A Whole Lotta Nothing

Rocketman

Rocketman, originally uploaded by jurvetson.

Awesome shot.

T R A G E D Y

T R A G E D Y, originally uploaded by arkworld.

links for 2006-09-02

• The Knowledge For Thirst · Jazz Diet Pepsi
  This is the best soft drink review ever.
  (tags: pepsi reviews comedy)
• The $15 basketball shoe that all the kids covet. By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
  This is the coolest story: pro NBA player makes affordable $15 shoe, promises to play in games wearing them while other stars sell $150+ shoes.
  (tags: basketball shoes)
• eBay - Starbury One shoes, Men's Shoes, Boys items on eBay.com
  Starbury Ones on eBay
  (tags: shoes wishlist ebay)

links for 2006-09-01

• Google Code - Updates: Announcing Tesseract OCR
  Yo Gmail team! Read this and try it out on attachments for spam prevention
  (tags: google ocr)
• Get Rich Slowly » 27 Money Tips for College Students
  Fantastic advice for anyone entering college. O how I wish I knew about these.
  (tags: college finance advice)

links for 2006-08-31

• Kohler DTV Custom Showering Experience
  daaamn. I'm kind of surprised it doesn't cost more. I suppose installation is many times more expensive.
  (tags: shower bathroom wishlist uncrate)
• Musicast
  pssst! this turns your copy of iTunes into Napster. Ixnay on the ellingTay of the IAARay.
  (tags: apple music itunes podcasting)
• Lost - a photoset on Flickr
  I thought this photoset of two dudes playing on a LOST set was fake until the racist and homophobic jokes. I doubt ABC would plant that.
  (tags: lost tv)

links for 2006-08-27

• Flight Patterns
  amazing
  (tags: art airtravel visualization videos)

links for 2006-08-25

• Geekcorps
  huh, never heard of this before
  (tags: charity programming geek grassroots jobs travel)
• stereogum: John Roderick Performs "Pushover" @ Beacon Theater, NY 8/23/06
  Roderick going acoustic is always a treat
  (tags: longwinters youtube music video)

links for 2006-05-27

• HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - TUTORIAL: tether your motorola/nokia/se phone to your mac with via BT!
  handy step-by-step to getting your nokia and sony bluetooth phones talking to your mac and being used as a wireless modem
  (tags: utilities bluetooth osx)

Backhoe

(Backhoe, originally uploaded by Plaid Ninja)

awesome.

Fiona

(fiona-wide, originally uploaded by mathowie)

Where would we be without Cheerios and cheese?

Jer's New Shirt

(Jer's New Shirt, originally uploaded by kk+)

Awesome. I can't believe in all these years, this obvious joke was sitting unsaid until now.

Queenstown view

(Queenstown view, originally uploaded by pb)

I've never seen a better view out of a hotel window. Hopefully I'll get to visit that someday.

SXSW Preview

(SXSWpreview, originally uploaded by kathryn)

If you asked me three years ago what the likelihood was of someday seeing Neil Young immediately followed by Dooce.com, I would have answered "not in a million years."

Taint

Someone really needs to make this into a t-shirt:

Jingle Bells

"one horse, soap, and sleigh" is what I thought the lyric was until today.

matt and fiona

(matt and fiona, originally uploaded by Alaina B.)

This is my favorite picture of Fiona to date.

Flocking test

This is a test of the Flock blogging component in the new version. So far, so good and the browser is starting to look and feel like a great finished product. I kinda miss the old digg-style community links system, but I'm sure it'll crop up in another format soon.

Technorati Tags: flock, flickr, testing

links for 2005-09-18

• Installing a Plasma Television
  How to run hidden cabling. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find pictures of these installations
  (tags: tv diy hometheater)
• Wiretracks(tm) - iCove
  in-wall iPod mounts. Could look pretty sweet near a stereo setup
  (tags: diy hometheater ipod)

links for 2005-09-17

• Inflatable Pub | Uncrate
  awesome.
  (tags: beerbeerbeer)
• honk! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  This looks like a bad Super Bowl halftime show, circa 1978
  (tags: starwars photos flickr)
• bandwidth speed test
  handy thing to have around, runs in java
  (tags: bandwidth utilities)

links for 2005-09-15

• soup du jour of the day - My brush with fame and broadband
  I heard about this story from the other end.
  (tags: comedy family smallworld)
• Infinite Loop: It's official, Apple is planning a video store
  Can't wait to see how this works. Will the airport express get s-video out?
  (tags: movies apple itunes)
• Comedy Central - Shows - The Daily Show - Extras
  Kurt Vonnegut's list of LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN
  (tags: comedy cynicaloldmen vonnegut)

links for 2005-09-14

• Play: home
  new ajaxy online board game
  (tags: games ajax)
• The German Car Blog: VW: Get connected!
  Awesome, simple way to transport tunes: a USB key
  (tags: audio car mp3 vw)
• Google Blog Search Help
  So long Technorati, been nice knowing you...
  (tags: blogs search google)
• QDN: FEMA return-to-sender
  FEMA's mail server is non-existent. Real fine organization you got there.
  (tags: disaster fema govt)

links for 2005-09-13

• Bobby: dog skiing
  It looks like the dog is really enjoying it.
  (tags: silly video dogs snow)
• Del.icio.us and MyWeb Combo Bookmarklet :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
  sweet! I can't believe I missed this.
  (tags: bookmarklets utilities javascript)

links for 2005-09-11

• Maeda's SIMPLICITY: Yahoogle!
  a visual timeline
  (tags: yahoo google waybackmachine archive.org)

links for 2005-09-10

• « oddfellow : sometimes daily »
  peanuts and the nuts that love them
  (tags: stories comedy austin)

links for 2005-09-09

• The Raw Story | Republicans block efforts to amend relief bill, hold vote without providing copy of bill
  "No one has even seen a copy of the bill"
  (tags: congress politics)
• Vinton Cerf, Internet Pioneer, Joins Google - New York Times
  It's like hiring Jesus to help out at your soup kitchen.
  (tags: google news internetmessagingprocessor)

links for 2005-09-08

• Oregon DMV - Online Change of Address Login
  saving for later
  (tags: utilities moving dmv oregon)
• GirlHacker's Random Log
  holy crap, Kepler's Bookstore went out of business?!
  (tags: books stores bayarea)
• Blogger Buzz: Flag Day!
  my Flag Day got picked up by Blogger -- cool.
  (tags: blogs spam blogspot)

links for 2005-09-07

• ReadyMade: Feature - Slide Lamp
  sweet.
  (tags: lights diy photos projects todo)

links for 2005-09-06

• Brodart - Library Supply
  If you ever needed to order book checkout cards/pockets for your own books at home
  (tags: library borrowing nostalgia)
• Astrodome - a photoset on Flickr
  Incredible set of photos from someone working as a volunteer at the Astrodome
  (tags: photos flickr katrina)
• Saigon Added to HBO's "Entourage" : Daily Hip-Hop News : SOHH.com
  huh, Saigon is a real rapper/actor.
  (tags: entourage hbo TheRapMusic)

links for 2005-09-04

• Treehugger: Leggero Shopper: Max Flexibility
  ecodorky looking, but extremely simple and clever product
  (tags: clever design cycling environment)
• The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth: Jalopnik Reviewer Makes Waves in SF - Jalopnik
  Post a bad review of a new car, get fired from the newspaper that likely receives lots of advertising from same car company
  (tags: cars ethics journalism blogs)

links for 2005-09-03

• The Washington Monthly
  a FEMA timeline
  (tags: katrina disaster fema)
• FUDD CALLS FOR "ASSASSINATION" OF BUGS BUNNY
  "Additional reporting for this story was provided by Chuck Jones."
  (tags: comedy patrobertson assassination)

links for 2005-09-02

• pbwiki - flagday: FrontPage
  flag day is apparently next saturday, pass it on
  (tags: blogspot spamblogs)
• Kerkove suspended for forum comments
  Whoa, a bike racer is suspended from a race series due to comments on the promoter's site
  (tags: cycling controversy community)

links for 2005-09-01

• codefetch{
  awesome new service that searches all code samples from books on programming languages.
  (tags: coldfusion programming search)
• Decisive Moments: A two of a kind
  Competitive poker and competitive cycling: many similarities
• QDN: Holy lack of empathy, Globat!
  That's some compassionate salesfolks you got there at Globat.
  (tags: wtf webhosting evil)
• rebecca blood :: bloggers on blogging :: heather armstrong (dooce), august 2005
  The dooce interview
• Beautiful Silk Plants by Template Title
  Someone forgot to enter their TEMPLATE TITLE into their spamblog software
  (tags: nofollow blogspot spamblogs)
• Welcome to truedoc.com
  Remember embedded fonts in Netscape 4? Well, they're going away forever next week.
  (tags: fonts webdev netscape)
• deleteTheBorder.org | towards a global network of movements against borders
  globalization through the use of border:none;
  (tags: globalization racism nationalism)

links for 2005-08-30

• Cycling the Lewis & Clark Trail - Gadling - www.gadling.com _
  riding the Lewis and Clark trail
  (tags: cycling vacations history wishlist)
• What is section targeting and how do I implement it?
  how to hone your adsense targeting by filtering out unrelated sidebar, header, and footer text.
  (tags: to_implement google adsense textads)
• Daddy Types, the weblog for new dads: Leander Kid Beds: Something Is Rockin' In Denmark
  that is one gorgeous looking crib.
  (tags: baby design furniture)

links for 2005-08-29

• HE - design Marcel Wanders
  Microwave TV. Why didn't someone think of this ages ago?
  (tags: kitchen gadgets design clever)
• Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!
  Fan-created guitar tabs done with Creative Commons music. Pretty cool unintended resuse.
  (tags: creativecommons music folkmusic guitartabs)

links for 2005-08-28

• Lilina-head
  Slick & simple.
  (tags: blogs rss design aggregator)

links for 2005-08-26

• Sin in Linen: Try something new in bed!
  Wow. All that is left out is an anarchy symbol on a duvet for $150.
  (tags: irony punkisdead shopping bedroom)

links for 2005-08-25

• Treehugger: RISD's New Dorm Furniture
  RISD's new stuff looks like classic case study pieces.
  (tags: modernfurniture furniture college)
• NPR : Alan Ball: A 'Six Feet Under' Postmortem
  Alan Ball explains how the final SFU montage wasn't all roses (I missed the subtleties)
  (tags: sixfeetunder sfu tv)
• Bluefish Editor : Home
  opensource, openoffice app that replicates Homesite
  (tags: opensource openoffice htmleditors)
• rstevens: THOU SHALT HAVE NO ENTREES BEFORE ME
  The flying spagetti monster icon -- finally our exhaulted creator is immortalized in graphic form.
  (tags: pastafarianism)

links for 2005-08-24

• The Best 361 Colleges Rankings on The Princeton Review
  "The top 361 Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians" awesome
  (tags: college hippies)
• The Best 361 Colleges Rankings on The Princeton Review
  "Demographics: Students Ignore God On A Regular Basis" this reads like a college wishlist for me
  (tags: colleges ThisWeekInGod TheJesus)
• vedana: Fresh Gmail
  Gmail lets you now put your own from: address in, so there's no excuse not to switch to gmail from your current domain email provider.
  (tags: gmail email webapps web2.0)
• Cheap Stingy Bastard: Dimension 9100 3GHz 512MB 40GB 24" LCD
  buy the dell 24" monitor at retail price, get a free 3Ghz pentium pc
  (tags: deals dell)

links for 2005-08-23

• NPR : Peter Maass on 'The Breaking Point' for Gas Demand
  Wow, my old friend Peter Maass, a journalist with a knack for getting into sticky situations, was on fresh air today.
  (tags: petermaass oil freshair npr saudiarabia)
• Holy Crap on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  egads
  (tags: toys wrestling wwf)

Testing post

This is a test post, testing some stuff.


Testing some more stuff.

links for 2005-08-22

• Mysterious Amazing Fantastic Man: Qu'ils sont cons ces blogueurs
  This photo should totally be the new cover of our book "We Blog" if we ever do a second printing.
  (tags: blogs photos lefrench)
• Upcoming California Supreme Court decisions
  Three big ones coming down on Monday
  (tags: remindertoself law parentsrights TheGay(TM))

links for 2005-08-21

• phil ringnalda dot com: O'Reilly joins the search engine spam parade
  O'Reilly whores out their ONlamp site, adding a linkfarm to make help make Google's search worse (in exchange for a few bucks). ORA should really know better than to do this.
  (tags: tsktsk oreilly spam searchgaming ethics wtf)

links for 2005-08-20

• / keaggy.com :: Chairs :: Sad #17 /
  50 sad chairs project
  (tags: photos flickr art)
• Meth heads make basic health difficult for everyone
  "...will make Oregon the first state to require prescriptions for cold and allergy medications that can be converted into methamphetamine"
  (tags: thisiswhywecan'thavenicethings meth drugs laws)

links for 2005-08-19

• bitter pill: touched by his noodly appendage
  all hail our lord, the spagetti monster
  (tags: comedy religion pastafarianism)
• RSS Version 3 Homepage
  heh. Good luck with that.
  (tags: rss standards flamewars)
• Audioholics On-Spot Location: Factory Tour #2 of Axiom Audio
  on-wall/in-wall hybrid speakers coming out. Great sound similar to real speakers, but slim like in-wall units.
  (tags: audio wishlist hometheater)

links for 2005-08-18

• JungleScan.com
  Amazon sales tracking for the Hacking MT book
  (tags: movabletype books hackingmt)

links for 2005-08-17

• Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
  omg, cutest silly baby hat ever
  (tags: knitting baby wishlist comedy)
• Blogger Help : About Blogger for Word
  Holy cow, this is something we talked about building back when the blogger api was brand new. I believe Anil wrote a working prototype in spring of 2001. Hopefully journalists and serious writers take it up for blogging.
  (tags: tools utilities blogcms blogger word)
• bubble&squeak
  New Citizens video for "you drive and we'll listen to music" featuring stunts! car crashes! rock!
  (tags: video music citizenshereandabroad indierock)
• The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: Here come the Ajax books
  ajax books?! already?
  (tags: ajax techbooks)
• bigempty.com: Posed; Roma, Italia
  awesome
  (tags: photos bigempty italy)

links for 2005-08-16

• The city beneath - a photoset on Flickr
  tons of awesome underground tunnel photos
  (tags: flickr photos urban decay)

links for 2005-08-15

• QDN: The polluted commons of Wikipedia
  wikipedia, while great, does have its faults
  (tags: wikipedia community ajax)

links for 2005-08-13

• The Decembrist: Factcheck.org strikes out
  I have a feeling factcheck.org is like snopes.com. The impartialness is slipping away as the humans behind the site let their opinions trickle in.
  (tags: factcheck politics truth opinion)
• Kung Fu Monkey: I Miss Republicans.
  "Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who'd nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science."
  (tags: imissthemtoo politics blogs)

links for 2005-08-12

• Laptop Backpacks, Laptop Sleeves, PowerBook Sleeves by Booq
  That's one hell of a nice looking bag for laptops
  (tags: wishlist bags backpacks gear)
• Yarnzilla
  freakonomics t-shirts: possibly the nerdiest thing you could wear
  (tags: wishlist tshirts nerd)
• FauxDaddy.org
  "This is the true story of how Go Daddy and Domains by Proxy revealed my confidential information to the world." Glad I'm no longer a customer of godaddy or domainsbyproxy
  (tags: godaddy domains protest parody)
• tomluv: Who's your favorite faux Christian ex-rock star?
  "Lead Singer of Creed Gets Punk'd"
  (tags: comedy creedsucks pranks music)