Cloudy Thinking

We recently upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4. A nice side effect is the default template looks better (at least to me). There was an unintended side effect as well.

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Blow Up is a clever art project by Scott Snibbe.

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Editor and Publisher summarizes Frank Rich’s Sunday op-ed column for The New York Times — The Peculiar Disappearance of the War in Iraq.

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Joy of Software is a new blog by Jane Divinski. She’s a friend from farther back than I care to admit.

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You may be naive enough to think that juice bars are a safe environment, where you sip a glass of chilled pomegranate juice over ice. You would be wrong.

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Witold Rybczynski writes in Slate about the film Sketches of Frank Gehry created by Sydney Pollack.

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How many programmers does it take to generate millions of lines of half-baked, proprietary software with so many security holes they can barely issue urgent patches fast enough to partially keep the bad guys away. A Lot.

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Did you know that Motorola ships 24 THOUSAND phones per HOUR? That’s 576,000 phones per day. Whew.

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You’ll appreciate this note about musical bitonality if you appreciate this sort of offbeat information. (Not a great pun, but not bad, eh?)

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If (like me) you are not CSS savvy, check out Mandarin Design. Wow.

A friend sent this pointer to a delicious segment of The Colbert Report. Watch it.

US Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem “Forgetfulness” with animation by Julian Grey of Headgear. Awesome. Listen, and watch.

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