Archive for May, 2004
Tell An American To Vote (.com)
I was intrigued by a banner on a web site and clicked it, to find Tell An American To Vote.
Most of the 7.1 million Americans living overseas do not vote. Now is your chance to tell them to! Just fill in your personal message below and we’ll send your American friends all the information they need to vote.
You can send your ex-pat friends an email from the site so they can get details about how to vote from overseas. I’ve never seen an ex-pat voting campaign before but with people spread all over the world it’s something that political parties in many countries might do well to consider.
Blogger
I’ve been submerged in work for the last few days and haven’t been reading my usual blogs, yesterday however I clicked through to catch up on Maggi Dawn’s Blog and immediately spotted her sharp new design using one of the new Blogger templates.
This is old news, but the new Blogger templates – designed by the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Doug Bowman and Dan Cederholm – are just so cool. Blogger leads the way in bringing web publishing to non-geeks, to people who have interesting things to say to the world. The new Blogger templates mean that great content this great content can be displayed in a way that is accessible to all users, and looks fantastic, this can only be a good thing.
Should I be offended?
Bruce rants,
people who give their kids place-names as first names, like ‘Chester’, ‘Paris’, ‘Bethany‘ or – especially irritating – ‘India’ or ‘Asia’. They should be forced to change their own name to ‘Thorngumbald’, ‘Pratts Bottom’, or ‘Swinket Mease Rigg’
I shall henceforth be known as Ms. Swinket Mease Rigg, thankyouverymuch … do you think I can register rachelswinketmeaserigg.co.uk? Would be fun to spell out over the phone when asked for my email address.
Geeks
Simon asks, “What makes a geek?”, the answer so far appears to involve lego.
In other news, some people have way to much time on their hands (requires Quicktime and sound – via Bruce Lawson).
My mother blogs …
I’ve been wanting my mother to start blogging for ages as she has plenty of interesting things to say and finds some excellent web sites. She has just made her first ‘real’ post to Just Thinking about Theology and Society and I think it only right to officially welcome her to the blogosphere.
