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Inspiration - not motivation - for writing. Comments Madhu 29 Jan 2006 12:26 pm: Forget writing, sometimes it even difficult to find inspiration for working(not motivation)! Chitra 3 Feb 2006 10:04 am: He he too good !!

Chemosphere is the world’s most modern residence. Incidentally, Charlie’s Angels 2 was filmed here. via MeFi Leonard Malin was a young aerospace engineer in late-1950s L.A. whose father-in-law had just given him a plot north of Mulholland Drive, near Laurel Canyon. The only catch: at roughly 45 degrees, the slope was all but unbuildable. Lautner sketched a bold vertical line, a cross, and a curve above it. “Draw it up,” he told his assistant. Now publisher Benedikt Taschen owns Chemosphere. ...

April fool.

Street dogs in Athens are being poisoned. Maybe this happens everywhere. Maybe it is for the good. I just wish there were another way. (Don’t watch the clip.)

Interesting stories from a guy who always wore a nametag. via MetaFilter

2002 in pictures – links on MetaFilter.

Who invented cubicles? Herman Miller, 1950s. Now we know whom to blame! (However, I must admit to a secret liking for cubicles.) via MetaFilter Comments L K Tucker 21 Feb 2007 5:23 pm: Robert Propst is credited with the invention according to a bio on the Herman Miller Inc. site. He denied it. His open plan system was modified when workers using the first prototypes began having mental breaks. The human vision startle reflex had worked in the “special circumstances” those first close-spaced workstations created.

Kiruba’s interview with Google. Nice questions! And good to see the post on MetaFilter. via MetaFilter

After Googlebombing, now we have Google glossary bombing. via Metafilter

Google games on Metafilter.

Corporate scandals at a glance. Nice, the way they’ve linked Martha Stewart and her daughter to Sam Waksal. (Wax-all?) via Metafilter

Man has epilepsy. Woman thinks it’s a heart attack. Gets upset and sues epileptic. via Metafilter

Here’s a good reason for me not to advertise my website. Here’s a site on time travel anamolies in films, which is not accessible, thanks to Yahoo’s restrictions on data transfer. One listing on Metafilter probably killed the site. But then, the question probably is, is that a reason to hate Yahoo?

The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it. Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!

Pity… Netsurfer’s Digest now costs $20 a year. They’d been hinting about it for a while. I’d probably pay for it, if there weren’t alternatives. I find myself using them less, and substitutes like Metafilter are pretty good too.

Jakob Nielsen has a whole bunch of patents relating to Internet usability. Metafilter has an interesting discussion on whether that’s a good idea.

A new paradigm. Weblog as conversation. Metafilter.