holy toaster batman, 1300-Watt Infrared

to keep in mind as i begin to abandon the email account i’ve had for the last 7 years: Gmail Loader (GML)

umm… jealous! (not of the c# tho)

katie asks, what prompts my mother to consider boyfriends “outdoorsy” hobbies? (i should add: not my sister)

neato: mod a digital throwaway camera for extended use

a look at the future of gecko and firefox

quote of the day (from my dad): MaryLib [my grandmother] is considering talking to the administration concerning this issue since she too is a graduate and has “connections”.

ha! deep throat lives in santa rosa

this is so cool! a pint lock from ben and jerrys

ok, yeah i need to pick up a decemberists cd (frequently played on somafm, and good)

ha! found coworker tony’s stubbleblog

painful quote of the day: The main problem is that Microsoft is good at competing but not good at caring for customers

sam ruby on manufactured serendipity (i’m really liking his blog tonight)

crack me up! The emacs reference place setting for twelve is not yet available.

strange, nouning of a partial suffix: ilities

this could be the beginning of something big: opendocument

something i’ve never heard of: Purple (the tool, not the concept)

i might need this book: Curious George Gets a Medal (someone described it in a kottke post and i have the strongest memories of reading or having it read to me)

one of the perks of o’reilly: Free Books

whoa, check it! look what i just stumbled upon: The Rap Dictionary, powered by mediawiki

the new york times is complimenting itself: All this underscores how the Internet is beginning to play the watchdog role in China that the press plays in the West

burning up the hip hop station in santa rosa: Daddy Yankee – Like you (an example of reggaeton)

keeping up with the lingo: trustafarian

i couldn’t believe it really existed when i first heard about it: Chicken and Waffles (note to self: check out “donuts and water” in sebastopol)

maybe to play with later: Piggy Bank

love reading joel’s articles: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong

weirdass quote of the day: After you have cut an insicion into the base of the can you should have something that looks roughly like a robots metallic flange receptical

whoa: tape sculpture (i love the first picture)

happy hour discovery: coworker jay’s blog

rubik’s cube: NCSA Mosaic logo

a post from the road from the parents, currently in buffalo, ny

british game i’ve never heard of: conkers

@, aka about; ampersat or asperand; amphora; ape; arobase; atgry; cabbage; cat; cinnabun or cinnamon bun; commercial symbol; cyclone; each; mercantile symbol; rose; schnable; scroll or scroll-a; snail; strudel; these; vortex; whirlpool; or whorl

in perl, Hashes are not the same as arrays (lists)

to listen to, again: radio interview with Chuck Pahlaniuk (strangely i’ve never read his books, and yet i love fight club, the movie)

old news, i know, but interesting: IBM backs Firefox in-house

wtf? Three large crosses were burned in separate incidents across Durham Wednesday night

this is crazy cool: Abusing Amazon images

i find this, amusing: “Falling dominoes” in Half-Life

new definition for a word: Appellation (and totally cool sounding class!)

frequently turning up in books and songs: bougainvillea (passing afternoon by iron and wine, poisionwood bible)

neat: Enda O’Donoghue paints interesting images he finds on the web

constantly blows my mind: Resizeable Textarea

guilty pleasure: i’m such a sucker for the voice of the lead singer of Lifehouse (new radio song: you and me)

i would consider my style a combination of blink and the paradox of choice: i quickly scan the menu and mentally cross off items or whole categories and then make a decision based on what accompanies an entree

rock! IP Justice League of America

i love this song: Game ft. 50 Cent – Hate It Or Love It

i’m also looking for a new shaver, and i found this description hi-larious! Floating triple heads and 30° angle inner blade trim your face so smooth, so clean that the softest of kisses are destined to land on your tender cheek.

google labs release a customizable interface 3 weeks after i come up with pure google (which someone on metafilter recognizes) and all i have to say is “ack! google is becoming yahoo.”

if the clock was digital, i’d get it (i worry that it ticks): Tivoli Audio AM/FM Clock Radio (can anyone recommend a well-designed, good looking, digital alarm clock?)

ha. haha. Grocery Store Wars (darth tater, snicker snicker)

to listen to: Bill Moyers’ speech to the National Conference for Media Reform

who is this Luther Burbank fellow?

what is Marzipan?

oh dear: kensington lock foiled by TP tube

ginormous gets its props

trixie loves her tattoos

oh please, do not make bush a martyr

elect me: a tough judge, a strong conservative, three hot daughters

cool: graph paper PDFs

how to mod a barbie for menstration (frighteningly misogynistic photo though)

i’m sure this crazy interchange i discovered must have a name (probably celtic knot)

just realized my itinerary brings me to several states i’ve never visited before: tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma, new mexico, arizona, utah, and nevada

a name i’ve seen on more than one occasion in tennessee: Austin Peay, starting with the state university in clarksville (melanie shared that one of their cheers is “GO PEAY!” peay is pronounced /pee/)

url spotted on handpainted sign along i-40 in tennessee: bucksnort.com

how wretched and awful: FDA wants sperm banks to bar donors who’ve had gay sex

ok, this is funnier than i thought it would be and the picture is hilarious

quote of the day: We’re going to catch the world in the headlights of my justice. (update: this sounds like a quote from get your war on)

AWESOME painting of jesus for sale on ebay

blogging friends from chapel hill, ruby and brian, have open sourced their wedding

terrific article in smithsonian about coal fires that burn underground for decades: Forty-three years ago, a vast honeycomb of coal mines at the edge of Centralia, Pennsylvania, caught fire. An underground inferno has been spreading there ever since: the town’s residents were evacuated in the 1980s; today, only a handful of holdouts remain.

strange times are these in which it’s necessary to support the countries that stand up to the united states: Brazil yesterday became the first country to take a public stand against the Bush administration’s massive Aids programme which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries.

image of the day: pimped out ups truck

for the baconophile in your life: Bacon Strips Bandages

been listening to: indie pop rocks on SomaFM (it’s like discovering where radio went after clearchannel pushed it off)

what does it mean to “own” a “copy”: Listening to streaming audio, in a sense, is like listening to a story on the radio; you can hear the thing, but you don’t own your own copy.

this might come in handy again: SeriAll.Com – Serials, Keys, Keygen, Cracks (codes for software registration)

hi-larious quote of the day: In a few years, you’ll be driving your Google to the Google to buy some Google for your Google. (the wired 40)