A Whole Lotta Nothing

links for 2005-08-11

• ++ Pimp That Phone | Welcome to Pimp My Phone! Four Contestants, Four Phones, One Big Prize. ++
  vonage sponsoring a phone modding contest. awesome.
  (tags: tinkering modding phones)
• SportsFilter | Sportsfilter meet
  MSN launched "sportsfilter" even though there's been a blog (I helped set up) 3+ years ago by the same name and domain. Jerks.
  (tags: micsoftsucks blogs sportsfilter somebodytellscoble)

links for 2005-08-10

• San Diego Zoo Weblogs: giant pandas
  The best zoo in the world has weblogs now. The comments are kind of amusing, all gushing over panda cuteness
  (tags: via:girlhacker zoo blogs)
• LuistxoBlog - Memory Maps at Tagzania
  tagzania does memory maps
  (tags: googlemaps memorymaps)
• WordPress Administration Design: Tiger | Ordered List by Steve Smith
  looks great
  (tags: wordpress blogcms adminhacks)
• Citizens Here and Abroad on myspace
  new songs!
  (tags: mp3 citizenshereandabroad indierock)

links for 2005-08-09

• The lost Entourage screen tests
  80s wrestling stars try on a scene from Entourage
  (tags: comedy wrestlemania nostalgia)

links for 2005-08-07

• Digital Black and White
  how to shoot b&w with a digital camera
  (tags: photography tutorial)
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lesser-Known Movie Prequels.
  "Four Bachelorette Parties and a Friend in the Hospital"
  (tags: comedy mcsweeneys movies)

links for 2005-08-06

• CA Boom 2 - a photoset on Flickr
  modern home tour
  (tags: architecture modernhomes design)

links for 2005-08-05

• standpoint.us
  humorous shirt designs
  (tags: tshirts)
• IFILM - Viral Videos: Bouncy Ball
  the sonyr bouncy ball video! (as seen on flickr)
  (tags: video commercial superball)
• Flickr: bk's photos tagged with bmx
  bill's life mirrored my own. I looked a lot like he did in these photos from 1988-1990.
  (tags: bmx flickr photos)

links for 2005-08-04

• Firefox popups | www.petebevin.com
  Kill flash pop-ups dead in Firefox (like from the Drudge Report)
  (tags: firefox privacy advertising)
• Blogger Twins
  activate! Form of...macintosh specialist. Form of... pail of water!
  (tags: camworld mrbarrett tv)

links for 2005-08-02

• POSITIVE NEGATIVE +|- Lever House
  paper maze
  (tags: green photos wow)
• Flickr: Explore interesting photos from the last 24 hours
  Incredible, useful way to look at flickr images.
  (tags: flickr photos daily)

links for 2005-07-29

• mpXML: Meat and Poultry Data Standards
  Who knew meat and poultry had their own XML format?
  (tags: xml meatfilter)
• I {entity} Unicode Shirt (Windows Version) > slacker.com > NuclearTacos.com | CafePress
  nerd humor
  (tags: unicode programming comedy tshirts)
• The Morning News Gallery - No Yellow Jerseys Here, by Geoff Badner
  Photos from the bike Messenger world championships
  (tags: photos cycling)
• Lance's Guide to Man Grooming, Part 4: Clothing Optionals
  shirts, pants, suits, and shoes. Lance covers all.
  (tags: clothing fashion tips)

links for 2005-07-28

• ~stevenf: Aerophobe
  Steven Frank's long, touching story of dealing with his flight phobias.
  (tags: personalstories blogs panic phobia)

links for 2005-07-27

• My Boring Ass Life
  Whoa, Kevin Smith rocking a wordpress blog.
  (tags: blogs celebrities clerks)
• Yahoo News story had embedded trackback RDF pointed here
  very iiiinnnnnteresting.
  (tags: trackback blogs news yahoo)
• Straight from the Hip by Matthew Alice | www.sdreader.com
  The ice cream truck song is "Turkey in the Straw" because it was in the public domain.
  (tags: copyright copyfight publicdomain iscreamyouscreamweallscreamforicecream)

links for 2005-07-26

• Newsdesigner.com
  Lance's win, from around the world
  (tags: newspapers cycling letour)
• Sentinel 47: Keeping the Gate: Recent Goings On
  "It turns out that the Iraqi Arabic word for 'crazy' is too similar to 'masturbation' for a new learner to know"
  (tags: iraq blogs comedy)
• The Making of a Home: The Money Stuff
  "Sure, hire the Jew."
  (tags: friends blogs comedy)

links for 2005-07-24

• Guest - Map > Home
  Google Maps + Wiki type annotation = very cool
  (tags: googlemaps maphacks collaboration)

links for 2005-07-23

• Layers Magazine | When Vector Meets Photo
  photos to vector tutorial
  (tags: photoshop tips art)

links for 2005-07-21

• Ajax May Undermine Web Advertising, Analytics Models · MarketingVOX
  Oh Noes!!!1!!!! Ad impressions my not be calculated properly on a ajax page!
  (tags: marketing bfd ajax)
• Ripples Iroco Basin | Uncrate
  freaking goregous
  (tags: modern design bathroom wishlist)
• 99X.com - Everything Alternative!
  40+ mashups from a radio station site. This can't possibly be legal, but hey! free music! mashups galore!
  (tags: music remix mashup)
• NPR : Steven Johnson: Grand Theft Auto Is Good for You
  All hail hypno-SBJ
  (tags: gaming npr to_listen)
• Han Q Duong :: San Diego Comic Con 2005 :: IMG_0079
  Now, THAT'S a star wars dork committing to a role
  (tags: starwars comiccon nerds)

links for 2005-07-20

• The Cartoons of Mr. Fish: a Selection (Harpers.org)
  Oh how I wish for a RSS feed of Mr. Fish's work
  (tags: harpers cartoons comedy politics)
• japanoid
  I love the look of this tiny car
  (tags: retro design cars fuelefficient)
• Back to Basics - Egg and Muffin Toaster - Home
  whoa
  (tags: breakfast wishlist food)
• lhiob
  My favorite catchphrase du jour
  (tags: entourage hbo tv)
• ChronicBabe.com | Welcome!
  Site dedicated to women living iwth chronic illness, with a focus on living. Looks cool, too.
  (tags: women illness webcommunity)

links for 2005-07-17

• Nissan Airstream BaseCamp Trailer | Uncrate
  Looks like a horse trailer from the future
  (tags: airstream design cars)

links for 2005-07-16

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Time to switch off and slow down
  I'm reading this article at a conference, during a presentation
  (tags: irony email GTD postmodern)

links for 2005-07-15

• Bring Back the Couch
  I almost registered bringbackthecouch.com on Tuesday, but I'm glad to see someone's made an entire site worthy of the domain.
  (tags: blogs dailyshow comedy)
• Amiga Pictures 1986-1991 - a photoset on Flickr
  Joe's old school Amiga art.
  (tags: nostalgia art amiga graphics)
• Chris Noth delivers for Amazon
  Oh man, Kay would die for something like this. He's her celebrity husband.
  (tags: amazon chrisnoth celebrities)

links for 2005-07-14

• Aisle of Averages - a photoset on Flickr
  Awesome and simple: long exposures of supermarket aisles.
  (tags: photos marketing photography art)
• PUMA Store: Product : 5000M
  retro hot.
  (tags: shoes wishlist)
• Colin Powell Joins Venture Capital Firm - New York Times
  Whoa, Powell joins KP. With him and Vinod, they will rule the world.
  (tags: colinpowell kp venturecapital)
• Comments on 19 | MetaFilter
  Six years baby! Six years.
  (tags: metafilter mefi birthday blogs)

links for 2005-07-13

• Enron Blog going dark
  Ken Lay still walks the streets and the folks at Enronblog gave up. I would have thought Kenny boy would be in jail by now.
  (tags: enron bankruptcy money blogs)
• Tour de France Google Earth Maps on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  awesome use of the new app
  (tags: cycling letour googleearth mapping)
• LEGO Ultimate Collector Series Death Star II | Uncrate
  Holy crap, an under-construction Death Star, in Lego form.
  (tags: nerdvana starwars lego clerks)
• yergler.net » wpLicense
  Nathan's great ajax-ified CC license plugin for Wordpress just got a major update. It has a fantastic UI.
  (tags: creativecommons wordpress blogs)
• The Role of Camera Phones for London Bombing Pictures
  Contrasting 9/11 with 7/7 and democratic media
  (tags: majorevents cameraphones flickr news)
• Head from Humpty Dance Video on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Hammer was probably having an "OG rappers from oaktown" garage sale.
  (tags: hiphop oaktown westcoastrap humptyhump)
• Blog Usability Study
  "No participant understood the mechanisms associated with RSS/subscribing to a blog – not even the minority familiar with the term RSS."
  (tags: blogs geek usability rss)

links for 2005-07-11

• Jon’s Thoughts On Everything » Blog Archive » Introducing Flickr For Your Xbox Media Center
  Works nicely on my xbox. I wish I could get feeds of my friends though.
  (tags: flickr xbox hacks)

links for 2005-07-10

• Snapshots by Bob Hsiao :: MetaFilter Meetup: San Francisco 07/07/05 :: 14_G
  Fabulous shot of Heather and Derek.
  (tags: powazek champ flickrmeet)

links for 2005-07-09

• Merlin on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  One fine image of that man's mug
  (tags: merlinmann 43f flickr)

links for 2005-07-07

• Gmaps Pedometer
  coolest thing ever. I'll be mapping my runs and rides with this.
  (tags: googlemaps maphacks cycling running utilities)

links for 2005-07-05

• Wood Ipod - a photoset on Flickr
  holy cow.
  (tags: ipod woodworking diy hacks)
• Telegraph | News | Surfers search for wave that went missing
  Aw man, this is one of my favorite waves from a surfing video game. My money's on the off shore dredging ruining the bottom that created the break
  (tags: surfing environment nature)
• Netcraft: PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits
  According to the wordpress boards, the 1.5.1.3 release of WP fixes this hole
  (tags: php security wordpress exploits)

links for 2005-07-04

• SAND MASTER PARK "The Worlds First Sandboard Park!"
  I should check this out next time I'm near the southern oregon coast
  (tags: to_visit sandboarding dunes beach sports)

links for 2005-07-03

• Here Come The Weblogs
  " Eventually, someone will make money off of the weblog concept....just not very much" -- Jason Kottke, May 24, 1999
  (tags: blogs kottke slashdot)
• Streamliner classic scandinavian design wooden toy gifts swedishdesign classics wooden toys
  Very cool scandinavian kids toys
  (tags: baby toys design)

links for 2005-07-02

• rc3.org | The case of Chip Salzenberg
  Great, sane overview of the Salzenberg case. Someone from Slate or Salon.com should publish this.
  (tags: law technology perl courtcases)
• SIRIUS Satellite Radio - Lance In France
  holy shit, a Lance Armstrong podcast. Wicked cool.
  (tags: letour lancearmstrong cycling podcasting)
• ABC Feigns Conscience, Pulls Reality Show @ Media Buyer Planner
  I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea for a show. I'm surprised they didn't call it "There Goes the Neighborhood"
  (tags: wtf tv abc)
• Mule Design Feed Store | U.S. out of California
  heh
  (tags: kolleeforrrneaa tshirts comedy politics)

links for 2005-06-30

• Moen Revolution Showerhead
  Looks like a fine upgrade
  (tags: wishlist shower home design)
• ASUS VENTO 3600 DESKTOP PC
  badass looking PC case
  (tags: wishlist design pc)
• BenQ LCD Monitor Crazy Arm
  looks hilarious, yet useful
  (tags: design monitor)
• Timberland Travel Gear
  these look pretty cool and sound functional
  (tags: wishlist design shoes clever)
• Self-watering flowerpot
  obvious, yet ingenious
  (tags: wishlist design clever plants home)
• Rubbermaid Paint Buddy
  brilliant
  (tags: clever design wishlist home paint)
• Disposable, eco-friendly footwear, ‘SOLEMATES’
  interesting look
  (tags: design clever shoes)
• SHIFT Concept Bicycle
  awesome look, clever approach
  (tags: wishlist kids bike design clever)
• Toshiba Red Transformer
  Nice approach, making a laptop that can transform into a TV monitor. A bittorrent user's best friend.
  (tags: clever design wishlist concepts pc)
• Jeffrey McManus: Why the Yahoo! Maps API is Better Than Brand X Maps API
  I have a feeling the Y! vs. GOOG battles will rival east coast-west coast rap wars someday soon.
  (tags: maps mapping api yahoo google)
• Wists
  david galbraith's life as a visual bookmark list
  (tags: bookmarks wists lifeblog)
• stainless steel sheets in bulk
  I might need this for a project
  (tags: diy stainlesssteel metalworking)
• Cameron Zotter
  Long exposure shots of car headlights as a new font. Brilliant!
  (tags: fonts design clever)
• Michael Buffington | Parabolic Heat Transference Case Mod
  Buffington proves once and for all he's got the ultimate case mod
  (tags: pc skateboarding dorky)

links for 2005-06-29

• Setting up Cronolog on Apache and Windows
  sweet, works perfectly
  (tags: stats webstats serveradmin apache)
• Canada approves same-sex marriage
  Woot! Go Canada!
  (tags: marriagefreedom civilrights TheGayTM)

links for 2005-06-28

• Ben Engebreth - dot org!: Housing Price-to-Income Ratio as a Way to Measure Maximum Local Affordability
  Interesting way to examine the housing bubble and figure out what you can afford
  (tags: housing blogs mortages)
• rootburn: Lockdown in sector 4!
  Gmail lockout of users with the greasemonkey extensions enabled?
  (tags: gmail google greasemonkey firefox)

links for 2005-06-27

• Up the Creek w/o a T-Mobile Brand Paddle | Ask MetaFilter
  Bummer. Lose a phone and you pay the charges for any calls made before you reported it.
  (tags: thisisbroken tmobile askmefi)
• Assam Double Wall Iced Tea Glass | Uncrate
  awesome idea and perfect marriage of simple science (air as insulator) and design.
  (tags: wishlist drinking glasses design clever)
• Longhorn Developer Center Home: Simple List Extensions Specification
  The microsoft RSS extensions. Seems harmless, but I wonder what they'll do with it in apps.
  (tags: rss xml microsoft)
• Emerald Journals, Internet Research
  I found this in a university library the other day: a peer reviewed journal on internet stuff. Too bad they don't publish all their research articles on the uh, internet.
  (tags: journals academics research)
• AudioFlickrscrobbler - I never have to update my site again! (Part 1)
  nice hack of two web services
  (tags: music flickr audioscrobbler hacks)

links for 2005-06-26

• Klein nailed on falsehoods in Al Franken Show g ... [Media Matters for America]
  Sounds like an amazing interview
  (tags: alfranken hilaryclinton)
• feedmap .net (BETA) : Where Blogs Meet Maps
  Interesting. Like a graphical version of geourl.
  (tags: gis mapping maps blogs)

links for 2005-06-25

• Johnston MarkLee - Projects - Sale House
  Nice looking modern home mixed with older places in Venice, CA
  (tags: modernhomes architecture design)
• Waiter Rant
  A simply fantastic blog entry from waiter rant.
  (tags: greatwriting stories blogs)
• adaptive path: how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
  New essay from peterme
  (tags: to_read web2.0 ap)
• rebecca blood :: bloggers on blogging :: matt haughey, june, 2005
  second half of my interview is up
  (tags: me interviews blogs)

links for 2005-06-24

• Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!
  direct Scott's new video and win stuff
  (tags: contests video music mp3)
• Stay Free! Daily: How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
  Attack of the copyright cartel: "For most films, music licensing is 1 to 10 percent of the production budget; ours came in at 45 percent: $140,000."
  (tags: musicindustry music copyright)

links for 2005-06-23

• Google AJAXSLT
  Waiter! There's a fly in my acronym soup!
  (tags: ajax xml opensource code)

links for 2005-06-22

• bloggingsecrets.info
  Not a single word on this blog was written by the domain owner. It uses an automated program to skim RSS and repost, which then gets covered in ads.
  (tags: seocrap searchgaming adsensehacking)
• Boeing NW Retail Sales Homepage
  geeky fun around seattle
  (tags: to_visit to_shop surplusstore)
• NEWBERG Movies - 99W Drive-In, Twin Cinemas, Cameo Theatre
  One of the last working drive-ins, outside of Portland, OR. Open for 52 years, this might be a great way to see a movie with a baby.
  (tags: movies nostalgia driveins oregon)
• Foxit PDF Reader - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
  After finding acroread.exe pegging my processor for the umpteenth time, I uninstalled adobe's reader and got foxit, which is super fast and just plain works. Like Apple's Preview, but on Windows.
  (tags: utilities pdf)

links for 2005-06-21

• Hot Points – A blog by Go Daddy founder and president Bob Parsons
  The guy that runs Godaddy domains is a freak. Time to take my business elsewhere.
  (tags: wtf 911 tortureisamerican)
• MIT Weblog Survey : Information
  Cool, live blog survey results
  (tags: MIT surveys blogs research)

links for 2005-06-20

• PRISM
  converts the IR port to a R/C servo, perfect for kite photography
  (tags: kitecameras makemagazine hacks)

links for 2005-06-19

• mc.clintock.com
  now THAT'S a home page
  (tags: design interesting home)
• Extreme Dodgeball : GSN - The Network For Games
  a joke movie sport becomes a show
  (tags: sports comedy tv)

links for 2005-06-17

• Rocky Mountain News: Business
  Rocky Mountain News supports search engine gaming with their Sponsored Links right sidebar.
  (tags: ses seo linkspam)
• Contemporary lighting, modern lighting, modern lamps, modern lights, contemporary lamps
  cool wacky stuff, with paypal even
  (tags: lighting design home)
• Grafolicious: blog: viewing http://www.metafilter.com/
  whoa. I'm guessing that's a election 2004 spike
  (tags: delicious graphing utilities cool)
• monstro!: some better business thinking.
  sharing helps innovation
  (tags: to_read business km)

links for 2005-06-16

• Regret The Error
  newspaper errors from around the country
  (tags: news newspapers retractions factchecking)
• iTunes per iPod
  Sure P2P use is high, but I ripped a ton of CDs that I owned to MP3 when I first got an iPod to fill it up. I suspect many people did the same.
  (tags: ipod music law p2p)

links for 2005-06-15

• msk bmx - a photoset on Flickr
  awesome photoset of ripping bmxers in Moscow of all places
  (tags: bmx photos flickr)
• Amazon.com: Books: The Anarchist Cookbook (C-066)
  From the author: a retraction
  (tags: books anarchy wtf)
• Tag Tuesday » Blog Archive » First Tag Tuesday Meeting
  um. I'm staring Permalinks with PB, up in Portland. We'll meet the third thursday of the month to discuss developers using permalinks. The venue will never change.
  (tags: tags folksonomies)
• What Color Eyes Would Your Children Have?
  useful
  (tags: baby genetics utilities)

links for 2005-06-11

• T-rex Skull 1/9 Scale Bone Clones CN-01
  reproduction fossils, so utterly cool.
  (tags: wishlist dinosaurs art science)
• QDN: Curing cancer in the courts
  the lowdown about a childhood cancer case in Texas from Jason, a guy that fights cancer in kids
  (tags: doctor cancer news texas)
• IPTAblog: And now, something different
  Not a bad little video exploring indecency complaints that Arrested Development garnered
  (tags: fcc arresteddevelopment tv religion)
• qualitativeDate() - ESWsoftware: web applications, custom tags, and tools for Macromedia ColdFusion
  how to do the flickr-style relative dates in ColdFusion (needs more short-term precision though)
  (tags: coldfusion cftags to_program)
• SimpleRemoteScripting (SRS) - ESWsoftware: web applications, custom tags, and tools for Macromedia ColdFusion
  ajax toolkit for ColdFusion released a year ago.
  (tags: coldfusion cftags to_program)

links for 2005-06-10

• Former embryo (t-shirt)
  I figured this was a joke shirt, but no, it's for real.
  (tags: tshirt wtf politics news)
• Google Search: why do http://http:// links go to microsoft.com in firefox?
  Weird that the first result for "http" at Google is Microsoft.
  (tags: firefox bugs microsoft askgoogle)
• CNN.com - Pennsylvania uses bloggers to lure tourists - Jun 7, 2005
  Huh, paying folks to write travelblogs
  (tags: blogs tourism)
• FeedLounge - the web-based feed reader redefined
  this looks badass, can't wait to try it out
  (tags: rss feedreaders xml ui tags)
• Lifeblog post on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  wow. just wow.
  (tags: flickr photo pictureisworthathousandwords)

links for 2005-06-09

• XMLSub - Universal Feed Subscriptions and Shared Reading Lists
  huh, can't wait to see this.
  (tags: xml rss webservices)
• Improving an XML feed display through CSS and XSLT | xefteri.com
  Sweet way to make your RSS look kind of like safari's RSS parser
  (tags: rss design css xsl)

links for 2005-06-08

• Wonderful Graffiti
  Simple vinyl lettering for walls. Just what I need to get a big quote up in my office.
  (tags: wishlist design quotations inspiration)
• junk.haughey.com Torrents
  I uploaded SBJ on The Daily Show from last night.
  (tags: comedy sbj dailyshow tv torrents)

links for 2005-06-07

• rebecca's pocket :: US income distribution: 1980-1999
  Oh to be in that 1%
  (tags: classism money taxes income middleclass)
• erinch.com » Car Cam Project
  Nice use of old computer hardware. Be sure to check out the videos.
  (tags: carputer hacks car)
• Dating an Apple Developer
  Don't fret -- dating a windows developer is worse: you end up with lots of viruses. *rimshot*
  (tags: apple mac relationships)
• Apple - QuickTime - WWDC 2005
  streaming video from the keynote is up -- did apple stop doing these live because their servers crashed and made them look bad?
  (tags: apple stevejobs mac video)
• Furdlog » Creepy Story for Digital Photographers
  If your photos look professional, Wal-mart and K-mart won't develop for fear of offending copyright of pro photographers. Crazy.
  (tags: photography copyright walmart wtf)
• Volkswagen Reveals New Passat Wagon : Jalopnik
  I hate the new jetta design, but this is freaking HOTT. Looks like a new Audi A4/A6.
  (tags: vw cars passat wishlist)

links for 2005-06-04

• SpeedMap.gif (GIF Image, 410x418 pixels)
  realtime Portland Metro freeway speed map
  (tags: maps pdx traffic utilities)