Yey! A jack-o-lantern for our generation!!! LOL

Stirling engines are art

Add Roger Dodger to your Netflix Queue

Restaurant to check out: Manzanita in Healdsburg (for the coltish young women)

I was thinking this afternoon how much I like the word marginalia (and sure enough it shows up in something I was reading later)

news: The nation’s most common household composition has shifted from married couples with children in 1990 to people living alone

Parody Heaven: Anoop Dogg - Drop It Like a FOB and White Boy DJ - Baby Got Book

In the blogs today: freak flags. Exhibit A, Exhibit B

Props for my monthchunks plugin: It’s quite simple, it works well, and it doesn’t eliminate the ability to browse older posts and require use of the Wordpress built-in search engine. Rock on!

Quote of the day: Translating the lyrics from the Shaft theme into Chaucerian English isn’t just cool — it’s practically what the Internet was invented for. (Cory Doctorow)

New fact of the day: it is always possible to rotate the table to a position where all four legs stand solidly on the ground

File this under goofiest bank gimmick ever: Keep the Change

For future reference: Ubuntu Linux for Novices (all I need now is a spare monitor)

wow, invention of the day: we constructed a belt which enables its user to feel his orientation in space via vibrotactile stimulation

Ok yeah, this may be the awesomest thing ever: Bennett’s Expedient Survival Tin (I am so not prepared)

Anyone else experienced this Wordpress bug? double quotes escaped inside pre tags

I’m usually a pretty good speller, but empirical is one word I just can’t remember how to. EM-PI-RI-CAL. not empiracal, not empiracle.

Found myself inspired to comment on Jason’s More mistakes with authority…

a different kind of mascot: Avenging Unicorn Play Set

Ha! “Mind if I take a look?” “You know the drill.”

From Google: All your base are belong to us

hardy har har: eBay Adsense Madness

I just want to keep listening to the song Consequence from The Notwist (the opening song from the Shop Girl trailer)

A lot of people are still using version 3.x MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use

Just guess: iBelieve

Cory Doctorow speaking at UNC’s Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process

It was a lovely dinner I thought, but I couldn’t shake the sense that a urinal was being washed nearby.

hehe: What is it Lassie.com?

Physics is fun! Plasma car

I have crushes on Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yeoh

new word: rebarbative

nice scan: someone copied me

Holy Hollywood Special Effects Batman!

Yes, that is the US Department of Justice’s website banner/logo.

Update: Holy Propaganda Batman, I thought that looked familiar!

I’m still a devout-deleter: We know that Gmail isn’t quite right for everyone yet. We’re working on that too — there’s still more we can do for the folder-lovers and devout-deleters out there. Like adding a Delete button? (yeah yeah, I know there’s a Greasemonkey script)

neat: Daytime population change due to commuting

snark: “dos-stitch” (and beautiful)

Eric Meyer on gadget juxtaposition

too cute: Crocheted infant Yoda ears

Best blog post title EVAR! Tsarbucks

I think I’ve linked to Cardboard PC Case or something like it before, but it’s worth it the second time around.

Apparently Republicans Are People, Too (via Webb)

Mullenweg Leaving CNET to focus on Wordpress fulltime

Clever: gloves for geek girls

Captivating: Do-Ho Suh’s childhood home replicated in semi-transparent fabric

wtf? Dethroned King of Pop Michael Jackson has quit the United States permanently for a new home in the Arab state of Bahrain

This is pretty funny: Plane entertainment hacking (Linux crashes?)

The Pacific Ocean: you can look, but don’t touch

Given that I don’t consider myself a “programmer” but end up doing a fair amount of development, Sam Ruby’s Homesteaders of the 21st Century strikes a chord.

Trust me, Marcia is an expert on diaper rash quesadilla

SO geeky: Linux Demotivational Posters

Class I want to take: Letterpress I at SF’s Center for the Book

Country lyrics I never thought I’d hear: Jesus loves you, I don’t

Hmm, I’m so surprised he didn’t mention my neatlinks “linklog”: Kottke on tumblelogs (all it takes is a bookmarklet and a dream)

LOL!!! I just squeezed this out, so it’s still a little warm.

Dream Job? Code (PHP) + Think + Manage + Innovate for TheOnion.com

I don’t even know what to think about this: Fetal Attraction

Visualize grammar: The Elements of Style, Illustrated (via GreeneSpace)

Wikipedia article of the day: Record label

Atlanta based bookstore Chapter 11 files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

warm my heart: Fried strawberries at the NC state fair

Jakob Nielsen on Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (via Gadgetopia.com)

Co-worker Mark’s photos from Amsterdam for EuroOSCON (so far)

the communicative power of symbols: be there or be ❏

Achewood: This is still gonna make a killer Christmas card though!

it just gets worse: Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged

Kanye was right! President Bush’s job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

zen: photo of the day

Genius: Camera tossing (from Curious Lee, one of the first blogs I ever read regularly–which I realized after seeing this photo)

to watch later: Jimmy Wales talk at UNC

hehe tshirt: Have a Semi Good Time from grooveking

Love the 37signals tagline: Our products do less than the competition — intentionally.

I don’t even know what to say about Blendie 2000. But you should watch this video.

to read later: Interview with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie

ae on love (the first thing I read this morning)

Yowzers: In lieu of flowers, please send acerbic letters to Republicans.

This is fun, mp3 of tech luminaries answering “What is Web 2.0?

Sounds dirty: iWood (but isn’t)

I need to check out ALLOFMP3.com again. Pay for bandwidth, not record companies.

Wow: Skype phone from Linksys

hahaha! the holy toaster

Terrible: ‘Wallace and Gromit’ creator’s clay archive is destroyed by fire

Stand up! The vote was one of the largest and best supported congressional revolts during President George W Bush’s five years in office and shocked the White House. (another gold star for McCain)

oh no! FEMA: What We Do

renting is the new home ownership: More than a million million-dollar homes dot U.S.

I want! Shelflife

hehe: What would Macgyver Do?

check out my sister’s todo list: i’m stressed

our faces are becoming a liability in a survellience society: ANTICON

amazing animation: Sixes Last (from 1st Ave Machine)

Best burger in Sonoma County must check out Taylor’s Refresher

no joke. really, no joke. Bacon of the Month Club

whoa, cool: “Number 99 cannot play in this game anymore. He’s not wearing shoes, knee pads or thigh pads.” (way to go Bobby Martin!)

I was there! Partying Like It’s 1999

friday link fun: hair is the new hat

cool! a Flying Spaghetti Monster Brooch

I can’t believe Andy got Tim!

from my spy at Web 2.0: Google just released a Feedreader

hehe: ¡Viva la Dance Dance Revolución!

Dive into Mark: Imagine having your own private database of every person you’ve ever stumbled across online, and being able to download their vCards into your address book. And every event, which you can download into iCal/Sunbird/Outlook.

From the Belly of the Beasts: So I’ve been thinking about standardizing how we “syndicate” posts (or blurbs) in HTML.

what a rocking flyer: colors of web 2.0 (I’m thinking about going down into the city because of the flyer alone)

oh no they didn’t! microsoft gadgets (deep inside a cave in redmond someone says, “hmm, so widgets is already taken is it? Then we shall call them gadgets! Mwa ha ha, mwa ha ha ha!”)

new word: coworking

it’s a mad mad world: Longview Hands on a Hardbody contestant kills self (via Stay Free)

Like this card? visit us at www.apologies4men.com!

groan: Salmon-Thirty-Salmon

conference watch: BlogOn 2005 - The Business of Social Media (whatever that means) October 17-18 NYC

Aww shit, we’re all gonna die. Current thinking suggests coughing or sneezing into the crook of one’s arm would be preferable to limit germ spread.

now everyone can be snarky! StripGenerator (via ae)

neologism of the day: Affluenza

Effect of the day (or wikipedia article of the day): Matthew effect

the next big thing? eyeOS, a self-hosted, php- and xml-based “internet operating system” (thanks jason!)

it gets better: Web 2.1

Hell Yeah! Andy Rooney tears the Bush Administration warmongers a new one

gag: Illustrations drawn in shower-hair

OMG!!! HP must be brain dead: HP to ship Netscape browser on new PCs???

We love the web SO MUCH we’re going to produce a PDF web development magazine! huh?

Steve, don’t eat it! I found it odd that the pull-tab was actually on the bottom of the can, until I realized this is just a time-saver for people who’d rather open it right over the garbage.

Actually a WikiConstitution might just be what the doctor ordered

Things change so fast: In part because the Only Name You’ll Ever Need (ONYEN) is only temporary.

The hurricane season ends November 30. Thank god for that. You’d think maybe the powers that be would want to shorten the season?

lord of war mashup with you know who

omgomgomg! wtf? this may be the most brilliant thing EVAR: O’REILLY MEDIA ADMITS USING SECRET BOZO METRIC TO BAN INDIVIDUALS FROM EXCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY MEET-UP : FOO CAMP. (my mind has been blown, my face has been rocked off)

what a guy: [Ronnie] Earle has an eccentric streak, clearly, sometimes in the service of projecting a squeaky-clean image. He once filed charges against himself for submitting a campaign finance report a day late. He asked a judge to fine him, His Honor obliged, and Earle was out $212.

mp3 of Jacob Appelbaum’s excellent talk at Webzine, here’s an excerpt:

One of things that I did when I was in Iraq which is probably worth mentioning is I went to the border of Iran, and that was the first time I ran into American soliders there. And it was kind of funny, that I had kind of ruined their Vietnam war movie, gung ho-ness. Where they’re walking down the street with their M4 rifles, and all of a sudden there’s this guy wearing all black with wacky hair:

“Hey everybody, how’s it going, solider?”

“What are you doing here, where are you from?”

“Oh, I’m on vacation. What are you doing here?“

William Bennett, racist of the week: But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. (meta message: abortion is cool if you’re not white)

quote of the day: I never knew until today that the one object that I required to make my life complete was a two-and-a-half-foot tall fiberglass hand grenade.

Bumped The Shining up to the top of my Netflix queue