As I sit here waiting for my new mattress to be delivered, I thought I’d check out the Wikipedia article on mattresses. Really, I should have checked this *before* buying a mattress, but heck, I think I made a good choice anyway. I guess I’ll find out after I sleep on it tonight.
The wikipedia article recommends spending about 10 minutes on the mattress in the store before committing to it; I’ve seen other articles recommend an hour. I just can’t imagine spending more than a minute or two on a mattress in the store, though. Anything more would just seem creepy.
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
Heather pointed out the Flying Spaghetti Monsterism site to me a while ago. Very funny. And now it has a wikipedia page.
iTunes 5
You know, I completely missed this until I saw it mentioned in an article today. iTunes 5 has playlist folders! I’ve been waiting for this one for quite a while. It’s a really obvious feature, and I could never understand why it wasn’t there.
Angels on the Bowery
I might be going to this thing on Sunday. It’s been a while since I’ve seen Mr. Gaiman.
DotNet Stuff
I spent some time today surfing through a bunch of .net stuff. I’ve been picking up on some things from DotNetRocks that I wanted to look into, and I just wound up following some trails. Here are a few interesting links:
- CodeSmith — interesting tool that I need to look into.
- DotNetNuke — I interviewed a guy today who was thinking about starting a company and writing his own CMS in ASP.NET. He hadn’t heard of DNN before. He may have been trying to do something a bit different from DNN, or he may have been reinventing the wheel. I hope he takes a look at it before he starts coding from scratch!
- Community Server — the last time I looked at these guys, they weren’t quite done yet. Now they’re at version 1.2 and apparently quite usable. I may have to try this out, maybe for a departmental blog at work.
- An interesting discussion of strings in .Net here. Maybe I should put some stuff about String vs. StringBuilder on the test I give to interviewees.
- Thycotic.Data — maybe not that useful for me, but kind of interesting.
- Rockford Lhotka — I’m kind of interested in his book, after hearing him on DNR. I honestly don’t know much about n-tier development.
Google Blog Search
A new blog search page from Google.
New York Magazine Fall Restaurant Preview 2005
Some interesting restaurants should be opening in NYC soon. I’m interested in Morimoto and Colors, in particular.
The Irish Trojan’s blog
This guy seems to have known more about Katrina than FEMA did.
Dork Tidings
John Kovalic has links to some disturbing Katrina-related news items on his blog.
Katrina
Lots of stuff on Katrina at crabwalk.