February 2008

xkcd again, too cool for school: Real Programmers #

Something that had not occurred to me before: I will likely live to see the end of oil #

Ha! It’s like tying the Titanic to the iceberg. It’d keep you from sinking just long enough to freeze to death. #

Amazon is kicking some interesting butt lately: Don’t Restrict Me #

Hot! Doomsday (basically 28 Days Later, without the zombies) #

Isn’t this a good thing?

With newer gayborhoods constantly emerging in cities across the country, the Castro has seen its gay cachet diminished. Younger LGBT people no longer need to travel long distances to find gay bars, shops or a community to call their own.

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This is just too great: Stephanie on What do I like most about having sleepover guests… (photo of the day) #

I’m guessing this is going to influence a lot of people: Better Than Free #

Whoa! Cory Doctorow and Alice Taylor just “hatched” a baby with 5 names! Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow (check out her initials: PEFNTD) #

Google reacts (in the form of David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer) to Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo ON A BLOG! Yahoo! and the future of the Internet (I am so in the right “industry”)

Update: Now this is interesting, if it’s true:

Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company’s help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo

Goes to show just how much bad blood Microsoft has generated. Unfortunately I just don’t see Steve Ballmer as the person to mend those wounds. #

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3 with svn:

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3

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I dream of suburban ghost towns: Drying of the West #

If I used Twitter, I would be liveblogging my cold #

You stay classy, George:

The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances.

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Thank you YouTube: Kent “Toast” French, The World’s Fastest Clapper #

This could be so good: Smart People (but probably not) #

Teh funny: The Unboxing club #

Whether or not this is true, this is by far the best sentence I have read today: The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working on a computing system capable of hosting the entire internet as an application. (even better than Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today) #

Marcia being hilarious! Pretentious Internet Project: BETA #

Color is contextual: Color tile optical illusion #

I really need to find an occasion to use these: Silk Icons #

Need for work: Breakfast Sandwich Maker by Progressive #

PHP thing I did not know:

The closing tag of a PHP block (?>) at the end of a file is optional, and in some cases omitting it is helpful when using include() or require(), so unwanted whitespace will not occur at the end of files

(thanks Nate!) #

Decent vid: Jeremy Zawodny in Conversation with Matt Mullenweg #

Tony on The Responsibility Revolution (translation: what does it mean for a company to act responsibly?) #

John really has a way with words:

This is one reason Google is so busy throwing new application pasta at the walls.

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Maybe I’m a dork, but if it rained more, I’d think about getting one of these: BMW C1 (I mean it has windshield wipers!) #

What is this genre called? CJ7 (postmodern kung-fu?) #

The US Senate lets down America: Senate Votes for Expansion of Spy Powers #

OMFG, best thing I’ve read today: Logistics, real life dinnertime and raiding schedules #

Photo of the day: underwater shopping trolley #

I do enjoy Jason Statham in movies: The Bank Job #

I feel very strongly about this: Support the House in the Last Stand Against Telecom Immunity! (via the EFF) #

Wow:

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit today that accused a San Jose flight-planning company of helping the CIA transport prisoners to overseas dungeons for interrogation and torture, agreeing with the Bush administration that the case risks exposure of state secrets.

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Apparently Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle (built by a friend of Andre‘s, found on Arse Poetica) #

Awesome, ground as glass: Madrid Metro commercial #

Irony is NBC apologizing for Jane Fonda’s use of the word “Cunt” in reference to the name of her performance in the excellent Vagina Monologues #

Tim Bray breaks down and gets a Ricoh Caplio GX100, the zoom version of my prime-lensed Ricoh GR Digital II #

We’ve been joking about doing the exact opposite at work. Guerrilla transition Movable Type blogs to WordPress and then skin WP’s admin interface to look like MT. #

This is cool, building the VIA ARTiGO #

Saw some kids with these for the first time this weekend: The WAVE Street Surfboard (I want one!) #

Whoa! California judge [tries to] shut down wikileaks’ DNS entry, but their IP address still resolves: 88.80.13.160 (more info here) #

Wow, it looks like Lenovo’s recently leaked X300 is for real. More info here, here, here, here, and here, as well as an article in BusinessWeek: Building the Perfect Laptop. Launch date is apparently Feb 26.

My fav deets: 13.3″ LED backlit screen with 1440×900 widescreen resolution (WXGA+), and an optional DVD burner, something none of the X-series have had to date! Sounds like it’s going to be a bit pricey though, what with a 64GB solid state hard drive and all. #

Word I didn’t know: bourse #

May the farm be with you! Store Wars (thanks Christy!) #

OMG Hi-larious:

I should note that this approach also pads your code against changes in the SQL language. I’ve heard from some good sources that the next version of SQL will use the word “GIMMIE” instead of “SELECT”.

(via Andre) #

Nice: Larry Lessig might run for Congress in California’s 12th congressional district (talk about ambition) #

A modern French musical? Love Songs (Les Chansons d’amour) #

Now this is just silly: A Single Serving of … #

This will probably come in handy sometime, maybe: Cheat Sheets #

OMG metalicious: Be Kind Rewind Sweded Trailer (Michel Gondry is crazy (what does sweded mean?)) #

John Battelle on the OpenRoad.TV with Doug McConnell, talking about Marin, Mt. Tam, and mountain biking… #

I know I’ll “always” have this when FM moves to the city: Live Sausalito Webcam #

Hard to believe this is Daniel Plainview: Daniel Day-Lewis in a room, just talking #

Too cute: Star Wars according to a 3 year old. #

Neato: The Building of Cable Car No. 25 #

This is so totally radical, I want one! staircase-cum-bookshelf #

The ThinkPad X300 lives! (it’s only $2400! That’s 22% off the list price of $3000, now through March 3rd)

Now the big question is: Ultrathin DVD Burner or extra bay battery?

Update: list price for the model without the DVD burner jumped from $3,006 to $3,185 overnight—that 22% off sale price of $2548 is still pretty irresistible

Update (3/18/08): Lenovo keeps extending their sale (now through April 7th), but they’ve also reduced the discount on the X300 from the original 22% off to only 10%, or $2,866.50. Of course I didn’t have the money to spend on a new laptop then or now, so it’s all moot to me. #

Brings a whole new meaning to art car: Striking Pakistan Car design #

Google search of the day: 1.35 billion euros in dollars (did you know Google did currency conversions?) #

Zooey Deschanel is in a band with M. Ward? Hot! She & Him #