There is nothing interesting on the web this week. Except, of course, for Redwolf's Den.
posted by Ed at 1:32 PM

Game tool downloads from Good Ol' ZDNet
posted by Ed at 2:34 PM

Occassionally I check out the "recently updated blogs" on the blogger home page. Today I found the WIU Library Instruction blog, which features gems such as a list of all the rulers of all the nations in the world for the last 300 years. But what the heck is WIU? Where the heck is Slippery Rock?

posted by Ed at 9:55 AM

Who killed Jesus? from The Straight Dope - Interesting. I wonder if it's accurate.

posted by Ed at 1:02 PM

I remember reading What Color is Your Parachute? when I was graduating from college and looking for my first job. Dick Bolles has a web site, jobhuntersbible.com, that continues his advice on careers and life. He has also completely re-written the classic What Color is Your Parachute.

posted by Ed at 8:40 AM

Small world, degrees of separation, interconnections or maybe pure coincidence... Slate's other web sites feature today linked to edge (which is also linked on the redwolf's den links page under What does the future hold?). But it had been a while since I had been to the edge, and the thing that really caught my eye was James J. O'Donnell's address to Penn's graduating class. He compares current events to the sack of Rome in 410 AD (I refuse to say "Common Era" or CE) and comes up with some very interesting observations.

From another Slate link, observations on Eritrea and its history and potential.

Lord help me, but am I becoming a warblogger or what?


posted by Ed at 1:36 PM

Warbloggin'

Some thoughts occurred to me while I was watching the cable news outlets this evening.

First of all, why isn't anyone questioning the NSA about intelligence failures on 9/11? It was always my impression that the NSA's mission was to coordinate the intelligence assets of the US government. It turns out this is not correct, that the mission of the NSA is to secure the information infrastructure of the USA. Even so, shouldn't there be some NSA role in identifying terrorist threats to the USA?

The other thing, that seems apparent to dumb ol' me, is that Al Qaeda has shown dogged persistence in pursuing the WTC as a target. It took more than 8 years after the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center for the second, successful attack. From what I recall of reports after 9/11, it seems that the White House and Capitol Building may have been the original targets of American Flight 77 (Pentagon crash) and United Flight 93 (PA crash). If this is a possibility, don't we need to take a very long view of potential threats to the White House and Capitol? Why isn't this being reported in the media? Is it in the blogs?
posted by Ed at 11:58 PM

I just can't blog any more.
posted by Ed at 10:55 AM

The Underhills

Based on John Corante's article about finding music on blogs, I feel compelled to blog The Underhills and their mp3's. Bluto's Lament is one of my fave's.

6/14 Update: John Corante's follow-up on blogged creativity. Emergent Music looks like it could have HUGE potential.

Update to the update: While I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Emergent Music will take off, I'm worried. Gary Robinson just reminds me of too many people from the last 20 years who were enamored of Betamax, DR-DOS, OS/2, etc. Maybe the technology is better, but the product may fall by the wayside. Gary, have you read Seth Godin's stuff?

6/17 update - Wired's MP3 News collection

posted by Ed at 1:06 PM

Should geekissues.org be on my daily read list? How about their collection of humorous irc quotes?
Another candidate for Daily Read is Whitney Matheson's Hip Clicks weblog on USA Today Online.
Whitney also gave me radio playlists online.
And Watch with Wanda on E! Online.

posted by Ed at 10:03 AM

When we needed more business a few months ago, my boss compared getting new clients to getting a date. He didn't have this scientific approach to dating I saw on memepool.
posted by Ed at 12:20 PM

Blog, blog, blog, blog-blog

I'm sure this will be some kind of abortive post, but John Corante's blog and Jim Lileks' bleat made me want to list some links. First off, what does everyone see in instapundit and Andrew Sullivan (no links - find them yourself). John linked over to John Udell's Radio Blog from June 6 which got me to ">.
Okay, I'm losing it. some random links:
Google search for horizon of observability
More John Udell
Something from Cameron Barrett
Cameron Barrett's top 25 meme producers:

1. scripting.com, 149
2. ncf.ca/~ek867, 104
3. davelog.com, 91
4. dangerousmeta.com, 83
5. randomwalks.com, 82
6. camworld.com, 78
7. swallowingtacks.com, 69
8. themorningnews.org, 67
   
9. wannabegirl.org, 66
10. booboolina.com, 65
11. zeggelaar.com/log, 63
12. robotwisdom.com, 63
13. bulltown.com/dailywebthing, 60
14. fredleal.com/blog, 60
15. tonie.net, 59
16. world.std.com/home/dacha/www/emg/public_html, 59
17. swaine.com, 57
18. smartass.nu/blog, 57
19. doc.weblogs.com, 55
20. geocities.com/radio_mookie, 54
21. watnou.com, 54
22. megosteve.com 53
23. letsvamos.com/letsblogar, 52
24. 42.cabaretvoltaire.com, 52
25. blahblahblog.com, 51

Interesting - the only one that showed I had visited recently was wannabegirl. Guess I gotta hop on those memes a little faster.
posted by Ed at 1:37 PM

Thank you Fark, for the tongue twisters.
posted by Ed at 11:35 AM

What happended to the Friday Five? (misspelling left intentionally). If you know, send me an e-mail. If I didn't add anything to yesterday's post, yet, please pretend that I did and that it is pithy and insightful.
posted by Ed at 9:38 AM

Well, I was reading an iwon article about the new security flaw (which in my mind I have dubbed "the gopher hole") and started to wonder whatever havppend to the gopher protocol. Well, The Gopher Manifesto wants to Bring Back Gopher And not Fred Grandy's character from the Love Boat, either.
posted by Ed at 11:14 AM