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Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:12:43 GMT

Lesbian Park Rangers. There's a new elite force protecting the wilderness in Canada; a duo whose love of the bush has become more than a vocation, it has become a calling. This is the story of some rangers who, unlike Mounties, aren't interested in getting their man. Meet the Lesbian Park Rangers. [MetaFilter]

this is an intereting art project…. the whole identity vs institution thing is usually underplayed

June 18, 2003   No Comments

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:09:57 GMT

on-line lectures. On-line recordings of lectures delivered at Columbia University's architecture school. Speakers included Alvaro Siza, Bernard Tschumi, Marshall Berman, and a number of other important architects and urbanists. [A bit more inside.] [MetaFilter]

i've always liked reading about architecture, so here this is.

June 18, 2003   No Comments

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:54:13 GMT

RSS Kerfluffle. Dave Winer says that MoveableType's RSS support is “funky”. Aaron Swartz offers an extensive and sensible survey of the question. [Mark Bernstein]
mark asks later, 'can we please just talk about the tech' and the answer is 'no' because if it was about the tech, it would have been solved, now you are in the realm of egos and politics, best of luck.

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Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:34:56 GMT

Mac on an iPAQ.

iPAQmac.jpgThis almost looks like an elaborate hoax, but apparently someone has figured out to get the Mac operating system to run on an iPAQ Pocket PC. Not that there's a whole lot you would actually accomplish by doing so, except to prove it could be done.
Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]

[Gizmodo]

i think this is a fake, a fake, a fake, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.

June 18, 2003   No Comments

do not go gently into that good night

Dylan Thomas – 50th Anniversary of the Poet's Death. And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
Fifty years ago, Dylan Thomas – one of the greatest poets of our time – drank himself to death in New York's Hotel Chelsea at the age of 39. Swansea, his Welsh hometown, will be commemorating his life all year, culminating in a festival in the fall. [more] [MetaFilter]

Dylan Thomas is one of those quintessential poets that will be long celebrated.

June 18, 2003   No Comments

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:19:52 GMT

On Search: The Users. Herewith Chapter Two of the search travelogue. Between late 1994 and early 1996 I was occupied full-time and then some building and running one of the first Web search engines, the long-departed Open Text Index. There weren‰??t many million-hits-a-day sites back then. When you‰??re running that kind of thing, you spend a lot of time watching your logs to figure out what your users are doing and what makes them happy. There are two lessons that loom larger than all the others put together…. [ongoing]

this is somewhat insightful, i wonder if anyone has similar insights on blogs. I know that when i analyze my logs from my blog it tends to show that most people view only the current page, unless the other pages show up on a search, and then they view a specific page.

June 18, 2003   No Comments