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I have a very strong feeling I am going to be living vicariously through Jay's site for the next few months or years. Jay is off to travel the world after leaving his job (well not really his choice), moving out, selling his possessions, and heading on the road then off to Europe. Sunday's posting was a great find and a wonderful travelogue piece.

I stumbled across Metropole Paris, a weekly 'zine about Paris (in English) in quasi-weblog style. The writing, stories, and photos are enjoyable in a friendly manner.

Can you say SXSWBaby? Knew you could. If you are going to SXSW Interactive Festival this is the place to get the dirt.

Eric Costello is back writing on his site glish.com. Eric is always full of solid insight and links to great uses of CSS. Oh happy days.

The folks at Digital Web - new have been busy finding the few new items over the past few weeks. It is always good to keep your eye on the DW-new page every day or two as it covers a broad spectrum of Web/Internet design and development issues. It is good to have Nick back and manning the daily post again as this means vacation is over.

I am very happy that Lou finally has permalinks. Not only this, but he has comments and they are attracting some of the thinkers and doers of information architecture. This may become an incredible resource. Wahoo!!

one.point.zero has integrated some very nice design elements into the site. It is nice to read that it is build using PHP scripts, but that is not important, the ease of reading and using the elements around the site make it worthy of examination. The site cleanly integrates some ideas that I have had on my to do list, like the calendar. This sets a nice high benchmark for personal sites. Bravo. [hat tip Jeffery]

Stewart has resurrected Sylloge. After discussing the Web and spatial metaphors I am glad Stewart has popped out of his shell to share again. There is much rejoicing.

December is the month to click to Lance Arthur's Glassdog as he is posting a new story everyday. Lance is one of the few people that can cause me to laugh so hard milk comes out my nose (I don't really even drink milk any more).

Shirley Kaiser has redesigned her professional site, SK Designs and provided a fantastic redesign write-up on her personal site Brianstorms and Raves. The redesign is quite nice and provides a nice job of chunking the information with headers and bullets for scanning. The write-up is a very good approach regarding when and how to go about a redesign.
[hat tip Nick Finck at Digital Web - What is New]

Thanks to Scott posting again regularly, I have come across youngpup, which is a fun interface with lots of good DHTML content.

Glish Returns. Wahoo!!