Where do you think you're going? 

Amtrak has a pretty neat new route atlas made in Flash.

What would happen to Technorati ranking? 

I wonder how it would affect Technorati blog rankings if there was a way to eliminate consideration of links in blogrolls?

Sometimes I can hardly believe myself 

You know I'm kind of eccentric, right? Still, I can astonish myself.

Yesterday I must have spent 10 minutes marveling over a shelf full of primary colored flower pots. Plain shaped clay pots glazed in red, blue and yellow. I'd put the yellow pot on the blue saucer, step back and consider it, then put the red pot on the blue saucer and think that over. At least I knew I wanted the blue saucer!

I got this preternatural affection for colors and combinations of colors from my mom. She's really creative about it, seeing colors everywhere and relating them to out-of-context color quandries in her life. I've been with her when, walking down the sidewalk in the city, she'll spot a woman's scarf contrasted with the color of her coat and apply the combination to a chair and yet-unrealized throw pillow in her living room.

Lately I've been mooning over the pale pale pastels of VW convertibles. They come in yellow, blue and beige and look so kissy with the black rag tops. I'm serious, I almost moan when I see one. I wouldn't be surprised if I have one before the year is out. The matter of deciding which pastel, though, is going to be excruiciating.

(The photo doesn't do the blue justice. It's less silver looking and much dreamier than that.)

Jupiter report might legitimize the assumption 

The Guardian reports on the report reporting on the influence of bloggers and others who write the web, not just read it.

I think most wired people have understood for a long time that the online world increasingly is setting the agenda for what gets talked about -- in the MSM, in the political debate, and in your lunchtime conversation with your co-worker.

So is it ironic that it still takes a report factory like Jupiter to write that it's so, so the MSM can quote it, and it becomes true? Nope! Because the idea started with us and crept into the wider consciousness. That's what the report is really all about. That's power, and it's covert power -- the kind that's almost impossible to control or manage. Cool, huh?