gorp.com gets twiggy for seattleidad

"All towns are not created equal. Just ask Seattle. Mountains (hell, they've got volcanoes), shimmering alpine lakes, craggy, surf-pounded shore... forget java jolts, it'd be an outrage if these folk weren't seriously hyperactive."

[hell yea we have volcanos. & i get to live here, 24/7/52. if you have to live in a country reeling over the edge, you might as well be in a far north west corner beyond the mountains from the rest of it. this is where the fresh air comes in. it's even in the the same umph-order watershed as vancouver, you could just about swim there in a pinch.]

Northeastern Digital - Mastering for All Media

[massachusetts digital mastering service - their mp3 showcase (gallery like page featuring a number of northeastern bands w/links to realmedia clips, full-length song mp3s, more info, etc) left me feling a little of something about spending a lot of my drinking-age time in the northeast listening to live northeastern bands. it was a pretty sweet place to grow up, even if the summer heat & mosquitos did eventually drive me away.]

something I learned today...

something about recent events or i dunno what.. people fucking suck. the bite of it is, we're not born that way, it just doesn't take much to get there. do the terrorists work for the commies or the fascists? it must be one or the other. i was sort of kidding in that way the generally horrified tend to be around most people. so, the big fat fucking blog suck voice replied, fascists. islamo-fascists. i doubt he had any idea how close to correct he was without having a clue what he was talking about. fascists hide best in plain sight.

here's a dime, call the better index bureau

[flat labels good! folder tree good! a something about gmail (bloglines, spurl, firefox bookmarks, anything else out there to which this could even remotely apply..) , ganked from the resulting comment after someone's review of gmail got me thinking (again...omg) about all the ways having to pick - tree or list! - makes the world suck just a little bit more than it needs to.

if gmail allows multiple labels, label the message with each name you'd use in the heirarchy, then search for all those labels to get the that subset. this would work even better if the search also returned the list of all labels found in the search results so you can sort of drill down till you have the results*. if gmail added the ability to define a label's parent label, the user could opt to browse through the folder tree thus defined. i'm sure someone's already asked for it..

* del.icio.us does this. it's kinna fun spooling out declaration like what's what with what the skilled labour gets to for a living... it must get this sorta thing all the time]