The Web is not a publication. Web sites are not paper. Yet the current thinking of web design is that of the magazine, newspaper, book, or catalog. Visually, aesthetically, legally, the Web is treated as a physical page upon which text and images are written. The Shredder presents this global structure as a chaotic, irrational, raucous collage. By altering the HTML code before the browser reads it, the Shredder
appropriates the data of the Web, transforming it into a parallel web. Content become abstraction. Text becomes graphics. Information becomes art. - Discuss at Metafilter

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Wired on "censorware" and the workplace.

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Help for Online Diarists "Whiny, pretentious, or boring. Take your pick." Discuss at Metafilter

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A newly released UN population study suggests that because the birth rates in wealthy countries is low and declining, the worker-retired ratio will not be able to support current social programs. "The report found that Japan would need 10 million immigrants every year for the next 50 years to maintain the current working-age to retirement-age ratio. Without migration, figures show it would be necessary to raise the retirement age to 77 to maintain the ratio." Sobering stuff. But just in case anyone is worried about the human race disappearing, check outWorldclocks.

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"bk2site will transform your Netscape bookmarks file into a yahoo-like website with slashdot-like news. You can see an example website created with it at www.MultiAgent.com. The site is generated every hour from a cron job. My goal is to enable the user to establish zero-maintenance high-value (small) websites. I am now using all the information in the bookmarks file, as well as some simple recommender system techniques. "

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Everyone knows Dr. Doom is the coolest Marvel supervillian. But who is the second coolest?

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WFMU-FM: The best radio in North America? Maybe. WFMU is an independent, freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 FM to the New York City area and (thank god) live on the Web in Realaudio, Windows Media, and streaming MP3. I first read about this station in the Villiage Voice in the mid-1980s, and listened to it soon after in Gillian's apartment. Now it's a weekly habit I can't break; once i get it going I can't turn it off.

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the5k.org: "The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints of designing for the web are what force us to get truly creative. Between servers and bandwidth, clients and users, HTML and the DOM, browsers and platforms, our conscience and our ego, we're left in a very small space to find highly optimal solutions. Since the space we have to explore is so small, we have to look harder, get more creative; and that's what makes it all interesting. Just celebrating that is all."

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