THE EXPERIMENT CONTINUES
11:15A

FLASHING
1:01P

Nice content blog by Joe Clark. An alternative to Jakob Nielsen? I see that he recommends Georgia or Verdana as the most readable type of choice. You can download from Microsoft.

Have you read about the Great Domain Name Rip-Off, Courtesy of Network Solutions?

Hep me mama, I've been Flashin'. Here's some urls to inspire. Thanks Marcia for all the good leads!

Examples of Flash

VIR2L. *Great* Flash site. Makes this grown woman want to cry, cry, cry.

HASSELBLAD CAMERA. Clean website. Lets you see the camera from all angles, and you can turn off the music. ;)

HILLMAN CURTIS. Has nicely designed Flash book, "Flash Web Design", with step-by-step instructions and the reasoning behind it.

ETALENT AGENCY. Creative Flash site.

JIM'S BIG EGO'S BIOGRAPHY. Check out his song on stress.

PETER HIELSCHER'S FILM AND VIDEOPRODUCTION. Niiiice.

TURBONIUM. Volkswagon's bug site. Fun. Won a Clio.

A CURATOR'S JAPAN DIARY. To the point, great picts.

JOE'S CARTOON'S BUDDY. You have to see their Napster Bad! cartoon.

FLASHLITE: FLASH RESOURCES. This is the link to their list of Flash Sites.

HOLY MATRIMOVIE. A dangerous site. You can make your own movie and send to someone special. Mu-haha!

EYE4U ACTIVE MEDIA. Make your on Flash music. See for some exciting and bold Flash.

SAYIT.COM: FREE CREATIVE EXPRESSION. Make your own Flash movie.

THE COMPLETE FLASH TUTORIAL. They have an fla archive that you can download and look at how they created various effects.

MOOCK.ORG FLASH TUTORIALS. Has tutorials for Flash 4 actionscripts as well as how to work with JavaScript and Flash. He also lists bugs for IE 4.5 for the Mac.

FLASH PLANET. Has tutorials as well as open source fla's.

VIRTUAL-FX FOR FLASH DEVELOPERS. Tutorials for beginners to expert. Also has a section on Gaming.

WEBMONKEY INTRO TO FLASH. Basic stuff.

FUNDAY SUNDAY
11:15A

Web Experiment No. 297 (www.waiter.com) Continued - Honey and I have ordered enough from waiter.com to have amassed a whopping 43906 points. We decided to redeem 35000 of them for 2 tickets to an AMC theater. When I went to redeem, I came up with a blank screen. I hit 'back' and hit 'redeem' again. Again a blank screen. When I went to check out my number of points, the 35000 was subtracted.

INSPIRATION
7:26A

Thanks to Miz Liz, bikergrrl, for today's early morning inspiration:

Good design makes complicated information easy to understand.
Designers are communicators not beautifiers.
Beauty emerges spontaneously when you make decisions on the basis of function.

1:43P
Read spoonfed comments on Blogging: "This isn't community, this is a circle jerk." Lord, knows I would never want to jerk anybody's circle but my own, and so in that vein...

Found a JavaScript that will center a pop-up window in the viewer's screen.

Honey and I are in the middle of compiling and ISP/WebHosting comparison list for the Bay area. I ran across questions to ask your potential ISP.

I got my Palm IIIxe awhile back and am loving it. I saw a running debate on Palm vs Handspring in a mailing list. True the Handspring is cheaper, but it's hard to find in stock at stores, and true instant gratification junkie that I am, I had to have a PDA now and so purchased mine at the dreaded Fry's. (Can you believe they STILL try to check your bag on the way out?) The Palm replaces my calendar and notebook with Web notes that I used to carry and fits in my purse or hip pocket. I did download a Solitaire game that I can play while in meetings and still look connected. If you have a Mac, you have to buy extra parts (adapter for your Hot Sync Cradle). Here's Palm Boulevard, the independent resource.

Here's an article from itworld.com: Netscape 6, The New Web Standard. We'll see.

I've been watching the beginning of the Web dot com washout. Like driving by a bad accident. You can't help but look. Next Dot-coms to Die.

And then there's the demise of Boo.com. I think the quote from Mr. Narasin (CEO of Fashionmall.com who's acquiring said Boo parts) says it all: "They were probably ahead of their time, but such is life." Say la e-Web.

New search engine, ixquick. I did the ol' LMichelle test and it came up great.

PICTURES
8:22A

I've spent the past week putting together my very first online portfolio and, oh mama, am I glad that's over with!

As a reward, I spent yesterday with Honey and a borrowed digital camera. (I'm putting together a group of pictures that I can use on future web collages.) We went to Overfelt Gardens (lots of pictures) and then over the hill to Half Moon Bay where we had clam chowder for lunch at Cameron's. Afterwards we went up a little further on Highway 1 and stopped by the beach (more pictures). When we got home, we caught the matinee of "Shanghai Noon". We finished the day doing a shot of mescal with a friend and then taking the puppies for a ride during sunset. If only time could stand still.

But this morning, back to the other world...

Bottom-Fishing in Dot-Com Land - Where not to look for a job?

...the Virtual Sex banner ads. ;)

11:36A
Yes, it's Corn Cam. Watch corn growing in Iowa. For the city kids who've never seen real corn growing.