An excellent article at Salon about how companies get their names.

A Day Without Art is fast appraoching. The Web site is a little confusing on the subject, but basically the idea is for people to place a DWA banner on their site on Dec 1 as a way to get visitors to your site to think about AIDS. Some people even take down their site [...]

How to be a soopa-famous underground design Web.celeb. This is so great!

Browserola is a Windows program that emulates the rendering engines of major and minor PC browsers. Looks good, quite useful. Download the demo and see for yourself. (Thanks MetaFilter.)

A discussion of the origins of and the differences between the terms "geek" and "nerd". Interestingly, "nerd" seems to have been derived from a Dr. Seuss book.

Search of the day: "naked boggle".

Uploading has launched. I don’t quite know what it is, but I imagine you can find out at the site.

How Neat! The next time this pattern happens? It happens twice more in just three months: 222000 (Feb 2, 2000) and 2222000 (Feb 22, 2000). The next time after that? 222200 (Feb 2, 2200) and 2222200 (Feb 22, 2200). After that, it doesn’t happen for another 800 years or so, until March 3, 3000 (333000).

I decided I needed to start writing things down. Because I think better and feel better when I write. I used to write often but got away from it. So here it is again.