Timbu::Musings

New favorite, other than my own of course ;)

For random web surfing there is nothing to beat alltop.com. It is neatly categorized, cleanly implemented and leads you to the blogs rather than driving the traffic and conversation to itself. I love the design. As soon as I find my ambition I want my blog to emulate that clean look.

This little part of the About page cracked me up.

Q. Couldn't I build my own custom aggregation using a feed reader, customizable home pages, Netvibes, etc?

A. Yes, you could--knock yourself out. While you're at it, you could backup your hard disk, bake your own bread, iron your own shirts, floss daily, tune your own car, and bike to work.

I have done all that at one time or another (hopefully my dentist isn't reading this one) but I have the good sense to not try and recreate alltop.com

Full disclosure, I'm trying to get Guy Kawasaki (who is involved in this venture) to start an enterprise.alltop.com feature which would aggregate blogs related to enterprise software and hardware.

When I saw this weird story about a decomposing 90 year old woman I was really hoping it wasn't set in Wisconsin. Wrong again!

The Submarines are releasing a new album, Honeysuckle Weeks. If you like pop-folk-electronic you'll like this. I think you can d/l it already from iTunes if you like your music with the burning smell of DRM. Brooke introduced me to the group and since she was under 25 at the time you can trust her recommendation.

I love a good fixed width font. Microsoft released one with Office 2007 that I love. It is called Consolas & it's available for download.

I don't know how it looks on a traditional monitor, but it looks great on an LCD. Try it!

You can now download your own copy of "Little Brother" under a Creative Commons License. All your favorite formats are there. I you seen one missing be sure and add it yourself.

My fall sailing trip in the Apostle Islands is now officially under way. I've got the boat reserved and now I just need to find the crew.

Someone is working on a novel written 140 words at a time. Neat stuff! [Link from Jeremy]