July 2007 Neatlinks

Sun, Jul 1

xkcd is a total winner today: Tape Measure (1 comment)

Tue, Jul 3

I love this headline: Hackers Working [day and night] to Unlock iPhone (0 comments)

I just discovered THE most amazing thing: The Cheese School of San Francisco (1 comment)

All hail our new HVGA overlords (0 comments)

Sat, Jul 7

If you like horses and you like balls: Horseballs (0 comments)

Me elsewhere on the intarweb: Dinner last night with Bora and friends (0 comments)

I was looking for a picture of a beaker on Flickr and instead I found this (and Matt Haughey where I learned what a “meat beard” is (no not this meat beard)) (0 comments)

Awesome: Dramatic Chipmunk T-Shirt (ah, Saturday on the internet) (1 comment)

Tue, Jul 10

Totally awesome: The branding of terrorism (0 comments)

LOL: The farmers have retaliated by slaying gnomes and arranging them on the ground to spell out the URLs of their gold-farms. (0 comments)

Fun watch: architect-designer Christopher Deam discusses his modern take on the classic Airstream (also see: If I had $49,066…) (0 comments)

Wed, Jul 11

Did you know forego and forgo are two different words? (2 comments)

Neat and icky: Eyeball Pincushion (0 comments)

This is crazy great: The Web in 1994 (man, YouTube + blogs = gold) (0 comments)

Ha! For most of this year, Bush has been mired in the low 60s, unable to sustain any negative momentum. His team tried everything – mounting a hopeless surge in Iraq, botching the immigration bill, standing behind an Attorney General any other administration would have left for dead. (0 comments)

Thu, Jul 12

It’s been official since July 2, but now it’s really official. Stephanie is a Author Remnant Engineer! Congratulations and bisous! (2 comments)

Possibly the best thing ever? Traveler’s Phrase Book T-Shirt (or potentially very stupid) (via Melanie) (0 comments)

Silly Sausalito: Wake The Fuck Up Coffee (0 comments)

Sat, Jul 14

Ick, this photo made me cringe: San Fermin Festival (0 comments)

This looks radical: 10,000 B.C.[E.] (0 comments)

Sun, Jul 15

On ice: Ok Go’s A Million Ways song and dance (0 comments)

Disappointed in Geico: “A GEICO Platinum MasterCard is required to enroll in the Recurring Premium Payment Plan. No other credit cards are eligible.” LAME. (4 comments)

Mon, Jul 16

The publisher has no balls: The Mini-Penis Scandal

I would like to form a company to implement all the projects that other companies turn down out of fear of impropriety. (0 comments)

This is why democracy is awesome: GOP candidates fear Iraq war fallout (it’s just SO DAMN SLOW sometimes) (0 comments)

Tue, Jul 17

animated gif of the day: homer simpson (0 comments)

LOL: Today’s interview is a first for Engadget in a couple ways: we’ve never talked with an executive whose company doesn’t actually make or sell something, nor have we talked with anyone whose technology is theoretically infeasible. (0 comments)

Wireless VGA, yummy: Plextor Wireless Projector Adapter (at $277 it’s a little pricey though) (0 comments)

Wed, Jul 18

Oh dear: Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t Listening (0 comments)

Food for thought:

If you can rent anything decent, try to avoid buying property. Think about the most interesting people you know. Chances are, most of them are renters. People who rent talk about the books that they’ve read, the trips that they’ve taken, the skills that they are learning, the friends whose company they are enjoying. Property owners complain about the local politicians, the high rate of property tax, the difficulty of finding competent tradespeople, the high value of their own (very likely crummy) house or condo, and what kinds of furniture and kitchen appliances they are contemplating buying. Property owners are boring. The most boring parts of a property owner’s personality are those which relate to his or her ownership of real estate. –Philip Greenspun

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Thu, Jul 19

Jason and Betsy are having a girl! (0 comments)

OMG I have just discovered the next thing I must try: PowerSkips aka Powerisers aka PoweriZers. How it is POSSIBLE that I have never seen this before? (2 comments)

Fri, Jul 20

Google, this is where Atom 1.0 lives (at least the nice HTML version). Not here. (0 comments)

Silly Sausalito: Crosswalk Sting Operation (0 comments)

Mon, Jul 23

This is the best historic plaque ever! Web Browser (0 comments)

After this weekend, I need to read this: Inside the World of Mileage Running (via Corey) (0 comments)

Tue, Jul 24

Awesome: container ship disasters (0 comments)

There is something amusing about the cultural implications of this: Fake ATM receipts for sale (0 comments)

Awesomenosity! Road Train (1 comment)

Wed, Jul 25

Ha, what a gem: So now we’ll have to waste half a day bringing [Woz] in and hearing all his big ideas and letting him draw on a white board and give orders to some cafeteria workers that we dress up as engineers. (0 comments)

OMG Brilliant! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash (the Onion does video?) (1 comment)

Dreamhost tickles me: AND, if somebody did come out with a “Crap-of-the-Art” data center… (0 comments)

Thu, Jul 26

So subversive it hurts:

(bonus: appeals to conservatives and liberals alike!) (0 comments)

Thing I didn’t know existed: Vegan Shoes (0 comments)

Hey music fans, anyone else out there heard of this Treasure Island Festival? Saturday 9/15 you’ve got Thievery Corporation, Gotan Project, DJ Shadow, M.I.A. and others, and then on Sunday 9/16 you’ve got Modest Mouse, Spoon, Built to Spill, Clap your hands say yeah, M. Ward, Two Gallants, Earlimart, and more! Can I get a holy cow? Two day tickets run $110. (1 comment)

Next up, Ubuntu: John Dvorak: Me and My Mac (0 comments)

Sat, Jul 28

Odd: Dedication (I like odd) (1 comment)

Mon, Jul 30

It’s not every day I hear business 15-501 in the lyrics of a song. (2 comments)

Damn, listening to Annuals – Nice Day on Indie Pop Rocks, and it just stops me in my tracks. So good. (p.s. They’re from Raleigh, NC) (0 comments)

Who’s Idiopathic? Chief Justice John Roberts. (1 comment)

Tue, Jul 31

Jason Griffey is a dirty blogger and must be stopped:

I’m currently being blocked as a “Social Networking” site, which, as I am the only user, would make the term “social” a very loose one. “Networking” too, I suppose.

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For future reference: Scooter Parts Direct (0 comments)

Man these are so cool: rocket craft plush engines. Corey requests a Prius model, filled with lots and lots of batteries. (0 comments)

Ceramic pinhole camera, rad. (0 comments)