Organic Mutant Archives: July 2004
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31 July 2004
I’m moving
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.
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28 July 2004
Links to pass the time away
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 hilights [...]
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27 July 2004
Terrible Moments in History
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.
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27 July 2004
7 Habits
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 [...]
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26 July 2004
Columbus: 70 years too late?
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 Europeans [...]
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26 July 2004
Google Breaks!
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?
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23 July 2004
Jumble
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 [...]
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23 July 2004
Funny little quote
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.’
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23 July 2004
People really are the new cars
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 sure right [...]