Day: June 23, 2002

Another week, another run of the ole Ecosystem.

Revised data is up; no major changes to the process this week. Just added a few new blogs on request.

Yes, I’m still trying to automate it; yes, it still takes too damned long, and yes, there’s still some bugs in there (although for the record, with the exception of last Saturday’s screwup, I have yet to see anyone present actual data to prove a bug…. yes, that is a challenge ! )

Anyway, enjoy, don’t take it all too seriously (defined as all values of seriously where seriously > 0 ) and take care…

-NZB

Update: I just uploaded the raw .csv data file of links extracted (unfiltered, so it includes links from blogs-to-themselves as well as links from blogs-to-URLs-not-on-the-list-of-blogs, both of which get filtered out); the link is Please please please do not click on that unless you are seriously attempting to debug; it is 600K even zipped and my bandwidth is running low. Thanks!

Wanted: A Few Good Fonts

OK, I’m surprised that I haven’t been able to find this information yet myself, so I’ll put out a call for help.

I’m looking for information regarding which fonts are available on which browsers and platforms. In my dream, I’d like to see a table that lists Times Roman, and then tells me which of the major platforms/browsers have that font. And so on, for every other font in existence (or at least the biggies).

This is, of course, related to the redesign. I hate boring fonts — but I hate unreadable sites even more, so I’m trying to do the best job I can coming up with a slick layout & snappy fonts, but I don’t want it to just look snappy to me and look like crap to everyone else…

Anyway, so far I’ve struck out in finding much info beyond the basics that Arial and Verdana are good. Anybody with a link or two, ’em my way, please.

al Qaeda gophers tape, declares support for Bush

Yet another al Qaeda spokesminion popped up out of his gopher hole today just long enough to praise Allah & pass an audiotape.

I skimmed the report briefly… al Qaeda organization in tact… blah blah… bin Laden alive… blah blah blah… more attacks coming… blah blah blah. All of it Allah willing, of course.

But the last bit really caught my eye, where the spokescreature referred to the controversy around how much Bush knew pre-September 11:

“…it is a cover for the attack of the Democratic Party on the Republican Party after the America president announced that he knew about the September 11 attacks and big economic problems that the American government is suffering from.”

Is this fellow just being incoherent, or did he just declare that he’s on Bush’s side in the who-knew-what-when argument?

Damn, now if Bush can just get Andrea Yates and Charles Manson to endorse him, he’ll have the coveted psycho-murders trifecta. 2004 will be a lock.

Maybe Daschle needs to offer to build bin Laden a new cave or something; he’s falling way behind here…