I channel surfed across the Weather Channel and just now they were using “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” as the background music for their bottom of the hour local forecast. Attention whichever freak is programming this: Way to go! Keep … Continue reading →

While waiting for today’s Verizon tech, I scanned a pile of photos I took the day after the big Laguna Beach fire in October 1993.

Today’s Verizon tech discovered that the Tuesday tech never bothered to hook up the new phone jack. At least today’s guy seemed to know what he was doing. So now I have a phone, but the DSL is still out.

So the Verizon tech came out today to fix my phone line, and after a hour of so of playing around with the NI box on the outside of my building and replacing the phone jack in my apartment, still … Continue reading →

Do you work for Verizon? Do you know anyone that works for Verizon? If yes, please kill yourself now. Don’t think about it, just take a running start and throw yourself out the office window.

I can’t help but stare at this page all day long.

Doug Orleans links to this eye-melting optical illusion on Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s page of illusions

The SF Weekly looks at Jonathan Abrams, the guy who started Friendster to get a date and can’t stand it when the freaks, the absurd, and the creative types take over. In the final analysis, Friendster is Jonathan Abrams’ beach … Continue reading →

MediaTinker has an incredibly useful set of pages and PDFs that break apart the CSS and HTML template code in MovableType.

VanEats has some updated information on how to best get a table at the French Laundry. The best suggestion: show up in person at the restaurant at 9:30a.m. or sooner exactly two months before you want to eat there.