My buddy Monkey Mike has corralled us Webmonkeys together for the somewhat annual Webmonkey Wishlist. My choices weren’t particularly gadgety, but they were still filled with appropriate technerdery.
The hands-down best item? Grappling hook.
Adam DuVander on keeping it simple
My buddy Monkey Mike has corralled us Webmonkeys together for the somewhat annual Webmonkey Wishlist. My choices weren’t particularly gadgety, but they were still filled with appropriate technerdery.
The hands-down best item? Grappling hook.
Adrian Holovaty just announced the Post Remix, which he is also calling Mashington Post (ie, mashup of Washington Post). The site is meant to encourage innovative uses of Post content.
A couple of my projects have been highlighted:
Everything mentioned in Adrian’s post looks pretty cool. I get the feeling this is only the tip of the iceberg.
When I first started WifiPDX, I cobbled together some HTML. It’s been a year since then and definitely time for a new look. Among the things I wanted were the simple pleasures like a consistent navigation between pages and readable text.
I’m more than pleased with the results. The new site was designed by Elliot Swan.
My Portland wireless internet publication and website is looking for reviews of Portland WiFi spots.
We’re collecting information that isn’t available elsewhere from the people who know. How many tabletops does this “unwired coffee shop” have? How about power outlets?
If you’re in Portland and use WiFi, find your closest WiFi spots and write a review for one or more of them. On August 26, I’ll be giving away a nifty WiFi Seeker (pictured left) that helps you find a strong signal.
Over at that famous biography site I help with, there is a random profile of the day. We look at the bundle of over 2,500 famous people and pick one at random to be plastered on the front page that day.
Yesterday it was John Cusack.
Because I’m paranoid about the code I wrote to provide a snippet of the profile, I receive an email every day with the “profile du jour.” I did a double-take and had to check my archives when I saw that…
Today’s profile is John Cusack.
The likelihood, if I may get technical, of the same random profile being chosen two days in a row is one in 6.25 million. That computer has good taste, picking one of my favorite actors two days in a row.
For those who believe in miracles, check in tomorrow and see whether Cusack makes it a hat trick (tech details: 1 in 15.6 billion).