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"We've had enough of this rich, east-coast snootery!" - ev.

An XML Format for Publishing Reading Lists. it looks so formal!

I really dig the schema documentation. Great tool.

Despite what meg says, Roy Orbison is cool.

I was hoping the site eprefix.com was something cool. It's not.

NQPAOFU: "Quick, Blog, Follow that Content!" hmm, true. [via bovine]

wow, metagrrrl has some nice compliments on her blog. A while back I told her we should write a compliment generator. she is like unto compliment genius. :) Thanks again!

matt and I are discussing ways to extend that XML reading list format I whipped up the other night. Take a look if you're curious.

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.