housingmaps.com
seriously. why didn’t i know about this a few weeks ago. i just found an apartment via craigslist, which required a little legwork, but this would have made it soooo much easier.
and chicago apartment finders was of little help.
so, lesson learned on this one…
i ordered a set of wind chimes from bestkites.com for my mom for mother’s day. that was on the 1st of may. they still haven’t arrived. i’ve already been charged for the item and tried to make contact with the owner several times, to no avail.
after doing a little research [...]
from the wired article on susan kare, the artist who designed those memorable little mac icons, and more recently those little gift icons on facebook:
“Life is too short to track the status updates of virtual strangers.”
yes, yes it is.
a recent article in wired is a perfect example of why to keep track of your passwords, and change them often: linkin park’s mysterious cyberstalker.
try googling “password safety”. you get nearly 60 million results.
in the paper and plastic world, the best safety is your own eyes. in cyberspace you can’t see beyond the login screen. [...]
from a recent freepress.net bulletin:
“Online music is in danger. A recent ruling by an obscure regulatory board threatens to put independent and public radio on the Internet out of business.
The “Copyright Royalty Board” is dramatically increasing the royalties “webcasters” must pay every time they stream a song online. Public Internet radio like NPR is especially [...]
anyone who does any sort of ‘professional’ design work will appreciate this little animation: make a website for me, since we are friends.
umm… how about, no. need further explanation?
this morning i launched a realigned version of the jackson community college home page. it features rotating designs with a student in the foreground and a classroom image in the background, not unlike msu’s home page, which took it’s design directly from cornell. this seems to be a trend in college web marketing and thus [...]
my votes for the bloggies:
web app: wordpress
australia/new zealand: kitta.net
asian: onemanbandwidth
african/middle eastern: healing in iraq
european: la coquette
british/irish: a beautiful revolution
latin american: bestiaria
canadian: drawn!
american: cute overload
photo: digital photography school
craft: make:
food: smitten kitchen
sports: arctic glass
music: stereogum.com
entertainment: go fug yourself
politics: the huffington post
web design: a list apart
technology: gizmodo
topical: treehugger
glbt: daily dose of queer
teen: lylium.org
humor: overheard in new york
writing: waiter [...]
i ran across this web ad on myspace:
hmm… is someone harking for the good ‘ol days of aerosmith?
ill communication?
slate has an article on the merger of the “new” at&t and bellsouth, which essentially makes at&t it’s old self again. the fcc made them agree to uphold net neutrality for two years. hopefully that will be long enough for them to respect customer’s wishes and not put a stranglehold on access to [...]
