If you happened to catch the recent Duncan Hines “Bake On” commercial, you may have registered a subliminal cupcake crop circle that momentarily materialized before disappearing beneath a giant flying brownie. I’m not making this stuff up. The first time…
I sometimes wondered what it was like for those of you who followed my dispatches from our travels over the last year. If they were even half as interesting as Terrie’s updates from her Peace Corps training in Ghana, I…
We arrived in San Francisco on September 16, exactly 13 months after we left. I took one look at the rental market on Craigslist and gasped. It seemed that rents had doubled in the time we’d been gone. Well, not…
It’s not just a great band name. It’s also an incredible photo. Airlifting a South African black rhino away from poachers (by Michael Raimondo)
I got an email from Terrie in Ghana the other day who told me my blog was being blocked by MTN, a mobile telecom provider in many countries across Africa and the Middle East. But get this. The stated reason…
Since starting to seriously look at real estate at the beginning of October, Stephanie and I made a habit of trying to check out at least one or two open houses every Sunday. We weren’t being lazy, it’s just that…
…and now that Kiva has relocated to 5th and Howard, I am one of them: “Programmers”, a sketch from Meanwhile, 6th and Mission by Wendy MacNaughton Tonight Kiva was welcomed to the 5th Street neighborhood by The Hub, a sort…
Why might you want to do this? To access your posts while you’re away from the internet (long flights, container ships, developing countries, etc.) To compose posts with WordPress’ native editing and preview tools, rather than client blogging apps To…
Instead of plain, ol’ turkey for Thanksgiving, Danny and Claudine treated us to a gourmet turducken, procured from 4505 Meats. This franken-turducken was half turkey on one side and half chicken on the other, with duck sausage and cornbread stuffing…
After discovering that someone had made a bold preemptive offer on one of the coolest condos in San Francisco we’d seen, our real estate agents’ advice was to wait and see. Occasionally people make impulsive decisions and back out once…
I know Halloween is over, but this is pretty awesome: Princess Vader #
Word: The True Cost of Commuting #
Ha: NoVIMber (It’s funny because I’ve been thinking about doing NovEmacsber) #
Support the Mindblogglingly Magnanimous and Majestically Mustachioed Men of Kiva (by making a donation to DonorsChoose in support of public schools) #
Cooking classes around the Bay Area: Ten Places to Master Piroshkis, Paella or Pad Thai (via Corey) #
Luxury fruit? Oh Japan. (via Andy) #
Ha! Good one: Silicon Prairie joins Valley, Alley, etc. (though I would have named the site the Silicon Prairie Companion) #
Wow, This American Life brings down Judge Amanda Williams #
You can buy a 3D printer now? #
Yes Yes Yes: The Social Graph is Neither (best thing I’ve read in a while) #
xkcd: What your favorite map projection says about you (I actually thought about this a little when creating the map for Our Path—though in the end, I’m not sure which projection I copied—so I’m not sure what that says about me) #
You stay classy, Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill sends SWAT team to arrest Occupy “anarchists” (also: Cool! Chapel Hill on Boing Boing!) #
Handy: Color-highlighted svn diff output (wish it specifically highlighted changes within individual lines like Trac) #
Flipping through a magazine while waiting for lunch today, I stumbled upon a photo of a painting of a photo of mine. Took a photo of it (that’s a photo of a photo of a painting of a photo for everyone who’s keeping score) and added it to the bottom of Catching up with Eric Rewitzer. #
This is absolutely genius: A History of the Sky for One Year (via Kottke) #
A nice interview with the Omnivorous Michael Pollan at home (I wonder what I’d have to do to get invited to his annual pig roast?) #
Tonight was a Sophia-Grace-and-Rosie-a-thon (thanks to Andy). Also see: Nicki Minaj Sings ‘Super Bass’ with Sophia Grace and Sophia Grace and Rosie Hit the Red Carpet! #
Awesome: Canadian’s lucky iron fish saves lives in Cambodia #
Word I had to look up: eleemosynary (it means charity)
Update, January 10, 2012: Whoa, the band Centro-Matic used the word eleemosynary in their song Patience For The Ride:
eleemosynary was your call
but you lied to the lonely hearts
on your desperate fall
Check out Jodi’s lovely photos in It’s Always Tagine O’Clock in Morocco #
Really been enjoying David Lebovitz’s blog lately. Check out Merguez Corn Dogs, My Favorite Kitchen Tip[s], Ever, and Mustard Glasses… #
I was actually saddened to discover that Mark Pilgrim pulled down diveintomark.org back in October (there’s a little more info at Eric Meyer’s Searching For Mark Pilgrim) #
This is cool: Little Printer #