3. January, 2002 - Three goals today: some news, clear up some more backlog (I spent a lot of time surfing over the holidays), and test some new code. More on the new code over the weekend, but I continue to try to make doing these links easier.
- First, Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution. Ugh. If there were any justice, they'd be paying to clean up this mess for the next 65 years (that's about how long they were knowingly polluting). Or maybe the officers of the company would get a nice swim in the PCB-laden creeks they created. A good book to read if this sort of thing interests you is Neal Stephenson's Zodiac ISBN:0553573861. [daypop]
- Weblogs.Com's Recently Changed Weblogs list is handy for checking to see if someone's updated their blog, especially since sites hosted by Manila don't give a valid "Modified on" time in the HTTP headers (blogspot-hosted sites didn't either, but Ev was going to fix that), and sites like Macintouch won't even let you check without loading the whole page. My big complaint about weblogs.com is that it only goes back 3 hours. Maybe I'll just have to write a script that will snarf its data every hour or two and make my own page that lets me track the blogs I care about.
- Zannah (/usr/bin/girl/) got a new look sometime when I wasn't looking. I think I like it. And she still has a lot of linkage some days. Like I should talk.
- Want a lot of traffic? Just score a Boobies link on Fark! [fark!]
- Weblog Accessibility is another thing I'm working on with Better Nerds. If nothing else, I want to make sure Dave's Picks is as accessible as possible. [cam]
- A MetaFilter Proposal discusses a solution to the problems that caused me to quit reading MetaFilter regularly. [cam]
- put the keyboard down and back away from the weblog explains the difference between a couple types of blogs. [doc]
- muslimpundit.com offers another (Muslim) view of the world since the attack on the WTC and Pentagon. It's some interesting blogging if you want to read some views on the situation you might not otherwise be exposed to. His tagline? Going after starry pan-Islamic futurists with a rubber glove and a sharp stick. [instapundit]
- I suppose I should link to BlogCon2002 sometime, too. No time like the present, I guess. [scripting]
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