Tuesday › September 11

At 8:45, I left my room and joined the migration of students to the Great Books lecture.
At 9:03, a friend from high school found me and we had a chat about courses, commuting, and understanding Greek literature.
At 9:43, I was learning about how Homer focuses on the instrument of the narrative in parts of the Iliad.
At 10:05, I arrived in my Statistics lecture.
At 10:10, the professor made a short mention that there was "sad news" about two plane crashes.
At 10:28, I was learning about properties of the distribution of bar graphs.
At 11:30, I read my e-mail, not noticing the AOL Plus news window in the corner of my screen.
At 11:38, my computer programming professor sent an e-mail about classes being cancelled "due to the terrible tragedy in New York."
At 11:39, I discovered what actually happened in the previous three hours. ß »

Sunday › September 9

My weblogger twin is, um, myself. Who is yours? [c/o Tom/Firda] ß »

Thursday › September 6

How did I do on my Video Music Awards predictions? Seven videos that I wanted to win did, and four videos that I predicted would win did.

¤ Video I like best
• Video I think will win
§ Video that won

Video Of The Year
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" ¤
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
U2, "Beautiful Day"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade" §
Janet Jackson, "All for You"
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"

Best Male Video
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Lenny Kravitz, "Again"
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ"
Moby f/ Gwen Stefani, "South Side" ¤ §
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"

Best Female Video
Madonna, "Don't Tell Me" ¤
Janet Jackson, "All for You" •
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"
Dido, "Thank You"
Jennifer Lopez, "Love Don't Cost a Thing"
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" §

Best Group Video
U2, "Elevation" ¤ •
'NSYNC, "Pop" §
Destiny's Child, "Survivor"
Incubus, "Drive"
Dave Matthews Band, "I Did It"

Best Rap Video
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me" ¤ §
Jay-Z, "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
Ja Rule f/ Lil' Mo & Vita, "Put It on Me"
Snoop Dogg, "Lay Low"

Best R&B Video
Jill Scott, "Gettin' in the Way"
112, "Peaches & Cream"
R. Kelly, "I Wish"
Destiny's Child, "Survivor" ¤ • §
Sunshine Anderson, "Heard It All Before"

Best Hip-Hop Video
Outkast, "Ms. Jackson" ¤ §
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On" •
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
City High, "What Would You Do"
Black Eyed Peas f/ Macy Gray, "Request Line"

Best Dance Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" ¤ •
Janet Jackson, "All for You"
'NSYNC, "Pop" §
Jennifer Lopez, "Love Don't Cost a Thing"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"

Best Rock Video
Aerosmith, "Jaded" •
Limp Bizkit, "Rollin'" §
Weezer, "H*** Pipe"
Linkin Park, "Crawling"
Staind, "It's Been Awhile" ¤

Best Pop Video
'NSYNC, "Pop" ¤ §
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
Britney Spears, "Stronger"
Backstreet Boys, "The Call" •
Destiny's Child, "Survivor"

Best New Artist In A Video
Coldplay, "Yellow" ¤
Sum41, "Fat Lip"
Nikka Costa, "Like a Feather"
David Gray, "Babylon"
Alicia Keys, "Fallin'" • §

Best Video From A Film
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade" (Moulin Rouge) §
Destiny's Child, "Independent Women Part 1" (Charlie's Angels)
U2, "Elevation" (Tomb Raider) ¤ •
DMX, "No Sunshine" (Exit Wounds)
K-Ci & JoJo, "Crazy" (Save The Last Dance)

Viewer's Choice
Backstreet Boys, "The Call"
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"
Destiny's Child, "Independent Women Part 1"
Limp Bizkit, "My Way"
'NSYNC, "Pop" ¤ • §
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"

Breakthrough Video
Common f/ Macy Gray, "Geto Heaven"
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" §
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood"
R.E.M., "Imitation of Life" ¤
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ" •
'NSYNC, "Pop"

Best Direction In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" §
R.E.M., "Imitation of Life" ¤
Linkin Park, "Crawling"
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Outkast, "Ms. Jackson"

Best Choreography In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" ¤ • §
Madonna, "Don't Tell Me"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
Janet Jackson, "All for You"

Best Special Effects In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
U2, "Elevation" ¤ •
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ" §

Best Art Direction In A Video
Aerosmith, "Jaded" ¤ •
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" §
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"

Best Editing In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" §
U2, "Elevation" •
'NSYNC, "Pop" ¤
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"

Best Cinematography In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" §
Aerosmith, "Jaded" ¤
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"

MTV2 Award
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood" ¤
Alicia Keys, "Fallin'" •
Jurassic 5, "Quality Control"
India Arie, "Video"
Craig David, "Fill Me In"
Mudvayne, "Dig" § ß »

Tuesday › September 4

Today is Fairvue's second anniversary. Take a look at what people have been saying in Short Quotes / Long Years. ß »

Saturday › September 1

I should link Kim because her title image is...tilted. ß »

Monday › August 27

You know you're a Detroiter when... ß »

Friday › August 24

Help a duck tour the world. ß »

Wednesday › August 22

How well can four bloggers disguise their own blogging styles? Do You Know These Bloggers will find that out. ß »

Tuesday › August 21

The 2001 MTV Video Music Awards are fast approaching. Here are my wildly inaccurate predictions/opinions of the nominees:

¤ Video I like best
• Video I think will win

Video Of The Year
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" ¤
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
U2, "Beautiful Day"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
Janet Jackson, "All for You"
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"

Best Male Video
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Lenny Kravitz, "Again"
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ"
Moby f/ Gwen Stefani, "South Side" ¤
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"

Best Female Video
Madonna, "Don't Tell Me" ¤
Janet Jackson, "All for You" •
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"
Dido, "Thank You"
Jennifer Lopez, "Love Don't Cost a Thing"
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"

Best Group Video
U2, "Elevation" ¤ •
'NSYNC, "Pop"
Destiny's Child, "Survivor"
Incubus, "Drive"
Dave Matthews Band, "I Did It"

Best Rap Video
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me" ¤
Jay-Z, "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
Ja Rule f/ Lil' Mo & Vita, "Put It on Me"
Snoop Dogg, "Lay Low"

Best R&B Video
Jill Scott, "Gettin' in the Way"
112, "Peaches & Cream"
R. Kelly, "I Wish"
Destiny's Child, "Survivor" ¤ •
Sunshine Anderson, "Heard It All Before"

Best Hip-Hop Video
Outkast, "Ms. Jackson" ¤
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On" •
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
City High, "What Would You Do"
Black Eyed Peas f/ Macy Gray, "Request Line"

Best Dance Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" ¤ •
Janet Jackson, "All for You"
'NSYNC, "Pop"
Jennifer Lopez, "Love Don't Cost a Thing"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"

Best Rock Video
Aerosmith, "Jaded" •
Limp Bizkit, "Rollin'"
Weezer, "H*** Pipe"
Linkin Park, "Crawling"
Staind, "It's Been Awhile" ¤

Best Pop Video
'NSYNC, "Pop" ¤
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
Britney Spears, "Stronger"
Backstreet Boys, "The Call" •
Destiny's Child, "Survivor"

Best New Artist In A Video
Coldplay, "Yellow" ¤
Sum41, "Fat Lip"
Nikka Costa, "Like a Feather"
David Gray, "Babylon"
Alicia Keys, "Fallin'" •

Best Video From A Film
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade" (Moulin Rouge)
Destiny's Child, "Independent Women Part 1" (Charlie's Angels)
U2, "Elevation" (Tomb Raider) ¤ •
DMX, "No Sunshine" (Exit Wounds)
K-Ci & JoJo, "Crazy" (Save The Last Dance)

Viewer's Choice
Backstreet Boys, "The Call"
Nelly, "Ride Wit Me"
Destiny's Child, "Independent Women Part 1"
Limp Bizkit, "My Way"
'NSYNC, "Pop" ¤ •
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani, "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"

Breakthrough Video
Common f/ Macy Gray, "Geto Heaven"
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood"
R.E.M., "Imitation of Life" ¤
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ" •
'NSYNC, "Pop"

Best Direction In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
R.E.M., "Imitation of Life" ¤
Linkin Park, "Crawling"
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Outkast, "Ms. Jackson"

Best Choreography In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice" ¤ •
Madonna, "Don't Tell Me"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"
Janet Jackson, "All for You"

Best Special Effects In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
U2, "Elevation" ¤ •
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"
Robbie Williams, "Rock DJ"

Best Art Direction In A Video
Aerosmith, "Jaded" ¤ •
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood"
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink, "Lady Marmalade"

Best Editing In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
U2, "Elevation" •
'NSYNC, "Pop" ¤
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"

Best Cinematography In A Video
Fatboy Slim, "Weapon of Choice"
Aerosmith, "Jaded" ¤
Eminem f/ Dido, "Stan" •
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On"

MTV2 Award
Gorillaz, "Clint Eastwood" ¤
Alicia Keys, "Fallin'" •
Jurassic 5, "Quality Control"
India Arie, "Video"
Craig David, "Fill Me In"
Mudvayne, "Dig" ß »

Saturday › July 28

Hi! How are you?

I write you this post in order to have your advice

See you later. Thanks ß »

Thursday › July 19

If you use Blogger, two of my entries to the Blogger Template Contest have been chosen as winners and are now available for everyone to use: Underground: Orange and Rusted Geodesica. ß »

Tuesday › July 17

Chicago ''L''.org is quite a comprehensive site about the el and subway systems of Chicago. ß »

A picture of the Internet. [c/o Ernie] ß »

Monday › July 16

I should blog something. ß »

Sunday › July 1

I've republished some Shrek lyrics as a new feature: Shrektacular. ß »

Wednesday › June 27

Web Nouveau has a huge list of sites that are taking the tableless route. [c/o Firda] ß »

Wednesday › June 20

Fairvue presents yet another song parody: Designer. ß »

Sunday › June 17

Trillian lets you use four different messaging programs and IRC. Wow. [c/o Brig] ß »

Saturday › June 16

Some site updates: Quirk now has a section and the Habitat photos have been updated on the Nikolai page, plus there's a new color scheme around the site. ß »

Wednesday › June 13

I am Jason Kottke. ß »

Monday › June 11

So I graduated. Yeah. ß »

Sunday › June 3

I rarely see a movie that I really like. But Shrek is awesome. ß »

Friday › June 1

We're live again. ß »

Monday › May 28

I'm blogging from the mall. How cool. ß »

Wednesday › May 23

Which one of my facts wasn't real?

1. I didn't eat pizza until I was eight years old.
True. I was about to enter third grade.
2. I have been to over seventy-five malls.
True. And I have directories from all of them.
3. I was my middle school's chess club champion in seventh grade.
True. But I had a tendency to end a lot of games in a stalemate.
4. The last time I had a haircut was over a year ago.
False. I do get haircuts, even if it doesn't appear like it.
5. I named Fairvue after something I saw in a dream.
True. I was in a mall, looked down into a fountain and saw the name "FÂÌRVÜÉ mall" in it. I dropped the weird accents when naming the site.
6. The first album I bought was Michael Jackson's "Dangerous."
True. I now cannot locate it.
7. I have Derek Powazek's autograph.
True. He signed his galley at SXSW this year.
8. I considered going to college in Canada.
True. I was accepted to the University of Toronto, but decided on the University of Michigan.
9. My first word was "boogie."
True. My mom says I liked "Soul Train."
10. All of my fish have been named after computer-related words.
True. Java, Clarus, Encarta, Scsi, Tiff, Lan, AltaVista, Lycos, and Mozilla. ß »

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