Last 100 posts, part 5

Last 100 posts is a semi-regular follow-up to stuff that I’ve posted about on kottke.org recently. The last such update was from May 10. Now, on to the shiny and new.

People seemed to like the site refresh. The most popular question I received in response was, “why the heck don’t you change the color on visited links?” This is a good question that I don’t have a good answer for. I recall having a good answer for it several years ago, but I can’t remember what it is. Or maybe it was never a good answer. At any rate, changing the color of the visited links is something I’ll be looking into.

I removed the dropdown menu from the front page. From the emailed reaction to its absence, it is not missed. (But it will still be back in some form soonish.)

Apple switched to Intel chips. I suspect you’ve heard more than you care to about this, so I’m going to leave further research on the topic as an exercise to the reader.

Unsurprisingly, your music collections are a lot more diverse than mine. Galego, Uzbeki, Putonghua, Gujarati, Swahili, and Phil Collinese were among the languages that people found in their music collections.

Look ma, I was in Time magazine.

When I got back from Ireland, I posted a picture to Flickr of an Irish breakfast we had one morning. That got quite a discussion going about if the breakfast was in fact Irish or if it was English or even Scottish and which nation was ripping what breakfast idea from whom. In the end, Flickr user esteban speaks the truth when he says, “God bless the fry up no matter what you call it.”

In case you missed it, reader Peter vanDerbeek made a 2005 summer movies calendar for us all to enjoy.

Still pursuing various rural internet options. The only thing we’ve learned for sure is that Verizon employees are quite nice and helpful. I’m planning on compiling all of the responses and information into a handy guide for folks looking for internet access in the rural US.

The 50 Fun Things to Do with Your iPod feature was quite popular, despite its non-appearance on Slashdot. (What, they don’t like fun? Time to read How To Get Slashdotted again, I guess.) Someone suggested that with the addition of 50 more items, it would make a good book(let)…which isn’t a bad idea at all.

In compiling the ordering strategies for How to order food in a restaurant, I neglected to include Chris Anderson’s forthcoming book on The Long Tail. The LT ordering strategy would probably only work in a place like Shopsin’s, with a menu of hundreds of different items or at places with really large wine lists.

I got sick earlier this month (I’ve still got a cough I can’t get rid of) and wondered who got sick in June. Turns out quite a few of you, including a fairly high proportion of my friends. Many blamed allergies, which probably had something to do with my own ailment as well.