To take tomorrow: PHP Syntax Exam

Another quote of the day: that decline can be transmitted to other parts of the world through the psychology

Quote of the day:
I can hear screams coming from the ivory towers where the validatorians and standardistas live. I like those screams. I live for those screams. (on swfIR)

Ha! Bilingual pun: The soufflé that blew!

Gotta love xkcd: Excuse me, you’re jiggling your leg up and down…

I had no idea mounting an NTFS partition from Ubuntu was SO HARD! Annoying.

Several references in popular culture led me to look up Miracle Mile and discover this:

A.W. Ross required that all building facades along Wilshire be engineered to be best seen through a windshield. This meant larger, bolder, simpler signage; longer buildings in a larger scale oriented towards the boulevard; and architectural ornament and massing perceptible at 30 MPH instead of at walking speed.

I felt my very first earthquake! It was kind of like a large truck turned on its engine in the parking garage below me. Lasted for less than a second. Cool.

Awesome: Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix

Ha! Dell created a digg-a-like, and what do the people want? Pre-Installed Linux

I want: Nelson Swag Leg Desk (just not for $1700)

Congratulations to my dad for completing his 5th marathon

Something I want to read later: REST and WS-*

Heh: A USB enclosure for hard disks that looks like a hard disk!

I want, I want! Small Homes

More here: Modern Cabana

God speaking: Honestly, we hacked most of it together with Perl.

This is amazing: Worlds First Wheelchair Backflip!

Horse in car:

I saw “church” and “primates” and thought “Kansas”: Primates consider ‘parallel’ Church

Those are not dogs, they are BEARS! Backyard Play Area for the Kids

Acronym of the day, hilarious: MAFIAA

Googe?

More info: Google’s Obscure Literary Reference for Valentine’s Day?

Whoa: Santa Rosa TV station KFTY TV50 fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming (this is the same station that interviewed me about getting a cease-and-desist for a parody on my blog)

OMG: The man who fell 12,000 ft … and survived (there’s a video!)

On MSN: The Three Biggest Internet Threats of 2007 #1? Internet Explorer (the perils of syndication)

Peter Acworth of kink.com responds:

I hope that my concerned neighbors will agree with me that their kids are far more at risk of tripping over used hypodermic needles in the neighborhood streets than they are of encountering sexual acts happening behind 2-foot-thick walls.

Larry and Sergey must be heartbroken: goolag

Font resource: PCFONTY.CZ

Freaking amazing: WhatTheFont (upload an image of a font and it tells you what it is!)

This is neat: 4GB Industrial Grade 40-Pin LP DOM with Lockable Housing, 5v

Stephanie last night, as a pirate: Arrrrr! (there’s a video with a choreographed fight!)

No duh: U.S. Defense Department officials prepared pre-war intelligence reports that may have exaggerated links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the Pentagon inspector general said today.

Ubuntuy, Linuxy, Gnomey thing to check out: Devil’s Pie

Quote of the day, from Steve Jobs picking a fight in a dramatic way: Though the big four music companies, [Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI], require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

Cory Doctorow adds: I look forward to the day when the iTunes Music Store catalog shows a little warning icon next to those few holdout tracks sold with DRM, a skull-and-crossbones to tell you that you’re about to buy some poisonous bits.

Check out Stephanie’s new blog soleilisme and read about her dad becoming an American

Photo of the day:

Dude’s wearing a shirt and tie! Bar pilot has a 70-foot margin of error as he guides 1,131-foot-long liner through bay to dock at Pier 27

Such a poignant summary of Gavin Newsom’s social life: Newsom could be seen many nights in the Balboa Cafe in the Marina…If not the Balboa then La Barca on Lombard Street…And there was nearby Rose’s Cafe on Union Street as well as Panne E Vino…Occasionally, he would drop in at Tosca’s in North Beach…and around the corner at a disco called Impala. And yet how sad that his personal life is reported as news.

FM in the press: Bigger Bucks For The Blogosphere

This is neat: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, but maybe a little too hip-faux-academic.

Two related and interesting links: Software development is a knowledge acquisition activity, not a manufacturing activity and the common case for wanting to rewrite is to understand

Less common yo-mama insult: The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth

News of the insane: Her arrest may be the first-ever felony charges filed on an active-duty astronaut, according to the space agency.

Fuck YEAH! Stick it to the man: I will be contacting your VP of Customer Service, Barbara Trinko, and complaining about the level of service you have provided with me today. Then I will call back tomorrow, and every day after that until you decide to change your mind. I will also offer you updates on the complaints I will be filing after I get off the phone with you.”

Holy moley, Tuna are big! (Andy’s in Japan)

And today’s completely awkward word of the day is: Ascertainment

Awesomeness: Skymall Liberation (I didn’t even realize at first they did this in flight!)

Updated: The Random Image Plugin for Wordpress and WordPress Suicide have both been updated for WordPress 2.1.

Quote of the day: Yup, three mentos sitting on a stick, just waiting for the diet coke.

Oh my god amazing: What hands can do

Word I didn’t even know existed! contumeliously

Totally useful resource: Trailers soundtracks

Totally cool looking trailer: Sunshine (from a very cool director)

Finally, a stricter notion of war is taking hold on this side of the ocean:
Judge Motz asked, for instance, about the broader implications of the government’s position that the United States is at war with Al Qaeda and that people affiliated with it may be subject to military detention rather than criminal prosecution. “Nations have wars against each other,” Judge Motz said. “People have quarrels or fights. Individuals can be terrorists. Individuals don’t make war.”

Quote of the day: Freaking the fuck out over anything you don’t immediately recognize is exactly what the terrorists want.