I’m getting all four of my wisdom teeth pulled today. As my co-worker said, I should be less of a bone-head by the time the day’s through.

I noticed this site, tools.komlenic.com, in my logs, and thought I’d link it because it has some neat tools, neat design, and good links. A good reminder that I have tons of crap (read: coding, packaging) I need to get to. Babbling it about it on my blog when I should be sleeping is almost as good, right?

I’ve been using JOE for my outline editing for the past few months. I noticed a few days ago, this OPML and XLST implementation that has a JS/DOM in browser OPML editor. That’s very cool and something I need to follow up on (translate: read and grok) when I get a chance.

While digging, I came across an app called buzz.opml, which seems pretty cool, is apparently super fast outliner, and has all sorts of outputs, but is a client app that requires Python.

TODO: experiment with using diff for versioning, take a closer look at existing interfaces for versioning, also see: KeptPages and KeptPagesDiscussion.

A co-worker asked what I considered to be really well designed on the web (or something to that effect) and I’ve been giving a lot of thought to that lately, as I haven’t really recall being blown away by anything recently. (That’s not to say that I’m not totally jazzed by a lot of the developments happening, like stuff happening with web services, dom-related stuff, I just strictly talking web design-wise). I couldn’t think of much, but I’ve made a little list of what I consider to be kick ass web design (accounting for visual, interaction, usability, technical and/or conceptual aspects), which I’ll probably add stuff onto as I think of…

• Kicksology.net – I saw this a few months ago. It’s really nice and clean. Later found out it was designed by 37signals, not surprising. I really like their stuff.
• IHT – I first noticed the IHT’s redesign in the beginning of last year (by John Weir; fascinating recent interview here). It definitely stands the test of time. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am by it, both in design, concept, and technical construction. That it was done pretty much singlehandedly is really a testament to John’s mad skillz. Hmm, have I gushed enough?
• I’ll think of more, I’m sure…

CritSuite is an open source annotation/critical discussion tool developed for the Foresight Institute. It seems more complex than it could be, but seems like it has lots of potential if a slightly more usable interface can be grafted on (I imagine some remote scripting and some dynamic content and overlays would do wonders).

According to his biography, Moby lived in Stratford, CT for 2 years, from 1974 to 1976.

Quite a few of Mozillians have been putting up blogs recently. Among the newer ones:

• Confessions of a Mozillian – David Hyatt
• Cogworks – Andrew Wooldridge
• Joke of the Day – Ben Goodger
• Shake & Blake – Blake Ross

Researcher who claimed sharks won’t bite him loses part of leg in attack – honestly, I think the title sums it up.

Slightly old news, but pretty interestting nonethless:

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are not included in the revised version of the New Jersey Department of Education history standards

Next time you think you’ve got problems, check this out.