July 25, 2000: Which brings up something that's always annoyed me: when I want to link to a book title, I (like you and everybody else) always use the Amazon.com page for the book (unless I can easily find a good publisher's or author's page). And I hate it.. why should I link to some big store when what I really want to do is point folks to the definitive record for that particular book? I'd rather link somewhere like the Library of Congress record (e.g. A Pattern Language), but the LOC site is just a travesty of sloth and confusion and doesn't provide any useful information anyway. So by default Amazon becomes the world's library. Feh!