What is that sucking sound I hear?

Comcast Corp said on Thursday it will cap customers’ Internet usage starting October 1, setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers

(So is that uploads, downloads, both? But really the more important question is—what do I use now?)

Boing Boing makes me laugh: Shooting Nazis and looking at snapshots: two great tastes that taste great together.

Sign of the times:

Miliband noted that Russia’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by $16 billion and risk premiums for investing in Russia have soared since the crisis began. By contrast, when the Soviet Union attacked Czechoslovakia in 1968, “no one asked what impact its actions had on the Russian stock market. There was no Russian stock market.”

To read later: Not so middle management

The “other” thing I am doing this weekend: CrowdFIYAH!

I’ll have to go check this out: Abraham Obama (at Larkin between Geary and O’Farrell)

Very cool project: Dear Lulu

I can relate:

There are few forces more powerful than geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment

Wow, the ultimate insult: Mozilla “patches” Internet Explorer with a plugin adding Canvas support

Best quote about education I’ve ever read on the geekiest blog I actually subscribe to:

students should learn to love their own possibilities before they learn to loathe other people’s restrictions

Photo of the day: Land’s End (given the description, I was wondering whether I could find it on Google Maps. Easy.)

After a two week hiatus, White Noise Lounge is back with a doozy of a screecher: the A/C in our new office, gone wild!

If I were to buy a place in San Francisco, I’d definitely want it described like this:

All the period details intact, for the discerning buyer who doesn’t want to pay for the cheesy remodel done by someone else, this flat is ready for your good taste.

Now if I only had 140k in the bank…

Neat pics: Free range workers

You can do that?

Georgia offered them citizenship two years ago, hoping to promote beach volleyball among children there.

A week in the life of Stephanie: The great 08 of 08

Wow. I think Obama just won:

Speaking to reporters about the situation in Georgia, Sen. John McCain denounced the aggressive posture of Russia by claiming that:”in the 21st century nations don’t invade other nations.”

Who knew PHP’s libgd on Ubuntu doesn’t support imagerotate()? Annoying.

Using bundled libraries is security hell. It will never happen in Debian. And I very much doubt that it will happen in Ubuntu.

I thought PHP taking over the GD project was a good thing… This doesn’t make any sense!

This is funny: Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis [from Wikipedia]?

About the Olympics, but not in the way you might think: French are left out in the ‘froid’

New O’Reilly Book: TSA Hacks

If I had simply printed off a second boarding pass at home, I could have presented that instead of the marked one, and gone through the metal detector as usual.

Neat! DIY Railroading

Neat full body scanner art: Catlin Harrison: Self

Whoa: Al Gore Joins the Lineup At Web 2 Summit

Totally wacky Devendra Banhart music video featuring Natalie Portman (of all people): Carmensita

And when my life is through! Bury me in barbecue!!! (via Webb)

To do next weekend: DWR Fort Mason Warehouse Sale

Ouch.

Our government gives America’s public lands and waters to Big Oil. Big Oil extracts the oil and consumers are forced to buy it because they have no other choice of alternative technologies or fuels – it’s buy what Big Oil is selling or walk to work. Big Oil takes that money and invests that money not in cheaper, cleaner renewable energy, but in stock buybacks and dividends.

Note to self: Remove hard drive from laptop the next time I’m re-entering MY OWN FUCKING COUNTRY!

Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

Nice industrial photo with lovely colors: Extrusion

Sweet: Get Your War On: The animated series!