September 29, 2004

Sush!

Get your anal retentive Sushi rankings for New York City here!

September 27, 2004

Yahoo! Search Blog

Yahoo! Search has their own blog.

Pretty interesting to see this medium proliferate among the internet professional community. WOnder how long before the pig farmers and dairy distributors how their own. And will that change the nature of the trade magazine busines? After all, their primary service is to function as a gossip rag and a bulletin board.

PaidContent.Org already does this for the, err, paid content business.

September 25, 2004

Interesting page of useful CSS and Web design stuff from FURL

LookSmart's Furl - Popular Headlines.

Welcome Nadders!

Well, I suppose that would be a bad moniker for our new employees, though Google calls theirs "Nooglers"!

Interesting raid on Microsoft assets by the Google guys. They have emerged from their IPO debacle still mostly well-respected, though no longer loved, by the tech community. So if they can re-stoke those anti-Microsoft fires, they should be able to attract a winning team.

I've squirrelled away my nuts for the winter

Thanks to the list of the longest English words with one syllable.

My Medium Can Kick Your Medium's Butt

New study finds people now surf the Net more than they watch TV.

Ha ha! As somebody who has never owned a TV, and who likely spends 70 to 80 hours a week in front of a computer, if not on the Net, I declare Victory!

640 Acres

One square mile for $98,000.

Who's in with me?

Do No Evil, but it's OK to abet it

Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship!!

September 23, 2004

Ride That Wave

Surfing Hurricane Ivan Waves

Google browser coming soon?

Kottke postulates that there is more evidence of a Google browser being imminent.

My question: couldn't they have forked out for longer than a 2-year registration?

Top Five Markets For Guinness

I will bet you one Guinness that you'll never guess:

Here’s the answer (bottom of press release):

No peeking!

We'll be banning it here too

Horrible news about the rampant use of PHP in our high schools.

Who can argue with this zero tolerance approach?

Where's Koch?

You'd think a guy blogging on Northern California baseball would have something to say about Barry Bonds hitting 700, wouldn't ya?

Must be busy at the office!

A Site For Buffaloes

Woot!

September 22, 2004

Favorites

Favorite sign today:

"Shoulder Work
Next 164 Miles"

on Route 101 South in California.

Favorite spam sender today:

Stagflation H. Druid

(they're getting very entertaining at these random combinations of little-used words...)

205 MPH

Forget "I Can't Drive 55", this young man can't drive 155!

September 21, 2004

My bad

According to this poll fromThe Wall Street Journal and Harris Interactive, I would've been better off going to U Mich! (Or at least Carneige Mellon as a safety school...)

My bad, my friends. My bad.

Happy Equinox

Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

September 16, 2004

2004 Electoral Vote Animation

This 2004 Electoral Vote Animation is pretty cool.

September 15, 2004

Italy Trip

So, I've not been blogging the past couple weeks, because I wanted to make a really great Italy trip post.

Well, the really great one is going to have to wait.

In the meantime, please find the photos from my trip here:

Marc's Italy trip photos

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Hey everybody,

It is my birthday today, and thank you so much to everybody who sent good wishes!!

According to Wikipedia, today marks these anniversaries:

608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England
1776 - British land at Kip's Bay during New York Campaign
1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent
1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. (see also deaths, below)
1862 - Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia
1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
1894 - Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang
1914 - The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France
1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold, to become known as penicillin, growing in his laboratory
1931 - The Invergordon Mutiny begins
1950 - United States forces land at Incheon, Korea
1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1981 - Vanuatu is member of the UN

and these births:

Births
973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, novelist (d. 1851)
1857 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1930)
1876 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1889 - Robert Benchley, author (d. 1945)
1890 - Agatha Christie, writer (d. 1976)
1894 - Jean Renoir, film director (d. 1979)
1903 - Roy Acuff, country musician (d. 1992)
1907 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
1913 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, writer (d. 1999)
1915 - Igor Cassini, fashion designer (d. 2002)
1922 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director
1924 - Bobby Short, jazz musician
1924 - Lucebert, Dutch painter and poet
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1928 - Cannonball Adderley, saxophonist, bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist.
1933 - Henry Darrow, actor
1938 - Gaylord Perry, Baseball star
1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football star, actor
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)
1946 - Oliver Stone, film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK) [boooo, booooo! well, at least it's not Michael Moore]
1961 - Dan Marino, American football star
1984 - Prince Harry of Wales

UPDATE:

This was my favorite birthday wish:

From: Ravi Kamble [mailto:ravikamble@*************.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:06 AM
To: Marc Cenedella
Subject: FYI

P.S. Have a great one.