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Shift presents 10 Defining Moments in Digital Culture. I think they did a pretty good job, although I expected something about the evolution and influence of the WWW, including Mosaic’s pioneering efforts that led to Netscape and the eventual (unfortunate) flip-flop that has seen Netscape lose almost all of its browser market share to Micro$oft Internet Explorer.
The Visual Thesaurus has been updated to celebrate Plumb Design’s fifth anniversary. Try a word like “large” and watch the fun…
Enjoy these pre-Halloween treats:
create your own evil clown.
a startling expose on Ronald McDonald.
evil CEO masks (with Martha Stewart!)
really bad Halloween costumes from the ‘70s and ’80s. Every child with gender identity issues should go as “Leather Guy” of the Village People…
For those of you using both AOL’s Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ, there are signs that the upcoming verson of AIM may finally allow users of both services to communicate with each other. This news has been anticipated since 1998, when AOL bought Mirabilis, the company behind ICQ. I haven’t used ICQ in some time, but I always liked it better than AIM. Recent versions have been really bloated and buggy IMO, so maybe a new front-end will make things smoother.
After reading comments on this story at MetaFilter, I realized that I should have mentioned Trillian, an instant messaging client that handles AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, MS Messenger, and IRC. I tried it a while ago and thought it wasn’t bad, and I’ve seen mostly positive reviews. I stopped using it because I really don’t use instant messaging all that much anymore, but the convenience of Trillian might make it worth looking at. Another alternative mentioned in the thread is Jabber, which I haven’t tried but which has similar features to Trillian, and is open-source to boot.
“Courtney Love has spent the last eight years abusing the Nirvana legacy for her own gains,” writes The Guardian’s Colin Paterson. Sounds right on the nose…
In case you hadn’t noticed, W isn’t the brightest light on the Christmas tree.
Now that the sniper mystery has been solved, the newspapers are returning to the Anthrax investigation. The Washington Post is suggesting last year’s mailings were not the work of a single crazed lunatic after all, contrary to the FBI’s assumptions. Apparently the technology involved is more advanced than anything even the U.S. or Russian militaries will admit to. Possible suspects? You guessed it, Iraq. Still no actual proof of their involvement, though. Will Dubya finally have the excuse he needs to start his war?
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