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Monthly Archives: March 2004
Those are nice shoes
2004-03-15 – 10:01
Saturday I was feeling pretty mellow, and decided to brave the great unwashed in a fit of unadorned lust for consumption—I went to the mall. My special lady wasn’t into it, which is only natural because we are complete opposites. So I was dragging her around a circuit of the lower level when we passed [...]
Nifty calendar UI from Microsoft
2004-03-11 – 09:55
DateLens is this funky UI for calendars developed by the VIBE group at Microsoft Research and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. This video give a nice demonstration of the technology. It is available as a plug-in for Outlook.
Maynard circa 1879
2004-03-10 – 09:00
Not much in this wide world is more interesting than old maps. I find they give one a much more palpable sense of history than any other medium. And thanks to Mark Hurst’s Good Experience Newsletter I found my town of Maynard, Massachusetts as it stood in the year 1879.
This map is one of many [...]
This is why I like Tom Waits
2004-03-02 – 10:05
9th & Hennepin
Well it’s Ninth and Hennepin
All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon’s teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
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