I never get into these kind of flash games, but this is kind of fun… Chat Noir

Quite possibly the weirdest thing ever: Chocolade Haas (I think Jason Kottke summed it up best: “If you only watch one chocolate bunny melting video this year, make it this one.”)

I don’t know what’s funnier, the content or the Austrian English accents: Human USB Hack

Something I must try (and didn’t know existed)! St. Louis-style pizza (I think I just discovered the theme for my next party…)

Domain name of the day: bytesexual.org

On the erotic appeal of the Lands’ End catalog: These are men who deserve to have their faces cropped out, emasculated by the inability to even choose their own clothing.

The oldest known color photograph: view of Angouleme, France

Whoa, weird, cool? FOODPAIRING

Photo of the day: A Touch of Colour

I would buy a wireless digital picture frame for this: Passing by

Crazy thing I did not know:

Restoration contractors use…ozone generators to remove smoke odors after fire damage, musty smells after flooding, mold including toxic molds, and the stench caused by decaying flesh which cannot be removed by bleach or anything else except for ozone.

For my librarian friends:

I collect books, and not only that, I do something unbelievably geeky with them, which is, I put little labels on the spines with Library of Congress numbers, and keep all the books in Library of Congress order. Oddly, I have never computerized the collection. —Jimmy Wales

(via Andre)

Corey just sent me this: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Dooce switches from MT to Drupal:

[Jon] briefly got up from this desk to kiss me goodbye when I noticed two giant sweat stains underneath his arms, and I was all, are you running on a treadmill while coding my website? Isn’t that complicated? And he’s all, yes I’m running on a treadmill, WITH MY BRAIN.

Yowzers:

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says in an upcoming book that he was misled by President George W. Bush and other high officials into misinforming the press about a CIA leak case that fueled debate about the Iraq war.

Ha, strangest funny thing I’ve read today:

to make sure he is not forgotten, [Brian Grazer] will often leave behind a small photo of himself in an inexpensive heart-shaped frame after attending a dinner or party, hiding it among his host’s family photographs.

Wow, Firefox 3 beta gets coverage in the NYT: Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.0 Beta

U.S. Supreme Court takes up gun-rights case:

if the right to keep and bear arms is a collective right exercised solely for the purpose of serving in a state militia [LIKE THE MOTHER-LOVIN’ CONSTITUTION SAYS!!!], individual gun owners could not claim the protection of the Constitution against gun-control laws regulating the private use of firearms.

Another seminal blog post from Mark Pilgrim: The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)

Update: Cory asks, “Why does the Web make Amazon go crazy?“

Pricey but hawt: Camera bag made out of old belts

11 levels of meta: Cory with original xkcd strip

I’d like to use this for things other than birds: Wingscapes BirdCam

Photoz of the day: Best. toy. ever.

Hot Rod your kitchen stand mixer. Enough said.

To do this weekend: Michael Ruhlman talks about his new book, The Elements of Cooking 2pm on Sunday at Book Passage in the Ferry Building

For future reference: Creating a book with OpenOffice.org Writer

Shit, not 140 gallons, 58,000 GALLONS!!!

This is the most amazing thing: Wingsuite mountain swoop

Whoa whoa!! Container ship hits Bay Bridge tower - fuel spills, but span undamaged

Just saw this great Comcast parody ad on Boing Boing:

Building a computer as easy as assembling lego-like bricks: BUG

Try gOS for yourself…

WTF Pakistan!? Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and Lahore again Tuesday, arresting dozens more as they enforced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s crackdown on judicial activism.

For future reference: CHDK is a firmware enhancement that operates on a number of Canon Cameras.

Look out world, Tony and Jay are working together: Introducing Jay

Whoa, swanky: Zero Image, a handmade teak pinhole camera (sample shots on Flickr)

Headline of the day: Everex $200 Linux gPC Hits Wal-Mart, Bowls Rednecks Over

My other favorite part:

The funniest thing is that Everex deliberately built a large box, even though there’s not much under the hood. This is a pure psychological play to woo the pickup truck set, who believe a Chevy S10 is a sure sign of sexual inadequacy. The system will pack a 1.5GHz low-wattage VIA C7-D processor (pitched as a “green” machine).

In other words it’s a Mini-ITX in wolf’s clothing.

Neato! Rising Pinhole ‘Lens’ Obscura Adapters (turn your $$$ SLR into a pinhole camera)

Ev’s path west was spooky similar to my own:

I moved to California…I actually didn’t land in Silicon Valley proper, but on the Northern tip of the Bay Area, in a small town called Sebastopol…the headquarters of O’Reilly. I got a job at O’Reilly…as a way to get me to California. I was 25. I could “code” HTML…I got a salary of $48,500 from O’Reilly…I was lucky O’Reilly took a chance on me…But I soon grew frustrated working for others and quit after just seven months.

Funny tidbit: 8 years later and I was only making $1500 more!

Stephanie’s Vespa Witch Halloween Costume gets mad kudos from Girlbike: and the prize for Best Halloween Costume Incorporating a Scooter goes to…