Today's thought, via Robert Frost:

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

Sincerely, I'd rather fly naked then have my privacy stripped bare.

Micky Mouse is a RSS man.

And I might be one soon, too. I'll have to think about it a bit. The owner of the Blog Business World Blog suggested that it's the wave of the future in a comment earlier today. I guess if Mickey can do it, I can too.

I've always wondered if those automated phone messages were listening to me hurl expletives at them.

It appears that they will, and they will do something about it.

Eye candy and good css all rolled into one: Web Standards Awards

Rudderless. Directionless. Somedays that's the way it feels when you've got a lot of decisions to make, and no notion of which ones are best.

Where do you find direction? What inspires you, and motivates you thoughout the day?

Here's one to keep in mind from Theodore Roosevelt:

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly, I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Remember Verisign's sitefinder? It looks as though VeriSign hasn't forgotten

Powerpoint is a tool. It is only a tool. It is not the presentation. Jeffrey Veen has some excellent recomendations about presentations: Seven Steps to Better Presentations

Why is public access to public records so hard?

I'm not surprised that a school district is refusing to grant work study credits for work at Hooters. A learning experience it was, though.

I started to learn CSS in 1997, and gave up in frustration. Have things gotten better? What about The IE Factor

Very well written undercover piece from Edmonds: Confessions of a Car Salesman

I'm reading about atom and site feeds in the Blogger Forum - Forum, and wondering if it's something that I need to do here, or want to do.

Chami.com FavIcon Generator

Nice article at A List Apart on The Perfect 404

The Medieval European Knight vs. The Feudal Japanese Samurai

Who says that a Cat and Bear can't be best friends?

RIAA raids reminiscent of police busts

Can you hear me now - a history of speech synthesis machines

new speculation about settlers of North America

The Fax machine was invented in 1843, and it's still going strong: Fax - the technology that refuses to die

What you watching tv when you should be watching the road

Do people remember brands?

I like the word "expunged". It's a favorite. As in, let's expunge the words on this Banished Words List!

I like these CSS mini tutorials. This one is the easy way to Liquid layouts.

Congratulations, Sir Tim

Will people answer a plea from wikimedia? I hope so.

Is it an ever eroding Microsoft marketshare?

I haven't really looked over or studied in detail the USA PATRIOT Act, the sequel. Unfortunately, I'm guess that most Congressmen share that lack in common with me. They have no excuses.

This blog really hasn't been as nasty as it wants to be.

I suspect I'm not even going to get a bag of coal for christmas this year.

The next year will be much brighter. Count on it.

The first step will be a new template. Soon appearing on a web site near you.

Information just wants to be free in Coffee-houses

From the helpful folks at blogger comes another in their line of creative tutorials How To Get A Book Deal With Your Blog

Development of frozen light

Thursdays are the third best day of the week.

notestips.com :: The benefits of a fixed width design

There are some really excellent suggestions made in Jakob Nielsen's article on Automated Email From Websites to Customers

How many Patents do you have to pay a license upon if you start an internet video store?

Hamlet - The Text Adventure

FDR should stay on the dime

Kind of fun... The American Package Museum

I've felt like I was trapped in a snow globe all day long, with the translucent walls slowly closing in. The first snowstorm of the year will do that, I guess.

Three times is one more than twice as nice? Bubba Bubba Bubba

It will be a cold, cold day in hell before I believe that the United Nations should oversee the running of the internet.

This is wrong:

'Standardization is one of the essential building blocks of the Information Society,' reads the most recent draft of the WSIS Draft Declaration of Principles. 'There should be particular emphasis on the development and adoption of international standards.'

The mass homogenization of ideas is what impedes growth and limits innovation.

We're getting close to Christmas, and I haven't done a bit of shopping yet. I have a feeling I'm going to hurt my credit cards this year. Ouch!

Ancient Roman 20-sided die

If this new Spam Bill passes, I'll be forwarding every spam I receive to local, state, and federal governments for enforcement, and encouraging others to do the same.

The winners of the Visionary Design Awards will be announced on December 2.

really small guitars

We're making short order of a Turkey today at A Nasty Bit of Business. Be careful, or we might do the same of you, you turkeys!

Pass the cranberries now, would you?

Doctors baffled as Indian man claims not to have eaten for 68 years

One of the unsung great songs from the 80s has been recycled by the foo fighters: Song Sung Purple

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Master/Slave)

Wired News: Congress Expands FBI Spying Power

On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral

FOXNews.com - Politics - Singles Seek Financial, Legal Perks Offered Marrieds

Guardian Unlimited Money | Special_reports | Nigerian email conmen fall into their targets' net

Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music From Back Roads To Big City

TheStar.com - E-learning grows in workplace

SBC challenges RIAA over subpoenas | CNET News.com

The 10 Biggest Spam Myths

Alex Ross and Neal Adams talk about the meaning of Patriotism in The Village Voice: Features: American Gods by R.C. Baker

Six Apart Announces First License of its TypePad Personal Weblogging Service to NIFTY, one of Japan's Leading ISPs

CNN.com - Rich nations flunk in educating poor - Nov. 18, 2003

A pretty nice service from the National Weather Service. I'm going to have to find a way to parse this information onto a few web sites: NOAA - National Weather Service - Experimental Listings of Watches, Warnings, and Advisories by State in HTML, RSS and XML formats

House Committee on Energy and Commerce Agreement On Historic Anti-Spam Bill

A visual guide to navigating blog comments | Blog | 1976design.com

Edge: Why Gordian Software has Convinced me to Believe in the Reality of Cats and Apples

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

Old fish turns 65, even older fish in Chicago

mediabistro.com: Articles: I Was Stalked on Amazon.com

komo news | Local Teen Singing The Blues After Being Sued For Downloading Music

Court limits in-car FBI spying

Decades Old Cabaret Law Faces Repeal

Wired News: Record Label Sings New Tune

It's funny where business will force you to go when you're just starting out. for instance, check out this New Startup Secret: Dumpster Diving

Frightening and sad, the House Government Reform Committee is taking a close look at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and how they behaved in FBI Handling of Mob Informants Condemned

Most problems with computers at work are really with the people. Train your employees. Give them the chance, and the impetus to learn. Reward them for finding, faster, better, smarter, ways to do their work. Talk to them.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Scientists find mystery particle

CNNNN: Chaser Non-Stop News Network

Wired News: Is RFID Technology Easy to Foil?

Digital Web Magazine - Features: Web design and integrated marketing

FilmForce: Confirmed: Farscape Miniseries on the Way!

Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests

You can copyright artistic works, and you can copyright unique expressions, but when you try to demolish your competitors by claiming that they are violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when your claimed copyrighted material is the code used to open a garage door, is there a risk of being greeted with sanctions and forced to apologize on your knees? See: Wired News: Opening Doors With the DMCA

Some of these work, and some of them don't, but all of the are interesting visual interpretations: The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were

What ever happened to the boy playing banjo in the movie Deliverance. Tim Burton found out.

Berklee Shares: free music lessons, mp3, quicktime and pdf files download

Windows at twenty

Most peculiar momma: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter in woods

The 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S.

Supreme Court to Hear Case of Detainees at Guantanamo

If you're not breaking bread, your Atkins Diet may be breaking bakers.

Just why is there now a Google Deskbar?

GigaOm: Essays: The Dawn of the MicroPubs

Wilmington, Delaware, was site to a unique new service, back in 1909: Distributing Music Over Telephone Lines

Via Blogdex, an excellent site on Colour Order Systems in Art and Science

I believe it. Rock and roll crushed communism

From a comment on Adam Kalsey's blog: Pfizer speaks about spam

Adam Kalsey takes on Spam. Nicely done!

Spammed by your own router