July 2008 Neatlinks

Was out of town this weekend, but finally posted City street to White Noise Lounge (0 comments)

Lame: Boing Boing disappears posts in their archives about Violet Blue after they got in an as-yet-undisclosed squabble.

We unpublished our own work. There’s a big difference between that and censorship.

Umm, sorry guys. Self-censorship is still censorship.

Tag: boingboinggate (0 comments)

Man, help me understand this one: Garden Party (the post-privacy world) (0 comments)

Joel Johnson shuts down comments on the Violet Blue snafu (aka boingboinggate) after readers revolt (the post has garnered over 1100 comments):

I can promise this won’t be the last we have to say on the matter, but as I said above, we’ve got to get everyone together and think this through and we’re just not built that way by default. Half of the editors are on vacation with their families, but they’re still checking in as they can.

(0 comments)

Can’t wait to get this up on WNL: WordPress Audio Player v2.0 (beta) (0 comments)

Only in Sausalito: astroturf car (1 comment)

Apparently it was true after all: Thomas Beatie reportedly had a baby girl Sunday at an Oregon hospital (0 comments)

What is up with this obsession with taxes? I mean you’ve got to pay for the war in Iraq somehow. Republicans claim Obama “voted 94 times for higher taxes.” But their count is inflated and misleading. (1 comment)

Wikipedia is fun! Extreme points of the United States (0 comments)

This has got to be the whitest, most consistent white noise we’ve recorded to date: Glacial melt (in Mt. Rainier National Park) (0 comments)

I had no idea railroads had snowplows (I also had no idea oobject is an FM site) (3 comments)

Very cool: DLSR Time Lapse (thanks Corey!) (0 comments)

I could watch this for hours: Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum (3d pixels) (0 comments)

We learned “officially” today that FM will be relocating to the Hills Bros. Coffee building (as previously reported) on August 18! (2 comments)

It’s a sad day for the Bill of Rights: Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers.

But I wonder if any of this really matters—if I was a terrorist, I’d be using encrypted communication over the internet. I wonder what I would need to do to get “Al Qaeda on [my] speed dial”? (1 comment)

Hahahaha: Iran: You Suck At Photoshop updated (0 comments)

The ACLU fucking RULES! President Bush, in the Rose Garden, with the Constitution and Some White-Out

President Bush signed into law the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, at 1:15 p.m. this afternoon in the Rose Garden.

Immediately after he signed, the ACLU sued.

I just donated $100 to that effort. (0 comments)

Has this been done before? Video someone was taking while getting struck by lightning (that kind of hard to say) (0 comments)

xkcd I once could relate to: Good Morning (1 comment)

This is the craziest thing I have ever read:

Sherif Kurtaj, 62, whose sons killed a neighbor, has been trapped in his home because of a [Albanian] code that allows vengeance to be taken on a killer’s male relatives.

(0 comments)

Great demonstration of forest fire air quality: We Drift While California Burns (of course it’s not been that bad in SF, but it’s not that great either) (0 comments)

This is pretty insane: Cornstarch, water and bass video proves conclusive awesomeness of physics (0 comments)

Would make a great band/blog name: mannequin boob job (0 comments)

No, for real: Barbecue Presbyterian Church (0 comments)

Watch as the American braintrust focuses on a single subject: Our Electric Future By Andy Grove (0 comments)

That’s a new one: The Trendyloin (0 comments)

Whoa, WordPress 2.6 is out. That’s a pleasant surprise. Looks like there’s actually some interesting new features. Probably look into this more closely tomorrow. (0 comments)

In case your alarm clock uses ringtones: Sizzling bacon (just posted to White Noise Lounge) (0 comments)

This is cool: iPod IDE hard drive to CompactFlash conversion (if I had a Gen 4 iPod) (0 comments)

Nice title: Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren’t Allowed to See on Google Maps (1 comment)

Old news, neat video: Stealth Bomber Crashes (not sure I’ve ever seen a B2 bomber in flight before) (0 comments)

The most beautiful suicide. Indeed. (4 comments)

Ok, this is better than I thought it would be: Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner (the comic alone earned my $8.34)

Now I just really want to see 300 again!
(0 comments)

This is a little freaky: Barbie Doll Parts Made Into Jewelry (via Stephanie) (0 comments)

This looks like a surprising amount of fun: the mowercycle (1 comment)

This is supergreat: Voters to decide: Bush memorial sewage plant? (0 comments)

Sad stat: California Uses More Gas than China (I wonder how Nor and SoCal break out…) (1 comment)

This is too good: Lego Stephen Hawking (0 comments)

Ah, San Francisco… Crowdsourced haircut (nice!) (0 comments)

Oh shit! To read later: How to Travel by Cargo Ship (0 comments)

Hehehe: Baby’s First Internet (0 comments)

Hear hear!

We suspected that Hans Reiser killed his wife. What did we give him? A trial. We suspected that Timothy McVeigh blew up a building and killed 168 people. What did we give him? A trial. (BTW, this is why people get so upset over our mishandling of terror suspects. What could possibly be more un-American than saying that some people don’t deserve a fair trial?)

(0 comments)

How to keep cats out of your garden:

My favourite method is the Silent Roar pellets that have been soaked in lion dung. They are supposed to scare cats away since they assume their fearsome relatives have already claimed the territory.

(0 comments)

This is just starting to make sense to me and it is blowing my mind:

The App Engine datastore is not like a traditional relational database. Data objects, or “entities,” have a kind and a set of properties. Queries can retrieve entities of a given kind filtered and sorted by the values of the properties. Property values can be of any of the supported property value types.

(1 comment)

Like something out of my nightmares: Morning Glory Spillway (0 comments)

Just before her unicorn ride, Stephanie got licked by a butterfly (0 comments)

It’s like Dance Dance Revolution meets karaoke: Daft Bodies – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (I can’t believe all the different versions out there!) (0 comments)

We seem to have shifted to a Monday night publishing schedule over at White Noise Lounge. I just posted Gurgling mountain stream from our trip into Desolation Wilderness, and last week Stephanie posted Hair dryer. (0 comments)

How might you ask your SO to marry you? Why,
over a root beer float of course! (that’s my brother) (0 comments)

Man this is so good: Underground Bands (1 comment)

Wikipedia article of the day: Minced oath (1 comment)

For future reference: Python Syntax file for EditPlus (0 comments)

Hardy har har!

Al Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity’s hubristic folly.

(0 comments)

Quite possibly the best thing I have read in a long time: Uncle Bobby’s Wedding (librarians rule!) (1 comment)

Nice:

Following all day in the kitchen much conversation during the meal, much wine, followed by much Cognac, the women long asleep by then, the kitchen clean, Pardus noticed a sourdough starter frothing over it’s cup onto the counter.

Pardus stared at it, then looked at me, dead serious, and said, “Doughnuts for tomorrow morning.” And so, at 2 am, I found myself mixing dough. Which is what happens when a serious cook comes to visit.

(0 comments)

Sad and eerie: Sarajevo Rose (been sort of sucked into the history of the Bosnia War as of late…) (0 comments)