I think I’m going to be heading down to CT today. My parents have been wanting me to come down and hang for a day or two, but I find it so hard to motivate to drive down there. It just seems to wipe me out. I get down there and then sleep. There’s also the whole slow net connection thing. I think if they had faster net I’d be down there all the time. I’d even buy an airport card for their mac so I could be wireless.

So we’ll see if I can actually pry myself off my ass at a reasonable enough hour to head down there.

No, don’t worry, not that kind of slash. Don Park has first posts about slashdot going downhill in the past year, I personally think it’s been much longer than that. I stopped reading much more than the headlines quite a while ago. He also has an interesting post about bloggers ruining Google’s pagerank algorithm. In some cases it might make sense for blogs to be the higher rated sites for some things, but I can certainly see it working the other way.

This year’s Bloggies have been announced. Once again, I think they need to be posting their definitions for some of the categories. For instance, as much as I love Boing Boing, I wouldn’t call it a ‘computers or technology weblog’ (though it does include posts on that subject). As usual, I find myself much more entertained by The Anti-Bloggies.

Marston Bates: “Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.” [Quotes of the Day]

I haven’t read Dr. Fun in ages. But today I got pointed at a great one about the dreams of a squid.

Aleister Crowley: “To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.” [Quotes of the Day]

I put on VH1 Classic to find ‘We are the 80s’ on. A hour of videos from the 80s, now I can’t go to sleep till 3am. Absolute Beginners by The Jam just played, followed by Charlotte Anne by Julian Cope. I love how cheesy some of the videos back then were. At the same time a lot of the videos seem a lot more creative than stuff I see now (if you can actually see Videos on MTV that is).

The interrobang is my new favorite punctuation mark.

The INTERROBANG was created to fill a gap in our punctuation system where writers often used typographically cumbersome and unattractive combinations of the question mark and exclamation mark to punctuate rhetorical statements where neither the question nor an exclamation alone exactly served the writer. (HOW ABOUT THAT?!)

[ via Chris Pirillo ]

A few years ago there was a cool site called SixDegrees.com. The idea was that you and all your friends would go there and indicate who their friends were. Then, you could see how you were linked to people. It was a neat idea that ended up getting too big and dying. I hadn’t really seen much in the way of sites like that since until recently. The first one I ran into is called Friendster. It’s a lot like Six Degrees. It focuses on social connections, though almost feels a little like a dating site at the same time.

The other one is called Ryze. Ryze is seems to have more of a focus on business networking. From the FAQ:

Q: So what is Ryze anyways?
A: This is a site devoted to helping your extend your business network. You can find interesting people and connect with them, through common interests, shared friends and so on. The site includes things like an events calendar, a message board, private messaging facilities, home pages / profiles and a contact manager. Please try it out and let us know about anything that’s unclear or frustrating, and also about suggestions for future enhancements. Thanks.

I think heard about this site when it went online, but it had slipped off my radar until this morning. Chris Pirillo posted about signing up with Ryze, so I had to go and take a look. It looks like the site has really taken off since I first saw it. I took some time to sign up and already found one person I know (btw, if you sign up you can do so here (it will link you to me when you sign up I believe)).

I actually think Ryze is a really cool idea. I’m going to see how I like it and maybe write some more on it after using it for a while.

Nothing like a bit of geek humor to start the day off. Here’s a slight twist on The Matrix called The Matrix | Second Edition [ via YABlog ]. Almost as good as Tales of the L33T.

I know why you’re here, Neo.
I know why you try and pick up IRC chicks. Why you hardly sleep, why you
live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer listening
to mp3s.