looking at halvar and reading about pros and cons of composing text in "a big textarea on an html page" or in an outliner i once again think it would be very beautiful to have a generic outliner application that can be connected to via xml-rpc. it's a simple but neat text editor that posts edited text back to the server where it was called from and also stores the data in adequate form (personally, i prefer human-readable files) on the local hard disk. something like radio userland without all that radio and userland overload.

quintessenz: ping a mobile phone to check if it's switched on / recipient. weird. crazy. scary. and it really works.

installing and configuring your netbsd firewall/router on a 68k mac.

telepolis: "sieben momente zur kanzlerkriegsabstimmung". well done.

latest improvements of the javascript rss box viewer: "compact view" switch to omit the item description (if possible, ie. if there's an item title) of each channel item. this way you only get the titles as links to the appropriate story. moreover, i have implemented support for some dublin core tags in rss 1.0, e.g. dc:creator and dc:date.

update: additionally, in "compact view" also no rss image is displayed – even if it should be available.

the pop-up book of phobias published by rob weisbach books (url?).

hello, oddfish!

“how to design programs”, a classic of computer science (says der schockwellenreiter).

die zeit: "ausländische korrespondenten in berlin betrachten das nachträgliche verändern von interviews als 'deutsche unsitte'. gesprächspartner und journalisten beharren auf dem brauch."

wtf... i did not know this.

in honour of a quote morgan russell used to employ from time to time, and which i just recovered at the flightless hummingbird.

"the simplest surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd." – andré breton, "second manifesto of surrealism".