band name of the day: the salteens #
the only fireworks i recall playing with growing up were sparklers. and i only remember playing with sparklers in texas. when i was in high school. clearly i was deprived. texas was the first place i remember booths set up…
yesterday i wanted to go riding around on my bike. i haven’t in a while since i drive to work now. i found a trail that runs along the santa rosa creek from downtown to fulton road, which is way…
Here are two O’Reilly titles you might not have heard of. Both are part of the Theory in Practice series, which for some reason doesn’t have its own series page off the oreilly.com domain (as far as I can tell).…
Good question. I think it helps to understand what a producer does in terms of the path an article takes from inception to publication. Author writes an article Author sends the article to his/her editor Editor edits article, making sure…
the thoughts flow. i wonder why i don’t bring a moleskine with me where ever i go. probably cause i don’t have a moleskine. but i always have a pen. pilot v5 extra fine. always. thankfully right now i have…
i traveled down to the city sunday morning to meet up with my cousin christy and her partner marcus. traffic was light, got there in just about an hour. they live in the castro, which i had only heard about…
When I came home after softball practice tonight, my apartment was 88°F. That’s what the thermostat says in the living room. My bedroom at the back of the apartment, which bears the brunt of the afternoon sun, actually feels warmer…
I think I imagined that if I signed up for Netflix, even the super cheapo $9.99/month, 1-movie-at-a-time plan, I’d have movies showing up at my door every other day. I feared that I’d never go out and do anything because…
What they are saying: Tim Bray: It’s cooked and ready to serve. Jon Udell: What I like most about Atom is its careful delineation of the kinds of content that can be included in a feed, including: plain text, HTML,…
I set my alarm for 6:50 this morning. Saturday morning. I think I managed to turn the alarm off by accident, so I shot up at 7:57. Which was not great because the class I’m taking was going on a…
On the way home from the grocery store, picking up some fruit for the week, I had a thought that was half a wish and half a wonder. Why hadn’t I delayed college to continue taking sculpture classes at the…
Hey MT fans, watch out for WP: i went from blogger to movabletype to wordpress and i’m digging it very much. i’m half of the dawn and drew podcast and wasn’t sure if you know about podcasting or not, but…
“The only way to make money online is by selling porn or tshirts.” –Loose paraphrase of something I heard on the web. Four out of the seven paid sponsorships on Boing Boing are for tshirt companies, zeroboutique.com (high art tees),…
Since moving to California two months ago, I began using my Gmail account for personal correspondence, and I’ve come to two conclusions. Reading email with Gmail is a joy It groups back and forth emails into single conversations—solving, in my…
I stayed late because I was working on some Perl code I wanted to get functional. No such luck. And also because Dave at work mentioned a concert at a little restaurant called Mojo’s just outside of Sebastopol. The headlining…
Uh-oh, looks like we have some work to do: Next… for some odd reason, I’m feeling more and more MSFT-Patriotic as of late. One thorn I’m really beginning to get tired of, strangely enough, is O’Reilly media. Ever since I…
After softball practice I met up with Mark (co-worker) and Monica as well as some folks I met the night before to walk over to the Sonoma County Fair. En route I entertained with harrowing tales of past meat on…
Students from the Information Technology University in Copenhagen are trying to help by releasing what they are calling the world’s first open source beer recipe. It is called Vores Oel, or Our Beer, and the recipe is proving to be…
Bed at 2am, alarm at 6. On 101 heading south just after 7. The fog is out, which I know is fog and not just overcast morning haze because my windshield gets wet very slowly. Maybe it’s because I drive…
I wasn’t able to publish the previous post until moments ago because the wireless at the BlogHer conference was wholly inaccessible. I could connect to the access points, but the dang things wouldn’t give me an IP address. Of course…
band name of the day: the salteens #
acronym of the day: LMAO (i’m such a tool that i didn’t know this) #
hacking the crosswalk: Three short clicks, followed by two long, one short, two long, and three short; turn any crosswalk signal from “don’t walk” to “walk” with a matching change in the traffic signals. #
useful article by ben hammersley i produced today: Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser #
cool! Murderball #
wordpress’s backwards comparison style e.g.
if ('' == $some_variable) {}
explained: when doing logical comparisons always put the variable on the right side. If you forget an equal sign it’ll throw a parse error instead of just evaluating true and executing the statement. #
new paradigm (a la kottke) in blog design? nicholasjon.com #
this looks so cool: The Knitting Machine #
ok, Tilly and the Wall are officially awesome. 4 words: tap dancing as percussion. the blog post above has a video. watch it! #
weird: scrollbar as art #
quote of the day from norway: Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government #
two words: hasidic reggae (holy cow!) reminds me of chaim from this american life’s my experimental phase #
this site is teh hawt! (especially cause she links to two of my photos in her “ghana” section: go creative commons!) #
BlogSheroes: vulva la net! (no joke) #
produced this neat kite aerial photography piece on our unusually cool digitalmedia.oreilly.com site today #
yey! what i always wanted: the gmap pedometer (double-click on the map to create your route and calculate the distance) #
satellite maps as carpet: The Flying Carpet #
FREE JUDITH MILLER! if reporters are not guaranteed confidentiality “then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.” #
i agree with tim bray: Because, on the evidence, I don’t think the leaders of the Western world have a clue. #
an outline of part of what i do at work: What is this “Article Production” of which you speak? #
hehe: www.fuckthiswebsite.com #
whoa, hella cool: guitar playing robot #
uh, no thanks. i wonder how many other developers read that and turn away? If you are a developer of a blog posting tool or web application that wants to use our API and don’t mind signing an NDA… (emphasis added) #
this shit is SO funny: Prison Wine (if you haven’t read the one about corn smut, it’s hi-larious) #
A Letter To The Terrorists, From London: So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city. #
help alice find a renter: Consider this an internet special! And please name your price and lease term. #
daily show brilliance: America: Come for the hatred, stay for the ballbags #
neat: sparkler fun #
to do: BayFF on Bloggers’ Rights July 19th 2005, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco #
jason on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s shameful piece entitled Bloggers Need Not Apply #
to read later: Rhetorics of violence, rhetorics of peace (quote that caught my eye: “through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) #
fanciest site for a Mozilla Firefox Extension: Scribe (and potentially useful too) #
new phrase (courtesy of alice) and excellent tshirt: rock out with your cock out #
you’ve got to be kidding me: I caught you a delicious bass. Would you like Jesus to multiply it? (inventing the napoleon dynamite and jesus connection) #
hello mcfly, is anybody home? Bush Calls for Jailed [Iranian] Reporter’s Release #
from alice: freedom’s a bitch, isn’t it bush? #
to watch later: Dane Cook impersonating Tom Cruise #
this movie is worth seeing: The Station Agent (if you like quirky movies) #
css geekery to dig into later: How to style a restaurant menu with CSS #
the fact that it takes seven times as much water to create one bottle of Coke. puts my post about the universality of coca cola in a new light #
aaaahhhh!!! forehead inflation is my proudest contribution to the wacky world of body and performance art #
after that forehead inflation stuff, i got totally sucked into this guy’s photography and body modification:
chapter9photography #
the daily show is SO brilliant: Rove gets the DS Treatment #
uncovering more bay area relatives: The Pillow Lady (aka Chris Watt, a second cousin on my dad’s side) #
worthy of a response: Time to switch off and slow down #
my favorite song right now: Bright Eyes with Emmylou Harris – Landlocked Blues (off the album “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning”) #
movie to watch: The Beat That My Heart Skipped #
this looks *awesome* Roll Bounce #
priceless: there are seven words you can’t say in kindergarten (video from o’reilly’s nat torkington) #
for future reference: The Best of San Francisco Dining #
very cool analog solution to an analog problem: Digital Needle – A Virtual Gramophone #
word up: 3rd Russian River Beer Revival Aug 20, 1-5pm $26 #
so smart, moments away from getting this: DLO TransPod #
hella fancy: Optimus keyboard #
bbq in california often means grilling Tri-Tip (which i’d never heard of before moving here) #
hehe: This research enabled designers to have a deeper understanding of the many aspects of the showering experience, including extensive observations of people showering (emphasis added) #
god, i am such a nerd: If you understand this shirt… (it took me like 2.5 secs—you’d have to have read this, yesterday) #
is this art? The Most Beautiful Machine (i like it) #
Google Moon! (make sure to zoom all the way in) #
making a 13 pound gummy bear #
cool video: raising stonehenge–with one person! #
republicans seeking to outlax sex? if sexual arousal from pornography causes ‘brain damage’, then so will real-life sex! #
get ready for versace-branded pears: Tattooed fruit en route #
photo zen: Garritan strums the MIDI Harp near the tulip fields of Mt. Vernon, Washington–America’s largest (from an article I produced yesterday) #
to listen to later: Grand Theft Auto Is Good for You #
todo: WordPress meetup and geek dinner (July 23 6pm, San Francisco) #
wow, a book 30 years in the making: Asia Grace #
the third annual Paul Reubens’ Day will be held on Saturday July 23rd in San Francisco (looks like i’m going to miss this one) #
ahahaha: Republican Demotivators #
this is two years old, but it’s new to me: A Montana man named Jack Ass has sued MTV’s parent company, accusing the music channel of “plagiarizing” and “defaming” his good name in connection with the show “Jackass.” #
whoa: T.C. Boyle mentioned twice in the span of two days–first time was at the wordpress meetup #
haha: This is why I spell the word “wheirwolf”, and why I ask that you do the same! (clearly time to start reading dinosaur comics) #
how bread becomes toast: Maillard reaction #
acronym watch: ICIGSITBOTH #
quote of the day: most of the interesting metadata is in the content #
this is the more interesting question: And what has Google been working on while the others were playing catch-up? #
from patrick: Students from the Information Technology University in Copenhagen are trying to help by releasing what they are calling the world’s first open source beer recipe. #
hehe: Rosey Grier’s Needlepoint for Men came out in 1973. At 6’5″ and 300 pounds, he didn’t care if you thought he was a sissy or not. #
AWESOME! Bio is an urn for ashes, which transforms the ritual of death into an act of regeneration and life #
i lurve geek humor: I {entity} Unicode #
chapel hill landmark closing: Carolina Theatre R.I.P. #
Lance is probably just gay, poor guy: Bachelor’s friends use billboard to find him dates #
where’s Justin? at BlogHer Con (looks like he’s asleep, but he isn’t) #
where’s Justin? at the WordPress meetup (different day, same brown shirt) #
this is great, i’m finally starting to hear about events a day or two before they occur: Incredible Speaker Lineup for our pdxphp.org Tuesday, Aug 2nd Meeting (instead of the day of or after—and it looks like this one I can make, being that I arrived in Portland this afternoon) #
