wad. Tody is world AIDS day. Five people worldwide die of AIDS every minute of every day. HIV has hit every corner of the globe, infecting more than 42 million men, women and children, 5 million of them last year alone. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

How to smell like a laundromat. Among the featured designs at the National Design Triennial was the Demeter Fragrance Library. The company, run by Christophers Brosius and Gable, puts out perfumes, lotions, soaps, candles, and body gels with scents like Creme Brulee, Wet Garden, Funeral Home, Dirt, and Sugar Cookie. According to this article in Happi, the New Zealand fragrance was developed for the Lord of the Rings movie and Demeter's odd scents might have other…… [kottke.org]

Workin' on a Saturday. [snip]

Brain: Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?
Pinky: Uh… yeah, Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?

(Thanks to Matt for pointing out the AYPWIP site.)

🙂

-Russ

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[Russell Beattie Notebook]

Adam Curry on BigMedia and MJ

Adam's written a piece on the influence of BigMedia,
celebrities and a smattering of American culture. I can say without
reservation that it's right on target. We all need to read this and take a
look at our attitude toward each other. BigMedia plays us against each
other as a sport (specifically Jay Leno's remarks Adam cites).

Let's find a way to lead by example. Don't crucify someone until the
judgement is in. One day it might be you on the cross.

On a lark, I downloaded the ISO image of Darwin 7.0.1 for PPC and installed it on the iMac server. Neat. Worked fine, but my Unix is rusty so I barely got past creating a user in NetInfo. NetInfo is a great idea, but if you don't know it, it sucks. That's where I am now.

I've finished the download of OpenBSD and am burning it to a disk as we speak. I'll run downstairs later and try an install.

I've moved my Radio installation to our new eMac upstairs because the iMac server is going to be used in the new business. I'll spend some time this weekend wiping the machine and installing a virgin copy of OpenBSD or MacOS X 10.2.

Why is this important enough to post? Well, it changes some of the contents of my “Radio home server” post and I was able to test it using the “fast user switching” feature of Panther. It works!

Linking a post on a random weblog to help someone test trackback. Hello Canada from Springfield, MO, USA

Josh links to a Wes Clark video from Fox News. Watch it…it's worth it. Go Wes!

All in the head:

With the wide availability of building materials I could build my own house, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t fall down. The suggestion that someone should try and produce their own print ads instead of focusing on their business and what they do best is absurd.

Ed Cone wrote these four sentences Sunday morning. It startled me. I read on, then cried silently.

I called my mom's house. Andrew's voice on the answering machine. A tape of course, but still startling. Andrew hasn't spoken for months, and will not speak again.

[EdCone.com]

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