Yo, come work with me: FM is hiring! (the tech team is also looking for a crack project manager)

MediaDefender DoSes Revision3 (you stay classy, Hollywood):

Who pays MediaDefender to disrupt peer to peer networks? I don’t know who’s ponying up today, but in the past their clients have included Sony, Universal Music, and the central industry groups for both music and movies – the RIAA and MPAA. According to an article by Ars Technica, the company uses “its array of 2,000 servers and a 9GBps dedicated connection to propagate fake files and launch denial of service attacks against distributors.” Another Ars Technica story claims that MediaDefender used a similar denial of service attack to bring down a group critical of its actions.

The future is going to be AWESOME! What does the inside of a TSA x-ray conveyor look like? Ask a Flip.

Blog name of the day: The Bay Bridged (San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music)

Such an amazing lyric: “your parents fly on separate planes to make sure you don’t end up an orphan” from the song Separate Planes by Volunteer Pioneer (more here)

California counties can begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17 (in other news, the sky is not falling)

Hehehe: Real dogs teased with toy dog

Whoa, weird, this video is going to blow your mind: Displacements (people are so creative)

Crowdsourcing magazine publishing, for reals: Everywhere, the Travel Magazine (more here and here)

Fun list:

When Mr. Obama dropped food on his tie while eating in the car between stops, Mr. Love was ready with a Tide pen. He always carries one, along with ballpoint pens, and has turned himself into a walking dispensary of Sharpies, stationery, protein bars, throat lozenges, water, tea, Advil, Tylenol, Purell and emergency Nicorette, not to mention his ever-present iPhone, BlackBerry and Canon Rebel XT digital camera.

[No] food for thought: Fasting may prevent jetlag

Stephanie, I mean MC Soleil, just posted the latest White Noise Lounge episode: Food Court. And for the iPod-inclined, White Noise Lounge is now available in iTunes.

To do: WordPress turns 5 in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 27th at 111 Minna, starting at 9pm

What my dad works on: Roadrunner—computing in the fast lane

No way! Vespa Spinners

OMG, so awesome, I want!!! The Smart Car Monster Truck!

Pseudonym of the day: A. Incognito Johnson

You stay classy, Alaska: Alaska to sue to block polar bear listing “as a threatened species, arguing the designation will slow development in the state.”

Peak Oil? American Airlines to charge for first checked bag

File this under bad omens: Photographing a Wedding and then an Earthquake

What gives? immersive appears in Google’s web index 6 million times, but it doesn’t exist in the dictionary?

Just posted the latest White Noise Lounge episode: my Vespa LX150 idling. New feature: all the photos now display an enlarged version when clicked, hopefully with a nice javascript fade-in effect.

HAHA: Sumo Car Wash

Woo! Court approves evil gay agenda “Satan’s plan to make uptight straight people ‘really uncomfortable’ working out ‘fabulously,’ say Bay Area gays”

Go California!!! State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry

Rolling, rolling, rolling: CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc. for $1.8 billion in cash. The price of $11.50 per share represents a massive premium of 45 percent over CNet’s closing stock price on Wednesday.

Not what this sounds like: Bacon Painting Auctioned for Record $86 Million

Open source success story: The 25 Year Old BSD Bug

So awkward I thought it was The Onion: Day With No News (but it’s “real”)

This American Life on the Global Pool of Money (must listen)

Then: Another Frightening Show About the Economy

Then: Bad Bank

Then: Inside Job

Whoa, cool: Heavy Metal in Baghdad

Twittercentric world-view: the legacy blogosphere

I was Tastespotted! Justinsomnia Gets Creative With Mushroom Lasagna

Leona is coming back into the fold:

I don’t know if you saw my Twitter post the other day about the job I’ve accepted at Federated Media Publishing, but I am very excited to have that taken care of. I’ll post more details about the position later, but suffice it to say that Marcia, Justin and Stephanie are now my co-workers. It’s like the professional version of the Glitter Ponies!

Just posted the latest White Noise Lounge “episode”: Golden Gate Bridge joints

Love me some Banksy: Tagger (kind of boggles the mind how much stuff is up on Flickr)

Scandalous: Foie Gras & Poutine (in a good way)

xkcd instant classic: Making Hash Browns

Photo of the day: Friday Is Office Dog Day

It occurs to me that I’ve been twittering all along: with neatlinks. That last one was totally @griffey, who I just discovered had twittered about White Noise Lounge!

Sentence of the day: Gagging librarians is horrendous.

This is so brilliant it blows my mind: Kent Rogowski’s Altered Puzzles (currently on exhibition at the Jen Bekman gallery in NYC—coincidentally I just read about Jen on Tony’s Small Business Hacks post)

Just updated my GR DIGITAL II firmware (my camera has new features!)

It’s amazing to me that 4GB of SD memory costs only $15

Heh: As Seen On YouTube

Different: Do Hit Chair, complete with sledgehammer

Neat: Newspaper blackout poems

Hyperlocal cuisine I’d never heard of: Spiedie (and I grew up in Poughkeepsie)