I’ve been busy lately but I’ve almost got something to show for it for on Wednesday we’ll be launching BetterDonkey.org, where our fledgling group will have a blogging platform, mailing list and member organization, event calendar, and other fine Web goodies. Guess who designed it? (Needless to say the site will be gorgeous.) February 12th with luck will see our launch party too- all are invited! I’ll e-mail out some specifics when the contract has been signed on the space we’ll be renting. Kegs of extremely inexpensive beer, cases of truly cheap though flavorful wine, good loud music, and good loud people- what more could one want?

Reading…

What elst, thou queries? I’m reading of course: while still awaiting the first issue of MAKE, the book club is on The Devil in White City, and I’ve started chewing on Digital Media Revisited, which was kindly supplied free of charge by NGale.

Tonight while checking the status of a few of my domain names, I ran upon this rather comical post regarding some ill-fated SuperBowl ads. Any company that gets two ads rejected by FOX makes me a proud, proud customer. (Via boing boing) I also saw a few interesting glacier pics of my old stomping grounds of Glacier Bay. Though the photography demonstrates rapid glacial retreat I can attest that at least one glacier in the bay is advancing. (Thus proving science and global warming a complete fallacy.) Also of note in this evenings web-scavanging is an IHT article speaking of the shrinking Google-gap (that’s my name for the superior performance of Google over other search engines). Search could very well be the most drastically changed part of our digital universe in the coming decade, and I’m not just thinking engines here…more on my pie in the sky theories later.