Evany updates

Some Evany updates. If you’ve never been to her site, go go go! I laugh more at this site than I do at The Onion.

Solar eclipse pic from Mir

An extremely nifty picture of the recent solar eclipse as seen from Mir. Wow.

What’s your ICQ number?

New poll: I’ve been thinking about this for a couple of days now and the mention on evhead of people auctioning off low ICQ numbers on eBay prompted me to wonder:

View the results. (If you’d like to add this poll to your site - please do! - just link to the poll page.)

My ICQ number is in the 20-30 million range…I got in late in the game and never use the damn thing anyway. Oddly enough, my dad, who is not exactly an early adopter of new Internet technology, has the lowest number of anyone I know at just over 650,000.

The lowest number I could find on the system was 10,002, used by a “Sandman” with an icq.com email address. One of the founders of the company, I would suppose.

Nice things about Silkscreen

People have been saying lots of nice things about Silkscreen so far (thanks for the feedback)….some have even used it in their Web and print projects. Not bad for a font that’s only been around for less than a week.

Entropy8 redesign

I’m going to come right out and say that I am not a big fan of the new Entropy8 site. Well, I guess I should qualify that…I’m not as fond of it as I was of the previous incarnation, which was one of my big Web design influences. Auriea does some great work for some great clients.

12 Monkeys

The 12 Monkeys DVD contains a very good “making of” featurette called “The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys”. Highlights: the movie tested *very* poorly at pre-opening screenings but did well at the box office, and I now understand why Hollywood makes so many crappy films. Films are micromanaged by the studios to such a high degree that there is almost no art left in them by the time they reach the theatres. Not to keep beating a dead horse, but if you want to see an artful film that made it through relatively unscathed, go see The Iron Giant.

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything looks like an interesting read. Velocity implies momentum…the faster you go, the harder it is to stop and the bigger the mess when you hit something.

American Love Stories

American Love Stories on the PBS Web site is worth a look. I especially enjoyed this story about a Jewish woman, her black husband, and her mother’s gradual acceptance of him and their children.