July 2009

Phallic diagram of the day: Cut-away diagram of a rhombic drive beta configuration Stirling engine design #

Like 28 Days Later, but with vampires: Daybreakers (this actually looks good) #

I quite like the synchronized drumming in this video: Bon Iver playing Skinny Love on Letterman #

Wikipedia article of the day: Lincoln Highway #

This is great: knitted poo #

I could get behind graffiti stencil art as cross stitch: Banksy embroidery #

The concept of a Summer School for XML is very amusing to me #

It’s so neat that this exists: Daily Paintworks, a community of daily painters #

Has anyone had any experience with the MEI Voyageur travel pack? (I’d never heard of it until stumbling upon a positive review on One Bag and One Bag, One World) #

OMG perfect! Loose Tweets Sink Fleets (and more) #

With a name like Tapas de Castillo Blanco, it has to be good, right? #

Now this is some serious home cheesemaking: heinennellie #

Another type of veggie basket: Yesterday’s Harvest #

I did not know this: Richard Feynman explains how trains stay on their tracks #

This looks…stressful: The Hurt Locker #

How many times have we heard this song before? Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System. But seriously, I have to admit Chrome kind of came out of left field, so why not. Here’s the rub, if it was free—even if it wasn’t open source—to both individuals and resellers like Dell, it would probably put a serious crimp in Microsoft’s style. #

My friend Christy’s boat, Ariel of Victoria, has its own website: The A/v Club (I think she’s planning on living on it—when she finishes restoring it) #

And the other shoe drops: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

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John Resig: If there was ever a time to start playing around with the jump to HTML 5, now would be it. #

Man, this is different: J.R.Liggett’s Old-Fashioned Bar Shampoo

Update: Here’s another source for shampoo bars: Chagrin Valley Soap & Craft Company #

Oh snap!

It’s curious—one of the traditional roles of the print media was to act as a gadfly to business and government and keep ’em honest, look into their claims and behavior and so forth and check to see if they were all on the up-and-up. So, now, has it fallen to blogosphere to play the very same role vis-a-vis the traditional media itself? Or am I reading way too much into this?

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This is rad: Human skateboard #

I can’t even begin to think how they coordinated this: SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) #

Whoa: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession #

I’m not sure anyone really cares about “Wolfram Alpha” anymore (Cuil? Cuil?) but this is certainly an interesting read: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces #

Just updated my Copy as HTML Link extension for Firefox 3.5 (the latest version will hopefully be showing up on addons.mozilla.org shortly) #

How to make jam en français: I made apricot and fig jam yesterday #

I updated my NSFW post, L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) with a photo of Orlan’s painting, L’Origine de la guerre (The Origin of War) #

Wikipedia article of the day: List of long-distance footpaths #

Thoughtful piece:

Thinking about the Sigma DP2 has made me continue to ponder the economics of camera manufacturing in the digital age.

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I used to walk by this spot every day on my way to lunch: oopies… in Sausalito #

Not a bad way to go: The Last Pontiac #

It turns out, blogging is as old as the web itself: Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg’s history of blogging (omg! www=blogging) #

The 4th branch: Experts Tell Congress to Lay Off the Fed #

Not from The Onion: The introduction of laser sights – first introduced around a decade ago by an American avionics expert – threw the [peashooting] sport into turmoil #

Truth is stranger than fiction: Amazon Erases Two Classics From Kindle (I love technology, but I have no interest in ebooks) (via Andre) #

Not what I expected: Coco Before Chanel (starring Audrey Tautou!) #

Next Thursday. Ferry Building. Street-food market. It’s on.

Ask for your Golden Dog Dogzilla-style, and what you get is a heap of chili-dog vividness. Only instead of canned chili and grated orange cheese, 4505’s version smothers the wiener with kimchi, diced red onion, and a handful of chicharrones.

(via Andy) #

No, really, for real? The International School of Pizza #

This made me chuckle: Finally after 2 months of classes and community service, I’m a certified Master Composter. #

Finally, I’m going to be around for one of these:

Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher will be at it again, this time they are going to HANG and butcher a 21 day aged forequarter, 100% grass fed, 175lb slab of beef from Magruger Ranch. They will demonstrate there fine art of butchery, and then immediately throw shanks of meat on the grill for everyones enjoyment.

Tuesday, July 28th, 6-10pm, at Bloodhound #

The caption says it all: Mini Cooper Oscar Mayer Wienermobile #

I can imagine myself trying to make bento lunches for my future children #

I have to admit, I don’t really get all the brouhaha over the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing… but this is cool: Google Code announces that some of the source code for the Apollo 11 spacecraft has been put online #

Update your bookmarks, Soleilisme is now La Vie Soleil (dot com) #

Yeah, this is cool enough to download and burn: 8-bit Weezer (love the album art too) #

Do you know what Tanuki is? (yeah, me neither) #

Oh, that’s what horsefeathers means! (did I know that?) #

Hehe: Did you mean: recursion? #

Yiiikes: mitigating the flash player vulnerability #

Eye-opening blog written by an escort volunteer coordinator for the only abortion clinic in Louisville, KY #

This looks freaking awesome: Tron Legacy #

Check out the Where the Wild Things Are: Exclusive Featurette (Maurice Sendak approves)

Everybody on the trip of making the movie was a little bit of a throwback, they are like the young people that I remember back in the 60s, kind of goofy, crazy, whacked out, but dramatically gifted.

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Passed by the poster for this movie on the way to work and had to do a double-take. What is this quirky movie? Paper Heart #

Clearly I need to raise my quiche game: The Best Quiche #

Neat: Ricoh unveils GR Digital III digital compact #

This is a sexy car: 2009 Maserati GranTurismo S #

Such a great headline: Potentially Collectible Hondas #

I would try this: Homemade Nutella recipe #

Nice docs Symfony!

However, [dependency injection] is also one of the most difficult [design patterns] to explain well. This is probably partly due to the nonsense examples used in most [tutorials]. In this chapter, we have tried to come up with examples that fit the PHP world better. As PHP is a language mainly used for web development, we are going to use simple Web examples.

I figure since everyone’s been talking about dependency injection, it might be good to know what they’re talking about. #