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Jason, Evan, and Dan are discussing a web-of-trust relationship to filter sites. I agree, but I feel that if the content was on each author's personal site -- perhaps as well as a specialized topic site -- to see opinions of those you trust, you'd just have to go to their site! no messing around. no banner ads. no company involved.

scenario: I trust ev. I go to his site to read his opinions. From his site, he links to people he trusts. I meet new people I might trust, at their site.

I guess the problem with this is when you're specificly looking for advice about a '99 canyonero. That's where the reviews would need to be published in some sort of extensible markup-type language that some sort of program could index. [wav found here]

Tonight I'm drinking -- from the Shone Farm in the Russian River Valley -- Davis Bynum Fume Blanc. It's no pinot noir. But it's very good.

The Sonoma Traveler: "Everyone, it seems, wants pinot noir from this valley, and well they should."

Pulp Fiction, as drawn by the Simpsons Animators. [via kottke, purple monkey dishwasher.]

It would be great if someone provided a behind-the-scenes database of book information, kind of like CDDB.

This is hilarious. Doom as a tool for system administration. I'm not sure sysadmins need more adrenalin running through their veins. [via matt]

Not on that list is a book I'm reading called Man and Crisis by Jose Ortega y Gasset. It's good. Or is it just in agreement with the context of our current constructed sense of history? <g>

Last night I stayed up past my bedtime to put together an xml version of my reading list. I looked for a standard book definition format, but couldn't find one, so I made up my own.

Next time I'm motivated to work on this site, I'm going to write an ASP script to transform the XML to HTML on the server-side. Then I'm going to write a few different XSL stylesheets to transform it as well. Fun stuff. Good practice.

I have an idea. all capital letters, PB = evil drug. :( all lowercase letters, pb = happy blogger. :)

oh no: "Defense Department officials presented the 385-page review of scientific literature on the drug pyriostigmine bromide, or PB, at a news conference today."

My poor, little, innocent nickname is about to be associated with something very evil.

epinions is now syndicating review headlines (along with a short excerpt) in rss. cool.

Today I'm listening to Ocean Colour Scene's moseley shoals. It rocks and then some.