Payoff = Points: A False Equation. (Addendum)
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gel — Good Experience Live. May 2, 2003. I'm in prestigious company there and I'm already looking forward to the conversations that will go on that day. Plus, if you attend, I can say this: as long as I am contrained to 20 minutes or less, I give good presentation.

“Who should attend? Anyone who cares about preserving the genuine community-friendly, user-friendly experiences of the world.” Nice!
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken III is the only album I have felt inclined to buy in [years?]. (S'funny how ones relationship to music changes over the time.)

Iris Dement singing Mama's Opry is a one of those songs that makes me appreciate the voice as an ultimate instrument: no fiddle has the nuances of phrasing, dynamics or articulation to play like that. Plus: Willie Nelson playing Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms? The title track, with Taj Mahal, Alison Krauss and Doc Watson is an wonderful re-articulation of the classic country-gospel dirge (It's OK to post about music that is going to peg me as terribly uncool, I think.)
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Wunderbar: Les canadiens adorent la tablette Wunderbar Cadbury à cause de son goût «carachidébile». (Roughly: Canadians adore Cadbury's Wunderbar bar on account of its “caramelnutastic” taste.)


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Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! (Had this link, which I found on Blogdex, in here —posted but not published— for a few days. In the intervening days, it rose to #1 on Blogdex. This settles a conversation I was having recently about the web/tech-orientation of weblogs in aggregate.)
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Step 1: “We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have become unmanageable.”
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Via the do list, Chris Blohm sends David LaChappelle links:

• designboom interview
  
• Soho gallery listing
  
• another Soho gallery listing
  
• PDN profile

(LaChappelle also directed the “controversial” new Christina Aguilera video discussed in this this MetaFilter thread.)
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If you are not a dolt, and you are here in Vancouver, then you should go see the smartest lady in the world speak this Sunday. Seven Sisters at the Vancouver International Writer's Festival, with special guest Caterina Fake.
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Brain tennis: 17-28 June, 1996. John Horgan v Stuart Kauffman. Suddenly it seems like the web has been around forever.
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Someday, when I have time, I will take some of the paper that is spread all over my desk and fold it thusly (via milov).
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Good, non-pretentious (!) typography weblog: typographi.ca
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Wall Street duckrabbit
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Poking around the As it Happens site, I found this page of “classic clips”, including a bit from Barbara Frum's interview with Sandra Good, best friend of Squeaky Fromme, which led me Googling, which led me to this wonderfully bad petition: FREE LYNETTE "SQUEAKY" FROMME NOW!

This petition is here to urge the government to release Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme from the jail that binds her from freedom. Like most of us, Lynette was falsely accused and wrongly jailed all because of a big misunderstanding and it is time for her to be set free NOW!

“[B]inds her from freedom” and “[l]ike most of us,” are both my favorite part —but how is this possible?

Let's cap it off with William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man at the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards (via Mr. Pants).
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On the October 10, 2002 episode (audio available) of As it Happens they played an excerpt from a talk given by Prince El Hassan bin Talal in Winnipeg the day before. It got me all charged up, though I think it loses something in the transcription:

In the events of September 11th, we have seen a gradual trend towards the introduction of a New World Order. And I came here to talk about a culture of participation. You can help humanize this converation.

And I would just like to suggest that the conference I attened, entitled “A Culture of Peace”, which I hosted in Akaba after it had travelled from Rhodes, Jerulsalem, to Akaba, with several speakers commenting on a historical politcal event, the peace treaty signed between Jordan and Israel in 1994, that, when asked what I thought of that peace treaty, at that very moment, something for which I had worked for many years, I said in front of the visual media, late Prime Minister Rabin and my late brother were on the podium “This can only suceed,” and I did not mean to be prophetic at all, but on record I said, “if this peace is between people.” Peace is not between talking heads. Peace, and the culture of participation, means that we are all stakeholders.

I know that we have far-sighted leadership, and visionaries who often pay the price — physically, lave down their life for the cause of peace. But I would like to suggest that it is much more relevant to build step by step, from the bottom up, with the participation of your civil society, your NGOs, your academia. And not just leave the credit of acheiving peace to publicized ceremonies between heads of state and government, shaking hands and excahnging those awfully sincere smiles.

[This excerpt begins at the 37:00 mark of the 2nd half of the show; see the link to audio files above.]
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“Here's an email Carl de Marcken of ITA Software sent to a friend, describing their experiences using Lisp in one of the software industry's most demanding applications.”

And here is a New Architect article which covers a few of the same things, though it a lot less detail.
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If I die on my 75th birthday, you'll be free to reuse the above image or this text in 2117.


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Philosophy AND Literature — now there's something for both of us. This site looks good.
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For years now, Merriam Webster's site has had this to say:

The dictionary button does not work correctly with any current version of IE for the Mac ... Thank you for your patience while we work to solve this problem.

Well, my patience for that expired a long time ago, and I eventually made my own bookmarklet for m-w.com searches (I think the results are usually a lot better than dictionary.com). Here is the bookmarklet for you Mac IE users, if there are any left:

m-w <- drag this to your toolbar, favorites bar, button bar, or whatever you call it

I wrote in to give them the code but they never posted it, and then I forgot all about it for a long time. But, if you want it, there you go.
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Apply for this job please. (Qualification: only apply for this job if you are qualified.) If you know anyone who might know someone who'd be good, then pass the link along. I can personally guarantee that whoever gets this job will be extremely happy for years and years!
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As it turns out, on the T-Mobile Sidekick this site is “stylin'”. (I had something important to say in this post, but I had to recurse out five to-do levels to get back to it, so this will suffice.)
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This picture of father-and-son chameleons makes me quite happy!
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