Claudine’s photo of Danny and a large piece of meat in the NY Times

This is quite good: It’s Decorative Gourd Season

I really like these Recycled Glass Panels

How to Flatten a Directory Structure (this has been surprisingly useful on more than one occasion this week)

find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I%%% mv %%% .

This looks like a cool blog: The Selvedge Yard (very guy)

My multi-talented mom, who’s already working for an online quilting supply company, has recently started working on a reproduction cross-stitch “startup”: Julia’s Reproductions (my dad is the webmaster…)

In the New York Times, the year is two thousand and nine, the headline reads: Couple Feared Captured by Pirates

OMFG! Bay Bridge closed indefinitely after repair falls apart

HELLS YEAH: Open Internet (great video)

Clearly I need to up my time-lapse game: One Evening in San Francisco

Dairy news: Low Milk Prices Have Dairy Farmers Killing Cows

Has anyone heard of the The Gentleman Rhymer before? Let Me Smoke My Pipe

Story of our night in 5 tweets: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The NY Times features SF’s own Ryan Farr: Slaughterhouse Live (I experienced Ryan’s handiwork three months ago: Meat theater)

I wonder if I saw every episode of My So-Called Life?

I don’t drink coffee, but this Chemex sure looks cool (via bbum)

The new camera in Stephanie’s hands is a little scary: Crottin: first attempt (I mean scary good)

The title of this book made me chuckle: Rails for PHP Developers

I’ve often thought that I might gain some insight into French by working through a “Learning English” book intended for a French audience, so perhaps it would actually improve my PHP skills by reading “Rails for PHP Developers”…

Hmm, I’ve always wondered where French kids go on field trips…

Yesterday, Capucine and her school friends went to the bakery in order to learn how to make bread.

Update: Apparently Capucine was not alone:

Amaya’s school participated in France’s ‘semaine du gout’ a week long country wide event where kids get hands on with their food, flavors, tastes and textures, salty, sweet, sour, and spicy.

What a great idea.

Ha! Looks like the scanner caught one of Google’s pink-fingered elves at work.

This is so heartening: Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None

This is startling: Message from the Gyre (via The Online Photographer)

Muni + Fire hydrant = Comic Genius (via Andre)

Have I mentioned how much I like Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks? Especially paired with that fan made video.

This is new. Every time I selected any text on SFGate (which I tend to do out of habit as I’m reading), I noticed the browser sending data somewhere. I fired up Firebug and found out that every text selection was causing Firefox to fire off a POST to tynt.com with a bunch of data: the text I had selected, the page I was on, even xpaths to the location of my selection. What is tynt.com? Their tagline pretty much says it all:

Tynt Tracer: What’s being copied from your site?

Here’s the crazy part. If you copy the text and paste it somewhere, it actually adds “Read more” to the end of what you’ve copied with the URL of the page. Well isn’t that annoying. Someone should have told them about my Copy as HTML Link Firefox extension.

Neat pics of some well-appointed Airstreams: Modern Mobile Dwellings

Oh dude, nasty: Truck crash snarls Bay Bridge upper deck

The Safeway truck, whose driver had never negotiated the recently opened stretch of the span, was reported on its side at 2:33 p.m. The truck was carrying 40,000 pounds of goods, including soda, wine, water, bread, frozen pizza and paper products, much of which spilled onto the upper deck when the rig crashed, the CHP said.

Far be it from anyone to do something “long verboten in stop-motion circles“

Have you seen regretsy yet? You should. (oh, btw, most recent post is NSFW if vaginas are not safe for your work…)

To read later: Frankencamera: A Linux-Based, Open-Source Camera (via The Online Photographer)

To dig into deeper: japan exposures

Lots of great pics here: Autumn scenes

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize? For what?

Muphry’s law is my new favorite law (via Jonathan)

A surprisingly beautiful picture of fungi growing in petri dishes: Ascomycetes

Stephanie and I have turned up on another blog, Bryce’s Canyon of Cheese blog, about the recent Cheese School of San Francisco’s “Meet the Cheesemakers” event, which we squeezed in right before heading to Mono Lake…

Really enjoyable read: Why business loves Charlie Rose (it’s not really that much about business)

This looks neat: Yashica EZ F521, the digital Holga

What does raconteur mean?

Wow. Conde Nast folds Ruth Reichl’s Gourmet and FTC Sets Endorsement Rules for Blogs.

Stephanie has finally posted pics of her amazing, homemade Camembert (that we brought to France!)

Blog post by a family working at the National Park of American Samoa: Tsunami in American Samoa

Just read through the “technical overview” of the upcoming Ubuntu Karmic Koala release, and the one thing that caught my eye is that “Empathy has replaced Pidgin as the default instant messaging client”. Wow, I wonder what happened there.

Neat shoe company I’ve never heard of: CYDWOQ (via Boing Boing)

To read later: Things I Learned in France

Buck Hollywood is oddly compelling. I watched him for the first time tonight covering Kanye West Diss[ing] Taylor Swift At 2009 VMA’s! to catch up on the drama I missed while I was in France.

I have to admit Beyonce’s Single Ladies video is actually pretty avant garde. I can understand why Love Lockdown Kanye would have preferred it to Taylor Swift’s saccharine, predictable You Belong With Me.

Kanye was rude, but he was also right.

Cool idea: Wedding Favors – Herbs in Jars