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Ouch.

A while back I blogged about Mashuptown, the awesome site and podcast that has been showcasing mashups (two unrelated songs mixed together in some clever way) for the last, oh 8 mos, or so.

Recently Art announced that Mashuptown is closing it’s doors, and taking down all the music it’s been hosting. This is a real shame, and is probably due to some (heh - I first typed “sue” there - Freudian slip?) cease-and-desist letter from the usual suspects.

Art was kind enough to stop by a while back and wish Jodi and I well in our process to adopt Adelina. I wish Art the best of luck, and hope that there are more mashups in his future!

Discover what’s important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things.

Oh brother, something new to waste my time.

43 Things is a site that lets you post things you want to do, and tell others things you’ve done, and if they were worth doing. Sounds silly, but it’s oddly addictive.

Pete at Rasterweb posted several things he does NOT want to do (43 Crazy Things), and wondered if anyone would do them. Sadly, I’ve already done 2 of them, including getting shot in the leg and totaling my car. Geez.

UPDATE: I’ve added a pic to the “total my car” entry. Thanks Mom!

I have 40 Gmail invites to give out. Send me an email at steveivy@gmail.com with a couple of lines saying why you want a Gmail account. Now with POP tastiness!

Update: All gone! Thanks for playing!

To re-read and consider: |Mezzoblue| — Fitts’ Law

On the web that means the bigger your link area, the better.

Hm, Dave has no trackback on his site. Wah.

Morbus Iff, and a cast of thousands (for a very tiny definition of ‘thousands’), have released a new GameGrene site, Ghyll. Ghyll is a RPG where players take on the role of a scholar documenting the history of an imaginary world called Ghyll. Based on the concept documented here, I think this is a really cool idea. Hypermedia rules.

Ghyll is different from previous Lexicons [...] because there is no pre-existing world for entries to derive from. We don’t know if the world of Ghyll is fantasy, cyberpunk, sci-fi, horror, or all of the above. Ghyll is a blank slate, and will be defined and finessed by our entries. Anything goes until everyone knows.

Update: More on Ghyll from it’s other founder, Sean Palmer.

There’s a Better Image Rotator over at A List Apart. Better, that is, than this one I posted about earlier.