Alie Coopers new album - July 29!!

Looks like it will be well worth the wait!!

States I hate

OK, I don't hate them, but they sure don't like me :(

I was reviewing my blog traffic. Now, I am at peace with the fact that I am not exactly a high traffic destination, but I notice several states were providing NO monthly traffic. I looked deeper and I am sad to say the following states have opted out for THE WHOLE YEAR:

Nevada, Idaho, BOTH Dakotas, Mississippi, and West Virgina

At least I am winning the big states... NY, Texas, California, and Illinois all have been pretty kind to me.

BTW - love Google analytics :)

Word art

Not the cheesy work art in a major word processor... but real word art can be found here:

www.wordle.net

Fun stuff. Here is one way a very cool Capt. Beefheart song turns out.

Thanks to Jeff for sharing.

Enterprise success with Web 2.0

Short, decent write-up on Best Buy's success with social computing.

Yahoo, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Best Buy all seem to be making progress in actually using web 2.0 capabilities. Others you would point out?

Wall-e

Disney did a pretty nice job with the site to support their last movie release. Simple fun, but fun none the less...

Wall-e

Creative business cards

Great post showing 42 clever business card designs, with links to other posted in the past. Some creative thinking here!

One year of iPhone

Not for me personally unfortunately, but one year on the market. I did score an iTouch awhile back, and I love the wifi. But here is a nice read reflecting back on the iPhone itself.

Lists on Blender

While I often disagree with the rankings/selections, there are few better time wasters than the music-related lists on blender.com.

I really enjoyed the Dastardly Villains list, including the Jabba-esque Lou Pearlman.

Social Networking fatigue

Downright funny look at social networking. Friendster seems to get the IE treatment. Surprised it didn't end with a link to FirstLife.

Thanks to Joe for sharing.

YouTube Warp

Just when I thought YouTube could not grow into a larger time gobbler for me, I stumbled on to this crafty Flash-based interface... Warp. Even spiffier than OS/2 Warp.

Productive time, I will miss ye.

A cautionary tale

I have continued to warn to the idea of my data being stored in the cloud. Gone would be the days of backup and hard drive upgrades. Then stories like this come along and I begin to re-ponder.

Tornado

Same caveat as last time, but this was pretty amazing....