Weblogs are link lists with velocity.

A few weeks ago, I asked for some help in relating dot com marketing copy to gangsta rap lyrics. Thanks to everyone who wrote in. Here are some of the better responses I received: Straight Outta .Compton. People who are easily offended might not want to click on the link. You’ve been warned.

Turns out that Supergreg and Rubberburner are just trying to sell us Lee Jeans.

Stating the Obvious turns five years old today….meaning that Michael was out there publishing good content on the Web before Suck. Before Suck. StO was one of the first sites I saw that really grabbed me by the neck and shook me around (and that was a good thing). Indeed, my first live Web site back in 1995 was *heavily* influenced by Stating the Obvious, as were many others at that time and afterwards. This may sound like a bit of over-exaggeration, but all of you people out there publishing tech- & culture-related content (I’m looking at you, webloggers) owe a small debt of gratitude to StO and Michael. So, Michael, thank you and congratulations.

More rafting photo madness. A few weeks ago, I went rafting with a few friends in California and the pictures are still trickling in. A sampling:

- A professionally taken photo of our raft going through a rapids called “Satan’s Cesspool” (I think). Everyone looks so damn determined, don’t they?

- Meg, slacking on the paddling.

- A shot of the beautiful countryside through which we were floating.

- Freddie Prinze Jr. was on my raft. Jealous?

- An underwater picture of me and Meg. The camera was underwater; we were not.

- Group photo of Team Rescue, so named because later in the day, they pulled a tourist and two of their own out of the river.

- Our companion raft shoots the rapids ahead of us while Eddie, our guide’s fearless raft dog, stands watch at the front of our boat.

- Our guide, John, steering the boat.

- Jason, slacking on the paddling. Slack-jawed slacking.

In case you were wondering, the design that was here yesterday has been returned to its rightful owner. Or is he the rightful owner?