Video of the day! World’s Largest Skateboard Ramp #
Paper wall art
I’m not very good with decorating walls. I tend to find the irrevocability of pounding nails into them a little unsettling. That and commercial wall art can be so corny and expensive. But somewhere I got this idea, I think…
Sucks not being able to breathe
Last Sunday after hiking with Mark, Marcia, and Stephanie, I felt a burning sensation in my nasal cavity right above the palate—as if a morsel of food had gotten stuck up there (and was trying to slide down). Or perhaps…
Sampler Pin Cubes
I just received my Winter 2006 copy of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly. On pages 15–17 my mom’s Sampler Pin Cube patterns were published with a full page color photo. Pick up your copy today! Sampler Pin Cube by Kathleen…
Lou Reed 2.0
Jonathan Miller, CEO of AOL, introduces Lou Reed last night, calling him a poet, a writer, a musician, and the person who introduced him to his kung-fu mentor. What the? So Lou Reed gets on stage with two accompanying musicians,…
Monthchunks in WordPress 標準ガイドブック (Standard Guidebook)
Naoko McCracken, a web developer up in Michigan recently wrote a book on WordPress in Japanese entitled WordPress 標準ガイドブック (Standard Guidebook). She contacted me back in September to say that she’d included my popular (and very first) WordPress plugin, Monthchunks,…
Two years of cell phone usage
I was looking at my cell phone bill online this evening, and saw that Sprint keeps an archive of my bills that go back two years. So I thought it’d be cool to see how my usage has fared over…
The sunset
Woke up early Saturday in preparation for the long-awaited replacement of our bay windows. Switching out the original, single-paned, decades-old glass with insulated double-paned windows. Last night I slept without earplugs—the cars sound far away, but now the refrigerator sounds…
Clouds over San Francisco
The view on the way back from lunch today
The story of a laptop
I’m writing this on an old friend, resuscitated. Back in 2002, I purchased my first laptop, an IBM ThinkPad X23. It had an 866MHz Mobile Pentium III processor, 256MB of RAM, a 1024×768 resolution screen, and best of all, it…
Portrait of my hipster PDA
1 unruled 3×5″ index card, folded in half, stored in my left back pocket or wallet 1 Pilot Precise V5 (Extra Fine) Rolling Ball black ink pen Interesting factoid from Pilot’s website, “Pilot’s Precise V5 Rolling Ball Pen has a…
Thanksgiving at MacKerricher State Park
Thanksgiving was pretty intense this year. We spent Wednesday night packing for a camping trip the next day (and night) along the coast north of Fort Bragg, CA (about 4 hours north of San Francisco). That meant it was going…
What a coup for IEEE’s Spectrum: Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt, and Parakey #
This is very cool: Color Palette Generator Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. #
Before you vote, watch this video: Sullivan and Hitchens Call for Accountability from Bush #
On Firefox 2 on Linux, you can “fix” the behavior of the backspace key by setting browser.backspace_action in about:config to 0, so pressing backspace goes back a page in the session history (instead of paging up). #
Update: Voice mails are from Haggard [asking for sex and drugs] says voice expert! #
Font of the day: Chuck, based on the bronze plaque on the South Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge (I wish this was free)
This is telling: HP Ink Costs More Than Human Blood, Booze #
What information science should have been: Web Science #
I wonder if FON files work on Linux? Dina Programming Font #
Ha, quote of the day: It seems that we have a “Matthew Magnet” and her name is Beth. #
Wikipedia article of the day: Cough:
A cough is usually initiated to clear a buildup of phlegm in the trachea; air may move through this passage at up to 480 km/h (300 mph) during a contraction.
Awesome:
A recent study indicates that, because of the presence of theobromine in chocolate, 50 grams of dark chocolate may be an effective treatment for a persistent cough.
News: Adobe has now taken the code for their ActionScript virtual machine implementation and released it as open source through the Mozilla project as Tamarin #
I had no idea! App-O-Rama and Stoozing (invest the full value of a credit card into a high interest savings account during the introductory 0% interest period) #
Damn, wish I had read this before applying for a Bank of America checking and savings account (guess I’ll stick with Wells Fargo after all): Check from a scammer bounces [Matthew Shinnick] into jail #
Goodbye Rick Santorum
Best photo ever: No you can’t have a pony #
Goodbye Rumsfeld: Rumsfeld quitting as defense secretary Yay democracy! #
Ha! It’s a brand-new taste sensation unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, unless you’ve ever eaten sisal twine. #
Wow, awesome! New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice #
Snicker:
Long exposure photo of the day: Montreal’s a great city. #
I love this quote:
In the House, swaths of the Midwest fell to the Democrats while moderate Republican strongholds in the Northeast were all but wiped from the map on a tide of anger over the Iraq War, the economy and scandal in Washington. #
Photo of the day: Tim and Arwen O’Reilly dancing to Lou Reed at the Web 2.0 Summit #
Oops! Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database #
Shit, linked to from a mefi post entitled: THE DEATH OF ROCK AND ROLL (that can’t be good) #
One Rincon Hill will be “the tallest residential building west of the Mississippi” #
In other news: “A sandwich is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos and quesadillas, which are typically made with a single tortilla and stuffed with a choice filling of meat, rice, and beans” #
Wikipedia quote of the day: A human being traveling on a bicycle at low to medium speeds of around 10-15 mph (16-24 km/h), using only the energy required to walk, is the most energy-efficient means of transport generally available. #
Question of the day: Is it safe to assume that Haggard’s a bottom? #
Holy holy batman! Video of the day! Amateur by Lasse Gjertsen (video sampling) #
Who does Paul Jones hang out with on an average Sunday? Sally Greene (his wife), Elizabeth Edwards, Amy Tiemann, Michael Tiemann, Tucker (his son), and Dan Gillmor #
Ruby on why her Second Life avatar is African American: Would you rather be the oppressor or the oppressed? #
Aww shucks, ghostriding lost Oxford University Press’s competition for Word of the Year #
These are cool. Yay letterpress! bittersweet cards #
Ha ha ha: OMFG manual not what it seems #
Uhh, can I please get the “Aeron chairs, unlimited M&Ms, free catered lunches, and the kickass computers with the 30″ LCDs” without having to “deal with new bugs Microsoft introduced in their code by messing up a DLL that used to work”? #
This looks fun: WriteRoom (who wants to create a version for Linux?) #
Hehehe: A Timeline of Timelines #
WOW! system76 offers laptops and desktops preloaded with Ubuntu (via Allison Randal) #
This horrifies me: Doubts Cast on Hybrid Efficiency (I want to know more) #
Quote of the day: the self-described “band of misfits” that make up the two-year-old Holocene Impact Working Group #
This is so freaky: comic book room #
Enjoying this song right now: The High Strung – The Songbird (wish it was longer) #
WTF? last night’s award for cruel and unusual went to PC Gamer, who were on hand in SF to try to convince a card-carrying line-waiting PS3 fanboy to swear off Sony forever. #
HI-LAR-IOUS! PhilTube: I’m blogging #
Amazon.com product of the day: 2″ Copper Square Cut to 84″ #
For future reference: Problem with unauthorized MiniPCI network card #
Beer Goggles! Awesome! #
Ever since I started using the Happy Hacking keyboard at work, the Caps Lock on my laptop has become a serious liability. Problem solved: waNOCAPS #
It would be fun to get my hands on one of these: The first laptops will be followed by a 900-unit run early next year, many of which will go to programmers to help them write software. (more here) #
Stupid stupid stupid! Blockbuster signs deal to be exclusive renter for Weinsteins
And a hehe: (Struggling Blockbuster Eliminates Rental Fees) #
I’m not especially into graphic novels or Chris Ware, but these look cool: Chris Ware’s Thanksgiving covers for The New Yorker #
This is totally awesome! Little car kits from Japan #
Photo of the day: inside Rankine Generating Station’s century-old tailrace tunnel in Niagara Falls #
Cool, Flickr’s Camera Zeitgeist (my SD400 most popular among the point & shooters) #
The Joy of Tech’s Thanksgiving comic gets political #
For future reference: HP Drive Key Boot Utility (make a usb flash key bootable) #
I am going to do everything in my power to avoid Windows Vista: My team had a very talented UI designer and my particular feature had a good, headstrong program manager with strong ideas about user experience. We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI. (hence, Ubuntu on the X23) #
Andre on proposing to Amber: My future wife just stabbed some vampire in the heart, and I think that’s wonderful. #
I like this shirt: Web 2.OH, YEAAHH!! #
This is a really neat list: The open source gift guide #
Very cool: Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players #
Ouch! Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times on Microsoft’s Zune: the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face…The Zune is a square wheel…The Zune is a complete, humiliating failure…The Zune will be dead and gone within six months. #
Amazon list of the day: Stalking Stuffers 2006 #
“this could be the best anti-drug video ever” How cocaine is made (Couple hundred pounds of coca leaves, a little cement, caustic soda, ammonia, quicklime, sulfuric acid and a lot of gasoline) #
photo of the day: busy airport #
Make 9 to 5 Paintings with a double mouse #
So cool! DOOM on the OLPC XO! #
On my list of things to cook: Warm Hummus with pastirmali (turkish air cured beef) #
Wikipedia entry of the day: Haddon Sundblom #
Factoid of the day: Pine nuts contain about 31 grams of protein per 100 grams of nuts, the highest of any nut or seed. #
To watch later: The road to Delhi with
Eben Moglen and Paul Jones #
If I needed or wanted a TV, I think it would be this one: Samsung LNS2651D 26″ LCD HDTV #
Animal-friendly: Carved Wood Trophy Heads #
Rock! Must-have Firefox extension of the day: Searchbar Autosizer (stretch/shrink the search bar as needed) #