Monthly Archives: July 2004

Well, today is the day! Final boarding call for El Cerrito, please take your seat and enjoy the ride! I’ll be back when the plane has landed.

Lots and lots of links to pretty things from mixinvisuals, a web directory of design, art, and photography sites. A new look at the evolution of web interface design, from an academic perspective. It offers a great means of putting today’s designs in perspective. I particularly like the ‘Lifecycle of Products’ chart. To me, it [...]

Never ever EVER type in San Diego Cloggers on Google when you mean to type in San Diego Bloggers. I felt like washing my eyeballs with ammonia after inadvertenly viewing some of those photos on the clogging websites.

Many years ago, my mom did a wonderful thing and purchased the audiobook version of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for me. Listening to the teachings of the author, Stephen Covey, over and over allowed me to absorb and adopt some of the principals, and that has made a profound difference in my [...]

I say it sounds crazy, but when you visit this website, you’ll think twice as to whether the Chinese really did discover America 70 years before Columbus. Historian and author Gavin Menzies concluded that Chinese seafarers and concubines settled in Malaysia, India, Africa, the Americas, Australasia, and across the Pacific, almost a century before the [...]

Tried to do a search on Google this morning. For the first time I can recall, the site is not working! Why? I’ve no idea, but here is a screen capture to show you what it looked like: I wonder if there was some DOS attack?

This morning I experienced the cognitive dissonance (mental discomfort) of seeing a sheriff directing traffic who looked a decade younger than moi � a fresh-skinned, buzz-cut, baby-faced dude directing traffic a car that had been broadsided.  I felt suddenly mature as the skin crackled around my eyes and mouth.  Hear that, Oil-of-Olay, this discomfort may [...]

From my favorite megacorp news site comes a quote offered by an anonymous “Senate Democrat”: ‘If we can’t beat Bush and Cheney after all this, we don’t deserve to exist as a party.’

And that is why all pedestrians will soon be required to don Pedestrian Turn Signals. Cars have turn signals, why not humans? …being safe has never been so much fun!! Wow, the march of progress never ceases to amaze me. Err, or is it stupidity that never ceases to amaze me? I can’t tell for [...]

Killed Stories – Great Journalism Too Hot to Print: Just in case there was anyone who still believed that journalism is “neutral” and “impartial”. O! Fourth estate what a disgrace you have become ever since corporate consolidation began! (BTW-looks like a good read – I may try to check it out from the library. Haha.)

A beautiful panorama of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, circa July 1969.   A bizzarre postmodern orchestra and flash animation from Aiwa.   And lastly, I leave you with Connie Rice’s Top 10 Weapons of Mass Distraction. To draw you in, I offer a prime example: Number 3: The Cult of Celebrity and Entertainment [...]