this has got to be the headline of the day: People torn to pieces, relatives scream - another week in the theme park of death

Elevation map of New Orleans (from the Washington Post)

Wikipedia article of the day: Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Video explaining the New Orleans flooding catastrophe: CNN.com Video (ha, note the use of Google Earth)

quote of the day: A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest (from the onion)

huh. a glockenspiel is just a xylophone with metal bars. i did not know that.

hmm, interesting math. Imagine your worst nightmare and quadruple that times 100

oh what I wouldn’t give

interesting: “Loan a lesbian” idea to promote tolerance

what a photo… A row of school buses sits in floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina east of New Orleans.

Neatlinks are FINALLY back. With no help from Dreamhost or Blogger. I had to set Blogger to publish via insecure FTP *and* change the directory locations to relative instead of absolute paths.

As you can see, I continued neatlinking over the past week (in the dark), and there is some good stuff in there! Feel free to check out the August 2005 archive and scroll down to Monday August 22 to see what I found interesting on the web last week.

sounds like indie/emo/pop music collided with a horror movie soundtrack: The Paper Chase

shivers: iron and wine - the sea and the rhythm

triple threat: Sneaking into Apple

wow, who writes this? HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS

work of art of the day: Penis Landscape

at first i was like “what the…?” Can you tickle the plastics a little more softly tonight

newsflash: IE hates tags

quote of the day: Every two minutes Elvis spends on his wheel gives me about thirty minutes talk time on my phone.

wow, quote of the day: Or, was it not all simply for the stubborn hubris of a man unable to admit when he has erred and the blinkered morality of a frightened nation unwilling to call him on it? (Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald)

LA Artist COOP: Paintblogging (NSFW)

awesome! Gay Merit Badges

I’m all about the bib: Justin prepares for a garlic feast

to listen to: Tilly and the Wall on NPR

bah! the excellent Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox ripped off and released for IE

wikipedia article of the day: Theremin (whoa! discovered while watching the moog documentary)

google search (that brought someone to my site) of the day: what does prose before hos mean?

ok yeah this is cool: Instant Labeling Tape

hell, yeah: XHTML Fist Shirt (funny on several levels)

thanks to Webb’s comment, I started a Livermush article

yey achewood! Dude, are you bangin’ a website?

cory really has a way with words sometimes: Pledge to poison a registration database

god damn! The Pesto Manifesto

its seems that these days the only way to fight fundamentalism is by making fun of it

Argh, something is wrong with either Dreamhost or Blogger, because I’ve not been able to successfully publish my neatlinks since Sunday morning. (23-Aug-2005)

I think Dreamhost may have updated their systems in such a way that it’s locking out some SSH/SFTP connections. My Windows-based ssh client (SecureCRT) won’t connect, but my SFTP client (WinSCP) works like a charm. Commandline ssh clients seem to work but Blogger bombs with the following message: 005 Unable to connect to SFTP server: Auth fail.

Update (25-Aug-2005): After searching for the particular error message I was getting with I try to log on with SecureCRT (Unable to authenticate using any of the configured authentication methods), it appears that after Dreamhost updated Debian over on Monday, their OpenSSH settings got munged and PasswordAuthentication is no longer set to yes.

I’ve been back and forth with their customer service all week, and it was not until I pointed out that my problems coincided with their announced OS upgrade did they begin to take me seriously. This may warrant a longer followup post later depending on how/if/when things are resolved. As it stands, Blogger is still unable to SFTP to my Dreamhost account. And I’ve got a week’s backlog of neatlinks stuck in web application purgatory.

acronym and wikipedia article of the day: DWIM

i want! micro compact home

yowzers: Woman seriously burned in downtown S.F. explosion

OH MY GOD, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has a wikipedia entry! and i LOVE this painting: touched by his noodly appendage

supergeeky protest: alt+f4

this is so smart, tonight i wish i was an artist: bitfall (check out the videos below to fully appreciate)

ha! What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’

how did i miss this? Coq Roq

a better lost in translation? shopgirl

monthchunks gets props from Itsuki Shiina in Japanese!

tim on BAR Camp!

to look at after work: FlickrLicio.us

update: geez, i didn’t realize how skeezy that sounded, i really just meant NESFW

like the straight story, except with segway: 10 mph

hehe, the onion is nasty: I am confident that she can still stand up to heavy fire and serve ably, even in a rearguard action. (from corey)

i like the last one, kind of freaky: Recycling George Lois’s Classic Esquire Covers

anti-foo camp: BAR Camp

first time i’d heard of this: Mebibyte

wikipedia and typography, two of my favorite things: Quotation mark

more about Devotchka on NPR

i am reading Everything Is Illuminated now because of the trailer (the song at the end is devotchka - how it ends and holy crap what a good song it is)

oh this is too funny: The Head First Girl’s Double Life

facinating: For the first time in the 80-year history of The New Yorker magazine, a single advertiser will sponsor an entire issue.

awesome: the motivation to get tattooed is its use with technology to facilitate hook-ups

this is worth reading more about: Physics enlisted to help singles

the most frightening text message imaginable: The pilot has turned blue. Cousin farewell, we’re freezing.

update: the new york times is reporting that this was a hoax

Kräftskiva is swedish for crawdads! (i took that picture in new orleans)

all i have to say is “hahaha you close-minded, fundamentalist motherfuckers” In the days before the event, several of the [Justice Sunday] telecast’s participants and some of their allies acknowledged that their confidence in the [Supreme Court] nominee was tempered by reports that [Judge John Roberts] had contributed pro bono aid that helped a gay rights group win a landmark Supreme Court case.

so John Roberts has a heart. how un-Christian of him.

aww, i’ve been feeling so nostalgic for so much lately, it’s nice to see this shot of our house in austin

whoa whoa whoa, ligers actually exist?

acronym of the day: GRITS

newsflash: kansas not too hot on science

wikipedia article of the day: Santiago Calatrava

this struck me: Why do we treat email differently than a phone call? (but I came to different conclusions)

wow. all i can say is wow: ok go - a million ways

frightening: All I hear in higher education is, ‘Brand, brand, brand’

el Jefe: I rub elbows in a strictly metaphorical sense

animated gif of the day: love your job?

i just can’t get enough of bright eye’s album “i’m wide awake it’s morning.” listen to the song First Day Of My Life when you get a chance

how is it that i’ve never heard of this before? beercasting

Google It, You Moron.

weird and twisted: Catch a bunch of flies. Put them in a jar and put the jar in the freezer. In a few seconds the flies will be chilled out completely. This is called cryogenics, and it has its drawbacks. (thanks corey)

to check out: Road Trip Nation (thanks mark)

job title of the day: Lee Calhoun, an apple historian and retired orchardist in Pittsboro, N.C. (and more nc luv)

lovely weirdness: Thumbsucker

great shot of pilot mtn: Junebug (aww, nc nostalgia)

this looks so HOT: Pride and Prejudice

to read later: Listening to Books on the Run (via GreeneSpace)

where’s Justin? at the PDXPHP meeting (can you spot me? how about here?)

where’s Justin? rocking out at OSCON

design critique of the alphabet: I really love the lowercase g with its curved descender, although the typographic form is a baroque excess of unusual hooks and parts. Incredibly difficult to draw or remember what exactly goes where.

hehe: Obscenities Uttered by Jesus Christ

monthchunks gets props en español

a boingboing first? Opps. Already blogged this last July.

ha! elevator hacks: by pressing the “Door Close” and “Floor” buttons at the same time…avoids stops at any other floor

whoa, news: Mozilla Foundation that organizes development of the Firefox Web browser has formed a corporate subsidiary (more from Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler)

only at a conference of open source geeks would Tribbles come up twice spontaneously

for the six feet under fans: San Francisco and Los Angeles turned down the ad because they thought it would reduce ridership, but New York (and Chicago) approved it.

yikes! [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is a cancer on the Web that must be stopped.

brian’s spot on: During One Button [DOB] and After One Button [AOB]

no they di’int: Apple - Mighty Mouse (can we say “two buttons”)

sweet: Stipple Portrait Drawings and Pen and Ink Illustration by Wall Street Journal portrait artist Noli Novak

is this a joke? pre-menstral tampons called: almost

frequently mentioned in my sonoma county appellations class: Two Buck Chuck

the other Oscon