Got this bit of spam in one of my inboxes today:
From: Someone Someone <xxx @xxxxx.com>
Subject: Spam from Vasya.Hi my diar friend!
This is the spam message for you.
Vasya.
I dunno. I feel like spam that has become its own content must be teetering upon the threshold of art.
A link from Theo: Researchers learn to extract crude oil from pig manure.
The process accepts pig fecal matter and outputs a little water, carbon dioxide, and oil product with 3 times the energy content used to produce it. (That’s not counting, I presume, the energy cost of the pigs themselves.) Pretty nifty, even though it requires a guy whose job it is to “make sure there are no big chunks.”
I’m wondering if this can be adapted for use in municipal sewage systems.
I know this is like a really un-PC thing to say and all, but I effing hate CSS. Same goes for layout without tables. Seriously, people: tables ARE NOT EVIL. Sure, they’re not intended for layout; they’re intended to tabulate, like, data. But who cares? They work, and they do what you expect. I can’t really say the same for divs and spans ….
I know, I know: I’m just naive and inexperienced in the wonderfulness that is CSS.
Anyway. So. I have some content on patternleaf.com. Shocking. Shocking!
This is a domain name I started paying for like a year and a half ago and it’s had a “coming soon” sign on the front door since then. Its intention is to be my portfolio and general self-promotion website. The name was the only thing vaguely close to something I was looking for that hadn’t been taken. *shrug*
Uh, so I’ve only tested it in Safari. I have no idea what it does in Windows. It probably sits in a very awkward position and blinks.
The nifty thing, though, is that all the photos on the site, in both the little Flash warhol-boxes and in the gallery are fetched live from Flickr, including exif data and captions and so on. Right now it just pulls from a single set.
But this is cool: I can use Flickr’s nice interface as a front-end for organizing and applying metadata to photos. So I don’t have to figure out some scheme to do it locally. Yay.
‘Course I’m a big fan, so it may not hold the same appeal for everyone, but this is kinda nifty: the Integral Institute now has a little blog/newsletter with links and bite-size mp3 clips and so forth. Also with pleasantly illustrated explanations of Wilber’s quadrants and altitudes. (Which is a new term for what I believe he’s formerly called waves. I guess I have to get Ken’s new book now …)