Circadian Shift

A bunch of links (a couple of which I've posted before) on doing a content inventory for a website:

• Taking A Content Inventory -- a HOWTO by Janice Crotty Fraser
• Doing a Content Inventory (Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site) -- Jeffrey Veen's take on same; there's an Excel worksheet that you can download and use
• a summary of responses on SIG-IA to a discussion about content inventories
• web site content inventory process -- PDF, 274 kb

The following are examples that you can look at or download. They give you an idea of the sorts of information that one might record when doing a content inventory.

• content inventory and tracking by Perspective Software and Design
• content inventory sample document
• Contentology has a number content management worksheets that you can download
• another inventory worksheet available for download
• another set of worksheets for content inventory, prep, and migration

A recent post by Lou Rosenfeld mentioned someone named Donald Marchand, who's done some work on what he calls "Information Orientation":

To paraphrase Davies, IO-savvy organizations can:

1. manage IT applications and infrastructure;
2. manage information over its life-cycle; and
3. instill and promote behaviors and values for the effective use of information.

A bit of googling about yielded the following readings on Marchand and Information Orientation:

• Managing Information, People, and IT to Drive Business Performance -- a presentation by Marchand at the Online Information conference in 2002 (PDF, 805 kb)
• Lessons from the Dark Side of Information Use (PDF, 50.2 kb)
• Back to basics: See, measure, and manage information capabilities (PDF, 129 kb)
• Is your company effective at using information? (PDF, 56 kb)
• The information edge: How to get the full value of information in the new economy (PDF, 2233 kb)

How Much Information, 2003 is a "study of information storage and flows (which) analyzes the year 2002 in order to estimate the annual size of the stock of new information contained in storage media, and heard or seen each year". So, how much new information was created last year?

Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disks.
How big is five exabytes? If digitized, the nineteen million books and other print collections in the Library of Congress would contain about ten terabytes of information; five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections.

Here are a few megabytes which you may wish to add to your own reading pile:

• ComuputerWorld's salary survey for 2003
• FPMastering -- a 12-part series on information management
• Sarbanes-Oxley will change your life -- a very quick overview of this piece of legislation and its impact on business process management
• Benefits of XML in Business
• Managing and Documenting Your Project XML Style (via creativetechwriter)
• Essential Reading for Intranet Professionals -- you may have heard about/read a few of these already
• Information Management Weblog -- KM, CM, web development, other stuff
• experience curve -- a CRM blog
• Research Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines -- a great big PDF that you can download and print
• a web analytics tutorial
• various web analytics whitepapers

(BTW, link to the 'How Much Information' site is via InfoDesign.)

Completely forgot to mention yesterday that that are some more Gaping Void cartoons online.

Click here if you want to see the rest.

Mr. Graigpants points out that there are dead people who still make great gobs of moolah, whereas living entities like you and me are hunkering down to plates of Kraft Dinner or cans of tunafish.

Do not blog about work.

No matter how benign you think your post may be, The Man may still take exception.

Once again: Do not blog about work.

(Link via Reflections in d minor.)

...then I'm going to bed. Dammit.

• discover the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins and other tips from Gray Matters: The Workplace Survival Guide

(Via Working Wounded.)

Meant to mention this one on the weekend:

• BooTleg has tons of linkage to live recordings and other, er, "unofficial" tracks by numerous recording artists

(Via chromewaves.)

• Pete notices that September and October are very dark months, indeed
• get in some "light" reading with a short story by Haruki Murakami (via Cup of Chicha)
• 10 mistakes writers don't see (but can easily fix when they do) (ditto)
• test your memory by matching up covers from Smiths' records (again)
• Thinks.com links to all kinds of puzzles and brain-building games
• how about some more calendar templates for 2004
• try wreaking some workplace havoc with this office dare system (via Fast Company Now)

• ClikZ Today bemoans the sad state of the "About Us" page on many corporate websites
• Jakob Neilsen also has thoughts on the "About Us" page
• the Institute for Public Relations takes a metrics-driven approach to PR; they have a number of reference materials available for download
• Dynamic Logic specializes in marketing research; they also have a number of papers available for download
• and, if you're willing to cough up some registration information, RightNow Technologies has a bunch of whitepapers on CRM and customer contact centres for you
• SSI-Developer.net walks you through Server Side Includes, and other web development topics

• Random Image Rotation using PHP instead of JavaScript
• Using XHTML/CSS for an Effective SEO Campaign
• Accesskeys: Unlocking Hidden Navigation
• Flexible Layouts with CSS Positioning
• Build cross-browser XML paging code
• Stay with XML 1.0 -- an excerpt from the book Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML
• Leadership in the Bush White House -- a non-partisan assessment from HBS Working Knowledge
• Best Practices for Benchmarking
• Keep Your Big Head in Check
• Managing Your Clients
• Lorin Maazel, music director of the New York Philharmonic, on leadership (via Fast Company Now)
• Leadership Out of the Box (via RobinYap.com)
• Guidelines for focusing on learning (via paranoidfish)

• xBlog points to The 101 Best Sites for Writers
• and, here's an oldie, but a goodie: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web

Just kidding. That's a real bunny. Really.

(Via MetaFilter.)

BTW, I did go back to bed. Sleep is good.

Yay, it's Saturday! I can finally sleep in.

Sleep in...

Sleep...

Goddamit.

Anyway, here's a bunch of business and technology linkage:

• XHTML Transitional, Strict - What's the Difference?
• Microsoft Launches Job-Specific Tools for Office 2003
• Web design and integrated marketing
• ColourX Gradient Changer
• The Balanced Scorecard Institute
• Nielsen/NetRatings analyst reports, press releases, free data
• resources for online privacy information
• Selling Content on the Internet: It's Happening, But Is It Profitable?
• The Price is Right, or Is It? Determining the Impact of Price on Sales
• Getting Back to Basics - and the Customer
• How Intuit Found Fame and Fortune, and Beat Out Microsoft
• The Battle for Web Services - conflicting Web services standards
• SOA + Information Architecture = Code Reuse (Finally!)
• CSS Reference Table

Omigod, you must go to this site and play with the toys.

eigelb.at has all sorts of nifty java applets -- some that you can use online, and others that you can download. The ones the produce visual effects are amazing.

Here's a little something I made using the "Grappa" applet (click the image to see it full size):

Just click on the blank space on the screen and move your mouse around. Prepare to be transfixed in slack-jawed amazement.

(Thanks to How to Save the World for the link.)

thought?horizon points to a free Myers-Briggs test that's appeared online. Nothing like another online test to tell me who I am.

(For those of you who have been following along here for some time, you'd know that I'm an INTP, formerly an INTJ.

I couldn't resist taking this Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test, wherein I discovered my corporate type is:

ICUE (Mad Scientist/Hacker)
Displaying many of the same traits as the ICUG [Inventor], the ICUE combines these with a dangerously antisocial streak. May employ someone called Igor and mutter things like "Small minded fools! I'll show them all!" (example: Victor Frankenstein)

Uh, okay.

Actually, I wonder what how I'd score on this if I took the test again in a few weeks.

(Link to the Lipson-Shiu test via the creative techwriter, via GuysBlog.)

Just scraping a bunch of links out of my inbox and throwing them online. Do with them what you will.

• Sliding Doors of CSS
• Business Process Insanity
• Visio tricks and techniques (Tech Republic -- I think free registration's required)
• Good Information Architecture Increases Online Sales
• Win Your Next Job With Three Essential Interview Skills
• There Are Still Products Competing with Microsoft Office
• Facilitating Semantic Web Search with Embedded Grammar Tags
• Learning PHP: The What's and the Why's
• Builder.com has revamped their Web Development Library
• Create Flash effects fast--without Flash

And it is still way too bloody early in the morning.

I was going to post some business/technology linkage, but lost interest. Evidently I've OD'ed on work-related reading.

Instead, why don't you go find out what MeFi-ites favour for late night listening.

And, there's a review of the new Plastikman album that might interest Richie Hawtin fans. I managed to hear a bit of the disc myself, last night on Feedback Monitor -- a lot of minimal blips and bleepage happening, but I liked it just fine. (Link to review via dj martian.)

This is not good. To quote from way down here:

The government of Canada has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to carry out the 2006 census. In other words, a US corporation, and one of the world's largest arms manufacturers, will have access to sensitive information about every Canadian.

I noticed this paragraph in the above-linked article:

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Canadian government must give equal consideration to U.S. corporations when contracting out services such as the census. This includes corporations with questionable records like Lockheed Martin.

Damn, so how often does our government hand work over to our neighbours? Is the U.S. government similarly obligated to consider Canadian firms when contracting out services? Have they ever done so?

Grrrrrrrr...

• the Plain Language Action & Information Network (via xBlog)
• EffectiveMeetings.com (via xBlog's sister site, bBlog)
• here we go again, again -- god, even the title's (nearly) the same -- it's Blog for Business: Is It Right for Your Company? (ditto)
• two good posts (with infographics!) by Peter Merholz, reporting from the HITS (Humans Interaction Technology Strategy) conference: MBA 101 and Design, and Experience Economics

Yet another article on Blogging for Business (via beSpacific).

sigh

• the second Carnival of the Capitalists is online (via Modulator)
• I'm currently reading a book called Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success; the book's author, Jim Sterne, runs two sites: Emetrics and Target Marketing -- both have a bevy of articles for your perusal
• still on the topic of metrics, how about an article on how Metrics Foster Communication
• and, ClickZ Today kicks off More Data than Budget, a series of articles about analysing customer data
• for something a little less numbers-driven, Darwin talks about Becoming a Mind Reader

And, the following are all brought to you courtesy of paranoidfish.

• Styling Nested Lists
• Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS
• Social Software Mind Map
• What is Semiotics?, Part 1 and Part 2

This week in Dilbert, guest cartoonists are stepping in for creator Scott Adams. Today, it's.... Nah, why don't you go find out for yourself?

(The style did look kind of familiar, but I couldn't really place it.)

• The Pound Wise Project Plan -- an excerpt from the book Web Design on a Shoestring
• overview of The HTML Form Element
• Getting a Handle on Employee Motivation
• InformIT has launched a new Web Design Reference Guide
• Requirements Analysis: Dealing with Data -- an excerpt from the book Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture
• Content Management vs. Unstructured, Flat HTML Pages

It is way too bloody early in the morning.

Have actually been a relatively productive humanoid for the last few hours. At least it makes up for this morning.

Meanwhile, Hugh from Gaping Void has uploaded another batch of cartoons.

View cartoons for 16/10/2003.

I was supposed to have dinner with some friends yesterday, but two of them were feeling less than well, so we postponed it. Found myself with a wicked headache of my own this morning. Lousy weather.

Maybe that's why I found these optical illusions to be more mind-boggling than usual -- you should probably not be looking at them when your head hurts.

(Thanks to "N" for sending along the link.)

Well, I've been pissing away several hours of my life going through a ton of quizzes over at FilmWise. Although I've seen the site before, I must blame Information Nation for bringing it to my attention today.

Meanwhile, here are some other things that may or may not be useful to learn/know:

• According to Modulator, elephants sleep about three hours a day. Lucky bastards.
• Apparently, being your own boss is better for your love life than working for The Man. (Via Fast Company Now.)
• Sing along with Tom Lehrer (you can download the lyrics) and learn the elements of the periodic table. (Also spotted before, but this time via Celestite Design.)
• Or maybe you'd rather spell your name in hieroglyphics. (Via kottke.)
• Or, for the motherlode of obscure, yet possibly useful things to know, check out The Household Cyclopedia, printed in 1881. (Via The Presurfer.)

Addendum: Fixed the more blatant writing errors. Damn, I'm getting sloppy.

Three Sumatran tiger cubs born at Toronto zoo

(thanks, Eva)

• Pricelessware -- software (mostly for Windows) favoured by the participants of the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup (via Darren Barefoot)
• The Ambient Ping is "Toronto's unique weekly live ambient, chillout and experimental music performance event"; the website has linkage to MP3s and other info (via Electronic Tea)
• music enthusiasts should also check out this site of free and legal mp3 downloads of songs that John Peel has featured on his BBC Radio 1 show (via NetGonePop)
• for the cineaste, there is Script-o-Rama, where they can view/download film scripts from many major Hollywood movies (via The Cartoonist)
• lastly, for the print-cut-and-fold crowd, here are Solid objects which generate anomalous pictures -- make 3D paper models of some well-known 2D optical illusions (once again via The Cartoonist)

If I'm not careful, any one or more of the following could cause me to stay up all night (again) and suck away part of my day:

• The Rough Guides Rock Challenge Quiz -- I am so getting my ass kicked on this (lousy point-wagering system), which just draws me in more (via MetaFilter)
• The Reflex Tester (via Signal vs. Noise)
• Archimedes' Laboratory -- brain-bending geometric puzzles (via Neat New Stuff on the Net)
• play techno DJ with this fun little Flash application (via blogdex)

• Lou Rosenfeld has posted his presentations from the KM World/Intranets 2003 conferences online
• here's a look at Microsoft OneNote, sort of a catch-all note-taker, audio recorder, and scrap book application -- the review calls it the electronic equivalent of a three-ring binder -- to be used with Tablet PCs; of course, real three-ring binders don't weigh over 4 lbs. and cost over $3,000
• Builder.com (which may or may not require free registration) examines the ROI of CSS over straight HTML with a hypothetical example
• also on Builder.com is a somewhat thin piece on preventing copy delays from holding up Web development projects; the article lists some basic strategies, but the "how to" of it all is left up to you
• an article titled The Portal Reborn examines newly emerging process management/portal hybrid applications
• ClickZ Today is running the first of a two-parter on contextual advertising, like those ever-spreading Google ads that people are putting on their sites
• lastly, how about a blurb on knowledge worker segmentation?

• best of CNN infographics (via Cup of Chicha)
• CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide

Plus, this came in via my Builder.com 'Design and Usability Tactics' newsletter. I couldn't find it anywhere (quickly) on the site:

DELIVER SEPARATE STYLES FOR NETSCAPE 4

Netscape 4 (NN4) was the first browser to attempt any meaningful Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support, but its CSS implementation was seriously flawed. Valid CSS styles that render properly in other browsers often produce very different results in NN4. As a result, it's often necessary to provide different style rules for NN4 in order to produce acceptable results.

• I didn't get very far in this Album Cover Challenge; will have to go back and take another crack at it (via Cup of Chicha)
• Beastie Boys enthusiasts and other sound-clip wonks will want to check out this Paul's Boutique Samples and References List (via fishfaced)
• you can download the complete radio episodes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in MP3 (via unresort)

Oops. Going to bed didn't work. And I managed to stay up for several hours going through all these embarassing rock band photos, among other things.

G'night.

Link to fun stuff?
Link to not fun, but interesting stuff?
Link to business/technology stuff?
Link to -- and comment on -- posts elsewhere concerning phenomenon of linklogging?
Spend time more closely scrutinizing stuff already linked to?

YAAAAA-AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

Go to bed.

• kudos to Modulator for pointing me to the first Carnival of the Capitalists -- "Modeled after the Carnival of the Vanities, this weekly roundup is intended to be a "Best Of the Blogosphere" for posts covering business, economics, stocks, accounting, taxes, business law, and related topics."
• Processkillers -- Matt Jones muses on what happens when methodology trumps common sense
• Jakob Neilsen pronounces the Ten Best Intranets of 2003 -- I found it interesting that "three of the ten winning intranets this year were the outcome of corporate mergers"
• Herr Nielsen also waxes forth on fighting info pollution
• back to the topic of intranets, if you're willing to supply your e-mail address, you can download this whitepaper that examines how 14 Chicago companies manage and govern theirs (via Fast Company's blog)
• here are a bunch of white papers on content management, user experience, and other web-by and business-y type things (via InfoDesign)
• Internet-Enabled Business Intelligence
• from the guy who brought you Listamatic, Listutorial, and Listamatic2, we now have Floatutorial, covering "the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts" (via paranoidfish)
• WebReference runs an excerpt from the book XForms Essentials
• A workaround for nonexistent references -- given that my last two employers have disappeared into the dot-com ether, this is a predicament I know well
• at the risk of alienating 50 percent of my readership, I'll link to What Women Can Learn About Negotiation; perhaps the menfolk will find it of interest as well
• Mathemagenic has all sorts of reading on weblogs and business (via bBlog)

Somebody out there is gunning for Timmy. Viz:

The Spin and Hype Corporate Monolith of Tim Horton's and their resuscitated non-fresh Crappy Doughnuts/Donuts made using trucked frozen material manufactured in their central industrial complex.

(Summary: It is the opinion of this page that Tim Horton's has betrayed the Canadian people by: i) ceasing to make locally baked, fresh, nice tasting fresh Doughnuts/Donuts, and by ii) currently producing crappy, stale tasting Doughnuts/Donuts made in a central industrial complex)

(Congratulations, Chris -- one of your comments on my blog made the quotelist.)

Aw, how cute. Here is a Flash file (plugin required to view) of a little dancing chicken, courtesy of ramen-in-a-cup purveyors Nissin Foods. Thanks to my pal "D" for passing it along.

(Note: If your browser prompts you to install a Japanese language pack in order to view the page properly, it's not necessary if all you want to do is look at the Flash file.)

Kalsey Consulting offers this bit of advice about Tab Wraps:

In the last few days I've been asked more than once how to keep CSS tab list-based navigation from wrapping to multiple lines as the browser window shrinks.

All you need to do is set the width of your UL tag to the minimum width you need. For instance, if your design starts to wrap when the browser window falls below 500 pixels, add "width: 100px;" to the style for your tab's UL tag.

• Symbolism of Color runs through what concepts are associated with colours in different cultures (via paranoidfish)
• MetaFilter provides discussion and a bunch of linkage concerning Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his work on "flow", characterized as being a state of optimal experience
• "Why I write", by George Orwell (via Pete Bevin)
• pkshiu provides some HOWTOs and linkage on learning Japanese, plus some other stuff
• go gaze at some Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (via Neat New Stuff on the Net)
• Canuckian donut purveyor Tim Hortons has published a nutrition guide (PDF, 170 KB), for those of you concerned about the effects of your cruller or cookie intake (via Media Dystopia)
• find out The Lazy Way to Success, by reading a sample chapter from the book of the same name (via Fast Company's blog)

Just in case you want to spend your long weekend doing some work-related reading (haaaaaaaaahahahahaha).

• Diagramming the XML Family -- quick and dirty overview of various XML technologies
• Taking the Pulse of XML Editing -- a roundup of XML authoring tools and trends
• Escaping the organisation chart on your intranet
• Management Coolsites -- weekly monthly (oops; fixed 11 Oct. 2003) reviews of business websites

How nice. I am the #1 Google hit for the phrase "A million lies to sell yourself".

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Addendum 10 October 2003: 'Twould appear that I'm also #1 for When routine bites hard.

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Addendum 2: Also hit #1 for police car and a screaming siren pneumatic drill.

Ah, the benefits of using song lyrics as blogpost titles.

Hugh from Gaping Void has announced that he will no longer be e-mailing out his cartoons each week, but instead will just post them online, and e-mail the URL where they can be viewed.

Hence, I will no longer be posting the 'toons each week on Circadian Shift: The Outpost, which is just as well, since (a) Prohosting's free server has been muy uncooperative whenever I FTP something to it, and (b) only a few people were visiting it anyway.

Anyway, here is one of this week's cartoons:

View cartoons for 10/09/03.

(Warning: For some reason, the site's been making Opera crash. I was able to view everything just fine in Mozilla Firebird.)

Well, so much for falling asleep at a decent hour.

Have put on a mix CD that I burned sometime last year -- an ambient/electronic/minimalist kind of thing that forms an ideal complement to the shadows and stillness of the hour.

I've posted the track listing to The Big List (how's that for multi-blogging efficiency?). The tunes are all freely downloadable from Epitonic, so y'all can burn the disc and listen/wallow to it yourselves.

Go to my Late Night Listening Playlist.

A couple things brought to my attention via my in-box:

• Sequins and Spandex: Marketing Lessons from Rock and Roll
• a Darwin article on using keyword-rich link text to boost search engine rankings

Spotted these two, one after the other, on my aggregator:

• Zen and UX
• The Tao and architecture

What does it mean? You decide.

Lastly, for superkeen CMS geeks, Intranet Journal has reviews of four open-source content management systems:

• Drupal
• PHP-Nuke
• Digger IOS
• Xoops

Work on/in The Hovel continues. Alas, it is not a destination, but a journey.

The Hovel is looking much better than it did 24 hours ago. Underworld's live set from the 1999 Fuji Rock Festival makes for good housecleaning music.

Drive boy dog boy Dirty numb angel boy In the doorway boy She was a-lipstick boy She was a-beautiful boy And tears boy And all in your inner space boy You had hands girls boy And steel boy You had chemicals boy I've grown so close to you boy And you just groan boy She said come over come over She smiled at you boy

Meanwhile, you simply must check out this time lapse video of the Toronto skyline. (Thank you, MetaFilter.)

• Firdamatic generates table-less 2-column or 3-column layouts for users of various blogging tools, based on criteria that you type into a form
• a book called The Design of Sites has a Resources page with pointers to various books and sites that may be of interest
• InformIT compares .NET and Java platforms for implementing certain tasks in its Web Services Shootout
• Ideas in Technology and Publishing is a blog about content management

While backing up some files last night, I stumbled across a bunch of downloads from Adaptive Path that I'd stashed on my hard drive and promptly forgotten about. There's a handy little treasure trove of usability tools, sample deliverables, and documentation templates -- all just waiting for me to do something with them.

Finding those files inspired me to do a bit of Googling for more of the same, wherein I found:

• a whole lot of Technical Documentation and Business Writing Templates
• for you QA geeks, various Quality Tools and Templates from iSixSigma

Also, for more general consumption, Avery has downloadable labelling software and templates for all your labelling/indexing/stickering/greeting card needs.

Thanks to tbit for pointing me to the Directory of Open Access Journals:

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 541 journals in the directory.

Topics range from Arts and Archictecture to Technology and Engineering.

For a less intimidating selection of reading, the October 2003 issue of Fast Company is now available online for your perusal.

My albatross continues to dog me.

(Is that mixing metaphors?)

Meanwhile, you can go bend your brain cells looking at the Vasarely.org Virtual Gallery:

(Link courtesy of Manifesto Multilinko.)

Incidentally, hello to my dad. I am fine. My headache is better, thanks.

Apologies to the rest of you for the lack of actual content. Things should pick up again tomorrow.

Accordion Guy has declared today to be the First Annual Post a Picture of a Cat to Your Blog Day! I am happy to oblige.

This is Bam Bam, who owns lives with my friends Tim and Belinda. You may remember the little guy from the unfortunate haircut incident several weeks back. This pic was taken when he was a wee kitten, and shows him cuddling up with a stuffed toy snake.

Awwwwwwwwww.

Meanwhile, I've had a wicked headache going on and off for the last few days. Fortunately, it does not appear that my head is going to explode.

(Thanks to my brother for sending along that handy guide.)

Free Printable Calendar Templates -- select from a variety of weekly, monthly, or yearly styles, choose a start date, and generate a file that can be downloaded and edited in Microsoft Word.

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Addendum 02 October 2003: Actually, the resulting file is in RTF, which means that you can edit it in almost any word processor.

• How to Save the World has a lengthy post on knowledge management, specifically on the challenges that the discipline faces, and on the concrete ways in which KM improve busines
• Business.com is an extensive business search engine and business directory
• Sitepoint has a somewhat schizophrenic article on Making Rich Web Application Architecture Usable -- it starts off with rudimentary maxims on what users dislike about a system, then leaps into a discussion of tiered architecture and patterns; the linkage at the bottom may be useful
• also on Sitepoint is an article about Accessible Header Images With CSS And XHTML
• blackbeltjones links to an MIT OpenCourseware page on Introduction to Design Inquiry
• CMS Directory is a newly established portal site about content management (via Column Two)
• lastly, Adam Kalsey writes about setting up an e-commerce site for his kids to aid their fundraising sales efforts -- the youngsters handle order processing, customer service, and shipping of the goods; seems like a vast improvement over the hellish door-to-door sales of chocolate bars and cookies that I endured as a child

Didn't get to sleep until after 3 this morning. QFD.

• Tack-o-Rama is the source for all your 50s-era design needs, with clipart, stock photos, fonts, wallpaper, and more (spotted on Manadarin Design Daily and The G Spot)
• someone has released a line of motivational posters featuring Marvel superheroes; the backlash has started already (via extrasonic)
• Elvis Costello has a new album, and it's being released on the Deutsche Grammophon label (!) (via Google News Canada)
• lastly, Pure Obscure discontinued its Obscure Track of the Week, thanks to all the RIAA madness