Sunday, July 30, 2006 :::

Interesting step-by-step analysis of missteps taken by FEMA, the army corps of engineers, and assorted governmental entities during new orleans flood. An excerpt from a longer book on the disaster.

::: posted by johnok at 4:21 PM

keyboard shortcuts for word, mac version and pc. the more useful but less known ones are in the middle. via lifehacker.

::: posted by johnok at 4:14 PM

Friday, July 28, 2006 :::

so now there's a flickr banner available for web sites like mine... guess I should buy a new and better digital camera. via lifehacker.

::: posted by johnok at 10:15 AM

Saturday, July 22, 2006 :::

Gothamist has pointed to me to the one-stop project runway resource blog. recaps, podcast transcriptions, everything.

::: posted by johnok at 1:50 PM

NYT food critic writes about her drastically different experiences at pricey restaurant Le Cirque, first incognito, then as a recognized restaurant reviewer. via kottke.

::: posted by johnok at 1:37 PM

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 :::

article about the message boards at new york mothering site urbanbaby, where anonymous internet sniping and other joys of online communities are coming along nicely. Posted everywhere, but first seen on gothamist.

::: posted by johnok at 4:12 PM

Sunday, July 16, 2006 :::

fascinating video of the lyrebird, which imitates the sounds of its environment with astonishing realism, from other birds' songs to the sound of chainsaws. This link has been sitting in my inbox for about a month, but was originally on boing boing.

::: posted by johnok at 2:15 PM

Friday, July 14, 2006 :::

Looks like this season of project runway is going to be quite dramatic. and gothamist has written a recap.

::: posted by johnok at 5:21 PM

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 :::

Kathy Griffin explains the gays to Larry King. her show, my life on the D-list, has become a guilty pleasure for me lately. her utter shamelessness combined with a resigned acceptance of her station in the firmament of fame and witty captioning make for entertaining viewing.

UPDATE: CNN has a full transcript available.

::: posted by johnok at 5:23 PM

How a book is laid out internally. via kottke.org

::: posted by johnok at 5:11 PM

The Canadian Cartographic Association's weblog is filled with endlessly fascinating links to various sorts of maps and articles on cartography.

::: posted by johnok at 4:45 PM

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 :::

To my surprise, my (un)friendly neighborhood video store has closed! Quite a shame, as they were a great place to go for finding not-so-common titles and such like.

::: posted by johnok at 6:35 PM

The top 10 most beautiful OS X applications. I have delicious library and love it. and old link I sent myself, so I forget where I saw this originally.

::: posted by johnok at 6:28 PM

Friday, July 07, 2006 :::

so I have a lot of old links stashed away, which I will try and post over the next several days or so. here is the first, a japanese news segment about american anime nerds visiting japan.

::: posted by johnok at 2:49 PM