That’s SO cool: Will and Shannon are so cool that in their gift registry they included a suggestion to give to organizations promoting the freedom of same-sex couples to marry

hey, neat: AJAX without XMLHttpRequest, frame, iframe, Java or Flash (sort of kind of like my custom referrer tracker)

headline of the day: Man found driving ambulance with dead deer (in North Carolina!)

holyfuck! google maps plus webcams BRILLIANT!!!

I passed on going to Web 2.0, looks like I may have to “settle” for Web 1.0

nice: MIT’s $100 laptop

Ok, I’m pretty sure I heard someone referring to a Wine Train with derision, but crappy webdesign aside, that looks pretty cool!

wow: Donate $100, get a call from Brian Wilson

ha! Squid? Or Savior?

neat: Wikipedia edits Esquire

I don’t remember with whom, but I was describing Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel to someone recently.

well said: The [Author’s Guild] believes that Google shouldn’t be allowed to opt writers in to its Google Print program, but they believe that they should be able to opt writers into their costly, suicidal lawsuit against Google, which, if they are victorious, will reduce sales and take money out of writers’ pockets. (this time from Cory)

quote of the day: Hothot barely legal unicorn-on-fresco action. (only from Xeni)

rock! I Hate Fags Chicks & Science (but oh, it get’s better: Support our Ribbons)

awesome! news of the day: Supreme Court Takes Up Anna Nicole Case

Whoa, copyright? Cost? Make in a virtual world (check out the video…)

corey moves from wordpress to rails-based typo: elder daldal

tshirt I most wish I’d picked up at OSCON: My CMS Can Kick Your CMS’s Ass (also seen at Webzine 2005)

this is such a sweet shirt: roses are #FF0000 (seen at webzine 2005)

props from the Stubbleblog: Webzine2005 Sounded Awesome

awesome! Cindy Sheehan arrested

hehe: May we tell you our specials this evening?

I want one! Pirolette

to watch later: Jimmy Wales on C-SPAN

why? A branch of the U.S. Navy secretly contracted a 33-plane fleet that included two Gulfstream jets reportedly used to fly terror suspects to countries known to practice torture, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Where’s Justin? at Webzine 2005

so much for padlocks: Beer Can Padlock Shim

video mentioned at webzine 2005 and in the nyt Wake Me Up When September Ends

How long before a print copy of the Onion signed by Cindy goes up on eBay? Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan’s Other Son Drowns In New Orleans

the conference I’m at: Webzine: FSM porn!

imho, this might be bigger than iTunes: NPR Podcast Directory

What could be better than throwing a Hurricane Party? A MargaRITA Party of course! (words of wisdom I just emailed to my brother in College Station, TX)

to read: Ship it! (from the Pragmatic Programmers)

yes! A Natural History of the @ Sign: “Although the change from at meaning “for a given amount per” to at meaning “in a specified (electronic) location” comes fairly naturally to English speakers, it does not for native speakers of other languages, for whom neither “at” nor @ meant anything until e-mail came around.”

A little bit on some of the fun I have at work: rel=”alternate” is mandatory for Safari RSS

acronym of the day: DINKS

neologism of the day: RESTafarians

wow, bbc has the video: Dramatic landing for faulty plane

The best hurricane tracker/Google Maps Mashup: Google Hurricane Maps (Rita). Currently predicted to travel between Austin (where my mom and dad live) and College Station (where my brother lives). Fun.

yeah! quote of the day: Henderson knows—he was touched by FSM’s Noodly Appendage and anointed to spread the good word.

Corey hacks Google Maps for local election candidates in Orange County, North Cackalacky

Fixed a bug in my Random Image Plugin for WordPress that was preventing images other than the first in a post from being displayed

I get so frustrated with news articles don’t include a photo relevant to the article: Burger King recalls ’sacrilegious’ desserts. Why bother publishing it without?

This is awful on so many levels: Funny “Boinboing” typo in newspaper (might lead one to believe traditional media is screwed) I mean really, how many people didn’t have their thinking caps on to let that one pass?

this is cool: speech bubble art

indietits: ha!

Everyone around here keeps talking about the Indian summer we’ve not been having.

Oh sheesh, there’s already a band called the metrosexuals

This is SO meta: Video of an iPod playing a video (at bottom)

to watch later: Creature Comforts

I want to make paella (mostly cause I like saying the word: /pi-eh-ya/)

Life is weird: Nothing says “life is sacred” like an 18-wheeler rollin’ down the highway, plastered with ginormous technicolor photos of aborted fetuses.

I can’t listen to NPR anymore without feeling the urge to sob:

Scott Simon: Just day to day, what do you miss most about home?

Randy Adams: On Monday in New Orleans–in the metropolitan New Orleans area–we serve a lunch, it’s called red beans and rice. I would run home on foot to get it again. We have po’ boys, shrimp po’ boys on Friday. We would all go to a place, pick up my dad, work allow and situations would allow, we would all join for lunch and have shrimp po’ boys or roast beef po’ boys and a Barq’s root beer, it’s a big New Orleans tradition as well.

Did anyone go see Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! at UNC’s Memorial Hall?

wikipedia article of the day: Inflorescence

From the Belly of the Beasts: One of my biggest pet peeves is the misuse of the word “blog” when referring to a single post

Cornel West on Katrina: What we saw unfold in the days after the hurricane was the most naked manifestation of conservative social policy towards the poor, where the message for decades has been: ‘You are on your own’. Well, they really were on their own for five days in that Superdome, and it was Darwinism in action - the survival of the fittest. People said: ‘It looks like something out of the Third World.’ Well, New Orleans was Third World long before the hurricane. (thanks Sally!)

This is frickin’ brilliant! Katrina Cards

oops: Garrison doesn’t like a Prairie Ho Companion

in software news: Gallery 2.0 Released!

music to slit your wrists by: Azure Ray (but I like it so much!)

whoa, a derogatory term I’d never even heard of! yard apes

chuckle: I don’t care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!

this is so the zen photo of the day: nevada raper

awesome: Paragraph (a quiet place to write)

AHHH! speed dating is real? 8minuteDating (Under what rock have I been living?)

awesome! c-jump (a computer programming board game)

oh my god, amazon’s concordance feature is amazing!

hear, hear! Not all conservatives find the movie a rebuke to Darwin’s theory. “If an Intelligent Designer designed nature,” the columnist George F. Will asked recently, “why did it decide to make breeding so tedious for those penguins?”

neat: new tabbed menubars for MS apps

this looks cool: Touch the Sound

excellente: Dang man so like you could blog directly onto a Hanes?

hell fucking yeah! Reporters gone wild (worth sitting through Salon’s stinkin’ day pass)

dumb dumb dumb: EBay to Buy Internet Phone Firm for $2.6 Billion

youch: [Flickr] strangled and replaced by the metallic commands of a corporate droid, [Yahoo] (it hurts because it’s true)

Kevin Bacon on How my life became a game

this is worth a few chuckles: The Flickr Lifehack Pool

firefox to be featured on tv show: Supernatural

neat: Digital camera turns 30 — sort of

props to new orleans: make levees not war

nice: iPod timeline

this is pretty darn cool: Plexiglas hard drive window

this looks really cool: Capote

question: since when did spelling bees capture so much of the popular consciousness? Bee Season question #2: are they sexualizing that little girl?

Courtesy of Google Maps: New Orleans on August 31

videos of people spinning pens around in their fingers: Pentrix

interesting comments on Fresh Air (about 32 minutes in) about the divisive effect of Roe vs. Wade: Legal Scholar Cass Sunstein on the Supreme Court’s Future

I’m curious about the reactions from my more politically attuned friends…

this is truly newsworthy: A Mexican army convoy rolled into the United States on Thursday with food and medicine for Hurricane Katrina victims, its first military operation on U.S. soil since the mid-19th century.

It was the first time a regular Mexican army brigade was on U.S. soil since 1846 when, during a full-blown war, the United States took what are now its southwestern states from Mexico.

…and here are some photos

hahaha: Food Critic Tears Radish Canapés With Salmon Mousse A New Asshole (holy shit!)

I think about this a lot when I’m flying: Unplanned Freefall

gross! Real pictures of what was eliminated during the Colon Cleansing Kit (I love the fine print: “We do not know of any scientific evidence…to give an explanation of what comes out during our cleanse.”)

trailer for monster road (from OP)

shaun inman is a supafreak: CSS Server-side Constants (i mean that in the best possible way)

i don’t like wysiwyg, still, Wikiwyg is something to see

so necessary: nikon coolpix p1 (it has wifi!)

mint, a fancier version of my custom referrer tracker

ph34r ruby: Public Allies names Sinreich ‘change-maker’

SO cute! photos from Melissa’s wedding (friend from NY)

One thing I forgot to do when moving out of state: cancel my dmv plates and registration (why? so you’re not paying tax on your car in two states at the same time)

cool: remixed crosswalk signs

phrase of the day: hot off the sensor

neat digital art project: moving canvas (check out the videos a the bottom)

from the gnn: Moqtada has Posse (yes, he does)

Notwithstanding the fact that I no longer live in Carrboro… A man in Carrboro who mentions things he recently discovered and found interesting

“It’s time to take the blinders off and realize that these kids are having sex,” she said. “Obviously, abstinence is not working. If we have to, just give them condoms.” Ohio High School Has 64 Pregnant Students

After the hurricane in New Orleans: 34 houses were destroyed as well as the sheds, including the parsonage and hospital (circa 1722)

question: What are the likely consequences (locally and globally) of blowing a 5% of GDP sized hole under the waterline of the US economy?

wtf is Heatherette?

Super high resolution images of Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina

oh my god: New Orleans makes ‘desperate SOS’ relief plea

uh oh: WE ARE NOT OUT OF GAS, BUT WE ARE RUNNING LOW (Michael F. Easley, Governor of North Carolina)

nice: ZDnet reports that the FBI is having trouble with Mork

oh sweet: Wikipedia in Latin (from Aging Disgracefully)