05:34:39 – Someone searches Google UK for images of “Blinking” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.
08:28:47 – Someone searches Google Canada for images of ” blinking” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.
10:19:30 – Someone searches Google Germany for images of “Sound” and clicks the Sound of One Eye Blinking image.
I really need to update that page…
The US may be sending military advisors to Georgia. So where is where is Georgia? On the southern border of Chechnya with ports on the Black Sea.
Chechnya is a mess.
Chechnya has been a mess for a long time.
Chechnya is full of oil.
This has the potential to get much uglier. US Troops are already in Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan/Afghanistan, adding Georgia surrounds Iran on three sides. Iran is without a doubt the strategic linchpin of the Middle East, bordering on Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, The Persian Gulf, The Caspian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. Even Saudi Arabia doesn’t control as much geographic importance or influence. If Iran is a target, and it seems that they are, moving troops to Georgia now has them surrounded on three sides.
Troops in Georgia would also likely open the Black Sea to US/NATO war and supply ships. These supplies could be moved by land across Geogia, placing them very close to the Caspian Sea. Tehran is basically sitting on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is also full of oil.
The whole big mess is becoming more and more about oil, for the US and Russia. The world is running out of oil and there’s not much to replace it yet.
Hello to everyone clicking through from Zeldman’s Daily Report.
(I was wondering where the flood of hits was coming from)
The first line of this article states “The music industry’s worst nightmare may be coming true” but they think it’s CD burners and piracy. It’s actually much deeper, the music industry is obsolete.
I buy less CDs than I used to, but I’m usually not disappointed by them anymore. If I hear something I like, I’ll usually download most of the album to try it out. If I like it I buy it. Good music is earning sales while the junk is failing.
Most of my recent CD purchases been soundtracks or obscure small CDs and imports. Most of these don’t register with the RIAA, but none of the mainstream stuff appeals to me very much. Besides the obscure recordings I’ve been listening to music by friends (Gameface), small releases, and hand-labeled CDs of original music created in home studios.
Wilco’s soon to be latest album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has been in my playlists a lot during the past five months, even though it hasn’t been released yet. During a dispute with their record company they posted a lo-fi version of the whole album on their website which I downloaded and saved. The album might finally get a packaged release this April and I plan to buy it.
When friends ask me about burning audio CDs with their computers I first tell them how to do it (on Macs it’s as easy as inserting a blank CD with iTunes open). Then I tell them to go to Radio Shack and buy a mini-stereo to RCA Y-adapter cable (#42-2483) and plug the computer into their stereos. Very few people burn more than one or two music CDs once they realize the convenience of MP3s. A lot of friends are buying iPods.
CDs are impractical and cumbersome. I have a shelf of 500+ CDs, all of which can fit onto one $200 portable harddrive as MP3s. CDs only play for about 45 minutes, with MP3s I can set up a playlist which won’t repeat for a month.
Piracy isn’t killing the RIAA, they’re killing themselves.
Often the web seems devoid of emotions. Except for some occasional humor, sarcasm and the odd marriage proposal, it’s rare that anything breaks out of this shallow emotional subset.
And then something does. The Life of Jos Claerbout is one of those sites. In 1999, Jos was working at WebTV when he died suddenly at the age of 25. This site is a memorial tribute written by his parents.
Jos died in the midst of the dot com gold rush and many people whose lives he touched remembered him on the web, these are some of those sites:
There are many more.
Bruce and Lynda are in town for Seybold, and I went to see the discussion Lynda moderated about web interface design. On the panel were Matt Owens, Hillman Curtis and Jeffrey Zeldman, an interesting mix of talented people with very good ideas about design.
After the discussion, Lynda introduced me to Zeldman and Carrie Bickner, both wonderfully thoughtful, intelligent people who were a pleasure to talk to. Among other things, the two co-authored the NYPL Style Guide, a brilliant resource which will surely become a seminal document for transitioning sites to XHTML and CSS.
Seybold started at 9am, afterwards some other stuff happened and I didn’t get home until almost 10pm. Happy Birthday Graham
