Agh! Worst news of the day (that everyone already intuitively knows): Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year

Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It’s all part of falling passionately in love — and scientists now tell us the feeling won’t last more than a year.

I’ve been seeing links from WorldChanging popping up on boingboing again and again.

Acronym of the day: VPL (learned this one last night from Leona, the panty expert)

New hot startup thing: clear:left (company name using CSS syntax)

Reading Phil Ringnalda is perhaps the most geeky/enlightening moment of my day: Appendix C, why hast thou forsaken me? (I mean, how often do I sit down and read a blog post twice)

Random thought of the day (as I pop my ‘roids): would pharmacies exist in a libertarian utopia?

Oh no! Trixie tried to shave. No harm done, it’s already healed.

News: Mozilla releases Firefox 1.5

Must read this: Questionable Content (via Robin)

Song I would have loved to hear at a Hell Dance Party: The Lovemakers - Prepare for the Fight

I’m starting to feel very anti-technology of late. This actually frightens me: One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

The web is 15 years old and James Boyle asks, What would a web designed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation or the Disney Corporation have looked like?

Ha! Cock o’lada (I especially like the warnings at the bottom of where not to put your “cock o’lada”)

How cool is this?

Paper sculptures by Peter Callesen

More here.

Unlike Kottke, I liked Rize a lot, even more than Mad Hot Ballroom (which I admit was quite good).

Anyway, his post included a link to Madonna’s new video, Hung Up, in which she dances kind of strangely (how old is she again?) but some of the other folks rock out.

Sign of the times: X is 12 days old, but it’s well worth a read

Wikipedia article of the day: Machinima “a filmmaking technique that uses video-games as animation engines”

Loving the song Love’s Lost Guarantee by Rogue Wave

Dude, I am loving Clif’s Mojo Bars

Neat! Panama Canal Miraflores locks time-lapse, 1 week compressed into 11 minutes

New word: soupcon (what do you know, it’s French: soupçon)

This is one of the realities of “adulthood” that I deplore the most. That your ideas are not judged on their own merit, but based on who you are and what you’ve done. Republicans privately acknowledge that Murtha is a worrisome opponent because he can hardly be portrayed as a liberal of the Michael Moore stripe.

OMG OMG OMG!!1 watch this: The Proper Words Song An excerpt: “Our anus is a useful thing indeed, the anus gives relief in time of need, we all have an anus, so no matter what you’ve heard, remember that anus is the proper word.”

What is a photo? Drawings banned from Flickr

Beautiful: wtf as ligature

Geeking out on the Beasts blog: IE does not break lines between image and text

Neat: In 1995, the German government introduced a new typeface for German car registration plates with the goal to make it “virtually impossible” to manually change letterforms or numerals

To watch later: Geek Entertainment TV

Six words I would have never imagined seeing together: Crocheted Flying Spaghetti Monster dildo cozy

News of the day: With gender-based spellings in German, the chancellor’s Web site could no longer be bundeskanzler.de. Angela Merkel’s official title is “Bundeskanzlerin,” with the feminine ending “-in” - but bundeskanzlerin.de was already taken. Now it appears the owner of the feminine version is willing to cede it.

brain backup: If current rates of growth are maintained then within two decades, a consumer will be able to store all of the works produced by every member of the human species in a 100$ storage device, including realtime video capture of their entire lifetime.

Dude, how cool would it be to get a Trosley Car Portrait of my shiny Honda Civic?

Useful: PHP/CURL Examples (geeky)

Neat, spent some time playing with this tonight: Yahoo! Geocoding API (unfortunately much of the time spent banging my head on the wall due to a sloppy code edit on my part)

Hello McBloglines! Anybody home? Phil Ringnalda is not happy with the response to his XSS reports

Orwellian headline of the day: Database ‘will bring stability’

Interesting news: The life of a single convict scheduled to die by lethal injection has reignited a passionate debate among people of faith over accountability and punishment, forgiveness and redemption. The convict: Stanley “Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the Crips.

This quote from Fight Club comes back to me occasionally: I’m sorry… you met me at a very strange time in my life.

What is going on in CONGRESS? I expect MORE: Ford and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., then clashed loudly in a small scrum of lawmakers.

To read later: The Effects of Diseases, Drugs, and Chemicals on the Creativity and Productivity of Famous Sculptors, Classic Painters, Classic Music Composers, and Authors

Neat gadget: Laser Guided Pool Cue

One of the neat things about working on content for a company as opposed to just working on my blog is that our company has a graphic designer on staff, who, among other things, creates these neat illustrative graphic tiles for every article we publish. I particularly liked the one for an article we published today.

Funny: Yahoo News censors the “Dick” in Wonkette’s “Dick Cheney”

Photo of the day: Fortune cookie

Quote of the day: the two quickly find themselves trapped in a sinister situation that’s wide and as deep as the darkest, sickest recess of human nature itself

Dude, I wish I was closer to Monterery, these are cool: eric joyner’s robot paintings

Sweet: Digital Pinhole Lens

What’s the origin of this phrase? machines of loving grace

(Reminds me of another fav: I for one welcome our new ___ overlords.)

I was just wondering why movie prices are the same across the board, and Joel has a compelling answer: The answer is that pricing sends a signal. People have come to believe that “you get what you pay for.” If you lowered the price of a movie, people would immediately infer from the low price that it’s a crappy movie and they wouldn’t go see it. Wow. Yes!

I’ve spawned a “fan” club: More tips for JUSTIN

and, umm, an anti-fan club: I disagree with everything Justin says

hehe: I’d have it all paid off, but then they’d release a new 50-watt blue anodized tweeter, and…it was like I didn’t have any choice, man! That shit just clawed at my brain!

props for a link from Wayfaring

Yeah, maybe if I link to the articles we publish, I’ll read them: Ruby the Rival

Ha! Quote of the day, hot off the virtual press: And while their fear of Big Brother and his Patriot Act is understandable, I’m not yet ready to join the neo-luddites in their fight against IPv666 (Peter Morville)

Geekblogging over at Belly of the Beasts: Why don’t your feeds display in my browser?

Ah the synchronicity! I was searching for information regarding an ad I saw recently on the back of a bus for an organization called Help Oppose Pornography’s Exploitation (HOPE) and what do I find but an article written in December 2002 by Joy!

There seems to be a lot of this flying around lately: Till Derrida do us part (via Sally)

Wow, yeah, that’s cool: sex toy plug-in for iPods

Engrish of the day: Religion Free DVD Player

Talking about tattoo’s last night, for some reason the idea of this sounded really appealing.

Update: apparently that would mean I’m terribly simple and enjoy cliches :(

Clearly I need a new business card: i’m ceo … bitch (I can’t believe that came out of a Fortune Magazine article)

Joy on Capote (Oscar Buzz: Philip Seymour Hoffman to win best actor)

Wikipedia article of the day (for future reference): Map-territory relation (via Corey)

Cuteness on the intarweb: Sam Ruby’s daughter discovers Ruby on Rael (rubyonrael.com)

Kickass! It Does not matter if you have a vagina, penis, or other, ALL bathrooms should be accessible to ALL people

I’m thinking you might want to check out the Mates of State (a local SF band) after watching this incredible video

Best album title? CTRL-Alt-Del-U

Holy crap, my mind has been blown, The New Monogamy is the best article on relationships ever (or at least the best I’ve read in the longest time).

Bonus: it contains the best freaking phrase EVAR: body-fluid monogamy.

Wow.

Making trouble on the Beasts blog: Are equal height columns for real?

Customer self-service: Six Apart does their customers right

Google Maps mashup of the day: Wayfaring (so cool!)

new word: dap

top sekret new product plan: voil@g

hehe: The Joy of Tech parodies Make Magazine

Oh dear. Advice of the day: Do not give your heart to a prostitute.

If you have the chance, you should try Cricket Cola, made from real cane sugar, real kola nut, and green tea.

Quote of the day: Yo, man, I drive a garbage truck. How am I going to get the ladies to look at me?

News of the weird: British man ‘beats’ HIV

Neat: anti-gravity-machine (something I think my dad would like [to build])

What browser war? Google will pay up to $1 per referral the first time a user installs Firefox

Quote of the day! How much work can you get done during the day without a visit to the GYM?

So cool! Google maps mashup of the day: What time is it around the World

Song I like on Indie Pop Rocks: The Lucksmiths - Great Lengths (sadly no samples!)

Take this blowhard off the air: “And if al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.” Bill O’Reilly

Ah haha! Google Maps Risk

Sort of work-related thing to read later: Can we fix the software development process with innovative management?

Produced an article today on the Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity, and the Innovation Process held at UNC Chapel Hill

Derrick Story, one of the editors I work with at O’Reilly has a blog: The Digital Story (on digital photography, image editing, etc)

It makes me happy when ae’s happy: My Mood’s Just Getting Better and Better

Useful: ASCII to decimal entity encoder

New word that I thought I could claim to have coined: paragraphify alas.

I’m speechless, must listen: So Much Drama in the PhD

the best kind of movie review: go see it (re: the squid and the whale)

I can’t decide whether I hate or love Ken Stringfellow’s song, For your sake which I first heard on SomaFM.

“Mommy, what’s the difference between sharing and stealing?” Grokster Ltd., which lost a Supreme Court fight over file-sharing software popular for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down and pay $50 million to settle piracy complaints by Hollywood and the music industry.

quote of the day: nothing truly exciting has happened and I have had no stunning revelations that filled me with a creative juice to ejaculate onto the internet

A correctly spelled word: advantageous that looks misspelled to my eyes.

Such good news! The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which will codify Pastafarianism, is set to come out on Valentine’s Day.

Ad seen on Boingboing:

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Just when you thought the year was 2005: Pirates attack luxury liner off Somali coast

How did Israel become so EVIL? Israel using sonic booms of jets as “nonlethal weapon” in Gaza

It’s got to be tough being in the public eye when people make FLASH videos parodying you: Schwarzenegger Street

I can relate: My natural time zone is somewhere in the middle of the atlantic. Greenland, say.

Another news article, USELESS without a photo! Designer creates wall of breasts

Infographic of the day: CommonCensus’ urban spheres of influence (via Ruby)

Fun at work: Employees must wash hands…

Hmm, I might be busy: WordPress Bug Hunt on Saturday, Nov 5th

Jason says I should check out digg

Ironically I’m linking to this so I can remember it in the future: continuous partial attention

Ad that showed up in Gmail: Baked Spelt Macaroni with Cashew Cheddar Cheese

I keep losing this, which means I should have neatlinked it: Derek Powazek’s Embrace your bottom on rethinking webpage footers.

Crazy stuff in the news tonight: Abundant oestrogen is a good predictor of a woman’s ability to conceive, and a predilection for female faces that suggest fecundity could have evolved as a way for men to choose a more fertile mate. This seems to suggest that everyone is heterosexual–but I’m curious what this means if you’re attracted to the same sex?

What the hell is going on in France? There have been six straight nights of rioting in the low-income suburbs around Paris.

Oh my god, who has let this happen? CIA Operates Secret Prison Network

Infographic of the day: Golden Gate suicides by location

Star Wars, taken together, is “the greatest postmodern art film ever” As literary critics have long pointed out, the arbitrary yoking together of events in the service of storytelling is one of the fundamental characteristics of all narrative.

Brilliance: In search of the One True Layout

I find this kind of horrific: funny urinals

Republicans who control the Senate with 55 of 100 votes say that the U.S. Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leaders in calling for an “investigation into the Bush administration’s use of intelligence about Iraq.” Hmm, yeah, right.

This is goofy, I know, but one of my favorite blogs (The Sneeze) is going to webcast growing magic rocks at 11am.

You might remember the can above from his hi-larious post on Cuitlacoche (aka Corn Smut).

Quote of the day: We seem to have lost sight of the fact that reading a book should be a personal, enjoyable and relaxing experience, not one dictated by social pressure.