. I’m sitting here and it’s three in the morning and I’ve come across two sites that have (not quite literally) knocked me off my chair. The first one I just wrote about. The second one is the new {fray} piece by Derek Powazek, illustrated by Claire Robertson: playing with fire. Maybe I get around in the wrong circles or something, but it’s been 5 years or so since Carl (with friends) did Rats to Cats, and I haven’t seen anyone really push the idea of illustration on the web, mixed with great text, in the same way that Derek and Claire have now done. Congratulations are in order.
Archives for 2000
Whoa. Nice
Whoa. Nice. haughey.com redesigns. Not something I normally comment upon, but then they’re not always as radical as matthowie’s redesign.
No one tops Gilles Vigneault
, really, at describing Quebec. “Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays c’est l’hiver” is how he put it – roughly – my country isn’t a country, it’s winter.
We had over a foot of snow dump on us in the last week, today it’s warm and it might rain – leading to whispered concerns that we might have another ice storm like the great verglas of 1998.
And yet, and yet… things go on. Cheerfully. The pubs on St-Laurent were packed last night. Christmas shopping continues apace, amidst 24-hour-a-day snow removal that messes with parking, walking, driving – everything.
I really couldn’t imagine living anywhere else but here.
Minor changes
to mikel.org this morning. First up, I’ve ditched the “cam” link from the main navigation at the top right. It wasn’t really a webcam per se anymore – it was just a popup with a static picture. I’ve replaced it with “msg me” – through which you can send a short message to my cel. I added the cam link on the side, along with a link to the Oh Candy Land weblog I’m having fun with now. I also split off the different categories of links from one another a little bit more – although I didn’t bother to add category text because it seems to me that the differences are more or less self-evident. The first group of links is to projects I’m involved in or things I’ve done on the site. The second set (only two links) are to things I’ve been involved with for some years. And the bulk of the links are to other weblogs.
Lots of people follow
the trials and tribulations of Napster, but there’s another copyright story that’s just as important, and in many ways is the flip side of the coin. Freelancers’ rights have been drastically eroded over the past several years as big publications have drooled over the record labels’ “work for hire” contracts with their bands and have tried to implement the same for writers. Wired News is reporting on Featurewell.com, who have joined the issue on behalf of freelance writers.
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