Freyburg

The Osoyoos Times, my former employer, now has a website. You can check out some of my columns here, here, here, and here.

Joe Sacco is a comic book artist who recently embedded with some U.S. Marines in Iraq. Bookslut has a link to the eight page comic he produced after he got back home. It’s pretty cool, but almost 10 megs, and slow as hell with my crappy PDF viewer.

So Jason Kottke is blogging full time, having quit his day job. His plan is to accept contributions, and not go for the “easy” money of ads. A laudable goal; I for one would like to work in my underwear and not have to answer to The Man at some point. But out of nowhere, Penny Arcade puts the whole thing into something approaching perspective. Unexpected, this is.

This time in, of all places, GQ. Fairly interesting, if only to find out Larry Page sat in his breakfast before going through the opening NASDAQ ceremony the day Google went public.

at least according to some book reviewed by the Washington Post.

Gold! (via Eric Rice)

In years gone by, I used to get together with fellow TV flacks and watch the Oscars, jeering and cheering all the while. Cirrcumstance and geography don’t make that a possibility anymore, but the Intarweb (it’s not just for the buying and selling of wood!) will allow us to prognosticate before, during and after this year’s hoo-ha. Get commenting, people!

Flickr has a new logo, which looks like a amalgam of Google, AOL, Kodak and Apple, all mushed together in a big pile of ugly. I guess said companies poured some money into the site, which is an excellent resource for not only uploading photos but also searching through their innovative “tag” structure. But man…that logo ain’t pretty.

Evan Williams, one of the guys behind Blogger, is working on taking podcasting into pro territory with a firm called Odeo.

I’m not much for the cooking…but this knife rack is pretty damned cool.