One of the more interesting Internet tales that I’ve followed in a cursory manner over the years is phone booth in the Mojave desert. The final chapter in the saga is the removal of the phone booth at the request of the federal government because it attracted too much traffic (the area where the phone booth is now part of a national park). Interestingly, one can attribute the increased traffic in large part to the Web page about the phone booth that I’ve linked to. (Thanks to Lake Effect for the pointer.)
Fox News has discovered that turning to the right has worked well for a cable news channel, so they’re going to try it on the Web. I just wish they wouldn’t call it news.
Newt Gingrich and his bride to be have their [wedding registry](http://www.weddingchannel.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic com.wc2.Registry.GR2Prefill?account_id=2317434&division_id=6&from=OurWeddingGuestView.GOW_Main) available online if you’d like to pick something out for them. I guess his previous wives got all of the china and crystal in the divorce settlements.
Digital Creations is working with ActiveState to add Perl support to Zope, the critically acclaimed but somewhat obscure open source content management system.
It seems like every time a major site redesigns, I read an apology like this. Maybe the Yahoo “never redesign” philosophy is better, or perhaps the Amazon.com incremental redesign philosophy works better for users.