So I’m browsing the web, minding my own business, and I think…

“Hey, just for kicks, I wonder what the Cool Site of the Day is?”

I don’t check very often. But today, feeling particularly bored, and having no intriguing hyperlinks to follow, I decided to find out what site had been awarded that oh-so-coveted award.

I clicked on the button to see today’s site, and then went back to my lunch while I waited for it to load. When I looked up at the screen, I saw The New Venue.

Thinking I must have accidentally clicked my own bookmark for The New Venue, I went back to the Cool Site of the Day page and clicked the button again. The New Venue appeared again.

The New Venue is the Cool Site of the Day for June 19, 1998.

Jason, Bart, and I have been working on the New Venue for months. It’s Jason’s baby. He’s the man behind it. He’s been working on it for at least a year now. Bart, the producer of the D.Film Digital Film Festival, came in to produce it, and I came in to provide all the JavaScript and CGI programming. The three of us are the ones who make it work. We’re the ones who care for it. We’re the ones who download dozens of multi-megabyte QuickTime movies and decide which one will be featured next.

As I’m writing this, Jason still doesn’t know that we got the award. He’s at work, prob’ly thinking that he’ll come home and see the typical eighty or so hits to The New Venue home page. Surprise, Jason. We’ve gotten close to three thousand in the past twelve hours. Time for champagne, my friend.

We’re officially cool.