My first MediaWiki patch: Configuration setting to customize session_name

Hehe: Tech condiments

Awesomest thing of the day: Dirty cars are artist’s canvas

(via Boing Boing)

To my liberal friends, here is one reason why you should move to San Francisco (Mayor Gavin Newsom)

New word: trad, rhymes with “rad”, refers to traditional folk music

Useful information on root and sudo in Ubuntu

Overheard on Forum this morning: Hyphenated American

Nice: Magritte-esque laser etched powerbook

Heh. This certifies that I [___] brought a non-Apple laptop to RailsConf 2006. On purpose. Thank you. Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds. (via Sam Ruby)

Heh. Neologism of the day. Stumbled onto this a while ago: kindie rock

How Mark greets me when I mouse over emails from him in Gmail:

How do we reconcile the effect of Microsoft’s monopoly on innovation and philanthropy?

The only thing that is “disgraceful ,” Mr. President, is you.

Firefox plugin of the century: SessionSaver

I’ve heard about this before, and maybe I didn’t do anything about it because it’s one of those features that should be built into the browser. But anyway, I installed it this morning and it’s amazing. Imagine Firefox shutting down (expectedly or unexpectedly) and being about to restart it with all your tabs open to the exact spot on the pages you were last browsing, with any text you’d been typing appearing in each textbox. Amazing!

Technology term of the day: Thunk

Mark Pilgrim’s Ubuntu Linux software essentials (to read tomorrow at work)

I guess it depends on your definition of war: “We’re at war, and for the [New York] Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous”

To read later: Why Religion Must End

Federated Media in the news: Sausalito startup creates ad technology for blogs (thanks Marcia!)

For future reference: Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District events

To mull over later: Misconception: Renting is for Suckers

Kinky Friedman has a blog, let’s hope he gets elected

To read later: The Semicolon Wars

Photo of the day: Black Sun in Denmark

(those are birds!)

Michael Ruhlman, author of two of my favorite books (The Making of a Chef, and The Soul of a Chef), is guestblogging on megnut.com

Syndication news: Bloglines now parses Atom 1.0 more correctly

Apostolos Gerasoulis: Ask.com is pimped out search engine. It is very tight.

Tim Berners-Lee to big telecom: When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission. (translation: step off beotch)

You’ve probably seen http:// and perhaps mailto: but did you know about the data: URI scheme? (learn something new every day)

Character encoding is hard! Unicode Blues

Caption of the day: Dan Brown Need Pay No Attention To This (can you tell I’m catching up on my blog reading?)

This is funny in that it reads like two high school friends sending each other press releases instead of actually talking (the two “friends” in this instance being Microsoft and Adobe)

Photo of the day: Bubbles

News: Photos of [Marcia's] naked boobs forthcoming

Something I’d like to try to make: chicken rice

The great state of Georgia, this is your congressman: Georgia Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Congressman who’s co-sponsored a bill to require the display of the Ten Commandments in the House of Reps and the Senate, doesn’t know them.

Interesting read: Fear of Forking (if you’re into computing history, and the effects of software licenses)

It’s like SSI, except it’s all ajaxy javascript: HInclude

This has provided me with multiple hours of enjoyable reading: Ask me about Google

If you want an easier to read synopsis, check out: An Inside View From a Google Employee

Awesome! Yahoo! Celebrates Gay & Lesbian Pride

Sometimes I wonder if I have this: Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome. But then I also wonder if everyone has this. A lot of people drink coffee.

This is the person whose company I’ll be working for come Monday: Good f’ing lord, RIAA. Wake up. This is how we use music in the real world. Get over yourselves. (Hear, hear!)

What is wrong with Congress? Support a complete and honest debate about the War in Iraq, NOT a consitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration

Quote of the day: a noose is just a suicide bomb with a very small blast radius, people!

More details on airline service out of Santa Rosa: Horizon Air to offer $99 flights to LAX (though it may come too late for me to take advantage)

Movie trailer of the day: Wordplay, about New York Times puzzle editor and NPR puzzle-master Will Shortz

Photo of the day: paint is peeling (NSFW if you think breasts covered with dry peeling paint are not safe for work)

Sally Greene reports that Raleigh Street in front of Spencer Dorm will soon be getting a makeover: This view will soon be history

I lived in Spencer Dorm for three years as an undergrad. This view is very familiar to me.

Something maybe to do this weekend? RoboGames Friday-Sunday, June 16-18, 2006, Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, California (Thanks Dad!)

Photo of the day: Mark, working

Two recent TJ articles: The tao of Trader Joe’s Devoted fans meet online to swap news, stay connected and For Trader Joe’s, a New York Taste Test

The title says it all: Dude Blows Perfect Bubble Rings Underwater

It makes one wonder just how out of touch with reality the state department actually has become:

U.S. contentions that the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay prisoners were a publicity stunt or an act of aggression provoked international criticism Monday, with editorials and rights groups lashing out at the United States for detaining hundreds at the prison camp.

I’m starting to think that Google Earth/Maps should be spun off as its own separate company (this could get big)

Neat. Use :visited pseudoclass to change background-image on links: Ticked-off visited links Reloaded

The cultural ramification of Snakes on a Plane:

As attention spans decrease and grassroots creativity grows, the power balance between buyer and seller has started to shift: Online customers aren’t content to consume a product — they chew it up and spit it out as something new.

(thanks Leona!)

For future reference: Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide

Close the Guantanamo Prison Camp! 3 Guantanamo Inmates Commit Suicide

Quote of the day: One wonders why Joe Montana and Russ Francis ever retired since that slant pass worked every time.

Would someone please reply with an example of Republicans NOT sucking so hard? House rejects Net neutrality rules

Of the 421 House members who participated in the vote that took place around 6:30 p.m. PT, the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were Democrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.

Craptastic webdesign, but novel idea: Do-It-Yourself Impeachment

Photo of the day:

Boingboing is on a roll today: “Fuck” costs $325,000 to utter over the airwaves

The Federal Government just increased the price for saying “fuck” on TV or radio from $32,500 to $325,000. That’s because Congress passed the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (BDEA).

I would like to kindly know WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with our government?

I nominate Jon Stewart to debate George W. Bush on gay marriage. Oh and by the way, watch this video: Jon Stewart tears open Bill Bennett on gay marriage

Google making a very big push for Net Neutrality

Happy Birthday Robin! It’s starting to get amusing now, being carded, especially when I have two children in tow.

I like Google and all, but I find this scary: Google Browser Sync

Tshirt of the day: some 6-6-06 humor

Jaysus! Jason Kottke infected with Bird Flu Dance

To watch later: The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments (via Mark)

This is not a novel idea, I read it first on Dare (who in turn read it on Joe Wilcox), but it is a novel way of putting it. Is the “Google Office” just a head fake?

Future reference: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router

Wikipedia article of the day: The Last Tree of Ténéré died in 1973

To read later: Cut & Paste Culture

Neato! Beautify a Face step-by-step in Photoshop

Snark. Hell has a population of 266 and the ZIP Code is 48169.

Colbert’s commencement speech, how cool: the next thing you know, they’ll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught in our public schools.

Boing Boing on Wired News on GNU Radio (software-defined radio, something to watch)

Screenshot of the day: Navigation: Left is Best

Now this, I admit, is newsworthy: New mom Angelina Jolie has reserved 24 domain names featuring various versions of her daughter Shiloh Nouvel’s name.

Jason on the Pirate Bay (worth following)

Wikipedia article of the day: Goobuntu

Goobuntu is the name of a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that is rumoured to be released by Google. Google has denied this, though they confirm that they internally work with Ubuntu and have slightly modified it to suit their needs.

Also worth noting is bug #1 in Ubuntu’s bug tracking system:

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Nice.

For future reference: ThinkWiki, the Wiki Web for ThinkPad users. Here you find anything you need to install your favourite Linux distribution on your ThinkPad

Quirky movie trailer of the day: Little Miss Sunshine

Neato! DIY Mosquito Trap

Going in my mom’s stocking this year: Shredding scissors

RollingStone magazine is on a roll, hardy-har-har: First The Worst President in History? and now Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Interesting: Google AJAX Search API (Beta)

Newsflash, Global Warming not developing fast enough, Glaciers to be removed manually:

The [Pascua Lama] project has faced strong criticism from environmental and community groups worried about water pollution and wary of the project’s original proposal to remove glaciers in the Andes mountain range.

Nope, this is not from The Onion. (Thanks Goli!)

News: Ubuntu 6.06 (aka Dapper Drake) released (thanks Brian!)