I don’t know what I like more, the title or the video: Only in Saudi Arabia

My next camera?

The [Canon] 4D will be 19% lighter and approximately 30% smaller than the current 5D. Although the eventual cost will be $2,995, there will be a generous $1,000 rebate for at least the first month after introduction.

Update: There has to be a special circle of hell reserved for people who fall for April Fool’s jokes A MONTH AFTER April Fools.

Tonight Stephanie discovered a “hugs-friendly” sleeping bag (looks pretty cool)

That must pay well:

There are rumors wafting about the ‘net that [Mark Hamburg, second engineer at Adobe hired to work on Photoshop,] will not be working on imaging at Microsoft, but that he’ll be part of a crack team being assembled to look at the MS OS from the ground up in the wake of the, er, mixed reception given to Vista.

More on the fate of the Cougar Ace cars: A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars

This is neat, a map of the US created by roads alone: all streets

Dulling the double-edged sword:

It seems that perfectly innocent young girls keep growing up to be women who like sex, an ongoing commercial and social problem…Young girls look up to “Hannah Montana” as a role model, and parents do not want them thinking that they might grow up to be women who like sex.

Clay Shirky takes some of the thoughts I had in Television Abstinence to a whole new level:

Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat. And it’s only now, as we’re waking up from that collective bender, that we’re starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We’re seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging than just having a TV in everybody’s basement.

I expect this may influence a lot of people.

I must have one! Uno (a motorunicycle)

I don’t quite fully understand the whole gourmet vinyl toy subculture, but this Turtlecamper is hot!

So weird and so cool: Mister Lonely

Nice nature photo on moodaholic: The Beginning

More worksongs awesomeness: The Adams station discharge tunnel (with lots of cool map links)

Ha xkcd! Not content with normal restraining orders

What a unique punishment:

The next morning, his ashes were scattered at sea over the Mediterranean, in international waters. This was to ensure that there could be no future memorial and that no nation would serve as his final resting place.

This was my last night, hanging out with Jean and Dan from NOTCOT: Apple Pie with Cheese

Cool, my sister took a glass bead course

Another great worksongs photo: Inside the Edward Dean Adams discharge tunnel underneath the city of Niagara Falls, New York.

This looks interesting: Glass, a Portrait of Philip In 12 Parts

BigDog meets AIBO on xkcd: New Pet

Photo of the day: Tim’s magnolia blossom bud (last shot on the page)

I loved Jason Kottke’s intro to this article (the article was pretty rockin’ too):

The story of a salvage team racing to save the Cougar Ace, a 55,000 ton cargo ship packed with Mazda cars valued at $103 million that nearly flipped when the ballast tanks on either side of the ship got out of balance. If the team succeeds, they get ~10% of the cargo’s value and if not, they don’t get paid…either way, someone might die.

I could see myself being against foie gras, even though I quite like it, but Michael Ruhlman’s recent post gave me pause (especially after having read The Omnivore’s Dilemma):

I never thought [the anti-foie gras activists] had any leg to stand on if they argued only that the practice of gavage were inhumane but were happy to buy boneless skinless chicken breast and beef tenderloin from America’s meat factories.

You have got to be kidding me! A biker was threatened with a fine for parking her motorcycle in a motorcycle bay - because it has three wheels.

Hmm:

Diazepam (aka Valium) is a core medicine in the World Health Organization’s “Essential Drugs List”, which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.

I love this:

The newly reprinted version of this design has had two amendments. The previous version included one character which has been determined to not be a robot at all. The previous version also included a robot dog that virtually nobody recognized.

For future reference: Rapid Development Toolset for Wordpress Theming (something I’d like to try my hand at)

I relate to this:

But I refuse to become a full-time blogger. I think that’s a cop-out. If I look at the people I respect most in the industry, the people I view as role models…they all have one thing in common. They’re not just excellent writers and communicators. They build stuff, too.

I’m feeling linky today: 66 “Choose Your Own Adventure” Book Covers

Photo caption of the day: Another section of my favourite sewer

Coconut milk, where have you been all my life? Made Curried Carrot Soup last night with the Nantes carrots that have been showing up in my veggie box lately.

Oh, and check out this neat picture: Carrots of many colors.

I doubt I will ever remember this, let alone need to use it: Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring

Wikipedia article of the day: Global city

I would almost drive to LA for this: Grilled Cheese Invitational

Word of the day: foodberg (and cool hack)

Superbrilliant: Super Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid-filled bottles

Ha! Haha. This is actually a really important case:

When [J. K. Rowling's] lawyer, Dale Cendali, spoke Lord Voldemort’s name — known to everyone who has ever read a Potter book as “he who must not be named” — she quickly said, “Forgive me for speaking the name.”

Terrie on Golden Eagle Falconry in Kazakhstan and Mongolia

A fun watch: Urban Honey

Phrase of the day: mass transplant (not sure I understood the math on this one—I could use an infographic)

WOW!

“Gavin Newsom runs San Francisco the way the premier of China runs his country - secrecy, lies, misinformation, lack of transparency and manipulating the populace,” Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin said. “He misled supporters and opponents of the run. People brought their families and their children, and (mayoral officials) hatched a cynical plan to please the Bush State Department and the Chinese government because of the incredible influence of money.

Go Peskin.

Whoa whoa whoa: Incredible! (via Kottke)

You stay classy John: “It’s harder and harder trying to do the Lord’s work in the city of Satan”

Purty funny: Video of dog who won’t go through screenless screen door

Mark Shuttleworth for president!

Windows is a very important platform, and our justifiable pride in Linux and the GNU stack shouldn’t blind us to the importance of delivering software that is widely useful. I believe in bringing free software to people in a way that is exciting and empowering to them, and one of the key ways to do that is to show them amazing free software running on their familiar platform, whether that’s Windows or the MacOS.

This looks too good (or bad) for words: Tropic Thunder

A, duh. According to a poll of 109 historians, George W. Bush is the Worst. President. Ever.

How many protesters does it take to stop a torch? International Torch Relay May Be Scrapped (I actually half thought to myself that I might work from home tomorrow and take part in the skirmish…)

Hehe: Ask Me About My Flux Capacitor

Best publicity ever: Pro-Tibet protesters climb Golden Gate Bridge cables

Weekend silly: Windows Vista Source Code Leaked!

Evocative:

Amazing panoramic photo taken from Racetrack Playa: A Dark Sky Over Death Valley

US GOVT CENSORSHIP: U.S. Funded Health Search Engine [POPLINE] Blocks ‘Abortion’

“We recently made all abortion terms stop words,” [Debbie] Dickson wrote in a note to Gloria Won, the UCSF medical center librarian making the inquiry. “As a federally funded project, we decided this was best for now.”

Taking a fucking stand Johns Hopkins! Sheesh. Disgusting.

Feature in the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” release I can’t wait for: World Clock Applet

I, for one, welcome our new Minibike-riding Monkey overlords

For real? Some homes worth less than their copper pipes (I feel total insulated from the housing meltdown, living in San Francisco)

Wow: New design for UK coins revealed (guess that means no Euro for the foreseeable future?)

OMG this is so awesome! Defendius door chain

Wow, I didn’t realize Sprint was in such a tailspin:

The most likely scenario for Sprint going forward is a long twilight where the company’s inferior network, ambiguous brand message, and quality of service results in a continuing [if slowing] attrition of subscribers, revenues, and margins