Random thought: mapping out each blogger’s ‘sphere of interest’ by what they link to; you could make a topic-map out of that w/ some visualization tool if those were categorized, being able to see overlap and also what sites to read to get a variety of sources.

Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music hits v2.0. Pretty hot.

• Daniel Hsia’s shorts – some clever 10s films (oh, and “How To Do The Asian Squat“, which is quite funny)
• Bernard Chang’s short films – he used to draw Valiant comics!
• Nimpsy – Buster Slims
• Ruben Fleischer
• BEAM.TV: Radiohead – Go To Sleep

He walked the line that Bush does not – comparing and contrasting Johnny Cash’s Christianity vs Dubya’s.

Suzanne Fields wants us to think that George W. Bush is just like Johnny Cash, but the difference between the two is as great as the difference between pride and humility, between white and black.

Syncato is quite interesting, and in many ways reflects some of my thoughts on using and re-using XML fragments.

• Questions: (how) does Syncato take XML (tree-based) and allow graph-like representation
• Sam Ruby’s Xpath enabled Query, expanding on javaslash’s xpath and blojsom querying

Bionic Office – Joel Splosky talks about designing spaces for maximizing programmer productivity – I know that I could be at least 5x more productive in a better environment.

Celebrity Turing Test – In which a rock star visits his own forum, but neglects to bring a valid I.D.

aptitude – looks better than dselect; also, apparently has minesweeper built-in

Looks like Soekris et al have some new high-power competition w/ the new Nano-ITX boards if the price is decent…

Electronic paper reaches video speed – Diamond Age here we come!