Boring Boring is the shit.

google + firefox = search results prefetch

as seen in skymall: Upside-Down Tomato Garden (this is SO weird–i want one)

econophysics: They found that while the income distribution among the super-wealthy – about 3 per cent of the population – does follow Pareto’s law, incomes for the remaining 97 per cent fitted a different curve – one that also describes the spread of energies of atoms in a gas.

chipping away at the Hippocratic Oath: Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays

check it out: nickd liveblogging grokster v mgm at the supreme court

headline of the day: McHip-hop name-drop

if anyone is looking for a slightly damaged laptop lcd panel: IBM ThinkPad T42 14″ 1400×1050 Resolution LCD Panel

oh snap! you mean this whole shitstorm is over one feeding tube? and it’s not even feeding somebody in africa?

am i going to hell for finding this totally funny? Terri Schiavo’s Blog

photo of the day: caption this

gross! Pet Pillows

and grosser: Apron of Flesh

hey, check it out, i made one too!

wtf is going on in florida? Capitol bill aims to control leftist profs

i wouldn’t want to wear a watch to bed, but this is cool: SLEEPTRACKER

quote of the day: “You have to ask yourself, if someone is so bored that playing solitaire is stimulating, then the problem is not with the game, it’s with the job.” (same article as below)

wow, this is something i’ve been thinking about a lot lately: It goes straight to the issue of distractions from long days at the office and, more fundamentally, how much of their employees’ time and concentration employers can reasonably expect to own.

wtf? Are Creative Commons Licenses legal?

ctrl+w is currently my fav firefox shortcut

fun blog: Dreaming of Dawn (php plus fanfiction)

enjoyable read: A Coder in Courierland (though when i read “courierland” in the title, i thought courier)

i’ve added a new page at the top called creative commons to collect examples of the photos i’ve taken being used by other people

quote of the day: Boing Boing has not only embraced advertising, but appears to be giving it a vigorous reach-around in the process.

zawodny: mt vs wp

this rocks: FOR SALE/BARTER: My body in Persistent Vegetative State

i have no idea what to expect: carolina rollergirls, sun apr 10, 6:15pm

hahaha! The Second Amendment

how HELLA COOL is this? Transparent Screens

oh no! Woman Eating [Wendy's] Chili Bites Into Human Finger

has anyone heard of this? Wheat (a language and environment for creating dynamic web sites)

just fyi creationistas: Charles Darwin Has A Posse

wordpress hits 100,000 downloads, becomes a company: WordPress Inc.

cool: Unicode Chart, 6′ x 12′

nice ice storm article: Gourmet Survivalist (and nice photo!)

rotary cellphone mashup

apple’s getting schooled: if you don’t provide an open api, one may be provided for you

serendipitous discovery: in firefox, you can hold down the ctrl key to select table cells like you would in a spreadsheet (there’s no mention of it in the keyboard shortcuts document that i can tell)

hrm. yahoo acquires flickr (isn’t there any sense in being independent anymore?)

france says, we don’t want no long tail

wow: google needs hydroelectric dams for power?

giggle: Put your apps into a COMA!

el jefe on etech

ha, the irony: The Internet offers a booming trade to help with this type of annoyance-fighting behavior. For example, shared passwords to free Web sites are available at www.bugmenot.com to help people avoid dealing with long registration forms. (from the new york times)

why doesn’t jeff bezos have a blog?

mark pilgrim fires warning shot at google (in response to autolink?)

this dyson guy is onto something–with vacuums: The Ball (via Signal vs Noise)

dooode! patrick’s laptop is famous!

quote of the day: Google is on its way to Redmond to battle Microsoft later this decade, while Yahoo! is going Hollywood.

listening to: Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science (on npr’s, morning edition)

oh cool: Web of Letters

at etcon: i’m in the audience (picture taken by panel member)

waxy: etech/etcon vs sxsw

to read: What Should I Do With My Life? (circa jan 2003)

damn. photo of the day: Me and Malcolm (gladwell)

useful wordpress hack: Limit Number Of Posts With WordPress

i missed the wrens in concert: but there’s a documentary coming out! a good, longish promo you can watch online (requires quicktime)

cool: ted leo of ted leo and the pharmacists covering the infectious kelly clarkson hit “since u been gone”

ugh! i was playing with the CAIF file offered by haloscan for exporting comments and it turns out they currently return the comment text with all the html (hyperlinks and such) striped out.

as discussed earlier tonight at the blogger meetup: The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor

listening to: moreton neal and bill smith on the state of things (from last thanksgiving)

holy cow: how to turn a dog into a purse (or something)

my eyes, my eyes! A Day In The Life of Miss McDonald (check out the pictures)

you heard it here first, maybe: Stop DWH

the gormangate continues: More Fun with Michael Gorman

IRA slang: six pack

the gormangate continues: More Fun with Michael Gorman

oh my god, there’s more: The Sugaku font series

neat font: gender symbols

hehe: dinosaur blog

i own signs from fate

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

ra ra carolina lina

liveblogging chapel hill town council: orangepolitics.org – Live from Town Hall – gay rights edition

newly discovered: the mozilla wiki

food for thought: there are some issues that a person new to programming should be aware of before they decide to start off on the path to Ruby (and Rails)

crazy news: bono (of u2) being considered to head the world bank?

HELL YEAH HEELS

thanks: my thoughts on google (+xmlhttprequest) apparently sum up someone else’s feelings quite nicely

from dan gillmor: legal system disenfranchising bloggers update: support freedom of the press rights for all americans!

quote of the day: I’d estimate that I spend between 10% and 20% of my life in a browser, and half of that time is spent in a <TEXTAREA> like the one I’m typing in right at this moment to flesh out this post.

a new second cousin: Emma Elizabeth Watt

this is creative: Giant Steps by Michal Levy (takes a long time to load)

growing appreciation for “free-range”: E-Z Catch Harvester (see video on the right)

to read: In Praise of Slowness : How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (from greenespace)

dude, i want one: Blue/White 20×4 LCD Display Kit

i love mini-itx projects: The “iGrill”

acronym watch: SATA

Google’s AutoLink vs. IntelliTXT

NY not happy with: I ♥ NC

my photos used in the wikipedia entry for Cambodia

updated a night of mod_rewrite with the mod_rewrite rules i wrote for my mediawiki wiki: www.editplus.info

another response to my blogging “rules” Über Meta Nerds

more xmlhttprequest love: SAJAX: simple ajax toolkit for php

these look cool: booq viper

my latest post on orange politics: Good News on the Beer Front (re: popping the 6% cap on beer in north carolina)

wiki of wikis: Wikicities

excellent! apple has your revolution for sale (requires quicktime)

nice: Merriam-Webster providing tools for Firefox

i assume we’re talking about the same Mikhail Gorbachev? Green Cross

cool looking storage appliance with cool-ass name: B.O.S.S.

more blogging ethics: The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers (circa feb 2003)

ibm embracing php: with a blog

ruby discovers the Internet Anagram Server

you know the story, now own the tshirt

i can appreciate this tee: WW 232.9 D?

i read this article a few weeks ago, then the url changed or something when i went looking for it, so i thought i’d link to it in case i remember why i was searching for it: R.I.P. Microsoft? (note to self: consider changing “neatlinks” to “memex“)

memetics of smiling: The smile that says where you’re from

my photos used in the german wikipedia article for “developing country”: Entwicklungsland (under the section “Tourismus in den Entwicklungsländern”, or Tourism in the developing countries)

new word: sparklines (not sparkly+ness, spark+lines)

good advice: How to use the title tag (not something i can currently change with blogger)

see it here now: chicago tribune censors a CARTOON for “present[ing] inaccurate information as fact”

leet sweatshirt (from little gamers)