Stephanie reconstitutes herself via animated gif

And just this weekend I was thinking of naming a hypothetical girl child “Eucalyptus.” I wonder if that’s too chav? Research shows that girls with ‘feminine’ names steer clear of ‘masculine’ maths and science (via Corey)

That can’t be good: Tanker Truck Fire Collapses Bay Area Overpass

Tim Bray: I’m pretty sure that in another half-generation or so, a company that doesn’t do blogging is going to look weird and maybe a little shady.

Heh: One often doesn’t see fonts competing like this…

Wait, there’s a difference between vi and vim? VI arrow key bug in Ubuntu (I thought all vi was actually vim)

Update: oh wait, post-sudo aptitude install vim-full, vi=vim:

$ which vi
/usr/bin/vi
$ ls /usr/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-04-20 08:53 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
$ ls /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-04-26 09:53 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.full

CUTE!

New concept of the day: Wabi-sabi

Wow, how lame (can our gov’t get?): Heroine attacks Pentagon over lies about her capture

Upon rereading that headline, I found the use of the word “attacks” to be particularly charged, as if Jessica Lynch has a personal axe to grind against the Pentagon. Rebukes would have been a less biased choice.

Atheism has a symbol?
Apparently.

Ha, Kottke: If I were to start a fictional magazine about blogging, I’d call it Post & Permalink

Update: Someone’s made a cover mockup. A hundred bucks says that an issue of this fictitious magazine gets made.

OMG: xkcd brilliance!

To read: Will Eisner’s New York: Life in the Big City

outside.in says Potrero Hill is the bloggiest neighborhood in SF. Man, I actually love the neologism bloggiest more than my other fav, blogosphere.

Ha: There is not a single existential crisis or self-congratulatory epiphany that has been or could be experienced by a left-leaning agnostic that we have not exhaustively documented and grouped by theme. (via Joy)

That cool condom+applicator I linked to a while ago? It now has a website, and the best tagline ever: Pronto condoms - the best way to get it on

Hot new Canon HD videocam: PowerShot TX1 (only $499)

I feel dirty: Secrets of the Magic Eight Ball revealed

MP3 now officially the most popular acronym in the world: Piaggio MP3

We saw several of these in Paris…

Scary headline of the day: Boston bans Boing Boing

Opening sentence of the day (not from The Onion): Facing worries about its tracking Web surfers’ every move, Google Inc. is now offering a feature to track Web surfers’ every move.

Buzzphrase of the day: Page-View Juicing

The ultimate Microsoft snub: your product is our feature

Google has completed its apps suite with the addition of a presentation component—[Eric Schmidt] told me earlier that they did not have a name for it because, in the end, it was a feature of a service, not a product like PowerPoint.

re: death of internet radio, I listen to Indie Pop Rocks every day at work, all day long. (as an aside: sucks that twitter doesn’t have comments, you know, like a blog)

This is crazy news: What operating system does Michael Dell use??? Ubuntu

Perspective: Normal life came to a screeching halt today in America as news of an awful mass murder spread across the nation…Ha ha, just kidding! This massacre happened in Iraq, which we totally ignore even though it’s all our fault.

Will Ferrell, actually funny, in The Landlord (via Joy)

xkcd on Snopes (Reminds me of a fear I had that a spam-blocking service could actually sign me up for spam in retribution for dissing their product. So of course I’m tickled to learn that I’ve outlasted their database of known humans.)

Wikipedia fact of the day: The reuse of feces as fertilizer was common in Japan. Waste products of rich people were sold at higher prices because their diet was better.

Totally radical: Leaping Shampoo, aka the Kaye effect

LOL!!1 The only surprise here is that you’re treating my utter disregard for scalability as a bug, when it is in fact a feature. –Mark Pilgrim paraphrasing David Heinemeier Hansson

Why I still read Boing Boing: These spring-loaded steampunk spectacles are the mutt’s nuts — I would wear them every day, until they blew a spring and gouged out one of my eyes. –Cory Doctorow

If anyone knows anyone out there who’s looking for a great car that gets great gas mileage, I’m selling: Black 2004 Honda Civic EX Sedan Automatic, with hitch

Update: Sold!

Mark Pilgrim (who now works at Google with everyone else in the world) on The future of the web (aka HTML5)

Via Boing Boing: Researchers design new type of object that rights itself when knocked over

On the List of places blurred out on Google Maps: IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York

Oh damn this is librarian-licious: Cara Barer’s wet book sculptures

This made me giggle: Blog Advisory System (even though I was out of the country went everything went down)

Photo of the day: Irish Pride

Best website of the year: No one belongs here more than you

Book to read: Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America