November 1999

Test audience reactions to “The Messenger” By LOUIS B. HOBSON — Calgary Sun HOLLYWOOD — It would seem American movie audiences need a few history lessons. At early test-screenings of The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, audiences expressed concerns that the heroine dies at the end of the movie. “People wrote on their…

If making ads look like editorial is annoying and misleading, Go32.com’s practice of making their features look like tile ads is just plain stupid.

Ever pull up eatonweb over a modem? She must be using some funky layers. On my Mac at home, the middle blog section loads first the links only, then pauses several seconds, then the surrounding text and backround color. For those several seconds all I see is a surreal rendering of links…   tomalak’s realm           article…

Four great story flows, one suck-ass website. Winer’s SalonHerringWiredFool takes four story flows that are great individually and intermingles them. While Dave’s a clever programmer, he’s no information designer. Scanning through these headlines is confusing as hell because he’s pulled them out of context. When looking at a particular story you don’t know if it’s…

For such a diverse country, it’s pretty tough to hire foreign nationals in the US. The law makes it difficult, even in the resource-deficient technology sector, to hire anyone but US citizens, but at the same time tauting the importance of diversity. When you actually try to create a diverse workforce you realize everyone has…

I am not xeric today.

My boss was quoted on peterme.com yesterday and referred to as an “Information Architecture Czarina”. She rocks.

A cut and paste from the CHI-WEB list: go to .webvan.com under their search box, they have one (count it one) radio option to “Search all of Webvan.” hee.hee. it’s insane as UI, but there’s something absurd and kafkaesque that I like about it.

I must be high on Sudafed After corresponding with meg about brown eggs and white eggs I walk home, still laughing out loud thinking about the The Jakob Nielsen Drinking Game and everything is crisp and full of potential. I glance at the beautiful people in Greenich Village; the usually-cheesy neon and restaurant lights instead…

Note to self: revisit rc3.org, good stuff there.

Through all the talk on the blogs about epinions, I wonder if anyone has thought to write epinions about blogs? A quick check using the epinions search engine didn’t turn up any of the blogs in my current rotation. Maybe blogs are too subjective. Maybe it’s a case of not needing an epinion when you…

After all the blog-based debate on epinions my head was spinning with analysis. But when I thought of a useful epinion of my own I didn’t hesistate, I just posted my epinion on the foldable, light, innovative Strida bicycle.

Day 34 with my Strida folding bike. The left pedal started unwinding itself for some unknown reason about a week ago. I tightened it and now it’s fine. Now the left crank is loose. Odd, but nothing disasterous. If you’re interested, I’ll soon be compiling all my Strida comments into an epinion.

Birth by centrifugal force. Maybe the extreme dizziness will distract the mother from the pain she feels.

Meadville-Lombard Journal of Liberal Religion. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “liberal religion” it means what you probably think it means from the individual words: personally and politically progressive, free-minded, liberating. The antithesis of the religious right. I’m happy to see their first edition published online, but like everything else they are honest about where…