October 2003

Wow, loads of kind words floating around for yours truly, and better yet they all come from people who deserve some attention back.
has a fabulous series of going up right now. Excellent stuff, they look like the sites title, very urban, very architectural, with a real feeling of rhythm and motion.

The always fabulous has moved on to , a site I utterly failed to assist on as promised. My bad. Actually looks better for it though, thoroughly enjoyable.

is all new to me and damn good, chock full of linkage. Kinda Bjork-y is kinda a compliment and kinda leaves me a bit confused..

. But hey I'll take what I can get. Lead me to this great little .

is Ryan McGinness' design firm, and they've recently either launched , or recently made the bulk of it accessible to my popup blocking browser.
Not quite sure how many people are in the firm, but if its small then I'm not quire sure if they sleep at all..

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Great Stuff. One pet peeve they are guilty of though, using an impersonal email as contact info on the site.

Personally I believe that all companies should have a human face. And part of that requires listing a human name and a named email as contact info. Seeing things like info@blahblah.

com contact@egosum.com just leaves me cold. Tells us your name, really.

Or just make one up. But make an effort to appear human, ok?
It doesn't stop does it?

What doesn't you ask? The Bush administration's war on reality of course. Perhaps one could even call it a war.

The latest?
The White House web site one small file recently. A file called robots.

txt. Robots.txt is used mainly by search engines like Google.

The White House changed it in a what that Google will no longer index any story on the White House about Iraq.
The purpose? No one really knows, but the best guess is they want to prevent Google from caching the pages.

Why? To rewrite history of course. They got , changing all references to the end of combat in Iraq, to read the end of major combat.

Now it seems they are prepping to change whatever they want. Guess pretending to own a country makes you think you can do these things..

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