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kip has some great photos of Lincoln, NE.

thinking of starting your own weblog? Is your name up to the task? Better get a hip, happinin' weblogger name. [via Dan "Now that's a weblogging name" Hartung]

oh dear.

oh, and I forgot to mention, Brill's Content's cover this month is disgusting. I don't care what sense of "irony" or "superior irony" they think they have. (that's my superior ironic sense of "inferior morality" talking.)

BRILL'S CONTENT: Why We Look Different: "A magazine's design--or, in this instance, its redesign--pretty much has to speak for itself. Nothing I tell you about how we chose our color palette, or why we've changed fonts, will determine whether our new design works for you."

It doesn't work for me at all. It sucks. Brill's Content now looks like every other crappy magazine on the rack, and I really used to enjoy the look of this magazine when it arrived in my mailbox. What a disappointment.

megnut needs new hair. I voted for blonde, but encouraged her to include the "shave it all off" option. I seriously think it would look good. Kind of an old Ani Difranco/Buddhist Monk look.

I wrote a rushed, mediocre paper about y2k in April of '98. It was for my Belief Systems class, otherwise known as Anthropology 431 (or something). It's interesting (to me) to go back and read it now. My thesis was: "...a new millenarian revitalistic movement is emerging in the wake of the 'millennium bug.' It is an attempt to deal with cultural stress associated with increased reliance on technology and an attempt to revive pessimistic views of the future." huh.

Dan Gillmore: "The new company, AOL Time Warner, will have more power over the creation and distribution of news and entertainment than any entity on the planet. It will obviously spur other news/entertaiment companies toward mega-mergers, thereby continuing the consolidation of information providers. This is dangerous."

who will control just about everything you read/see/hear? AOL and Disney. when they merge, I'm moving to France.

AOL, PBS Forge Online, On-air Alliance: "America Online, which Monday announced a merger with Time Warner, also forged a cross-promotion and content-sharing alliance with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)." fuck.

overheard at the mall:

woman: my new mantra for this year is be here now, be here now, be here now.
man: [blank stare]
woman: you know, like instead of thinking about my vacation next month or things in the future I should be in this moment.
man: [silence]
woman: be here now.

you may have seen todd levin's your ad here before. It's not new. I'm linking to it now. You can mention things even though they're not new. This is one of my new mottos. (actually not new, but I can mention things even though they're not new. see motto.)