leet sweatshirt (from little gamers) #
i had a great post started. except the success of what i was writing hinged on my ability to upgrade the linux kernel on my debian box. so i could get usb support. yeah, i know. your typical friday night.…
I got an eerie feeling reading the snippets of prose in between the collections of recipes in the book Remembering Bill Neal: Favorite Recipes from a Life in Cooking by Moreton Neal. It could just be envy, but I think…
while six of our crew experienced the unc-duke game at the dean dome (tim wearing a tarheel-styled mexican wrestler mask), abe, jane, erik, and i watched the nailbiter at carlie and todd’s house, replete with chips, dips, carrots, and trail…
Well, this is my first native-Wordpress post. I spent the better part of the week figuring out WP1.5’s theme system, importing posts from Blogger and Haloscan, and trying to “reconstruct” something that looked like the blog I already had. How…
so i was writing jackson an email, we’ve been going back and forth about wordpress, and i find that when i’m asking a question, a second or two after i’ve taken the time to explain what i’m asking, i’ll check…
the yardhouse last night patrick and i made our way out to the yardhouse (thanks corey!), just two blocks from the hotel, where they serve draught beers in glasses a half-yard and a full yard tall–in addition to pints and…
so far this morning stuck in an elevator with doc searls and dave winer (update) dan gillmor’s brother, steve, at etech just before the second floor. we had to use the secret red telephone to call support and get us…
some high order bits from the morning danny hillis of applied minds demoed some of their mindblowing work, much of it in robotics and hardware, but really in every conceivable technological field. imagine a plasma screen tv oriented like the…
morning we heard neil gershenfeld of mit’s center for bits and atoms talk about a portable $20k fab lab he took all around the world (india on the border of pakistan, ghana) to expose adults and children to the wonders…
larry lessig riled up the crowd with a powerpoint duet (where the powerpoint presentation automatically responded to/emphasized whatever he was saying). it was pretty effective, but almost too theatrical to take seriously. i kept wondering whether the presentation might keep…
8 minutes left on this internet terminal. let’s see if i can be efficient. this morning patrick and i walked to the san diego zoo, got to see tigers and giraffes and some other animals i took pictures of. after…
there really isn’t enough time in the day for me to do all the things i want to do. that’s why this blog is called justinsomnia. because all too often i find myself squeezing just another hour out of the…
program cover for the Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World conference at ucla using a photo i took in tanzania as the background image. score another point for the creative commons!
i watch relatively little tv. but when i do, i feel tired afterwards, like my mind, which has become accustomed to the visual and auditory surrogate, suddenly has to reacclimate to the slower pace of real life. like that feeling…
Update: This post is not intended for the faint of heart. It describes in some detail what it took for me to move my Blogger blog (circa March 2005) to WordPress 1.5. Much of it is obsolete, as WordPress 2.0…
this is what happens when someone with 7,000,000 hits/month links to someone with 4000 hits/month
dan and i made it to philadelphia (my first time here) sometime after 8pm. we hadn’t had any dinner (save a beer at rdu), so we left the hotel in search of some authentic philly cheesesteaks. of course we’re in…
dan and i took a lunch break after setting up the measure booth (quite a process, i might add) and went out again in search of authentic philly cheesesteaks. this time we hit paydirt, courtesy of the aptly named, munchie’s…
tonight dan, clark, and i made the trek out to philly’s dueling cheesesteak joints: pat’s king of steaks and geno’s steaks. apparently pat’s is the oldest, passed down from the original pat olivieri who invented the chopped steak sandwich on…
leet sweatshirt (from little gamers) #
see it here now: chicago tribune censors a CARTOON for “present[ing] inaccurate information as fact” #
good advice: How to use the title tag (not something i can currently change with blogger) #
new word: sparklines (not sparkly+ness, spark+lines) #
my photos used in the german wikipedia article for “developing country”: Entwicklungsland (under the section “Tourismus in den Entwicklungsländern”, or Tourism in the developing countries) #
memetics of smiling: The smile that says where you’re from #
i read this article a few weeks ago, then the url changed or something when i went looking for it, so i thought i’d link to it in case i remember why i was searching for it: R.I.P. Microsoft? (note to self: consider changing “neatlinks” to “memex“) #
i can appreciate this tee: WW 232.9 D? #
ruby discovers the Internet Anagram Server #
ibm embracing php: with a blog #
more blogging ethics: The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers (circa feb 2003) #
cool looking storage appliance with cool-ass name: B.O.S.S. #
i assume we’re talking about the same Mikhail Gorbachev? Green Cross #
excellent! apple has your revolution for sale (requires quicktime) #
wiki of wikis: Wikicities #
my latest post on orange politics: Good News on the Beer Front (re: popping the 6% cap on beer in north carolina) #
these look cool: booq viper #
more xmlhttprequest love: SAJAX: simple ajax toolkit for php #
another response to my blogging “rules” Über Meta Nerds #
updated a night of mod_rewrite with the mod_rewrite rules i wrote for my mediawiki wiki: www.editplus.info #
Google’s AutoLink vs. IntelliTXT #
i love mini-itx projects: The “iGrill” #
dude, i want one: Blue/White 20×4 LCD Display Kit #
to read: In Praise of Slowness : How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (from greenespace) #
growing appreciation for “free-range”: E-Z Catch Harvester (see video on the right) #
this is creative: Giant Steps by Michal Levy (takes a long time to load) #
a new second cousin: Emma Elizabeth Watt #
quote of the day: I’d estimate that I spend between 10% and 20% of my life in a browser, and half of that time is spent in a <TEXTAREA> like the one I’m typing in right at this moment to flesh out this post. #
from dan gillmor: legal system disenfranchising bloggers update: support freedom of the press rights for all americans! #
thanks: my thoughts on google (+xmlhttprequest) apparently sum up someone else’s feelings quite nicely #
crazy news: bono (of u2) being considered to head the world bank? #
food for thought: there are some issues that a person new to programming should be aware of before they decide to start off on the path to Ruby (and Rails) #
newly discovered: the mozilla wiki #
liveblogging chapel hill town council: orangepolitics.org – Live from Town Hall – gay rights edition #
i own signs from fate #
hehe: dinosaur blog #
neat font: gender symbols #
oh my god, there’s more: The Sugaku font series #
the gormangate continues: More Fun with Michael Gorman #
my eyes, my eyes! A Day In The Life of Miss McDonald (check out the pictures) #
holy cow: how to turn a dog into a purse (or something) #
listening to: moreton neal and bill smith on the state of things (from last thanksgiving) #
as discussed earlier tonight at the blogger meetup: The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor #
ugh! i was playing with the CAIF file offered by haloscan for exporting comments and it turns out they currently return the comment text with all the html (hyperlinks and such) striped out. #
cool: ted leo of ted leo and the pharmacists covering the infectious kelly clarkson hit “since u been gone” #
i missed the wrens in concert: but there’s a documentary coming out! a good, longish promo you can watch online (requires quicktime) #
useful wordpress hack: Limit Number Of Posts With WordPress #
damn. photo of the day: Me and Malcolm (gladwell) #
waxy: etech/etcon vs sxsw #
at etcon: i’m in the audience (picture taken by panel member) #
oh cool: Web of Letters #
listening to: Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science (on npr’s, morning edition) #
quote of the day: Google is on its way to Redmond to battle Microsoft later this decade, while Yahoo! is going Hollywood. #
dooode! patrick’s laptop is famous! #
this dyson guy is onto something–with vacuums: The Ball (via Signal vs Noise) #
mark pilgrim fires warning shot at google (in response to autolink?) #
ha, the irony: The Internet offers a booming trade to help with this type of annoyance-fighting behavior. For example, shared passwords to free Web sites are available at www.bugmenot.com to help people avoid dealing with long registration forms. (from the new york times) #
giggle: Put your apps into a COMA! #
france says, we don’t want no long tail #
hrm. yahoo acquires flickr (isn’t there any sense in being independent anymore?) #
serendipitous discovery: in firefox, you can hold down the ctrl key to select table cells like you would in a spreadsheet (there’s no mention of it in the keyboard shortcuts document that i can tell) #
apple’s getting schooled: if you don’t provide an open api, one may be provided for you #
nice ice storm article: Gourmet Survivalist (and nice photo!) #
cool: Unicode Chart, 6′ x 12′ #
wordpress hits 100,000 downloads, becomes a company: WordPress Inc. #
just fyi creationistas: Charles Darwin Has A Posse #
has anyone heard of this? Wheat (a language and environment for creating dynamic web sites) #
oh no! Woman Eating [Wendy’s] Chili Bites Into Human Finger #
how HELLA COOL is this? Transparent Screens #
hahaha! The Second Amendment #
i have no idea what to expect: carolina rollergirls, sun apr 10, 6:15pm #
this rocks: FOR SALE/BARTER: My body in Persistent Vegetative State #
quote of the day: Boing Boing has not only embraced advertising, but appears to be giving it a vigorous reach-around in the process. #
i’ve added a new page at the top called creative commons to collect examples of the photos i’ve taken being used by other people #
enjoyable read: A Coder in Courierland (though when i read “courierland” in the title, i thought courier) #
fun blog: Dreaming of Dawn (php plus fanfiction) #
wow, this is something i’ve been thinking about a lot lately: It goes straight to the issue of distractions from long days at the office and, more fundamentally, how much of their employees’ time and concentration employers can reasonably expect to own. #
quote of the day: “You have to ask yourself, if someone is so bored that playing solitaire is stimulating, then the problem is not with the game, it’s with the job.” (same article as below) #
i wouldn’t want to wear a watch to bed, but this is cool: SLEEPTRACKER #
wtf is going on in florida? Capitol bill aims to control leftist profs #
hey, check it out, i made one too! #
gross! Pet Pillows #
and grosser: Apron of Flesh #
photo of the day: caption this #
am i going to hell for finding this totally funny? Terri Schiavo’s Blog #
oh snap! you mean this whole shitstorm is over one feeding tube? and it’s not even feeding somebody in africa? #
if anyone is looking for a slightly damaged laptop lcd panel: IBM ThinkPad T42 14″ 1400×1050 Resolution LCD Panel #
headline of the day: McHip-hop name-drop #
check it out: nickd liveblogging grokster v mgm at the supreme court #
chipping away at the Hippocratic Oath: Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays #
econophysics: They found that while the income distribution among the super-wealthy – about 3 per cent of the population – does follow Pareto’s law, incomes for the remaining 97 per cent fitted a different curve – one that also describes the spread of energies of atoms in a gas. #
as seen in skymall: Upside-Down Tomato Garden (this is SO weird–i want one) #
google + firefox = search results prefetch #
Boring Boring is the shit. #
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