paying attention: casey saw his exhibition, kristina has him on her wishlist: Andy Goldsworthy

hmm, interesting proposition: 200,000 hits/month generates $5000/month of google ad revenue

to listen to later: IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott - Six Apart

i’ve updated my family’s melt-in-your-mouth cookies recipe with a picture (and a cooking for engineers version of the recipe)

anton is getting together a Triangle Bloggers Conference

i feel dirty even linking to this: Gingerbread Kama Sutra (nsfw)

cuteness! One point twenty-one gigawatts

i want one: Flybar (or at least i want to try one)

new word? exegesis (meaning explanation or critical interpretation of a text)

a gingerbread motherboard! how cool!

omg, this is the coolest mug EVER! Dunk Mug

anton in the news: What Vanuatu taught us about surviving

stumbled upon: picture of sept 11 attacks on nyc from princeton, nj

i’m in the new york times! (my name is 4 lines down from the bottom of the word “Firefox,” between the “i” and the “r”)

someone with a penchant for building churches with legos

phrase of the day: nomenclature of ramenculture

quite possibly the coolest thing EVER! LEGO Logic Gates

has anyone heard of this? Meekmok.com — Printing the Web, One Page at a Time

this just blows my mind: pierce-nez eyeglasses

seeking: a common sense explanation of what openurl means for me

oh microsoft, what torments thee?

holy cow: this is the javascript mojo that makes the new google suggest work (and this is a dissection of google suggest

supanerdy: computer error tshirts

good idea: Paintingblog (link fixed)

great trailer: spanglish (possibly a good adam sandler movie?)

i wonder if this is going to hit the radio: Hanukkah Hey Yeah! (mp3)

scary quote of the day: We have to prevent liberal libarians [sic] and trendy teachers from “re-engineering society’s fabric in the minds of our children”

not “not alaska”

you might need to uncomment skip-networking in my.cnf in order to connect to a mysql database outside of localhost

not a good thing: Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters

strange bedfellows: nmap and porn

hehe: A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking’s Greatest Hits contains 16 dope, booty-shaking, digitally-remastered tracks from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics

new weird thing: Grapple

new tech word: dirify (meaning: to make usable as a URL, by converting spaces to underscores, etc.)

these are cute: Shhh

ah, the youth in ukraine

tuba city gets the picture of the day, posing with his man grandmaster flash

beautiful: Skeletal Systems of cartoon characters

jealous of anton’s new design over at mistersugar

weird php syntax: Functions within functions

dude, todd has like a hip hop blog: Right and Exact

oh my god, disgusting: Fox Will Become Main News Source For Clear Channel (radio has to change)

carl’s already posted some excellent photos from our birthday pig pickin’ (they’re in reverse order, so scroll to the bottom and go through them backwards)

as seen on… amazon: Philips HeartStart Home Automated External Defibrillator

weirdest “under construction” image EVAR!

new word: chromatism (meaning: 1: hallucinatory perception of colored lights 2: abnormal pigmentation)

a little geekcultural nugget i stumbled upon: zeldman

these are not your parents’ venn diagrams

british slang: slag (meaning: slut…)

love the name: Cereality

new thing: Chrismukkah

useful firefox extension: undoclosetab

video: Firefox and Xeni on ABC World News Tonight

congratulations, blog: you are the word of the year

factoid of the day: Honey is made from sucrose-rich flower nectar that is collected by honeybees and then regurgitated back and forth among them until it is partially digested. After the final regurgitation, the bees fan the substance with their wings until it is cool and thick. This mixture, which we call honey, is essentially bee vomit.