Yeah, I know that I've been rather delinquent with updates recently. Get used to it, because I'm going to be without much in the way of internet access for the next week as I head off to Hong Kong with my brother. I gotta say that this staying-up-until-half-past-one-in-the-morning-packing-and-cleaning-up-and-then-getting-to-the-office-at-8-a.m. thing can really make you loopy. But hey, I can sleep on the plane. That's what it's there for, right?
Some links to keep the mice occupied while the cat's away:
- It was the fire that caused the towers to fall. (New York Times, free registration required)
- Bond keeps it up, and even anticipates the era of nationless terrorism.
- Why American Newspapers Suck. Of course, the author ignores the fact that vast majority of American newspapers simply reprint the AP wire for anything and everything that happens outside the local city limits.
- Lee Jeans is running this ad in Europe. It give new meaning to the phrase "talking out your ass." Europeans get cool ads like that and us poor Americans get "Hi, I'd like to subscribe to the Sunday New York Times/The only thing I like better than doing the crossword puzzle is actually finishing it." American television sucks.
- And, in related news, Ad Critic is coming back from the dead.
- Moby's new album 18 isn't out until the middle of May (which is, oh, six-and-a-half weeks away), it's already up to #223 (as of the time of this writing) on Amazon's sales chart.
- You think your job is sub-optimal? Try building a skyscraper with bamboo scaffolding. (NYT link). I grew up looking at this stuff, so it just seemed like the natural way to build 40-story buildings.
Since I'm rambling feverishly here, I might as well add that it would be really cool if HyperCard were to be reborn for OS X. I doubt that it would ever happen, though. Real Basic seems to have taken over that part of the market.