Genealogy...

Genealogy of a new classic.

Afraid of Raw Fish?

If the idea of uncooked salmon, tuna, mackerel, or (yum) sea urchin doesn't appeal, you can try this, this, or this.

21 Years Ago Today

The introduction of Mac. It may appear familiar today, but keep in mind that in 1984, a lot of us in the Fortune 500 world were struggling with MultiMate word-processing software trying to mimic dedicated Wang machines and were impressed by the pie charts from Lotus 1-2-3.

Adding Insult to (Extreme) Injury

I was "googling" for David Weinberger's lectures on taxonomy of ideas and that in the webworld, everything is miscellaneous, when I came across cafe zeno's entry on the subject.

CZ's notes were helpful, but what really got to me was the picture posted on the page. The subject is either real good at "playing possum" or has been subjected to what might be the ultimate in being dissed. How the injury happened, given where the victim is located, is a reasonable question. The subsequent insult suggests another, perhaps less reasonable.

Doc's 'pod scum

Doc Searls didn't really have a use for the phrase -- 'pod scum, but I do. It's all the 0-, 1-, and most 2-star songs that never make it to any playlist you use, but that you keep on your 4-, 20-, 40-, or 60-gig iPod...just because you can.

Hot Rod Art

Cool. Some of my photos have been accepted and are available for download in many sizes at MacDesktops, my favorite source of desktop art.

Grey Pinstripe

Back in September, 2003, I wandered up and down the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk on "Hot Rod Weekend," snapping pics of chopped and channelled cars. I was particularly taken by the paint jobs and some of the details found in those non-factory-standard decorations.

Multi-Flames

Several months ago, I submitted a collection of this hot rod art from that day, but had actually forgotten I had done so. Much to my surprise, I find that two of them (so far) have shown up in their Car and Art categories.

Like I said...Cool.

What Blogging is About

In Authorating, Doc Searls talks about this thing we do.

"The most constructive work we do in blogland isn't 'delivering' the commodity we call 'information,' but rather exercizing the verbs from which the noun information is derived. We inform each other. As human beings, we are what we know, and we know more because we listen to and read and watch sources that enlarge our knowledge. We are therefore literally formed by those processes...We are all authors of each other."

We are what we see, hear, read, and draw, tell, and write. Blogging lets us contribute back to the source of all of us in a way that wasn't available before the technology allowed.

Those who did so before the technological enablers did so because they had the passion to overcome the obstacles. What blogging allows is the nurturing of the passion in a potential and potentially supportive community, along with the discovery of one's voice, and the development of the confidence to identify, develop, and share ourselves in terms of what is important to us.