January 2008

Hells yeah! UK declares War on Terror over (it’s about time) #

MAFIAA redefines copy to mean steal:

Copying a song you bought is “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy'”

Man, must suck to be on the losing side of history… #

What a pair: Dennis Kucinich and Ani DiFranco in Boston (giving serious thought to donating to his campaign) #

This looks neat:

First Class Cooking offers hands-on cooking classes in a casual, supportive, and fun environment. All classes feature uncomplicated recipes and everything is made from scratch using top-quality, local, and seasonal ingredients.

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Hi-larious! wikiffiti #

Ben Brown unjumps off the Facebook bridge #

Sometimes it’s scary how much I learn every day: Greeble #

Pretty awesome: Human TETRIS (via Webb) #

Working from home today because we’re experiencing something akin to a hurricane here in California. 70MPH winds and all that. Blew Stephanie’s scooter over, snapping the bolt that attached the right mirror. #

Quite possibly THE BEST thing I have ever read on the internet. EVER. Period. The Mystery of the Face on the Cake, in 3 parts. Stephanie is in tears—of laughter, I think. (via Andre) #

Has anyone noticed Google Experimental Search before?

Join an experiment and you’ll see that feature whenever you do a Google search.

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Ugh: Seeing Is Believing: High Heels And The Body #

For future reference: the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market happens between 8am and 2pm Tuesdays and Saturdays. I’m going to try to get down there more often. #

Yeah, the whole cult of personality thing is my least fav part of politics: xkcd on fandom #

George McGovern in the Washington Post: Why I Believe Bush Must Go: Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. (methinks the Overton Window is shifting) #

Hawt shower: Pluviae (or should I say haute…) #

The future’s going to be great: Alienware’s Curved LCD Monitor Prototype #

Whoa, check out the Noise Pop schedule this year: three nights of the Mountain Goats (going Saturday—jump on that), Cursive (going), British Sea Power, Tilly and the Wall (thinking about it), Helio Sequence… #

Go Speed Racer (this looks in-sane) #

How crazy is it that not only is there a new Bay area restaurant called Ubuntu, but it’s also gaining accolades? The Best new Bay area restaurants #

This looks really sweet: ARTiGO (the craziest part: you can actually mount it in the 5.25″ drive bay of your desktop computer. yeah a friggin’ computer inside a computer!) #

From 2005, but I’m just finding out about the relationship between Les Sans Culottes and Nous Non Plus: How my faux French band wound up in federal court #

A hundred thousand hipsters suddenly feel the urge to become dairy farmers: DJ Stout has redesigned the magazine Dairy Today that is launching this month. (via Andre) #

Iiinteresting: All of the deliverable code in SQLite has been dedicated to the public domain by the authors. #

Wow: The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World’s Toughest Race #

Incredible Lego sculpture by Nathan Sawaya: Yellow (who, it turns out, I’ve linked to before, in no uncertain terms: omg this is the most awesomest thing ever) #

“The Far Side”-esque sculptures of everyday objects: Bent Objects (these are surprisingly better than you’d expect—I really like The Party) #

Fuh-ny: Backyard beekeeper finds the sweet spot #

News! The original SimCity source code has been released under the GNU General Public License and renamed Micropolis (this and Lemmings were my first two computer games) #

Hot-swappable Mini-ITX fileserver: Project Udat (unfortunately past my expertise at “All rivets were drilled out…”) #

A sad read: In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich (via Tony writing about instituting a no “random laptopping” after 10pm rule) #

OMG beautiful: has everyone already seen Sam Ruby’s archives, in all their SVG-y goodness? #

I can’t be the only one nowadays who reads stuff like Waterfalls as Art To Be Installed in East River and wonders: How much fossil fuel is going to be expended on this spectacle? #

Sun buys MySQL: Helping Dolphins Fly #

This is in-sane: a 288-band, 40-round-per-second rubber band gun #

Tom Cruise has no idea what he is talking about: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress (is there a transcript of this thing? because it makes no sense at all)

Update: Jerry O’Connell responds (via Joy) #

From new Tribune Company owner Sam Zell:

“Discrimination based on gender, age, race, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic not related to performance, ability or attitude, protected by federal or state law, or not protected (such as inability to tell a joke, the occasional poor wardrobe choice or bad hair day), is strictly prohibited…. Working at Tribune means accepting that sometimes you might hear a word that you, personally, might not use. You might experience an attitude that you don’t share.”

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I have seen the almighty Hand of Google #

Oh man, so funny, video of the day! You Suck at Photoshop, Episode 3 #

Matt Mullenweg says “FU” to Typepad:

…everyone’s free [WordPress.com] upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get half that much space (1GB) at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. We’re doing the same thing for free.

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Wow, kick-ass, Joel Johnson speaking truth to power: Joel Johnson puts AT&T on the spot over copyright spying plan (and wtf, AT&T has TV channels now? AT&T is the new Netscape) #

Yes, Federated Media (where I work) serves banner ads (good ones, I swear!), but we also work on more integrated “conversational marketing” campaigns like the one recently featured in Advertising Age: JC Penney Feels the Marketing Power of Link Love #

My next laptop, fo sho: Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Leaked (via Nate) #

Witty blog name of the day: Will Work For Witty Blog Title #

Joy’s already posted some stunning pictures from our Winter Hot Dog Picnic in Yosemite. I got home last night too exhausted to do anything (and I’m at work now). Hopefully will get something up tonight… #

I don’t get Apple. I mean, I understand Apple, but I don’t get Apple: Wow. So Apple is explicitly preventing DTrace from examining or recording data for processes (read: iTunes) which don’t permit tracing. (via Boing Boing) #

This is kind of neat: elevator camera obscura (I wasn’t the only one who noticed the image wasn’t upside down) #

Pete Spande, VP of FM’s east coast sales, on having a closet for an office and The joys of working for a small company #

Whoa! WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M (more here and here and here) #

Headline of the day: Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth #

Indeed: </war> #

First watch every episode of You Suck at Photoshop.

Then read all the questions and answers for the Ring of Infinite Sorrows auction. I laughed so hard snot was coming out my nose. #

Bummer, the checking account I opened with Schwab in August started with an APY of 4.25%—now it’s down to 3.21% (which is still a great rate for a checking account). And ATM fees are still free. #

Wikipedia article of the day: Boston Molasses Disaster

In 1919, a large molasses tank burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150.

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xkcd really is something special: first read Journal, then read Journal 2 #

This looks interesting: Son of Rambow #