There's a new, faster lake-crossing ferry, traveling from Milwaukee to Muskegon in 2 1/2 hours. The Trib has a story with some history of lake-crossing ferries.
Me3dia has moved on to a better place. It can't be beat.
Chicago Wilderness Site Finder "Search for sites that you can visit in Chicago Wilderness by selecting a site name, activity, amenity, site type, and/or county. "
John Woo will be in Chicago on June 12 to receive the Gene Siskel Film Center’s inaugural Visionary Award. Link found on Chicagoist, our newest local newsblog. I agree with them, he needs to makes more movies like Killer, and Bullet in the Head, Or at least release those and his other bullet-riddled classics on DVD (in our region).
Some design blogs I should be paying attention to.
Authentic Boredom Including some great how-to's.
And of course the mother of all design blogs - kaliber10000
KiloGhits and megaGhits: measuring web frequency "A measurement in Ghits will be by definition a count of the number of web pages returned by a search pattern "
Why Blogs Matter "Using the Google API, I've been tracking the position of Blogs vs Traditional Media on a range of different queries for a number of months. The visualizations below, crafted with DHTML, portray a set of related queries." The conclusion? "blogs matter because users encounter them in high ranking positions in web searches".
Conversion from Pantone to RGB to Hex HTML I would suggest copying this page and saving it locally before the Pantone lawyers descend and shut it down.
Blog Software Breakdown "This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog software packages side-by-side for comparison. " I'm presently looking for a new CMS myself. My requirements - free, installed on my choice of server, categories, photo upload feature, support for managing multiple-blogs with multiple authors, some sort of comment spam control or at least a fast way to delete them, no more God-damn "Out of memory during "large" request for 528384 bytes, total sbrk() is 8338392 bytes at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DB_File.pm line 252" errors!
Mena asks how we use MT. I am using MT 2.661 to run three blogs: this one, my Food Blog, and a camping blog for 7 authors (friends I go camping with).
None of these are commercial, although I will admit to creating (and shutting down) a blog or two with 3 or 4 authors so we could bat around a few ideas that might become commercial. I've used an earlier version as a project management site but switched to a simple perl script and interface for such projects.
I have not paid any fees to Six Apart, but I did buy Ben and Mena a drink once, and drove them to their Hotel when they were in town.
Why haven't I enabled trackback? Because it causes rebuild errors and since this whole hobby takes enough of my time, I not willing to spend time or money on tech support. Besides, if I trackback to Mena's site, she'd find out I've never paid and come kick my ass.
That all said, I'd recommend reading the Sixlog's trackback's for this question. It's full of fascinating accounts of how the MT software, and the Web are being used for cummunication and documentation in many peoples lives. One thing is for sure, it's a nice established market that Ben and Mena and the rest of the Six Apart team deserve to profit from.
I went camping in Hoosier National Forest this weekend, where we usually see some pretty wierd insects - giant stick insects, enormous wolf spiders etc. But it was really wierd to see a few 17-year Brood X cicadas emerging. The climb up the trees at night, pop out of their shells, looking very pale, except for red eyes and two dark false eye spots. After a few hours their wings start unfolding, and after a few more hours, they darken.
Unlike the Bloomington Ind. man who ate 30 of them, we didn't taste them. I eat just about anything, but these were just too eerie.
All kinds of info on Periodical Cicadas
The Smithsonian has a good cicada image gallery
