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Archive for May, 2006

“Towel Day” is tomorrow

Sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Now there’s a frood who knows where his towel is.

And you want to be like Ford, dontcha?

That’s right. You know you do. And tomorrow, you can.

(If I’ve just written a bunch of words that you can read but which appear to be just this side of gibberish, see the Wikipedia entries for towels and, particularly, for Towel Day.)

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“Wow” is wholly inadequate

Ethan Kaplan of blackrimglasses.com called this one of the best Flickr visualizations he’s ever seen.

So amazing it physically makes my toe twitch.

I can only agree with him completely.

link

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If you’re reading this, I’d like to know who you are.

I’d appreciate it if everyone reading this would head over to my site and participate in a li’l poll to help me discover a little about my audience.

On the right-hand column, you’ll find:

Who are you? What do you want?

  • You know me, and I usually read your blog at the site.
  • You know me, and I usually read your blog via its RSS feed.
  • You don’t know me. I usually read your blog at the site.
  • You don’t know me. I usually read your blog via its RSS feed.

A comment left in reply to this post would be great, but is by no means expected. :-)

Thanks!

And we’re baaaack!

Gmail’s back up.

END OF LINE.

Feh.

Gmail’s down again.
Gmail is down again

It’s been down for at least fifteen minutes.

Neo vs. Robocop

Fantastic li’l film.

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This is strange…

Gmail has been returning a 404 “Not Found” error message for about half an hour.
gmail's 404

ETA: And now, as of 2:55pm, it’s functional again.