In Case You Missed It: Procrastination Edition
Stuff I’ve been reading while I should have been studying…stuff you’ll probably read when you should be sleeping.
Heather Armstrong: Good Dog. Sasha is trying to convince me to go XHTML 1.1 Strict.
Ken Womack: Dear Hollywood. Movies…They’re, uh, worth it.
Ethan Marcotte: The Eolas matter. An open letter to Mike Doyle: bite me. Thank you.
Ethan is one of my new favorite web designers.
Pentrix: Leigun. Stuff to learn before I graduate college.
Six Apart: TypePad’s Official Launch. A few of my friends that have been asking about how to start a blog should head on over to Typepad and kick the tires.
Mozilla QuickNote extention–not a bad way to edit CSS.
TopStyle Lite–but this is much better. 
RealVNC–techies, go download this software right now. RealVNC has now solved two real-world problems for me on the fly. Very few pieces of software can lay claim to such feats.
Michael Barrish: The Plight of the Orange Juice Container [PG]. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before. I will be famous not for my writing but for my method of finding lost things.
Simon Willison: IE6, italics and horizontal scrollbars. IE users: notice that annoying horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of your screen? This is actually an IE bug: text that is italicized and aligned to “justify” will make IE think that it will extend off of the page. Just one more reason to switch to a better browser. Solutions for a workaround are welcome.
Peter-Paul Koch: JavaScript. Because JavaScript is always harder than it should be.
Stuart Langridge: Plus ca change. I’ve just noticed how, after browsing around Mark’s site, how irrationally annoyed I’m already getting when I can’t step from one page to the next using the toolbar on other people’s sites.
I, too, installed the Firebird Link Toolbar and became irrationally annoyed that my site didn’t work like Mark’s. So, naturally, I irrationally spent several hours adding <link> tags all over Our Story. Oh, but it’s so worth it. 
Mark Pilgrim: Friend of a friend. Something else that I discovered I didn’t have: a FOAF profile. I’m still trying to figure out why this is cool…
FoaF Explorer: Ken Walker. …but, hey, it couldn’t hurt.
Movable Type User Manual: Rebuild this template automatically. I went through every index template on Our Story and unchecked this box for every one I didn’t think was worth rebuilding automatically. You shouldn’t have to go wax your car now in order to wait for your comment to post.
Sean Boisen: Why I Blog. If you want to know why I blog, you’ll want to read chapter two of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
Jess Morrissette: Roger Wilco’s Virtual Broomcloset. This site is Roger Wilco’s Virtual Broomcloset (a.k.a., The Virtual Broomcloset, The Broomcloset, Wanda)–the web’s first and foremost site devoted to providing hints, information, and lots of other neat stuff for fans of Sierra’s Space Quest series.
Mmmm…nostalgia.
Noteworthy Xian Church/Organization sites:
* emergingchurch.info – A touching place for the emerging church
* Bruderhof Communities – Content. Rich.
* Forth Worth Presbyterian Church – It’s a church website! It’s a blog! It’s both!
Categorized as Culture, On the Radar
I have been using VNC for a long time. I recently discovered Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ .
I had to share b/c it ROCKS.
FYI you get a 404 error for Bruderhof http://www.bruderhof.com/us/
You must include the “index.htm” http://www.bruderhof.com/us/index.htm
Or just remove the “us/” http://www.bruderhof.com/
Sean–this is fixed. Thanks.
Ken,
The Church web link is dead , too. I wanted to see that one…I’ll google it and see if I can find it…..but a heads up anyhoot….
Dale
Hey Dale–it was working for me…? Maybe they were having site issues?
In particular, you might want to scope this page:
http://www.fortworthpca.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=30
One of the elders writes a blog called “Weiser Words” at that page.
Thanks for the link to the Broomcloset! I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed the site!
I love that series. I was given “Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers”, and I still have it.
“Ahh! The aroma of several adventure games emanates from your person.”
I totally grew up on the Space Quest series, playing and beating games I, II, III, and IV. All of them, of course, were pirated.
I’ve been trying to get my hands on the Space Quest Collection lately. It used to sell for $20, but now goes for as much as $60 or $70 on eBay!