1. Absolutely scariest BigMuscleBears profile ever.  ¶ 24a
2. 
   “Now we can talk to cheese anywhere in the world – regardless of their foreign tongues” (S.J. Cat).  ¶ 24b
3. The only mail-order source of vegan Docs is getting out of the business. Should I buy a third pair?  ¶ 19a
4. Fantasy Bear. You can’t really be serious. This is flat-out drag.  ¶ 19b
5. Validation hall of shame. This is essentially an open-ended list, given that more than 90% of Web sites are invalid.  ¶ 19c
6. iTunes Music Store censorship.  ¶ 19d
7. Sexiest. Vegetarian. Alive. I simply can’t think of one, apart from Toby “McGuire.”  ¶ 19e
8. What a superb and mysterious photograph of the superb and mysterious Salam Pax.  ¶ 19f
9. Provincetown Without Pity. Needs more-regular updating and certainly better code. Just vicious enough.  ¶ 15a
10. “Under Construction” signs.  ¶ 15b
11. Bestest photo of the Toronto blackout. Two bestest photos of the New York blackout: Times Square 1, 2. I have near-identical photos of those signs illuminated.  ¶ 15c
12. One of the very few substantial writings by Patric[k] King, citing “Old Modernism vs. Modernism 8.0.” Also: “Emigre’s site itself is an æsthetic disaster lacking any sort of information architecture, opting instead for the throw-all-the-links-at-them school of Web delivery, which indicates to me a firm refusal to make any sort of design decision – and a complete misunderstanding of how the Web is useful as a designed medium. A pity none of them seems to understand the Web.” Story of our lives, really.  ¶ 15d
13. New York City Polaroid Project is a bit of a bore. They’re not taking advantage of the creaminess and the special greens of the SX-70 or SLR 680 film. Plus, grab shots of random urban exteriors are digipic standbys.  ¶ 15e
14. Would you pay AU$39.95 for a logowear T-shirt for a radio network?  ¶ 15f
15. Link summarizer. I get a better rendition by pressing the L key in Lynx. Also Web-development bookmarklets (favelets).  ¶ 15g
16. Utilikilts “mockumercials.” Not exactly funny enough. They need to be gayer.  ¶ 15h
17. Bad Web sites (CHI-Web original).  ¶ 15i
18. Mac Plus Web Server. A smaller, more accurate photo could be in order. See also: Newton Web Server. Next we need, say, an Apple IIGS Web Server, or perhaps a Gamecube Web Server. Or... a TTY Web Server, perhaps.  ¶ 15j
19. Ancient software. I wish I had mine.  ¶ 15a
20. Are you androsexualist? Have you been androsexualised recently?  ¶ 15k
21. Wainwrightism (q.v.):

    What has been your strangest celebrity encounter?

    I’ve met so many goddamn celebrities. I think it had to have been when I met Joanna Lumley and she said, “I love your Web site.” Just the thought of her on a computer, going to a Web site, was funny to me.

    The whole interview’s a keeper.  ¶ 14
22. Album Cover Challenge. I got like nine. Some completist/graphic-design queen I am.  ¶ 13a
23. I’m with MC May Techno Dance Remix: Buy the watch. This is mere days after deciding I am old enough for a genuinely classy watch. If the stunning, 6′1″ raven-haired 3M sales agent on the plane from Ottawa can wear one on the same hand as his matching wedding band, I sure as hell can. ¶ By the way, now that we live in a constitutional democracy, I assuredly do want to get married. There’s a candidate, but he’s not going to make it through the high-pass filter.  ¶ 13b
24. Veganism Weblog. And it’s local. Must have tea with the lad this week. And bash Fab for its dumb-arse article about veganist S&M.  ¶ 13c
25. “Super Sticky Notes will stick on your briefcase or on a leather purse. They’ll stick to computer monitors and on to manila folders. In other words, there is no excuse for forgetting anything at work ever, ever again. Sorry about that.” I have an actual need for such a thing. Like Morrissey, the dream afternoon is spent in a stationer’s, not a peepshow.  ¶ 13d
26. “Heidi’s revival”: How to restore a book at home. Yes, you wash the pages. (I only now realize that the site in question is Emma Jane’s, and she’s the one who sent me the link. Read the label, I guess.) ¶ I’m coming to be more interested in preservation these days. I may eventually remember to write a full post, but have a look at Domesday Redux, and as you’re reading it in rapt wonder, remember that the word is pronounced “Doomsday.”  ¶ 13e
27. Elements of Shirt Numbering. (Shirt-lifting, shurely?!) Imagine the use of high-legibility fonts on jerseys. I have been for years.  ¶ 13f
28. Multilingual quotation marks. (Cf. French [onscreen] typography.)  ¶ 13g
29. Manhood: It’s such a pressing issue that no gay men can be subjects of a story about it. Some expert can, of course, nonetheless pathologize us as being undetectable and sex-crazed.  ¶ 4a
30. Wow, we’ve gotten to the point where straight guys have to be explicitly called such in headlines: “Local straight man speaks about TV makeover”  ¶ 4b

All dates in October 2003.

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