May 2008 Neatlinks

Thu, May 1

Hyperlocal cuisine I’d never heard of: Spiedie (and I grew up in Poughkeepsie) (0 comments)

Fri, May 2

Neat: Newspaper blackout poems (0 comments)

Different: Do Hit Chair, complete with sledgehammer (0 comments)

Heh: As Seen On YouTube (0 comments)

Mon, May 5

It’s amazing to me that 4GB of SD memory costs only $15 (2 comments)

Tue, May 6

Just updated my GR DIGITAL II firmware (my camera has new features!) (0 comments)

Wed, May 7

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) (0 comments)

Thu, May 8

Sentence of the day: Gagging librarians is horrendous. (0 comments)

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! (0 comments)

Fri, May 9

Photo of the day: Friday Is Office Dog Day (0 comments)

xkcd instant classic: Making Hash Browns (0 comments)

Scandalous: Foie Gras & Poutine (in a good way) (0 comments)

Love me some Banksy: Tagger (kind of boggles the mind how much stuff is up on Flickr) (0 comments)

Sun, May 11

Just posted the latest White Noise Lounge “episode”: Golden Gate Bridge joints (0 comments)

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!

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I was Tastespotted! Justinsomnia Gets Creative With Mushroom Lasagna (0 comments)

Mon, May 12

Twittercentric world-view: the legacy blogosphere (0 comments)

Whoa, cool: Heavy Metal in Baghdad (0 comments)

Wed, May 14

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

Then: Another Frightening Show About the Economy

Then: Bad Bank

Then: Inside Job (3 comments)

So awkward I thought it was The Onion: Day With No News (but it’s “real”) (0 comments)

Open source success story: The 25 Year Old BSD Bug (0 comments)

Not what this sounds like: Bacon Painting Auctioned for Record $86 Million (0 comments)

Thu, May 15

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. (0 comments)

Go California!!! State Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry (0 comments)

Fri, May 16

Woo! Court approves evil gay agenda “Satan’s plan to make uptight straight people ‘really uncomfortable’ working out ‘fabulously,’ say Bay Area gays” (0 comments)

HAHA: Sumo Car Wash (0 comments)

Sun, May 18

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. (0 comments)

Mon, May 19

What gives? immersive appears in Google’s web index 6 million times, but it doesn’t exist in the dictionary? (1 comment)

Wed, May 21

File this under bad omens: Photographing a Wedding and then an Earthquake (0 comments)

Peak Oil? American Airlines to charge for first checked bag (0 comments)

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.” (0 comments)

Pseudonym of the day: A. Incognito Johnson (0 comments)

Thu, May 22

OMG, so awesome, I want!!! The Smart Car Monster Truck! (0 comments)

No way! Vespa Spinners (1 comment)

Sat, May 24

What my dad works on: Roadrunner—computing in the fast lane (0 comments)

Sun, May 25

To do: WordPress turns 5 in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 27th at 111 Minna, starting at 9pm (1 comment)

Mon, May 26

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. (1 comment)

Tue, May 27

[No] food for thought: Fasting may prevent jetlag (0 comments)

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.

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Crowdsourcing magazine publishing, for reals: Everywhere, the Travel Magazine (more here and here) (0 comments)

Wed, May 28

Whoa, weird, this video is going to blow your mind: Displacements (people are so creative) (0 comments)

Hehehe: Real dogs teased with toy dog (0 comments)

California counties can begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17 (in other news, the sky is not falling) (0 comments)

Thu, May 29

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) (1 comment)

Blog name of the day: The Bay Bridged (San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music) (0 comments)

The future is going to be AWESOME! What does the inside of a TSA x-ray conveyor look like? Ask a Flip. (0 comments)

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.

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Yo, come work with me: FM is hiring! (the tech team is also looking for a crack project manager) (3 comments)