A Whole Lotta Nothing

links for 2005-06-03

• Billboard Liberation Front Creative Group: May 30th SF McDonalds billboard
  To Serve Man. heh.
  (tags: blf mcdonalds fastfood culturejamming)
• Sitemap Protocol
  Google sitemap builder in XML? huh, looks like an extension to the robots.txt idea. It's like they've just become deepleap (4 people will get this)
  (tags: xml standards google)

links for 2005-06-02

• Oddjack
  gawker goes all in
  (tags: gambling blogs)
• First Muslim women conquer Mount Everest | csmonitor.com
  Yay for Iranian women (though it'd be nice if they'd ease up on the dress code stuff)
  (tags: iran mountaineering hiking climbing outdoors)
• Loosing Google's Lock on the Past - New York Times
  Anil gets a goatse shirt into the New York Times. That's one of the greatest accomplishments imaginable
  (tags: goatse nyt blogs anil)
• The story of Thomas Campbell Butler
  This is the most insane case I've heard of in years.
  (tags: badlaw law terror)

links for 2005-06-01

• CNN.com - iRobot co-founder comes clean - May 30, 2005
  someone please build BloodOnYourRoomba.com to note the ethical dilemmas of supporting killbots by buying vacuums.
  (tags: robotics tech ethics)
• The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: Why Google Maps wins
  The folk singing programmer is right, there's value in a simplified UI.
  (tags: ui design ajax googlemaps)
• Tour of the Breeze House
  assembled in Palo Alto a few weekends ago, should appear in an upcoming issue of Sunset
  (tags: prefab architecture modernhomes design)
• Who Owns Culture?
  video and audio of the jeff tweedy/larry lessig lecture
  (tags: mp3 video creativecommons lessig wilco)

links for 2005-05-31

• Slot Canyons of the American Southwest - Paria River and its tributaries
  Seven years ago I hiked this canyon system -- best backpack trip of my life.
  (tags: hiking outdoors backpacking canyons photography)
• MonkeyFilter | Late season on Mt. Everest
  This year's push to Everest was late and ends soon.
  (tags: mountaineering hiking climbing outdoors)

links for 2005-05-29

• MoCo Loco: Site Interrupted
  Hostway bumps MoCo Loco offline for a spamming complaint they couldn't possibly have done. Odd.
  (tags: webhosting blogs design)
• stilicho: CNNsors on Holiday
  awesome photo joke on CNN
  (tags: racing indy cnn)
• Daddy Types, the weblog for new dads: Utah No Love The Surrogates, No Love The Gays
  Don't be gay and parental in Utah. Or single. You apparently don't deserve children there.
  (tags: religion law TheGay(TM) baby)

links for 2005-05-28

• plesmn npleska
  learning to write, phonetically
  (tags: baby learning mind)
• add google maps directions to your site - malevolent design weblog
  simple. clean way to do it
  (tags: utilities google mapping)
• Gorillaz Vinyl Figure Russel Black Edition at Kidrobot
  badass
  (tags: actionfigures desktopjunk gorrillaz)
• Synergy: The Missing GUI
  finally, after a year and a half of running terminal scripts, synergy is getting a GUI
  (tags: osx pc utilities networking)

links for 2005-05-27

• Viewfinder BLUES
  The death of the news cameraman predicted, thanks to the web and smal cheap tech devices
  (tags: citizenjournalism news tv)
• Super Special Questions Blog: At the Seattle Show Last Night, I Went Outside and Played a Few Songs for the People Waiting in Line to Get In.
  I can't wait to hear this live recording
  (tags: mdoughty music indierock seattle)

links for 2005-05-26

• CFAjax = Coldfusion AJAX
  with example code!
  (tags: coldfusion ajax programming)
• Scott Andrew's auto-podcast feed from Garageband.com
  A preview of what it looks like over on Bloglines. Garageband.com is getting cool again.
  (tags: music podcasting mp3)

links for 2005-05-25

• The Making of a Home
  Ken Jennings hitting Jeopardy again tonight
  (tags: jeopardy for:kottke kenjen)

links for 2005-05-24

• Preshrunk: Hang Tags - 05.23.05
  Threadless is having a $10 sale on all shirts! I just finally bought my first ones from them, but sadly my favorites are still out of print
  (tags: threadless tshirts bargains)
• Fiber Means Chep Broadband (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  damn, sign me up as well
  (tags: networking verizon broadband)
• Verizon Fios - Packages & Prices
  Here's the verizon page. Too bad it's not available in the middle of Oregon
  (tags: networking verizon broadband)

links for 2005-05-23

• Blog for Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - William Morrow, 2005
  Hilarious way of getting back at a bad meal: avoid the French Roast in NYC
  (tags: freakonomics blogs angrymobjustice food)
• eBay Store - jRODaRT: Original Paintings: jROD original painting FUNK GENIE graffiti outsider pop
  I love artists using ebay instead of galleries
  (tags: art paintings ebay)

links for 2005-05-22

• POSITIVE NEGATIVE |- The Coens Brothers
  Joel and Ethan, the almighty Coen brothers
  (tags: photos film coenbros)

links for 2005-05-21

• Virtual Turntable: Mixters Signed to TV Deal
  Repeat after me: giving your music away is good for your career.
  (tags: creativecommons music remix)
• Archived Weblog Entry - 02/03/2005: Behavioural conditioning
  potty training for infants, sounds crazy but apparently works
  (tags: baby)
• Cool Hunting: Nike iD Blogger Contest
  Interesting approach for Nike to take
  (tags: blogs nike contest)
• vi reference mug : geekcheat.com - cheat sheets for geeks! : Geek : Marketplace : CafePress.com
  omg I totally need this
  (tags: wishlist cafepress unix geek)
• Skittle Brau, Beer with candy in it. : CafePress.com
  awesome
  (tags: simpsons comedy tshirts)

links for 2005-05-20

• CeliacChicks
  for my mother in law
  (tags: glutenfree nowheat food)
• Mind Hacks: Avoiding 'stereotype threat' for better performance
  lots of mentions of this in Blink and elsewhere
  (tags: stereotypes culture testing education)
• TV Squad: Poop on Ryan Seacrest
  If I was in LA, I would do this in a heartbeat. Please, someone crap on him today.
  (tags: pranks fame hollywood tv)
• magnatune blog: Magnatune/Lisa DeBenedictis Remix Contest
  The non-evil record company and CC join forces for a remix contest
  (tags: music mp3 remix contest)
• DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�
  when drudge is the guy adding actual facts to a story, you know something's really wrong.
  (tags: blogs gawker nickdenton)

links for 2005-05-19

• 54Dean : Product
  nice use of bamboo
  (tags: design furniture wishlist)
• kid o : Modern Design for Children
  (tags: baby modern design)
• Plogress Report for David Wu
  blog feed of my congressional rep's recent actions
  (tags: oregon politics congress)
• Plogress Report for Ron Wyden
  blog feed of my senator's actions
  (tags: oregon politics congress senate)
• Plogress Report for Gordon Smith
  blog feed of my senator's actions
  (tags: oregon politics congress senate)

links for 2005-05-18

• Confederate Motorcycles: the B91 Wrath
  insane carbon fiber speedbike with 1920s design sensibility. Check out all the photos.
  (tags: motorcycles design wishlist racing)

links for 2005-05-17

• Quick-step laminate flooring: installing laminate flooring system is easy
  the video was helpful
  (tags: diy flooring projects video)
• ColdFusion User Conference
  listing of all CF conferences
  (tags: coldfusion conferences)
• Big Damn Heroes (Tech)xmlrpcservice.cfc : 03-17-2004
  adding xml-rpc services to a cfmx server
  (tags: coldfusion programming api)
• fake PayPal - Log In
  yeeow, a phishing email sent me here, with a URL including the word paypal in it. These guys are getting too good at these scams.
  (tags: phishing scam spam paypal)
• National Geographic Photo of the Day: Wild Horses
  awesome photo
  (tags: photos nationalgeographic horses)

links for 2005-05-15

• How to block Google Accelerator in CF
  Might do this on mefi if I get more bug reports
  (tags: coldfusion programming google)
• Welcome to the Portland, Oregon ColdFusion Users Group (CFUG).
  Might be a useful resource for me
  (tags: pdx coldfusion programming usergroups)
• Musa Basjoo (Hardy Banana Plant)
  The only banana plant that will survive OR winters
  (tags: to_plant gardening backyard)
• NPR : A 'Handbook' to Robert Crumb
  r. crumb on fresh air
  (tags: npr to_listen freshair comics)

links for 2005-05-12

• Frontgate - Solar Lighted Umbrella
  Looks quite useful for evening meals outside
  (tags: clever design home backyard solar wishlist)
• arenot monacca bag Takumi Shimamura
  beautiful
  (tags: design luggage wood wishlist)

links for 2005-05-11

• Page Fifteen - Justin Rood
  A quick interview I did for the Congressional Quarterly about the terror attack video
  (tags: me press washington govt)

links for 2005-05-10

• Regal Lager, Inc. :: Products :: Diaper Dekor :: Instructions
  (tags: filingcabinet manuals baby)
• Sony eSupport - NTM-910
  baby monitor manuals
  (tags: filingcabinet manuals baby)
• We Blog Chapter 8: Using Blogs in Business
  I thought we'd lost this, but the archive has it. Meg's great chapter on business blogging, written in early 2002 and still ahead of its time in many regards.
  (tags: business blogs books businessblogs)

links for 2005-05-09

• Webzine 2005
  ye olde school. webzine is back!
  (tags: webzine zines publishing conferences)
• Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley
  Nice all CSS design on a travel site.
  (tags: css design newzealand travel)
• Glenn's swaddling technique is unstoppable
  with video
  (tags: baby advice video)

links for 2005-05-07

• DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas
  Click on any story and notice the registration page disables the right click in firefox (so that bugmenot doesn't work).
  (tags: asshats newspaper badbusinessideas whenmarketingattacks)
• Type Cast
  One of the first useful dashboard widgets I've seen
  (tags: dashboard osxtiger fonts design)

links for 2005-05-06

• Subsystence | Balance
  nice looking webzine. Remember when personal sites used to be like this?
  (tags: zine personalwebsites design pastels)
• shellen dot com: Maxwell Smart eat your heart out
  kinda frat boy, but clever
  (tags: clever design shoes)

links for 2005-05-02

• Chicago Tribune | Print Edition -- SHE HAS SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT IS -- WEBLOGS
  The future is blogs... in 1999!
  (tags: blogs articles history)
• rc3.org | Worth remembering
  Secret memos always seem to reveal what you thought to be true, but they would never admit
  (tags: memo politics bush iraq)

links for 2005-05-01

• MacZealots > Tutorials > Installing Movable Type on Tiger
  Good to know, when testing
  (tags: mt utilities osxtiger)
• Treehugger: BYOB: Build Your Own Bambike
  Sweet.
  (tags: cycling bamboo diy)
• CitizenX Webcam Lifestyle
  Whoa, look what's back from the dead
  (tags: webcams community)
• sex party shocks small town
  Even though I wouldn't be stoked to hear a swinger party was happening near me, it's silly the extent people are going to stop it. I love the sheriff egging people on to harass them, and people trying to get the water shut off.
  (tags: smalltown morality law sex)

links for 2005-04-30

• Cage Fighter
  de-uglify Mail's aqua buttons in Tiger
  (tags: mail osxtiger hacks)
• Virtual OS done in javascript (win/IE6 only)
  Pretty good windows clone
  (tags: via:rootburn javascript dhtml emulation)
• GreaseMonkeyUserScripts - An Unnamed MoinMoin Wiki
  Grease Monkey central for scripts (all delicious/firefox users should have the autocomplete script installed)
  (tags: greasemonkey firefox utilities)

links for 2005-04-29

• Picking Designer Homes Off the Rack | Business & Economics | Deutsche Welle |
  World Famous designers are doing pre-fab plans. That italian one with the pool looks incredible.
  (tags: modernhomes ecofriendly prefab architecture)
• easter pig roast
  A friend sent this to me. Looks like a remake of lord of the flies but with more drinking and ironic clothing
  (tags: easter party photos random)
• LiveModern - i know it's only like 5 am there right now, but...
  Installing a prefab home in mere minutes, live today
  (tags: modernhomes prefab architecture construction)
• Matt's Googly Site - WordPress is not PHP
  One of the biggest things holding WP back is templates that require every blogger wanting to customize the look of their site to have to know how to decipher PHP. That's insane, and short-sighted.
  (tags: wordpress geeks php blogs cms)
• NBC15 | Are Living Wills a "Mortal Sin"?
  According to this catholic bishop, if your last dying wishes are contained in a living will, you're off to hell. Insane.
  (tags: thisweekingod catholicism quaint)
• Creative Commons prez asks for some lurv | The Register
  Nevrkla continued to insist that CC licensing was the product of "learned professors living in rarified luxurious environment supported by public funds." heh. Ouch.
  (tags: anti-cc creativecommons musicindustry uk)

links for 2005-04-28

• Baby Bargains Blog
  The best book on baby stuff gets a blog. They should be perfect for it, the book reads like a blog already.
  (tags: blogs baby toread)
• DashLog - Freedom to Tinker DashLog
  Ed Felton's new linkblog. Dashlog? Is that a nod to Anil's old daily links?
  (tags: blogs copyright law technology)
• Baby June - Hospital Childbirth
  The Cockerman birth.
  (tags: baby cockeyed comedy birthstories)
• Double Guitar
  And you thought the 80s were over...
  (tags: music metal guitars video)
• nathanchase.com: ghostbusters/NIN mashup
  thanks to the recent release of a garageband version of the NIN song.
  (tags: via:lifehacker music mashups copyright)
• Bicycle Man Recumbent History
  Whoa, I had no idea these things have been around so long, or banned from competitive cycling
  (tags: bikes recumbents mattsrecumbentbike)
• Bud vase features - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
  The "bud vase" feature of my new car was that you can hook an iPod to it with a single wire. Totally got me in the door and thinking about buying one at first.
  (tags: design play applications features)

links for 2005-04-27

• Mom - the blog
  Lily's baby blog
  (tags: toread baby blogs)
• Joi Ito's Web: Plazes tracking map
  Whoa, plazes + bryan boyer's flash mapping = automated cool
  (tags: whereintheworldisjoiito mapping flash)
• Blogpad: Improvements wishlist for Magnatune
  Good list of ideas on how to improve Magnatune, love to see some of these in action.
  (tags: magnatune music mp3 usability)
• Adam Curry interview on CBS about podcasting (grainy wmv)
  Pretty surprising how quickly "podcasting" is growing in media mentions
  (tags: news blogs podcasting adamcurry)

links for 2005-04-26

• eBay - decemberists benefit auction, Accessories, Drawings, Photographic Images items at low prices
  The Decemberists are still raising money for lost gear, this time on ebay. They should totally do a screenprinting run of that shirt.
  (tags: ebay indierock fundraising decemberists)
• evohr.org: broken records and secret codes
  both entries here (from parents of twin toddlers) are hilarious: explaining records and talking about shopping at "precision aiming device"
  (tags: baby stories comedy blogs)
• lightningfield.com | Wenhai Lake, Yunnan, China
  *that* is what you call a panorama.
  (tags: photos blogs china landscape)
• One America Committee: Podcasting 101
  Tonight's blogging milestone: Jon Stewart says "podcast" on the Daily Show for the first time, in reference to John Edwards' PAC
  (tags: blogs podcasting dailyshow)

links for 2005-04-25

• notes: It's A Whole New (No It's Not) Internet
  Andre's right, perhaps Janice mistaked the recent excitement with a sudden money influx, but those benefiting from this climate have always made cool things (though it's nice they're getting paid for it now)
  (tags: web2.0 bubble2.0 op-ed)
• The Ultimate Blogger: Welcome!
  Sounds like ernie's old contests
  (tags: blogs contests panic)
• Greasemonkey compiler | Holovaty.com
  For converting greasemonkey scripts to extensions
  (tags: mozilla firefox browserhacks extensions)
• Cool Hunting: A New Look for Spring
  Cool Hunting redesigned. Looks pretty sweet.
  (tags: redesigns blogs coolhunting)
• Treehugger's Dominic Muren wins Designboom Competition!
  Brilliant, clever idea for a doorbell -- make the door into a musical instrument
  (tags: clever design home doors)
• The Pop Shoppe Canada's Original Est. 1969
  O Canada, you do soda and candy better than we ever will
  (tags: soda retro design)

links for 2005-04-24

• Times Editor Chris Lopez's weblog - Contra Costa Times
  Pretty interesting that the editor would start blogging about his paper's stories and process. Cool insight into the action at a paper.
  (tags: newspaper blogs editor bayarea)
• Making the iPod's shuffle function work better [Maximum Aardvark]
  This is fucking brilliant. I keep a "music added in last 30 days" list, but throwing in 3-5 star songs I haven't heard in a few days is brilliant.
  (tags: ipod shuffle apple smartplaylists ipodhacks)

links for 2005-04-23

• seattlepi.com photo gallery
  MIT students celebrating "drop day"
  (tags: mit piano destruction photos)
• adaptive path: it's a whole new internet
  [this is good]
  (tags: ap web2.0 essays)
• TypePad Photo Albums - Manage
  Uploading to Typepad via built-in WinXP tools: slick as hell.
  (tags: windows photos utilities typepad)

links for 2005-04-22

• DCist: DCist Interview: Any mainstream songs out there right now that you think are good?
  Bob Mould: "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. It's a swift kick in the balls kind of pop song.
  (tags: sinceubeengone music bobmould)
• johnaugust.com
  Screenwriter of Go, Big Fish, and the Wonka remake dropping tips on his own wordpress blog. Very cool.
  (tags: blogs celebrity filmmaking writers)
• Rogers Cadenhead on the Today Show (6Mb wmv)
  jump to about 15 seconds in, he was hilarious, especially at the end with the "Katie....I always wanted to end a segment like that"
  (tags: tv blogs pope rogers)
• Rogers Cadenhead on MSNBC's Olbermann show (6Mb wmv)
  Rogers should be a late night TV host.
  (tags: pope blogs rogers msnbc)

links for 2005-04-21

• Cooking Under Fire | PBS
  This should be good
  (tags: toTivo cooking tvshows)
• Good Experience - April 2005
  Job Opening: redo the entire NYT site
  (tags: nyt jobs designers)
• Hitchhikers Guide to Blogging (iTunes Music Store)
  Just listen to the preview, then buy. Very amusing and close to the truth.
  (tags: itunes blogs parody H2G2)
• Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!
  Subject: Are you man enough for this?
  (tags: spamusement spam art comedy)
• HYPEBEAST - Sneakers, Fashion, Trends and More: adidas Papacy
  The pope's got phat kicks, yo!
  (tags: adidas shoes wishlist comedy)
• O'Reilly Radar
  new blog from the big O
  (tags: blogs tech oreilly)
• MissPoppy.com | - Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model
  "Show that you support the 'culture of life' by buying and proudly displaying one of these patriotic unborn Americans." -- I'm speechless
  (tags: wtf fetuswar)
• allura ellington :: Guide to Spam Arrest for Knowspam.net refugees
  sweet, need to read up on this in a couple weeks
  (tags: knowspam email spam spamarrest)

links for 2005-04-20

• Blogger Buzz: You're In A Desert Walking...
  blogspot is no longer hurting america! woot!
  (tags: spam blogs Blogger antispam)
• Chicago Transit Authority map on Google Maps | Holovaty.com
  Holy cow, google maps + a greasemonkey script. Adrian just opened pandora's box.
  (tags: mapping hacks googlemaps greasemonkey chicago masstransit)
• telescreen.org: Thoughts on Benedict XVI
  The new pope was one of those "don't give Kerry communion" guys. Disappointing.
  (tags: religion thisweekingod catholicism pope)
• Maniacal Rage. Very Important Message.
  heh. Coldfusion still annoying users.
  (tags: coldfusion programming webapps uptime)
• PLY - Midwest Rural House
  nice
  (tags: architecture modernhomes)

links for 2005-04-19

• Macromedia + Adobe
  Wow. I guess this means my jrun errors will look nicer, eventually.
  (tags: adobe acquisitions macromedia)
• The apathy of moderates leads to the agenda of the extreme
  what he said
  (tags: religion homeschooling creationism education)
• GarageBand.com : band profile for BO BICE & Sugar Money
  Whoa, an american idol finalist has been on gargeband for a while
  (tags: music tv americanidol garageband)
• Apple - Mac OS X - Bonjour
  Sacre Bleu! Apple renamed Rendezvous to Bonjour... because the mac wasn't french and elitist enough?
  (tags: marketing apple networking ugh)

links for 2005-04-18

• Workbench: Sunday, April 17, 2005
  Brian Buck, radio blogger with bone cancer, passed on.
  (tags: blogs cancer RIP)
• Knowspam.net: Tired of Spam Yet?
  "knowspam.net will shut down on June 25, 2005" uh, woulda been nice if us customers were emailed first
  (tags: knowspam email spam deaddotcoms)

links for 2005-04-16

• Floating Logos Project
  awesome.
  (tags: art signage advertising photography)
• Participants in reboot7, 10-11 june 2005, copenhagen, denmark
  (23 men/1 woman) heh.
  (tags: genderbias conferences reboot LetTheWomenSpeak)

links for 2005-04-15

• TTRefund - Homepage
  Turbo Tax for teens. Because sometimes you want to do your taxes TO THE EXTREEEEMMMEEE!!!
  (tags: TheKidsToday teens taxes phonymarketing)
• Michael Buffington "Like a Robot"
  oooh, the intrigue! secret project at AP using ruby on rails underway
  (tags: web2.0 rubyonrails secretprojects)
• My Beloved Monster
  sweet jesus, these cupcakes look good
  (tags: recipes cupcakes dessert)
• I rock new jersey on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  awesome shirt
  (tags: preshrunk wishlist TheRockMusic)

links for 2005-04-14

• Google Video (Beta) - Video Upload Program
  whoa, you can even charge folks for download/viewing
  (tags: videoblogs video google)
• finkbuilt: It's your surveillance state
  I love these stories where ubiquitous monitoring isn't used by the state, but by the people. SciFi got it all wrong.
  (tags: video capture car citizenjustice)
• Jacobian.org A recipe for disaster
  Google Video's TOS has some suspect phrases.
  (tags: google video law tos)

links for 2005-04-13

• Carat Starts Blog Initiative
  If you're TiVo, you pay Carat to learn how to talk to me, or y'know, just call me up and save your money.
  (tags: blogs marketing blogbuzz)
• Home | Round Two
  A firefox extension company?
  (tags: firefox mozilla startups)
• bling it on
  The "bedazzler" grew up into this.
  (tags: blingbling silly)
• Getting Fired for Sharing the Public Domain
  Crazy story of a radio host losing his job after replaying some CSPAN cuts that were legal anyway.
  (tags: copyright whenlawyersattack radio)
• 6040 House by Northern Steel International and LamiDesign
  It's boxy, but you can't beat a 3,000 sq ft home for less than $200k.
  (tags: architecture modernhomes prefab)
• SSRN-Initial Reflections on the Law and Economics of Blogging by Larry Ribstein
  On blogs, economics, and the law
  (tags: toread law blogs economics)
• Mike Davidson: iPod Giveaway #1: Make a Meatspace Shuffle
  goat butter shuffle. awesome.
  (tags: shuffle art ipod)
• eBay - Eastern, Airlines, Aviation, Transportation items at low prices
  ebay has an entire category for Eastern Airlines, dead for 15 years now. Some freaky stuff is still available (outfits, silverware, etc).
  (tags: ebay deadairlines collectibles)

links for 2005-04-12

• The New York Times > Business > Media & Advertising > Blogs Incensed Over Pulitzer Photo Award
  Lame, baseless charges lobbed by conservative bloggers get written up, even though they were wrong according to the AP. I hope the term blogging doesn't equate to "hot heads that jump to conclusions" in the mainstream
  (tags: blogs news controversy)
• Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Site Content Copyright Protection
  what in the hell is this? Also, love the button, because it puts your readers on alert that you think they're all theives right away.
  (tags: plagarism copyright whenlawyersattack)
• David Galbraith: RSS, Semantic Web, and tagging
  I'm guessing these are David's notes for our panel last month or something, but a nice wrapup of everything
  (tags: rss semanticweb tagging folksnonomies)

links for 2005-04-11

• Grove Street on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  heh, memory maps have already inspired comedy
  (tags: comedy memorymaps GTA:SA)
• BBC NEWS | Magazine | A long road ahead
  On the segway's lack of world changing. I realize that the only segway I've seen in the last year is GOB's on arrested development, where it's used as a joke
  (tags: segway buildingcitiesaroundthis hype marketing failures)
• Apartment Therapy - cork place holder
  nice, though you'd have to empty several cases of wine to get a full dinner party set
  (tags: clever diy kitchen party cork)

links for 2005-04-09

• Catch 22
  When did converse become cool again? Their entire re-issue line is fantastic
  (tags: shoes design wishlist converse hipster)
• Listings
  This is the mother of all crazy scraping hacks. I *love* this idea of combining cool web services that should have an API to interact, but don't
  (tags: googlemaps craigslist scrAPI hacks via:torrez)

links for 2005-04-08

• NPR : The Acerbic Wit of Lewis Black
  Lewis Black on Fresh Air, good stuff.
  (tags: dailyshow comedy freshair)
• Google Maps - 1313 south harbor blvd.,anaheim ca
  Disneyland: the matterhorn doesn't look as big as I thought it would
  (tags: via:boogah googlemaps disney)
• mezzoblue: Google Maps and Accountability
  British Columbia's thriving forestry industry (read: clearcuts) as seen at Google Maps
  (tags: googlemaps environment forestry citizensurveillance)
• NPR : Kool Herc: A Founding Father of Hip Hop
  There is nothing better than hearing Terry Gross try and understand the history of hip-hop
  (tags: freshair hiphop therapmusic musichistory)
• Ask Flickr: how do I change this light bulb?
  I'm testing the waters with another unintended use of Flickr: can we get help from random strangers?
  (tags: askflickr flickr howmanyinternetnerdsdoesittaketochangealightbulb)
• HydroGrill Home - Healthy Barbecue Food - Outdoor Grilling
  Water cooled BBQ for better fish and veggies. Wonder if it really works.
  (tags: food cooking bbq)

links for 2005-04-07

• Introducing the Blair watch project from Guardian Unlimited: Election 2005
  Awesome idea for flickr/citizen watch project
  (tags: flickr blogs journalism smartmobs)
• Perhapses: A Life of Uncertainty is Worth Pursuing
  What do all memory map photos have in common? Win a book if you know what it is.
  (tags: contest flickr google memorymaps)
• Pi Pie on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  This is the nerdiest and best geek dessert I've ever seen. I love pi.
  (tags: mathgeeks pi cooking flickr photo)
• Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
  Must remember to check this place out this weekend.
  (tags: flowers oregon tulips)
• defective yeti
  when google maps can see too much
  (tags: comedy googlemaps)
• Flickr Mobile
  I had no idea Flickr had a phone version. This is great because my phone can't pull in the real site very well.
  (tags: flickr phone wap mobile)
• Flickr Photo Download: GoogleMaps Satelite View Real-World-Mix
  What people on the ground see when someone Google Maps a nearby place.
  (tags: comedy googlemaps)

links for 2005-04-06

• Google Maps - Gerlach,NV 89412
  whoa, burning man camp setup on google satellite maps
  (tags: google mapping maps satellite)
• rc3.org | Making Firefox scream
  this sped my firefox (on a fast cable modem) up noticeably
  (tags: firefox utilities networking)
• Google Maps - honolulu,hi
  Diamond Head, from above
  (tags: google mapping maps satellite)

New Feature

I jotted down a bunch of thoughts during SXSW and Etech. They're not entirely related to one another, but I promise if you read through the whole thing you'll probably pick up one new idea or trick from it.