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)

where’s Justin? at the Wordpress meetup (different day, same brown shirt)

where’s Justin? at BlogHer Con (looks like he’s asleep, but he isn’t)

Lance is probably just gay, poor guy: Bachelor’s friends use billboard to find him dates

chapel hill landmark closing: Carolina Theatre R.I.P.

i lurve geek humor: I {entity} Unicode

AWESOME! Bio is an urn for ashes, which transforms the ritual of death into an act of regeneration and life

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.

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.

this is the more interesting question: And what has Google been working on while the others were playing catch-up?

quote of the day: most of the interesting metadata is in the content

acronym watch: ICIGSITBOTH

this shirt rocks: Che (ney)

how bread becomes toast: Maillard reaction

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)

whoa: T.C. Boyle mentioned twice in the span of two days–first time was at the wordpress meetup

acronym watch: OODA

grin: The War on Terror… As viewed from the Bourne shell

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.”

ahahaha: Republican Demotivators

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)

wow, a book 30 years in the making: Asia Grace

todo: WordPress meetup and geek dinner (July 23 6pm, San Francisco)

to listen to later: Grand Theft Auto Is Good for You

photo zen: Garritan strums the MIDI Harp near the tulip fields of Mt. Vernon, Washington–America’s largest (from an article I produced yesterday)

holy crap this is my new favorite tshirt: The Jesus

get ready for versace-branded pears: Tattooed fruit en route

republicans seeking to outlax sex? if sexual arousal from pornography causes ‘brain damage’, then so will real-life sex!

cool video: raising stonehenge–with one person!

making a 13 pound gummy bear

Google Moon! (make sure to zoom all the way in)

is this art? The Most Beautiful Machine (i like it)

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)

Last Days gives me the creeps

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)

bbq in california often means grilling Tri-Tip (which i’d never heard of before moving here)

hella fancy: Optimus keyboard

so smart, moments away from getting this: DLO TransPod

word up: 3rd Russian River Beer Revival Aug 20, 1-5pm $26

very cool analog solution to an analog problem: Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone

for future reference: The Best of San Francisco Dining

priceless: there are seven words you can’t say in kindergarten (video from o’reilly’s nat torkington)

Atom goes to Version One Dot Oh

this looks *awesome* Roll Bounce

movie to watch: The Beat That My Heart Skipped

my favorite song right now: Bright Eyes with Emmylou Harris - Landlocked Blues (off the album “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning”)

worthy of a response: Time to switch off and slow down

uncovering more bay area relatives: The Pillow Lady (aka Chris Watt, a second cousin on my dad’s side)

the daily show is SO brilliant: Rove gets the DS Treatment

after that forehead inflation stuff, i got totally sucked into this guy’s photography and body modification:
chapter9photography

aaaahhhh!!! forehead inflation is my proudest contribution to the wacky world of body and performance art

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

css geekery to dig into later: How to style a restaurant menu with CSS

this movie is worth seeing: The Station Agent (if you like quirky movies)

to watch later: Dane Cook impersonating Tom Cruise

from alice: freedom’s a bitch, isn’t it bush?

hello mcfly, is anybody home? Bush Calls for Jailed [Iranian] Reporter’s Release

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)

new phrase (courtesy of alice) and excellent tshirt: rock out with your cock out

hehe: Paul’s Personalized News, Ca. 2031

fanciest site for a Mozilla Firefox Extension: Scribe (and potentially useful too)

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.)

jason on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s shameful piece entitled Bloggers Need Not Apply

to do: BayFF on Bloggers’ Rights July 19th 2005, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

neat: sparkler fun

daily show brilliance: America: Come for the hatred, stay for the ballbags

help alice find a renter: Consider this an internet special! And please name your price and lease term.

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.

this shit is SO funny: Prison Wine (if you haven’t read the one about corn smut, it’s hi-larious)

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)

whoa, hella cool: guitar playing robot

hehe: www.fuckthiswebsite.com

an outline of part of what i do at work: What is this “Article Production” of which you speak?

i agree with tim bray: Because, on the evidence, I don’t think the leaders of the Western world have a clue.

FREE JUDITH MILLER! if reporters are not guaranteed confidentiality “then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.”

satellite maps as carpet: The Flying Carpet

yey! what i always wanted: the gmap pedometer (double-click on the map to create your route and calculate the distance)

produced this neat kite aerial photography piece on our unusually cool digitalmedia.oreilly.com site today

BlogSheroes: vulva la net! (no joke)

this site is teh hawt! (especially cause she links to two of my photos in her “ghana” section: go creative commons!)

two words: hasidic reggae (holy cow!) reminds me of chaim from this american life’s my experimental phase

*swoon* a blog design i covet HRTWRK

gotta love esoteric programming languages: Malbolge

quote of the day from norway: Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government

weird: scrollbar as art

scary: U.S. Workers Too Uneducated to Build Cars?

ok, Tilly and the Wall are officially awesome. 4 words: tap dancing as percussion. the blog post above has a video. watch it!

this looks so cool: The Knitting Machine

new paradigm (a la kottke) in blog design? nicholasjon.com

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.

cool! Murderball

useful article by ben hammersley i produced today: Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser

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.

acronym of the day: LMAO (i’m such a tool that i didn’t know this)

band name of the day: the salteens