K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider on eBay. I used to watch this show every single day. Hat tip: Colin.

One day left in the contest, there have been some really great entries so far. There are going to be multiple winners of the smaller prizes and one grand prize winner, and you can win multiple times, so keep the entries coming.

MediaWiki looks pretty amazing, and I think it will be replacing phpWiki for my personal use and for WordPress. There is a lot that can be learned from their extensive history and documentation of the development of the Mediawiki project. This is open source at its best.

I’m running the latest nightly build of WordPress 1.3 now. Living on the edge! Seems to be working well, and it’s a good stress-test of the system.

7 million and counting…

Using Ping-o-Matic with FeedBurner, 3 methods, all easy. Lots of synergy there, both services abstracting details of a fragmented market.

I just realized that because the WordPress support forums has RSS for everything and Bloglines is indexing it Bloglines must have all 60 or 70 thousand posts from the support forums in its database. I wish there was some way we could tie into that search directly.

This has got to be the worst error message with the worst instructions ever. I want to see the video (Barack Obama) but I’m afraid about what will happen to my computer if I fire up IE.

Met with the charming Cathy Matusow from the Houston Press earlier today and we chatted for a while about blogs and blogging and blogbloginess. We’re going to meet again this Saturday to talk some more, and maybe even set her up a blog. Yesterday I talked with Farhad from Salon.com for a good while, but that chat was a lot more technical, things like comment spam, emergent communities, and business-oriented topics. Farhad asked some very challenging questions that I had lots of thoughts on but my replies were scattered, so I’m not sure if I communicated what I wanted to say.

Ethan asks Is Mozilla putting the best site forward? The further reading is interesting and candid as well. BTW, Firefox 1.0 is coming in September.

Mozilla 1.7 / 1.7.1 home page shows a picture of Zeldman.com in its screenshot.

Bloglines is the new Technorati. Relevant results, easy to read, and FAST. Hat tip: Dan Hersam via Outer Court. (BTW, it’s interesting to see where Doug’s sliding doors example shows up.)

Color theory

Boxes and Arrows: Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design. A fantastic article that may give you some inspiration in the contest. All the colors schemes I like that I’ve done have been directly inspired and lifted from photographs I like.

Nick says Feed Demon defaults to checking once every three hours, so depending on how you look at stats it may appear 1/3 of readers that poll every hour, skewing its market share numbers. Something similar may effect WordPress’ numbers with installations and blogs. If the average MT user has two or three blogs per installation (like their survey indicated) then the actual number of installations would be half or a third of what the blog survey numbers indicate, putting it much closer to WP’s numbers. Of course I know of no good way to track this, so it’s just a random musing.

I missed the redesign when it happened but I came across Seriocomic’s site today and it looks gorgeous. Great attention to detail in many parts of the design.

My 12″ Powerbook is just under 11″ wide. I demand a refund.

Throwing Tables Out the Window, Doug on redoing Microsoft.com live in front of an audience. He should take that show on the road.

Mark runs some benchmarks on the new Staticize plugin with some interesting results. The benchmark could stand for some improvement, but the results are still pretty impressive.

Technorati redesigns and looks excellent. Is this the first search engine with completely valid HTML and CSS? Feedback: Have the cosmos link/icon in the results by the name instead of the time posted. Fonts seem a tad small for me. Footer is off-center on results pages. Congrats to Tantek and the Technorati team. (Tanteknorati, heh.) As they continue to address performance issues I can start to use the service regularly again.