1. First, yes comments at Airbag are back. As well as some long-time needed features like permanent links for individual entries (click on entry icons for link), and view by category. Next on the list of improvements, new and vastly improved Shutterthumb. I have a lot of photos that are ready to share with the world. I will also be working on Kryptonite Wednesday, as my entires about comics were mostly lost on many Airbag readers.
2. I am considering the use of Radio Userland, perhaps not for Airbag but another, more blog-like, well, uh, blog. Radio is very different from Moveable Type, Blogger, etc with tools that help glean news headlines and subscribe to other weblogs. The whole thing feels like an Associated Press for weblogs. I can see how Dave is trying to shape the world of weblogs into his vision of personal journalism.
3. Newly redesigned Wired magazine feels more like a weblog than, well, Wired. Its filled with a lots of short blipverts on new products and services, websites and industries -- just like most of the weblogs read around the Net. Don't get me wrong, issue 10.6 was the best issue I've read in a very long, long time but it is interesting to see this mogul adapt to the popular online style of writing and reading.
4. I won a Playstation 2 game from the Kellogg's Eet and Ern promotion. They were giving away a game every 60 seconds. Now I'm crossing my fingers for Gran Turismo 3 so I have a good excuse for buying Sony's game box (*crossing fingers*).
Now if Halo would just quit being an Xbox only game...
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You're the only other person I know who has ever won something from Kelloggs. Not that others haven't, but you just never hear about them. The other person is me - I won a Schwinn 10-speed bike from them when I was a kid for their "Color the Breakfast" contest one year. That bike lasted me well into college, when it finally gave up the ghost one day as I was chugging down the big hill towards the UGA campus in Athens, GA. Fortunately, I was able to throw it and myself into the grass on the side and avoid being a rather large hood ornament for some chick's beamer.
As you've gone to the effort of reintroducing the comments feature, the least I can do is use it to applaud the quality and humour of your writing.
[Applause]
And is it just me, or is the redesign at Wired just as bad (visually) as the old one?
As to Halo: go out, right now, and buy an Xbox just to play this game. It really is that good. You're missing out bigtime.
I weep for you.
Mark: The design doesn't bother me but Wired has certainly lost much of it's luster when it was a younger magazine. I believe it still continues to win design awards.
Greg: ... from those pesky infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, presumably all with vested interest in the advertisers' businesses ...?
Buy an Xbox, Greg. Satisfaction guaranteed.
I won a dollar bill from a box of cereal. It's not a bike or PS2 game, but I won nonetheless.
The only problem with Xbox is that it does not allow for online multiplayer action which will be a huge feature on the PC version. Unless I am mistaken about the Xbox.
You are indeed mistaken - it is soon to be: