Rock! Must-have Firefox extension of the day: Searchbar Autosizer (stretch/shrink the search bar as needed)

Animal-friendly: Carved Wood Trophy Heads

Ha financial cyber attack

If I needed or wanted a TV, I think it would be this one: Samsung LNS2651D 26″ LCD HDTV

To watch later: The road to Delhi with
Eben Moglen and Paul Jones

Factoid of the day: Pine nuts contain about 31 grams of protein per 100 grams of nuts, the highest of any nut or seed.

Wikipedia entry of the day: Haddon Sundblom

On my list of things to cook: Warm Hummus with pastirmali (turkish air cured beef)

So cool! DOOM on the OLPC XO!

Make 9 to 5 Paintings with a double mouse

photo of the day: busy airport

“this could be the best anti-drug video ever” How cocaine is made (Couple hundred pounds of coca leaves, a little cement, caustic soda, ammonia, quicklime, sulfuric acid and a lot of gasoline)

Amazon list of the day: Stalking Stuffers 2006

Ouch! Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times on Microsoft’s Zune: the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face…The Zune is a square wheel…The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure…The Zune will be dead and gone within six months.

Very cool: Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players

This is a really neat list: The open source gift guide

I like this shirt: Web 2.OH, YEAAHH!!

Andre on proposing to Amber: My future wife just stabbed some vampire in the heart, and I think that’s wonderful.

I am going to do everything in my power to avoid Windows Vista: My team had a very talented UI designer and my particular feature had a good, headstrong program manager with strong ideas about user experience. We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI. (hence, Ubuntu on the X23)

For future reference: HP Drive Key Boot Utility (make a usb flash key bootable)

WOW! Stunning pictures of animals in the womb

The Joy of Tech’s Thanksgiving comic gets political

Cool, Flickr’s Camera Zeitgeist (my SD400 most popular among the point & shooters)

Photo of the day: inside Rankine Generating Station’s century-old tailrace tunnel in Niagara Falls

OMG! Golden Gate Bridge Seeks Corporate Sponsors

This is totally awesome! Little car kits from Japan

I’m not especially into graphic novels or Chris Ware, but these look cool: Chris Ware’s Thanksgiving covers for The New Yorker

Stupid stupid stupid! Blockbuster signs deal to be exclusive renter for Weinsteins

And a hehe: (Struggling Blockbuster Eliminates Rental Fees)

It would be fun to get my hands on one of these: The first laptops will be followed by a 900-unit run early next year, many of which will go to programmers to help them write software. (more here)

Ever since I started using the Happy Hacking keyboard at work, the Caps Lock on my laptop has become a serious liability. Problem solved: waNOCAPS

Beer Goggles! Awesome!

For future reference: Problem with unauthorized MiniPCI network card

Amazon.com product of the day: 2″ Copper Square Cut to 84″

Open source, DIY mp3 player: Daisy_mp3

HI-LAR-IOUS! PhilTube: I’m blogging

WTF? last night’s award for cruel and unusual went to PC Gamer, who were on hand in SF to try to convince a card-carrying line-waiting PS3 fanboy to swear off Sony forever.

Enjoying this song right now: The High Strung - The Songbird (wish it was longer)

This is so freaky: comic book room

Quote of the day: the self-described “band of misfits” that make up the two-year-old Holocene Impact Working Group

Neat! Little People, a tiny street art project

This horrifies me: Doubts Cast on Hybrid Efficiency (I want to know more)

WOW! system76 offers laptops and desktops preloaded with Ubuntu (via Allison Randal)

Hehehe: A Timeline of Timelines

This looks fun: WriteRoom (who wants to create a version for Linux?)

Ha! Dvorak is Nuts! an acrylic painting by Nitrozac

Uhh, can I please get the “Aeron chairs, unlimited M&Ms, free catered lunches, and the kickass computers with the 30″ LCDs” without having to “deal with new bugs Microsoft introduced in their code by messing up a DLL that used to work”?

Ha ha ha: OMFG manual not what it seems

These are cool. Yay letterpress! bittersweet cards

Aww shucks, ghostriding lost Oxford University Press’s competition for Word of the Year

Ruby on why her Second Life avatar is African American: Would you rather be the oppressor or the oppressed?

Who does Paul Jones hang out with on an average Sunday? Sally Greene (his wife), Elizabeth Edwards, Amy Tiemann, Michael Tiemann, Tucker (his son), and Dan Gillmor

Holy holy batman! Video of the day! Amateur by Lasse Gjertsen (video sampling)

Question of the day: Is it safe to assume that Haggard’s a bottom?

Wikipedia quote of the day: A human being traveling on a bicycle at low to medium speeds of around 10-15 mph (16-24 km/h), using only the energy required to walk, is the most energy-efficient means of transport generally available.

In other news: “A sandwich is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos and quesadillas, which are typically made with a single tortilla and stuffed with a choice filling of meat, rice, and beans”

One Rincon Hill will be “the tallest residential building west of the Mississippi“

Shit, linked to from a mefi post entitled: THE DEATH OF ROCK AND ROLL (that can’t be good)

Oops! Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database

Photo of the day: Tim and Arwen O’Reilly dancing to Lou Reed at the Web 2.0 Summit

I love this quote:
In the House, swaths of the Midwest fell to the Democrats while moderate Republican strongholds in the Northeast were all but wiped from the map on a tide of anger over the Iraq War, the economy and scandal in Washington.

Long exposure photo of the day: Montreal’s a great city.

Wow, awesome! New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice

Snicker:

“Removing DRM” is defined as stripping out protection, reverse-engineering code, using third-party circumvention software, installing non-DRM versions of DRM media, refusing to purchase our media in the first place, or reading Boing Boing.

Ha! It’s a brand-new taste sensation unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, unless you’ve ever eaten sisal twine.

Goodbye Rumsfeld: Rumsfeld quitting as defense secretary Yay democracy!

Goodbye Rick Santorum

Best photo ever: No you can’t have a pony

Damn, wish I had read this before applying for a Bank of America checking and savings account (guess I’ll stick with Wells Fargo after all): Check from a scammer bounces [Matthew Shinnick] into jail

I had no idea! App-O-Rama and Stoozing (invest the full value of a credit card into a high interest savings account during the introductory 0% interest period)

News: Adobe has now taken the code for their ActionScript virtual machine implementation and released it as open source through the Mozilla project as Tamarin

Wikipedia article of the day: Cough:

A cough is usually initiated to clear a buildup of phlegm in the trachea; air may move through this passage at up to 480 km/h (300 mph) during a contraction.

Awesome:

A recent study indicates that, because of the presence of theobromine in chocolate, 50 grams of dark chocolate may be an effective treatment for a persistent cough.

Ha, quote of the day: It seems that we have a “Matthew Magnet” and her name is Beth.

I wonder if FON files work on Linux? Dina Programming Font

What information science should have been: Web Science

This is telling: HP Ink Costs More Than Human Blood, Booze

Font of the day: Chuck, based on the bronze plaque on the South Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge (I wish this was free)

Whoa: [Rev. Ted Haggard] the leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of the drive for same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years.

Update: Voice mails are from Haggard [asking for sex and drugs] says voice expert!

On Firefox 2 on Linux, you can “fix” the behavior of the backspace key by setting browser.backspace_action in about:config to 0, so pressing backspace goes back a page in the session history (instead of paging up).

Before you vote, watch this video: Sullivan and Hitchens Call for Accountability from Bush

This is very cool: Color Palette Generator Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image.

Word I’ve never heard before: zaftig

What a coup for IEEE’s Spectrum: Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt, and Parakey

Video of the day! World’s Largest Skateboard Ramp