Archives for January, 2003
2003.01.27 (Mon)
Franz Kline Roadworks
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The roadworks outside my place has left the street looking something like a Franz Kline exhibition.
Kakutani on Baker’s A Box of Matches (and why she’s wrong)
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Michiko Kakutani pans Nicholson Baker’s latest novel, but she misses the point. A Box of Matches is a little retro-rocket of a book that’s been fired to nudge the joy of the everyday back into an orbit with us at the centre rather than allowing it to escape into outer space.
2003.01.26 (Sun)
Kitty-chan Sausages
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The stomach rumbles as the mind boggles: Kitty-chan sausages (I kid you not).
Richard Powers: The Time of Our Singing
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Long review of Richard Powers’s new novel by Daniel Mendelsohn in the NYTimes.
2003.01.25 (Sat)
MT Plug-in Directory
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Excellent directory for Movable Type plug-ins.
2003.01.24 (Fri)
Help with Bookmarklets
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Anyone figured out how to get MT’s “Post to MT” bookmarklets working in Chimera or Safari when pop-ups have been disabled?
2003.01.23 (Thu)
Agatsuma U.S. Dates
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Just in case you’re near any of the places below and you like Tsugaru jamisen (or admire virtuosity in general) and you missed Paul’s comment and would be disappointed to miss the opportunity to hear a kind of music you wouldn’t ordinarily get to hear in Middletown or Towson or even Boston or New York City for that matter, I’m posting the dates of Agatsuma Hiromitsu’s U.S. appearances below.
Contrails
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The whispy akashic records of jet flight.
The divine delectability of sea urchin eggs.
2003.01.20 (Mon)
Dictionary Look-up from Chimera’s Toolbar
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A toolbar bookmark for Chimera that does a word look-up on dictionary.com. Also one for the thesaurus.
As you probably know by now, Kung-Log (post to MT sites from your desktop!) has been rewritten in Cocoa, Here’s a test post from the latest version (1.1).
Litho-intelligence
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Killer headline, but it would seem that for stones, meteorology is destiny.
San Fancisco Bans Segways
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Like a lot of round pegs trying to fit into square holes, the Segway may have a bit of a battle ahead of it. San Francisco bans the things on its sidewalks.
A view from the plaza of Tokyo’s Opera City building.
BackTrackability
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Backtrack is a foot-stompingly clever way to forge links back along outbound TrackBack pings.
2003.01.19 (Sun)
Trackbackability
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Antipixel is now, the gods willing, TrackBackable.
2003.01.18 (Sat)
Should I Be Tempted by the Devil?
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Saw Ian McKellen in “Richard III” last night on DVD. Now that’s how you do a modern-dress Shakespeare!
What’s It About?
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Caught flatfooted by a seemingly innocent question.
Meeting Ben and Mena
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I got to meet Ben and Mena Trott at last night’s Tokyo MT users gathering. Thanks to Neoteny for hosting the event!
2003.01.17 (Fri)
Visits By Browser
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Browser stats: visits by browser, Jan 1st to 14th.
Giant Squid Attacks Boat
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A French yacht taking part in the Jules Verne round-the-world sailing trophy has been attacked by a giant squid in the mid-Atlantic. Cool.
2003.01.16 (Thu)
Tokyo MT Users Gathering: What Gives?
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Anyone know what’s going on tomorrow with the Tokyo MT Users gathering? I RSVP’d but haven’t heard anything since…
Farewell to TWICS
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No more twics.com for me, folks. It’s the end of an era.
Fuck the Public Domain
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As you no doubt know by now the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld copyright term extensions.
2003.01.14 (Tue)
“The nerds of this world buy Baker” – Updike
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A new book from Nicholson Baker is always a big deal around here.
2003.01.13 (Mon)
Tokyo MT Gathering
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Ben and Mena Trott will be visiting Tokyo next week. A gathering of Movable Type users is being organised. If you’re anywhere near Tokyo, try to make it.
2003.01.12 (Sun)
Parsermancy
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Yet another IE fix… this time for good, I hope.
2003.01.11 (Sat)
Electronic Kindness
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Building kindness into electronic systems: a little coincidence shows what it could be like.
Buttons and Boxes and Forms Redux
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“Buttons and Boxes and Forms” revisisted: our collective thinking pays off! Mena Trott says the next version of Movable Type will ship with the changes suggested in the article.
Reversing the Post/Comment Paradigm
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The standard blog arrangement where something gets posted and then people comment on that post (or not) is all fine and dandy, but lately I’ve been thinking that there should be some way for people to write here without having to respond to anything. Sort of like a suggestion box. Only not just for suggestions. And not a box. You get the idea.
Clear Skies
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Overhead powerline pollution. Pet peeve.
Less Than Cute
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Sob! It’s true – I’m not cute!
Not-So-Good Vibrations
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Construction right outside my window. With pnuematic pounding thingies, no less.
2003.01.10 (Fri)
Francis Bacon Filter
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I didn’t know that my digital camera had a built-in Francis Bacon filter. Cool.
2003.01.08 (Wed)
Camera Obscura
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We’re playing Name That Camera!
2003.01.05 (Sun)
Cat, Free to Good Home
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Free to good home: beckoning cat icon (Mac OS X).
New Year’s Irresolutions
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Knowing myself as well as I do, which is to say better than I would at times wish, I’ve long given up making New Year’s resolutions. This year, however, I thought I should have another go at it and resolve to undertake some small thing, something modest, which would Make Me a Better Person (the long-delayed journey of a thousand miles starting, as it does, with one step).
This is a Magazine
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This is a Magazine: old-fashioned photocopier ‘zine aesthetic with a modern twist.
2003.01.03 (Fri)
Wonders of Japanese Packaging, #2: Another box lid I found during our bout of end-of-year cleaning.
European Copyrights Expiring
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From the NYTimes: European copyright protection is expiring on a collector’s trove of 1950’s jazz, opera and early rock ‘n’ roll albums.
2003.01.01 (Wed)
It’s the Happy New Year post, featuring photographs taken throughout the night and a recording of the bell of Gotoku Temple tolling in the new year.
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