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• Documented Life 6/21/03 
  Description: an autodocumentary by Miles Hochstein
  Comments: "I don't have a specific agenda that I'm aware of, other than a belief that the facts of each and every life are interesting and important."  Miles' life may have been ordinary before but he "messed that up by documenting it so thoroughly" on his site.  Imagine.  A main page consisting of photos of Miles for every year since 1959, when he was born, each linked to page with more photos and details.  "This site may very well be the single most complete (by some standard) visual representation of one person's life available anywhere online."  That may very well be true.  Amazing...
   
• channelping 6/19/03 
  Description: a mixed bag for higher primates
  Comments: Lower primates are sure to be confused by the dingbat icons.  And the side menu, which mixes together internal and external links, arranged by line length, sure looks cool but just might leave usability experts laughing (and lower primates groaning) in the aisles.  Then there's the question:  "Does this site have a purpose?"  Lower primates thrive on such curiosities, and will probably want to know who created this scattered collection of useless crap.  Higher primates, on the other hand, will want to learn about chairs and they're hungry for data to put on their PDAs.  They won't care about the side menu 'cause they love the little icons, and things like the prose clock and phrases like "all your base are belong us" knock their socks off.  I've run out of hands, but need to mention yet another kind of primate - your average, run-of-the-mill human kind, like me.  I'm scattered and somewhat random and easily amused.  More important than that, I'm curious and like to explore.  That's why I think today's pick is simply golden (sorry, it's an inside joke).  Seriously though, it's the creativity that attracts me the most...
   
• Word Chowder 6/16/03 
  Description: a little collection of light verse
  Comments: Though the site's design is a little plain, it is clean and easy to navigate.  Plain is sometimes a good thing.  Today's pick features the enjoyable "light verse" of Scott Emmons in a number of categories plus works from a "guest poet."  It's the lightheartedness of Scott's writing that grabs me, I guess, and the illustrations by Chris Harding do enhance the reader's experience...

  For one flat fee I'll get to see
  The sluts of Old New York.
  My brain is in an e-mail haze.
  Good God, I miss those simple days
  When Spam was jellied pork!

  I hear ya Scott.  Thanks for letting me know about your "little collection."  ;~)
   
• Austin Bloggers 6/13/03 
  Description: aggregating articles about Austin, blogged by its members
  Comments: I first learned about the site at jumpingfish, a personal weblog/journal I read daily, mainly because its author, David Hasan, writes so well (thanks David!).  Today's pick is a unique meta-blog that's a perfect example of an online/offline community in action, in my opinion.  The aggregated content of the weblog comes from a number of Austin, Texas bloggers who utilize a "trackback-enabled blogging tool" or, in cases where they're not using such a tool, the site provides a manual form for pinging the trackback URL (learn more). It's real information about the Austin community, for the Austin community, and the members also get together monthly... offline.  Great idea...
   
• css Zen Garden 6/6/03 
  Description: a demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design
  Comments: CSS is hardly a new thing and though there's a number of excellent resources out there, Dave Shea says "most examples of neat tricks and hacks have been demonstrated by structurists and coders."  He says CSS needs "to be taken seriously by graphic artists" and the purpose of the site is to "excite, inspire, and encourage" graphic artists to take a shot at designing their own masterpiece through modifying its stylesheet and adding their own graphics.  There's already a total of 19 official designs.  "This is a learning exercise as well as a demonstration."  Indeed.  [Antipixel < Simon Willison
   
• haumovie 6/2/03 
  Description: photos and words...it's just safe.
  Comments: "Lack of time and motifs has created this stillness."  Feeling what we all feel, that need to add content, Christian said that "Saturday will be the day."  Content takes time, especially when quality is a concern, but Saturday comes, "so this is the day," and as promised, Christian delivers.  photosdigitalwordslyrical.  "Let's do this."