DV.com, companion website to the printed magazine recently redesigned. In doing so, they broke every single incoming link to anything they’ve ever put online.

I noticed this while working on an article about what it means for video to be “Broadcast Legal”. Who knows if anything is still even there, I couldn’t find an article title I linked through and the useless search results were prefaced by a warning that “Most content now requires free membership
“. Content? I can’t find any. I haven’t registered yet, and I doubt I will. Thankfully the Google cache contained most all of the content from the pages I can no longer directly link to. I’m not the only one pissed at this, Trish and Chris Meyer also seem quite annoyed (read the comment at the top, most every link on the page is broken).

Online publishers need to make a commitment to leaving content where it is otherwise they can not be considered a reference source. To a certain extent, any site requiring registration can not be a reference source, including the New York Times. It’s trivial stupidity like this which makes it harder and harder to learn anything and completely undermines the potential of the Web as a resource for knowledge.

I’m glad I run my own site.

Links to DV.com were intentionally omitted.

Toast : Toaster : Awesome.

(via Jerry Kindall)

I guess I’m in a Do-It-Yourself kind of mood…

ReadyMade Magazine, $14 for a year subscription in the US. Based solely on the strength of the current Table of Contents, I signed up. I hope it doesn’t suck.

(It doesn’t hurt that the magazine’s name sort of comes from an art history referencing Beck song and this month contains an article by David Berman of the Silver Jews. Besides, I’ve paid more than $14 for one crappy architecture magazine.) found on the never-sucking Dog Door of Death

The Niles Monorail –
People who seem otherwise completely ordinary sometimes do the most extraordinary things. Kim Pedersen built a monorail in his backyard.

(this has been linked all over the place, including metafilter, but I missed it until Bruce emailed the link)

Matthew Bielich
kicks ass. (quicktime, 6.6mb, more info)

My webcam is back up, now looking out over the East Village from nine stories up.

Where the hell have I been?

Well, for starters, Lila Zoe Maller was born March 19 at 3:30am. She and Michelle both doing great. We’re in a new apartment, having moved in one week before Lila was born. My temporary desk is still only partially set up and I still haven’t found all of my reference books. On top of that, my office is under construction. We’ve had a steady stream of guests, which has been wonderful, but I feel like I haven’t gotten any work accomplished in a month.

The trick to getting settled in and back to work after a move has something to do with not having a baby.

I’m also behind on my email, since Lila was born I’ve received over 600 pieces of spam. More and more seems to be evading my spam filters through various misspellings and obnoxious address harvesting letters. I’m doing my best to catch up, if I haven’t replied to your letter, please don’t think I’m ignoring you, there’s a mountain of crap to sort through.

A few observations about baby stuff:

• The diaper Genie is a brilliant hack. I have a pretty clear image in my head of the garage invention that preceded it. My proverbial hat is off to whoever it was who thought this up.
• Baby socks are just insanely cute. Folding them almost makes me giggle. However considering how much laundry we need to do these days, the thrill will likely wear off soon.
• Babies grow fast. It’s only been 2 weeks, but Lila is already substantially larger than when we brought her home.
• Music for Airports is apparently also music for babies.