New word: Bokeh

Mark and and his bro David have prescribed PreEmptin to the Huffington Post’s Contagious Media Festival.

Cast a vote by forwarding it to your friends.

Hmm, something’s fishy in NC: one deathrow inmate can’t get a DNA test but 46 white lacrosse players from Duke can. (hat tip: Brian R and Peter)

Headline of the day: Kidnappings forecast to rise in Iraq

Ah, vanity: Exodus links to NYT and USA Today articles describing their attempt to censor my parody

Because I couldn’t believe it myself, I took a screenshot.

Ben Hammersley on buying social networking sites for the purpose of advertising to a captive audience:

They’re buying Schrodinger’s Audience - the very act of opening the box may kill it.

A more, ahem, blatant parody:

As for the “e” in the parody accompanying this post. It stands for “eat me.”

This link is nipple free: Bust Doctor

In the Bay Area Reporter:

Blogger wins round against Exodus
by Robert Akers

Last September, I was reading some blogs and stumbled upon the post that included the image,” said Watt, who is not gay. “I wanted to respond, but I wanted to do so in a way that communicated why I was offended, not just that I was. The inspiration to parody the billboard occurred to me almost immediately

hehe: “Golden Showers” Make a Fitting Tribute to a Long & Happy Marriage

I wish there was a way I could get a print copy of the Orlando Weekly. This column contains one of the best (and snarkiest) journalistic writeups of the whole affair to date.

Watt’s reaction was “visceral.” No, he’s not gay (though he did go hiking with his sister … hmmm). He’s just the kind of guy who thinks intolerance should be answered.

Neat-o! Someone had the smart idea to put my Santa Rosa KFTY TV50 news segment on YouTube

Oh my god, this is so the cutest thing evar! Love ‘n’ Hate Mittens

Hmm, synchronicity: Google, technology, and Ghana what’s not to like?

URL of the day: www.72hours.org

Clearly this book needs to be on my reading list: Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement

(thanks Dawn and her mom!)

WTF I say, WTF: Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston

Wikipedia article of the day: Fixing Broken Windows

Ohmigod, check out their menu: SHOPSIN’S

I’m not sure I want to continue reading this article: Up With Grups

From the looks of it, Robin and family visited San Francisco…

DIY-licious: fractal chandelier

Aww shit, this is just my kind of protest tshirt: Drop Shadows Not Bombs

This is cute: Sam [Ruby] Destroys the Internets

Whoa: In ESPN.com’s 2006 Men’s College Basketball Tournament Challenge, Pleasant had one of the four entries among three million with U.C.L.A., Louisiana State, Florida and George Mason in the Final Four.

Mesmerizing indeed: Watching half of Nicole Richie, and her panties, blink in and out of existence (priceless)

My Exodus billboard parody winds its way around The Netherlands: Straight? Unhappy? Gay.nl!

Time to write a blog post about mesothelioma, an uncommon cancer related to asbestos exposure.

As several people know, this is exactly my favorite laptopping position: dadmade horizontable

Gettting the death penalty is the new black: Rather than rotting in a jail, [Zacarias Moussaoui] might consider the ultimate martyrdom to be being put to death by the American infidels

Wordpress plugin to consider… Autorelated plug-in

If you use WordPress and insert an absolute link from one of your posts to another post on the same weblog you’ll find that a “pingback” is generated and will appear in the comments of the post to which you linked. In my opinion these links are ugly and are not the right way to automatically group together interrelated content on the same site (intrasite links are most definitely not “comments”).

Check out Leona’s crazy awesome pictures of the Sutro Baths in SF:

For the record, my name is Justin Watt (not Watts), but this morning I made the New York Times! Both Sides in Parody Dispute Agree on a Term: Unhappy (page C7 in the print version, which includes a screenshot of my blog displaying the parody)

Tricky research: insecure kids look for the reassurance provided by tradition and authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find liberal politics more congenial.

Oh shit: Pre-Pixelated clothing I love the cap.

The universe is telling me: pay attention to the church of the subgenius

He’s your vice president: Dick “All Televisions tuned to FOX News” Cheney

It’s official. I have blown up the internets: Justin Watt and ACLU win parody case on Boing Boing. And on Suicide Girls: It’s Legal to Parody Uptight Assholes

Justin Watt, aka the hetero hero for our homosexual brothers and sisters everywhere

How Matthew feels: Construction workers used jackhammers on my head while they tried to fill the space with cement.

How to capture a screenshot with Windows Media Player: press CTRL+i during playback (and I thought Print Screen not working was Microsoft’s weak attempt to plug the a-hole)

File this under: Token Braille for seeing people.

My first fan site! Justinsomnia Sucks Let the cult of personality begin!

Yeehaw, the story made USA Today: Christian group backs off case against blog parody

Don’t hate me because I don’t believe in your Judeo-Christian god: Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority

I just did a quick on-camera interview this morning with the folks at Santa Rosa TV50 (KFTY). Does anyone have a way to digitally record that channel tonight at 7 and 10pm?

ACLU Defending Sebastopol Blogger’s Parody Of Anti-Gay Website

Oh, I’m happy the Trixie Update is back: It’s all the process — just being able to zone out and grind a crayon into oblivion for an afternoon.

Interesting, an online poll (containing a few factual errors that I left a comment about) asking the question: Do you agree with Exodus Ministry’s intellectual property claim or with Justin Watt’s free speech defense?

So far I’m winning. Ha!

Ex-Gay Watch, which also received a cease-and-desist letter from Liberty Counsel for republishing my parody, had the Los Angeles-based law firm of Irell & Manella send Liberty a response letter on their behalf today as well. Here’s a choice bit:

“Just as the ex-gay movement often uses weak science in support of its agenda, so Exodus is using weak law to curtail Mr. Airhart’s freedom of speech.

This is genius:

This is so cool: Cruise Ship Line Art in Adobe Illustrator

Wikipedia article of the day Church of the SubGenius (how is it even possible that I’d never heard about this?!)

I still love Achewood: Man, fuck those guys! The hell they’re gonna say how this Fight is won! BRING ON THE JEEPS GOD DAMN YOU! (but you’re gonna have to jump all the way back to January 25 to get what the heck is going on…it’s worth it though)

I went to a casserole party tonight.

Yes, I know, I thought they didn’t exist either, but Leona was deadset upon bringing them back. This first round involved a lot of cheese. Next round I suggested be a whitetrash casserole party, where one of the primary ingredients of every dish has to be some sort of processed junk food. We may want to pick up this cookbook for reference.

Interesting portraits: Americans Who Tell the Truth (via Sally Greene)

Invention I think my dad would find cool: Spray Well Bottle

I found this useful, especially the text flow diagram: WordPress Text Flow vs. Markdown (I wonder how WP 2.x compares)

Shelley Powers on RSS 2.0:

What we’ve done to the natural ecology of our area is what’s been happening with RSS 2.0 in the last few years: we’ve all been compensating for a specification that is, frankly, ill. If there had been no such compensation, it would have died out, almost from the moment of its birth.

I need to play more with Photoshop: Fake tilt-shift photography

Interesting, but will it scale? Distributed BoingBoing, for those blocked by censorware

To look into later: reblog

Damn: Dave Winer Kicks Rogers Cadenhead in the nuts (What a wanker! Dave that is.)

hehe, from the Onion: Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness

To look at later: Simon Willison’s ETech JavaScript tutorial

Chapel Hillian Ben MacNeil (of the Trixie Update) launches his baby-rific Trixie Tracker

Fuck this pointless, pointless war.

The picture of [Ali Shalal Qaissi] standing hooded atop a cardboard box, attached to electrical wires with his arms stretched wide in an eerily prophetic pose, became an indelible symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib. “I never wanted to be famous, especially not in this way,” he said, as he sat in an office in Amman. That said, he is now a prisoner advocate who clearly understands the power of the image: It appears on his business card.

Hmm. Sex, wives and religion: HBO tries polygamy

This is why I don’t need television. I can read the news (via the web) and stay totally up to date.

This is pretty cool: Super Grip with Plasti Dip

Hella cool advertising, for a strip club, in Paris

Heh! Love this title: Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Robin on white crunk

Photo of the day: Yoda fountain at ILM

On Google’s acquisition of Writely: Google wants to build the “Just Enough Office” because that’s really want the people want.

Flickr photo of the day: The right to bear arms (for reals!)

Rock! classic modern chairs as tattoos

Must try! this is what happens when you put Mentos in Diet Coke

New culinary technique: sous vide (French for “under vacuum”)

New thing I learned: Placenta Recipes (thanks Stephanie!)

How easy it was for Osama bin Laden to turn the America into a totalitarian, fundamentalist regime:

Exhibit A) GOP senators propose NSA spying bill: Measure would codify, oversee no-warrant surveillance program

Exhibit B) State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion

How many lives will be ruined before this tyranny is reversed?

To read: Caring for Your Introvert and Introverts of the World, Unite! (via Kottke)

Etech vicariously: Scaling Fast and Cheap - How We Built Flickr

One big lesson learned about database scalability is that 3rd normal form tends to cause performance problems in large database. Denormalizing data can give huge performance wins.

Cool thing: Railbikes

Neat: WordPress on a USB memory stick

Photo of the day: I Know H.T.M.L.

Word of the day: Fundie

Ooo, but this is a good quote too: Mr Buffett also said his board was prepared to oust him should the need arise “from my decay, particularly if this decay is accompanied by my delusionally thinking that I am reaching new peaks of managerial brilliance”.

Quote of the day on Guantanamo: Any message given, that any state can just override some of the basic habeas corpus-type provisions, is going to be very welcome to tyrants elsewhere in the world, now and in the future Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

Hell yeah! Natalie Portman Gangsta Rap

Will Farrell in a serious movie? Winter Passing

Scary UNC news: Jeep crashes through the Pit

Neat: C&D post on Digg

Another kickass PD front page headline: BUSH WAS WARNED

Something is happening in Kenya: Media shutdown in Kenya — TV station, newspaper torched more on wikinews: Kenyan TV and newspaper raided by masked police

Yikes! Matt Mullenweg: We’ll be passing a million tables in a day or two, so I’ll let you know how it goes. (emphasis added)

Loving Helio Sequence’s song Let it fall apart

Wow:

In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans’ Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Wikipodia? Encyclopodia? (Wikipedia on your iPod)