I vaguely remember promising that 2003 would be more interesting than 2002 was. How'm I doing so far? Probably not as well as I'd hoped. Odd habits are hard to break. Erm. Old. That's what I meant. Yeah.
- 50 in January? Enjoy or curse it while it lasts. What little snow there was in MN will probably be gone by tomorrow. [strib]
- It's time for the Third Annual Weblog Awards (the bloggies) again. Feel free to nominate me for "sucks less than last year". Er. Or maybe a category that actually exists, like "best non-weblog content of a weblog site" which actually describes all the bits of Dave's Picks that people only seem to get to via google. Of course, you should only do that if you think the rest of Dave's Picks is actually interesting, but I think it's the category in which I have the best shot. I'm probably confused, but even if I am, I might pick up the prize for "Best Meme" which will fall back to the best non-blog content winner. [accordionguy]
- Project: Shutterbug is pictures of people taking pictures.
Point. Click. You're next.
- Huh. There's a minneapolis / st paul craigslist. Why wasn't I informed? According to their fact sheet, it's been running since October 2002. I'd heard about craigslist a few years ago when it was more of a bay-area-only thing, and again when it hit New York, and it's good to see it here in Minneapolis, but the postings there are still a little thin. Then again, considering it took me a couple months to find out about it, I don't think they've made a lot of noise about coming to the Twin Cities.
- The LazyWeb is an interesting idea. Post an idea you think someone else should do, and then point the lazyweb at your posting. People look there, and sometimes they'll implement ideas. It's an idea-repository and a couple of the ideas look like things I might decide to put some time into.
- Wanna see some funky food? Go check out Steve's Foreign Groceries. It's in there. And it's spooky.
- The first documented spam on the 'net was sent by DEC in 1978. The Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978 is interesting, especially, RMS, who said:
I didn't receive the DEC message, but I can't imagine I would have been bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail, and system announcements about babies born, etc. At least a demo MIGHT have been interesting.
There's also a comment thatAPPROPRIATE ACTION IS BEING TAKEN TO PRECLUDE ITS OCCURRENCE AGAIN.
Apparently they're still working on that....[boing boing]