s race. Due to a...
• Squirrel Brand
  We discovered an interesting urban story on a walk we took this past weekend, down Columbia Street in Cambridge [map]… the famous Squirrel Brand candy and nut company factory, made famous by 90’s swing-revivalists Squirrel Nut Zippers, (don’t let that turn you off). After decades of production, the company moved on, but the city and community stepped in and converted the building and grounds to affordable housing: The Squirrel Brand building had to be gutted. Its 132 6-by-8-foot windows, 12.5-foot ceilings, and wood floors had been saturated by more than eight decades of molasses steam. Just-A-Start officials estimate a...
• links for 2005-11-06
  Bound for Asia Jason Kottke & Meg Hourihan are taking a 3-week trip to Asia (tags: kottke weblogs megnut asia travel) Yahoo! Maps Beta Flash is the new Ajax (tags: yahoo maps flash)...
• PageRank and Me
  When I switched this weblog’s domain from ned.suckahs.org to nedward.org a while back, I wanted to maintain both URLs for a transition period, so as not to lose readers. Sounds innocent enough, but since then, Google has stopped deep-indexing this site. On the advice of Casey, I tried re-directing with 301s, providing a sitemap with every entry on this site, and a whole lot of other trickery… all without luck. To this day, searching the old domain is more fruitful than searching the new one. Since I’ve tried everything I can think of, I think the fact remains that ned.suckahs.org...
• links for 2005-11-02
  Sylloge is back Flickr's Stewart Butterfield re-launched his weblog (tags: weblogs flickr)...
• links for 2005-11-01
  Anil Got Married. a nice personal post, and reflection on defining love and marriage on your own terms (tags: weblogs marriage)...

• Google Reader, revisited
  Google Reader is now my only RSS reader. Sure, it was slow and clunky when it first launched. But, there has been some performance improvement, and the adddition of some new functionality. For instance, you can use your mouse’s scroll wheel to quickly skip through the list of posts. Also, they’ve added some additional keyboard shortcuts - “v” opens the source page, (although you can’t hold down CTRL to open in a new tab), while “n” and “p” allow you to scroll through items without loading the content, which speeds things up considerably....
• Scooters: 101
  Jason wrote up a nice post on scooters, in case you’re interested in understanding a bit about these machines. The weather is supposed to be unseasonably warm the next few days, so I hope to get out and ride a bit....
• Mr. Sulu is gay?
  George Takei Declares His Homosexuality… lest you think this is merely a publicity stunt to generate buzz for the play he is currently starring in, there is also this: The current social and political climate also motivated Takei’s disclosure, he said. “The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay,” he said. “The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.” Full-speed ahead, Captain....
• First Snow
  It’s been snowing, today. The first hour or so, a few flakes fell, and it was cute. But then, the temperature dropped 8 degrees, and it started to accumulate on the ground. Flurries! On October 29! Enough to make you cry… Last year, the first snowfall was in mid-November, and in early December in 2003…...
• links for 2005-10-27
  moo.fx 'super lightweight javascript effects library' (tags: ajax javascript free design)...
• Sphynx
  Untitled, by hinagiku. Our friend Nobuko is cat-sitting in the South End this week — she isn’t sitting for normal kitties, mind you, but these Mr. Bigglesworth-esque hairless Sphynx cats. Check out her photos tagged with Sphynx, or some interesting public photos. UPDATE: Presley has some Sphynx shots from her cameraphone: New Friend, by Presley...
• Flickr Adds Printing service
  Nice announcement, long overdue: Order Prints from Flickr… you even get your first 10 4×6” prints free. On the rare occasion that I need an analog photograph, I do it from iPhoto. But, now I can print my friends’ and contacts’ photos, (so long as they allow me to). But wait, there is one other interesting nugget: You can order prints to be delivered by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing, even. One-hour Flickr Prints! Cool....
• links for 2005-10-26
  ColorBlender.com a nice palette helper (tags: design web color) Bank of America | Keep the Change Apparently my bank is giving away free money... though, I thought that there was a $1 fee for using my debit card... [via] (tags: visa bankofamerica debit bank savings cash) FrontRow and PhotoBooth on BitTorrent someone has hacked these apps, which are supposed to work only with the new iMacs (tags: apple FrontRow PhotoBooth bittorrent) CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWranger allows you to syntax-check CSS files using the W3C�s Validation Service (tags: css design validation textwrangler bbedit osx)...
• Mapped FTP drive
  There was a great “how-to” article on Engadget yesterday: Map a drive to your FTP server. Now, tweaking that CSS file is as easy as right-click, and Edit....
• Ironic Moustaches
  I’ve spent the past few months, (off and on, usually with a glass of wine in my hand), trying to convince my girlfriend that I should grow an ironic moustache — and now, Kottke has gone and beat me to it. Game over. The jury is still out on whether that ‘stache is ironical or not, but I must say that it takes balls to walk around like that....
• links for 2005-10-23
  Noteworthies: Tying the Past to the Present Joen suggests one method of tying your weblog's past to its present (tags: weblogs design wordpress) 'America We Stand As One' video why the world hates America... (tags: funny politics america video republicans) Microsoft Codename Max a Windows Flickr-like photo sharing application, built on next-generation "Vista" Application UI (tags: microsoft vista design photos software)...
• Productivity
  I may diss Microsoft Windows as a home Mac user, but I’ve always thought that it is a more productive OS. Working in a corporate environment on a Mac is still such a headache, probably because corporate IT is so built around MS technologies. Whatever the reason, I get things done on my work PC. Dual-Display It’s no secret that designers love screen real estate — but, everyone can benefit from more desktop space. There was an article in the NY Times just last week. The company I work for is notoriously frugal, shall we say… so, a while back,...
• Flock
  Flock has indeed landed, today — they released a Developer Preview this afternoon. In fact, I’m publishing this very post from within the browser. Initial impressions — why can’t I select Movable Type text formatting?  I know this is a beta and all, but this is kind of a deal breaker for me… apparently MT is giving them some troubles: WordPress and Blogger work pretty well. There are some problems still with Movable Type. We haven’t tested any other blogging platforms I haven’t done much with the del.icio.us integration yet, but so far this doesn’t seem very revolutionary. John Oxton...
• Statistics
  The Boston Foundation has just put out a Greater Boston Housing Report Card [PDF], and drew some ridiculous conclusions. John A Keith of the Boston Real Estate Blog explains [via]: From the report: Fenway/Kenmore neighborhood 2004 estimated renter income: $24,132 2004 estimated monthly rent: $1,498 % of median income needed to pay rent in 2004: 74% No. Why not? 1) earlier in their report, the authors estimate rents on two-bedroom apartments throughout the city. They estimate a two-bedroom apartment in the Fenway would cost $1,498 per month. A two-bedroom apartment. Would one person, making $24,132, rent a two-bedroom apartment? Why...
• links for 2005-10-19
  "Complete New Yorker" DVD archive is hard to use a good rundown on everything from the packaging to the technologies used [via] (tags: media nyc software) How-To: Get TV shows off of your TiVo and onto your iPod too bad our TiVo is a DirecTiVo, with crippled USB ports. (tags: iPod apple tivo tv weblogs) TapeItOffTheInternet.com Now pre-beta, this might end up being a valuable TV/Torrent resource (tags: bittorrent tv web) Hacking Your iTrip a weekend project... (tags: griffin iTrip iPod hack) Today's Apple announcements New Powerbooks and professional Photo software called "Aperture" (tags: Apple photo powerbooks software)...
• links for 2005-10-18
  20 Best License-Free Official Fonts good for cheap clients... (tags: typeface fonts free design)...
• Mint: Languages
  Since installing Mint, I’ve enjoyed pouring over all kinds of referrer data, without having to sort through spam bots. One of my favorite bits of visitor information, (seeing as how I work in the Localization industry), is the language of my readers. Using Marc Garrett’s Parsel Pepper (plug-in), I see that my visitors are overwhelmingly English-speaking. No real surprise there, but guess what the #2 language is? Believe it or not, it’s Chinese. I have twice as many visitors from China and Taiwan than from either France, Germany, Spain or Japan… (where are my Nordic readers?) Even more surprising, when...
• Jet Blue shuttle
  Oh, how I heart JetBlue… finally, a low-cost Boston-New York shuttle flight. And the best part is, they’re running an introductory fare sale: JetBlue will offer introductory fares of $25 each way on what will be up to 10 flights between the cities, with fares later settling at between $40 and $120 each way, undercutting the established shuttle. It’s about time....
• Music
  Maybe it’s been all this iPod talk these past few days, but I’ve added a bunch of new albums to my iTunes library recently… Metric, Live it Out Hands down, better than the first album. The Arcade Fire, Arcade Fire Not as good as the second album, but lovely just the same. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Howl All my female friends seem to love these guys, but I never could get past the stoner-rock facade. This is more a “rootsy” album, which normally should turn me off… but, I’m intrigued. Stellastarr*, Harmonies for the Haunted ehh, sigh. Ladytron, Witching Hour...
• Presley's New Specs
  Somebody I know got three pairs of new eyeglasses today… Not fair....
• links for 2005-10-12
  Salling Clicker 3.0 my Siemens s66 is supported now... kind of. (tags: software Apple mac osx salling mobile)...
• Yahoo! Site Search
  Well, I’ve had enough with Google SiteSearch… I’ve switched this site’s search functionality over to Yahoo! Site Search. I tried, I tried, I failed, so I switched....
• Yahoo! Podcasts
  Look what showed up today, Yahoo! Podcasts. A couple of things impress me here: first, subscriptions work in iTunes, which would otherwise be a deal breaker for me. I only have room in my life for one media player. Second, it’s so much easier to search for and link to podcasts, as compared with the iTunes directory. They’ve even implemented a Flickr-like tagging system, with weighted lists. Tom Coates has a good rundown....
• Macyme & Jeremy's Wedding
  We were back in Buffalo a couple of weekends ago, for the wedding of Macyme and Jeremy — Flickr gallery. We had a lovely time, and I was glad to have so many old friends together at once. But, poor little Maid of Honor Presley got sick after giving her toast at the reception. We all thought she was just choked up and emotional, but it turns out that she was holding back “chunks”. Anyway, congrats, guys!...
• The Poisoning of BitTorrent
  O’Reilly Radar is reporting that HBO is “poisoning” BitTorrent downloads of their hour-long drama Rome: HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. BitTorrent downloads are peer-to-peer, but the peers are introduced to each other by a tracker (“you’re looking for Rome Season 1 Episode 2, talk to 127.0.0.1”). HBO runs peers that tell the tracker they have all the chunks of the show, but then send garbage data when a downloader requests a chunk. The downloading client can detect that it’s garbage and will try another peer for the chunk, but the end result is that it...

• links for 2005-09-28
  Remove MSN Messenger (for PC) Ads nice little resource hack to empty the cluttered IM monster of advertising (tags: im microsoft reshack windows)...
• Everybody Hates Chris
  Somehow our TiVO missed the first episode, but thankfully Google is hosting it for us: Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates The Pilot UPN | 21 min 2 sec - Sep 23, 2005 Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York, during the early 1980’s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused into a predominantly white middle school two hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris (Tyler James Williams) struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line...
• links for 2005-09-21
  Opera is free Opera has removed the banners, and the licensing fee. The Norwegians are starting to get it. (tags: opera web webstandards free) Dunstan's iPod nano funny action photos (tags: apple iPod nano dunstan) Iridium Theme for Mac OS X 10.4 I've used Max Rudberg's Milk theme for years, but iTunes 5 looks wonky... Iridium is truly beautiful. (tags: apple tiger osx theme shapeshifter Iridium)...
• iTrip LCD
  I’ve had the iTrip LCD for a couple of weeks now, and I am very frustrated with it. I’ve used the regular iTrip for a couple of years, and it perfomed about as well as can be expected from an FM transmitter. However, when I recently broke it, (the connector somehow bent and detached, causing some wires to disconnect), I decided to buy a new one. When I saw the LCD version, I ordered this instead. My setup in my car is exactly as it was with the original iTrip, (2000 Saab 9-3, 3rd-Gen iPod, with flat EQ and...
• 14 is My New Favorite Artist
  fantastic, by Gallery of the Absurd. Thanks Raymi....
• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
  It’s a pain to build web sites that behave properly in Internet Explorer — and, if my IE7 beta any idication, it will continue to be a pain. But, Microsoft just released the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta. Some of the many features are: View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys. Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags. Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links. Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text. Immediately resize the browser window to 800×600 or a custom...
• Google Secure Access client
  Jeez, Google is branching out in to all kinds of new businesses… the latest is a venture to provide the world with a secure WiFi connection, especially usefule in public places. Dubbed Google Secure Access, it provides a free VPN connection to Google. Some observers are already questioning Google’s commitment to user privacy, which gives pause — but, I for one, would love such a service. Too bad the download is available only for WIndows....
• Stef in Norway
  I noticed that Stef posted some photos of her European trip. I wonder if she’s back yet? Norwegian flag on Ulriken, by Mystera Preikestolen, just about at the top!, by Mystera...
• links for 2005-09-17
  At UN summit, Bush snapped requesting 'bathroom break' Apparently he has to ask Condi if he can pee (tags: funny Repulicans Bush pee UN) Derek Powazek redesigns reminds me of Anna's Absolutely-Vile.com of years past (tags: design powazek) meebo: all-in-one web-based AJAX IM client i can login, but not really do much sucessfully... (tags: ajax im web) Microsoft Expression looks like a direct challenge to Macromedia... won't ship until 2006 (tags: design microsoft expression flash)...
• links for 2005-09-15
  Google Blog Search Is Technorati nervous? (tags: Google beta weblogs blogs technorati) Skin harvested from executed Chinese convicts used to develop cosmetics for sale in Europe looking good, ladies! (tags: shopping China cosmetics Europe)...
• Office 12
  Microsoft unveiled its new user interface for Office 12 earlier this week, and they seem to have departed radically from past releases: …we set about rethinking the UI from the user�s perspective, which is �results-oriented,� rather than from the developer�s perspective, which tends to be �feature-oriented� or �command-oriented�… instead of having to learn how to make something shadowed, or what the aspect ratio is or the percent gray, you just say, “Oh, I like that one,” and you pick it, you click it and get it in your document. It�s more visual. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access are due to...
• links for 2005-09-13
  From human to droid in a Yahoo moment? 37 Signals notices some Yahoo! clutter making its way into Flickr already (tags: flickr yahoo 37signals)...
• "Underground Man" update
  Thanks to Mint, I noticed that a few visitors were referred here looking for the text of a New Yorker article writted in February 2004 titled, Underground Man: Can the former C.I.A. agent who saved New York�s subway get the Tube back on track?. I had scanned the text a while back, but my directory security settings on my server were tightened, and the scans were no longer available. So, if you’re looking for the article, it’s is now properly linked in the orginal post. I still wish I had a way of extracting the text via OCR…...
• links for 2005-09-10
  Sploid Re-design it gives me a headache (tags: design media weblogs gawker)...
• 301 (Permanent redirect)
  I’ve taken a second step toward fixing my Google indexing problem. On the advice of Casey, I modified my .htaccess file to rewrite all ned.suckahs.org URLs to nedward.org and send out 301s (Permanent redirects). Now, when a user arrives here via a ned.suckahs.org URL, they’ll be transparently redirected to nedward.org and Google will see the 301 message. Hopefully then, Google will get with the program. Thanks Casey!...
• Scooterist killed in Boston
  I am shocked and horrified by a report in the Globe today, that a Scooterist was killed last night in a collision with a truck: Police were searching last night for the driver of a tractor trailer suspected of striking, dragging, and killing an 18-year-old man riding a motor scooter at the Massachusetts Avenue onramp to the Massachusetts Turnpike. After the impact, the truck continued down the ramp, taking the scooter and its rider with it, police said. Both were found at the bottom of the ramp, which was closed for several hours after the accident, police said. Even more...
• Rollyo
  Rollyo is cool — sign up to beta test....
• Walkman
  Not to be outdone by Apple yesterday, I saw that Sony is once again rethinking it’s Walkman brand. I admit that the design is far more compelling than Sony’s previous offerings, but a monocramatic, low-res screen? C’mon Sony!...
• links for 2005-09-08
  Peppermint Tea a Collection of third-party plugins for Mint (tags: Mint web tech api)...
• iPod nano & ROKR phone
  Wow — we all expected the new iTunes phone, but who would have guessed at the iPod nano? First, the ROKR is available from Cingular now. It’s got iTunes (100 songs), Bluetooth, and a VGA camera (sucky) — for $249.00. But, I’m more intrigued with the iPod nano… Sure, it only comes with a max of 4GB storage, but the small size, color screen, and “wow” factor is going to make it a big hit. And, the price is right at just $249 for the 4GB, (the same as the now dead, iPod mini). Start saving your money… even the...
• Godson
  Here is my Godson, Tommy… Godson, by nedward. I was in Buffalo this past weekend to celebrate my Grandma’s 100th birthday, and got to see my cousins Maggie, Lauren, Sarah, and Emma....
• Have a Mint
  I just ordered and installed the new site stats package Mint, which was launched today by Shaun Inman. It’s been eons since I had a reliable site stat tracker, and this package looks as good as the hype. RIP, Refer....
• links for 2005-09-03
  Police looters video of Police participating in the looting of a WalMart (tags: NewOrleans police looting walmart shopping)...
• BU Today
  My alma mater just launched a nicely-designed portal called BU Today, which publishes (official) daily news from the university. It’s as if this school finally “get’s it” — that Public Relations matter. I’m disappointed to see that the code is full of Dreamweaver javascript, spacer GIFs, and <table>-based structure. And, the weather widget at the top is flash-based. Oh well....
• links for 2005-09-02
  Massachusetts is dumping Microsoft Office in favor of PDF and Open Office formats (tags: microsoft massachusetts government software office)...
• NPR + Podcasts, Part II
  A follow up on my NPR + Podcasts post, it seems that NPR is indeed investing in podcasting of its programs. They’ve launched a Podcast Directory, but it is interesting to note that they are not yet providing full-length programs: This service is our first step in podcasting and we are experimenting with a number of program formats… Podcasting full-length programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered could be extremely expensive. Over the next several months, NPR and its public radio partners will be experimenting with a number of formats and offerings, and we invite your feedback. And,...
• Gmail Notifier
  Rejoice! Google released a OS X version of their Gmail Notifier application. GCount was great, but often broke when Google made changes to the Gmail service. Since then, I’ve tried Dashboard widgets like GPeek, but it’s annoying having to hit F12 to check for mail. Can’t wait to install it and check it out. UPDATE 9/12/2005: Apparently Google did build the mac application with support for plug-ins… To get Growl notifications, check out this Gmail+Growl script...
• Trolley
  Apparently there is an interesting story behind the wide intersection near our house in Cambridge… all week, a construction crew has been tearing up the asphalt, in order to re-pave. And, they found train tracks underneath the street. Train tracks, imagine that! A neighbor told us that a trolley line used to run down Brookline Ave, and our intersection was a “turn-around”, where cars could change direction. I’d love to find some historical photos, especially considering our house is right on the corner. Brookline Ave. Paving set on Flickr...
• Broken
  Ug… things are not too tidy around this site lately. My Site Header frustration continues, as it’s once again broken. And, my Google Site Search is still useless, despite my having created a Google Sitemap. Ugg indeed....

• Stellastarr* tonight
  I got a nice surprise from our friends at FNX: Congratulations! You and a guest have been added to the VIP list for the PRIVATE WFNX / Smirnoff Off the Radar concert with Stellastarr*. This private concert is Wednesday August 31st at the Middle East Downstairs (472 Mass Ave in Cambridge). The doors open at 9pm. HOWEVER, your entrance is based on club capacity. SO GET THERE EARLY - it’s a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE admission. Last time I saw Stellastarr, we were down in front, and all the college kiddies were making out with each other. How romantic…...
• links for 2005-08-31
  Streetsy: daily streetart photography Jake Dobkin & Eliot Shepard launch this Flickr-API powered photoblog (tags: weblogs photos flickr) Funny photo of a fat gray cat (tags: cats photos flickr) 1,2,3,4 -- I Declare IM War This is either very insightful alaysis, or utterly false rumor (tags: GoogleTalk IM Google Microsoft Yahoo AOL) Racism in Katrina coverage to be fair, it's comparing 2 different news providers, AP & AFP/Getty. (tags: racism flickr photos Katrina hurricane NewOrleans) Goovite it's like Evite, without the bother of creating user accounts (tags: web) Google Talk quietly updates itself Still no way of turning off...
• The Constant Gardener
  Rating: A+ We had the opportunity to see The Constant Gardener (metacritic) a couple of weeks ago, and I neglected to post about it. I’ve never read a John le Carre novel — I remember him saying on Fresh Air that he was a former British intelligence officer, so I naturally assumed that his politics were more aligned with Tom Clancy’s, than Amnesty International. Now, I’m the kind of Liberal who squirms around radical activist-types, so when we were greeted at the cinema door by Amnesty representatives with their pamphlets and petitions, I wondered just what kind of action pic...
• La Laque & Pas/Cal
  When I was in New York, Jenna and I checked out the La Laque & Pas/Cal show at Tonic, in the Lower East Side. They were celebrating the joint release of a 12?single. The real suprise for me was how much I liked the Brooklyn-based La Laque. They’re three girls & three boys, playing French New Wave / Surf rock. Listening to the few MP3s out there won’t quite convey the energy and feeling they exert on stage. I may never listen to another Stereolab album again [sic]. And it was nice to see Yuki & James again… they’re coming...
• Weekend
  After 5 days off from the nine-to-five last week, I drove down to nyc to hang out with Jenna again. Photos will come soon, because they need to be developed… (Presley had my trusty Elph with her in Vegas for MacyMe’s Bachelorette weekend). Speaking of which, here’s Macyme: Sexpot, by presley....
• links for 2005-08-30
  CNN Weatherman loses his cool Hurricane Katrina is getting on everyone's nerves... (tags: weather media tv) Is Google the Next Microsoft? NPR's On Point asks the question (tags: google radio media tech) CBS News counters bloggers with 'nonbudsman' who will write a blog that will go behind the scenes at the news division (tags: media weblogs) Apple + Cingular = Motorola iTunes mobile phone by X-mas The agreement will have the carrier offering the Motorola ROKR music phone by the holiday season. (tags: apple itunes tech xmas)...
• Boston City Rally
  Little known bit of knowledge: scooter rallys have very little to do with riding scooters. Matt and Sharon came up to Boston for the city rally, and we had some fun. More shots >...
• links for 2005-08-24
  Good backgrounder on the Pixies UK journalist gets the real story on why they originally split (tags: music media) Joshuaink returns John Oxton comes out of brief self-imposed exile (tags: design webstandards weblogs) Google Talk finally, the much-promised IM & voice client (tags: Google web im voice tech)...
• Google Desktop Beta
  I’m on vacation this week, but here I am on monday morning, remoting into my work computer to install and test out the new Google Desktop Beta. It includes a Dashboard/Konfabulator widget functionality called Sidebar — which puts information on your desktop — Gmail, local weather, news, and even recommends cool links based on your own browsing habits. Also, I’m excited for Quick Find, a Spotlight/Quicksilver-like launcher functionality. I’ve been using AppRocket on my work PC for some time now, but it always seemed sluggish. Time to uninstall that app. Then there are the search improvements… the new version comes...
• links for 2005-08-19
  Bill Weld is running for Governor again... this time in New York tough match for Spitzer (tags: Republicans politics) Microsoft re-brands RSS as "Web Feeds" I don't care what it's called, I just need it (tags: microsoft webstandards)...
• Liquid Television
  Check out the trailer for the live-action film of Aeon Flux. It doesn’t look that promising, to be honest… Charlize Theron has a snappy black hair cut, but her outfit looks more PG-13 than the dominatrix-inspired garb Aeon wore in the MTV animated series. Ah well. If they really wanted to attract 13-year old boys, (and me), they’d do it right, and take the R rating…...
• links for 2005-08-18
  Protopage AJAX-y personalized start page (tags: ajax web)...
• Boston Scooter Rally
  It starts tonight — the Boston city rally. Watch out if you’re walking or driving around the city in the next few days… especially in the Fenway, which is ground zero… But, it kicks off tonight in Allston, at O’Briens — the amazing Jam tribute band, All Mod Cons are playing. See you there....
• MT Upgrade tomorrow?
  UPDATE: Nope, it looks like we’ll get Beta 5 today It looks like we’ll have a Moveable Type upgrade tomorrow. I’ve been using the betas for a while now, and overall the experience has been positive. Though the release number only jumped to 3.2, this is a major upgrade. Those people who grumbled at the release of version 3.0, (myself included), will enjoy the new features in this release....
• Pressed Sandwiches
  Pressed Central Square 736 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 [map] Rarely am I motivated enough to post about food… after all, it’s something I do every day (that is, eat). But, there is a newish eatery in Central Square called Pressed, which I’ve lunched at a couple of times now, and I felt compelled to offer some observations. Pressed is the kind of sandwich shop that puts all the emphasis on detail… the interior is decorated very modern, with an earthy green glow, black chalkboards with the offerings, and nice light treatments. One odd thing that I noticed is that...
• links for 2005-08-16
  gVisit.com Let's you track site visitors to your website, using Google Maps - Nedward.org (tags: maps web) Google Sitemaps using Movable Type Thanks for the link, Casey (tags: MT weblogs moveabletype)...
• NPR + Podcasts
  I see that NPR is not renewing their Audbile contract: NPR’s beloved shows like “All Things Considered” and “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me” used to be available on Audible, but after what I can assume was a lackluster performance, have since been pulled from Audible’s library. There is a new poscasts page on the NPR site, however it isn’t yet clear if the local stations that produce content, such as WBUR in Boston, will follow the national plan....
• Google SiteSearch
  Google is playing tricks on me, lately. When I use SiteSearch to search this site, I don’t get individual results— just recent results, from my home page and RSS feeds. Case in point— pixies I’ve posted many times about this group: 1 2 3 4, etc. Yet only the home page result appears in my SiteSearch. Is it that this site’s pagerank is so low, that Google isn’t bothering to index it anymore? If anybody has some ideas, or replacement suggestions, i’d love to hear from you....
• Flood in Quincy
  Poor Jason & Kim… all this rain that fell this weekend found its way into their basement. Three Lambrettas (a DL, Starstream and Cento), all of Jason’s clothes, tools, washer and dryer, furniture… all under water. So sad. Presley and I had both of our scooters down there until Saturday afternoon, when we decided to truck them down to JavaSpeed for repair— talk about dodging a bullet. I just feel so bad for those guys. It really sucks....
• links for 2005-08-12
  HousingMaps powered by craigslist and Google Maps (tags: ajax maps web)...
• Meteor Showers this Weekend
  Stef passed on this information about meteor showers this weekend: The 12 th and 13th of August is the best time that you can see meteor shower this year. They are called Perseids, and you can expect to see at least 60 meteors per hour. According to NASA, the best time to see the Perseids this year is “between 2 a.m. and dawn on August 12th, if you get away from city lights, you could see hundreds of meteors. This is a good time to go camping!” NASA Feature NASA Press Release...
• Pixies @ The Paradise
  Yesterday, we scored tickets to a last-minute Pixies show at the Paradise, a small club just over the river from our house. They were shooting footage for a DVD, so the room was full of boom & track cameras. This is my 4th Pixies show, but by far the most intimate — we were only 6-7 feet from Kim Deal! Presley posted our photos… here are some teasers: Kim Smiles, uploaded by Presley Frank and Joey, uploaded by Presley...
• links for 2005-08-08
  Production Photos from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" wow -- Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter! (tags: movies)...
• links for 2005-08-05
  Robert Novak curses on CNN, and then leaves set No comment from Karl Rove (tags: funny media Republicans tv politics)...
• The End of The Connection, Follow-up
  A follow-up on the cancellation of The Connection, the Boston Phoenix’s Mark Jurkowitz has a fascinating interview with ex-host Dick Gordon. I almost feel bad for the guy. (page 2 isn’t linked as of now…) I for one am still waiting for Bostonist to post a word about this… Public Radio scandals are like celebrity news in this town!...
• links for 2005-08-02
  5 good BitTorrent tracker sites (tags: bittorrent) Apple to add DRM to the new Intel builds of OS X? everyone has their shorts in a bunch... (tags: apple osx software copyright) "Explore / Interestingness" feature added to Flickr a quick way to find your way to great photos (tags: flickr photos) Apple releases "Mighty Mouse" a two-button, scrolling mouse... sort of. (tags: apple mac)...
• Fly With Me
  One of my favorite Podcasts is Fly With Me (iTunes link), by Joe Deon, a pilot for a major US airline. In his podcast, Joe interviews other pilots, flight attendants and passengers about… well, flying. It’s more interesting than it might sound — it has the same kind of pace and feel as an episode of This American Life. His website is flywithjoe.com...
• Most Influential Modern Rock Albums, Part 4
  Ok, ok, I know I’m behind on this list. Number 5 will come later this week… U2, Achtung Baby : For me, Achtung turned the musical world upside-down… the first CD that I owned, which I received as a gift with my first CD player, was The Joshua Tree — with Rattle and Hum, this was the culmination of 80’s-era do-gooder U2. Intensely spiritual, earnest and direct, Joshua Tree cemented the band’s positive public image, while simultaneously launching them into the ranks of superstardom, causing even Time Magazine to dub them Rock’s hottest Ticket. But, the band was about the...
• Site Header Tweak, III
  I just realized today that my site header photos were only visible if you’re visiting this site using the URL nedward.org… So, ned.suckahs.org, www.nedward.org, etc., wouldn’t load properly. Since XMLHTTP (Ajax) only works locally, I had to use Nick’s PHP proxy, but I hard-coded the script URL. To fix it, all I had to do was switch to a relative URL (“/”). Done. Thanks to Nobuko for pointing it out!...

• links for 2005-07-30
  Apparently superballs fall from the sky in San Francisco From sem: "...on Leavenworth & Union for a Sony commercial. They did it 4 times. Also, they covered all the sewer drains, had nets at the bottom of the hill to catch them..." (tags: flickr photos cities)...
• Death or Glory
  Heading out the door now for the Rhode Island scooter rally, hosted by Death or Glory SC. We’re both still scooterless now, so we’ll have to drink twice as much. It should be a fun time, with some nice people… even if certain scooterist friends aren’t coming. But, if you’ve got to have an excuse, the ole’ snip snip is a valid one. (Hope it went well, J-man…) Anyway, see you all on Sunday....
• Beach
  Marci was in town for a job interview at Harvard, so we took wednesday off from work, and headed for "the beach":http://www.google.com/maps?q=good+harbor+beach&ll=42.621885,-70.628587&spn=0.019260,0.031311&t=k&near=Gloucester,+MA&cid=42615833,-70662500,16941471628673446076&num=10&start=0&hl=en in Gloucester. So much less crowded on weekdays... Having just finished "Tipping Point":http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html, I dug into a couple hundred pages of Malcolm Gladwell's new book, "Blink":http://www.gladwell.com/blink/index.html... ...and, we enjoyed a big jug of homemade Sangria....
• Ebert & Roeper Podcast
  Seems like Apple’s deal with Disney to leverage content into Podcasts is building— I saw today that you can subscribe to the Ebert & Roeper (iTunes link) podcast. C’mon NPR, let’s get Fresh Air and On Point on board....
• links for 2005-07-28
  GMail Drive shell extension update "...creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer." (tags: windows software) NYTimes rates some good $10 wines I can stop judging cheap wines by their label designs... (tags: food wine media)...
• John Doe Mexican
  I received a message from our friend Karla today, about what her boyfriend Steve is up to this summer. He’s a public-school teacher, and is currently working to produce a documentary titled John Doe: Mexican, on border crossers in the Southwest. Sounds like an interesting project, which he will be blogging about: John Doe Mexican is an hour-long documentary that captures the struggle to value human life, even in death. The dead have no names here. For Mexican border crossers, Southern Arizona�s Sonoran desert is an unforgiving and, all too often, murderous landscape. John Doe Mexican follows a handful of...
• links for 2005-07-26
  Vector illustration for Dummies nice tutorial for those who can't draw... (tags: design illustration photos) Microsoft Windows Vista anouncement those people on the mountaintop are squinting to see the release date... (tags: microsoft windows tech beta) Google Maps : Hybrid mode Google maps overlaid on top of Satellite imagery (tags: maps) MSN Virtual Earth I love playing with maps (tags: maps ajax microsoft) Yahoo! Widgets haha, that was quick (tags: software)...
• Most Influential Modern Rock Albums, Part 3
  The Clash, London Calling : Whenever I hear the opening bars of this album, my pulse quickens and my hand reaches for the volume knob. The range of musical styles the group takes on is absolutely amazing— Rockabilly in Brand New Cadillac, reggae in Rudy Can’t Fail, disco in Lost in the Supermarket, and even the Phil Spector-ish Wall of Sound in The Card Cheat. On Calling, the band borrowed heavily from the past, but filtered and sharpened the music through their late-70s, malaise-clouded lens. Even the album cover design was an homage to Elvis’s first LP— however, the smiling...
• Harry Potter 6
  Well, it was yet another quick read, but Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was fun. I thought it was very satisfying, but not as enjoyable as books 4 & 5. I’d hate to spoil anything, but Designweenie brings up one potential inconsistency....
• links for 2005-07-25
  Yahoo Buys Konfabulator Konfab's best move was porting their software to Windows (tags: business software)...
• The End of The Connection
  I’ve been meaning to comment on the cancellation of the NPR morning program The Connection, and the firing of host Dick Gordon. Though I’m sorry to see one locally-produced show get axed, I can’t say that I’m not giddy to see Gordon go. First, there is his thick Canadian dialect, and predilection for all things Canadiana… hopefully we won’t be subjected to another hour on Arcadian fiddle music. But, it seems that fellow ex-CBC reporter Jennifer Westaway is getting a lot of air time recently, and I think she is quite good. So, if it’s not necessarily the hoser accent...
• Most Influential Modern Rock Albums, Part 2
  Pixies, Surfer Rosa : Having been in Boston for 9 years now, I’ve listened to and seen a lot of local live music — and none of it seems as good as it must have been in the late 80s. Rosa was the Pixies’ first LP, and though the followup Doolittle was more polished, I prefer the rawer debut. Recorded in Boston, at Q-Division by Steve Albini, there is something special about this record — the way the drums thud, and the mismatched vocal harmonies of Frank/Charles & Kim, it just seems so intimate… like you can sense the space...
• Vespaway
  Vespa just launched a blog called Vespaway, with the requirement that the two posters “blog at least once a week about their life as a ‘scooterer.’” Scooterer? My scoot is still sitting in Jason & Kim’s basement — since we took apart the engine, and put it back together, it won’t start. I’ve been told we need to adjust the timing, but it should be fine. I better hurry up, or I’ll miss the entire summer…...
• Site Header Tweak, II
  I took a few minutes today, to try and sort out my Flickr-integrated "site header issues":http://www.jnied.com/dev/nedward.org/v4/archives/002862.php... I found that by adding just two characters to "Nick Chapman's script":http://chapnickman.com/2005/05/02/random-images-with-javascript/, I can parse the original-sized images from Flickr. However, given that I upload my photos at full-quality, it wouldn't be too advisable having 2MB images embedded in my site. So, for now, I have to create these site-header images, and tag them as "siteheader":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/tags/siteheader/. I also squashed a background CSS bug, which caused short pages to look a bit strange. Nice to have the time to finally sort these things out......
• Most Influential Modern Rock Albums, Part 1
  I haven’t had much time lately to think about posting much — in fact, I’m sure my Mac is feeling neglegted… But, one thing I can do while working and driving to work, is listen to music on my iPod. When I read Jason Kottke’s reaction to some recent Critics’ picks for the best albums from the last twenty years, I started thinking about my own list. First, it seems arbitrary to draw a line at 20 years — I prefer to put the seperation between classic rock, and modern rock, since most of the important music of the past...
• Nedward.typepad.com
  I’m still paying for this Typepad site… why? Originally, I wanted to test out the service, and thought it would primarily serve as a place for off-site photo galleries… Flickr killed that need. I think it’s time to cancel....
• The Work/Life Balance
  My main project’s current phase is winding down this week, as I delivered the final eLearning courses last night. So, now I have time to reflect and hopefully resume posting on a regular basis. Today, I took a few minutes to go through Bloglines, and laughed when I saw Dan Cederholm’s Current Work/Life Balance diagram… Why do we do this to ourselves? No matter how many vendors I offshore to, or contractors I hire, it always seems to come down to me at my desk, and 70-hour weeks. And, that’s where the “life” part tanks. Well, it’s time for the...
• links for 2005-07-11
  Newsweek reports that Karl Rove leaked Valerie Plame's name Time reporter Matt Cooper's notes and email (tags: politics Republicans media) Kelly Clarkson / Eagles Mashup This song won't die... (tags: music weblogs)...
• Site Header updates
  Down with Flash! Say goodbye to SlideShowPro… I’ve decided to use Nick Chapman’s Random Images javascript class to pull the most recent photos from my Flickr Photostream. However, the Flickr RSS feed doesn’t provide the original-sized photos, so I’ve got some tiling action happening above… anyone got ideas how to make a Flickr RSS Feed, with the original-sized Photos?...
• links for 2005-07-01
  Iraq War Casualties Map nice implementation of Google Maps (tags: iraq maps politics tech ajax) Google Maps API fun fun fun (tags: ajax maps web tech)...

• links for 2005-06-29
  Google Earth released i love the driving directions (tags: software maps web beta windows) Lambrett Twist a great 60s Italian commercial, for Lambretta scooters (the non-Vespa Italian kind) (tags: scooter fun tv)...
• links for 2005-06-28
  McSweeney's : The Mall's "Banana Republics" for the New Millennium (tags: funny weblogs) Hacking Apple's Weather Widget to Show the Time of the Last Update sometimes the update lag for me is as long as 15-20 seconds... this will be handy (tags: apple osx dashboard weblogs) del.icio.us direc.tor a cool AJAX alternate UI for del.icio.us (tags: del.icio.us ajax tech) Lionbridge Acquires Bowne Global the rumors were true -- LIOX will be come the largest localization services provider (tags: localization business weblogs) iTunes 4.9 adds Podcasting It'd be nice if NPR will ditch Audible.com (tags: apple iPod iTunes podcasting)...
• Vows
  It seems to me that marriage is in the air… This past weekend, Presley and I were back in ancestoral Buffalo, so she could attend Macyme’s bridal shower. Macyme and Mr. Skipants are retardedly in love, and it shows. If only they’d stop drooling… And, I see that Casey and Jess tied the knot this past weekend. What a tease, only 1 photo. Congrats to both couples....
• MIT Weblog Survey
  I just took Cameron’s MIT Weblog Survey, and you should too. It’s just a general social/demographic questionaire, which should only take 5-10 minutes to complete....
• links for 2005-06-21
  SDL to acquire TRADOS Our, ::ahem::, competitor just bought the most widely-used translation software (tags: localization software media) The Importance of RSS Kevin Hale says RSS is Google's future (tags: tech web business)...
• links for 2005-06-17
  Flickr to Add Print to Photo Service and it's not "EZ Prints" as originally announced (tags: flickr photos media)...
• links for 2005-06-15
  Coffee and Wireless in Boston i dispute the claim that Boston has "best cafe culture on the Eastern Seaboard"... (tags: boston wi-fi) Tiger and TiVo are friends again my TiVo arrives at the end of the month (tags: tv tiVo weblogs) Webreakstuff's thoughts on the private-beta of Odeo "Odeo promises to bring podcasting to the masses by simplifying the process of getting your audio material out there, and by allowing people to subscribe to their interests on audio feeds." (tags: tech weblogs music iPod) Katie Holmes Embracing Scientology we're losing the battle, people... (tags: media movies) Flickr Album neat...
• links for 2005-06-14
  del.icio.us Blog finally, i won't need to read the mailing list... (tags: del.icio.us weblogs)...
• links for 2005-06-07
  Apple inks a deal to convert Macs to Intel processor if you can't beat 'em... remind me not to buy a new Mac in the next 2 years, because they're going to be obsolete (tags: apple osx media)...
• links for 2005-06-04
  Cambridge, MA wants you to design next year's Resident Parking Permit perhaps i'll snap a photo of some rock clubs... i'm tired of the picturesque, peopleless buildings of recent years... (tags: cambridge weblogs cities)...
• links for 2005-06-01
  mezzoblue : Markup Guide handy reference (tags: css design webstandards) Episode III Easter Egg Hunt some treats for those who pay attention (tags: movies fun)...

• 24 hours in nyc
  "garden", posted by nedward I plunked down the $15 and rode the "Fung Wah":http://fungwahbus.com to nyc to visit the new "MoMA":http://moma.org, and visit some friends. It was nice to finally get inside the museum, having been thwarted by long lines on my past two visits. I enjoyed meandering around by myself, though the guided audio tour is pretty worthless. Saturday night, "Jenna":http://www.jennarator.com/ took me out with "Jin":http://www.jinners.com/, Anna, and my friend Stef from Boston, to see "mazing vids":http://www.superassembly.com/mazingvids.html at the "Cake Shop":http://www.cake-shop.com/ in the Lower East Side. We ate "s'mores":http://www.answers.com/smores from a streetcart, which made me want to go...
• links for 2005-05-14
  The "Blogging Gourmets" weblog registration opened up Jason opened up registration for his foodie weblog (tags: weblogs food) NetNewsWire 2.0 finally out of beta, and freakin' awesome (tags: apple osx software)...
• Tattoo
  "Tattoo", posted by nedward "Presley's":http://presley.suckahs.org new "tattoo":http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002835.php, done by "Custom Claire":http://www.twinheartstattoo.com/, of Fat Ram's "Pumpkin Tattoo":http://fatramtattoo.com/, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts....
• links for 2005-05-12
  Cage Fighter Another cosmetic fix for the ugly Tiger Mail.app buttons (tags: apple osx design software)...
• Pixies Return
  Well well well… the Pixies are going to play Boston, afterall. Last year, I saw them at the show in Amherst, and the first show in Lowell. Now, they’re playing just across the river. — Pixies related posts from last year: Web Surfer Rosa Gigantic UPDATE: Tbone got us font-and-center, 5th row!...
• links for 2005-05-10
  The Huffington Post Arianna takes group blogging to celebrities and other people whose opinion we don't care about. (tags: politics weblogs) Binary Bonsai's "Live Archives" a little PHP, and you've got something a little more dynamic for your WordPress archives (tags: wordpress weblogs tech design) Ajax and weblogs (kottke.org) since 6A and Blogger don't seem to be pushing Weblog R&D... (tags: design MY tech weblogs)...
• links for 2005-05-09
  Webzine 2005 after 4 years, this conference for independent internet publishers (bloggers?) returns (tags: weblogs design) Apple releases "Bonjour" networking protocol, for Windows clients "Bonjour, formerly known as Rendezvous, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on networks--without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers..." (tags: apple windows mac tech) Dashboard Exchange a resource site to share Tiger Dashboard widgets (tags: applr dashboard mac osx) "Harvey Birdman" stealing viewers from Letterman? wiat until Steven Colbert's show premieres... (tags: tv media)...
• links for 2005-05-07
  Mail Fixer 1.0 Makes Tiger Mail.app look a bit more attractive (tags: apple mac osx) What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano. Michael Ian Black of the State, with a little piece on McSweeney's (tags: funny music)...
• Redesign followup
  Thanks again to everyone who has written me about the reboot. I’m still getting used to seeing my site looking like this. And, yes, I’m still working out a few kinks. I did receive my Flickr API key, so hopefully I’ll find some time this weekend to get my site header photos plugged-in. Nick Chapman posted his javascript solution that I mentioned in my previous post… and it looks very cool. I can’t wait to try it out....
• links for 2005-05-05
  Oberkampf : how to make a gallery on your web site from your Flickr photos i wish i had seen this before i went with SlideShowPro for this site... (tags: flickr design photos web)...
• links for 2005-05-04
  Injured Buffalo Firefighter Wakes from Decade-Long Coma perhaps miracles are possible? (tags: buffalo media)...
• Latitude
  Well, I feel a bit guilty about this, but they gave me a laptop at work this week… a Dell Latitude C640, 1GB RAM, 40MB GB HD, etc. Why do I feel guilty? Well, my friend used it until she quit last week… so, it feels like someone else’s PC. Now, I can VPN in, and work at home! Hooray! “sacrilege” on Flickr....
• links for 2005-05-02
  Flidget, a Dashboard widget to quickly upload photos to Flickr Rob and Anatoly put together a nice little widget... (tags: apple osx flickr photos weblogs dashboard) Yahoo! Local Traffic Dashboard Widget interesting... apparently, Yahoo! Local Traffic uses RSS. (tags: apple osx cities dashboard) Flickr Automator Action 0.1 (for Tiger) Fraser Speirs is at it again... (tags: apple osx flickr photos weblogs) Boston is turning 375 years old and she is as craky as ever (tags: cities boston weblogs)...
• Redesign... version 4
  Somehow, some way, after more than eight months tooling around in Photoshop, I managed to give this site a major design refresh. The motivation was the May 1 Reboot, but I’ve been trying to get this done for quite some time. First, my objective was not to totally re-brand myself and my site. I like how this site’s structure and style have evolved over the past 2+ years, and I love the green & orange. So, job #1 was continuity. Keeping this in mind, there was a lot of room to improve… Logo I switched to a Macintosh almost 2...
• links for 2005-05-01
  dashLicious A Dashboard widget for Tiger that integrates with NetNewsWire and Safari, to post new del.icio.us items (tags: del.icio.us mac osx dashboard) See inside gated communities interesting guerrilla operation by "Heavy Trash", an anoymous arts organization of architects, designers and urban planners... (tags: architecture art design politics cities) Philadelphia is the most depressed place on U.S. soil i don't see too many smiling faces on the streets of Boston... (tags: media cities)...

• links for 2005-04-30
  Delicious Library 1.5 released Works with Tiger... (tags: osx apple weblogs tech)...
• links for 2005-04-29
  Cisco Reports VPN Conflict with Tiger nooooooooo! I regularly VPN in to my work, and then use a Remote Desktop connection to connect to my actual Work PC... this works great, but it looks like not for long! (tags: apple osx tech media) Todd Dominey's first day using Tiger a positive review -- i can't wait to get my hands on my own copy (tags: apple osx weblogs)...
• Fat-kins Diet
  I’ve been on a high-protein diet for about 6 months, and I’ve dropped about 22 pounds since, and I feel much healthier, etc. Still, this Neurotically Yours flash animation makes me laugh: Fat-kins Diet...
• links for 2005-04-26
  A (Near)-Complete List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts endless productivity (tags: apple osx tech) AirBase stand for AirPort Express my airport express sucks... it cuts out all the time, so i may as well throw some more money at it... (tags: apple shopping) Xyle Scope CSS tool Breaks out all CSS elements from any web page in visual form. (tags: apple css design) Aardvark Firefox Extension See how a CSS-built page is created, <div> by <div> (tags: css design firefox)...
• Reboot
  Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve done a major overhaul of this site’s design… Though this site has looked very much the same for more than 2 years now, a lot has changed “under the hood”. I’ve converted it from a tables-based layout, to a transitional CSS layout, keeping the design mostly intact. I even got close to validation. But, Nedward.org is long overdue for a visual update — so, I have taken a chance, and thrown my hat into both the May 1st Reboot and CSS Reboot. The design is ready to go, after almost a year...
• Poor Man's TiVo: BitTorrent & RSS
  I know a lot of you cats have TiVo, but I thought I’d share my favorite method of downloading our favorite TV shows, sans TiVo… BitTorrent is awesome, as everyone knows… but, I hate having to continuously scan the tracker sites for the shows I want, and then, I hate waiting for them to download. Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell your BitTorrent client what shows you want, and it would download them automatically? Why, yes. That is the point of my post. By using the java client Azureus, in combination with its RSS plugin, you can. I’ve...
• links for 2005-04-23
  Pope Benedict XVI Gets E-Mail Address Can't imagine the Spam he'll get... (tags: religion media) Nomar tore his groin the best decision the Sox ever made, was dumping Nomar... (tags: redsox sports media)...
• links for 2005-04-21
  Gruber translates the Adobe press release on their acquisition of Macromedia "Dude, we just bought the only significant competitor to several of our flagship applications. We didn�t buy Macromedia, we bought the market." (tags: business design funny tech) Amazon is selling the Tiger Family Pack - 5 licenses with a nice $50 rebate to boot! (tags: apple osx tech shopping) Kottke on the future of "Spotlight" and OS X some interesting thoughts on Tiger's major new feature (tags: apple osx tech)...
• links for 2005-04-18
  Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal christ (tags: tech media)...
• Spring Scoots
  "this looks dirty", posted by nedward I'm starting to wonder about "Jason's":http://www.circa1973.net/bossanova/ sanity, but we broke the Lambrettas out of the basement last sunday. My P-200 is still put away, though, until I can figure out the electrics....
• links for 2005-04-15
  Kottke's Paris in April Apparently a portion of my $30 micropatron payment is for trips to Europe... ;-) (tags: weblogs travel photos) Bush's iPod filled with infringing goodness maybe this guy is like the rest of us? nah... he has people to do it for him. (tags: iPod copyright music politics Republicans)...
• Site Outage
  Apologies for the site outage the past 12 hours… Here is the explanation provided by my hosting company, site5.com: It appears that the permissions to your web directory were modified and no longer gave permission to apache to enter the directory. I’ve changed the permissions and your site is back up now. I love how hosting companies insist that their servers have a 99.9999% uptime… but little f*ck-ups like this don’t count, since only my site was affected, and the server was “up”. Time to email the billing department…...
• links for 2005-04-12
  Idaho passed a bill commending "Napoleon Dynamite" "WHEREAS, Uncle Rico's football skills are a testament to Idaho athletics..." (tags: funny politics movies)...
• links for 2005-04-07
  Connecticut to sue Feds over cost of "No Child Left Behind" Attention Dems! We are the "states rights" party now (tags: politics Republicans Democrats)...
• links for 2005-04-06
  Making Firefox scream a few little tweaks to the config can speed up your borwsing experience (tags: firefox web) "Big Pussy" surrenders to cops this Post photo looks like something from The Soprano's... (tags: tv media weblogs nyc)...
• Saul Bellow
  I have very few literary heroes, but Saul Bellow is one of them. Since I read Henderson the Rain King in high school, I’ve admired his wit, and ability to charge the most ordinary among us with great thoughts and purpose. His characters didn’t always succeed in life, but they were cast with such ironic humor, that it hardly mattered. I was sorry to hear that he died yesterday, at the age of 89. I never got to meet him when I was a student at BU, however I did help rescue a manuscript of his from his misbehaving computer,...
• Rejected Mandate
  If the President’s approval rating is at 45%, according to Gallup, why does the news media cover him like he’s got teflon skin? When will anything stick to this guy? And, Sen. Cornyn (R-Texas), today defended domestic terrorists who attack liberal judges. I would very much like this ass to defend his comments — preferably to the FBI....
• links for 2005-04-05
  Pretty In Pink 2: Duckie's Revenge Dear god, the world does not need this...[waxy] (tags: movies weblogs) Al Gore's TV network will launch Aug 1 "The 24-hour network will target an 18- to 34-year-old audience and offer short-form content--15-second to five-minute segments--to be contributed by viewers." (tags: tv tech) Bob's Cube some interesting flash nonsense to distract you from work (tags: fun web) colr.org point to a photo's URL, and pick out the color values (tags: photos design fun) YaGoohoo!gle is anyone else tired of this google vs. yahoo! trend? (tags: tech web fun)...
• Gmail Rich-Text
  I got back from NYC last night, and noticed that not only has Gmail bumped up storage from 1GB to 2GB, but it also has Rich-Text formatting! Gmail Rich-Text formatting...

• links for 2005-03-30
  Lawrence Lessig on NPR's The Connection, commenting on the Grokster Supreme Court trial Once again, host Dick Gordon manages to suck the life out of an interesting topic... (tags: politics tech copyright)...
• Hopeless Friend
  "hopeless friend", posted by nedward Presley is in nyc for a "conference":http://www.flickr.com/photos/presley/tags/aacrao/, but that didn't stop me from leaving the house last night. I caught "Graham Coxon":http://grahamcoxon.co.uk, former guitarist for a little britpop outfit called "Blur":http://blur.co.uk. I love Graham's new album, "Happiness in Magazines":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00070Q88G/002-0615116-7890441?v=glance, and was delighted to find out that he also puts on a hell of a show, for such a shy guy. His vocals especially were quite strong, though he freaked out and stopped in the middle of a song because the lighting guy put a spot on him... My first _Blur_ show was in March...
• links for 2005-03-29
  "Since U Been Gone" Corporate Slides This Kelly Clarkson meme just won't quit... (tags: music weblogs business)...
• Steak Salad
  I watched a bit of FoodTV on Sunday, and suffered through Rachael Ray and her awful accent and mannerisms… I’ve never once wanted to eat anything she cooks, because she annoys me so much. But after Rachael, a delightful woman came on, who I’ve never seen before: Giada De Laurentiis, and she apparently cooks Italian. Sure, she’s hot, but the production values on this show are a little more modern, (think Nigella), with nice lighting and editing. The show was so pleasant to watch, I ended up cooking her Steak Salad for Presley and I last night. I went a...
• links for 2005-03-26
  Siemens' Prototype Phone Testing Program "...giving out models to selected users, setting them up with a blog, and having them document their experiences..." (categories: tech weblogs shopping)...
• links for 2005-03-25
  UK artist Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums i love his stuff -- especially the artwork for Blur's last album Think Tank (categories: art funny nyc photos) del.icio.us comments bookmarklet "...you can get a look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page..." (categories: del.icio.us tags) Mac OS X is four years old Veerle provides a nice little summary... (categories: apple osx weblogs) United Airlines Spam? I do this same method -- Ch*aptickets.com is my worst offender (categories: travel weblogs spam) Glassdog calls out "Boing Boing" for their...
• True
  A Club Sandwich without bacon, is not a Club Sandwich....
• links for 2005-03-24
  Perfect strangers The Boston Globe (sic) reports on a successful Craigslist "missed connection" (categories: media web)...
• MAMP: Mac, Apache, Mysql & PHP
  When I’m designing and building a website, I dread the point where I’ll have to shift from working locally, to working on the server. Once the initial layout and CSS is done, it’s time to start scripting with PHP, and pulling content in from MySQL databases — and time to fire up ye olde FTP. This constant uploading is frustrating, and gives me carpal tunnel… I’ve always known that it was possible to set up PHP & MySQL locally, as Mac OSX has the Apache web server built-in… but, that always seemed like such a hassle. After a few minutes...
• links for 2005-03-22
  Pimp My Safari a resource for the pimping of Apple's Safari web browser (categories: apple osx tech) Kottke takes a fellowship at Eyebeam sounds like a nice arrangement (categories: weblogs)...
• Flickr!
  Well, it's official -- the worst kept secret around, Flickr was "acquired":http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/21/technology/yahoo.reut/ by Yahoo!, and was announced on the "Flickr":http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html Blog: bq. Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks! My initial reaction, as an avid Flickr "user":http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/, is very _wait-and-see_. Despite the "occasional downtimes":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002505.php, I've been impressed by how they've managed to scale up, as the site has grown exponentially. But obviously, there comes a point where a Yahoo! can really...
• links for 2005-03-18
  Motorola Cites Apple for Non-Show of iTunes Phone "...because of the pair's differing approach to launching new products..." (categories: osx iTunes tech media) EyeHome interface for your mac and tv (categories: osx tv tech) Man arrested for plotting to kidnap David Letterman's Son I still can't beleive Dave is a dad (categories: tv media)...
• links for 2005-03-17
  Microsoft to release six new typefaces in 2006 Is the reign of Verdana, Arial, Georgia and Times New Roman over? (categories: microsoft design weblogs)...
• links for 2005-03-16
  flickrfox nice little Firefox extension, which creates a sidebar full of Flickr images (categories: firefox flickr photos web) Toyota Launches Music Label? try as you might, Toyota-san, nobody under 40 wants your cars... (categories: music cars weblogs) Boston's Gardner Museum is still trying to get back it's stolen paintings Apparently there is a new documentary on the most famous art-theft in history (categories: art boston movies)...
• links for 2005-03-15
  HOW-TO: Use your Gmail account as a personal file server i finally tried this out, and it works quite nice... (categories: windows tech) Local businessses in Memphis were contacted by someone who claimed to be a "federal agent" and told that they were not allowed to post signs critical of President Bush whether they were actual Feds, or not, this is scary... (categories: politics Republicans) The "Synergy" myth How the iPod Ran Circles Around the Walkman... (categories: apple business iPod) PST Import Tool for Entourage 2004 hooray! One of the things that Outlook does very well, comes to OS...
• links for 2005-03-14
  Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to arrive in April good to see Think Secret is still giving us the goods... (categories: apple osx) Start.com - New MSFT RSS & Atom feed reader interesting... and it works in Firefox. Can't wait for support for OPML import. (categories: microsoft tech web firefox) Start.com -- for bookmarks allows you to import IE bookmarks. (categories: microsoft tech web) Democrats: The Unbranding Great NYer piece by Jeffrey Goldberg which asks the question, "Can the Democrats make themselves look tough?" (categories: politics Democrats media)...
• Another Quality Afternoon at Saab City
  I spent the morning and a good part of the afternoon today sitting in the dealership, watching the snow come down in buckets, waiting for my car to get it’s new wheels. 2 new rims, and 4 new tires… But watching all of this snow got me daydreaming about nicer weather, and all that it entails… grilling, scooting, the beach. And, as long as we’re daydreaming, how about this $40,000 convertible?...
• links for 2005-03-11
  Ted Leo's cover of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone", (and YYY's "Maps") the entertainment value of this track rivals Fountains of Wayne's cover of Britney Spear's first single (categories: music fun) Wireless carriers delay launch of Motorola's iTunes phone I can't imagine why they wouldn't want this phone � I'm sure it will sell well... (categories: tech iTunes) "Connoisseur", a new recipe management app "Connoisseur makes managing your recipes as easy as iTunes makes managing your music." (categories: food osx) Gmacker, Map It firefox extension that lets you highlight a phone number, and get driving directions to that...
• links for 2005-03-10
  incredible first-person shooter game made in shockwave, I can't believe how well implemented this is... (categories: fun web) NPR profile of Tech Boston, a Bill Gates funded public pilot school focused on technology Includes a nice quote from our friend Steve, who is an history teacher at the school. It sounds like a great school, but the key to all schools' success is class size... a low student/teacher ratio offers the best hope of boosting achievement. (categories: media education tech)...
• Hot Hot Heat
  "Hot Hot Heat", posted by nedward Pet peeve for the day: How can "Axis":http://www.nextticketing.com/axis.html call itself a _night_ club when it begins shows at 6:45pm and ends them by 9:30pm? Isn't that just an _evening_ club? We went to see "Hot Hot Heat":http://hothotheat.com on monday night, but due to the early show-time, managed to miss "Louis XIV":http://www.louisxiv.net/, and their _lady-killer_ hit anthem, "Finding out True Love is Blind":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=36400182&selectedItemId=36400188 (iTunes). As for HHH, they've "blossomed" into full blown rock stars since we last "saw":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/000922.php them. When singer/keyboardist Steve Bays walked out with a teased up white-boy afro, I decided this...
• links for 2005-03-09
  Kottke on the "don't be evil" business ethos values should drive business decisions... (categories: weblogs business) pop surrealism angie mckaig writes a little "art appreciation" piece... (categories: weblogs design) Samsung Elec Unveils 7-Megapixel Camera Phone and I just got my Siemens s66 1.3 mega-pixel (sic) phone... (categories: tech media) Motorola E399 to be the first iTunes phone Still, the ROKR phone which Apple helped design won't be available until Xmas (categories: tech xmas iTunes Apple)...
• links for 2005-03-08
  Motorola to launch ROKR iTunes phone this Thursday i will believe it when i see it... (categories: apple iTunes tech) style master 4 "x-ray" feautre shows an instant preview when CSS editing (categories: osx css)...
• links for 2005-03-07
  super OS X menubar items a pretty good rundown (categories: apple osx) Who's on First? from the folks at McSweeney's... (categories: funny movies web) SimpleBits recommends a good printing company i need to get some business cards done... (categories: business design weblogs)...
• Dear Leader @ The Paradise
  "the room", posted by nedward "Dear Leader":http://dear-leader.com started as a side project for x-Sheila Divine singer Aaron Perrino, but now is a fleshed-out band that includes musicians from past Boston bands such as Tugboat Annie, Orbit, and Cheerleadr... Presley and I used to be Sheilas _junkies_, so I'm not sure any Dear Leader show could even come close, but it was a fun night. The opening band was "Taxpayer":http://taxpayermusic.com/. (Also, we ran into Jim Gilbert in the crowd, and he remembered _both_ our names... _quelle suprise!_)...
• links for 2005-03-06
  Google Weather? type "weather", followed by your ZIP (categories: web tech)...
• links for 2005-03-05
  Kottke story in Newsweek "The Blogosphere's Matt Lauer" -- lol (categories: weblogs media)...
• links for 2005-03-04
  NYPL Digital Gallery huge online gallery of free digital images (categories: photos design web) Avril Lavigne Kills Kittens i think she's cute... oh well. (categories: music photos) NYU warns students against wearing iPod Earbuds apparently they'll get you mugged (categories: iPod university nyc) library is loaning iPod shuffles loaded with audio books why? Audio books in MP3 format are cheaper than CD format... "The units are paying for themselves..." (categories: iPod books) Boston's FleetCenter is rechristened TD Banknorth Garden an homage to the old Boston Garden... (categories: boston weblogs) Boston group offers $3 Billion for All 30 N.H.L. Teams...
• links for 2005-03-03
  Ask MeFi: Are there any good 24 hour places to eat in Boston? answer? no. (categories: boston food web) Blacks in Punk, New Wave and Hardcore 1976-1983 interesting read... turns out punk rock wasn't all skinny white kids... (categories: music)...
• Constantine
  Presley was busy studying tonight (damn MBA school), so I figured I’d check out a movie. But what to see? An Oscar winner? Aviator? Million Dollar Baby? nah. Since I enjoy reading religious texts, I thought I’d check out the latest Keanu movie, Constantine. From the trailer, I thought it looked cheesy, but chock full of demons, and the occult… fun on a wednesday night, right? Well, yea… it was fun. Despite what the New Yorker might think: Constantine turns Catholic doctrine, ritual, and iconograph into schlock… Imagine Jewish version of the spectacle�Angel, starring Vin Diesel, in which God�s messenger...
• Xmas in February
  I posted some photos from this past weekend... Kim was kind enough to invite us to a Xmas in February party. The food was terrific, and the Yankee Swap fun, (though it feels weird in February). I love the Mustache poses: "one":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/5790374/in/set-145115/ "two":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/5790320/in/set-145115/ "three":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/5790277/in/set-145115/ "four":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/5790295/in/set-145115/ The night before, (no photos, thank god), "Kimberly":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/804246/ decided it would be good to punch me in the face with her ring, leaving a bloody scratch... it seems to be almost healed, but my god I'm tired of the awkward moments at work, when they ask what happened. ;-)...
• links for 2005-03-02
  "Airfoil" extends all audio to Airport Express I've been watching for this release for a couple of months now... $20 introductory price (categories: apple osx iTunes) Supreme Court Bars Death Penalty for Juvenile Killers this seems to be a no-brainer, however I'm concerned that this same court believes that a mentally-disabled adult is more "fit" for death than a 17-year old... (categories: politics media) Bossa Nova weighs in on his "Liberal Guilt" Jason's "Horatio Alger" story... (categories: weblogs politics Democrats)...
• links for 2005-03-01
  Boston's "Citgo Sign" Gets a Makeover only in this town would this be news... (categories: boston redsox)...

• links for 2005-02-28
  jymn - unprotect iTunes purchased tracks ...without having to burn it to CD (categories: copyright iPod iTunes osx windows) glassdog "calls out" Dave Winer for criticizing Odeo "...he�s famously bad at designing software for end users." (categories: tech iPod weblogs) Gay men read maps like women I wouldn't touch this with a stick (categories: media tech)...
• K�
  Perhaps my favorite night of our time in Vegas was Monday, when we escaped to the Strip for a bit of culture… earlier this month, Cirque de Soleil opened K� at the MGM Grand, so we figured, why not check it out? We “splurged” for the cheap seats at $100 a pop. Steep, to be sure, but that still got us a decent view, cup-holders and speakers that were integrated into the headrests. Pretty cool… This show was unlike any theatrical experience I’ve ever had — to start, there is no stage… or rather, the stage rises vertically, spins, floats...
• links for 2005-02-27
  Odeo Evan Williams is up to something new - helping users find podcasts, and synch them to their iPods (categories: iPod music web business)...
• Let the Sin begin
  "Let the Sin begin", posted by nedward Got back from Nevada on Wednesday morning, having fled the pouring rain, bright neon, and the sound of slot machines. We spent about a week in Nevada, which is far too long, considering we didn't "get married":http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/5339593/ or lose our life's savings... No, instead we made due with "$2 forty-ounce lagers":http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/5324660/in/set-134364/ and the right to smoke anywhere we please. "Lammy", posted by nedward It was good to be amongst scooterists again, though the rain kept us from riding except on Sunday... (when you think of desert, a constant soaking is not what...
• del.icio.us Inbox
  del.icio.us Inbox seems to be down again… has anybody heard anything about its status?...
• links for 2005-02-25
  "The Somerville Gates" I'm surprised the NYTimes picked this up... (categories: design media web boston) Red Sox will get World Championship rings on Opening Day April 11, with Jeter and A-Rod looking on... (categories: sports redsox weblogs) Wingnut Michelle Malkin equates self-mutilation with Emo music try not to cry about it too much... (categories: politics Republicans music) angiemckaig questions kottke's decision "Because he's basically saying: my name is my brand... That's it. Blammo. No business model, no theme, no hint of what kind of content might be planned, other than the possibility that, like Seinfeld, it may very well...
• links for 2005-02-24
  Apple to buy TiVo? rumors to make my pulse quicken (categories: apple tech business) Bono is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize hell hath frozen over... (categories: music u2 politics) SimpleBits folds daily links into main content area i'm also struggling to make this work... though I'm sticking with Del.icio.us for now, I hope someone comes up with a better way to fold links into the main content area... lazyweb anyone? (categories: weblogs del.icio.us) My Other Shirt Has Its Collar Up if you've ever seen my fashion sense, you'd buy this for me. (categories: design funny tshirts)...
• I am a kottke.org micropatron
  Just arrived back from Vegas, and still catching up on the web goings-ons, having been unplugged for nearly a week… that is a long time without a fix. Mr. Kottke quit his job to blog full-time, so I sent a few bucks his way. You should, too. This is where weblogging starts to get interesting — when you can make a living doing it, with your readers as your only shareholders…...
• links for 2005-02-17
  Panic releases Transmit 3 the best OSX FTP client known to mankind (categories: apple osx) Wallace & Gromit Movie Presley is stoked... (categories: movies)...
• Vegas, baby...
  Presley and I are off to Vegas for nearly a week, to go to the High Rollers Weekend, AKA, the Las Vegas Scooter Rally. Morgan is the man, as he’s going to let us ride his gorgeous vintage Vespa GT while we’re there. I’ve never actually been west of Chicago, so I’m excited. The weather, however might not cooperate. A quick glance at the 10-day forecast doesn’t make me hopeful. Anyway, I’ll have photos and all the details when we get back. The funny thing is, my parents called to say that they would be there at the same time…...
• links for 2005-02-16
  WordPress 1.5 released i don't quite like the "dashboard" page... seems to be a bit untidy. (categories: weblogs wp) "Fark.com UFIA Arena" Farkers won the naming rights of Boston's FleetCenter for 1 day (categories: boston funny web) "The Gates" gets tagged graffiti asks the question we all want to ask... (categories: nyc design photos media) Daring Fireball: Apps of the Year, 2004 "quicksilver" should be at the top of the list... (categories: apple osx weblogs)...
• links for 2005-02-15
  Todd Dominey's "SlideShowPro" now available an excellent new photo gallery component for Flash MX 2004... and it can plug into the Flickr API (categories: photos flickr weblogs) Colin Farrell & Jamie Foxx to star in "Miami Vice" movie was Sonny Crockett Irish? I hope they go with the same hip mid-80s wardrobe... and soundtrack! (categories: movies) greg.org looks at Christo & Jeanne Claude's The Gates $20m price tag guess what? it should only have cost them around $5.3 million... (categories: nyc design weblogs) Anil Dash: nobody's ever been fired for blogging he's right-- it's not "blogging" that will get...
• dot org
  If the site looks a little goofy right now, (ok, stop laughing if you think it always looks goofy), hit refresh. I’ve made some changes to the mast/logo, widened the content area to hopefully make the content column more readable, and finally switched everything from a suckahs.org subdomain to the real deal: nedward.org. I’ve been putting off moving the domain for some time now, but through the miracle of .htaccess files, I’ve hopefully managed to make the move as painless as possible — ned.suckahs.org (and the 500+ archive pages) should still function properly, though I recommend you update your bookmarks!...
• bostonist
  I just noticed that Boston now has it’s very own bostonist.com… looking forward to checking it out. Though, I can’t imagine what could be posted about this town that would be worth reading....
• Peepers
  “Peepers”, posted by nedward I was browsing around the Gorillaz site today, kind of looking forward to the new record, and I stumbled across a link to a Birmingham UK art collective, Beat13. I really liked the illustrations done by Lucy Mclauchlan, so I ordered a screenprint… only �53.00, limited edition of 200....
• links for 2005-02-11
  New Gorillaz : "Make My Day" Stereogum posts a track from the upcoming 2nd album (categories: music weblogs) Suburban "Loft"-style subdivisions omg. (categories: architecture media) The Queen comments on the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles that woman oozes warmth... (categories: england)...
• Trados 6.5 dongle
  For 2 years, working in Localization, I had to scramble around for a Trados dongle whenever I had to do some analysis or Translation Memory maintenance. Though I work for a major localization vendor, with global offices and almost 2000 employees, we still had to share dongles… expensive little buggers. Today, however, I finally received my own. I was so accustomed to the old Parallel-port version, that I was excited to get my hands on the smaller USB one. Only problem is, now I can’t use the excuse “I don’t have a dongle”, when my boss asks why I’m not...
• links for 2005-02-10
  New video for The Bravery : An Honest Mistake when good dominoes go bad... nicely shot (categories: music) flickr graph uses of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs, to explore the social relationships inside flickr (categories: flickr)...
• links for 2005-02-09
  Steal this bookmark! Salon looks at 'tagging' (folksonomies, for you people who insist on using annoying jargon) (categories: del.icio.us flickr tags media) Google Maps you can click and drag the maps, instead of having to click and reload (categories: tech web maps) The narrowest house in Boston It measures just 9.5 feet in width and 36 feet in length, with an entrance that leads into an alleyway because the street-facing wall is too slim for a door. (categories: boston cities) The Pope (before he was "ill") (categories: religion media photos) Jason Kottke is unintentionally pumping up Answers.com stock (He)...
• New Feeds
  Some new Atom & RSS feeds added today… First up, by request, I’m offering feeds of my weblog, without the Del.icio.us links… (some people really could care less about my bookmarks): Syndicate:ATOMRSS (no DailiesATOMRSS) Also, I added feeds by Category… so, for instance, you could subscribe to just entries that I tag as Boston/Cambridge: Syndicate �boston/cambridge�:ATOMRSS...
• links for 2005-02-08
  gre.gario.us "a tool to find people who have bookmarked the same links you have on del.icio.us. The purpose is to attempt to find people who may have similar interests as you do in a more direct way than using tags." (categories: del.icio.us) Moveable Type Tag Quick Reference nice little sidebar panel, to assist you when working on MT templates... (categories: MT moveabletype weblogs) Where have the Women of Rock gone? One-time Britpop also-ran Louise Wener (of Sleeper) ponders the question... (categories: music media)...
• Chili Dog
  "Dog", posted by nedward Milton is totally a Patriots fan, am I right? Nick and Marge hosted their 5th annual "Superbowl Chili cook-off":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/sets/111854/, and Presley and I entered with our "Chili con Tequila y cerveza":http://www.circa1973.net/blogging_gourmet/index.php?p=21. All of the entries were amazing -- look for other recipes on the "Blogging Gourmets":http://www.circa1973.net/blogging_gourmet/. Go Pats!...
• Validation
  I decided today to see how well or poorly this site validates, as it’s been ages since I’ve even looked— XHTML CSS 508 Overall, not bad. However, my beloved method for posting “cropped” Flickr photos to my blog is not valid — placing an anchor tag around some divs disses the rule that says “you can’t put a block-level element inside an inline element”. But I like it....
• links for 2005-02-06
  How to turn crap vodka into premium vodka run it through a Brita filter 4-5 times... (categories: fun)...
• 'Colophon' update
  Yet another refresh, I’ve resurrected the colophon. Not much of interest here, but it does get its own place on the main menu…...
• Backups, Part III
  Hurrah! Continuing the saga, I was searching through the D�j? Vu help, I stumbled upon this little nugget of information: IMPORTANT: If you are backing up to a Windows server, you must use the ‘Connect’ button in the ‘Auto-Connect’ tab to mount the volume before you select the source and destination folders (in the ‘What’ and ‘Where’ columns). If you select the source and destination folders when the volume has been mounted by the Finder, D�j? Vu will not be able to find the destination when it auto-connects to the volume at backup time. No kidding. I did as asked,...
• links for 2005-02-05
  Schedule HackTV with iCal still not Tivo... (categories: apple osx tv) Crumpler SLR Camera bag Nobuko ordered the "Budgie Smuggler" for her new Digital Rebel, and it is quite possibly the nicest camera bag I've ever laid eyes on. (categories: photos shopping) Rob Schneider attacks a LA Times critic "Frankly, I am surprised the LA Times would hire someone like you with so few or, actually, no accolades to work on their front page... Perhaps, someone who has at least won a �Cable Ace Award.�" (categories: funny movies weblogs media) XBox "Halo" to be feature film we all know...
• links for 2005-02-04
  Web Designer's Survival Guide Some good tips, should you decide to go freelance... (categories: design web business tech) digg.com a new site for me to find "dailes"... (categories: tags web media tech) Liz Phair in a see-through shirt I think these are fakes... (categories: music sexy) Why Mac users shouldn't necessarily wish for the mass-market Mac mini the most entertaining thing I've ever read: "consumers need to be aware that once they add on the basics like a keyboard, monitor and mouse, plus shell out for some antivirus software, the Mac mini price is scraping the ceiling of $1600"...
• 'About' update
  Continuing with the site refreshes, I finally pared down and updated my about page. Gone are the silly teenage quizes, and links to bands that I no longer enjoy. No big whoop… just had to do it....
• To Integrate, or not to Integrate...
  Matt Haughey and Dave Shea have an interesting discussion going, concerning the integration of posts, daily links, and flickr photos into single feeds, and why this sucks. I’ve heard some grumblings a while back about my decision to fold my daily links into my main blog. (Mr. Yovanoff, I’m looking at you…) But, I still feel that a post is a post is a post. Having “dailies” appear inline with other content not only provides deeper context, but it also motivates me to write about other topics. Perhaps I will research a method to strip out my del.icio.us posts (by...
• Backups, Part II
  My scheduled backup didn’t go so well, the other night. Apparently, D�j? Vu copied the folder structure, but couldn’t copy the files. Obviously there is some kind of permissions issue here, but I’m wondering if this is due to the fact that I’m copying to a Windows PC… The app connects to the remote drive just fine, and I can manually copy files to it — I just can’t seem to get this to work, though. I’ll have to do a little more research (leave a comment if you have an idea!)… or else, on to rsync. UPDATE: Ethan suggests...
• links for 2005-02-03
  Considering the Last Romantic, Ayn Rand, at 100 "...the failure to reconcile democratic culture and high achievement has not been hers alone: it is one reason readers are still choosing sides..." (categories: books media) erasing.org / I Ate iPod Shuffle I think Scott used to date my friend Kate, and now he lives in my old home, Buffalo. Anyway, here is an ode to the iPod that is smaller than a pack of gum (categories: apple iPod funny)...
• links for 2005-02-02
  Stopdesign: MSN goes CSS Doug Bowman looks past the "uninspired" design, and points out the site's support for standards (categories: css design webstandards) Installing OS X on a PC i don't recommend that you do this... but it sounds cool (categories: apple osx windows) NPRs On Point examines the Life and Legacy of Ayn Rand fascists and libertarians take note... (she was a gifted writer though) (categories: books media) Dean Emerging as Likely Chief for Democrats Frost drops out, and the AFL-CIO decides not to endorse (categories: Democrats politics) Pope John Paul is Hospitalized "...suffering from fever and influenza...
• links for 2005-02-01
  New Yorker review of Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel argues that societies fail when they mismanage environmental factors (categories: books) Hallelujah, the Mac is back Salon piles on the Mac bandwagon... (categories: Apple Macmini) ABC News' resident dittohead John Stossel claims "Ubran Sprawl" is a myth "open space" does not equal good policy or lifestyle... what about the looming energy crisis, John? (categories: cities media) Sen. Clinton Collapses During Appearance in Buffalo apparently it's just the flu, no doubt due to that Buffalo weather... (categories: politics Democrats)...

• Backups
  Having read a few recent posts from Andy Budd and Jason Kottke, I’ve grown suddenly worried about the prospect of losing my Powerbook’s data. For the past couple of years, I’ve manually backed up critical files to CD, but I was lucky if this got done once per year… After briefly flirting with DVD archiving (thanks for your help Jason), it was clear that this would be only slightly less annoying than CDs. And, web servers offer even less disk space… No, I decided that it was time to set up scheduled backups, to hard disk. First, I started with...
• links for 2005-01-30
  Best Buy to Sell Mac mini, 512MB iPod shuffle in Stores following Target's lead... looks like this little Mac is going to sell like hotcakes... (categories: Apple shopping Macmini iPod)...
• links for 2005-01-29
  Clintons may block Dean for DNC chair "...Clinton pals worry that Dean as party chief could hurt any 2008 presidential contender, including Hillary..." (categories: Democrats politics) Build Your Own PVR (for free) with HackTV it's not exactly Tivo, but interesting nonetheless... (categories: Apple osx tv) How to make an iLife Poster quick guide to making a "mosaic"-like poster, using iPhoto (categories: apple iPhoto osx photos)...
• Weighted Category Lists
  After a few site tweaks earlier in the week allowed me to implement new categories in this weblog, I decided to add weighted category lists, much like Flickr & Technorati. I modified an example given by hitormiss, which looks like this: <?php $minfont = 1; $maxfont = 5; $fontunit = ""; <MTCategories> $catlinks{"<$MTCategoryLabel$>"} = "<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"; $counts{"<$MTCategoryLabel$>"} = <$MTCategoryCount$>; </MTCategories> $spread = max($counts) - min($counts); if ($spread <= 0) { $spread = 1; }; $fontspread = $maxfont - $minfont; $fontstep = $spread / $fontspread; if ($fontstep <= 0) { $fontstep = 1; }; foreach ($counts as $catname => $count) { $catlink...
• links for 2005-01-28
  Photon for iPhoto Free plugin that allows you to easily publish photo galleries to Movable Type, TypePad, Blojsom and WordPress (categories: Apple osx iPhoto MT photos) "Weighted Lists" in Movable Type for that "tagged" flickr / technorati look (categories: mt weblogs tags) interesting feature on the abcnews.com redesign the most simple, elegant Big Media news site out there... Now, if only they could make "the Note" more readable... (categories: tv media tech) Tbone looks at the confirmation hearings for Rice and Gonzales, for State & Justice nice to see the return of the "Boning"... (categories: politics weblogs Democrats)...
• The Bravery @ TTs
  "mic stand 2", posted by nedward On Tuesday, we checked out NYC's latest hyped offering, "The Bravery":http://www.thebravery.com/, at "TT's":http://ttthebears.com, and it only cost $8. Labeled by the BBC critics as the "Sound of 2005":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4097433.stm, it looks as though they have a shot at living up to the hype. Usually a staid Cambridge crowd, TTs was absolutely electric... check out my "photos":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/sets/97028/....
• links for 2005-01-27
  MP3 :: "I love my Flickr Friends" horrid, and yet I find myself singing along... [plasticbag] (categories: flickr music) Jarrod attends the "Weekly Dig" relaunch party apparently, the last independent weekly in Boston was bought by Boston Magazine, and bastardized... (categories: media boston) Funny letter to the Editor, addressed to the Weekly Dig "No amount of faux whimsy polish will shine up the fundamentally sterile and passionless turd that is your new layout" (categories: media boston) TypeWorks, a new web CMS is coming setting the bar high, they proclaim, "expect TypeWorks to feel like you are on a first-class...
• 8-year Anniversary
  Just a note of thanks to Stef & Nobuko for recommending Dali’s for our anniversary dinner. Presley and I have been together now for 8 years, and I don’t think we’ve ever had a finer experience. Because of the blizzard, we had to delay one day, but it was worth the wait… (a couple of photos of us… gag!) Tapas items that we ordered: Mejillones con Aguacate (Green-Lipped Mussels w/Avocado) Queso de Cabra Monta�es (Baked Goat Cheese w/Tomato & Basil) Gambas al Ajillo (Garlic Shrimp) Vieiras al Azafr�n (Scallops in Saffron Cream) Ravioles de Mariscos (Lobster/Crabmeat Ravioli w/Langostino Sauce) Solomillo...
• links for 2005-01-26
  Boston bands to watch in 2005 can't wait to see what becomes of 'Dear Leader'... (categories: music boston media) Why I love Flickr a photographer posts to Flickr a picture he took, of a woman, who is taking a picture of some Japanese teens... somehow, this woman sees the photo on Flickr, and posts the photo she was taking in his photo to Flickr... make sense? (categories: photos flickr) Gates vs. Jobs: The Rematch The NYTimes ponders the possibility that Microsoft could de-throne the iPod (categories: Apple tech music)...
• Fast Food Nation
  Is it wrong to look at mothers in the "mall":http://natickmall.com/ food court, and wonder why they let their kids eat McDonald's and Pizza? (There are limited culinary options near my workplace)...
• Facelift
  It was a long time coming, but I gave this weblog yet another design tweak, converting the horrid _image map_ navigation to _CSS-styled unordered lists_. This design has served me well for the past 2+ years... a major re-design has been in planning for more than a year, but I almost enjoy tweaking this one more. There is value in _constancy_. The real motive for doing this, is that my category choices for posts have been limited to the same 5: "books":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/cat_books.php, "music":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/cat_music.php, "movies":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/cat_movies.php, "features":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/cat_features.php, and "posts":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/cat_posts.php... I couldn't add new categories, because the image navigation, and complex scripting behind...
• links for 2005-01-25
  List of Beatles' recording anomalies obsessive, obsessive, obsessive... [megnut] (categories: music beatles) Daring Fireball: Small, Cheap, and Without a Display John Gruber's excellent take on the MacWorld announcements (categories: Apple iPod macmini MacWorld) Some ideas for what to do with the "Mac mini" as living-room DVR, low-cost data cluster, mounted in your car, or high-end stereo (categories: Apple Macmini) U2 "Vertigo Tour" dates announced 2 dates in Boston in May... tickets go on sale this Saturday (categories: music u2)...
• links for 2005-01-24
  Poll shows Buffalo Mayor Masiello is in trouble Buffalo may end up with its first African American mayor -- Byron Brown (categories: politics cities buffalo) Funny photo of VP Cheney's limo, hit by a snowball happy freakin' inauguration (categories: politics Republicans) Johnny Carson died I'll have to remember to watch Letterman monday night... so many owe their careers to this man (categories: tv death)...
• Blizzard of 2005
  I just came in from shoveling the driveway of our next door neighbor, where he kindly let me park the 9-3... more than "two feet of snow":http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/01/23/blizzard_pounds_east_coast_with_driving_snow_wind/, blizzard conditions, and very cold temperatures -- reminds me of the Buffalo blizzards of my youth... Everything is closed, and I'm waiting to hear if I have to go in to work tomorrow morning... in the meantime, i put some photos on "Flickr":. * My "photos":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/tags/blizzard/ (just a couple) * Kim's "moblog photos":http://www.flickr.com/photos/starstream_girl/tags/blizzard/, and her "post":http://starstreamgirl.blogspot.com/2005/01/blizzard-of-2005.html * Nobuko's "photos":http://hinagiku.smugmug.com/gallery/368129/1/14673984 * Jess & Casey's "post & photos":http://www.frecklegirl.com/blog/archives/000320.php Also: * John Maeda "lost power":http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000108.html *...
• links for 2005-01-23
  Target selling Apple Mac mini what a marketing coup... the mini has a lot in common with Target -- stylish, but cheap (categories: Apple shopping) Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" the director returns to animation... the trailer looks exquisite! (categories: movies) Boston's "Dear Leader" featured in Gothamist i know i'm late catching up, but i hope they played a good show... these are good guys (categories: music nyc) jarrod reviews "River Gods", Central Square I agree - one of a handful of essential neighborhood restaurants/bars (categories: cambridge cities restaurant)...
• Pauly Shore is Dead
  "pauly & snoop", posted by nedward "Pauly Shore":http://paulyshore.com/ is in Boston this weekend, to show and promote his film, "Pauly Shore is Dead":http://www.paulyshoreisdead.com/, at the "Coolidge":http://coolidge.org/, and we braved the 2 degree-cold to wait in line for the midnight showing last night. During a Q&A before the showing, Pauly spoke very eloquently about the project, which he wrote, directed, produced and financed (from his stand-up earnings). I think we came for the kitsch value of seeing this _fallen icon_ from our youth -- the Wiez... but left having thoroughly enjoyed the film, for what it was. Ordinarily, movies that...
• links for 2005-01-22
  U2 'Vertigo Tour' dates to be announced Monday They'll kick it off on the West coast in late March (categories: music u2) Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the word (small-d) 'democrat' interesting piece by the curmudgeonly commentator, on NPR's 'Fresh Air' (categories: politics Republicans Democrats) Bill Clinton & Karl Rove have lunch During the inaugural lunch, after the swearing-in, there was former President Bill Clinton engaged in a long, animated conversation with Karl Rove... (categories: politics Democrats Republicans) Bill O'Reilly: 'Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin.' Also, the ACLU is apparently 'the most dangerous organization in...
• links for 2005-01-21
  Movable Type 'nofollow' plugin Google, Yahoo!, and MSN ignore links with this attribute set for the purposes of spidering or PageRank (categories: moveabletype spam MT weblogs) Flip Flap - Cute Electronic House Plant i kill everything green that i touch... perhaps i need one of these [maeda] (categories: weblogs japan toys) 'Sideways' irks a Waiter "We�ll have the Pinot Noir' the other husband says laughing pointing to the wine list. Ever since that damn movie made Noir the hot wine to drink our supply has been exhausted." (categories: restaurant movies wine) Citystreets.org A Pedestrian Rights and Advocacy Group (categories:...
• Brick
  "brick", posted by nedward I love the space inside the "Enormous Room":http://enormous.tv, in Central Square -- especially these steel lanterns (which I hit my head on...)...
• links for 2005-01-20
  Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation D. Keith Robinson on IA problems (categories: ia informationarchitecture design)...
• Flickr Struggles
  Flickr is having "problems again":http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/01/growing_pains.html... Stewart swears that they'll have it up and stable soon. In the mean time, what to do with my photos? I've got 3 birthdays worth of material here, folks......
• links for 2005-01-19
  Cluetrain in 2005: The End of the Beginning Erin Kissane's take on the seminal 'internet bubble' book (categories: internet books weblogs) high density architecture Michael Wolf's dizzying photographs of Hong Kong's buildings (categories: architecture hongkong cities) Art Deco Boston from Bostonia, my new favorite Boston-area weblog (categories: boston cities architecture)...
• Saab 9-2X
  The 9-3 is again in the shop, (needed a new thermostat), but this time my loaner story is a bit more interesting that the "Kia Rio":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002686.php of last week. You see, I was given a 2004 "9-2X":http://www.saabusa.com/saabjsp/92x loaner -- albeit, the base model. What's funny, however, is that I came away from the experience feeling once again that "Saab":http://saabusa.com is _harming its brand_. Why you ask? First, this is _not_ a _Saab_. I don't care if it has a 9-3 front-end, and "griffin logo":http://home.swipnet.se/danny/saablogos.htm slapped on the wheel... the overall character of the car _screams_ Japanese. Based on the "Subaru...
• links for 2005-01-18
  iTunes XHTML Playlist very nice implimentation -- would be nice to have links either to iTunes store, or Amazon (categories: itunes music weblogs) Daring Fireball: Small, Cheap, and Without a Display John Gruber's excellent take on the MacWorld announcements (categories: Apple iPod MacMini MacWorld) Technorati adds support for 'Tags' is it just me, or is there a cult of Metadata forming? (categories: technorati tags) Is Apple Thinking About Mac TV? OK, the NYTimes is officially obsessed with Apple (categories: Apple media) The Coming Wars - Bush Administration has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions in Iran Sy Hersh reports that...
• links for 2005-01-16
  Morgan dressed up as a blonde he's actually wearing a bra... next time shave the chest, dude (categories: drag scooter)...
• links for 2005-01-15
  PowerBook G5 coming in Q2 'the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that builds the PowerBook for Apple, has received a massive order for the PowerBook G5... Start saving now.' (categories: Apple powerbook g5) 'Taggregator' - for Flickr & del.icio.us 'display results from del.icio.us and flickr under the same tag' (categories: del.icio.us flickr tags) rion's photos of neon, in Las Vegas Presley and I visiting Vegas in Feb, so what better way to prepare? (categories: photos weblogs) What's the quickest route to drive from Haugesund, Norway to Trondheim, Norway? MSN's driving directions take you through the UK, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, &...
• links for 2005-01-14
  Bare Bones releases TextWrangler 2.0 a great free, general-use text editor. if you're still using 'TextEdit', give this a whirl (categories: tech Apple osx) Harvard Crimson interview with the publisher of ThinkSecret.com the Harvard freshman is being sued by Apple for leaking new products (categories: Apple university) Comedy Central orders 10-episodes of 'Stella' Former 'State' cast members get new series -- I hope this is more watchable than 'Reno 911' (categories: tv) Vacationing in the wake of tsunami life goes on... i guess some people paid for holiday, they might as well get a holiday. (categories: tsunami photos) Carnivale...
• links for 2005-01-13
  Jason moves to circa1973.net migrating from TypePad to Wordpress, and all that entails (categories: weblogs) Life without Firefox... Vanessa Tan had FireFox banned at her work, so she wrote a poem (categories: weblogs firefox) US gives up search for Iraq WMD just in case you don't see this on your evening news... (categories: iraq politics Republicans)...
• links for 2005-01-12
  Apple - iPod shuffle smaller than a pack of gum (categories: apple ipod) Howard Dean to Seek Democratic Chairmanship it's official (categories: politics Democrats) Apple - Mac mini bring your own Display, Keyboard, Mouse (categories: apple macmini macworld) 'The Cubes' figures I'm not sure if this is really depressing, or inspiring, given that my office looks just like this (categories: toys) Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam ug... i hate that MT requires this much effort! but Wordpress isn't enough. MT is like the wife you want to leave, but choose to stay with (categories: moveabletype spam)...
• Queer Eye Whores Out
  I probably shouldn't admit to this in public, but Presley & I are watching the season premiere of "Queer Eye":http://www.bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/#, and I can't help but wondering, "when did _Queer Eye_ totally whore out?". Product placements and the like were always a part of this show... but fucking "JCPenney":http://www.jcpenney.com/? I defy anyone to find a queer who shops at _JCPenney_. Ready.... go! The whole reason us _metrosexuals_ watch this damn show is because of the higher-end, New York product placements... the nice furniture stores, etc. But, I don't need to see some cheap shit on my tv. I can go to...
• Saab City
  I dropped my "2000 9-3":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001787.php off at the "Framingham Saab":http://saabcityusa.com today for its 30,000 mile major service, and was promised a "loaner" car. Great!, I thought... what a perfect opportunity to check out the new "2005 model":http://www.saabusa.com/saabjsp/93s/, or maybe the new "9-2X":http://www.saabusa.com/saabjsp/92x/, which is basically a fancied up "Subaru":http://www.subaru.com/servlet/showroom?track=topnav_s&command=overview&webModelName=IMPREZA&modelYear=2005&webTrimName=WRX_SPORT_WAGON? Right? Wrong. I was handed the keys to a Purple "Kia":http://www.kia.com/rio/ by an "Enterprise":http://www.enterprise.com/ Rep -- automatic transmission, no CD player... (I wouldn't have chosen this car, were I actually _paying_ to rent it) Swedish car owners are a specialty niche group, (and a very loyal one), much like _Apple_ computer...
• links for 2005-01-10
  Microsoft releases 'Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)' what the hell is that stock photo? (categories: microsoft windows spyware beta) The Golden Age of NYC was... the 1970s? 'there was great music and everyone was broke' (categories: nyc cities 1970s)...
• links for 2005-01-08
  Red Sox first baseman won't give up ball gloved for last Series out give the poor guy a couple bucks and he'll stop whining (categories: redsox worldseries) Bush Administration paid Journalist $242,000 to propagandize the 'No Child Left Behind Act' (categories: politics Republicans scandal)...
• links for 2005-01-07
  The Hamburgler appeared on Matt's dinner placemat 'McNugget 21:4 `And Ronald said onto thee, Robble, Robble, Robble`' (categories: photos mcdonalds) Six Apart did acquire LiveJournal the rumors were true (categories: weblogs moveabletype livejournal sixapart) How to break the ice greeting cards for the rest of us (categories: card)...
• links for 2005-01-06
  Framing of political debate we Democrats must pay closer attention to language (categories: Democrats politics language media) Centrist Dems to take on Bush on Social Security Reform rather than taking the 'bend-over and take it' Lieberman 'centrist' approach (categories: Democrats politics) Michael goes Bonsai on anti-piracy messages in the Cinema I think the real disservice is the use of 'Comic Sans' typeface (categories: copyright movies)...
• What 2004 Was Good For
  It was so difficult to think of good things to mention about the past calendar year, that I decided to skip any year-end roundup. But, browsing through "Kim's photostream":http://www.flickr.com/photos/starstream_girl/ today, I remembered one great thing about 2004 -- my "Scooter":http://www.flickr.com/photos/starstream_girl/2956280/. It was a year of rallies, making new friends and riding that Vespa hard in 3rd gear (4th gear slips). Looking back at 2004: * "Presley":http://ned.suckahs.org/photo/2004.01.27_Florida/07_Scooter_1-thumb.jpg and "I":http://ned.suckahs.org/photo/2004.01.27_Florida/08_Scooter_2-thumb.jpg on rented Asian scoots in Key West, FL... (sans helmets) * Presley bought her "Lambretta LI125":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002029.php * "Gotham":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002089.php Rally in NYC, our "first":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002090.php * "Niagara Rally":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002128.php, in Ontario * The "Boston Stranglers":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002256.php...
• SixApart to buy LiveJournal?
  There have been reports on the net in the past 48 hours, that "SixApart":http://www.sixapart.com/, (creators of "Moveable Type":http://moveabletype.org and "TypePad":http://typepad.com), is set to buy "LiveJournal":http://www.livejournal.com/. Om Malik reports: bq. The deal is a mix of stock and cash, and could be announced sometime later this month, according to those close to the two companies. If the deal goes through, then Six Apart will become one of the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million users. It also gives the company a very fighting chance against Google's "Blogger":http://blogger.com and Microsoft's "MSN Spaces":http://spaces.msn.com. Leaving aside the ever-present "worries":http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/03/just_like_start.shtml about...
• links for 2005-01-05
  Apple reduces prices on line of Cinema displays I'll be in line tomorrow to get my $300 refund (categories: apple display monitor 20") New 'Late Late Show' theme song Craig Ferguson is a funny guy... too bad I'm asleep. (categories: tv music)...
• links for 2005-01-04
  Preshrunk, a Tshirt blog dangerous site... it will help empty your wallet (categories: weblogs tshirts)...
• links for 2005-01-03
  Video of the Tsunami, from 'Cheese and Crackers' a list of videos and mirrors from the Indian Basin (categories: video tsunami weblogs)...
• Yea New York
  After a fun New Year's Eve time down in the Lower East Side, I of course decided to leave my beloved "digital camera":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001870.php behind in the cab. Brilliant. I called the Limo & Taxi Commission, and put a notice on "Craigslist":http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/laf/54055391.html... no chance. We walked over the Brooklyn Bridge today, and I had to be contented with a Kodak disposable... and tomorrow morning, we're going to check out the new "MoMA":http://moma.org/about_moma/newmoma.html. I'm tempted to go down to E 86th street in the morning and buy a new one. this sucks......

• The Great Train Robbery Reunion
  While in Buffalo last weekend, we took a break from family holiday activities and caught the "Great Train Robbery":http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20041224/1016287.asp reunion show at "the Tralf":http://newtralf.com/. I'm much too young (27) to remember those guys from the 80s, but it was a fun show. Very 80s... And, since our good friend runs the Tralf, we got free admission and drinks all night. * "Presley's photos":http://flickr.com/photos/presley/sets/65931/ * "my photos":http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/2677358/...
• links for 2004-12-30
  Maeda's comment on the new iPod Socks i use a sweatband as a camera case... (categories: apple ipod socks)...
• New Apple Display
  "apple.com", posted by nedward Christmas & "my Birthday":http://www.flickr.com/photos/presley/sets/59013/, within 3 days of each other... Put them together, and you get a new Apple "20" Cinema Display":http://www.apple.com/displays/. Everything looks more beautiful tonight....
• links for 2004-12-29
  Flickr is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game? so it's not Friendster + iPhoto... (categories: flickr photos tech)...
• links for 2004-12-27
  Letterman Tapes Christmas Eve Show in Iraq dave has a good heart (categories: tv)...
• links for 2004-12-25
  Gingerbread Kama Sutra Happy X-mas everybody! (categories: sexy xmas)...
• links for 2004-12-23
  Entend your Airport Express to all audio not just for iTunes anymore... (categories: apple music)...
• links for 2004-12-22
  Capn looks at the commercialization of 'Chrismukkah' 'This holiday used to mean something...' (categories: weblogs xmas) Flickr in Salon 'The Friendster of photo sites...' (categories: flickr media photos) Gravatar needs donations (categories: weblogs)...
• links for 2004-12-21
  TIME :: 10 Things We Learned About Blogs I don't know who this "We" is... (categories: media tech weblogs) Flickr Sucks! 'No it doesn't, stupid. It rules.' (categories: flickr photos)...
• On turning 27
  Thanks to everyone who came to my little birthday party last night. Presley did an amazing job organizing, and taking care of everything. I hope everyone had fun. Here is an iMix of the playlist last night -- "Ned's 27th Birthday Playlist":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPublishedPlaylist?id=180451. There are 167 tracks on my playlist, but iTunes only has the rights to sell 104 of them... The full songlist is below the fold....
• links for 2004-12-18
  TVCarnage.com 'exceptionally bad TV, lovingly fused together into glorious cesspools of retardation...' (categories: funny media) I got quoted in Adam's article about recent MT/Comment Spam problems I might have to start using my real name now. (categories: moveabletype weblogs)...
• links for 2004-12-16
  MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site we had some downtime today... (categories: moveabletype weblogs) Jay Allen finally comments on recent MT Comment spam load issues I got hit yesterday, and had to close comments to everyone (categories: moveabletype weblogs) Letterman picks Scotsman for 'Late Late Show' host this guy is funny -- i enjoyed these clips (categories: media tv ) Gothamist Review of a new Joe Strummer book I think 'The Clash' is primed for a comeback... to bad about Joe. (categories: books music ) 'Bostonist' is looking for writers and editors (categories: cities weblogs ) Make your...
• No More Comments, for Now.
  I had some trouble today -- seems there was a Comment Spam attack, which caused my installation of "MT":http://moveabletype.org and "MTBLacklist":http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/blacklist.php to crash the hosting server. So, my domains were suspended. Seems to be happening to a "lot of people":http://photodude.com/article/2592/mt-plus-comment-spam-equals-dead-site this month. Comments are turned off for now. I probably will go with a "TypeKey":http://typekey.com only option, though I may have trouble convincing my web host that everything will be stable. Anyone have ideas? (besides "switch to WordPress"...)Email me....
• links for 2004-12-15
  MSN Toolbar Suite Beta Including their own sucktacular Desktop search (categories: tech) Buffalo News :: Buying a Computer? Buy a Mac. my hometown newspaper makes a good point (categories: apple xmas)...
• MiracleSex
  Provocative title, especially for this weblog... but, it doesn't have anything remotely to do with what you may be imagining. With "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002648.php busy studying for her final exams, I'm on my own for dinner. What to do? Grab the Powerbook, and head for the "Miracle":http://boston.citysearch.com/profile/4747734/cambridge_ma/miracle_of_science_bar_grill.html?cslink=roundup_name_noncust&ulink=roundup__roundupentity2-4_1__0_profile_5_1, of course. _Free wi-fi. Nice waitress. Beer._ This is all the Modern Urban Male needs. Why the silly entry title, then, you ask? Well, I'm getting to that. I sit down, turn on my Powerbook, and order my Grilled Chicken Salad (with the most delicious lime-cilantro dressing), a pint of Bass. When the waitress leaves,...
• links for 2004-12-14
  McCain: 'No Confidence' in Rumsfeld the headline sounds harsher than the reality, but still... (categories: politics) Campaign for DNC Chief Begins the race is wide open (categories: democrats politics) Thoughts on the transformation of Kenmore Square also read my thoughts from last year (categories: cities) Dave Eggers on the "Holy Grail" Broadway show (they let Dave Eggers write at the New Yorker now?) (categories: media theater)...
• Dumb
  Ever try to fix something, only to manage to completely f*ck it up? Apple keyboard, redefined. -- the bluetooth kind. 1 spilt gin and tonic, 2 weeks of sticky keys, and now many, many melted keys....
• links for 2004-12-13
  How to Fold a Shirt Globe review of the Pixies at Avalon (categories: media music) Some Other Mag :: "Dear Leader" review & interview Former Sheila Divine frontman has a great new lineup (categories: music)...
• Karla turns 31
  "Karla turns 31", posted by nedward "Massimino's":http://massiminosboston.com, North End, Boston, MA...
• Get on the Map
  I've been browsing through the links of "Boston Weblogs by neighborhood":http://www.boston-online.com/Blogs/, this weekend, and noticed that there are a lot of webloggers in "Cambridge":http://www.boston-online.com/Neighboring_communities/Cambridge/Weblogs/index.html... Perhaps Cambridge deserves to be split into neighborhoods, like Boston? (Where are all you Boston folks?) Adam of "Boston Common":http://www.boston-online.com/common/ is putting this all together, and he is promising a map for all those suburbanites out in the hinterlands. If you're not listed, "add yourself":http://www.wickedgood.info/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi?ID=197, already. A couple of years ago, I was interested in creating a "Boston weblog 'T' map":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/000824.php, but it never got off the ground. I still think it is a good idea--...
• links for 2004-12-12
  Bluejake was in Boston ...is there a Bostonist.com coming? (categories: photos weblogs) Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" trailer starring Tom Cruise (categories: movies) Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin he had dinner that night with the head of Ukraine's successor to the K.G.B. (categories: politics) David Wells is coming to Boston and A-Rod is still crying (categories: redsox)...
• links for 2004-12-11
  Boston Weblogs by neighborhood guess where I am listed? (categories: boston weblogs) Google "Suggest" As you type, Google will offer suggestions (categories: tech) Upstate NY gets 40% of NY Homeland Security budget because the Terrorists hate Buffalo (categories: politics) City of Boston : Pay parking tickets with toys i wish Cambridge would follow suit (presley) (categories: cities media) NYTimes :: 100 Notable Books of the Year (categories: books media) Bush & Kerry logo critique (categories: design politics) Use visitors' favicons instead of "Gravatars" Jon Hicks comment about server requests is worth considering, though (categories: tech weblogs) Craigslist Boston ::...
• links for 2004-12-10
  First Saab/iPod integration kit ahhh... but, will it work with my 2000 9-3? (categories: iPod saab) Web Design trends in 2005 (categories: tech weblogs)...
• links for 2004-12-08
  Perfect Distortion The physics of diffusion offers a new way of generating maps (categories: cities tech) ten years :: Baby 1.0 congrats to the Haugheys (categories: weblogs) Build roads that seem dangerous, and they'll be safer I call this the Boston model... (kottke) (categories: cities)...
• links for 2004-12-07
  Howard Dean to lay out his vision for the future of the Democratic Party ans so begins his campaign for party Chair (categories: politics) How to Sell a Candidate to a Porsche-Driving, Leno-Loving Nascar Fan The Bush media team targeted niche cable channels (categories: media politics) Salon.com is making money from paid subscriptions $2m per year in subscription sales, plus $0.5m in "Day Pass" ad sales (waxy) (categories: media tech) Catherine's cool iPod cozies for the those hip, music-loving girls you might share a bed with (categories: ipod xmas) Simmons College redesign, uses Web Standards I interviewed with these...
• links for 2004-12-06
  Gorillaz "Search for a Star" contest the world's first online-only talent competition (categories: music)...
• 12 Bars of Christmas Charity Pub Crawl
  We participated in the "12 Bars of Christmas Charity Pub Crawl":http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=ORNJGHQCSFAMFFPWPTQX in Boston last night, with donations going to the "New England Center for Children":http://necc.org/ and the "Boston Medical Children with AIDS Program":http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/special/CAP/overview.html. I feel a bit guilty claiming this was for charity, since all we did was drink heavily, over and 8-hour day, in a pack of Santa-hat wearing revelers... but, we did had a lot of fun with "Jason":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/, "Kim":http://starstreamgirl.blogspot.com/, "Casey":http://www.nerdle.com/blog, "Jess":http://www.frecklegirl.com/blog/, and the rest of the pack. Thanks to Autumn, for organizing. * "My flickr photos":http://flickr.com/photos/nedward/sets/49396/ * "Casey":http://www.nerdle.com/blog/diary/christmaschaos.html * "Jess":http://www.frecklegirl.com/blog/archives/000278.php * "Jason":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/12/this_weekedn_br.html from last week...
• links for 2004-12-04
  extisp.icio.us - charting the tags of del.icio.us users (categories: del.icio.us tech) Directory of free Wi-Fi hotspots (categories: tech) Boston Univ. stops hating on gays includes "sexual orientation" in non-discrimination policy (categories: politics university)...
• links for 2004-12-03
  �Blog� No. 1 word of the year �dot com� could not be reached for comment (categories: tech weblogs) Pat Sajak wonders why Hollywood ignored Theo van Gogh's murder yes, that Pat Sajak (categories: media movies politics) Kunstler: An apology for sprawl needed �the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world...� (categories: cities weblogs)...
• Gigantic
  "Gigantic", posted by nedward The "Pixies":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002606.php were inspiring... really, I'm amazed. This is one of the bands that I listened to high school, and still listen to ten years later. "Surfer Rosa":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002HAF/suckahs-20/ was recorded at "Q-Division":http://www.qdivision.com/new_studio/, which once employed both my "girlfriend":http://presley.suckahs.org/, and my "best friend":http://suckahs.org/crew/jeff.php. So, naturally, it meant a great deal to me to finally see the band live. The crowd in Amherst was raucous, (but totally underage -- damn all-ages show). Presley, Nobuko, Lindsey and I had a good time fighting off the kids and their "dancing", despite the ban on beer sales inside the arena....
• links for 2004-12-02
  SCode for Moveable Type i'm tired of moderating spam comments -- so I may just use this (categories: movabletype tech) Netscape Browser prototype : screenshots based on Firefox, but allows switching to IE engine (it's ugly too) (categories: tech webstandards)...

• links for 2004-11-30
  Can Howard Dean Save the Democrats? embrace the insurgent candidate (categories: democrats politics) Templars want Papal apology for getting themselves slaughtered 700 years ago (categories: politics religion) Yale students prank Harvard football fans ...and then watch their squad get pummeled 35-3 (categories: football university) Explodingdog.com has a new book, "Amazing Rain" (categories: media tech weblogs) Zach Braff drunk dials a critic (categories: movies) Selfless Social Networks brought to you by David Weinberger (categories: del.icio.us flickr tech) Self-serving Social Networks brought to you by Peterme (categories: del.icio.us flickr tech)...
• links for 2004-11-29
  Adium X excellent replacement for iChat (categories: tech) To Know Me, Know My IPod what your musical tastes reveal about you (categories: ipod tech) SimpleBits on seeing the Pixies we're going to see 2 shows this week... glad to hear it will be good (categories: music)...
• Gravatars
  "Comments" are one of the most neglected areas of this site, so I am happy to annouce that I finally got around to adding "Gravatars":http://gravatar.com functionality to this site's comment posting. If you have a Gravatar, I'd love to have you post a comment and show it off. If you don't have one, get one... they're a nice way to personalize your comments. I've been admiring both "Casey's":http://nerdle.com/blog work on "Jess's weblog":http://www.frecklegirl.com/blog/archives/000258.php, and "John Oxton's":http://joshuaink.com/blog/68/get-a-gravatar implimentation, and campaign to "register":http://joshuaink.com/blog/72/im-famous Gravatars... it's kind of nice to see _comments_ get their due... I would suspect that the "Six Apart":http://sixapart.com/ people are...
• links for 2004-11-28
  Ukraine state TV in revolt (categories: politics)...
• links for 2004-11-27
  Seinfeld Dictionary seems like the Seinfeld gang is everywhere recently (categories: media tv) The Christmas Resistance Movement no shopping, no presents, no guilt... (categories: shopping xmas)...
• Giving Thanks
  "roasted", posted by nedward We've started a Thanksgiving "tradition":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001839.php#001839 in our little family, choosing to forgo the exhausting trips to the ancestral Buffalo, in favor of cooking our own damn Turkey for our friends. Presley called it the "Orphan's Thanksgiving", and she certainly didn't disappoint. _I'm going to be happily eating Turkey for the next 10 days_... Thanks to "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org, "Macy":http://macyme.suckahs.org, Lindsey, Toby, and everyone who called up to wish us well last night. And thanks for the 7 bottles of wine that we poured. * "Photos":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/sets/43667/...
• links for 2004-11-26
  Jake's Thanksgiving Parade balloons pokemon looks scary to me (categories: photos) Rev. Falwell's Thanksgiving message "I thank God" for Hannity, Limbaugh, FOX, NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, and The Drudge Report (categories: media politics)...
• links for 2004-11-25
  Economist predicts economic 'Armageddon' we're in a debt bubble (categories: business politics) Exurbs Are GOP's New Frontier sprawling 'edge'-cities are white, rich, and 'red' (categories: cities politics)...
• J. Crew iPod case
  A friend at work came in today with a rather interesting "iPod case":http://jcrew.com/catalog/multiProduct.jhtml?ids=prod67004791,prod66991791 -- one that she got from "J. Crew":http://jcrew.com. Available for $29.99, in yuppie-rific "blue, green and pink":http://jcrew.com/catalog/blowupPopup.jhtml?id=prod67004791&colorCode=WV7244. Here is the description: bq. Made from the same pure Italian silk as our ties. With leather. Clear vinyl screen cover; removable neoprene-lined flap for extra protection. Leather-covered metal belt clip. This strikes me as odd, since J. Crew is hardly in the business of crafting leather cases for consumer electronics. But, perhaps it just illustrates what a cultural icon the iPod has become....
• links for 2004-11-24
  Interview with graphic designer Bruce Mau on how designers from all walks of life are shaping the world around us (categories: design media) Dan Rather to Step Down and he stands by that report (categories: media) Apple's student weblog I wish I were young again (categories: apple tech) Froogle 'Shopping List' one of Google's less-useful creations (categories: tech)...
• Say 'no' to MAX cat
  FYI: Our cat "Katya":http://suckahs.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=2&search=katya started barfing after we switched canned cat food to MAX Cat Lite Chicken & Lamb, and now both cats won't touch the stuff. They weren't raised dumb, you know......
• links for 2004-11-23
  Internet Secret Santa 2004 pull a name out of a hat, and buy that person a gift (categories: tech xmas) Oliver Willis wants to Brand "Democrat" someone has to (categories: Democrats politics) U2 rocking on a flatbed truck in Manhattan on a street that has a name - Broadway (categories: music u2) The GOP congress can now review any American's tax return with no restrictions a special provision was inserted into the Omnibuss spending bill (categories: politics)...
• links for 2004-11-20
  Jon Hicks makes the move to del.icio.us smart man (categories: tech)...
• Pixies
  "Pixies", posted by nedward I'm excited -- in less than two weeks, I'll finally get to see live one of my favorite bands -- the "Pixies":http://www.ilovepixies.com. I've been "talking":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001699.php about it for more than a year now, and it _feels_ like we "ordered":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002456.php the tickets a year ago, on a morning where I woke up with gum stuck in my "hair":http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002455.php. _Did you get tickets?_ We've got a couple of extra tickets for 2 of the Massachusetts Pixies shows: * "Tue, Nov 30, 2004 07:30 PM":http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003923B2FC45D8?brand=&artistid=906179&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60 Mullins Center, Amherst, MA * "Wed, Dec 1, 2004 08:00 PM":http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010039229DA92CC6?brand=&artistid=906179&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60 Tsongas Arena,...
• links for 2004-11-19
  Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes Whenever I have an issue with iTunes, I find a solution here (categories: apple music tech) Google Scholar Now you can Google for scholarly literature (categories: tech) Howard Stern rally in Union Sq., Manhattan He gave away free Sirius Satellite Radios (categories: media) Certificate for a free Sirius satellite radio In case you didn't see Howard in NYC on thursday... (categories: media)...
• links for 2004-11-18
  Urban Archipelago Reject the Blue-state / Red-state comparisons... It's the Cities, Stupid. (categories: cities politics) Kmart is buying Sears the softer side of Kmart? (categories: business) maisonneuve article on IKEA The eternal sunshine of Ikea's spotless mind. (categories: business)...
• links for 2004-11-17
  maisonneuve magazine Just received my first issue today (categories: media) You've got Viruses! Strongbad # 118 (categories: fun) AT&T Wireless is now Cingular I still don't see how this benefits me as consumer... (categories: tech)...
• Warning ticket
  "warning ticket", by nedward Not a good idea, blowing a stop sign in your own 'hood. Luckily, I got off with a warning. Cars are stupid... even Saabs....
• Daily Bookmarks are Dead. Long Live Daily Bookmarks
  I'm tired of maintaining my "link log":http://ned.suckahs.org/daily.php within my "MT":http://moveabletype.org installation. It was something I hacked together a long time ago, and never spent the time to properly sort out. Daily bookmarking is becoming quite popular these days... I remember when "Anil's":http://www.dashes.com/anil/ sidebar _was_ my daily lunchtime reading. Now, I've got a news aggregator with hundreds of feeds going. Enter "Social Bookmarks"... "Del.icio.us":http://Del.icio.us is filling that niche for bookmarks that "Flickr":http://flickr.com/people/nedward is for photography... It's an easy service to use, hosted off-site, which can be quickly integrated into your existing web log. And, there is that "social" component, which encourages...
• links for 2004-11-16
  AT&T Wireless is now Cingular I still don't see how this benefits consumers... (categories: tech) Japanese "Lap Pillow" made to look like your girlfirend in a miniskirt (categories: Japanese) White House Purge of CIA Headquarters Continues Supposedly because of leaks... but the Defense Dept. hasn't received the same scrutiny (categories: politics) Bush dumps Colin Powell too the only voice of reason... (categories: politics) detroit blog The old Detroit of blight, waste and emptiness (categories: cities weblogs)...
• links for 2004-11-15
  iDrops heal your iPod scratches (categories: apple iPod) Name Kottke's monkey (categories: weblogs)...
• First Snow in Boston
  "First Snow", by presley Is it just me, or is it not supposed to snow like this before Thanksgiving? *UPDATE:* I've been fiddling around with "Flickr's":http://flickr.com/people/nedward Blog functionality, trying to find a good template that works. This one was inspired by "Matt Haughey's":http://a.wholelottanothing.org/ solution, which uses some inline styling to crop the photo. I like this solution not only because it is visually attractive, but also because it loads the image in the background, hopefully reducing the initial page load time. Of course, I don't have a dial-up connection to test this, but theoretically, it makes sense. Now, if...
• Breakfast for Dinner
  Everyone is "abuzz":http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002579.php about Saturday's "Breakfast for Dinner":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/11/breakfast_for_d.html, hosted by Jason and Kim. I'm going to be totally fat after this... look at the "menu":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/11/breakfast_for_d.html. And if that isn't enough, the "drink menu":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/11/breakfast_for_d_1.html will have me falling down drunk pretty quick. Great idea, "Breakfast for Dinner"......
• The Incredibles
  I was incredibly impressed with "The Incredibles":http://www.theincredibles.com/, despite my well-known aversion to animated kiddie-fare. I never saw the "Toy":http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/toystory/ "Stories":http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/toystory2/, and "Finding Nemo":http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/findingnemo/'s story was stale and Albert Brooks was insufferable, but this film is different -- it's funny, unexpected, and multi-layered. It's part _James Bond_, part _Spy Kids_ (never saw those either), and part _Rocky V_ -- that is, what happens after the glory days have passed you by. The good news is, this film is nothing like Rocky V. What can I say? I'm a suckah for "Holly Hunter":http://imdb.com/name/nm0000456/ and her gravelly Georgia drawl. For a contrast to...
• M-Beat Theme
  I've been looking for a good menu controller for iTunes, and it's been a difficult search. I tested many apps, including "QuickTunes":http://opensoft.fre3.com/index.php?page=products, "You Control Tunes":http://www.yousoftware.com/itunes/, and "Synergy":http://synergy.wincent.com/. Each has its relative strengths and weaknesses, but I just couldn't get everything I wanted in one package: * Display track info on the menubar * Unobtrusive design, that blends with my OS X theme * Global keyboard shortcuts * Pop-up floater with track info and album art * Solid app, that doesn't crash In the end, I decided to go with The Little App Factory's "M-Beat":http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=M-Beat, which satisfies all of these requirements,...
• Values
  We lost... and we lost big. There is simply no excuse. "Blue" America just doesn't _get_ "Red" America, and we're "shut out":http://nytimes.com/2004/11/04/politics/campaign/04elect.html?hp of government as a result. The magnitude of this loss cannot be written off or explained away as a fluke. Sure, we can stand 'round the water coolers today, complaining about how "dumb" middle-America is, and where we're all going to seek asylum abroad, (Iceland? New Zealand?) -- but that would just play into the Republicans' hands. John Kerry lost because the Democratic party is no longer a party of "values":http://slate.com/id/2109128/. How else do we explain the working...
• End Game
  Do you "believe":http://www.zogby.com/?...

• Schilling is Shilling for Bush?
  It already seems like a dream -- the Red Sox reversed the 86-year curse, by "sweeping the World Series":http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/28/on_top_of_the_world/ on Wednesday night, and I haven't posted yet. I gotta say, it's been a great thing for this town, and for its decades of great teams that just couldn't win it all. Schilling, Pedro, DLowe, Ortiz, Manny, Foulke... all heroes. Can't wait to great them at the "parade":http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/29/the_party_rolls_on/ tomorrow. But what is up with Schilling, "shilling for Bush":http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=81679 ? Someone needs to tell him that there are two "Evil Empires":http://www.bostondirtdogs.com/2003/Star_Wars_12.28.02.htm -- the Yankees, and the Bushies. This is "Kerry":http://johnkerry.com country, Curt....
• On to the World Series
  I'm on a cloud right now... I never thought that I'd see "this":http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedward/975727/....
• On to Game Seven
  I can't believe how well Schilling pitched last night, with a "bloody sock":http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/Headline_Archives/2004/10/game_6_red_sox_1.html and all... I had my doubts, but from the first pitch, I knew he had "good stuff":http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/20/magnificent_schilling_gave_them_a_strong_foothold/. That said, I don't think the Yankees will choke tonight... we need only remember "Game 7 last year":http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/caron/10_20_04/. But, I'd love to see A-Rod crying into Jeter's arms more than anything... "D-Lowe":http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/20/it_looks_like_lowe_for_game_7/ is capable of a good outing -- let's just hope he can keep his head clear, and get that sinker turning over. On to "Game 7":http://video.nesn.com/global/video/WorldNowASX.asp?playerType=native&ClipID1=274711&h1=Previewing%20Game%207&vt1=v&at1=Sport&d1=154033&LaunchPageAdTag=null&activePane=info&playerVersion=6 -- "Keep the Faith":http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/playoffs04/cubeart/...
• On to Game Six
  My heart felt as if it would explode tonight, as the "Red Sox":http://redsox.com & "Yankees":http://www.yankee-hater.com/yankeehater/store-front.html again took it to extra innings, in "Game 5":http://nytimes.com/2004/10/18/sports/baseball/19YANKS-WIRE.html?hp. "David Ortiz":http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/team/player.jsp?player_id=120074 came through *huge* (again) tonight for the Sox, and we'd probably be talking about an MVP award at this point, except for the fact that the Sox lost the first 3 games in the series. But, we're through to Game 6, and I'm encouraged by the pitching (starting and bullpen) in the past two games. The big question is, can Curt Schilling pitch well tomorrow, with the tendon injury and the high-top cleat? I...
• October Scare - 2000 Redux
  What happens when you're a new publicly-traded company, and you announce that you're not going to meet the quarterly projections? Stock free-fall. * *Bad news*? Lay-offs and termination. 10 people at our site, about 10%. * *Good news*? They fired some really useless people. Also, the only team mentioned in the meeting as doing _well_, was my team and my project. Whew. Still, it is scary-- like it's the year 2000 all over again. Strangely, I wore my defunct _dot com_ fleece jacket to work today. What a bad omen....
• VP Debate: Edwards won, Cheney lied
  *UPDATE:* Another funny note, if you go to the URL provided by Cheney in the debate last night, "factcheck.com":http://factcheck.com, it forwards to "George Soros' anti-Bush site":http://www.georgesoros.com/. The Soros site claims not to be behind the re-direct, so some domain-squatter has a sense of humor. As usual, "kos":http://dailykos.com, "atrios":http://atrios.blogspot.com/ and the other Liberal webloggers are fact-checking where the major media outlets will not. Here are some of Cheney's assertions in the debate, and why they're lies: * CHENEY: _"Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you Senator Gone."_ -- "LIE":http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/10/cheney-liiiiiaaaaarrrr.html * CHENEY: _"You've got one of the worst attendance records in...
• Air America Radio in Boston
  For you Boston-area readers, if you self-identify yourself as a Liberal, or if you're an undecided, (I still don't know how you could be), tune your car stereos to "AM 1430 or 1200":http://www.am1430wxks.com/ -- "Air America Radio":http://airamericaradio.com has "come to Boston":http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2004/10/01/air_america_finds_local_home/. One stupid thing, is that the station doesn't carry "Randi Rhodes":http://therandirhodesshow.com and "Janeane Garofalo":http://www.majorityreportradio.com _live_. Because it's on delay, you can't call in with questions, as you listen. Hmmm... since the station is owned by "Clear Channel":http://clearchannel.com, and they have their own talent and shows... perhaps they are afraid to let Randi and Janeane compete with the home-grown crap?...
• Voter Registration Deadline
  I just want to remind everyone to register to vote soon, if you'd like a say in the Presidential election on November 2nd. The deadline here in Massachusetts is October 13, so print the "registration form":http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elestu/stuidx.htm out, and mail in in by 10/13, if you live in the Bay state. Also, there are lots of things to choose from on the ballot -- if you want to be informed, I suggest looking over the "Information for Voters 2004":http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/IFV_2004.pdf packet. If you live in another state, or you're looking for more information, check out Jason Kottke's initiative, Voters Information Guide for...
• Flickr
  After several months of trying out different solutions for posting my photos here, I've settled on "Flickr":http://flickr.com. There are lots of "great reasons":http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/flickr-an-introduction-022281.php why, but my number one criterion is that it's easy... and Flickr is easy. I've tried uploading photos through MT manually, and I've tried using my Typepad account for photo albums... in both cases, I've dreaded the process so much that I rarely posted photos. Flickr is easy and flexible -- you have a variety of posting options, and it provides community features not available if you run a diy photo album. The problem is, when you...

• Going to Interpol?
  Is anyone going to the "Interpol":http://interpolnyc.com show on "October 11, 2004":http://event.ccetix.com/next/online/register.jsp?performance_id=127250&club_id=1&cobrand=ccclub&rcobrand=ccclubreg at Avalon (Boston)? Does anyone want to go? The new album "Antics":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002PD3HU/suckahs-20/ is quite good. Email me: ned AT suckahs.org....
• Apple Picking
  Last summer, after we were forced out of our beloved Mass Ave apartment, due to "negligent fire":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001639.php, we were fortunate to be "taken in":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001650.php by some truly great people. And these people invited us to go apple picking last year, something I hadn't done since I was a kid. It was the kind of thing you don't do _enough_, living in the city. This year, the crew consisted of "Jason":http://yovanoff.typepad.com & Liz, Bryan & Jill, and "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org & I. We headed further up the North Shore this year, to "Ipswich":http://www.mercurybrewing.com/IPS.html, MA. Seemed like a lovely town, though we spent all...
• Scorpion Bowl
  Nothing like sharing a Scorpion Bowl with another man's wife... K. and Ned at Lolo's birthday celebration. "Tiki Room":http://www.boston.com/dining/restaurant/1667, Lansdowne Street, Boston, Sept 17....
• Web Surfer Rosa
  There are very few bands that I think are worth seeing in big venues. "Radiohead":http://www.radiohead.com is one. "U2":http://u2.com is another. And even with these big acts, what is so enjoyable about an arena show? It's usually 100-dollar tickets, you can't see much except for what's on the "Jumbotron":http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/04/15/media_churches/, and you end up with a row of dancing teenaged girls with scrunchies, blocking your view, and singing in your ear. It sucks. When I heard that the "Pixies":http://ilovepixies.com were "re-forming":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001699.php and touring this summer, I knew that I'd gladly plop down the 100 bucks, and put up with Arena-beer prices, for...
• Spider
  Look at this Spider outside our window! Presley has the "details":http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002428.php......

• The G5 iMac
  Wow. Looking at the newly-posted info on the "G5 iMac":http://www.apple.com/imac/, I'm again speechless. "Where did the computer go?", indeed. It appears that Apple has done it again... this iMac G5 almost looks slimmer and lighter than Dell laptops! Those things are bricks, and they're supposed to be _portable_. It seems as if Apple and IBM have solved the G5 "heat problem":http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=167. So does that mean that we'll see a G5 _Powerbook_ by Christmas? * Apple "iMac G5":http://www.apple.com/imac/ * Apple "Photo Gallery":http://www.apple.com/imac/gallery/ * "MacWorld coverage":http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/08/31/g5imac/index.php * Showroom "photo":http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/imac-g5s-on-the-showroom-floor-020578.php in action....
• Smart-Target, Part II
  As mentioned "last week":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002396.php, "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org, "Todd":http://www.foodtastesgood.com, Kim, Angie, "Trevor":http://www.solitaryplanet.com, & "Brian":http://brianducharme.com spent the weekend working the Target-Smart Car College Tour 2004 -- the eaisest $300 I've made in my life. However, it was also the hottest weekend this summer -- long-sleeved canvas jump suits in 92° heat is not the most fun. We did our best to find college kids... not many schools are in session yet, so we shifted to the usual Boston landmarks... "Faneuil Hall":http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/, "Harvard Square":http://www.harvardsquare.com/, and "Castle Island":http://www.nine3.com/MDC/history.html Beach. It turns out that tourists really love "Target":http://target.com and free pens. Some pics: More pics on the...
• Smart-Target
  I peed into a plastic cup this morning for the first time since my job application to "Wilson Farms":http://www.wilsonfarms.com/ convenience store, when I was sixteen years-old. Why, you ask? Well, some friends and I are going to spend the weekend driving a "SmartCar":http://www.smart.com/ around Boston, dressed in "Target":http://target.com logos from head-to-toe. We're supposed to make ourselves _seen_ to all of the returning college kids, reminding them that there is a cheap place to dress up that gray-brick dorm room. I'm 26 years-old, so this is a bit embarassing. But, It's only 2 days, I'll be a couple hundred dollars richer,...
• The Drink
  I just want to point out that I am not _always_ the drunkard in the family... "Ocasionally":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/08/ha.html, the lady of the house tips a few too many back. Thanks to J., who is "documenting":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/08/nice.html all of this: bq. Okay, so I think I need to add that I didn't actually throw up, because I can handle my booze. but I was thinking about it because I guess "someone":http://presley.suckahs.org/ did actually get sick after leaving my house the other day. This is probably more the exception than the rule, but oh well. We're young....
• Goat Cheese-Stuffed Zucchini Pancakes with Tomato Sauce
  Earlier this week, I mentioned to my friend Keiko that I wanted to make Zucchini bread, a summer tradition in my family. I suspect the tradition arose from the fact that the only thing that grew well in my father's garden were Zucchinis... everything else usually failed, or was eaten by the neighborhood fauna. The next day, she brought in from _her_ garden a couple of the largest Zucchinis I've ever seen... so large that I started having visions of eating Zucchini bread for the remainder of the summer. Anyway, a day or two passed, (work has been all-consuming), and...
• Backup
  My boss is "Out of Office":http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;311107 again this week, so suddenly Project Managers are turning to _me_ in meetings, and asking the tough questions. It's been interesting... and _gratifying_, to know that I can manage to sound articulate and knowledgeable, when called upon....
• HP All-in-Ones with Airport Express
  I neglected to mention in my post about installing the "Airport Express":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002317.php with a 3rd-Party router, (a "Netgear WGR614":http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.php?prodID=174&view=hm, in my case), that I still couldn't print wirelessly with the device. My "HP PSC-750 All-in-One":http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00035369 isn't "supported":http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107418&sessionID=anonymous|12743518&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a80%2f... it makes sense that you wouldn't be able to _scan_ wirelessly, but why couldn't I _print_? Well, after a few more hours of searching, I finally found a "solution":http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@145.NDUSaUAvt0f.4@.6897b310/19, courtesy *William Boddie* in the Apple discussions: When queried for a printer, I selected "edit printer list" from the scroll down menu, clicked on "add" under the printer setup utility-> went to IP Printer...
• Old Times...
  Presley and I were invited out last night with my old boss, who is visiting Boston on holiday from his teaching gig in Japan. It was the usual shitty service at the Enormous Room, and then across the street for a little rock n' roll Upstairs, courtesy A.M. Stereo and The Glow. A.M. Stereo was fun, Indie post-punk -- each member singing in turn, (except the drummer, who looked like something out of Spinal Tap). The Glow was a tighter, keyboard-driven, cross-over ska outfit, which I really enjoyed -- their guitarist reminded me of Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse... decide...

• My Electoral Nightmare
  I was fooling around with this neat New York Times "interactive Election Guide":http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONGUIDE_GRAPHIC/, and I inputted my predictions for how the states will vote in November. This was my worst-case scenario, with Bush winning both Florida and Ohio... the result? TIED. It'll be the "House of Representatives":http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/80oct/deadlock.htm rather than the "Supreme Court":http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html, this time around......
• DNC - Tuesday plans
  _UPDATE: Lame... no celebrity sightings, but we snapped some pictures of the security perimeter, which I will post later._ We're going to venture into the "protected" zone across the river tonight. "Tbone":http://tbone.suckahs.org describes "his DNC outing":http://tbone.suckahs.org/archives/002325.php last night, spotting Former CA Gov Gray Davis, and the less talented half of the celibrity fomerly known as "Ben-ifer", Ben Affleck. We watched a lot of the convention on CNN and C-SPAN last night. I keep waiting to see "Wonkette":http://wonkette.com on "MTV":http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/, but there were Andy Dick re-runs on instead. I miss "Tabitha Soren":http://www.voice.neu.edu/960425/soren.html......
• DNC Commute
  My commute last night back to Boston was uneventful, (which "seems":http://yovanoff.typepad.com/yovablog/2004/07/convention_comm.html to be the "consensus":http://www.utterwonder.com/archives/000579.html#000579). I think half our population was scared away by the "DNC":http://www.boston04.com. Helicopters are buzzing around our house, and since we live "near the Charles river":http://www.cambridgema.gov/dnc/, we've noticed Coast Guard and Police boats patrolling the river in formation... a strange sight, given that on any given day you'd usually see small sailboats and rowing crews. Boston is locked-down, but I feel safe. I think it's unreasonable to expect that an event this size will ever be held again without tight security. Though I understand concerns about...
• Airport Express
  The "Airport Express":http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ I ordered last month arrived yesterday. After 2+ hours of fiddling, googling, plugging and unplugging, I've finally got Karen O and the "Yeah Yeah Yeahs":http://www.yeahyeahyeahs.com/ streaming from my "Powerbook's":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001758.php iTunes, to my "Onkyo":http://www.onkyousa.com/ receiver and "Cambridge Soundworks":http://www.cambridgesoundworks.com speakers. The problem was to get my "$60 Netgear router":http://netgear.com/products/prod_details.php?prodID=174&view=hm to recognize the AX -- as the documentation makes no promises of connecting to a third-party wireless router, (on a side note, I've never understood the pricing of the original "Airport Extreme":http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/ -- at $200, what advantages could this model possibly offer over any other IEEE 802.11g router?). Expecting it...
• Support the Kerry/Edwards ticket
  John Kerry made a great choice for his VP running mate -- they will make a great team. If you're a supporter of Kerry/Edwards, they will give you a free "bumper sticker":http://www.johnkerry.com/signup/bumper_KE.php, just for signing up with the campaign. The downside is, they'll email you a couple of times a week, (which some may find "inundating":http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2004/06/john_kerrys_marketing_campaign.php). I think that's a fair trade. UPDATE: Incidentally, I did it, and when I hit submit, a page appeared saying "help us cover the cost of mailing this, won't you?" So I felt guilty, and sent another "$25 contribution":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/002042.php....
• the 4th in Boston
  _Fireworks over the Charles, Boston, Massachusetts_ I generally don't enjoy staying in Boston for two holidays -- "4th of July":http://www.july4th.org/, and New Year's Eve... This town is a tame place for a party, and the concept of the _roof-deck_ seems to be lost on the landlords here. Still, I'm not holding fast to my rule this year... we spent the New Year in the South End, and we spent last night BBQ'ing at our house. It was a short walk down to the Charles River for the "fireworks":http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/05/afterglow_on_the_esplanade/... pretty low-key this year, and we couldn't hear "the Pops":http://www.july4th.org/concert/, because...
• Magnetbox
  So, what's going on with Magnetbox? Quite a change from the "old":http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:0OsOE4EJGgwJ:www.magnetbox.com/&hl=en site......
• Chernobyl
  UPDATE: Apparently, Miss Elena "wasn't completely honest":http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/chernobyl_trip... however, I still think it's a fabulous story. In April of 1986, I was eight years old, and I have no recollection of the "Chernobyl disaster":http://www.chernobyl.info/. Yet, it's hard to imagine any single event more devastating than what happened on April 25-26, 1986. Hundreds of thousands died, and many more were forced out of their homes in an instant, never to return. Radiation flooded the air, land, and water around the site, forming a 'dead zone'. "Albany Dan":http://albanydan.suckahs.org pointed out a link on "Fark":http://fark.com to a first-person account of someone who has ventured...

• Boston Stranglers Rally
  The "Boston Stranglers' Scooter Rally":http://www.bostonstranglers.com/rally2004/ was 2 weeks ago, and neglectful as always, I never posted "my pics":http://scoot.net/gallery/2004/06/bssanc/nedward/. One highlight of the weekend was getting an escorted ride for 50+ scooters along the Charles River Esplanade, and then continued on along the "Emerald Necklace":http://www.emeraldnecklace.org to the "Larz Anderson":http://www.mot.org park, overlooking the city. Presley and I were joined by "Sam":http://scoot.net/gallery/pic.html?pic=86053 and her cute "Metro":http://powersports.honda.com/scooters/model.asp?ModelName=Metropolitan&ModelYear=2004&ModelId=CHF504, and we met a lot of new people. And, I avoided the combination of drinking and riding my "Vespa":http://scoot.net/gallery/pic.html?pic=86049....
• Fahrenheit 9/11 & the year of the angry Liberal
  We went to see "Fahrenheit 9/11":http://www.fahrenheit911.com at the "Fenway 13":http://www.nu-news.com/news/2003/05/28/Style/Best-Movie.Theater.Amc.Fenway.13-437198.shtml on Saturday night, and I became uneasy before the movie, because there were rent-a-cops milling about and checking bags. Were they expecting violence? Like a modern day _Outsiders_, with "MoveOn.org":http://moveon.org members clashing with the Young Republicans? There has been "much":http://www.slate.com/id/2102723 made of Michael Moore, and the controversy surrounding whether he can correctly claim the title of _documentarian_. On the "Today":http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/?ta=y show, pseudo-journalist Matt Lauer nitpicked and argued with Moore as if he were host of "Fox and Friends":www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/. Truth is, the journalists who think Moore is utterly ruinous, ("Gwen Ifill":http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_06_27_atrios_archive.html#108845977472633882...
• Moveable Type 3.0
  Since the licensing structure has been revamped, I thought I'd spend a few minutes updating "Suckahs.org":http://suckahs.org (and all it's weblogs) to "MT 3.0":http://www.movabletype.org/get_movable_type_personal.shtml. Honestly, the motivation for the upgrade was recent barrages of comment spam. "MT-Blacklist":http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ was a good patch, for a while, but I think the only safe method to both allow comments, and stop your site from becoming a 1-stop billboard advertisement for "penis enhancements", and mortgage financiers, is comment registration. If you'd like to comment, (there are 1 or 2 of you), I'd suggest registering with "TypeKey":https://www.typekey.com/. Registered commenters will be posted right away, and everyone else...
• Hawk
  We were sitting at work, having lunch, when a hawk landed just outside our window. I half expected him to have a _mouse_ in his mouth, but no luck on that front. I wonder what kind of hawk this is? They are common in eastern Massachusetts, because I've seen them around Boston......
• SimpleBook
  Dan Cederholm of "SimpleBits":http://simplebits.com/ has written a book, "Web Standards Solutions":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590593812/suckahs-20/, which arrived today with it's familiar "cover":http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1590593812.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg. I'm interested in streamlining my site, improving on semantic markup, etc., so I hope that Dan's book will be a good reference. Oh, and I love his "redesign":http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/06/14/fresh.html. It seems that "everyone":http://www.mezzoblue.com/ is "refreshing":http://www.stopdesign.com/ their "sites":http://www.capndesign.com/ these days....
• Phonetiquette
  pet-pieve: I answer the telephone, (though it reads "unkown caller"), the voice on the other end asks for someone who does not reside here, and when I politely inform them of this fact, they hang up without response. And, they call back _twice_, with the same bad manners. ...no wonder I never answer....
• The Reagan we aren't seeing on TV
  I suspect much of this country feels, as I do, that Ronald Reagan was not the saint that the radical Right would like us to believe. Still, the media coverage this past week has not only been "gushingly positive":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20802-2004Jun6.html, but also "all-consuming":http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/22590.htm. While watching that carriage parade around for 4 hours last night, and suffering through Dick Cheney's political eulogy, I kept thinking of the horrible things this guy was responsible for -- and many of them meet my definition of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors":http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0764613.html. * He sent Rumsfeld to "shake hands":http://www.impeach-bush-now.org/Articles/Rumsfeld/shakinghands.htm with Saddam Hussein on an "arms deal":http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,866942,00.html. *...
• The Prisoner of Azkaban
  *Review: A+* Yes, we attended last night's showing of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban":http://azkaban.warnerbros.com/, at 12:01am. And, despite some suggestions from my work mates, I did not play "dress-up":http://www.freep.com/news/metro/dicker5_20030505.htm. My reactions and excitement after seeing the 3rd installment on the big screen, directly parallels what I felt a few years ago when I dug into the "3rd Potter book":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0439136350/suckahs-20 -- _Azkaban_ is where the series takes a much darker turn. The Dementors are frightening in the film, though the new director "Alfonso Cuar?n":http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/ devotes far more energy to stoking fear of "Sirius Black":http://galleries.mugglenet.com/af/2004/sirius.black.escape.cfm, than of the prison and...

• Niagara 2004
  Last weekend, we traveled to Southern Ontario for the "Niagara Scooter Rally":http://www.tundraschmucks.com/. And, the Canadians sure know how to throw a party. Check out our "pics":http://scoot.net/gallery/2004/05/niagara/Nedward/, and here are some highlights: * Our first camping trip in years * My grade 9 English teacher's son was there with his "crew":http://www.hellsscooters.com/ * Another two-up ride on "Presley's Lambretta":http://presley.suckahs.org/?pg=http://presley.suckahs.org/archives/002028.php#002028 -- and we still couldn't keep up with the pack * First titty-bar experience with "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org * Don't buy gas in Canada -- it's pricey and will make your scoot sputter * "Vino":http://www.yamaha-motor.com/products/unitinfo/2/mcy/8/150/yamaha_vino_classic.aspx Girl(!) got muddy -- which was just not right *...
• Free to Marry
  "The Bay State":http://www.mass-vacation.com/ is now the first-in-the-nation to grant same-sex marriage licenses to couples, and I am proud to say that "Our Fair City":http://www.cambridgema.gov was the first -- "Cambridge City Hall at 12 midnight, May 18, 2004":http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/05/17/celebrations_envelop_cambridge_city_hall/ A couple of thousand people, joined together on the front lawn of City Hall, singing songs, holding supportive signs (My favorite was "yay!"), and clapping as each couple made their way up the stairs, and into the building... It was really moving. Cheers everybody!...
• Gotham '04
  Well, we survived the "Gotham rally":http://gothamrally.org/ this past weekend. We met a lot of cool scooterists, and enjoyed riding around Manhattan and Brooklyn. I think we put brought joy and curiosity (and maybe envy?) to the people of New York -- seeing a hundred scooters coming through your neighborhood in a giant pack is not something people see every day. Those "kids":http://iscootny.com/ down in NYC know how to throw a good time. Too bad I didn't "win":http://gothamrally.org/index.php?name=pagetool_news&news_id=6 the "bike raffle":http://scoot.net/gallery/2004/04/gotham/Raffle_Prize/. I posted "my pics":http://scoot.net/gallery/2004/04/gotham/Nedward/ at "Scoot.net":http://scoot.net/ -- check out "Jason":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/ above. Tonight, I buy my first scooter: a "Vespa P-200":http://www.vespafascination.com/70/scooters/htm/f_78_P200E.htm....

• Pre Gotham Rally
  Tomorrow, we get out of work a little early, and load into the Saab for a trip down to NYC for the "Gotham Scooter Rally":http://gothamrally.org. From everything we've heard, Brooklyn will be burning by sunday night. "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org and I are relatively new scooterists, and this is our first rally. "Jason":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/ and "Kim":http://starstreamgirl.textamerica.com/ of course are responsible for this... so a special thanks to them for all their help getting Lisa's '63 Lambretta Li125 on the road. If all goes well, next week I'll be riding a 25-year old Vespa p200... sadly I won't have it for Gotham, but I'm psyched,...
• Terminal blog
  I stumbled upon an interesting blog design in my "referrals":http://ned.suckahs.org/refer/ -- "klypso.com":http://klypso.com/. Paul used "Terminal" for his blog's typeface. It's quick-loading, lean-and-mean, but Paul chose to forgo the "CSS trend":http://www.zeldman.com/, and build it with old-fashioned _Tables_. As soon as I saw it, I had a flashback to college and X-Windows, "Lynx":http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnedward.org, Emacs... And then back to high school and 9600-baud connections to BBSs. We've come a long way, no?...
• My Powerbook is on vacation
  Forgive the silly title -- I had to send my "12-inch PB":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001758.php#001758 away to Tennessee (or wherever "Apple":http://apple.com does their heavy tech support), because the slot-load drive was locking up. So this is my first Apple hardware issue... In 4+ years with my "Dell":http://dell.com, the only hardware issue I ever had was my Dell Trinitron monitor (which went bad at 2 years, 11 months). Is this an indication of what I can expect in the future?...

• No school because of Bush Fundraiser
  As if we need further evidence that the president is truly misguided, I "read(Boston.com: Visit by Bush to snarl roads, spur protests)":http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/03/25/visit_by_bush_to_snarl_roads_spur_protests?mode=PF that today Mr. Bush has come to Boston for a fundraiser, forcing the "Secret Service":http://www.secretservice.gov to shut down several city streets. As Mr. Bush collects checks at $2000 a head, for one hour of work, a K-8 public school was forced on 1-day notice to cancel classes today because they "could not guarantee timely pick-up of students at dismissal time." This seems shameful for the "No-child-left-behind" President, who is himself the son of the so-called "education" President... But,...
• $25 is all it takes...
  I just gave "John Kerry":https://contribute.johnkerry.com/index.html?source_code=00016568 $25. I ended up giving "Howard Dean":http://blogforamerica.com a not-insignificant amount of money, (at least to me), and I feel it was money well spent. I'm going to do so for John Kerry each month. You "should":https://contribute.johnkerry.com/index.html?source_code=00016568, too. Bush is on the "attack":http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/politics/campaign/12ADS.html?pagewanted=print&position=....
• Welcome CSS Vault Visitors!
  Thanks to Andy for submitting this blog for recognition at "CSS Vault":http://www.cssvault.com. I'm honored to be included among the many inspiring sites. (I hope it doesn't matter that I've more or less had the same layout and design for more than a year now.) But, thank you very much....
• New Scoot
  Presley bought her scooter this past weekend, from a friend-of-a-friend in Maine. Looks pretty sweet, and she posted to her weblog for the first time _this year_. wow....
• Back to Detroit
  I'm off to "Detroit":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/000791.php for one day, to attend my cousin's funeral. It's such a sad thing, even though we weren't close in age. Bob was a great guy, who was full of all kinds of odd and interesting knowledge. And he was always willing to listen or offer up honest advice... even when I was an obnoxious teenager who thought he knew everything. I love ya, man....
• JFK Library & Museum
  My Aunt and Uncle were in Boston this past weekend, so we decided to check out the "John F. Kennedy Library & Museum":http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/. _Designed by I.M. Pei_ _The Harbor_ Designed by "I.M. Pei":http://www.pcfandp.com/a/p/7617/s.html, the "building":http://www.jfklibrary.org/visit_building-1.html is truly inspiring, despite it's chilly, geometric parts. In my opinion, it is the only Pei building worth it's salt -- certainly the only one out of his many projects in Boston. I've never been nostalgic for JFK -- he only passed something like 25% of the bills he sent to Capitol Hill... which tells me he was more concerned with maintaining _Camelot_, than pushing...

• Garage Sale
  Presley and I are having an online "Garage Sale":http://garagesale.suckahs.org/. We've "dropped":http://boston.craigslist.org/ele/24937864.html "postings":http://boston.craigslist.org/hsh/24938037.html "on":http://boston.craigslist.org/spo/24938325.html "Craigslist":http://boston.craigslist.org/, and we're going to tell everyone we know, "come buy our unwanted stuff". I've got a Powermac G4, 25" TV, DVD Player, and other goodies for "sale":http://garagesale.suckahs.org/. If you're in the Boston/Cambridge/Eastern New England region, take a "look":http://garagesale.suckahs.org/! Email questions to garagesale@suckahs.org. And, please feel free to make us an offer....
• Comments
  I fixed a little bug in my _comment_ template, which was launching new windows when you hit _post_. I got tired of secretly waiting for MT 3.0 to come out, that I decided to have a look, and fix it....
• Intern-gate, Non-existent
  So, the general consensus around seems to be that the Kerry/Intern story reported by Drudge (and pointed out "below":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001987.php), seems to not hold water. * "Wonkette":http://www.wonkette.com/archives/wonkette_world_exclusive_must_credit_wonkette_012973.php says that the woman in question is returning to the States soon * "dKos":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/2/13/18517/8045 thinks the fact that mainstream media hasn't picked up the story, is a good sign * Even cranky "Slate":http://slate.msn.com/id/2095441/ had a humorous reaction today * "Salon":http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/02/13/drudge/index_np.html takes Drudge to task * And the "Philadelphia Daily News":http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/7943785.htm is cautioning about rumors In fact, the "British press":http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004071162,00.html not withstanding, I'm happy to see Big Media using some restraint on this issue. If...
• Intern-gate, Revisited
  "Matt Drudge":http://www.drudgereport.com/ is "reporting":http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjk1.htm the following: "CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS":http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjk1.htm - KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN. In an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, General Wesley Clark plainly stated: 'Kerry will implode over an intern issue'... Kerry commotion is why Howard Dean has turned increasingly aggressive against Kerry in recent days, and is the key reason why Dean reversed his decision not to drop out of the race after Wisconsin, top campaign sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.... A serious investigation of the woman and the nature of her relationship...
• Underground Man
  After reading "Dunstan's humorous post":http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2004/02/12/irony/ on British rail, and the silly responses he received from Americans and Germans, I was reminded of an excellent article by William Finnegan in the "New Yorker":http://newyorker.com last week, _Underground Man: Can the former C.I.A. agent who saved New York's subway get the Tube back on track?_ After scouring the _New Yorker_ web site and Google without luck, I decided it was worth scanning and posting the "article":http://ned.suckahs.org/underground_man/. Sorry they're jpgs... I probably won't leave it up very long (file size/bandwidth), unless someone can suggest a way to extract the text of the article. I'm...
• The Victory Card
  While I'm still absorbing tonight's "Kerry victories":http://nytimes.com/2004/02/10/politics/campaign/10CND-CAMP.html?pagewanted=print&position= in Virginia and Tennessee, I would like to share with my readers one of the more amusing pieces of direct mail that I've seen-- "The Victory Card MasterCard":https://www.juniper.com/app/japply/lp/10757.jsp?campaignid=0000217&obadloc=011&obchannel=005 from the "Massachusetts Democratic Party":http://www.massdems.org/. Now, I love my party, and I've certainly given a good chunk of my time, money and (limited) talents over the years... but this piece of marketing material is really silly. I know I'm cynical and all, but this multi-culti picture of bi-racial babies being hugged by an American flag, is just plain _funny_. The underlying message is right and...
• Firefox 0.8
  Jon Hicks posted today about the "re-branding":http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/archives/000377.php of the "Mozilla Firebird":http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ browser. Though I don't love the new name, "Firefox":http://www.bengoodger.com/weblog/archives/week_2004_02_08.shtml#000549, obviously lawyers have been involved. But, the new logo is what really caught my eye... It's truly an inspiring leap. And the pinstripe theme for OS X is beautiful as well. I'm still a "Safari":http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/ fan, but it's good to see another alternative....
• More proof that Google is broken
  Google has decided that this site is the #1 result for super bowl jackson uncensored pic. Why? I haven't posted a bit about the "Superbowl fiasco":http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/02/02/20040202_200411_mattjj.htm (oops, now I did). There probably was a link on my aggregated "News Page":http://ned.suckahs.org/news.php for a few hours... but, Google isn't linking to that page, but rather the "referer":http://ned.suckahs.org/refer/ page! Thanks to weblogs, Google is nearly useless....
• Anniversary with the Sabres
  A romantic night wouldn’t be complete without Canadian beer On January 23, Presley and I marked our 7th anniversary, and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend it than at the Sabres-Bruins hockey game. Am I right? Just so you don’t think I’m weird, our first “date” was a Sabres game (in Buffalo) in December of 1996. So, it was a nice reminder for us, and it was cool. Thanks to Craig’s List, we got first-row, on-the-glass seats. Amazing. Last Year Two years ago...

• Battle Royale
  Battle Royale has one of the best plot lines (and "fan following":http://www.battleroyaleonline.com/): Ninth grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food and various arms. They have to fight each other three days long until the last one remains and are forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule. The Japanese are an absolutely amazing people....
• Where I've Been...
  This is a "map(World66.com)":http://www.world66.com/ of where I've visited or lived in the United States... This is really jarring, because I haven't crossed the _Mississippi_, and I haven't ventured into the heart of _Dixie_. I think that says something about me, but I'm not sure what. *Resolution*: before I turn 28, (which gives me 2 years), I want to add at least 3 states. One of them must be California... that's the easy one....
• Florida Keys and Miami
  _The Causeway_ I enjoyed going through my "photos":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001922.php of our Miami and the Florida Keys trip in early January. These photos, along with my trip journal, will help me to always remember it... * "Off to the Keys":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001878.php * "Day 1, Part I: Boston to Miami Beach":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001879.php * "Day 1, Part II: Arriving in Key Largo":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001880.php * "Day 2: Key Largo, Snorkeling & Sailing":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001881.php * "Day 3: On to Key West":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001882.php * "Day 4: Key West":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001883.php * "Day 5: Back to Miami":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001890.php...
• On to New Hampshire
  *NH Prediction:* Dean will not win -- but, he might become the "Comeback Kid":http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/4346/index1.html of 2004 with a strong 2nd place finish. Where does Kerry go after NH? Then again, I've been "wrong before":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001899.php. On a complete aside, I was up in Concord working for "Al Gore":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/goremain100399.htm 4 years ago, having hauled several cars-worth of Massachusetts college students in tow. Seeing the weather "forecast":http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/pastweather/USNH0045?when=012704, I don't regret sitting this one out....
• Dresden Dolls get signed are Negotiating
  *UPDATE* - It seems that we jumped the gun -- Amanda from the Dolls informs us that "it's actually not true and we're still in negotiations". So, rumors aside, here is a quote from their "band diary":http://www.dresdendolls.com/diary/: bq. ...the band has just agreed to enter into a massive distribution and promotion deal with a large label... SO, we'll just have to wait and see. Everyone's favorite "goth/punk/pop cabaret duo":http://www.dresdendolls.com/ just got signed to "Roadrunner Records(congrats!)":http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/, reported by "Jenna":http://jennarator.com/archives/000014.php This is the former all-metal label that eventually put out the first (and best) Sheila Divine LP(The New Parade) -- so they've...
• Happy Chinese New Year
  4702, The year of the "monkey":http://218.1.64.131/2004monkey.swf....
• iLife '04
  I ordered "iLife":http://www.apple.com/ilife/ today... a good distraction from boring work-life, and from the "Dean campaign":http://blogforamerica.com in general. Suddenly I'm not hanging on every headline. "Jason's writeup":http://bloodymortyvane.typepad.com/bossanova/2004/01/living_the_ilif.html sounds pretty cool -- I want to make fuzzy rock songs in "Garageband":http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ ... maybe "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org will sing? Also, I've imported my 2000+ photos into "iPhoto":http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/, which is really good at managing photos, (if not editing them)... hopefully the new version will speed up the app's response-time....
• Iowa Post-Mortem
  Well, my predictions were completely off! I'm not sure what this means... we'll see what happens in the coming week. With the State of the Union and all its assorted distractions, Dean might come back strong next week in New Hampshire. Then again, I just saw him scream through his concession speech, and I can't help but offer this advice: When you're on television, speak to the people, lay out your agenda. Don't scream like a monkey, trying to excite the 2,000 kids in front of you... cos they didn't show up to caucus for you....
• Iowa Predictions
  I spend much of my time each day reading newspapers and talking to friends about politics, but rarely do I post on the subject. There are some "excellent sources(daily kos is my daily fix)":http://www.dailykos.com/ that focus on politics and the race for the White house. So, the last thing this country needs is another "blogger for Dean(duh)":http://www.blogforamerica.com/whatisablog.html. However, today is the "Iowa caucus ":http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/23293430.html-- a "bizarre exercise(don't get me started...)":http://slate.msn.com/id/2094034/ that makes the Electoral College look downright democratic-- so I thought I'd take a few minutes to give my take. First, the headlines seem to point to Dean "dropping off(We'll...
• Reality Check
  There is something to be said about all-inclusive vacations! Even with a great airfare deal, my credit card is at... $1,451.71 It was worth every penny, however....
• Day 5: Back to Miami
  Last night was cold! I know it's much colder home in Boston, but Key West shouldn't be 50 and windy as hell! We spent our second night heading down to Mallory Square for "Sunset (We saw clouds)":http://www.sunsetcelebration.org/. I was wearing a wool turtleneck sweater, and was chilly. Sadly, we walked around the "Hilton":http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?moreDesc=true&ctyhocn=EYWKWHF (which basically took over the waterfront a few years ago), but couldn't find the "Cat Man (must be the best street performer I didn't see)":http://www.catmankeywest.com/. We did catch "Jeep and Mo":http://www.sunsetcelebration.org/performers/jeep.htm and some tumbling/acrobatic group. Not bad, I suppose, but nothing you couldn't get at "Fanueil Hall...
• Day 4: Key West
  Scooters! What else to do in Key West? We headed to "Moped Hospital (Good people, good time)":http://www.mopedhospital.com/ down the street from our Inn, and each rented a scooter for the day. For $40 each, you get to wheel around town helmet-less at 30 mph... quite a lot of fun, even with our little Korean models. Every once in a while, a real motorbike will zoom past us and put us in our place, but it feels liberating to be able to zip around without wearing your feet out. 30-mph feels like pretty fast when you're flying by bicyclists. We first...
• Day 3: On to Key West
  After breakfast as "Magrove Mike's (go for the Hangover Helper breakfast)":http://florida.keys.diningguide.net/data/d100365.htm in Islamorada, we started heading west. We stopped briefly at the "Bahia Honda State Park Beach (Best US Beach in 1992)":http://www.bahiahondapark.com/ for some sun and splash. I read, while Presley napped. Arriving in Key West, we missed the "Sunset celebration":http://www.sunsetcelebration.org/ because I needed to find an Internet Cafe -- my boss called me and told me that I had forgotten to submit my timesheet, and if I would like to get paid, I had better do so. So, after the business was taken care of at the Sippin' Cafe,...
• Day 2: Key Largo, Snorkeling & Sailing
  What a busy day! We got up this morning, determined to go snorkeling. We've learned one thing about Key Largo -- there is utterly nothing worth doing in Key Largo besides snorkeling, diving and outdoor activities. We rented a dual kayak, and paddled around the mangroves in the "Pennekamp State Park (First underwater State Park, or something)":http://www.pennekamppark.com/. And, at 1:30, we took a "38' Catamaran":http://www.pennekamppark.com/sailing.html sailing out to the coral reef, strapped on some fins and masks, and plunged into the 72-degree water to look at fish. Even though 72-degrees sounds like warm water, it's better to wear a wet-suit,...
• Day 1, Part II: Arriving in Key Largo
  We passed through Miami Beach -- stopping briefly to eat lunch and wander into the shops as it rained. People are very friendly here -- even in "Benetton (I didn't buy anything, though...)":http://www.benetton.com/! I made Presley take off her shoes and pop into the surf... rain or no rain. One odd thing we noticed about South Beach was the copious numbers of scooters motoring around. Very odd indeed, but it makes perfect sense to own one here, in the sun, where the streets are relatively small and slow. No helmets! We then headed down towards the Keys, down that crowded...
• Day 1, Part I: Boston to Miami Beach
  It's freezing! temperature is in the teens, and we're late out the door to "Logan":http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_subway_greenline.asp. Since we live closest to the "Green line (also known as slow)":http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_subway_greenline.asp, we decide to walk over the Charles to the B-line. But, temperature is in the teens! I'm wearing a light jean jacket with a thick wool turtleneck sweater, a knit hat, but no gloves! Pulling my suitcase around the rotary, and onto the bridge -- it's sooo cold. And it's almost 7am. Our flight leaves at 8:05! Presley hands me one of her gloves (for the suitcase-carrying hand), and we both bury our...
• Off to the Keys
  "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org and I are off this morning to Miami and the "Florida Keys":http://www.fla-keys.com/ for 6 days. We're going to visit "Sara":http://suckahs.org/crew/sara.php, and meander around in the Keys in search of "sun (go ahead, hate me...)":http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/pastweather/USFL0244?when=010604, "fun (me, the outdoorsman...)":http://www.fla-keys.com/diving/index.htm and the perfect "Key Lime Pie (Sara says these are good -- we'll see!)":http://www.blondgiraffe.com/. I'm packing up the powerbook and the "digital camera":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001870.php, so a travelog might spurt up. Our "hotel (Looks gorgeous...)":http://www.keylargoresort.com/ in Key Largo has wi-fi, and I've already looked up hotspots in "Key West (I won't relax one bit)":http://www.jiwire.com/search-wifi-hotspots.htm?command=&ssid=&hotspot_name=&location_type_id=0&technology_id=0&provider_id=0&pay_free=both&address=&city=key+west&country_id=1&state_id=10&zip=&radius=20.0&x=41&y=10......
• X-mas in Buffalo
  Ornament on the familial X-mas tree Macy and Jeremy at Spot Coffee, Elmwood Ave Exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery...
• New Cannon Digital Elph
  Since my "birthday (really, you should have called...)":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001859.php is so close to _X-mas_, people always ask me if I got shorted on gifts growing up... to which I reply, "no, not really... I was an only child." In fact, at times, it's a clear advantage, because it allows a person to combine both occasions into one super-gift -- exhibit A (left), my new "Cannon Digital Elph SD100":http://powershot.com/powershot2/sd100/, from "Presley":http://presley.suckahs.org. There was nothing more perfect in this world that I could have received, and I wasted no time shooting. Different individuals have different needs from a camera -- "Mr. Powazek":http://www.powazek.com/2003/12/000313.html recently...
• Best of 2003
  Well, I'm late with my yearly round-up. I've enjoyed reading what other webloggers have written on 2003, and hopefully I've got something to offer. Here goes: *MUSIC* I won't bore you with my theories of correlation between poor economic prospects and quality rock music -- suffice to say, 2003 was a lousy year to look for work, but it was another excellent year for rock. Without any dominant "ism" (e.g., Alternative, Rap Metal, etc.) defining what was cool, smaller bands were given the chance to experiment. * "Interpol":http://interpolnyc.com, "Turn on the Bright Lights":http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006BTCA/suckahs-20/102-9996354-4905743 -- To be fair, I shouldn't include...

• twenty-six
  I'm now twenty-six years old. And my girlfriend is making me cupcakes to take to work tomorrow (today). Isn't that wonderful?...
• First (real) Snow
  We in the northeast are getting our first snow storm of the year. After venturing down to Quincy tonight, it was nice to find out that my Saab is actually quite good in the snow. We were back in Cambridge in one piece before the snow really started piling up. It'll be a nice weekend to curl up with a bottle of wine, a good book, & someone you love. *UPDATE:* Snowsteria! (requires Quicktime)...
• The Rapture
  Roberto and Tbone invited me along to see the new "it" New York _band-of-the-moment_ The Rapture thursday night, Downstairs at the Middle East. They did not disappoint. You can call it "dancey", disco, funk, post-punk, or Nouveau Garage -- but don't let those labels throw you -- these guys want to rock. They remind me a lot of LA's Moving Units, another great band that combines jangly guitars and disco drumming. But, with Cure-esque vocalisms, a fearsome cowbell solo, and enough energy to choke a horse, I couldn't help but feeling that I was witnessing something truly _inspired_. Earth to...
• Belated Thanksgiving Photos
  I've finally found some time to post a few photos from our "first Boston Thanksgiving (hopefully not our last)":http://nedward.typepad.com/photos/thanksgiving/ -- sadly, I didn't remember to take any snaps once people arrived. One of these days I will realize that you're supposed to be _timely_ about blogging... This new album would have complimented nicely this "Thanksgiving post (also known as the 'bad-refrigerator' post)":http://ned.suckahs.org/archives/001829.php, but I'm not that smooth. *UPDATE:* Well, turns out I did take some additional photos... They were stuck on the ole' Memory Stick. Too much Pinot Noir, perhaps......
• World AIDS Day - Dec 1 2003
  Today is World AIDS Day, part of a campaign to increase awareness of HIV-related stigma and discrimination. Here are a few resources relating to the AIDS pandemic and World AIDS Day: * World AIDS Day * Overview * BBC page * World Aids Day sets HIV drug goal * India Plans Free AIDS Therapy * Rural Haitians Are Vanguard in AIDS Battle * The CDC page * UN Page...

• New PHP
  As you'll no doubt notice, there are errors sprinkled around the site, such as: bq. Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in/home/suckahs/public_html/jnied/dev/nedward.org/v4/index.phpon line 974 It seems that Site5, my web host, has decided to upgrade PHP on my server... Looks like I'll be editing stuff this weekend. *UPDATE*: I found this little page, which helped me smooth things out in a matter of minutes....
• Thanksgiving Prefix
  We're awaiting company for the holiday-- Presley's mom, mom's boyfriend Marc, and sister Kelly are joining us in a proper New England Thanksgiving. The pumpkin and corn breads smell wonderful, the turkey is still thawing, and we picked out a few nice wines to go with dinner. Ok, so maybe the Puritans didn't drink French wine-- or wine at all-- but I'm sticking to the "proper New England Thanksgiving". The funniest part (to me) was that our 1-month old Sears Kenmore refrigerator died yesterday-- luckily we were able to shuttle off various bits to neighbors' fridges, and get a repairman...
• The limits of Push-button Publishing
  A while back, Jason Kottke began tweaking his site layout, merging his "remainder" links into the daily thread of his weblog, and creating a different look for "Featured" posts such as movie and book reviews. When I last redesigned (now more than a year ago), I thought a lot about how to use MT categories, and the importance of drawing a visual distinction between _featured posts_, and shorter daily posts. It was necessary to weigh certain types of posts as more relevant than others. This not-so-creative solution was to use a styled post title & a unique icon-- for music,...
• Concert for Howard Dean
  Anyone in the Boston area who likes folk music, and would like to support Howard Dean, check out this fundraiser _tonight_: Concert for Dean at Club Passim *11/24/2003 7:00pm* _Tickets are $5, with a requested contribution of $10 for Dean... We'll start with a short opening set by Jenny Bruce, who will be singing backup w/Rachael Sage later. There will be Dean videos in between sets._...
• Doppelganger
  Apparently, I have an evil twin in my office building... people keep telling me that they say "hello" to me, and I act as if I don't know who the hell they are. Doppelganger!...
• The 80s
  52 Pathetic. Any quiz that expects you to know Bon Jovi and the Buggles... well, it's just not a proper quiz....
• Pantherized
  I got Panther (OS X 10.3) this week, and finally found the time to install it on my newish 12-inch Powerbook. No problem, right? Maybe if I weren't such a retard. 11pm. I loaded the disk, and navigated through setup without a problem. Of course, as soon as I finished, I forgot that what I really wanted was to partition my gigantic 80GB drive into a System disk, and a Scratch disk. After Panther was up and running, I went to the disk utility, and when I clicked on "partition", it told me that I couldn't partition the HD because...
• Paul is Hosting?
  Someone tell me why Paul Shaffer is hosting Letterman tonight? You'd think they were taping this thing out of somebody's basement. I'm sure there was some kind of explanation at the top of the show... but I missed it. Did he do a monologue? UPDATE: It appears as if Dave had to run to the hospital-- for the birth of his first child....
• New yovanoff.com
  Jason redesigned. Now, he's got to start writing more regularly... as does yours truly....

• Car Swap
  I can't even believe that I drove into Saab City today in my beaten and bruised '93 Subaru, and drove out with a near-mint 2000 Saab 9-3... It should be a crime. Go see Krissy if you need a car -- she is the Internet Sales person. That was the sweetest 10-minute drive of my life. 70 degrees outside, sunroof open, and my first CD was... Blur's Leisure....
• Saab Story
  I started out looking for a used Golf, but I've realized they are really crappy cars-- especially if you're not buying a new one. After test driving a honda, and deciding I wasn't ready to give up all fun in my life, I drove a used Saab 9-3. Wow. This is your basic entry-level Saab -- but with leather seats, sunroof, and a 180hp turbo engine to all but ensure that I won't become an ardent environmentalist -- although it is a 4-cylinder. My only problem is that I'm worried that I'm going to look like a toolbox in this...
• Buy Our Couch
  We're selling our small couch (loveseat) -- come see it this weekend, and take it off our hands. * Loveseat/(small couch) with slip cover...
• Snow Expected Tonight?
  I almost choked on my pretzel when I saw this weather report on Boston.com: Accumulating snow is predicted for much of western and central Massachusetts late this afternoon and tonight and forecasters say there could be snow showers early tomorrow in the Greater Boston area. It's October 22nd, people!...
• Approved
  I bought my current car, a green '93 Subaru Impreza wagon, in the winter of 1998, after I received an inheritance from my grandfather. Since then, I've grown attached to it, not least because of my grandfather, but also because it was my first manual transmission, and it was my first foreign car. I hate cars -- I hate what they've done to our cities and our country in the past 60 years... but, they are sometimes a necessary evil. Presley and I have hauled our lives from Buffalo to Boston, Boston to Cambridge, and back again over the years,...
• Happy 30th Birthday, Jason
  Our good friend Jason turned 30 years old last weekend, and true to form, he was drunker than all of us. Still we managed to capture a few pictures -- though not, sadly, of Patrick sleeping under the deck for what seemed like two or three hours......
• Larry got it Right in Mystic River
  An open letter to the author of an otherwise good review of _Mystic River_ in Salon: bq. Hello Ms. Zacharek, I did enjoy your review of Mystic River, and am looking forward to seeing it this weekend. I especially enjoyed your observations on conceptions of _neighborhood_, and on the film's sense of _place_. While it's true that Boston's many neighborhoods are more self-contained than most cities', I think it's a leap to assume that this clannishness is _total_. It's equally true to argue that all of Boston is insulated from other parts of the country. There is a distinct common...
• Rally Cap
  I've been wearing my rally cap since the 5th inning. Wow. Trot wins it in the 11th inning on a home run to the deepest part of Fenway....
• Powerbook en Route
  My 12" Powerbook 12.1/1GHZ/786/80/CMBO/BT/LL is enroute from Taoyuan City, Taiwan, and you can bet that I'll be watching the FedEx tracking page every moment. It's expected on 10/9, only one day late. _UPDATE:_ It's here! And boy is it fast......

• Sales Adjustments in IT
  Randomly browsing the web today, I found that the web shop I worked for in downtown Boston during the waning days of the internet boom, Worldmachine, appears to be back in business. It was just about two years ago that they called all of us into the conference room to announce layoffs and that they were shutting the company down. The obvious reason given at the time, was lack of new sales. This I still find interesting, because the excuse all sales professionals seem to offer in this dreadful economy is that the sales cycle is much longer -- sometimes...
• <ul>s and <li>s in CSS
  I hope someone can help me with this CSS problem / bug: <ul> and <li> are defined as such: ul { margin:.5em 0 1em; padding:0; list-style-type:none;} ul li { background:url("/img/bullet.gif") no-repeat 11px .7em; margin:0; padding:0 0 2px 18px; line-height:1.5em; } But, in Firebird for the PC, I get an undesdesirable "second" bullet on a:hover: No other browser seems to do this, though I haven't been able to test a mozilla browser on a Mac. Is it a bug? Or is there a hack that would fix it?...
• Verizon's UI, Part II
  An update on my Verizon annoyances-- After a few weeks of assurances and passing the buck, I've been told that we won't be able to get DSL for our new house. No discernible reason was given, just a "no". So, to put my money where my mouth was, I decided to punish Verizon for this by switching our phone to Comcast. All this supposedly "good" deregulation in the communications industry still leaves those of us in Boston with little choice. Since we're already going to pay Comcast for cable tv & broadband internet access, why not be done with Verizon...
• Weekend of the Sippy Cup
  Friday, after a long week of work and another sucessful delivery, I met Presley and Tbone at the Sunset. _...where I knocked over a pint of Carlsberg on the table._ Saturday, I visited Presley at the diner, and reached for the paper. _...where I knocked my iced coffee into my lap._ Today, Monday, I came to work and grabbed a bagel and coffee. _...and, somehow when I reached for the doorknob, I dropped the coffee on the floor where it went all over the place._ Response from Presley: _ooooo baby. you need a sippy cup..._...
• Fire Sale, Part I
  Well, it turns out that we own too much stuff... so we're trying to sell off some furniture in our Fire Sale. Pictures are posted temporarily......
• Web Standards
  There's been a lot of talk around the web recently about designing better web sites: * Zeldman's book on web standards * Jason Kottke's post on Semantics, which i hadn't thought much about * Jeffrey Veen's article on the Business Value of Web Standards * Dan's excellent SimpleQuiz on preferred methods of writing markup I've just spent a good chunk of my saturday working on this very site. Though it may look as nearly identical to yesterday's _Nedward_, I've done some major overhauls "under the hood". * Firstly, I've made a huge effort to more accurately separate structure from content....
• Dave Jr.
  I am shocked. Anna points out that David Letterman is going to be a father. I know it seems as if his cultural relevance has completely vanished in the past 7-8 years, but he is the guy who transformed Late Night TV. You look at The Daily Show, Conan, Rosie, and even The Man Show, and it's impossible to imagine them existing without Dave, (never-mind that only Conan and Jon Stewart have even approached Dave's brilliance). And if the announcement isn't reason enough to tune in tonight, Simon & Garfunkel are performing....
• Verizon's UI
  Since we're in the process of moving, I've spent a lot of time switching utilities to the new apartment. For a few months now, I've been paying our Verizon phone & DSL bill online, because it's easy and I don't need to dig up my checkbook. However, Verizon's online bill management leaves much to be desired... When you log in, the account summary displays the amount you owe, listed under "Payment due" (see screen-shot at left). So, I would periodically log in, note the dollar amount, and after a few clicks, a credit-card payment was submitted. There is a problem...
• Here Comes The Pixies
  It's been rumored for months, but indie music fans have something new to pine about-- perhaps Boston's best musical export since Cheap Trick, The Pixies, are reuniting for a world tour, and new record. Now that "garage" bands are all the rage, I can't wait to see what Frank, Kim and gang can come up with. There's always that risk that you'll mess with your legacy-- and tarnish your legendary band status with a sad, 40-something exercise in money-grabbing....
• Buffalo Central Terminal Update
  A while back, I posted about a piece of architectural wonderment lying vandalized and dormant in Buffalo -- the old Central Terminal. It's a beautiful Deco train station from the 1920s, plopped into an otherwise unexceptional suburban neighborhood. At the time the station was built, Buffalo was still an industrial and cultural center, with a population over one-half million. It was second only to Chicago for its tangling rail network. However, by the late 1970s, both the city and the station had seen better days. The station was boarded up, and the trains instead stopped at a new, strip-mall like...

• Henry Street: A new chapter
  I posted some photos of our new apartment, and it occurred to me that Several things are noteworthy: 1. Its in a house. Odd. 2. It faces a small park, and is a block from the Charles River = green space 3. We're no longer in the heart of Central Square -- it's a a good 10 minute walk to the red line now. 4. I don't like being far from the red line 5. Dark hardwood floors are cool. who knew 6. Presley is happy we're moving. which is reason enough...
• Typepad
  I've re-upped my subscription to Typepad, mostly because I love the features. The photo album alone is worth the $11.96 a month. Anyhow, one added bonus, is the ability to dole out discounts to deserving folks: bq. As our thanks for taking the time to help beta test TypePad, we're offering you the chance to share the savings of a 20% lifetime discount with twenty of your friends and family members. We really appreciate the community that has formed during testing and we hope that it continues to thrive as the service grows. Let me know if you're interested-- it's...
• Words Cannot Convey...
  We visited our apartment again tonight, and it seems as if they are re-wiring the unit. Holes are sloppily punched and cables run through our walls, leaving a dusting of plaster on our belongings, and clumps of the stuff on the floors, in the sinks, and on our bed. G & P Management didn't even think it necessary to let us know, so we could prepare by boxing up our stuff... no, instead, the electricians had to work around the mess, (which was created when the cleaning crew turned everything inside out 2 weeks ago), so of course they managed...
• Almost Choke
  My parents are in town visiting, and I thought it would be fun to go to a Red Sox game... Never-mind that it's late-august, during a pennant and wild-card race, in the craziest baseball city with the smallest stadium in mlb. After trying in vain to find 4 tickets together for this weekend on craigslist, I ponied up and started calling brokers. These guys must make a killing-- that's all I'll say. We ended up 10 rows up from Pesky's poll, way the hell out in right field. Still, the rain held after a violent thunderstorm, and we got to...
• W32.Welchia.Worm
  It's worm week here at my workplace. The lastest little virus is the W32.Welchia.Worm, which has attacked our internal servers here, and spread like wild fire. The funny thing about this virus, is that it's purpose seems to be to clean up last weeks' mess, the MS Blast worm. The Welchia goes into a system, deletes the MSBlast virus, and tries to download a patch from Windows Update. How friendly! At least it's a friday -- maybe we can all get out of here....
• W32.Sobig.F@mm
  Someone I know (who may work at mit.edu) is spreading the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus... it's not a terrible worm, but annoying to keep getting hundreds of emails in my otherwise spam-free work email inbox......
• Howard Dean Jams
  More evidence that this guy has appeal outside the 2 coasts... Playing the blues, and he's self-taught. I don't think Clinton had chops like that....
• Temporary Digs
  Due to the fire, we've taken up temporary digs at a friend's apartment in Allston. Plum-B is staying in Maine for a while, and he didn't need his room, which he offered to us for nothing in return. His 3 roommates (and house-kitten Alfie) have been truly generous. And I've got a fellow weblogger to talk CSS and XHTML with-- Jason writes at yovanoff.com. And our cat Katya has another kitten to bully around. Life can get pretty strange, but it's oddly comforting knowing that your friends can pull it together when you need them. Now, we've got to figure...
• Persistent Annoyance
  I still can't figure out what's wrong with my CSS... it crashes IE5 on Mac OSs 9-X, and Win98. A good chunk of my audience gets a crashed browser when they visit. HELP! UPDATE: Matt Jacobs has earned my total respect and humility for pointing out this little problem: bq. I figured out what the problem is and it's not your fault. It's in here: bq. #gray { float: left; padding: 8px 5px 8px 8px; font: 82% "lucida grande", arial, verdana, sans-serif} bq. For some reason, the float:left in this id is causing the browser to crash. If you take...
• Fire, Part II
  It took longer than expected to post pictures of the fire. Here are the details: We had a little fire in our building on Friday afternoon. Friday, around noon, my girlfriend Presley was at home... and she heard a bump-- which she thought sounded like a neighbor dropping something. Shortly thereafter, the building fire alarm went off and she approached the door. There was some smoke coming in. So, she opened the door, and saw that the hallway was filled with black smoke. She couldn't tell where the fire was coming from, so she closed the door and called 911....
• Fire!
  !!! Big news in our lives at the moment-- there was a fire in our building and we had to move out while they clean up and rebuild. I really wanted to post about it while I was standing around on Mass Ave Friday, watching the firemen and EMTs. Time to set up Moblogging, I suppose. Nobody was hurt, including our kitten Katya... more details to come, along with a photo album of the scene and the damage....

• I've Made the Switch!
  This is old news to anyone who speaks with me regularly, but I've finally made the switch -- to a Mac. Yes, I know, apologies go out to my parents and everyone that I berated over the years for foolishly buying Macs - I just couldn't resist any longer. I'm now the proud owner of a G4, with a diminutive 350mhz chip, new 80gb drive, 896mb RAM, OS X 10.2, and all the open source software I care to install. I was relieved to see that all my peripherals were easily installed, and I'm getting better at navigating the OS....
• Refer makes it's return!
  Finally, I have access to detailed Referrers... courtesy Dean. Our increasingly pathetic server was choking on writing to MYSql before. Also, I'm getting really annoyed with a bug that causes IE 5 on the Mac to crash. I can't tell if its CSS or in the markup... Looks great in Safari and WIN IE 6....
• A Quincy BBQ, Part I
  I decided to post another photo album up on my Typepad, because they make it easy and elegant. These are mostly Presley's shots, as it was her camera, and she's the one into that whole analog thing. Our friends Jason and Kimberly invited some coworkers over for A Quincy BBQ. The Cool Whip brand whipped topping product didn't come out untill after this roll was spent... so there will be a Part II! (I don't know why I'm not in any of these...)...
• Eye-ball
  My left eye is twitching today, and I can't get it to stop. I can't wear my glasses or do my work, it's just so annoying!...
• Blur in a blur
  Last week was Blur Week. We were given tickets to see the boys tape a few songs on Last Call w/ Carson Daly in New York on Wednesday, and were able to catch them live at Avalon in Boston on Friday night. And the best part was that there were no mishaps this time 'round. Carson Daly is really misunderstood by music fans-- especially those who fancy themselves hipper-than-thou. Maybe it's because they blame him for the dominance of boy bands and Brittney in the past few years... or, maybe it is just that they think he's a massive tool....
• Slight Site Tweaks
  Our domain has been a wreck in the past couple of weeks -- which is why I started posting on Typepad. Thanks to Ben at Magnetbox for kindly mentioning this site. I love visiting Magnetbox every day... wish I could find an RSS feed. Also, thanks to Jason Kottke for adding this site to his "not recommended" sidebar. And, since we've been dumping and importing MySQL dbs like banshees around here, it made sense to also upgrade the usability of this site: * + Titles now link to the full entry * + Graphical headings on the sidebar link to...
• Full Throttle Boredom
  Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is the most pointless movie I have ever paid money to see... and, yes, I did see Showgirls in the cinema. Someone explain to me what the hell this movie is about-- because I have no clue. Here are my questions: * + Who is that "Leo" kid? * + Why is there unrealistic CGI fight scenes every 35 seconds? * + Who is Bruce Willis' character? * + Why did that guy from the X-Files suddenly switch sides? * + For a followup, why did Crispin Glover switch sides? * + Why is Drew Barrymore...

• McGriddles
  I don't know what possessed me to try the new McDonald's McGriddle breakfast sandwich, but I wish I hadn't. I had no idea that the "griddle" part is basically pancakes with artificial maple syrup, built in. So, a sausage, egg & cheese McGriddle really is like eating a brick of crap- and it sits in your stomach for hours. Here is the break down: Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles™: 7.0 oz (199 g), 550 calories (300 from fat), & 33 grams of fat Holy Jesus!...
• If You're Going to San Francisco...
  Presley and I are trying to plan a little 5-day trip to San Francisco this month-- mostly because I'm being forced to take some time off, and I have a free ticket on United for anywhere in the lower-48. We need to do this on the cheap, but neither of us have ever been west of Chicago. I've heard that there are deals to be had on B&Bs, though I don't even know what neighborhood in which to look-- Soma? Union Square? Fisherman's Wharf? And where to eat? Where to go see a good Rock show? What museums to go...

• Fear & Loathing at the Tweeter Center
  Ok, so when you walk up to the gate at a giant music festival put on by the local "alternative" FM station, and the PA annoucer says that your favorite band, the one you spent $70 to see, is not going to appear, you might think twice about entering... I mean, I probably could have scalped the tickets and made off with the $200+, but no, I decided it was worth it to stay. Boy was I wrong. I enjoyed seeing The Donnas rock out on such a big stage, and Hot Hot Heat were cool. But, Interpol. oh Interpol.......
• WBCN RIVER RAVE - 3 Tickets!!!
  Ok, so save me, I have to work this Memorial Day weekend.... buy my tickets to the WBCN River Rave -- 3 tickets for section 4, row N, covered seating! Blur, Beck, Dropkick Murphys, Interpol, the Donnas, The Used, Evanescence, Good Charlotte, Jack Johnson, Saliva, Afi, Seether, Hed(pe), Finch, Hot Hot Heat, The Ataris and more!!!...
• Danno returns
  Albany Dan makes a triumphant return (sort of), to Suckahs....
• Delivery Nights
  We have to deliver stuff to that certain $oftware company at 7am, and, here we are, still at work, at midnight -- trying our damnedest. This certain $oftware company is a stickler about scheduling. So, on this 18+ hour work day, I had BBQ for dinner, a few coffees, a diet coke, and 2 beers (gotta love it when the senior manager invites you to make use of his mini-fridge). And it's 93 degrees in this fucking place. I feel like There's More to Life Than This....
• The Libertines Under Smoking Ban
  Review: A- I was so surprised to learn yesterday that The Libertines were playing at the Paradise for only $8... surely not! You know you're in for a good show when the lead singer comes out and is swaying-ly drunk before the first song-- leaning on his microphone, noodling on his guitar, "D'ya fancy me?" I bought their record on vinyl a couple of weeks ago, and I think I would describe them as an updated Clash. You could lump them in with the new crop of garage bands, (e.g., The Strokes, White Stripes, Hives, Vines, et al.), but I...
• Neo-Cons Defined
  When did this term "Neo-Con" or "Neo-Conservative" bust out into common parlance? These otherwise intelligent people have been calling into Talk of the Nation on NPR, and talking about how Bush and the Neo-Cons want to force this whole radical anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-whatever agenda on this nation. I cringe every time I hear this buzzword muttered, because my fellow Liberals seem to have no fucking idea what the term means. Neo-Cons are former Liberals who decided to get all hawkish on defense and foreign policy... They really don't worry about domestic social issues. You can talk theory, (e.g., unintended consequences...

• Planning
  Planning for an event like Field Day is pretty daunting for someone who has camped less than 5 times in his entire life. A co-worker of mine suggests buying tents and equipment from Building 19, where you can basically find anything you never wanted, so long as it fell off the back of a truck. But that seems a bit stupid. Then there is REI... which has things to make even me drool. Presley is all into borrowing from friends, which is fine, except it might be nice to own some camping stuff... weekends on Cape Cod anyone? So maybe...
• Looking at the Work Week Through the Eyes of a Gigolo
  When I leave work tonight, I will submit a timesheet that, on sum, will be greater than 90 hours for this week. 90 hours. My co-worker Akiko will exceed 100 hours. I know we get paid by the hour, but doesn't that strike you as a high-tech sweatshop?...
• Furniture Wishlist
  Someone at work had a West Elm catalog, a furniture store in Brooklyn... and they've got really terrific stuff. Pretty comparable to IKEA in style and quality, but it has more of a Japanese modern feel to it. I think Presley and I should buy a wood headboard for our bed. It'd give her something for her to hang onto......
• Rock'N'Roll MotherFucker
  The D4 - Best fucking rock band in the world. Well, they're really really good....
• Why I don't post as much, either
  Megnut drew up a little graph to explain why she doesn't post as much lately. Me too, but I'm trying......
• Liz Phair - Teenage Slut?
  The state of pop music is generally good these days. Rap-Metal & their Sensitive Progressive-Rock Crooner buddies seem to have relaxed their grip on mainstream radio. MTV is playing Interpol and Zwan, along with Jarassic 5 and Eminem... that is, when they're actually playing videos. In addition to the new bands getting mainstream attention, it seems to me that several artists are making a come back of sorts. Look at Billy Corgan with Zwan... and look at Liz Phair-- who is trying to shed not only her "blow-job Queen" indie cred from the early-90s, but also the boring Lilith Fair...
• Obstacle 1 & the River Rave
  MTV is promoting the new Interpol video, which is a bit odd given their usual diet of the same 10 shitty clips. It's a terrifically stylized video, much like the band and its music. Come to think of it, MTV has done a lot of little coverage items on Interpol, so maybe somebody (Loder? Yago?) recognized their appeal. Speaking of Interpol, Presley, Albany Dan and I are heading to the WBCN River Rave, held this year at the Tweeter Center. We usually don't succumb to such over-hyped "mega-concerts", but what the hell, it's outdoors and features the likes of Interpol,...
• Phone Madness
  When I switched to AT&T Wireless last year, I gladly took the free Nokia 3360. It was simple, stylish, and free. It did basic text messaging, but no internet browsing... And, compared to all these fancy color phones with cameras, it's pretty stodgy. I really want something like the Nokia Communicator, but it's not available anywhere, and it's $500. So, why not a T-Mobile Sidekick? Seems pretty cool, straight forward, and simple. I could text message, chat, write email, and check my fantasy baseball anywhere. One problem-- it's T-Mobile. Today, I saw that AT&T Wireless was running a sale on...
• Empty Nest
  The weekend is over, we've lost an hour, and our apartment is empty once more. Having Macyme & Jeremy, Kunta, and Albany Dan under one roof was exhilarating and exhausting. There was debauchery on a grand scale, involving bottles and bottle of wine, some truly terrific thai food courtesy Brown Sugar, and a brilliant portfolio show at MassArt of printmakers' work. I have a new appreciation for the work of printmakers-- I think they occupy an odd middleground between hands-on artists like painters, and those of us interested in design. Much of the work reminded me of the graphic design...
• And now...
  It's fucking snowing!...

• The Big Dig
  Presley, Tbone, Megger, Chris and I just got back from the Midwest Grill in Inman Square, where we celebrated Presley's 23rd birthday. She really is getting quite old. But, on the way home, we convinced Chris to drive down to South Boston, so we could come up the new I-93 N tunnel-- that's right, the Big Dig is open. Well, partially open. The tunnel is wide and bright, with actual signage that gives you some actual notice about your exit before you drive by it. But the real treat was emerging from the tunnel, and driving onto the Zakim Bridge....
• Cocaine and Attitude
  Overheard in our building, from Annoying Unpleasant Girl Who Lives Down the Hall, on her cell phone, after my "hello" went rudely ignored: I need to ask you something.... did you tell such-and-such that we did coke?...
• This is What Democracy Looks Like, Part II
  Another day, another protest. I am disturbed by the number of Boston motorcycle cops buzzing around here in Cambridge. Isn't anyone else bugged by this overlap of law enforcement?...
• This is What Democracy Looks Like
  Last night, Presley and I were smack in the middle of painting our minuscule Cambridge bedroom a lovely polar blue, when I noticed a gathering of Police cars on Mass Ave. They were directing traffic away from Central Square, which I thought was odd. My initial impulse was to think that some War Hawk had called in a bomb threat on the People's Republik... But, no. Alas, there were war protesters massing down the street, and they intended to march on Harvard Sq. Watching the cops deal with this group of 200 or so kids was amusing-- rerouting traffic,...
• ロックンロール星Nedward
  日本のコンピューターに作用することは多くの忍耐を要します。そのため、私はそうです、最高、猛烈!...
• Annoying Floating Flash Ads
  I really like what Boston Common does-- collecting snippets from Boston-area blogs, and displaying them in aggregated meme-like fashion. I get a lot of hits from the site, and I appreciate the work Adam Gaffin does every day. BUT! Today, I noticed that Boston Common is now running floating Flash (Rich Media) advertisements from Travelocity. Hovering over the content! I find these things irritating, especially when it specifically delays your access to the information. I understand the need for online advertising, and revenue, but surely this is more of an annoyance than an effective marketing tool. Eyeblaster was, I believe,...
• Cronenberg's Spider
  Over the weekend, I saw David Cronenberg's new Film Spider with Tbone, who wrote a review. One thing I'd like to comment on, are Miranda Richardson's several exceptionally noteworthy performances, as both Fiennes' Mother and Stepmother. The first character is a model of 1950s restraint and beauty, dutifully preparing dinner for her family and accompanying her husband to the Pub, though she'd rather be at home. This is the boy's (Fiennes) idealized vision of his Mother. Richardson plays the role much like Julianne Moore did in Far From Heaven. As an audience member, you can't hardly resist her virtue. The...
• Job Update
  Just a little update on my current employment -- I'm being taken off "contract" status, and made a temporary employee, which is terrific news. That means I don't need to submit for a P.O. every week, which takes around a decade to process. I need cashola. Unemployment ran out in September, don't even ask me how I live. And the sad thing is, since I've got this gig, I've been spending like a madman. Good thing, that. UPDATE: Miria, another contractor that I shared my cube with, quit today. I don't think she liked sitting in front of a computer...
• Imminent War
  In an effort to jump-start the crew over at Suckahs, I posted a little item about the upcoming war....
• Blur's Think Tank
  *Review: A+* First off, I have to say that Blur was my favorite band when I was in High School in the mid-90s. I'll confess that, back then, I had a case of exaggerated anglophilia, only fed by the band's ironic lyrics, "la la las", and quirky compositions. But that was then. Since the days of _Parklife_ and _The Great Escape_, I've realized that England really does have an inflated impression of their cultural importance... uh, wait, that's France. I'm an American, so I needn't be walking around in Fred Perry shirts and keeping up on the latest & greatest...
• Shoddy Flash
  So, my new job involves localizing and updating Flash demos of products by a popular software corporation. The original english files were produced by said corporation, and I'm surprised at how truly spotty they are. We were given a specification document to use as a reference, yet the original files rarely match their own spec. So I find myself rebuilding the movies, tweaking and writing action-script, and debugging... more than just swapping out a little English for Spanish. It's hard to imagine how these things get past their quality assurance people-- the english movies are being used with the general...
• Damn the Flavia Machine
  I'm absolutely addicted to the Flavia machine here. $0.50 a cup, but a cup is like 6 oz. It's Yum. UPDATE: Note to self: Cafeteria closes at 1:30. You will not eat a late lunch, unless Dorito's and Ramen out of a machine count....
• A New Era
  Today marks a change-- I'm finally _working_ again, albeit as a contractor, for a localization company west of Boston. Which means several things: # 1. It actually matters when I get up in the morning # 2. I have somewhere to be # 3. I am in charge of some other people # 4. The words "Flash" and "Specialist" are part of my job title # 5. I have a cafeteria that sells all kinds of hot and cold meals, very cheaply # 6. I like everyone I meet here # 7. My deadlines are intense, and there are whispers...
• Suckahs, Version 7
  New Suckahs. Email bugs to me, please......

• The Quiet American
  *Review: A* I saw The Quiet American last week, and I wanted to do a quick review. Faithful to the Graham Greene novel, on which the film is based, it's a complicated movie with characters that are both flawed and heroic. Contrary to Miramax's fears, the movie is _not_ anti-American or unpatriotic-- still, it's a film worth seeing at this time of renewed American adventurism. Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser give exceptional performances, and the production design is faithful to the period, without getting nostalgic, ala Auto Focus and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind....
• McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 10
  McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales arrived in the mail today, and it's something to behold. Guest-edited by Michael Chabon, it revives the notion that short-story writing can be as varied in theme and form as longer format writing. It's the celebrity issue: Neil Gaiman, Michael Crichton, Dave Eggers himself, Harlan Ellison, & Rick Moody, & all proceeds to benefit 826 Velencia. Complimenting this truly wonderful writing, is the design, which resembles a pulp publication from the 1940s, a time when the short-story could take the form of a western, science fiction, detective, or horror. The illustrations are fun, and...
• Disciplining Cats
  Our kitten Katya is starting to piss me off. She is such a good kitty, usually, however I am amiss at how to discipline her for bad behavior. Spilling glasses of water and knocking clutter off of a dresser while Presley and I are asleep is something I must make her fear. Right now, we usually remove her from the offending environment, shout a stern "NO!", and let her run off. Lately, this isn't sufficient, so I've been giving her a little swat on her ass, but she thinks that I'm playing a game. It's all about attention... she wants...
• Bruce on Dave... Also, Regis and John McEnroe
  I turned on David Letterman wednesday night, and guess who is emergency guest-hosting? Bruce Willis. The truly sad thing is that the producers made him talk to Dan Rather about his recent interview with Saddam Hussein. Mr. "Die Hard" hardly smiled on camera, mumbled incoherent questions, stared at the desk, and ... wait, I'm talking about the Jimmy Kimmel Show. bq. "It's always been my dream to do the _Bruce Willis_ show..." - _comic Brian Kiley_ How disappointed was this comic? You wait all your life to perform for David Letterman, and Hudson Hawk is there to greet you. At...
• Libeskind PR Affront
  Today, the a panel in NYC will decide on which of the 2 final designs will replace the World Trade Center. Libeskind has been everywhere, as Gawker points out... but it looks like the Think team will get the call. I'm glad, despite the tinkertoy latticework. Stay tuned... UPDATE: Aw Hell no. Everyone spoke too soon... Libeskind Design Chosen for Rebuilding at Ground Zero (NY Times)...
• The Hotel Commonwealth
  Kenmore Square, Boston, has always had a reputation for being a little bit seedy-- much the way Times Square used to be. It boasts a major Subway interchange, the best Ballpark in the American League, if not all of baseball, and it used to be home to a diverse group of small businesses and restaurants. When I first moved to Kenmore Square, in 1996, there was a Methadone clinic, a punk-rock venue called the Rathskeller, a late-night restaurant called Deli-haus, a gritty coffee house called Fuel, and a bunch of other businesses housed in the cluster of Browstones on...
• 745
  Turns out that our friend Romo bought the downtown Buffalo building once occupied by members of the indie/emo band Tugboat Annie. In fact, there is a song called "745" on their 1997 LP Wake Up and Disappear, that is supposedly about the famed Buffalo address: 745 Main Street. The lyrics are concerned with watching 4th of July fireworks on the roof, which has, I can tell you, a beautiful view....
• Howard Dean in 2004
  Albany Dan sent me a feature article on Howard Dean in Salon, and it was an enjoyable read. I like his candor, honesty, and willingness to stand up to Bush, and these luke-warm Dems. Sen. Kerry himself said that he'd like to fashion his campaign along the lines of John McCain, yet his language is peppered with "bend-me-over" Daschle get-along talk like this. Now, I like John Kerry just fine-- and Edwards, Lieberman, and the other Senators running are also fine people. But, to pick a person to lead this party at a time when we're again searching for our...
• 500th post on Suckahs DOT org
  I was happy to recap the origins of the Suckahs domain... we're up to our 500th Entry, which is so impressive to me. The purpose of the main Suckahs site was to allow a bunch of friends from Williamsville East High Shool in New York, to stay in touch. Since then, it has grown to include other friends, personal sites that showcase art or short-story writing, offer movie reviews, and stupid comments from an unemployed mouth....
• WAP? Web-enabled?
  Sooz took a picture of this website on her Sanyo Sprint PCS phone... and it actually looks cool. Because the layout is CSS, the site degrades pretty gracefully. Come to think of it, browsing the web on your cell phone must be a lot like using netscape 1.1 in 1995. No?...
• Shoot the Weather-people
  OK, so I spent the weekend in Albany, at an interstate Courtyard by Marriott, because I met my parents there (half-way between Boston & Buffalo). I went swimming, shopped at the monstrous Crossgates Mall, and saw The Recruit. This was all fine. Until I had to decide what to do about the coming storm... Albany Dan was coming back from New York, and I wanted to go out and have some drinks... so we checked with the Weather Channel, and they seemed to think that the storm wouldn't start pounding New England until the afternoon, monday. LIARS! I left Albany...
• Fire up the Flash Skills
  Good news, mes camarades! Just when I thought my job search had hit another record low, a woman from a multimedia localization company contacted me to do some Flash work. They take English multimedia and websites, and translate them for international audiences. Then they hire people to swap out the english for the Japanese, Spanish, etc. It sounds like grunt work, but I'm just happy to say that I have another interview for next week....
• Valentine's Day
  Just thought I'd do a quick holiday adjustment on the site. Hit refresh if you don't see it. Has anyone found any good Valentine links? I haven't....
• Home (page) From Nowhere
  Megnut points out that James Kunstler, author of many excellent amateur urban planning books, has a website that is just AWFUL. Mr. Kunstler's observations have influenced my perceptions greatly-- I'd love to hear him weblogging about the ongoing debates surrounding the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site....
• Site Updates
  Two minor little updates to this site: Guestbook makes it's re-emergence The RSS file for Suckahs Daily Bookmarks has been updated to make use of the 'link' atribute. Now, the permalink for each entry is the actual link! That is all....
• Presley's Vox Amp
  Presley ordered a little Vox Pathfinder 10 guitar amplifier, and it came in the mail today. I thought I'd give it a spin, and found that it sounds pretty good with just the clean Rickenbacker. I don't think it would be of much use outside your living room though, because it's palm-sized....
• Emceebard
  Emceebard relaunches this weekend, powered by Moveable Type, and looking smart, I think. Matt is a friend, who is a music writer in NYC. I love the rotating photos, however it was a pain to type the small-caps captions into Photoshop! Let me know if anything is funky....
• A Sort of Conclusion
  I seem to have certain threads going through this weblog, and I can finally put to rest one such topic. A few days ago, I wrote about a conversation I had with someone in my coffee house, in which I got the feeling that she was being more than friendly. Having been with the same girl for over 6 years, I didn't really trust my radar in that regard. But, today, this someone decided to take the plunge and ask me out... which immediately turned me red in the face, and I mumbled that I wasn't really available and that...
• Temporary Purple?
  The other day, my hair was bleached white. This time around, I didn't have great luck. One shouldn't try and go too many shades darker than one's natural color. In this case, I've gone extremely dark, and the result has purple tones that are just awful....
• Public = Avant Garde ??
  I read a little piece in the Times today concerning the two finalists chosen by the LMDC for the World Trade Center, and I have a few reactions. Let us read some of what Mr. Muschamp writes:"[Daniel Libeskind's design] is an emotionally manipulative exercise in visual codes.Alright. Does any ordinary user of the World Trade Center -- worker, tourist, subway rider, etc. -- have any idea just what Mr. Muschamp is talking about? Why has architecture become this jargony realm of intellectual nonsense? I don't know. The death and destruction of WWI caused a huge shift in Western values, specifically...
• Temporary Platinum
  I'm in the process of dying my hair brown again. Why bleach first? Well, my hair is so baby-fine and limp-- it has no texture or depth whatsoever. In fact, physicists tell me that it actually does not exist in this universe... What you see is actually a rift in the fabric of space-time. So, I have to do this, then dye it a respectable brown. This makes it look normal in color, and texture. And it's easier to style....
• Never a Good Moment
  Q: When you're in your local coffeehouse, and a member of the opposite sex sits down, and you start talking about existential philosophy and music, is it appropriate to mention to this person that you're in a happy, stable, 6+ year relationship? A: You can never be assured of anybody's intentions, and it seems somewhat presumptuous to assume that they're interested in you. I have all of five friends, and I might be overreacting a bit here. Can't people just be friendly? You tell me....
• Monday Afternoon
  My latest installment in my forthcoming book, How to Make the Most of Unemployment: or Failing That, At Least Get By, focuses on Monday afternoons and what to do about them. For instance, when a monday afternoon falls on, or near the first of the month, take a few minutes to slip into your neighborhood bank branch (mine is a Fleet) and cash some childhood savings bonds. Not only will this activity inject you with some much needed cash, to say, pay your landlord, but more importantly it will entertain you to witness the hoops the Teller must jump through...
• 12" Powerbook
  Todd, of What do i know, got his 12-inch Powerbook, and it's got this Dell XP user drooling....
• Columbia
  9:30am- I just got back from the Coffeehouse this morning, having just read the morning Globe... and Albany Dan just told me that it appears that the Space Shuttle Columbia has exploded over Texas. I'm sure we will all hear about this more over the next hours and days, but I hope no one else on the ground is hurt. UPDATE: A Chilling log of the Shuttle's last minutes, courtesy Spacefilght Now....

• Valentine's Day
  Ashley is already thinking about Valentine's Day:I love Valentine's Day for all the wrong reasons: conversation heart candy, an abundance of pink and red everywhere, lacey lingerie in the window of Victoria's Secret, making construction paper valentines with pornographic inserts.Nicely put, and it's not even February yet. Oh, and Heather has some cool little V-day postcards....
• How's that old Song Go?, Part II
  Sometimes someone you don't know says hi and says her name is meghan. And, it makes you feel strange, since you've been going to that very coffee house almost daily for 8 months, and you haven't got a clue what anyone's name is....
• Snoozing Kitty
  Well, I'm having trouble coming up with anything to post on this, the final Friday of January. I so wish to thank God that the thermometer is up above freezing again. And, for this kitten named Katya. She makes all of this jobless stuff bearable....
• Internet Radio
  I just wanted to share indienow.com with any of you who are interested in listening to good music online. They've got different feeds, depending on your internet connection. Also, I ordered the Shelby CD, after I learned from the Morning News that the new New Yorker fiction editor is married to a band member. Hey, if it's good, it's good. It's funny too, because in their about page, they describe themselves as The Who meets My Bloody Valentine... if there is anything that the classic rocker Tbone and the modern rocker myself could agree on, it would be that combination....
• A Kick in the stomach
  Yes, so the other shoe dropped today, as I found out that I finished in second place for the BHCC job. I kind of knew last week, when I called a woman there who was, up until then, giving me terrific signals. She acted very stand-offish, but polite on the phone, and I should have guessed what message was being conveyed. The VP for Communications, the big man, said that they went with someone who had more experience, (yet the person in the position now has no experience, design or technical, in making websites). I really want to wring some...
• Undesign?
  This article on Lo-Fi web design, which includes an interview with Jason Kottke, is very interesting. Jason argues that information is more important to weblog writing (why I love RSS readers), than having glitzy, highly-graphical designs. Sites with 60k background images need not apply... I agree, begrudgenly... and I love trend reporting....
• CSS annoyances
  These past few days, I've been intensely working on a weblog site for a friend... using CSS. and it's frustrating. It's nearly impossible to do anything advanced layout-wise with CSS. There are always browser inconsistencies to deal with. So after screwing with that for days on end, I decided to revert to tables. That site will be ready soon. But, I had to do something affirming with CSS, so I updated this site. Not an ounce of <table> code at all. Email me bugs (especially on the macintosh / safari / mozilla side of things.)...
• Stop Motion in Boston
  Anil posted this link to an online photo exhibit -- Stop Motion Studies -- strange and beautiful portraits on the Red line in Boston.In these photographs, the body language of the subjects becomes the basic syntax for a series of Web-based animations exploring movement, gesture, and algorithmic montage.I love these. And, many pictures were taken in the station just down the street....
• 6 Years <3
  Presley and I spent our 6th anniversary at Carlos, little Italian restaurant in the old neighborhood in Allston. It's a quiant little place with good wine and terrific food. She had an Rigatone with Eggplant roll, meatballs, sausages and chicken, in a plum tomato sauce. I had the lobster ravioli with salmon, plum tomatoes, in a lemon vodka sauce. She gave me the new McSweeny's package of issues 1-3 (reprint) and the upcoming issue 10. I gave her... um, dinner. I'm poor lately....
• Jobs, Followup...
  Well, after much calling and emailing, I've finally heard that MIT hired an internal candidate for the position I was in the running for. I made it so far, out of a pool of over 100... seems like I was owed a phone call, but apparently not. So, my energies shift to focus on the BHCC job. Options are running out!...
• The Yes Men
  Ok, so it's 6:30ish in the morning, and I'm watching a video of the Yes Men at work. They're an arts/political performance group, and they're convincing impostors, lampooning the GTO, Dow Chemical, or other global symbols... Here, the Yes Men pose as reps from the WTO, and present a modest proposal for solving world hunger. I don't know what is more funny: the presentation, the graphics, the animation, or the believing students. Why didn't the professor butt in? WATCH VIDEO (click login, video, and scroll down for The Yesmen: The Plattsburgh Lecture)...
• CSS & XHTML
  I've been building my first XHTML & CSS site today. The benefits are increasingly apparent, though attempting to build a complicated layout without using any <table> tags is daunting. And boy do I love validating along the way!...
• Beaver RSS aggregation tool
  Well, I posted not long ago, extolling the virtues of FeedReader, but I've run into some bugs that drive me absolutely nuts. Take this for example. Everytime I restart the app, it tells me that my website has 276 new entries! That's because the app isn't properly saving or reading whether a post is marked as "read" or "unread". Sucky. I've installed all the common windows apps, and none of them comes close to the usable design & features of NetNewsWire for OsX... Apparently, I'm not the only one going through all this, too. Enter Beaver, a great new app...
• Zakim Bridge
  I was futzing around in Photoshop the other day, in-between working on some freelance gigs... (it's coming matt!)... and I created this little vectorized version of the new Charles river bridge in Boston. I think it's fabulous that the city named it for Lenny Zakim, a civil rights activist and community leader-- especially given that he passed-away in 1999. I certainly understand why government buildings and other projects are named for WWII heroes and long-dead (some corrupt) politicians, but I'm encouraged by this choice... It's a modern, personal and meaningful choice. Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent about all of this...
• Temp Site Problems
  Had some server problems that caused the site to break today. Everything is back up, now....
• W32.HLLP.Handy
  So, to go along with the problems Suckahs has been experiencing in the past 72 hours, I've got a virus on my computer, and I'm spending my sleeping hours trying to clean it up. I need to purchase Norton Internet Security I think. What a mess....
• Gawker has RSS
  I just discovered, on a whim, that gawker does provide excepts via RSS 0.91, 1.0. Now I can know instantly when Elizabeth Spiers, Editor, attacks....
• FeedReader
  So, I've heard so much about this NetNewsWire RSS news reader in the past weeks and months, but unfortunately I'm currently confined to a Wintel box. So instead, I installed FeedReader, a very small and nifty RSS feed reader. I highly recommend it if you want to stay on top of news and your favorite internet sites. I'm making my entire most recent archives available, with dates, titles, html, pics & copy in RSS 2.0...
• Coffeehouse as Office
  Every time I'm in the coffeehouse, I feel like each table is a home office... For example, on a given day at the coffeehouse that I frequent, there are at least 5 or 6 laptop users, typing away into Word. Many have library books stacked up on their table, and notebooks handy, each with their own unique scrawl. Also, sometimes I spy the person who brings all their mail/correspondence/bills from the past month, and proceeds to open each one while sipping their latte. This sort of activity usually results in a huge trash pile. Amusing. And, then there are those...
• Albany Dan's Site is Down Up
  NOTICE: If anyone is wondering why the suckahs sites have been down intermittently this morning, it's because I tweaked some of the MT templates on Albany Dan's page, and there is some kind of open loop thing happening. The pages were just hanging, and eventually the server cut everything off. So now, I must rewrite his templates. UPDATE: Everything is fixed. Just took about 10 minutes of careful review to fix. Also, I got rid of all the DHTML layering that seemed so cool in 2000, and replaced it with good ole' fashioned tables. I've yet to make a site...
• Crystal Litter Pearl
  On advice from Megnut, I bought our kitten Katya Crystal Litter Pearl cat litter. It's so wierd, considering I've never used anything else but dusty, odor-eater smelling litter in 12+ years of cat ownership. I figured the sooner we switch the 8-month old Katya, the better. So, as soon as I poured the little white crystals into the pan, she was batting them onto the hardwood floors, and having a good time. I hope she doesn't think this is a game, and not a place to pee. UPDATE: When I got up this morning, I saw that she had done...
• You Shall Know Our Velocity
  I've been reading a lot lately, just not talking much about it. I finally finished getting through McSweeney's Issue No. 5... I had previously just skimmed it. While visiting Kunta in Brooklyn, we stumbled into the McSweeney's store on 7th ave, and I found it such an odd, futilely amusing place. I mean, your typical McSweeney's reader isn't inclined to buy and sport a tshirt, is he or she? And as for the other random items they sell, though I enjoyed pawing through them, they aren't at all desirable to purchase. I guess that's not the point: McSweeney's is as...
• Jobs, etc.
  I am starting to think I should create a 'jobs' category in moveable type... but i've got a lot of news lately in that regard. I had 2 final-round interviews today, at MIT and BHCC. In the very unlikely event that I manage to be offered both jobs, it would be a difficult choice... I like both sets of people very much. I can walk to MIT, but BHCC is a great opportunity as well. I don't want to get ahead of myself, though. Wish a brotha luck....
• The Power of Little Hand-Written Notes
  Al Franken, in his most recent book, Oh The Things I Know..., extols the value Personal Handwritten Notes, as a means of networking. He calls attention to the fact that President Bush (the Elder) made it a routine in his life from the time he left Yale to write thousands of these notes to friends and supporters. And he became Director of the CIA, Ambassador to the UN, Vice President, and President. Let's leave aside the notion that he might have actually performed any of these duties satisfactorily, and consider Mr. Franken's point: It is so easy to send Email...
• Holiday Movies Roundup
  Ok, I have no desire to truly review all of the movies that I've seen in the past few weeks, especially given Tbone's new and detailed reviews. But I would like to quickly say a few things about a few movies: Lord of the Rings Review: A+ Simply put, the best movie of the year. Viggo Mortensen should be a star the likes of which we haven't seen since Harrison Ford. Peter Jackson did a much better job the second time around, and I am only looking forward to the third film. Catch Me if You Can Review: A I...
• Dear Sir/Madam
  Meg Hourihan said: It's no wonder we're seeing an increase in unemployment, people seem to have no idea how to apply for a job these days. Recent personal experience has shown me that there are a lot of qualified, talented people in the Boston area-- and believe it or not, I think that most know how to address their cover letters. Though I agree with what Ms. Meg says, I do know how to write proper cover letters, and I also know how to market my work to stand out (my professional work is entirely seperate from Suckahs, and this...
• Park Slope, Brooklyn
  I snapped a few photos while Presley and I were visiting Kunta in the Slope. I loved her new neighborhood and apartment. The exterior shots are from down the block, near 7th Ave and 9th. I neglect to post a photo of Kunta's place for obvious reasons... wouldn't want any Suckahs groupies harassing her or anything. Like the huge Heineken bottle? Still haven't cracked it yet....
• God was Drunk When he Created the I-84
  We had a horrible return trip to cambridge tonight from brooklyn, as the rains were plentiful, and the subaru inadequate to combat them. I seriously can't drive as fast as the SUV crowd, because of visibility and the hydroplaning. happy new years....

• New Year
  I wish I had some sort of Resolution I could tell you about, but this year there is only one thing on my mind. Getting a job. Getting a Web or IT job. Oh, and to prove it, we're going down to new york for New Years... it may sound incongruous, but it's all part of my plan. Happy New Year Everyone!...
• Fun with Sidebars
  An update on the new Daily Bookmarks feature on Suckahs... Tonite I was browsing around the net, not looking for anything in particular... When i noticed something on Dawn's site: a link that opened content in the IE Sidebar. Cool, right? However, before you start jumping up and down, this only works in IE 5+ only... Netscape 6+ has sidebars too, but the code used is completely different. SO, I started working on the Javascript to sniff out the browser, (either IE or Netscape), and then to display the link to the relevant Sidebar. · If you're using IE, it...
• Birthday 25 Soon
  
• Bye Bye Blogger
  Another Blogger Blog bites the dust... I switched suckahs.org to movable type, and boy are my arms tired. Now, only if I could recoup my $35 investment in Blogger PRO. That never quite paid for itself... wow! the ability to add a title to posts! Big fucking deal....
• bookmarks
  I decided to revamp my daily bookmarks (see right), to be accessible from the home page. I guess I was inspired by Anil, who regularly has interesting links....
• Radio Cure
  Review: A I enjoyed reading Tbone's review of the Wilco movie, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, and I'm glad to see someone else writing reviews on Suckahs. It's odd that a band like Wilco can generate so much buzz in the industry and among critics, yet remain a band with a small (but very dedicated) following. Despite some video rotation and buzz in 1994 on MTV, who sold Wilco in 1994 as an alternative-country act, they never really broke out. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is, in every measurable way, an extraordinary album. Yet, why can't I stand to listen...
• More Work
  Here's a story, since I don't have much to say today: I applied to a job at a department at Tufts. Heard nothing. A freelance client of mine forwarded me an email from a developer at the Tufts department that I applied to, in which he points out a security hole in my client's site. No wonder I never heard... I guess they weren't impressed. There are two ways of dealing with this, learning some new php coding, like how to flatten dynamic pages... OR, convert the entire site to make use of MySQL, free of charge. Days of work,...
• note to self
  go to bed Ned...
• The Boning
  This weekend was spent in a drunken reverie, and some point friday, Tbone mentioned that he wanted a website to write on. So we started brainstorming ideas, and since Tbone can quote any movie he has ever seen, we decided to try to parody a movie poster. The result is Tbone Suckahs' The Boning. You might recognize the reference. Make sure to click on some of the credits... they are favorites of Tbone, with a few random things added in for nonsensical measure....
• Moveable Type Archives
  Try as I might, I can't fix the bug that started when the calendar flipped to December. On the monthly archive page, all i wanted was to display every post that wasn't categorized as a 'link'... and somehow, it only works for Dec. Nov is all fucked. · support forum I guess I'll have to figure it out somehow....
• New Phono & Vinyls
  Presley brought back her turntable from Buffalo, and suddenly I find myself rediscovering the joy of records. I forgot to bring back all my Clash, U2 and other LPs I had when growing up, but she has plenty of aural goodness to stick a needle into. And today, I bought two of my favorite LPs from MoJo Records: · The Cure, Faith · The Smiths, Strangeways, Here We Come There seemed to be a real lack of used 90s indie things like stereolab, belle and sebastian, pavement and the pixies... but then again, maybe people are still too young to...

• Make A Hand-Turkey!
  Happy Thanksgiving friends! Can't wait to eat. Like making crafts? Make A Hand-Turkey!...
• Interviews with a Geek
  Guess who got an interview with MIT for a job? Yours truly. I am still waiting for the perfect job at Simmons College to call me back. They have OS X G4s and 22" Cinema Displays there, and, well, it's a girls' college....
• packing up for turkey
  Well, we're getting ready to head "home" for Thanksgiving. Great that there is a fucking snow storm on it's way! just enough to make the journey unenjoyable! I have a todo list: clean the car get the car vacuumed take out the air conditioner and put it in the car pack a suitcase pack the cat's shit clip the cat's goddamn nails give the snotty cat a bath throw out parishibles take out the trash send a rent check when i don't have the money in the bank? cry that i don't have money in the bank think of how...
• how's that old song go?
  When someone you don't know smiles at you, it kind of penetrates any sort of front you pose....
• IDEA! Boston 'T' Blog
  Today I was sitting at the 1369 coffeehouse in Central Sq., as I do most days of the week, reading the papers and generally absorbing the happenings... some guy in a shirt-and-tie fretting over Excel spreadsheets at his laptop on my right. Another guy on my left, copiously practicing Chinese-looking script for words like "cow", "apartment" and "love". Ahead of me was a man in his mid-40s sitting with his young son, who was playing Gameboy and occasionally chatting with some of the people who work there. One of these girls was taking a break with a coffee, bagel and...
• Katya plays fetch
  Our cat Katya is learning to play fetch like a proper dog... She has this tennis wristband of mine that we call her "binky", and she loves running around with it in her mouth. Recently we've been working on "catch"-- throwing this thing up in the air, and getting her to time it in order to catch it. She's good. So, today, I decided to start throwing the thing across the room, and BEHOLD! she brings it back, and sets it down in front of me. Check out the pics here....
• Far From Heaven
  Review: A+ Julianne Moore has always represented something peculiar to me-- an actress who get all the best roles, but rarely convinces me that she's worthy of that right. Case in point: Her accent in the Big Lebowski was downright irritating, have you seen the Shipping News(?), and the deal was sealed when she stepped into Jodie Foster's shoes in Hannibal. Yet people run around saying that she should be a nominated for 4 best-actress oscars every year. Well, let me temper my anger, because I've just watched Todd Haynes' masterfully written and directed Far From Heaven, starring Moore and...
• New Specs
  We're continuing the pictorial theme today here in nedsville... Picked up my new eyeglasses from Eye-Q Harvard Square. Check it out here....
• Desk Construction
  I finally finished building my new desk... I used a hollow-core door, which I stained green, and coated with Poly-Acryllic. Then I created a 1x4 frame underneath, outlining the desk for re-inforcement. The legs are made out of 4x4 fence post, and attatched with deck hardware. Some problems: · It had to be 6'6" long · I made it only 2' deep · It kinda looks industrial Here's some pics....
• Suckahs Swag
  I added some new suckahs swag items, and a link on suckahs.org to our online shop....
• Save Karyn
  Credit card debt has been a recurring theme in my life, starting in 1996 when I applied for my first Discover Card. After erasing my college debt after a year+ of work, I got laid off, and now I'm in the same situation. Anyway, I'm buying new glasses this week for $275, because I lost mine. Ask Presley how that happened, it doesn't make any sense. Enter Karyn: someone who racked up $20,000 in debt, but decided to panhandle her way out of debt.   · Help her out: savekaryn.com   · Or don't...
• Democrats, Post Mortem
  More fallout from the election: angrydems.com-- Do you the people who started this, work at the DNC? Silly people. I don't quite get how that is at all helpful, but I can sympathize with the sentiment. I think this election is going to light a fire. I wonder if there are any Dems getting together to oppose the national leadership? Gephardt is out, but there is not anyone to challenge Daschle, and all the national Dems are still singing the praises of Terry McAuliffe, despite losing everything last Tuesday. Soul searching. Here's my contribution to some humor on this awful...
• Curb your Anger
  I've been enjoying Larry David's show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, lately... I hated it's improvised format in the beginning, but it seems to me that a) the actors are getting more comfortable, b) Larry is such a prick and i love it, or c) i just got used to it. Speaking of being a prick, Mena of Moveable Type tells an amusing story about Ben (co-creator, husband), and calling a preist a "prick". Time to manage that anger, turn the frown upside down, yada yada. I need some of that positive vibe-- I'm such a drag latetly....
• The Vacuum
  ...I'd like to say that I don't believe that Democrats should be looking for any kind of silver lining out of this.
• Another Blogger Site Bites the Dust
  Speaking of which, I just redid Macy's ( macyme.suckahs.org ) site. I think the design is less Jetsons, and more high-end magaziney, if that makes sense. Macy looks nice, and Albany Dan and 666 goofing off in the background is in the spirit of all that is Suckahs... Sooo, of all the suckahs sites, that leaves just the main site with Blogger......
• Blogger this, Blogger that...
  I'm getting increasingly worried about Blogger lately. I've since migrated presley, albanydan, and this site from Blogger to Moveable Type, but I've been resisting the move of the main domain to it, for some known reasons... For one, I paid $35 for the PRO version of Blogger, for the privledge of extra features-- most of which seem not to have shown themselves yet. Second, Blogger is easy, and it was hard enough trying to educate people enough to use that. Switching to Moveable Type would be a whole other step. But the recent hack of Blogger is kind of disturbing,...

• Sing-Sing at TT's
  We went to TT's last night to see Sing-Sing, the new band of Emma Anderson from Lush. In all, I have to say it was just OK, due mostly to my own personal tastes. I was a fan of Lush, and most of the other guitar-based british bands of 10 years ago, so I guess the primary difference here was that it wasn't guitar-based at all. Sure, Emma was playing guitar, and they had a keyboardist who also played trumpet, however the bulk of the sonic stuff came from a little iBook sitting next to the singer Lisa. I'm not...
• Sleep, Interrupted...
  So the past week as been horribly spent, in the form of all-nighters, working on my new portfolio site and resume. I really need a job like I need a money tree. The new identity, website and resume are pretty cool, I have to admit... especially the business cards and letterhead... I wish I could link it here, but I want to always keep work and play seperate. Those of you who know me, probably know where to look... if you don't know me and you're interested in hiring me, christ man! email me. The cool thing about the resume...
• Chess, anyone?
  I like playing chess just fine, but I haven't been at all interested in the computer-human matches of recent years. Somehow the idea of a computer beating a human being at chess seemed less than shocking to me... But, one interesting development is this report that in the recent Deep Fritz / Kramnik match, Deep Fritz was programmed to heckle Kramnik with relevant Shakespearean quotes. The funny thing is it's really funny to read what the computer said....
• They've Got Mail
  Someone is starting a campaign to collect and return a million of those annoying AOL CDs that they send to you in the mail. They claim that they're going to drive accross the country, and stage a media event at AOL headquarters in No. VA, where they will dump the cds. I think i'm going to start a collection....
• Who is Modi? Followup...
  I just check my referrer logs for this Web site, and noticed that my site was one of the top referring sites for the Albright Knox Art Gallery's Modigliani exhibition (read about it here). · week one · week two · week three in the second week, I gave them 743 hits, beating out the amount they got from the Buffalo News, (65 hits). Now, if only I could go there and see the show. Then I'll offer a review....
• Punch Drunk Love
  Review: A+ This film is being sold in trailers as showing a radically different Adam Sandler... I believe Roger Ebert said that he couldn't look at an Adam Sandler movie the same way after this. Well, I don't think it's a totally new character for Sandler, but I agree that Punch Drunk Love both refines and expands on the funny nice-guy he's played in the past, while offering a new tarnished dimension. Sandler's character, Barry Egan, is a shy, slightly obsessive-compulsive, easily-spooked business owner, with 7 annoying passive-aggressive sisters who constantly pepper him with insults and drive him to...
• Updates 10/17/2002
  I refreshed this relatively new site, because I haven't liked it much... seemed a little dorky... Not that I'm not a dork, cos I am, but I mean the kind of dorky you don't want to even look at. So, gone are the long horizontal images of freeways and pedestrian crowds-- and welcome back yours truly. I'll be adding some more pics for your randomizing pleasure. I also added little icons for each of the topic headings, (features, movies, etc.) Not sure if I like them. Finally, a new Identity! Those are supposed to be fish. Read into them as...
• Relevance
  It seems pretty funny having this site, these days. Nobody seems to stop by anymore. Granted, I haven't been posting all that much... So, here's an update: An old friend IM'ed me today- a friend from college that i haven't seen in a year-&-a-half, when we stopped talking. Not sure if I should reach out, or rebuff... My unemployment benefits have exhausted themselves. I have a cold. Fucking Presley definetely gave it to me. We are hosting a little Suckahs reunion this weekend, here at our new digs, in Cambridge. AND, Albany Dan was foolish enough to buy MacyMe a...
• Red Dragon
  Quick review: B+ Red Dragon is enjoyable, even though Anthony Hopkins' performance is ridiculously irrelevant and even caricatured. Edward Norton, Emily Watson and Ralph Fiennes all turn in their usual excellent performances. Watson shines as a blind love-interest for the crazy serial killer, creepily played by Ralph Fiennes, who shows off his uncut member on film for the thousandth time... Norton does the laid-back intensity thing so well-- whereas fear almost seethed from Jodie Foster in her encounters with Hannibal, Norton looks almost bored by the old man. And who wouldn't be by now? Hopkins himself seems to be phoning...
• Who is Modi?
  The Albright Knox is beginning a new exhibition on the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, one of the painters at Montparnasse... His contemporaries there included Picasso and Diego Rivera. Interesting stuff. Check it out. Here is the text from the Exhibition: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has organized this major exhibition, gathering masterworks from world-renowned museums and collections throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. Fifty-six of Modigliani's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are featured, including important works from the Albright-Knox Art gallery's distinguished collection. The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly 240-page catalogue illustrated with eighty-seven plates in full color...

• suckahs.org
  Finished new Suckahs.org......
• Igby Goes Down
  Review: A-I was excited last week when I walked into my neighborhood coffeehouse, and saw a stack of free movie passes on the counter. As it turns out, the free movie this time around was one I was looking forward to watching... Igby Goes Down. I really liked this movie-- it's brutally funny, despite the drugs, sex, and a jeff goldblum crotch shot (with his boxers on, mind you). When we were in New York City last, around the 4th of July, when it was 100 degrees, we all went to the Sunshine Cinema to see the Dangerous Lives of...
• DSL
  Neddy and Presley have DSL. Praise Vishnu that one of our many utilities is up and ruunning... fuck AT&T Broadband-- they've determined that our whole building is illegally wired, so they shut off ALL cable in the place. I plead ignorance....
• Nine-Eleven ~ 9/11
  So, here I am, at the library, trying to update my little web site with some new content... Today is 9/11, and I walked down to Cambridge City Hall at 8:45 am for the ceremony honoring the victims. My first reaction was to wonder just when the police were going to shut Mass Ave down to traffic-- surely any fitting memorial would re-route traffic for such an occasion. The crowds were pretty sparse though, so I surmised that the police didn't deem it necessary. Probably only 50-75 people were in attendance, while maybe a hundred firemen, policemen, politicians and other...
• More Primitive Times
  Hi. I am writing you from inside the walls of the Cambridge Public Library, Central Square Branch. The past few weeks have upturned a lot of dirt... and by that i mean that i have: a) moved from Boston to Cambridge b) Still have no working DSL c) have 30 boxes satacked everywhere, each one having been half-emptied d) have paint stripper on our window sills, waiting to be scraped off... which means, e) we are painting our living room soon f) our building Super is super, if not a bit wierd g) the librarian here has been very nice,...

• Entropy & Wedding
  Thing on suckahs seems to have gotten horribly static, as everyone seems to have taken the summer off, (myself included). I've finally gotten a good start on my site (you're reading it now), and i hope to revamp suckahs in the near future....... but time will tell. There's a lot going on. We are moving to Cambridge Sept 1. Also, my cousin Mary is getting married to her boyfriend Troy this Saturday, (aug 31, in buffalo), which makes this whole moving thing that much worse... I bought her a buge magnetic chalk board from pottery barn. SHHHHHHH... SO shit is...
• New Site Structure
  We are under heavy construction, fellahs. I'm migrating everything to Moveable Type, and everything is coming together. sorry if it seems a bit broken as of now, but i promise it will be done soon!...

• Basketcase City
  Here is an interesting item in the Buffalo News... it seems former mayor James D. "Jimmy" Griffin is starting a "grass-roots" campaign to recall his successor, Mayor Masiello. Just as Buffalo is starting to do the right things it needs to do to get out of financial chaos, past specters responsible for the mess the city finds itself in are in are resurfacing to reassert their influence. There is no money in the city coffers, and NY State is occupied with rebuilding NY City... yet Griffin finds it necessary to stir up populist anger at the mayor's insistence that a...
• From WBUR Boston...
  Be forwarned, the flash file is 6 MB! Big Dig: Underground Tour Bob Oakes, Sean Cole BOSTON, MA (2002-06-20) The Big Dig is dug. The I-93 Central Artery tunnel that makes up the bulk of the largest public works project in history has reached the point at which you can now drive through it northbound without stopping. However, there's one catch: you can't use a car. The vent system isn't done yet. So the tunnel can't support vehicles that emit exhaust. The solution? Earlier this week, WBUR's Morning Edition rode underground from Kneeland Street to the Zakim Bridge at...

• Biography of an Architectural Icon
  I started reading this book, Divided We Stand, a biography of the building of the World Trade Center. Written before the collapse on September 11, though informed by the earlier bombing in 1993, the author offers context and cultural comment on what was arguably the world's most famous building (were they one or two buildings?). What is especially shocking is that not only was it one of the last cataclysmic 'urban-renewal' mega-schemes held over from the 60s, (it was completed in 1972), that eliminated 16 blocks of low-income (though thriving) commercial space, but also it was the largest government-sponsored real...
• hi! Detroit Sucks. Big Suprise.
  hi! Detroit sucks. big suprise. my aunt has one of those black Dells that that dumb blonde kid on TV is always telling people they're going to get "it"... and she has a cable modem. so hot. The cigarrette smoke here can be cut with a wedding cake knife. In fact, i'm doing that now... waving, and waving a knife around so as to breathe. UPDATE: I don't appreciate the rascist comments, so I am filtering them now. I will allow negative or disrespective comments, but certain kinds of language are out-of-bounds. Play nice & thanks, Ned...
• That Detroit de Stijl
  Tomorrow is very busy... I have to prepare and give a presentation to the M.I.S. department at the City of Niagara Falls in the morning... via confrence call. Always fun. We will be discussing the Web site that I want to build for them. It will be MySQL driven with Content Management and everything. The goal is to allow their secretary (or intern?) to be able to update the site, if need be. I have to build the tools to get it done. Second, I'm flying to Detroit in the afternoon. Wednesday is my Cousin's wedding (!!!). I don't know...
• Buttalo
  i'm in buttalo. i need to leave now. it's getting late....
• The Bilingual Hoax
  I know that people might find this objectionable, but if said people just took a step back, I think they'd see it's very good news... > City's bilingual policy repealed...
• Sebastian, You're in a Mess...
  Belle and Sebastian released a soundtrack to the Todd Solondz movie Storytelling. I need to buy it. Also, I've got 4 tickets to the Strokes and White Stripes show in august at Radio City. I am somewhat psyched, that is for sure....
• Belief-O-Matic
  Here is my religious breakdown, according to the highly scientific Belief-O-Matic. I find it amusing that I was raised Catholic, yet it's at the bottom of the list. I think it must be a function of my revulsion. Also, I'm somehow 77% New Age, and 64% Scientology. Booooooooo. Fucking Scientologists. 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Liberal Quakers (91%) 3. Neo-Pagan (79%) 4. New Age (77%) 5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (77%) 6. Reform Judaism (73%) 7. Secular Humanism (72%) 8. Mahayana Buddhism (67%) 9. Bah?'? Faith (65%) 10. Scientology (64%) 11. New Thought (64%) 12. Sikhism (59%) 13. Hinduism...
• <sports>
  I really am tempted to write a Slate-like cranky criticism of the new Buffalo Bills uniforms, but I will try to say some nice things: The dark blue is great. I like the stripes with the gray on the helmet. (Here comes the cranky part) So, if you're going to make an "update" with the new darker blue, why would you keep the lighter royal blue? Wouldn't it be nice to put the numbers in red, or gray? or the new dark blue? Doesn't that light blue look just as dated now as it did last year? Why do...
• Fear and Loathing in the New Economy
  I've been feeling horribly anxious today... Trying to find an affordable apartment in Cambridge for September without a job is not something I'd recommend to the squeamish. We found a jewel of a place at 922 Mass Ave. It has hardwoods, a small kitchen, large eating room, a smaller bedroom (who cares), and a large living room. It's on the 4th Floor, (no elevator, which sucks), and it faces Mass ave.... $1100 a month. That's nothing in that neighborhood between Harvard and Central Squares. One tiny problem: they don't take students, and they want us to earn a combined salary...
• fdgh
  fdgh...
• Burnt
  fook. i got burnt-- we went to the beach in Gloucester today... i layed on my stomach, listening to the red sox - yankees game, and neglected to put sunscreen on my calves of all things. Red as popped-cherry....

• Mem Day Weekend
  We're off to Buffalo for the long weekend, and I haven't written in a while. The sox beat up on the yankees last night, and I hope they do it the rest of the weekend. Everyone in this town, (by that I mean the media), is talking about how much Roger Clemens sucks, but he's pitching tonight. I wish I could watch the fans ride him... but alas, i'm off to the land of AAA-ball. 666 visited this week, and it was good fun. We even played tennis, and I'm absolutely convinced that she will become an up-and-coming star. No...
• Commence Already
  Presley is finally commencing, (or graduating, which ever you prefer), from college this sunday... I've been putting off buying a gift, but I finally tracked one down, and boy is it spectacular. I had to drive all over the city to find it, and I can barely hold back from spilling the beans... but I will have to wait till Sunday. Woo HOO!...
• Car Repair
  I got the tail gate fixed on the Subaru today by Mike, so I thought I'd give him a shout out....
• Photographers Have Fun Too
  Photographers are playful, damnit. Remember how they always framed the nude statues of justice behind John Ashcroft in photos? (link anyone?) Well here's Mass Gov. candidate Robert Reich campaigning with Bill Bradley. Do NOT, under any circumstances vote for this man in the Democratic primary....
• The Chelsea Hotel
  Ethan Hawke has made a film called Chelsea Walls [WEBSITE] [VIEW TRAILER]. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco fame did the soundtrack, and the movie stars Uma Thurman, Kris Kristofferson, Vincent D'Onofrio & Natasha Richardson. The Chelsea Hotel used to be grand, the place to live for New York City artists. Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix; they all passed through the hotel's halls. Still, even though the iron facade has become rusty, new dreamers come every day, hoping to be inspired by the ghosts of the past.The film looks like the typical artsy-talky wankfest that...
• In Other News...
  petite chou linked me... - Nedward Really great design :) Sometimes the entries are bit a depressing though :/Could there be something to this?? Do you think so? I'm a sarcastic fuck sometimes. Also, thanks to katie for the aortal link (right-bar)....
• Slag
  Sometimes I get the feeling that people just don't read me right... or maybe I don't read them. It seems to me that people feel okay saying incredibly rude things to me-- things that they don't expect to come out as rude, however when it happens they seem completely surprised by their choice of words. I don't get it. For example, when I was working at an internet services firm last year, upon shaking a client's hand, he remarked something like "Jesus, what are you, still in college? This looks like the B-team. You look 18." To which his partner...

• Fun Link
  I submitted an article the other day for the Planetizen news feed and it finally got posted. The article is about plans to create a gerrymandered city council district in Buffalo for artists, intellectuals and activists. "This is not an attempt to carve out boundaries for some elite area," said map sponsor Jeffrey A. Tooke. "It's about giving a voice to a diverse community with a lot of folks who have some creative ideas." In a plan he submitted to the Citizens' Advisory Commission on Reapportionment, Tooke said such a strategy could be a catalyst for downtown revitalization and citizen...
• Christ, I Haven't Been In
  Christ, I haven't been in the neighborhood thrift stores since the H&M opened up downtown, but it was kind of a fun time. I love this brown corduroy shirt-- it's so worn in and LL Bean-ish... Not at all something I should be wearing, but i love it....
• oy oy oy
  GOD damn my head hurts... last night was really fucking rough. We went to see Loveless and the Realistics at the Paradise, but I had way too much to drink. I think we pre-partied at least 6 cans of Pabst BR, and then I must've had 4-5 buds at the show. Hooliganism abounded. The Realistics were fucking cool as shit though. They're so much better live than on their record. Anyway, Glenndo, evilmonkey, Ben, Presley and I were up front rocking out in this nearly empty place... I think toward the end of the Loveless set I was singing along...
• Sheilas Video
  The Sheila Divine have a new video that was produced by subversion media, a very small, but cool Boston production house. The song isn't the best thing they've done, but the video is terrific. Also, rumor has it that they've been shooting the band's live performances at the world-famous Paradise Rock Club (down the street from me) for use in a live concert DVD....
• <3 Logotype
  I've always professed a fondness for the logotype of WBFO, even if the University at Buffalo station only broadcasts NPR news for a few hours on the day. I remember seeing it on bumper stickers in the car parking lots-- i swear they were only to be found on older european junkers, like a mustard-yellow Volvo 240 diesel, or a white 1979 BMW 320. Anyway, their web site spiffed-up the old logotype with some very lovely color. Kudos. Boston University's WBUR has a good logotype too. SO-- maybe i'm on to something here... NPR stations are non-commercial, yet their...
• Praise the Lord, k10k.net is Back...
  After more than a year of absence, the famous web design portal k10k.net is back. Some of the best stuff out there passes through that site, so I hope it hasn't collected much dust....
• An Album of One's Own
  The New Yorker gave Sarah Shannon's solo debut album a favorable review: From the opening trumpet-and-saxophone volley of Sarah Shannon's self-titled d?but (Casa Recording Co.), it is clear that the singer is finished with the basic guitar-drum-and-bass setup of her indie-rock past, when she was the front woman for the introspective pop outfit Velocity Girl. Here, Shannon (who plays the Knitting Factory this week) has assembled a small orchestra of horns, strings, and woodwinds, and the result is a warm paean to the power of the imagination. The songs cover familiar subjects, mostly love sought and love lost, but the...
• I'm on the Special Team
  I found a link from burntsienna.nu that somehow i missed. Just like me... always behind....
• Leave it to the New Yorker...
  Once again, someone writing in the New Yorker puts to pen the thoughts that I've been loosely throwing about on the state of Rock n' Roll... Jerry Lee Lewis was rock and roll. Gene Pitney wasn't. The Pretenders were rock and roll. The Bee Gees weren't. Elvis Costello was rock and roll for a while, and then he wasn't. By this standard, the moody crooning of Creed and friends doesn't qualify; nor does the self-effacing arena rock of the Dave Matthews Band. But there does seem to be a new crop of bands that favor short, spiky songs galvanized by...
• subpop
  I've got some music links i'd like to pass along: > Subpop released the new Shins video [real playr] > also, check out the Shins' first video, quite possibly the most beautiful song ever written [real playr] -- > and, subpop is also releasing a DVD [trailer - 9mb quicktime] of Damon and Naomi, the 2 other former members of the seminal 80's indie slowcore band Galaxie 500... (the other being Dean Wareham now of Luna)....
• Convert, don't Build
  Anyone following the Adelphia bid to build a huge skyscraper on the Buffalo waterfront, has to laugh at the company's determination to get it done. The company is having Enron-like financial woes, yet still wants to build this tower in a city that has commercial vacancy rates that rival occupancy rates. I'm not saying the Adelphia project is a mistake, however I think people aren't focusing properly on how to foster the 24-hour downtown a vibrant city needs. First, I think, you need to lure people who work in the city to also live in the city. Cities have certain...
• I Like Girls with Glasses.
  I like girls with glasses. Glasses, like small breasts, seem to be one of those things that women automatically assume men find unattractive....
• Gonna Tell Everyone to Lighten Up
  Well, it's going to be 88 degrees here wednesday, so summer has arrived. and, yes, that is Liz Phair singing back-up vocals on Sheryl Crow's new single, soak up the sun. Seems silly, but true. Those of you familiar with her peculiar harmonizing might have picked that up, (I didn't). Rumor has it that everyone's favorite reformed-indie-low-fi-pioneer makes a cameo in the video, playing basketball, of all things. Sheryl's explanation of how they hooked up, makes me wonder about this liz + basketball thing. > background video on liz (hosted by j-lo??)...
• Go McCall!
  If you're in New York, and you're a Democrat, support Carl McCall for Governor. He's currently running against Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination. Here is a little parody i did of andy, comparing him to dukakis....
• Giving Back
  Ani DiFranco recently donated $40,000 to her alma matter, Visual and Performing Arts High School in Buffalo, and to other Buffalo public school arts programs....
• Trains are better than Cars
  Central Station, Buffalo, NY, circa 1930. Presley's sister Kelly was in town this past weekend, and she left yesterday on the Amtrak train from Back Bay Station, which got me thinking about train stations and trains in general. Everyone in these New Urbanist books that I read can't fathom how America ended up wedded to the automobile, while the Europeans remain contented with trains. I think it's a simple answer: after the war, we just could. It was the thing to do, and we had the resources. But, isn't there something wonderful about trains? And more importantly, big city train...
• Katya Katya Katya
  I read Paul Greenberg's first book Leaving Katya, after hearing an interview with Bruce Gellerman on WBUR, and I was so very pleased. The least I can do is recommend it to anyone who's gone through a 'Russian phase'. And, I suspect the author is a web-savvy guy, cause he found me, and sent me this e-mail:...
• Sloan
  (I'm going to do something very very bad. I'm going to compare a band to the Strokes. I do this only to promote them, cos they rock.) Growing up in a ass-backwards place like Buffalo, we were privileged to get Toronto radio stations, especially cfny 102.1 the edge. We heard things like Blur, Morrissey, Nirvana and others before MTV or the corporate stateside stations picked them up. We were fortunate. Also, from time to time, someone would go and compare Toronto to New York, as if somehow there is a fucking comparison. But, in a way, I think the differences...
• Freelance Neddie
  I got some good news today! I've been working on a website for two women starting a new business, and it's going well (nearly complete). They are so great. Anyway, they passed my name on to someone at Accenture, and it looks like I'll be doing a website for a small group over there. The details need to be worked out, but I'm excited (cos it pays quite well!). Is it bad to want to buy a couple of $4 bottles of champagne at the corner and celebrate? By myself?...
• It's Spring
  I put up a new semi-temporary design at suckahs.org, for spring. It seemed silly to have snowflakes falling in April. When I get the chance, I want to sit down with a few people and come up with a master plan for suckahs in the coming months. I'd like to extend the site to include some writing -- be it reviews, commentary, articles, features, photo essays, comix, or whatever. I don't want to turn this into a zine, that requires an intense amount of work, however it would be nice to capture and share some of the talents the group...
• Art is Art?
  Flipping to the Op-Ed page of the Boston Globe today, I was suprised and encouraged to see that they printed a column criticizing a recent exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York. This kind of exhibit, which featured works that use Holocaust themes (and nazi symbols) in a postmodernist context of irony and kitsch, seems so tired and done-before, and contributes little to the tradition of Art and cultural offerings in this country. And if the Globe isn't a sufficiently Liberal source, (it's probably the most Liberal major newspaper of record, thankfully), The Village Voice offered a negative review...

• Visitors
  Romo the homo is staying with me till tomorrow, (and he's got all kinds of stage and curtain drawings all over my coffee table), and spanky and his girl are getting here tonight. I don't know where to put all these good people....
• Boston as a Blueprint
  The new Planning news feed at the right of this page is already reaping interesting rewards-- among the interesting links, an article that discusses Boston and it's neighborhoods. Mayor Menino has made neighborhood-based commercial development a priority over the past decade or so, and it's just the kind of thing that makes economic sense. In awarding grants to individual small business owners, (most of which is federal money anyway), for little improvements such as new store facades, Boston has cultivated a neighborhood approach to development. Occasionally, big "urban-renewal" projects, such as the new Ritz-Carlton monstrosity in Chinatown, do get built,...
• What Buffalo Was, and What it Should Be
  If you've talked with me in the last few months, you know that I've taken an interest in Urban Planning, and more specifically those characteristics that make a good neighborhood and city. I don't know why this subject has peaked my interest, considering I used to be in awe of places like Epcot and I grew up not far from strip-malls. But, I am deeply concerned about that place where I grew up, because the city of Buffalo is rotting at it's core, while the endless development of pharmacy mini-malls, parking lots, and cul-de-sacs pushes farther out into the...
• Note to Junk-Mailers: Make it Pretty
  I just got a piece of junk-mail from 'Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Cambridge', and it's the most attractive piece of junk-mail i've ever received. Also, it's probably the best church website i've ever seen (scientology doesn't count as a 'church', per se)....
• Tokyo Wilma
  Getting ready for the show. Presley is crimping her hair, and wearing boots up to her yin. Can't wait. I have a Mini-Disc Recorder. Now where do I get a decent mic?...
• Bishop Coverup
  God damn, the priest scandal is out of control here in Boston. Both the NY Times-owned Globe, and the NY Post-like Herald have written Editorials demanding that Cardinal Law step down. I can't believe that Cardinal Law is going to last many more weeks. So, you're an 80 year-old mother of 11, and former Catholic school teacher... What happens when you write a letter to your bishop, demanding an explanation for why he covered up a child-pornographer-priest? You get yelled at: Archbishop's letter to Jeanne Bast Dear Ms. Bast, I am surprised that a woman your age and with your...
• Jane Jacobs Changed My Life... or, Modernists Should Die
  What makes a good neighborhood? I've started reading everything I can get my hands on regarding urban planning and issues surrounding sprawl, and I think it's so inspiring that Jane Jacobs had it all figured out in 1961. I think it would not be magnanimous to say that she saved Greenwich Village from becoming another Robert Moses highway. Check out this discussion about Jane's life and the state of urban planning. (Real Audio) As a designer, I've always loved modernist design -- it's big, it's humanist in the sense that it is utopian and egalitarian, and it shows off our...
• When Emo Hits Hawaii, You Know it's Everywhere
  I don't know if I quite get emo kids, but I try. It's kinda fascinating how much the word 'emo' has penetrated into our cultural dialogue, yet so many people can't agree on what 'emo' actually stands for. I mean, by some accounts, straight emo music is dead. What happens when someone decides to label Weezer, a very successful melodic rock band, emo? Or when very good bands, try desperately to attach themselves to the emerging bandwagon? And yet, it affects culture -- in music and style. It's hard to ignore the reality that the Gap last fall looked more...
• Mouse
  my entry for the GROSS-A-THON contest involves a decomposing rodent. (check the comments)...
• Neu CDs
  Albany Dan and I walked around a lot this weekend. Saturday we spent in Providence, taking an improvised architecture tour, and looking in bookshops and cafes. Today we spent in the Back Bay taking photos of his grandmother's dorm room from 1938, on Commonwealth Ave, and also managed to squeeze into newbury comics where I bought Summer Teeth by Wilco, and then I found a Stereolab bootleg at Smash City Records. I've bought bootlegs at this record store since '96... how come no one has called them on it? PLEEEASE don't. but I can't believe some elektra exec hasn't wandered...
• Remember the Real World New
  Remember the Real World New Orleans? I don't either. I think I remember Melissa, the stripping alcoholic though. she was fun....
• Hi Again.
  hi again....

• Check Please?
  I think I'm going to take a break from this web site (and that web site) for a while. I've been spending too much time in front of this machine, and not enough time looking out for the non-digital me. I'm not sleeping well, I'm not eating well, and it seems silly to spend so much time blogging about bullshit when I'm ignoring the realities. Any comforts and attachments in my life need reexamining or refreshing because they're stale as hell, and they've lulled me into a kind of illusionary state. So I'm checking out. It could be for a...
• Tanya Harding vs. Amy Fisher
  If you're broke, you can always pitch a ridiculous tv show idea to the Fox Network. Celebrity Boxing, Who wants to Marry a Millionaire?, When Animals Attack, Pleasure Island, Ally McBeal. I can't believe there is a market for this crap....
• Copycat
  Glenn designed this in 2000. Who designed this?...
• Spam Sucks or Bill Jones is a Fool
  I got some Spam today from Californian Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bill Jones. This is the most politically insensitive thing he could have done. I'm not a Californian, and I'm sure not a Republican. Dick....
• I want iPod
  Has anybody out there looked at mp3 players? I can't see spending $150-$200 for some 64 or 128mb compaq player (which Presley got as a gift)--- it's just not enough music for the money, ya know? I have seen the iPod, and it's just so perfect in every possible way. But i'm NOT a mac person. Who is? Alas, Mediafour is coming through -- developing windows software that will make iPod for Windows possible. I mean, I don't have a job, per se, that i have to commute to or anything... but if i did, iPod would be great company...
• Watching Ellie on my tv
  Take Seinfeld, add the visual style of 24, and you get Watching Ellie. That damn clock in the bottom corner of the screen is pointless-- it just makes me nervous as Ellie bumbles her was through her day. scratch that-- through her 22 minutes. The writing isn't so bad, and the characters are all good (with the exception of the blonde english boyfriend)... I especially liked her building super, played by Peter Stormare (one of the nihilists from the Big Lebowski). So, what's with the real-time stuff? Are we so neurotic a culture that we find this kind of thing...
• Shoot to Ill.
  Ok, so contrary to what you may be thinking from my cam picture, we weren't actually drunk at that point. The pre-party was a bust because megger totally bailed and ben & jenna were both separately late coming over. Oh well. that's the last time I put up festive pre-party poster decorations. The Gorillaz show itself was incredibly good-- the band played behind a projector screen, on which they projected jamie hewett's animations. I think most people were expecting to see the inner-workings of the band from time to time, but they didn't get their wish. You could definitely see...
• Be Here at 6pm.
  Be here at 6pm. Meet Gorillaz After Virgin Recommends band Gorillaz perform at Avalon, Dan The Automator and Damon Albarn from the animated hip hop group will be stopping by the Virgin Megastore. Dan will treat fans to one of his keen DJ sets, while Damon will be interviewed by our store DJ. The first 300 people to get in line will get wristbands to guarantee a spot for the performance and interview. Space is limited and the event is subject to store capacity. Midnight for the only Gorillaz in-store in the world! Automator will be spinning and Damon...
• The London Dub All-Stars
  Tomorrow, Gorillaz rolls into the Avalon, and I have absolutely NO idea what to expect. From the Globe article: Thirty of the collaborators - tech people, lighting folks, musicians - will be on this tour, with, probably, five or six humans taking the stage at Avalon. (Even the publicist at the group's record company, Virgin, doesn't know exactly who will be there.)So vote in my Gorillaz poll--...
• Mapleleaf
  Congrats to Canada, for their gold-medal hockey wins (both men and women). It was so much fun to watch all of these teams play, especially this year, when the sabres absolutely suck. I think the Belarus-Sweden game was my favorite. Anyhoo-- it's good for Canada to get a self-esteem shot in the arm, because they're good people....
• Belle & Sebastian... singing songs for children...
  I've got 4 tickets for the Belle and Sebastian show at the Orpheum in May. It's so amazing that they are coming back to the States, cos they really hate touring. I saw them with Jason and Irene at the Morse Auditorium in October of 98, and it was one of the best concerts i've ever been to....
• Unpopular Policy
  There is a debate on educational policy raging on suckahs (see comments). I know people are going to dismiss what I am saying, because what I am saying makes them uncomfortable, or is seemingly contrary to their own life-experience, or values. All I can say is, detach yourself and remove what you think you know-- and just listen to what I am saying. I should mention my professor at BU, Christine Rossell, because she is responsible for convincing me to look at the evidence. Her class and writings redefined the way I see the invective debate surrounding MCAS and Educational...
• Wet Hot Guestbook!
  Evilmonkey bought Wet Hot American Summer on DVD. AND due to request, i set up a guestbook. SIGN IT so i can feel popular....
• Nader, the war president
  Q. Would you have made an effective wartime president? A. This war would never have happened had I been president, because for 30 years we have had an aviation safety group, and we have been urging the airlines to toughen cockpit doors and improve the strength of the locks, and they have been resisting for 30 years....
• Albany Dan thought i would
  Albany Dan thought i would enjoy this....
• Temporal Palindrome
  Jason explains the hubbub over today's unique date....
• Rhode Island
  I was back in Providence this weekend. Walked through the RISD museum again, but i didn't have much time because I had to meet my parents for lunch at a restaurant at the giant mall downtown. It was good to see moms & dad though. Vote on my new poll now....
• We R Fam-il-y...
  Somehow my instant messenger handle (whipsmart) is listed on this odigo page....
• Oh Canada!
  Reuter's is reporting that the Canadian figure skating pair who were the victims of judge vote-swapping, WILL get a duplicate gold medal. Isn't Jamie Sale hot?...
• Uproar phone
  I've got this sprint pcs mp3 phone from samsung, but there isn't any support for windows xp! So i'm stuck with the same crap songs, forever. Kasima took it upon himself to build mac OS X drivers. I wish samsung would just get off their collective asses. Their techie support guy insisted that it does work, but jesus he's mistaken. THUMBS DOWN...
• Paul McCartney is the Angel of Death
  (Ok, sorry. That was a bit much. He is my favorite Beatle) BUT, after the weird circumstances surrounding Linda's death, I was surprised to hear that George Harrison died at Paul's house in Los Angeles. kind of....
• Funny commentary from inside the
  Funny commentary from inside the Olympics....
• This has promise to cause
  This has promise to cause trouble. And what's this?...
• Does this Enron thing piss
  Does this Enron thing piss you off as much as it does me?...
• Pagan's Head, from Pop-Fiction to Pop-Biography
  The Times has a nearly glowing review of Pagan Kennedy's new book, a historical biography of the African-American missionary William Henry Sheppard. Kennedy used to write this silly 'zine' called Pagan's Head in the 80s, from a crappy little house on Farrington Street, in my neighborhood. 666 and I swapped books by Pagan Kennedy, and I always found her writing quirky and fun. I can't believe she's getting good reviews for writing something more academic......
• 50th Beanpot goes to... who else?
  BU won. Such a great game-- Northeastern has quite a good team this year. Funnily, with 1:18 left in the game, the score tied, the projector suddenly switches channel to the Cartoon Network, and Scooby Doo. About 500 students started to holler and scream, and when some staff member ran to the booth to switch it back, BU had scored! What fucking timing! (More evidence that BU is satan.) just kidding. BU won 5-3 (with an empty-netter)....
• 50th Beanpot
  Going to a Beanpot watching party at BU. Should be interesting. BC won't be in it though (cos BU beat them last week), but i'm sure there will be "BC sucks" chants anyway....
• Tugboat Annie making some scratch
  Tugboat Annie was a staple Buffalo indie-power-pop outfit for years, but they never did break out. So, after a move to Boston a few years ago, they've put out a few really good records (and a kooky low-budget video) and now they're getting a profile boost from Boston-based monster.com, in a new series of television commercials. Watch the Olympic coverage (NBC, MSNBC) for the monster ads, which feature the song "More". >View Monster's new television ad...
• Olympics - Day four
  Ok, given what I said about the Salt Lake Opening Ceremonies, the coverage I've seen has been really quite good. I watched the women's 15k biathlon, which is this grueling cross-country skiing sport where you have to shoot out targets as big as a quarter-- except that they're 200 yards away. amazing. And now the Women's Ice Hockey Canada vs. Kazakhstan is on, and it's a totally different game from what I'm used to watching in the NHL. It's fascinating... especially the Kazakhs, because they're getting outshot 16-0 in the first period, but their goaltender trunova is keeping them in...
• Even Nogano was better
  I am slightly embarrassed at the underwhelming nature of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Salt Lake City. The coverage courtesy Bob Costas and Katie Couric was, at times, laughable (Costas demanding "What am I doing" with the mic on), and at other times offensive (Costas smirking, "and here is Uzbekistan, a land-locked nation in central-Asia... They don't have any chance here at these games.") The Albertville ceremonies were fun and elegant, and Lillehammer was nothing short of awe-inspiring. And, although I wasn't as impressed with Nagano, I think that Salt Lake showcased "Red-America" at its worst. I love that after...
• New Layout - Version 2.0
  I've finally got around to finishing up my new layout. I Also, I heard from Mary, and she promises that her site will be back soon. I'm crossing my fingers....
• Pats Win
  I haven't cared about football in this city since... well, the last time the patriots went to the Superbowl. But tonight was so terrific, it almost erased the 4 consecutive Bills loses in the early-90s. The streets in Allston were ablaze: [View Pictures]...

• Gorillaz.
  i got them....
• Only a Dream
  Managed to get sucked into drinking with EvilMonkey and Michelle.... We watched AbFab and then Glenndo came over and we had to leave for the silhouette and $6 pitchers. Then darts, Rolling Stones, another pitcher. Then i put on Leonard Cohen. What the fuck? SOme girl named Shane (really?) said "this isn't bar music." Bitch....
• whoa. My Car Needs this.
  whoa. My car needs this....
• Look
  Hi, new gallery feature up. Not much there now, but maybe i will add some stuff in the future. Vanity is so disgusting. Speaking of vanity, i need a haircut. so Cay is going to hook me up tomorrow. And, Gorillaz Live in Boston go on sale tomorrow. They are playing Avalon....
• Newbury Comics
  I finally bought the latest two EPs from Belle & Sebastian tonight from Newbury Comics. Romo and I were also looking at all of the kooky sunglasses and jewelry in there as well. At one point, he pointed at a very large rainbow ring, and said (point blank in front of an adorable lesbian couple), "Maybe I should get this-- I should start making it more obvious." To which I replied, "maybe you should first work on your walk." ba-dam-bum. ::crash:: I'm not much of a comedian. But I got something funny in my e-mail tonight from Patti, my girlfriend's...
• Goalie Fight
  Anyone who doesn't think this is hockey, then i don't know what is. Have you ever seen a goalie kick so much ass?...
• Home Part 2
  hi again, amigos. We're back in Boston, and happy for it! EvilMonkey, Glenndo, Presley & Megger tried hardily to put together a Harry Potter puzzle on our coffee table. bon amusant! thanks to Liz, Ashley & Emilie (i do NOT run a small man mill in Boston, I SWEAR) for links... I read you guys regularly, so thanks for sharing your talents... AND, besides EvilMonkey passing out on the couch tonight, it's SNOWING. When Presley & I (i AM name dropping tonight, aren't i?) were in Buffalo, there was 82", so this little Boston slush is NOTHING. (excuse the caps...
• Hi
  hi...

• Christmas Eve Always used to Be Fun
  When I was a kid, it was almost more exciting that Christmas day-- we'd go to the grandparents house, and there'd be literally hundreds of packages everywhere. you couldn't walk across the room. If by chance there were outsiders in attendance, they'd be shocked that a family of 6 could wrap so much... and each year we'd up the number. I remember getting a my first trip to NYC in 1995... a sabres jersey (#89 mogilny) in 1989. there was a cabbage patch kid in 1984. It was always a picture perfect commercialized Christmas. anyway, yada yada yada... basically I'm...
• Home
  we've made it the 450 miles downwind from boston to buffalo. The 2 'B's. I'm now sitting at a blueberry imac, trying like fuck to get the hocky-puck mouse to do what i need it to. i'm thrilled to see that suckahs tests well on Mac IE 5.0... i was totally wierded out when we went to visit 666 last weekend-- the site worked ok on her imac (ie 4.5), but i made some minor changes to fix little bugs. i totally need an imac in my non-existent design stoodio. i love the macintosh OS interface-- so lovely. But what...
• HOLY FOOK.
  HOLY FOOK. I WILL BE   TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22....
• PR Majors
  I just proof-read my subletter's latest PR paper, and i would just like to say that she writes at a high school level. It is totally laughable to me that she get's A's at emerson college for these papers. This would be a C paper anywhere else-- maybe C-. And, in six months, she is going to be writing public relations drivel......
• Do Linguists Have Fun, too?
  Fresh Air is getting stale ok, some random stranger person called me on my cell phone to tell me that NPR's Fresh Air was doing a piece on blogging. (listen in Real Audio) This Nunberg guy's pieces always have this strange fatalistic tone to them-- as if the evolution of language over the years has specifically contributed to the debasement of civilization. err something. But then, as if he hadn't spent the past two and a half minutes ripping up whatever subject he's talking about, he always has some hopeful thought for the future of such-and-such... you get the sense...
• :`(
  Two of my favorite webloggers, Tina & Mary have both hung up their keyboards for the near future... I've enjoyed Tina's layouts and photography for almost a year now. And, Mary... well Mary's got a great eye for color, a bemused wit, and she's been some help to me with the suckahs site. She even says hi....
• I employ you
  ok, so here is the funny story about an old friend that I promised-- About a month ago, I received this e-mail from our high school friend Matt: John, hello. I just had a conversation with Ruby (who is in town today), and she had mentioned that she had a chat with you. She had said that you had just started your own graphics design company. ok, that's funny... because I haven't talked to Ruby (who is the long-time girlfriend of Matt's twin, Eric), since high school, and never very often. back to the story: My first reaction was envy...

• Quiz Me
  shit, so i've been taking all these funny online tests... which makes me basically a 14-year old girl (but you all knew that anyway). i was disappointed cos i'm only half Emo, and three-quarters internet junkie. I mean, come ON. what does it take to get higher numbers? And how am i 40% grunge? cos i know who kurt cobain is? who the fuck doesn't... i've also been working quite hard on the new suckahs root site. it still needs some tooling, so we'll see when i finally get to it. lot's of iframes... hope none of you have netscape...
• Blur are Selling Cars Again
  Blur are selling cars again-- one of the latest television advertisements for Chrysler, features one of my favorite blur songs, The Universal...
• Cut Cut Cut
  so i went to see Cay to get my hair cut. I enjoyed having semi-long hair. I think she liked it better too, but the realization that i must go to interviews and such in the near weeks made it a necessity to get some professional looking locks....
• Shallow Film
  ho ho... pretty fun weekend-- saw 'shallow hal' on friday night. not so bad. Also, going to see Bill Press (the liberal on CNN's CrossFire) speak on his book tour at Borders... I hope he speaks and takes questions, because i haven't got the $25 to purchase his book. isn't life exciting?...
• Mercury Rev | All is Dream
  The Burly Bear Network is presenting the new Mercury Rev album 'all is dream' in Real Video. Mercury Rev has to be the best thing to come out of Buffalo since Wings... And Presley & I caught them at the Middle East Downstairs last year. Fuck, that was a good show. OH-- and what is scary is that when we were all like 15 years old, Avishai Hendel, the Israeli exchange-student with the big fucking brain, was mercury rev's #1 fan. fantastic....
• The Next Suckahs Subdomain: Albany Dan
  Shit dogg, so i spent some time tonight working on Albany Dan's site. Presley's new layout was relatively simple, once we got going with it. She had prepared a collage of stuff, so the idea was well-defined, before i even got into photoshop. Anyway, i'm tired as shit, so i can't stay on topic... Albany Dan's new layout. He & i had spent some time taking photos in his neighborhood, which i initially used as part of another deconstructed collage-style design. but, it didn't make sense because it lacked any sort of connection to Danno (aside from the shots of...

• I <3 Bob Dylan
  I ? Bob Dylan how enjoyable is the new bob dylan album! i haven't picked it up yet, so i found it through my usual combination of napster-esque searching... and waiting... i think the most suprising song on the album is the almost vaudeville/ragtime number Po' Boy. What fun....
• Sport?
  i've been catching up on the recent photoshop tennis matches. Oh, someday i will be asked......
• i Love 666
  i love 666: hey ned- did you ever stop to consider that you're lke, the dungeon master in our big role playing game of friend dungeons and dragons. i just thought of t and it made a shotgun sized hole through my peace of mind. tolkein keep you-- -rebes...
• Albany Part 2
  i'm back from albany danno's... it was a good weekend -- full of machismo. here are some highlites, in a bery particular order... - the albany river rats minor-league hockey game... - the sausage-only bar... where the guy-to-girl ratio was somewhat disappointing... and danno managed to blow a done game of checkers. - the trip to saratoga springs... (not much to report) - the David Sederis reading... (how to spell his name, kate?) at the Egg. AND THEN? No AND THEN. Also, Danno got me hooked on NHL 2002-- which i managed to cd-burn, and track down a crack. LET'S...
• Albany
  well, i'm trying to get on my way to albany, but it took like 2 hours to print mapquest.com directions on Melanie's computer. Ug. So, soon i'll be off. We're going to a AAA hockey game tonight, and david saderis tomorrow.... fun stuff. Also, hope i don't miss the Head of the Charles....
• Insert Foot
  So i just posted this long post on suckahs concerning christianity. too serious a topic? I do have this uncanny ability to sit down on couches at parties and clear the room in a short amount of time. maybe i shouldn't open my mouth....
• Malls?
  So i ended up in the South Shore Plaza (SSP) today, which makes no sense, because i live in boston and we have more than our share of crappy shopping opportunities. So, i bought a new skagen watch and a gap corduroy jacket....
• OK, So I've Been Delaying
  ok, so I've been delaying writing, because I've been busy designing and looking for work. This weekend was quite a lot of fun. We picked up 666 (rebes) in chinatown late friday night-- the bus arrived more than an hour-and-a-half late. But, this whole chinatown bus thing is incredible-- you can take a comfortable bus between New York & Boston for $8-15 each way. What is that all about? Anyway-- albany dan, sara and kaleb arrived while we were waiting on a street corner under the chinatown pagoda arch. We all caught up soon enough back at the compound in...

• Sick
  ahhh, i've only got a few minutes to talk to you all about something truly fabulous: Doxylamine Succinate, Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide, Acetominophen, Psuedoephedrine Hydrochloride not to mention: Alcohol, Citric Acid, Flavor, Green 3 (whatever that ingredient is), High Froctuse Corn Syrup, Polyethylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol (both kinds), Purified Water, Saccarin Sodium, Sodium Citrate, Yeloow 6, Yellow 10 (what are thos things?) That's the formula for NyQuil-- and don't skimp on the real thing... whoops... fading........
• Stratford-Upon-Niagara
  I spent some time tonight chatting with rohit about his theater and such. It's strange that i never had hardly a conversation with the guy until this summer. But, he is a funny fella. I've been stayng up late now that i'm not employed. But, i never realized what quality programming comes on PBS at night. I saw the part of the new york documentary on the construction of the empire state building which was fascinating- especially the pictures of midtown with buildings that are probably 10-12 stories high, and then, one giant tower stretching like 90 stories up. It...
• Hi Ned
  So, i'm waiting for the rest of these fools to stumble upon this site. I've been so busy getting the main site up, and designing personal sites for the other domain members, that i never did my own. So here it is. I'd like to show you the picture that i wanted to use, but was vetoed by the girl, on account of the fact that i look gay and dumb....
• 9/11
  I have been glued to the television over the past couple of weeks, and i'm sick with grief as i listen to these wives, mothers, sons and daughters show pictures of their lost loved-ones. It is so tragic to see the panic and loss in their faces, as they plead with the television crews, describing what their daddies and husbands were wearing when they left the house that morning. Lisa and I are so thankful that everyone we know and love are safe -- it was a frightful couple of days in Boston, because our city seems to be the...

• funny flash movie about software
  funny flash movie about software piracy....
• just got my Verizon DSL
  just got my Verizon DSL modem in the mail. should be up and running very very shortly. I guess i should compliment them, or something. ehh... nah....

• SUCKAHS dot ORG is live.
  SUCKAHS dot ORG is live. Invitations have been sent. apply here: ned at suckahs dot org...
• from wired: MIT's Media Lab
  from wired: MIT's Media Lab is experimenting with a tool for indexing the most popular hypertext links across thousands of weblogs and has ambitious plans to turn it into a resource for the mass media. Launched last week, Blogdex is like a search-engine spider that visits about 9,000 weblogs a day looking for hypertext links. It extracts the links and ranks them by popularity....
• suckahs dot org has been
  suckahs dot org has been officially registered. Hosting and the DNS shoould be set up within a couple of days. what is suckahs.org? check back for updates....
• I have a Samsung pcs
  I have a Samsung pcs phone that i have really liked-- but I will buy their new color palm phone...
• speeding ticket
  I had a hearing for my speeding ticket that i got in the ted williams tunnel, and i was found not-responsible, so thank you very much....
• Albany Dan provided me with another
  Albany Dan provided me with another great link-- the Is Dick Cheney Dead Yet Weblog. He (Danno) and I are in the process of setting up a group blog for all of our friends from buttalo. The leading domain choice is 'suckahs', though we can't agree on dot ORG or dot COM. What do you think?...
• Someone from Hamburg, Germany sent
  Someone from Hamburg, Germany sent me an e-mail asking for family tree information on the my surname. Unfortunetely, i don't have any information. The only information i have comes from my mom's mom's family-- which is English....
• saw the flickerstick video on
  saw the flickerstick video on VH1 (produced as part of their bands on the run prize)....
• Ok. you like Radiohead? and
  Ok. you like Radiohead? and you have AOL IM? enter 'GooglyMinotaur' as your newest buddy-- and start talking to it. no really....
• Dick Cheney has his own
  Dick Cheney has his own personal energy crisis. Are these guys that dumb? Thanks to milch....
• Danibat did something interesting-- took
  Danibat did something interesting-- took a famous painting, and recreated it using text. This isn't your older brother's ASCII art......
• The Flickerstick show was
  The Flickerstick show was incredible. They projected motion graphics type stuff from the back onto stage, and had cuts from movies like 'Willy Wonka' playing in between songs. Rex 'El Dangeroso', one of the guitarists, was in true form-- at one point he was soloing in the crowd....
• This has been quite the
  This has been quite the weekend for live music-- Francine and the Fly Seville last night at T.T.'s, and Flickerstick (from VH1's Bands on the Run) tonight at the Middle East Downstairs. Oh and last night, we were on our way back from Portsmouth, when we got stuck in the traffic for the Monkees hatch shell concert. doh....
• Gretchen told me about this
  Gretchen told me about this go-kart track in Braintree that features Formula-One looking cars: F1 Boston is New England's hottest, most complete entertainment and function facility. Whether you're building corporate team spirit, launching a new product, entertaining a new client or just want to come in and race at F1, power is at your command. You'll find state of the art exhibition and conference facilities...full-service restaurant...classic billiard parlor...shops...lounges... and, of course, racing....
• there is a great animation
  there is a great animation for the quiz show 'You Don't Know Jack" on its ABC website. (PEEWEE!)...
• ooh. strawberry pop-tart blow-torches (from
  ooh. strawberry pop-tart blow-torches (from evan) Strawberry Pop Tarts may be a cheap and inexpensive source of incendiary devices. Toasters which fail to eject Pop Tarts cause the Pop Tarts to emit flames 10-18 inches in height....
• Interesting article on Blur frontman
  Interesting article on Blur frontman Damon Albarn's side project Gorillaz-- a cartoon band drawn by tank girl creator Jamie Hewlett....
• New Bjork video - hidden
  New Bjork video - hidden place. Also, Spin has an exclusive track- Verandi....
• NewsBlogger is Back! There is
  NewsBlogger is Back! There is this whale trapped on a fishing line out in the waters off the cape -- and because of weather or whatever, they have been unable to free it. So, they've been shooting it full of pain killers-- hoping that it will go unconsious, so they can help it out. I ask, how many drugs does it take to subdue a whale?...
• Funny things, these cursor trails.
  Funny things, these cursor trails....
• Microsoft finally got their Messenger
  Microsoft finally got their Messenger service back online, but I still haven't heard about that release candidate copy of windows XP I plunked down $10 for....
• Republicans experience nightmares when they dream
  Something most of us Liberals suspected -- Republicans can't sleep at night. "Republicans are nearly three times as likely as Democrats to experience nightmares when they dream." (thanks to Albany Dan for the link)...
• Slate has a story today
  Slate has a story today about the new diet coke ad campaign-- the one narrated (bizarrely) by Ben Affleck, where he talks about his new (commercial) wife and how she stopped wearing sexy underwear. The whole coke campaign (including coke & diet coke commercials) has been an amazing success. Pepsi is still selling their sugary nonsense to 12-year-old boy-band fans-- while coke is taking chances and hitting the mark. Jacob Dylan-- now that's a media dream. (oh, and so is Ben Affleck, though I can't fathom why)...
• Searching for DSL-- verizon has
  Searching for DSL-- verizon has backed up installations in Allston-Brighton until October / November. And Earthlink claims that they can give it to me, but they keep canceling my order without giving a reason. This Broadband thing is a nightmare. C'mon! is all I have to say....

• stock photo community
  I just stumbled across a really cool, free stock photo community called istockphoto.com. You can contribute photos, or download and use them, royalty-free. I'm procrastinating, since I'm supposed to be finishing up Bilingual Education in Massachusetts, which is a great read, except that I have to be tested on it tomorrow....
• Smart Tags®
  A List Apart has more on Smart Tags®...
• Salon self-promotion
  Salon is doing a little bit of self-promotion on their cover story today about media consolidation online. The article focuses on the troubles independent publishers are facing in the shadows of AOL, Microsoft, Disney & Viacom. But there was an interesting passage concerning Microsoft's Windows XP: As Microsoft readies the next mass-market version of Windows XP, provocative tidbits of its "integrations" have surfaced. The most outrageous gambit is a little innovation known as Smart Tags -- a tool that automatically adds new links to documents. You don't choose where on the Internet these links point to; Microsoft does. In Windows...
• The Sigur R�s
  I watched some of the concert footage of The Sigur R�s, an icelandic band that has been making some noise in the US recently-- Gillian Anderson is a fan, aparently... but they're incredible....
• Grossness from Albany Dan
  Grossness from Danno....
• Cars
  I spend uncounted amounts of my time, mostly when I'm walking or driving around town, looking at and thinking about car designs... admittedly, when I'm not behind my computer, you've got to look for other things to obsess about-- that's the problem with being a designer. Slate has an interesting article about the state of car design (I might say, it's quite cynical). I've always liked Volkswagen styling, for its simplicity and 'sporty-ness'. I don't like the new Passat though (2001). I think they're trying to look more like the new Volvos... which attempt, (at least the big ones), something...
• To continue with the Harry
  To continue with the Harry Potter books thread, of which i have read none, the producers of the 700 club have posted an article titled What's A Christian To Do With Harry Potter?, with such insightful analysis as: If you've ever had a conversation with another believer (my emphasis) about Harry Potter, you've probably discovered that it can be a very divisive issue. And division in the body of Christ can be as dangerous as any affect Harry could have on children. I guess the religious right is preaching tolerance in the 21st century. But, looks to me like Pat...

• Presley and Harry Potter
  Presley has been reading the Harry Potter books lately, (with great enjoyment i might add). Slate has a funny article in their culturebox, about fantasy writers....
• SAVEOURSTUDIOS and the artists in
  SAVEOURSTUDIOS and the artists in Fort Point have done it again-- they "sodded" the sidewalk of the dilapidated Summer Street bridge over Fort Point Channel-- and i took some pictures The city counts sidewalks as open space resulting in diminished park space . The greening of the Summer street bridge represents the meeting of the two definitions of open space: the city's sidewalk and the neighborhood's park....

• Finally finished Sampoo Planet, by
  Finally finished Sampoo Planet, by Douglas Coupland, (the oh-now-so-extinct zeitgeist writer of the early 90s), and found myself enjoying it quite a bit. The Gen-X thing might be pass�, considering many of Coupland's readers went on to make intenet cash in the mid to late 90s, but i found a strong identification with his characters. And while i can't say that i am a 21-year-old Reagan youth, in the early 90s, in a very small, northwest town near a toxic Superfund site, growing up wiith Hippy parents, struggling with "making it" in corporate America... i can identify with the struggling...
• There is a surprise
  There is a surprise this weekend-- but i can't yet say what it will be... because Presley may be reading this. Let's just say that she is turning 21 on Saturday, and probably looking for clues. What should i buy her for her birthday? Oh, and I'd like to think i can throw the occasional good-natured insult (or not), but Shakespeare does it like no one else....
• Very jittery today
  Very jittery today-- i found this little 1-cup coffee maker that brews instantly at my desk at work, so i don't need to run out to yada yada every hour on the hour. the downside is, of course, that i have hot tasty coffee within reach... distractions from the tasks at hand....
• Oscars
  I can't say that the Oscars were all that bad... Steve Martin's putdowns were sharp, witty and delivered with such class-- i'm glad to see that that over-caffeinated dog Billy Crystal didn't decide to do it this year. Next year.... Conan? Chris Rock? Regis?...

• There have been a couple
  There have been a couple of good articles coming to the defense of Christopher Lydon, host of the Connection, over his recent contract battles. Here is one reason to value this man-- he has the moral courage to stand up to John Silber, and challege him on his terms. Here is a passage from the Globe: In a remarkable 1990 interview with incendiary gubernatorial candidate John Silber, Lydon stopped the then-Boston University president in his tracks by comparing him to rap group Public Enemy and suggesting that his message ''pushed right up to the edge of revolutionism, sexism, sometimes even...
• go shopping for a virtual
  go shopping for a virtual family-- it's got a clever use of flash....
• the definitive political parody. examples
  the definitive political parody. examples include 'super gore' and a hilarious parody of 'the grinch' called 'How The Bush Stole The Election'....
• i am the monkey inside
  i am the monkey inside your head....
• We hung a new frame
  We hung a new frame above our couch today, and i took a picture. all that is missing from this shot are 2 little blonde children running around, and a blue and yellow logo with a heavy-weighted scandinavian type....

• the new sheila divine disc
  the new sheila divine disc is in-hand, amazingly... (due in stores 20 march) the title track came out beautiful. the record is a little bit different than the debut, but there is something for everybody. the vocals and guitars are more layered, and it's mixed really well... 'Antidote' gets a really cool treatment......
• neal pollack is organizing
  neal pollack is organizing an inaugural day protest down in Dupot Circle, DC. neal is a writer for dave egger's litmag McSweeny's....
• the Mastermind | Submissive Introvert Abstract Thinker
  Apparently, I'm the mastermind... a Submissive Introvert Abstract Thinker... Like just 9% of the population you are a MASTERMIND (SIAT). You can be silent and withdrawn, but behind your reserved exterior lies an active mind that allows you to analyze situations and come up with creative, unexpected solutions. Normal people call this "scheming." Don't learn German. Anyway, your sense of style and originality are your strengths, and people will respect your judgment once they get to know you. If you learn to be a little more personable, you could be a great leader--you've definitely got the "vision" thing down. Just...
• A thought from John Ashcroft:
  A thought from John Ashcroft: (thanks to OpposeAshcroft.com) "There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions. If ever there was a time to unfurl the banner of unabashed conservatism, it is now." - Human Events, April 10, 1998 A thought from George W. Bush: "I'm a uniter, not a divider." - 2000 Campaign...
• story of my life.
  story of my life....
• interesting motion-graphic example of a
  interesting motion-graphic example of a clock...

• george w. bush has compared himself to thomas jefferson
  my posts have taken on a political focus lately... but, george w. bush has compared himself to thomas jefferson, the founder of the democratic party... the new republic entends the comparison, in this satirical piece....
• a uniter, not a divider
  george w. bush has stated that he is a "uniter, not a divider", and that he knows how to pick a good team... john ashcroft was nominated by bush for one of the most influential positions in the federal government-- the justice department. the DOJ is the agency that enforces the laws, including civil rights. ashcroft is neither a uniter, nor a good pick for this position (or any position in the executive branch), because he defends confederate soldiers as "patriots'' and suggested they shouldn't be portrayed as having died for "some perverted agenda.''...
• big gay al
  and we thought al gore was the robot....
• another american mass-shooting
  while i was heading home to boston after visiting family for x-mas, i heard about another american mass-shooting on the BBC... and it turned out that this one happened in wakefield, mass, at an internet consulting firm... and shortly after hearing this story on the radio, i saw a pickup truck next to me with a bumper sticker proudly stating "GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL"....
• if you lose your senate seat to a dead man...
  if you lose your senate seat to a dead man, 'W' will make you the top law enforcer in the country....
• David Sedaris's One-Man Christmas Comedy Show
  david sedaris, a regular contributor to NPR, is doing a run of his one-man christmas comedy show in boston: Sedaris began work in December of 1992 as one of Santa's elves in the Manhattan Macy's "SantaLand" department. After observing fisticuffs between mothers in line with their rambunctious progeny awaiting their turn to sit in the lap of a lecherous, drunken Santa, Sedaris penned the "SantaLand Diaries."...
• Sometimes i feel undervalued.
  Sometimes i feel undervalued....
• Presley took me to blue
  Presley took me to blue man group for my birthday ( a few days early). funny thing -- the blue men were climbing on chairs through the audience, and they made it all the way back to us (it's not a large space)... and they plucked her up, and took her onstage to do a schtick with them... after being fed twinkies, and doing mime humor, twinkie-vomit shot out of this vest they stuck on her, and she couldn't stop laughing. that blue stuff gets everywhere ....
• Frank Gehry's brilliant new Corcoran Gallery
  they have a feature over at one-media about architect Frank Gehry's brilliant new Corcoran Gallery....
• The New Yorker. Online?
  has conde' nast finally decided to go ahead with an online version of The New Yorker magazine?...
• i'd love to get my hands on...
  i'd love to get my hands on this book 'Typography: Macro- + Microaesthetics', by Wi