Thursday, June 30

first time i’d heard about it: Julie & Julia (so much for buzz)

works on my thinkpad, no batteries required (cause it’s USB), i just wish i had known about RocketFM before taking my trip across the country (thanks to derrick for lending it to me)

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you only get a hint from the architectural drawing how neat the Yulupa Cohousing structure looks up close (cohousing, hmm? learn something every day)

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only in wine country: i drove by New Vintage Church today

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new word: enophile (what i am not. yet…)

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giggle: This computer was added later for giggles, though sadly, no giggles were produced.

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premonition of the day: I have a feeling the Y! vs. GOOG battles will rival east coast-west coast rap wars someday soon.

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hehe, snarky review of wired’s nextfest: The rest of the employees were either burned alive or, more likely, were safe at their desks in Bangladesh.

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oh, my god: wickerpedia

Wednesday, June 29

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w00t! sam ruby, you rock! I’m really tempted to have the FeedValidator return an “Undecipherable Specification Error”

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don’t blame canada: Canada approves same-sex marriage

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dvd jon exposes google’s neutered video plugin

Tuesday, June 28

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quote of the day: it just might be that the hallowed stone marker had been left to rest in peace for 40 years because until lately, there was no real reason to fear the tyranny of the Christian right majority

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if this is true, this is fucking awesome! Group proposes to build hotel on Justice Souter’s house property (p.s. why did all the liberals on the court vote the way they did?)

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fun with measurement: Country mile

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acronym of the day: IRI

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to read later: the story of Suck.com, the first great website

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sweet design! Drawers in the stairs

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yeah? All The Cool Open Source Apps are in PHP

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neat, a band called Bell X1 (the airplane my grandfather worked on)

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wow, this is beautiful: elvis in post-its

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i just discovered my digital camera can take 42 minutes of video at the lowest resolution at 15fps–so i needs to build me one of these Video Camera Stabilizers

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unfortunate acronym for a music label: drm

Monday, June 27

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looks like Mount St. Helena‘s going to have to wait for a weekend

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cool: Kite Aerial Photography on flickr

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to watch later: Rocketboom

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two disappointing supreme court decisions today: High Court Sides With RIAA in File-Sharing Case

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THIS IS SO FUNNY! VERY Ironic Trucker Hat

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yey! funny blog shirts

Sunday, June 26

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love me some iron and wine

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hehe: talkin’ bout google…

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new word: pantograph

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photo of the day: Drapes removed from Justice Department statue

Saturday, June 25

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old poughkeepsie friend melissa mansfield getting married in august

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oh snap! Perhaps Kennedy should have asked Rumsfeld if Cheney ought to resign.

Friday, June 24

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these are SO good: Quaker Chewy Cookies ‘n Cream Granola Bars

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haha, i love the CG model: Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

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usb to fm transmitter, sans batteries: rocketfm

Thursday, June 23

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gotta see this: Rize

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hell yeah! Real Americans don’t take away the freedoms of other Americans (this is also funny too!)

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to read later: Programming jobs losing luster in U.S.

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a music festival put on by pitchforkmedia: Intonation Music Festival

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brilliant: If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman

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love the post, love the quote: Or, perhaps, this is a good case study for governments on HOW NOT TO IMPLEMENT ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION laws.

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snort! I was touched by His Noodly Appendages makes sense if you start here: open letter to the kansas school board

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great thoughts from jon udell: Tacit knowledge and cortical algorithms

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three questions i could answer in an interview (need to work on the third though)

Wednesday, June 22

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goofy: Camera fished from pond now takes surrealistic photos

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it is a damn good cd: Radiohead’s album OK Computer has been named the best of the past 20 years by US music magazine Spin

Tuesday, June 21

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hehe: Sprawl-Mart

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great interview: How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel? (and see the documentary if you haven’t already)

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file this under “please don’t unplug me from the matrix!”: Dead online game resurrected by dumpster-diving its servers

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looking forward to these being hacked: jesus loves you sandals

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something to watch: microformats (structured xhtml)

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SO cool: The Edsac simulator is a faithful software evocation of the EDSAC computer as it existed in 1949-51 (i love the user interface)

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important to know about earthquakes: liquefaction

Monday, June 20

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neat: history of the starbucks brand

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I am SO there: Vote for Pedro: The Tour!

Sunday, June 19

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fun and educational: Kitchen Myths (it’s the baking soda eats odors myth that i’m the most skeptical about…)

Saturday, June 18

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mark fletcher of bloglines says: stealth mode for a web start-up is the kiss of death…it should take no more than 3 months to go from conception to launch of a new web service

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neat art: Tim Biskup

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i like the wallpaper-esque design of this site: Conspicuous Consumption

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yeah, these are hot: CliC (NOT!)

i love how the amazon.com product images for clic goggles actually show images where the googles have been photoshopped on the models—i wonder if there’s some ethical rule against doing that?

ha, ethics in advertising, what was i thinking?

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smart car distributor Zap! is based in santa rosa, a few blocks from my apartment (i want one!)

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online commerce for hipsters: elsewheres: independent art and design

Friday, June 17

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cool! Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf somehow managed to convince city officials and local businesses to cover all commercial signs and other advertisements for a two-week period

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i love stuff like this, just incroyable: Pisa pushers

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Carl’s Jr. (aka hardees) is getting a lot of extra publicity for its commercials (and watch this when you’re done with the paris hilton ad)

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news: Skype Rules North American VOIP

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oh dear: I prefer my tops a little more cardigan and corduroy, if you know what I mean.

Thursday, June 16

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cute britishism on amazon.co.uk: Availability: usually dispatched within 24 hours. [emphasis added]

btw, other than on somafm, where i have heard about the go team before? tim? jackie?

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i swear! i don’t work for this right-wing nut job: O’Reilly Factor

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new word: hypervisor, meaning “software which runs on a hardware machine and manages one or more operating systems”

Wednesday, June 15

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judging this book by it’s cover…it will sell very very well

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i updated my pure google greasemonkey script after a minor google interface change

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joel spolsky: No matter how good a recruiter you are…you can’t compensate for being the target of eight years of fear and loathing from the slashdot community, which very closely overlaps the people you’re trying to recruit (hear, hear!)

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it’s important to own your typos: gppgle.com (or this is what the world will look like when google buys apple)

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free computer to computer calls: Skype (it’s a brave new world)

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didn’t feel my first earthquake

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about yub nub (something to watch…)

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quote of the century: Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life (the “your” is bush)

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what a freaking awesome headline: Giant Balls of ‘Snot’ Explain Ocean Mystery

Tuesday, June 14

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collected photos from the ferguson-thomas wedding experience

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for me alone time is from 8pm to midnight when the east coast has gone to bed

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oh no! It was hard for me to believe that the “smooth package” market was big enough to warrant its own advertising, but Philips claims that “trimming pubic hair is thought to add an extra “optical inch” to your manhood.”

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i luv achewood: It’s alright. I know you’re from Circumstances.

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so weird, to read later: Civil War Era Grips Tintype Rebel

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new acronym: FGA

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this is SO cool: gallery of monowheels (and here’s a video of a diwheel in action)

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somafm band name of the day: The Beatings

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quote of the day: Here they are in a little Tamagotchi torture system where I force them to talk as I listen in.

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picture of the day from kristen in bangkok: pepsi max, pepsi fire!

Monday, June 13

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ae on wcw

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oldie but goody: the kilty monroe

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wikipedia article of the day: Kancho

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*snort* I shit you not, I have to play Dodgedick with Japanese Jr. High kids on a weekly basis.

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great quote and another britishisms: Famously the downstairs restaurant once served for pudding a single peach on a plate. Not peeled. Not cut up. Just a peach. Chez Panisse was saying: this peach is so good nothing we could do would improve upon it. [emphasis added]

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now it make sense: “like words through a stick of Blackpool rock” (America’s green goddess)

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how cool: dad tours austin on a segway

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quote of the day: Nearly a decade later…I don’t have to work a day job to support my IT habit.

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i agree with myself: I would like a Firefox Extension that allows me to View Source in Tab

Sunday, June 12

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problems posting comments?
i upgraded to the latest wordpress last night (not the smoothest process) and i didn’t fully complete my comment tweaks–so if you’ve had problems posting a comment, try again. if you still have problems, please leave a comment here… thanks.

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ad in gmail i have no idea why:100% Pure Australian Emu Oil

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a java developer asks Rails vs. PHP: MVC or view-centric?

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finally got around to licensing the blog, went with attribution only because that seemed appropriate in the context of a blog (note: my photo gallery is still public domain)

Saturday, June 11

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ok, damn, would have liked to get the heads up on this: KRON 4 Welcomes Bay Area Bloggers

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the EditPlus Wiki is back, finally (it had been a month long casualty of my moving across the country)

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somafm loves to play elliott smith, so i wasn’t surprised to hear a song by a band called heatmiser that sounds just like elliott smith–except it turns out elliott smith was in heatmiser

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check it out on the right, i’m rocking the Recent Comments Plugin

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this is what happens when people imitate the uncanny valley

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been using Ta-da List for fun (i wish reordering the list could be done by drag and drop)

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ouch: What do three average Americans carry when they are in a boat these days? Cell phones, digital cameras, etc. In the 1950s the total cost of this incident would have been a little time to let the clothing and wallet dry. On Friday the total cost of the electronic items destroyed was closer to $5000.

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best name for an airfare promotion: SuperFly

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i don’t get it, i want to see it: Me and You and Everyone We Know

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i’ve been thinking it’s time to catch up on my trailers

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make wordpress more like a wiki

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this is a cool blog that needed to be done: Google Sightseeing

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something i can relate to: Having life going on around him is something he describes as “the right kind of distraction”.

Friday, June 10

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my hair product, L’Oreal Studio Line Anti-Frizz Gel, seems as though it’s no longer being made, and i’m all out (if anyone finds a few remaining bottles in the drugstore, buy them for me, thx!)

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first of all, it’s amazing that her domain name is bloggie, but secondly it’s amazing that some of her posts are in thai—too cool for school.

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yes, you can now buy mud to spray on your car

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this is almost as fun as watching food mold over: An Inquiry into the Effects of Preservatives in McDonald’s Food

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ha! was it good for you?

Thursday, June 9

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sonoma county also happens to be the center of the oilstop universe

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strange california: rotten robbie (gas station)

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to read when i get home: turbulence by david sedaris

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i love and appreciate kristen’s blog name: In Transit/ion

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news of the insane: Texas Instruments is replacing thousands of calculators issued to students in Virginia after a sixth-grader discovered that pressing a certain two keys converts decimals into fractions (which is cheating)

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whoa, technology moving faster than i can keep up with: one-time-use digital camcorder from cvs

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i thought this was going to have something to do with the tv show: Osborne effect

Wednesday, June 8

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my fav url of the day: neighborhoodies.com

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wow: dual self-portraits: Dialogue With the peasants of Tiangonsi Villages by Chen Shaofeng

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getting a lot of hits today from people searching for google using google images and clicking on the picture of bart simpson writing “i will use google before asking dumb questions” (i wonder why?)

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ugh, utterly gross: A man’s leg and part of his spine came crashing onto the roof of a woman’s home [emphasis added]

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to do in santa rosa, courtesy of Community Market Natural Foods (hmm, wondering if this is like santa rosa’s weaver street market…)

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possibly my favorite song right now: iron and wine – passing afternoon

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whoa: Programmers, artists, and testers aren’t paid for their bulging muscles and phenomenal ability to move mass from point A to point B. They’re paid for their brains. Longer hours or, especially, insufficient sleep (as little as 1-2 hours less per night) does serious damage to their ability to use those brains productively. (crunch mode, 8 hour work day, 40 hour work week)