band name of the day: the salteens (0 comments)
acronym of the day: LMAO (i’m such a tool that i didn’t know this) (2 comments)
hacking the crosswalk: Three short clicks, followed by two long, one short, two long, and three short; turn any crosswalk signal from “don’t walk” to “walk” with a matching change in the traffic signals. (0 comments)
useful article by ben hammersley i produced today: Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser (0 comments)
cool! Murderball (0 comments)
wordpress’s backwards comparison style e.g.
if ('' == $some_variable) {}
explained: when doing logical comparisons always put the variable on the right side. If you forget an equal sign it’ll throw a parse error instead of just evaluating true and executing the statement. (0 comments)
new paradigm (a la kottke) in blog design? nicholasjon.com (0 comments)
this looks so cool: The Knitting Machine (0 comments)
ok, Tilly and the Wall are officially awesome. 4 words: tap dancing as percussion. the blog post above has a video. watch it! (2 comments)
scary: U.S. Workers Too Uneducated to Build Cars? (0 comments)
weird: scrollbar as art (0 comments)
quote of the day from norway: Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government (0 comments)
gotta love esoteric programming languages: Malbolge (0 comments)
*swoon* a blog design i covet HRTWRK (0 comments)
two words: hasidic reggae (holy cow!) reminds me of chaim from this american life’s my experimental phase (2 comments)
this site is teh hawt! (especially cause she links to two of my photos in her “ghana” section: go creative commons!) (4 comments)
BlogSheroes: vulva la net! (no joke) (0 comments)
produced this neat kite aerial photography piece on our unusually cool digitalmedia.oreilly.com site today (3 comments)
yey! what i always wanted: the gmap pedometer (double-click on the map to create your route and calculate the distance) (1 comment)
satellite maps as carpet: The Flying Carpet (0 comments)
FREE JUDITH MILLER! if reporters are not guaranteed confidentiality “then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.” (3 comments)
i agree with tim bray: Because, on the evidence, I don’t think the leaders of the Western world have a clue. (0 comments)
an outline of part of what i do at work: What is this “Article Production” of which you speak? (0 comments)
hehe: www.fuckthiswebsite.com (1 comment)
whoa, hella cool: guitar playing robot (0 comments)
uh, no thanks. i wonder how many other developers read that and turn away? If you are a developer of a blog posting tool or web application that wants to use our API and don’t mind signing an NDA… (emphasis added) (0 comments)
this shit is SO funny: Prison Wine (if you haven’t read the one about corn smut, it’s hi-larious) (0 comments)
A Letter To The Terrorists, From London: So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city. (0 comments)
help alice find a renter: Consider this an internet special! And please name your price and lease term. (1 comment)
daily show brilliance: America: Come for the hatred, stay for the ballbags (0 comments)
neat: sparkler fun (0 comments)
to do: BayFF on Bloggers’ Rights July 19th 2005, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco (0 comments)
jason on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s shameful piece entitled Bloggers Need Not Apply (0 comments)
to read later: Rhetorics of violence, rhetorics of peace (quote that caught my eye: “through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) (0 comments)
fanciest site for a Mozilla Firefox Extension: Scribe (and potentially useful too) (0 comments)
new phrase (courtesy of alice) and excellent tshirt: rock out with your cock out (8 comments)
you’ve got to be kidding me: I caught you a delicious bass. Would you like Jesus to multiply it? (inventing the napoleon dynamite and jesus connection) (0 comments)
hello mcfly, is anybody home? Bush Calls for Jailed [Iranian] Reporter’s Release (0 comments)
from alice: freedom’s a bitch, isn’t it bush? (0 comments)
to watch later: Dane Cook impersonating Tom Cruise (0 comments)
this movie is worth seeing: The Station Agent (if you like quirky movies) (0 comments)
css geekery to dig into later: How to style a restaurant menu with CSS (0 comments)
the fact that it takes seven times as much water to create one bottle of Coke. puts my post about the universality of coca cola in a new light (0 comments)
aaaahhhh!!! forehead inflation is my proudest contribution to the wacky world of body and performance art (1 comment)
after that forehead inflation stuff, i got totally sucked into this guy’s photography and body modification:
chapter9photography (0 comments)
the daily show is SO brilliant: Rove gets the DS Treatment (0 comments)
uncovering more bay area relatives: The Pillow Lady (aka Chris Watt, a second cousin on my dad’s side) (0 comments)
worthy of a response: Time to switch off and slow down (0 comments)
my favorite song right now: Bright Eyes with Emmylou Harris – Landlocked Blues (off the album “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning”) (0 comments)
movie to watch: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (0 comments)
this looks *awesome* Roll Bounce (2 comments)
priceless: there are seven words you can’t say in kindergarten (video from o’reilly’s nat torkington) (0 comments)
for future reference: The Best of San Francisco Dining (0 comments)
very cool analog solution to an analog problem: Digital Needle – A Virtual Gramophone (0 comments)
word up: 3rd Russian River Beer Revival Aug 20, 1-5pm $26 (0 comments)
so smart, moments away from getting this: DLO TransPod (2 comments)
hella fancy: Optimus keyboard (0 comments)
bbq in california often means grilling Tri-Tip (which i’d never heard of before moving here) (0 comments)
hehe: This research enabled designers to have a deeper understanding of the many aspects of the showering experience, including extensive observations of people showering (emphasis added) (0 comments)
Last Days gives me the creeps (2 comments)
god, i am such a nerd: If you understand this shirt… (it took me like 2.5 secs—you’d have to have read this, yesterday) (2 comments)
is this art? The Most Beautiful Machine (i like it) (0 comments)
Google Moon! (make sure to zoom all the way in) (1 comment)
making a 13 pound gummy bear (0 comments)
cool video: raising stonehenge–with one person! (0 comments)
republicans seeking to outlax sex? if sexual arousal from pornography causes ‘brain damage’, then so will real-life sex! (1 comment)
get ready for versace-branded pears: Tattooed fruit en route (0 comments)
holy crap this is my new favorite tshirt: The Jesus (0 comments)
photo zen: Garritan strums the MIDI Harp near the tulip fields of Mt. Vernon, Washington–America’s largest (from an article I produced yesterday) (0 comments)
to listen to later: Grand Theft Auto Is Good for You (0 comments)
todo: WordPress meetup and geek dinner (July 23 6pm, San Francisco) (0 comments)
wow, a book 30 years in the making: Asia Grace (0 comments)
the third annual Paul Reubens’ Day will be held on Saturday July 23rd in San Francisco (looks like i’m going to miss this one) (0 comments)
ahahaha: Republican Demotivators (0 comments)
this is two years old, but it’s new to me: A Montana man named Jack Ass has sued MTV’s parent company, accusing the music channel of “plagiarizing” and “defaming” his good name in connection with the show “Jackass.” (0 comments)
grin: The War on Terror… As viewed from the Bourne shell (0 comments)
whoa: T.C. Boyle mentioned twice in the span of two days–first time was at the wordpress meetup (0 comments)
haha: This is why I spell the word “wheirwolf”, and why I ask that you do the same! (clearly time to start reading dinosaur comics) (0 comments)
how bread becomes toast: Maillard reaction (0 comments)
this shirt rocks: Che (ney) (0 comments)
acronym watch: ICIGSITBOTH (0 comments)
quote of the day: most of the interesting metadata is in the content (0 comments)
this is the more interesting question: And what has Google been working on while the others were playing catch-up? (0 comments)
from patrick: Students from the Information Technology University in Copenhagen are trying to help by releasing what they are calling the world’s first open source beer recipe. (0 comments)
hehe: Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men came out in 1973. At 6’5″ and 300 pounds, he didn’t care if you thought he was a sissy or not. (0 comments)
AWESOME! Bio is an urn for ashes, which transforms the ritual of death into an act of regeneration and life (0 comments)
i lurve geek humor: I {entity} Unicode (0 comments)
chapel hill landmark closing: Carolina Theatre R.I.P. (0 comments)
Lance is probably just gay, poor guy: Bachelor’s friends use billboard to find him dates (0 comments)
where’s Justin? at BlogHer Con (looks like he’s asleep, but he isn’t) (0 comments)
where’s Justin? at the WordPress meetup (different day, same brown shirt) (0 comments)
this is great, i’m finally starting to hear about events a day or two before they occur: Incredible Speaker Lineup for our pdxphp.org Tuesday, Aug 2nd Meeting (instead of the day of or after—and it looks like this one I can make, being that I arrived in Portland this afternoon) (4 comments)