portapak.net, a new online resource for furby hackers and featuring up to the minute interviews of Vlad the Impala's ghost plus online sales of spiky things used to keep prisoners from getting back down off their spikes and the hell out of Transylwania, is now online. highly recommended viewing, hell if you're here and looking at all this trash, you could hardly do worse, right?

welcome to the intarweb, ben! and good work eschewing those nasty big dumb sites in favour of adding your own special sauce to this giant curry that is the pogosfear!

from wired, giant robot imprisons parked cars. nothing really to do with giant robot, silly. actually a good pointer for why you might want to check the license on that shinkwrapped software before you base your business model on it. what if your business model walks out the door with the developer? POOS!

screen grab of google analytics per-country view showing viewers from within NZ the week before a New Zealand contemporary art website goes live

... but what the hell is going on a few thousand kilometres to the west? great news for artists from aotearoa, "could be worse" for tasmania i guess, potentially a tourism winner for finders island (which i never new existed until now), bit of a shame for the aussie mainland though ...

http://www.flickr.com/gp/73862327@N00/6U9Aa6 will take you to the palace of delight, or you can enjoy the slideshow from the comfort of your fluffy armchair

http://josiahcole.com/2007/02/14/a-webmasters-19-commandments/

thanks JP for this and the previous vid :)