Archive for September, 2004

Site Upgrades

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

I’ve been playing with a trial “Typepad”:http://www.typepad.com subscription, and while I think I enjoy the flexibility of using “Movabletype”:http://www.movabletype.org (specifically the plugin support) too much to leave, it has inspired me to work on a bit of a redesign-from-scratch. I’m probably going to go with a layout inspired by the mixed media layouts, but [...]

Free Online Cliffnotes

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

CliffsNotes has announced that they’ve got 180 literature guides online for free viewing. The snag is that viewing is the only thing that’s free. Downloading and printing the guides will cost $5.99 The CliffsNotes site is at http://www.cliffsnotes.com.

Free Cliffnotes sounds like a fantastic resource. I wonder if now searching for literary titles and terms [...]

Video iPods

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004

We don’t think people have a burning desire to watch video on tiny little screens,” Jobs said earlier this year. But Gates points to the growing phenomenon of kids watching videos during long car trips as proof that there is a market for small screens. “I guess Steve’s kids just listen to Bach and Mozart,” [...]

Vote or Not - $100,00 to vote

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

VOTEorNOT.org is a contest created by the same group that produced the Hot or Not websites. It’s offering a $100,000 contest open to registered voters. Interesting…

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