• FON
• Gliffy
• Yahoo! UI Library
• Uninstall WGA Beta

I’m also trying to find time to work with Picasa Web Albums getting my cruise pictures online.

From BBspot’s “BBloopers”: “Cat Nipped”

We can all sleep safer at night, thanks to the cat patrol.

From the “common cultural reference point re-interpreted into a very different culture” department comes this McDonald’s spot from Japan, starring the lovely Ebihara Yuri.

Via a Slashdot link from something else (possibly the Opera 9 story), from A List Apart: In Search of the Holy Grail:

Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance. Its wide applicability in this golden age of blogging, along with its considerable difficulty, is what has earned the layout the title of Holy Grail.

I made a half-assed attempt at adding this to the existing template for the Restaurant Reviews pages, but it… didn’t turn out well. I would like to, as the ALA article describes, have one column for my stuff (intra-site links) and the other for ads and blogrolls and whatnot (extra-site). We’ll see if I actually get around to making it work. Hell, I haven’t even gone back and worked on migrating to WordPress.

SFGate’s Jon Carroll writes today about his visit to the Oakland Museum’s Disneyland exhibit:

There’s a show at the Oakland Museum about the creation and refinement of Disneyland. It’s a love letter to kindly Walt Disney, king of product placement and cross promotion, never mentioning his union-busting activities or other right-wing projects, and certainly skipping over the odd pervasiveness of shaking rodent butts in his cartoons, but it’s still interesting if you can discount the hagiography.

Interesting to me, anyway. I was growing up in Southern California when Disneyland was being built, and I followed its progress avidly. I examined the schematics; I tried to envision the rides. (Particularly Tomorrowland, because I was a reader of science fiction and tomorrow was my destination. Tomorrow is all of our destinations; it just took wise little Asimoviacs like me to realize it.) I went within a month of its opening.

Jennifer and I went to this exhibit with Alex and Lani a few weeks ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. I give it a strong recommendation if you’re in the area.