overstated

a weblog by cameron marlow

Month: April, 2003

Red means stop!

Administrators in auto city are baffled at recent reports showing Detroit having more than twice as many pedestrian deaths per capita than it’s nearest competitor, New York City.
The high rate may partly result from drivers’ attitudes toward pedestrians, said Kelly Thayer, transportation project manager for the Michigan Land Use Institute, based in Traverse City. “There [...]

#E97451

Introduced to the Crayola line in 1903, Burnt Sienna is now number 44 in their top 50 colors (men rank burnt sienna #39 while women find it a less attractive #53). For its 100th anniversary, Crayola will be choosing four new colors and retiring 4 of the standards—one of those singled out is none other [...]

The best of B3TA

Everyone has their sources for material, the coveted ubersites we depend on to give us special mojo that impresses other people. There’s one place I depend on more than any other, B3TA.
Every week Rob Manuel and friends send an email update that I inevitably end up chopping to bits and IMing to all of my [...]

Compliancy and standardization.. YUCK!

I think one of the reasons the web is such a mish-mash of badly coded HTML and lazy programming is simply that the whole idea of compliancy lacks excitement and fun. What’s in it for me? If I work my ass off and pay attention to all the specs, I might just make the mark [...]

OMG!! OMG!! Cameron made a post!!

Oh boy do I have lots to talk about. Most importantly, this weblog has moved over to my new web server, which will shortly be hosting Blogdex among other things. My lack of updates as of late has been due to two things:

I was cramming for my general exam oral defense, which occurred last Wednesday, [...]