Quote of the day: It’s not a disorder if you channel it into something productive

He has a name! Helvetica Man

I’ve often wondered, what actually is activated about activated charcoal?

Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal or activated coal, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions.

Google is so “cute” sometimes: What Browser?

How to not get mugged: never leave your apartment (with apologies to Maciej, re: How To Not Get Your Blog Hacked)

Cool: Vespa four-seater

Cute: The Wedding? I’m Here for the Cookies

It seems like everyone these days is talking about the Panasonic GF1 with the 20mm f1.7 lens (I’d love to see it side-by-side with my K7+35mm macro, and I’d certainly love to take it walking around the city for a few days, without plunking down $1000)

Currently reading and liking It’s OK Not to Write Unit Tests (I wish I’d had this when I wrote What is “test-driven development for web applications”?)

The camera holster market is expanding: DIY, Bigg Lugg, Spider…

These are neat to flip through: Behind Photographs Project (though I wish there was some accompanying text)

Great step-by-step photos: Tackling a turducken

Man this looks good: My Type of Yule Log: Pork Roulade with Sausage, Pistachios and Chestnuts (and Cider Gravy)

Is Sous Vide the new microwave?

FM loses its first engineer: Andy’s Last Supper

Holy cow, Yokoo of Etsy fame on the front page of the NY Times: That Hobby Looks Like a Lot of Work

I have a small collection of Google Doodles, but this is pretty cool: Doodlewatch

To watch later: Swell Season on Boing Boing Video

Yes!

an API is not about programming, data structures, or algorithms—an API is a user interface, just as much as a GUI. The user at the using end of the API is a programmer—that is, a human being. Even though we tend to think of APIs as machine interfaces, they are not: they are human-machine interfaces.

Photoblog worth checking out: Gianni Galassi PhotoGraphia

My new fav time-lapse: Manhattan bridge wiggles

I have my money on Bruce: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt

To read later: A Typeface for the Underground

Of all the “gift guides” out there, this is one of the coolest: A Gift Guide for Canners

XKCD awesome: The Sun

I just used Firebug to change the background color of Flickr from #FEFEFE to #FFFFFF so I could take a screenshot of the multilingual WAR IS OVER posters to include in an old post with a perfectly white background.

Am I normal?

WE GOT THAT B ROLL!!

“I was just in some b-roll and I loved it!”

This is watchable: The Tetris God

I wonder if this will make it to the Ubuntu repo? Google Chrome for Linux goes beta!

Ok, this is just too cool: Star Wars Line Up (and I’m not even that big a Star Wars fan)

Must have! Gnome Chomsky

Möbius Bagel, I love this

They are their own caricatures: Portraits of Power: An interactive portfolio of portraits by Platon of world leaders, with commentary by the photographer.

This looks promising: Kitchen 4B: Smoked Ribs at Home

Accidental poetry: Threw my phone up against the window…

I love this rhyming couplet in the lyrics of Camera Obscura’s song The Sweetest Thing:

You challenged me to write a love song
Here it is, I think I got it wrong

This is insane: Neutra Face : An Ode On A Typeface

Thought about Futura but the em space was to wide
even when condensed, no, i’ll use another type
Gill sans the G is wack when it’s in lower case
Avante gard you make me hard but helvetica you’re played

I could have written this same thing, word for word: How I Hire Programmers

Rave New World, ha!