Just for the record, Stephanie is not a hermaphrodite… I have a boy pipi! (1 comment)
Sat, Aug 1
Sun, Aug 2
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.
Wed, Aug 5
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 (2 comments)
Impressed nearly everyone at work with the one thing I remember from Computer Science: Short-circuit evaluation (2 comments)
Fri, Aug 7
And I thought our cheese cave was impressive: Architectural Plans for Creamery (0 comments)
Ha. Neologism of the day: Flickr Gets A SearchLift (0 comments)
The Big Picture on Greenland:
(I really like #13, #18) (0 comments)
Maybe it’s just that I’m using WinXP in Parallels on a Mac, but you have got to be kidding me:
I’m just trying to install Flash! On IE7! And I need to download 2 tools to edit the registry! Gah. (0 comments)
Sat, Aug 8
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 (2 comments)
Sun, Aug 9
I appear to have a thing for paintings of avocados: Cut Avocado (0 comments)
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 (0 comments)
Mon, Aug 10
Possible restaurant in the Mission worth checking out: The Corner (0 comments)
Tue, Aug 11
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:
Wed, Aug 12
Whoa, this is pretty sick: Laser + Sound test-0 (via Visda) (0 comments)
Hint: if it has a label, it isn’t local. Far Foods (0 comments)
Thu, Aug 13
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. (6 comments)
This is amazing: The Longest Way (time-lapse travelogue) (1 comment)
Fri, Aug 14
Bringing back Keats: Bright Star (0 comments)
This is worth reading: The Theora Cookbook (Theora is a royalty-free, open standard, lossy video compression technology) (0 comments)
Dinner at El Bulli: The Comic Book in 30 courses! (0 comments)
Sat, Aug 15
On my list of things to pre-buy for future children: Food Face Kid’s Dinner Plate (0 comments)
I love it when memes come together: Crasher Squirrel is the new Dramatic Chipmunk (0 comments)
To watch later: Student Reporter Damon Weaver Interviews President Barack Obama (0 comments)
Mon, Aug 17
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 (0 comments)
Tue, Aug 18
URL of the day: insanewiches.com (0 comments)
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…
Wed, Aug 19
Love it: urban homesteading (0 comments)
Thu, Aug 20
I love the backgrounds: The Little Zoo (1 comment)
Fri, Aug 21
I think the back cover pretty much sums it up: Rework: Unveiling the cover (0 comments)
A possible alternative to Shutterfly? Mpix (where do you get your photos printed?) (1 comment)
Sun, Aug 23
Next project: Timbuk2 Camera Bag Hack Kit How-To (2 comments)
Mon, Aug 24
I. Love. It. Tech Support Cheat Sheet (3 comments)
Ha! Look who just got here! Capucha and Capucine! (the world is small) (0 comments)
Wed, Aug 26
This is neat: a wood-fired pizza oven in Brooklyn (0 comments)
To read later: Demystifying the Piaggio MP3 (0 comments)
Thu, Aug 27
FM Engineering lunch, annotated. (1 comment)
Fri, Aug 28
Sat, Aug 29
Was thinking a pedometer-triggered time-lapse would be a pretty cool project, and just stumbled upon this Every Step art project (0 comments)
Sun, Aug 30
Neat blog: Food in Jars (all about canning) (0 comments)
