All I can say is that the phrase “you lika da link, eh?” is now stuck in my head.

In order to compete with companies like Pyra which have multiple people with weblogs on staff, people at my company are launching weblogs like crazy. First two are paulbradbury.com and detours.org.

Can anyone recommend an online merchant that ships business cards in 24 hours or less? Email me.

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Verisign buys Network Solutions. Perhaps Verisign can make Network Solutions into a nicer company to deal with. I’ve stopped using them altogether because of price and ethics. When they redirected the Internic home page a while ago, I was not pleased.

They’ve got pictures of the finalists up for the Sexiest Geek Alive contest to be held next week in Austin. Oddly, the radio station I listen to on my way to work in the morning had the guy who organized the contest on their show this morning.

New on the headphones today: Fu Manchu’s King of the Road

Adobe has started a public beta for Livemotion, their Flash compatible Web animation application.(via MetaFilter)

I find myself more and more driven to Web applications. Think Free Office is an online “replacement” or companion for Microsoft Office. It boasts both Windows and Linux compatibility with Macintosh and other Unix on the way.

have browser will travel goes Aqua.

Today’s PeterMe has an interesting analysis about coffee shop layouts and customer experience.

Here’s a really thorough Palm IIIc review from the Gadgeteer. Despite the need for more RAM in my Palm(I’ve got a V now that I’ve had for about a year.) I’m holding off on buying a new one for a while. I’m curious to see what the next round of devices from Handspring are going to be like.

Webgroove looks like something worth looking into.

If you go to this page, choose the “SiteBrain” button to the right and navigate for a few moments, you get to see an interesting concept in mapping site spaces created with The Brain. It’s been almost a year since I last experimented with it, and this was a nice reminder to check it out again.

I’m not sure how I missed it, but Jargonscout has added “Moved to Atlanta” since my last visit. It’s funny because this topic has been the subject of several jokes here in the 404 area code.

For my Mac user Readers: I’ve been using Drop Drawers for the last few days on my iBook, and I’m hooked. It installs drawers that dock on the side top or bottom of your screen. Inside the drawers you can keep almost anything: alaises to frequently used programs, links to Internet sites, email addresses, notes, images. Where screen real estate is at a premium, this is a great alternative to dock programs.

We got the new women’s cable channel, Oxygen, a couple of weeks ago. They have an Internet shopping show named Shecommerce that Kate has been watching this morning. It’s supposed to cover online shopping, but out of the four women that they have hosting the show, not one strikes me as Internet savvy. “Is this a secure site?” the one woman asked. You don’t know how to tell if a site is secure or not? Perhaps you shouldn’t be hosting a show about online shopping. With all of the gifted and talented women working the Internet, it seems like they must have hired someone’s friends.

If you are going to South by SouthWest Interactive and want to get together, email me. I’ll be there from Thursday to Thursday.

I just read Geeks by Jon Katz. It’s one of those rare books that I started reading when I went to get a cup of coffee at my local coffee type establishment and kept reading and reading and reading until it was an hour and a half later and I had finished the book. If you are even remotely a geek, you should read this book. If you aren’t a geek, and want to even remotely understand geeks, you should read this book. I’m sure I’ll be reading it again. One thing that I thought of when I sat down to type this up is the fact that a great opportunity was missed. Katz could have chosen to couple an Internet site with the book where geeks could meet and discuss what being a geek is all about. I know we have Slashdot and other places, but the emotions evoked by this book are powerful enough to stimulate a powerful discussion and there should be a place to conduct it. I identified with this book in some really deep rooted ways. I might add more to this later.

This thing thinks I’m Frohike from The X-Files.(via kottke.org)

I had to laugh when I read Jason’s comments on the Jorn/Amazon hack article in Wired. When I read the Wired article yesterday, I said “How the hell is this a news story?” If this is hacking Amazon, I’ve been doing some serious hacking over the last couple of years. Perhaps Wired should hire some Weblog authors to write some of their news articles. At least we have some understanding of how to do research and of the Internet in general.

Google, which is my engine of choice, is now offering a set of bookmarklets that should come in handy.(via Metafilter) Matt hacked together a dictionary.com bookmarklet that should also come in handy. Why is everyone trying to make my life easier?