clock — watching time, the only true currency

I enjoyed researching my college thesis more than writing it, so I appreciate that the Brittanica folks are providing suggested citations formats for the web. [via Hypergene]
I don’t expect to use these guidelines much, but I hope you enjoyed your Leap Year.
“leap year” — Encyclopedia Britannica,from Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=48637) [Accessed February 29, 2004].

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Chains required
When driving to Tahoe, you want to check road conditions. And you hope that it doesn’t say — as it does right now — chains required. Oh well.

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Another linkfest
Must go to sleep, so saving the following for later (when?):

Interview with those who converted Wired News to CSS - Macromedia marketing, but still probably intriguing.
Whole lotta RSS from HyperGene. Guessing I’ll have seen some of these links, but just in case.
What Jim Moore wants from blogging tools - I want XHTML compliance without [...]

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Just open the *%(*^^*@ door!
I had my first experience with public key encryption this afternoon. It was not pretty. Our work servers all use SSH. While I’ve had a Unix login for years, I rarely have used it for anything but FTP. Today, I wanted to install something, which meant I needed to use the [...]

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Price I pay for letting things sit: too many links
I opened up NNW this evening with over 240 headlines to scan. Boiled the list down to a score or so, and I have some work I want to do, so better to just bake in the links now, and hope I can find time to [...]

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Book: Pattern Recognition
I had a short plane ride all to myself this weekend, so I put down my non-fiction and bought William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. According to the early pages of this paperback, this is Gibson’s eighth book. I’ve read them all, although I’ll admit that — other than Neuromancer — I don’t remember them [...]

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Lioness woofing
This morning, at the Phoenix Zoo, I heard a lioness woofing. Maybe that’s the wrong word, because it certainly was nothing like a dog barking. But she repeated this deep, piercing ‘wooofff’ several times, almost as if she were coughing. It seemed too intentional to be coughing though. I wonder what had her riled [...]

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No commentary, but appreciate the saved time
Rajesh Jain brings together three commentaries on information markets in one post. He adds only one line of context, explaining who is commenting on whom and what.
Ross Mayfield comments on Jeff Jarvis’s commentary on Eli Noam’s article in the FT on the market failure in the information economy.
That one [...]

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Two more Macintouch reports about Mail.app
Yesterday and today, Macintouch ran more details about the Mail.app crashes which are more clearly connected to Junk Mail filtering. I haven’t had the problem for quite some time, since I — like many of these people — realized through personal experience and similar accounts that certain emails seem to [...]

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Blogs love TiVo
Seriously, I’d love to get actual numbers correlating TiVo ownership with those who blog. Sure, it’s not a majority, but seems to be a significant minority. I’ll bet the NYTimes got more traffic to this story about designing the TiVo remote than anything about Kerry, Edwards, and the rest of the important news [...]

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