October 2004
This list of atrributes shared by all known human cultures is fascinating (tickling, hair styles), though I find myself not quite believing all of them are truly universal (males dominate public/political realm). (via)
Thanks to Mark’s email management method, I now have 0 messages in my inbox. Woohoo!
Amazon’s support phone number is nowhere to be found on their site. However, if you send them an email through their feedback form and then click the “This didn’t answer my question” link in the reply, you get a modified version of the form which mentions the support number (1-800-201-7575). This is a perfect example of business needs being at odds with customer needs.
If it worked on a Mac, I’d give Google Desktop Search a try. I might, however, be slightly concerned about privacy issues, despite Google’s assurances.
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Congratulations to all the FSMers, and well done!
ps - Here’s a nice pic of my dad back then from the Chronicle:
When did Amazon start offering searchable menus?
I’m pretty sure they could have done better than this: 
WordCount “presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it.” (via)