Just ordered a limited-edition, three-year-aged, Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar, in celebration of Tillamook’s 100th anniversary

Two cool, unrelated videos: Sorry I’m Late and 1 + 1 = 3

Annoying is: “mainstream” media stealing your Creative Commons licensed content and using it without attribution, even when you have a clearly articulated Attribution Policy.

Exhibit A: CBC’s now defunct Search Engine podcast used a tshirt design of mine to illustrate this episode: Russia’s Citizen Propagandists. Image source: In Soviet Russia, blog hacks you!

Update: Sent an email several weeks ago, haven’t heard back.

Exhibit B: The Barnesville Herald-Gazette used a picture of some NC BBQ I took (and ate) to illustrate an article: How to make North Carolina BBQ. Image source: The obligatory plate of North Carolina barbecue

Update: Sent an email, got an apology and an update. Thanks!

So you want to learn about photography? The Leica as Teacher, Why It Has To Be a Leica, Variations on a Theme (probably the most interesting series of posts that unfolded in my little corner of the blogosphere this week)

You stay classy, California: Nearly all Bay Area state parks would close

I don’t do many step by step “how to cook X” posts, but I think the photos in my Meyer lemonade post came out quite nicely

Excited to see The Thermals at Bottom of the Hill tomorrow night, after an insanely full day of WordCamp! Also glad I got tickets a month ago, as both are sold out. Hard to believe it’s been 2 years since I saw them for the first time.

I’ve run across two posts in as many days about working with your hands: Soulcraft: The Real Reason We Love To Cook and Shop Class as Soulcraft both triggered by an excerpt in the New York Times from the forthcoming book by Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft (maybe I should read this book)

Side by side posts on Boing Boing kind of make you go “Hmm…” Netherlands runs out of criminals, has to shut prisons and Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children

Slow-mo car crash, literally

I’m embarrassed to say it, but I totally got sucked into Rocketboom’s Know Your Meme archive tonight

Got to check out the blogs linked to from this article: The latest travel trend? Becoming a nomad

off the grid and on the map: Tales of Steve and Jill is probably the best

This looks pretty awesome: Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes

If I only had a smoker, I too could make homemade bacon

Check this out: A Low Impact Woodland House

Really enjoyed skimming through Tiny Art Director just now

Gotta love this: Pentax K-7 size comparison

Given how much The Online Photographer talks about him, I should probably try to catch Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” at the SFMOMA

Don’t mess with Steph: French-off at the farmer’s market

Washington State University makes its own cheese in a can called Cougar Gold (watch it being made)

Not sure how I missed this article: 10 iconic California cheeses

I want to ride a Google Maps Trike

The International Museum of Women presents Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley as part of their “Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change” speaker series on May 27

The first full, non-teaser photos of the upcoming Pentax K-7

Love this: Oven radiator (we use ours for drying gloves)

For my turophiles: I Was a Murray’s Cheese Cave Intern! (also see: part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7)

Who new such a thing existed? Himalayan Salt Plates for serving, cooking, seasoning

Did you know there’s a neighborhood in NYC called DUMBO?

The second iteration of the New Firefox Icon for the upcoming 3.5 release looks pretty hot

Photo of the day: Atlantis Solar Transit (more here)

I have to say I respect John Battelle immensely. For knowing what he does well and for being completely honest about what he doesn’t. The Start of Something, Again

Homogenized whole milk in Canada is called homo milk. No joke. I am dead serious.

This is brilliant: thumbnail calendar (I wonder how regular nail growth is?)

Did you know that the shape of a stick of butter is dependent on which side of the Rocky Mountains you live on?

The dominant shape east of the Rocky Mountains is the Elgin, or Eastern-pack shape. The sticks are 4¾ inches long and 1¼ inches wide, and are usually sold in somewhat cubical boxes stacked two by two.

West of the Rocky Mountains, butter printers standardized on a different shape that is now referred to as the Western-pack shape. These butter sticks are 3¼ inches long and 1½ inches wide and are typically sold packed side-by-side in a rectangular container.

Hey Andy, what do I need to do to find out about this kind of awesome in advance: BBQ & Bourbon

Neologism of the day: BabyBuntu

Peter Atwood’s next knife/multi-tool is pretty cool: Fixer

To say this is “trippy” would be an understatement: Fluid Sculpture by Charlie Bucket

Amazing video for RJD2′s “Work It Out” featuring dance/performance art by Bill Shannon on crutches

This just cracks me up: Intel Rockstar (bummer, cause that’s not actually Ajay Bhatt)

Trailer for the blog that became a book that became a movie: Julie & Julia

It’s a shame that our country allowed such atrocities to occur, even in the face of a vocal and vehement opposition. No style of government is immune to the bad judgment of individual actors or popular opinion, but I am proud to be part of a country that investigates those wrongs and seeks to put them right.

A different sort of “Cable Car“

An Office in the woods (not sure how practical, but it sure is purty)

Blog post title of the day: When the Engineer Gardens

Check out this recursive google fun

Just used the UTF-8 Database Converter to upgrade my WordPress database’s character-set from latin1 to utf8. A number of people have reported data truncation problems (which may be due more to an issue with MySQL than the plugin itself) so YMMV. I made sure to test it on a backup copy of my database to ensure that that wasn’t a problem.