Neat blog: Food in Jars (all about canning)

Was thinking a pedometer-triggered time-lapse would be a pretty cool project, and just stumbled upon this Every Step art project

Nice: Mythical Creatures Venn Diagram

FM Engineering lunch, annotated.

To read later: Demystifying the Piaggio MP3

This is neat: a wood-fired pizza oven in Brooklyn

Ha! Look who just got here! Capucha and Capucine! (the world is small)

I. Love. It. Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Next project: Timbuk2 Camera Bag Hack Kit How-To

A possible alternative to Shutterfly? Mpix (where do you get your photos printed?)

I think the back cover pretty much sums it up: Rework: Unveiling the cover

I love the backgrounds: The Little Zoo

Love it: urban homesteading

Great article: An Unexpected Ally’s Road to Championing Same-Sex Marriage, and yet I don’t agree with Olson’s central premise:

…marriage [is] an essential component of happiness…

URL of the day: insanewiches.com

I tend to prefer my laptop sticker-free, but these are pretty cool: free “Powered by Ubuntu” and “Ubuntu key” stickers

Also, there’s the Mixed Ubuntu Sticker Sheet

To watch later: Student Reporter Damon Weaver Interviews President Barack Obama

I love it when memes come together: Crasher Squirrel is the new Dramatic Chipmunk

On my list of things to pre-buy for future children: Food Face Kid’s Dinner Plate

Dinner at El Bulli: The Comic Book in 30 courses!

This is worth reading: The Theora Cookbook (Theora is a royalty-free, open standard, lossy video compression technology)

Bringing back Keats: Bright Star

This is amazing: The Longest Way (time-lapse travelogue)

Just updated my Copy as HTML Link extension for Firefox with a cool new feature: now you can right-click on any link and use Copy as HTML Link to copy the link text and destination together as an HTML link. It’s super handy for copying blog post titles along with their permalinks.

Hint: if it has a label, it isn’t local. Far Foods

Whoa, this is pretty sick: Laser + Sound test-0 (via Visda)

The concept of Google working on a new search engine is so foreign to me, given that what they do have is so far ahead of anything else out there, I don’t even know how to parse this:

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search.

Possible restaurant in the Mission worth checking out: The Corner

I’m not a big fan of the genre of “band photos” but this one of a band I don’t even know is really really good: Leather Feather

I appear to have a thing for paintings of avocados: Cut Avocado

To all my NC peeps: A friend of my brothers growing up is now Chef De Cuisine at Revolution in Durham, check it out for me

Maybe it’s just that I’m using WinXP in Parallels on a Mac, but you have got to be kidding me:

Additionally, if you don’t have administrator access, then you may not be able to install Flash Player successfully. Permissions can be tricky but, in general, you should be able to install and use Adobe Flash Player if your system administrator gives you full access.

I’m just trying to install Flash! On IE7! And I need to download 2 tools to edit the registry! Gah.

The Big Picture on Greenland:

After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty. Greenland passed a referendum last year requesting more powers from Copenhagen, and it was granted, taking effect on June 21st, 2009…Collected here are some recent photographs from all around Greenland.

(I really like #13, #18)

Ha. Neologism of the day: Flickr Gets A SearchLift

And I thought our cheese cave was impressive: Architectural Plans for Creamery

Impressed nearly everyone at work with the one thing I remember from Computer Science: Short-circuit evaluation

Useful resource: FFmpeg x264 encoding guide

Also, Mark Pilgrim’s A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 1: container formats and part 2: lossy video codecs

This sounds like fun: California Pentax K-7 Tour, in San Francisco Sunday, August 9th

Attendees will be able to try out the K-7 along with an assortment of PENTAX glass. Meet and greet with other photographers and enter to win a K-7. One camera body will be given away at each event.

Just for the record, Stephanie is not a hermaphrodite… I have a boy pipi!