oh sweet: Wikipedia in Latin (from Aging Disgracefully) #
This is going to be a nine minute blog post. Because it’s nine minutes before my bedtime. I just got back from North Carolina, having spent Labor Day weekend there. Christy was in town from Seattle. There was a Hell…
I got into RDU late on Friday night. The air was hot. Jane picked me up at the airport, it was the first time we’d seen each other in nearly 4 months. We drove to Carrboro, to Patrick and Abe’s…
I imagine only waking up after an late wedding reception would be worse than the morning after a Hell dance party. Something about the combination of hungover dehydration and muscle fatigue makes for quite the array of otherworldly sensations. Mostly…
Monday morning I met up with Alice at the Weave, and we walked down to Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe, another one of my homey Chapel Hill favs. Especially the breakfast counter. We talked up a storm per usual. After breakfast…
The latest version is 5.0, released June 20, 2008, now with support for WordPress 2.5 galleries, and still backwards compatible with 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, and 1.5 Inspiration One of the things I’ve been thinking about more since starting at O’Reilly…
Out here in Sonoma County we get a fair amount of fog. In fact all week it was overcast and gray until the sun broke through for a few hours in the late afternoons. Of course Saturday was gorgeous, but…
I might look something like this: Check out Ruby’s and Brian’s and Katie’s or make your own.
One of my biggest pet peeves is the misuse of the word “blog” when referring to a single post on a weblog. I was just reading A Rendezvous With Microsoft’s Deep Throat (how could you not with a title like…
Last week I signed up for a Sea Kayaking Basics course at Blue Waters Kayaking so I could rent a closed deck kayak in the future. I was up at 7:30, the class started at 8:45. I got my bathing…
Christy and Marcus, whom I previously hiked with down in San Mateo County, were up in Cloverdale for the weekend and were interested in hiking Mt. St. Helena, the highest point in Sonoma County. It’s been on my list of…
Proclaiming Freedom from Religious Fundamentalism, since 1979. Original image source: Exodus International, inspired by Michael I LOVE that parody is covered under fair use. Update, March 2, 2006: I received a cease-and-desist letter from Liberty Counsel on behalf of Exodus…
rel="alternate" is mandatory for Safari RSSAs much as web developers complain about the lack of standards support in Internet Explorer (when they’re developing on Firefox), it’s really quite another ballgame confronting the variety of syndication standards and newsreaders out there. I was recently responsible for…
On the way to lunch today, I noticed that the trees in the parking lot are starting to change color. The leaves on the ground had these incredible patterns, a thick band of red around the edges with cells of…
Justin Hall and Annalee Newitz are the conf MC’s. I’m not usually a big fan of liveblogging, but I’m going to update this post today and tomorrow for anyone interesting in the comings and goings of Webzine 2005. Levelling the…
Today after work I made lamburgers with Marcia, my willing participant in alternative ground meat experiments. After that we went out into the Santa Rosa night life which pretty much meant we stopped at Tex Wasabis, the Southern BBQ Sushi…
oh sweet: Wikipedia in Latin (from Aging Disgracefully) #
nice: ZDnet reports that the FBI is having trouble with Mork #
uh oh: WE ARE NOT OUT OF GAS, BUT WE ARE RUNNING LOW (Michael F. Easley, Governor of North Carolina) #
oh my god: New Orleans makes ‘desperate SOS’ relief plea #
Super high resolution images of Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina #
wtf is Heatherette? #
question: What are the likely consequences (locally and globally) of blowing a 5% of GDP sized hole under the waterline of the US economy? #
After the hurricane in New Orleans: 34 houses were destroyed as well as the sheds, including the parsonage and hospital (circa 1722) #
“It’s time to take the blinders off and realize that these kids are having sex,” she said. “Obviously, abstinence is not working. If we have to, just give them condoms.” Ohio High School Has 64 Pregnant Students #
Notwithstanding the fact that I no longer live in Carrboro… A man in Carrboro who mentions things he recently discovered and found interesting #
from the gnn: Moqtada has Posse (yes, he does) #
neat digital art project: moving canvas (check out the videos a the bottom) #
phrase of the day: hot off the sensor #
cool: remixed crosswalk signs #
One thing I forgot to do when moving out of state: cancel my dmv plates and registration (why? so you’re not paying tax on your car in two states at the same time) #
SO cute! photos from Melissa’s wedding (friend from NY) #
ph34r ruby: Public Allies names Sinreich ‘change-maker’ #
mint, a fancier version of my custom referrer tracker #
so necessary: nikon coolpix p1 (it has wifi!) #
shaun inman is a supafreak: CSS Server-side Constants (i mean that in the best possible way) #
trailer for monster road (from OP) #
gross! Real pictures of what was eliminated during the Colon Cleansing Kit (I love the fine print: “We do not know of any scientific evidence…to give an explanation of what comes out during our cleanse.”) #
I think about this a lot when I’m flying: Unplanned Freefall #
hahaha: Food Critic Tears Radish Canapés With Salmon Mousse A New Asshole (holy shit!) #
this is truly newsworthy: A Mexican army convoy rolled into the United States on Thursday with food and medicine for Hurricane Katrina victims, its first military operation on U.S. soil since the mid-19th century.
A 44-vehicle convoy of 200 unarmed troops flew Mexico’s red, white and green national flag from every cab as it moved into San Antonio, where Mexican forces killed 189 rebels in the famous Battle of the Alamo in 1836 during the Texas revolution against Mexican rule.
It was the first time a regular Mexican army brigade was on U.S. soil since 1846 when, during a full-blown war, the United States took what are now its southwestern states from Mexico.
interesting comments on Fresh Air (about 32 minutes in) about the divisive effect of Roe vs. Wade: Legal Scholar Cass Sunstein on the Supreme Court’s Future
I’m curious about the reactions from my more politically attuned friends… #
videos of people spinning pens around in their fingers: Pentrix #
Courtesy of Google Maps: New Orleans on August 31 #
question: since when did spelling bees capture so much of the popular consciousness? Bee Season question #2: are they sexualizing that little girl? #
this is pretty darn cool: Plexiglas hard drive window #
nice: iPod timeline #
props to new orleans: make levees not war #
firefox to be featured on tv show: Supernatural #
this is worth a few chuckles: The Flickr Lifehack Pool #
Kevin Bacon on How my life became a game #
youch: [Flickr] strangled and replaced by the metallic commands of a corporate droid, [Yahoo] (it hurts because it’s true) #
dumb dumb dumb: EBay to Buy Internet Phone Firm for $2.6 Billion #
hell fucking yeah! Reporters gone wild (worth sitting through Salon’s stinkin’ day pass) #
excellente: Dang man so like you could blog directly onto a Hanes? #
this looks cool: Touch the Sound #
hear, hear! Not all conservatives find the movie a rebuke to Darwin’s theory. “If an Intelligent Designer designed nature,” the columnist George F. Will asked recently, “why did it decide to make breeding so tedious for those penguins?” #
oh my god, amazon’s concordance feature is amazing! #
AHHH! speed dating is real? 8minuteDating (Under what rock have I been living?) #
this is so the zen photo of the day: nevada raper #
chuckle: I don’t care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it! #
whoa, a derogatory term I’d never even heard of! yard apes #
music to slit your wrists by: Azure Ray (but I like it so much!) #
in software news: Gallery 2.0 Released! #
oops: Garrison doesn’t like a Prairie Ho Companion #
This is frickin’ brilliant! Katrina Cards #
Cornel West on Katrina: What we saw unfold in the days after the hurricane was the most naked manifestation of conservative social policy towards the poor, where the message for decades has been: ‘You are on your own’. Well, they really were on their own for five days in that Superdome, and it was Darwinism in action – the survival of the fittest. People said: ‘It looks like something out of the Third World.’ Well, New Orleans was Third World long before the hurricane. (thanks Sally!) #
From the Belly of the Beasts: One of my biggest pet peeves is the misuse of the word “blog” when referring to a single post #
wikipedia article of the day: Inflorescence #
Did anyone go see Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! at UNC’s Memorial Hall? #
I can’t listen to NPR anymore without feeling the urge to sob:
Scott Simon: Just day to day, what do you miss most about home?
Randy Adams: On Monday in New Orleans–in the metropolitan New Orleans area–we serve a lunch, it’s called red beans and rice. I would run home on foot to get it again. We have po’ boys, shrimp po’ boys on Friday. We would all go to a place, pick up my dad, work allow and situations would allow, we would all join for lunch and have shrimp po’ boys or roast beef po’ boys and a Barq’s root beer, it’s a big New Orleans tradition as well. #
Life is weird: Nothing says “life is sacred” like an 18-wheeler rollin’ down the highway, plastered with ginormous technicolor photos of aborted fetuses. #
I want to make paella (mostly cause I like saying the word: /pi-eh-ya/) #
to watch later: Creature Comforts #
This is SO meta: Video of an iPod playing a video (at bottom) #
Oh sheesh, there’s already a band called the metrosexuals #
Everyone around here keeps talking about the Indian summer we’ve not been having. #
this is cool: speech bubble art #
This is awful on so many levels: Funny “Boinboing” typo in newspaper (might lead one to believe traditional media is screwed) I mean really, how many people didn’t have their thinking caps on to let that one pass? #
I get so frustrated with news articles don’t include a photo relevant to the article: Burger King recalls ‘sacrilegious’ desserts. Why bother publishing it without? #
Fixed a bug in my Random Image Plugin for WordPress that was preventing images other than the first in a post from being displayed #
Corey hacks Google Maps for local election candidates in Orange County, North Cackalacky #
yeah! quote of the day: Henderson knows—he was touched by FSM’s Noodly Appendage and anointed to spread the good word. #
The best hurricane tracker/Google Maps Mashup: Google Hurricane Maps (Rita). Currently predicted to travel between Austin (where my mom and dad live) and College Station (where my brother lives). Fun. #
wow, bbc has the video: Dramatic landing for faulty plane #
neologism of the day: RESTafarians #
A little bit on some of the fun I have at work: rel=”alternate” is mandatory for Safari RSS #
yes! A Natural History of the @ Sign: “Although the change from at meaning “for a given amount per” to at meaning “in a specified (electronic) location” comes fairly naturally to English speakers, it does not for native speakers of other languages, for whom neither “at” nor @ meant anything until e-mail came around.” #
What could be better than throwing a Hurricane Party? A MargaRITA Party of course! (words of wisdom I just emailed to my brother in College Station, TX) #
imho, this might be bigger than iTunes: NPR Podcast Directory #
the conference I’m at: Webzine: FSM porn! #
How long before a print copy of the Onion signed by Cindy goes up on eBay? Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan’s Other Son Drowns In New Orleans #
video mentioned at webzine 2005 and in the nyt Wake Me Up When September Ends #
so much for padlocks: Beer Can Padlock Shim #
Where’s Justin? at Webzine 2005 #
why? A branch of the U.S. Navy secretly contracted a 33-plane fleet that included two Gulfstream jets reportedly used to fly terror suspects to countries known to practice torture, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. #
to watch later: Jimmy Wales on C-SPAN #
awesome! Cindy Sheehan arrested #
props from the Stubbleblog: Webzine2005 Sounded Awesome #
this is such a sweet shirt: roses are #FF0000 (seen at webzine 2005) #
tshirt I most wish I’d picked up at OSCON: My CMS Can Kick Your CMS’s Ass (also seen at Webzine 2005) #
corey moves from wordpress to rails-based typo: elder daldal #
Whoa, copyright? Cost? Make in a virtual world (check out the video…) #
awesome! news of the day: Supreme Court Takes Up Anna Nicole Case #
rock! I Hate Fags Chicks & Science (but oh, it get’s better: Support our Ribbons) #
quote of the day: Hothot barely legal unicorn-on-fresco action. (only from Xeni) #
well said: The [Author’s Guild] believes that Google shouldn’t be allowed to opt writers in to its Google Print program, but they believe that they should be able to opt writers into their costly, suicidal lawsuit against Google, which, if they are victorious, will reduce sales and take money out of writers’ pockets. (this time from Cory) #
I don’t remember with whom, but I was describing Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel to someone recently. #
neat: Wikipedia edits Esquire #
ha! Squid? Or Savior? #
Ok, I’m pretty sure I heard someone referring to a Wine Train with derision, but crappy webdesign aside, that looks pretty cool! #
I passed on going to Web 2.0, looks like I may have to “settle” for Web 1.0 #
nice: MIT’s $100 laptop #
holyfuck! google maps plus webcams BRILLIANT!!! #
headline of the day: Man found driving ambulance with dead deer (in North Carolina!) #
hey, neat: AJAX without XMLHttpRequest, frame, iframe, Java or Flash (sort of kind of like my custom referrer tracker) #
That’s SO cool: Will and Shannon are so cool that in their gift registry they included a suggestion to give to organizations promoting the freedom of same-sex couples to marry #
