Category: Misc.

Somehow I fear this hat will not be a commercial success.

RideAccidents.com “is the world’s single most comprehensive, detailed, updated, accurate, and complete source of amusement ride accident reports and related news.”

No word as to whether or not the site’s done by the fine folks at Bus Plunge.

Investor’s Business Daily: “…Now blogs are moving beyond personal musings and taking on a new role: corporate communications. A growing number of businesses are using the blog format to promote products, interact with customers and shareholders, conduct market research and distribute company announcements.”

This is exciting stuff; I’m really interested to see if organizations can use Weblogs to disseminate information and control their messages. Particularly nonprofits, since the Web is the perfect medium for cheap, grassroots-level communication. Corporations are starting to catch on; after all, Micro$oft has their own blog-enabled intellectual dancing monkey–er, “technical evangelist”–on their payroll.

Communicating via cell phone-to-cell phone text messages is huge in Taiwan, and I miss “texting” here. Will the practice, which is hugely popular in Europe and Asia, ever catch on in the US? Here’s a 2003 Economist article that addresses the question.

Funny.

…to Dana and my buddy Nick M., who recently got hitched in Vegas!

Wendy H. posted this last month, but I’d forgotten about it. She thinks I’m a genius. Tell that to Kate Lee so I can get a big fat book deal and sell out already. Please.

Here’s a nice description of the perils of the weak US dollar. I still have trouble getting my head around the concept, though.

Made it up to DC yesterday without incident. (Except getting bogged down in Cherry Blossom Festival traffic once I entered the beltway.)

Also, God this Intarweb thingie is sure kewl. Less than an hour after posting an apartment-sublet-wanted-note on DC’s Craigslist, I’d received six emailed responses. Not bad.

I’m driving up to DC today. Friends in Washington: I shall see you soon. Friends in NY, Boston, and elsewhere: I shall also see you soon (though I’m not sure exactly when). Can’t wait to stop, as I always do, for some burritos and fireworks at South of the Border. God I love that place. (I may just decide to stay there for the night.)

(Oh, and by the way, since the Google Maps satellite thing proved so popular, I give you this: Google Sightseeing.)