Some pretty decent baseball blogs, all bundled up together.

NYT: Provisional Balloting, Designed to Help Voters, May Disefranchise Many

Fri 6 Aug 200411:17 AM

Winners of Apple’s Keynote Design Contest

Fri 6 Aug 200402:52 AM

“Apple invited Keynote users to submit presentations on the things they love most. From a pool of hundreds of impressive entries, we’ve chosen the top three, as well as six Honorable Mentions.”

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For a Better Tomorrow

Fri 6 Aug 200401:52 AM

Here and there, I’ve been fixing little details in the Movable Type configuration for Subtraction.com, trying to remedy some of the many, many imperfections and shortcomings on which I’ve procrastinating for so long. The comments feature is now much more reliable than before, when I had coded the form fields in a manner that might suggest a drunken night in front of BBEdit. And this evening I made some alterations to the long-neglected XML feed so that you can read the full entirety of every entry. I’ve been getting back into trying to make Pulp Fiction work for me — I’ll have some notes on that soon — and one of the things I’ve discovered is that I much prefer it when a news source provides the full text of an article, rather than just a snippet. Anyhow, more later… hopefully much more, as this low rustle of activity is a warm-up to a redesign. Soon. I hope.

NewsGator

Thu 5 Aug 200405:43 PM

RSS news aggregator for Microsoft Outlook.

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WP: Barack Obama, Shaking up the Sound-Bite Culture

Thu 5 Aug 200405:27 PM

Tina Brown’s half-catty, half-insightful wrap-up of performances at last week’s Democratic National Convention.

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Robert Smigel Interview at The Onion A.V. Club

Thu 5 Aug 200401:52 PM

Q&A with the genius behind the early days of Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, among others.

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Fighting Spam for Money

Thu 5 Aug 200401:14 PM

As a kid, when I would to take out the trash as part of my chores, I remember operating on the assumption that garbage collection was free, that it was a part of city services or something and that no one really payed for it directly, but rather it came out of local taxes or some big garbage collection fund in the sky or something. It seemed so basic and essential that I was surprised, later on, to discover that it most decidedly is not free, that lots of neighborhoods and communities bill you for it directly, and in lots of co-operatives and condominiums, it’s a discrete line item on a resident’s monthly maintenance bill. This is the story that came to mind yesterday when I got an email from my hosting provider, Media Temple, announcing their new MailProtect Anti-Junk Email Service.