Quote of the day: I think someone should try to blow up a plane with a piece of ID, just to watch the TSA’s mind implode.

SILS friend Kathleen Pierce shows up online: Channel airs town business, trains youths

Groan: Ubuntu Christian Edition

What I did this weekend: Bowling!
…at Leona’s going-away pizza and bowl-a-rama party.

The name of this plugin was enough to draw me in: Widon’t

Matt Haughey: Then I started looking at [paying off] all my bills as annual raises.

Awesome! Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut (via Jason)

Neologism of the day: Typosquatting

Federated Media featured on CNN:

[John] Battelle figured he could find out which bloggers were already generating heavy traffic, and then serve as a middleman between them and advertisers. He launched his startup, called Federated Media Publishing, last fall with seed money from the New York Times Co. and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Battelle compares FM’s model to a record company. He and his team are the band managers; the bloggers are the bands. The key difference is that bloggers own their content, earning 60 cents of every ad dollar

There’s more: The Original Hobo Nickel Society

Wow, whodathunkit? Gallery of carved nickels

Robin on being young and a parent:

I’m starting to feel a little wistfully sad that the sorts of people I like to hang out with, the clever, caring, interesting, amusing, excited people, seem to be the sorts of people who do not expect to have children (with a few very noteworthy exceptions). Which is a perfectly valid, upstanding choice, to not have children.

Wikipedia entry and thing I didn’t know of the day: North Pacific Gyre

Still alive, I swear.

Look, here I am talking to the inimitable Tony Stubblebine at Kyle’s Snakes on a Birthday party:

Thanks to MacEwan’s Howto fix Firefox Flash Video Sound on Ubuntu Linux Dapper I was able to listen to this excellent cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya!

Update: aoss seems buggy. Several minutes after playing flash with audio, Firefox seizes up, and I have to force quit.

Who I work with: FM Team Photo, Take One

Cheers to Rick Richardson and Cheche for helping to get the HP Color LaserJet 2600n printing from Ubuntu. Jeers to Konica Minolta and HP:

Neither company has ever offered any kind of support for this driver.

This just rocked my face off: ScanJet Music (make sure to play the Fur Elise video from the links at the bottom)

Heh heh: NO SNAKES OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERMITTED ON A PLANE. SNAKES ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED IN CHECKED BAGGAGE. This includes all pythons, boas, rattlesnakes, vipers, mambas, adders, and other known species of snakes. Exception: some limited amounts of snakes may be allowed if Samuel L. Jackson is traveling

This is brilliant: Open source project adds “no military use” clause to the GPL (via Yesh)

Scary search engine referrer of the day:

Someone stopped by my blog after searching The New York Times for justin watt and dick cheney

Anyone in or around Santa Rosa need a desk or additional surface space? I’ve got one to sell: Blond wood IKEA desk, would love to sell this weekend!

I wish they had real permalink pages for their shows, but nevertheless here’s a link to the Commonwealth Club’s talk with Anthony Bourdain of Kitchen Confidential fame

Headline of the day (err… blog post title of the day?): Wikipedia’s template language is Turing-complete

Awesome picture of the day: Sausage shaped like a beer bottle

To do before they sell out for the season: Public Orchard Tour at McEvoy Olive Ranch in Petaluma

FM co-worker Jonathan just left to get married: staceyandjonathan.org or jonathanandstacey.org

I wonder if the German Jews made fun of those crazy Nazis the way we make fun of our government?
Who the fuck brought this motherfucking beverage onto this motherfucking plane?

Free advertising for Gawker Artists

Yeah Dick, I’d hate to go back to a competent pre-Bush administration mind-set too:

Republican Vice President Dick Cheney convened a conference call with reporters while in Jackson, Wyo., asserting that the anti-war strains evident among Connecticut Democrats revealed a desire to go back to a “pre-9/11 mind-set.”

WOW! Lieberman loses Senate race in Conn.

Anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area looking for a dining table and 6 chairs?

I’m selling my NYDALA dining table from IKEA + 6 chairs from Cost Plus World Market

The best part is the leaf (stored under the surface of the table) that expands the table from 4 feet to over 6 feet in length!

Also, Stephanie is selling her futon.

Just FYI, I am not the whistleblower in the Mahmudiya rape/murder case, though I heartily support his courage:

Pfc. Justin Watt, who was in the same platoon as the four soldiers and another former soldier accused of the crimes, said he came forward after piecing together evidence from soldiers whom he suspected were involved in the rape and killings.

(Thanks Kathleen!)

This excellent post is entitled Hating America, but it’s really more about expanding perspectives beyond America

Quote of the day:

“This seems to be an administration that’s in a race with its own incompetence”

—David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine, describing the Bush administration on City Arts and Lectures

Whoa: HURRA TORPEDO - total eclipse of the heart (with large kitchen appliances)

Looks awesome. To watch later: OK Go - Here It Goes Again

Katie asks, What does DELL do to you????

Earthquake! Which I kinda missed:

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake Wednesday evening struck the Sonoma Valley, sending boxes and bottles crashing to the floor, halting rides at the county fair in Santa Rosa and rattling nerves across the North Bay.

I was out hiking Annadel with Mark and at one point we noticed what sounded like bikes rattling on a trail in the dense brush next to us, but we didn’t think anything of it.

Make any webpage look like you’re working on a Microsoft Word document: workFRIENDLY

Does the dude in this Yahoo ad wig anyone else out?
He kind of makes me think I should be reading “Yahoo!” as a euphemism for the male genitalia, which makes the ad come across like recruitment for a porno.

I think your Yahoo! has star potential.

Oh I bet you do, dirty old man.

Marie Kennedy, SILS-alum and friend, is exhibiting some of her scanner art works online:

Ha! The doctors once again have found the president fit for duty Whatev.

If you’ve noticed my blog being inaccessible or slow to load in the past week, this is why: Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster.. (and this—the blog post—is also why I’m sticking with Dreamhost)

Christy on love and optimism:

There were moments of 14-year-old-wtf when I wanted to smack them, but when they were focused and working together, they had a precision and intiution that was impressive in such a young crowd. If this is our future, we might just be ok.