Advice from Dear Abby on uExpress - Unusual Names Can Trip Up Kids at School and in Life • I could not agree more. • 28 dec, 10:02 p.m.
50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition • “Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body’s allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens.” That’s pretty cool. • 27 dec, 10:39 p.m.
most-loved.com : Christmas • This pretty much sums up my day. • 27 dec, 2:56 p.m.
Sheetplaza.com 100% Free Piano Sheets • I wonder how long this will last. Make sure you download the T.A.T.U.! • 26 dec, 2:54 p.m.
Plain Language Humor: How to Write Good • “Don’t use commas, that, are not, necessary.” • 26 dec, 2:50 p.m.
AdVerbatims • “The client has given us FINAL approval, but asked if we could change one small thing.” • 22 dec, 10:55 a.m.
NBC - Saturday Night Live - Special Treat in a Box - Report - New York Times • Wow, I didn’t know NBC was responsible for the release of the uncensored version. • 21 dec, 2:43 p.m.
To-Do List: Wrap Gifts. Have Baby. - New York Times • “…I realize you might have trouble believing that the intricacies of the nation’s tax code would impinge on something as sacred as the birth of a child. But it appears that you would be wrong.” • 21 dec, 2:36 p.m.
The Christmas Spot - A Charlie Brown Christmas - Fanpop • It’s the whole thing! “Nickels, nickels, nickels!” “How about tens and twenties?” • 20 dec, 2:26 p.m.
mezzoblue § Fountain • Redesign. So nice, and yet so simple. • 19 dec, 11:04 p.m.
Viking’s Stationery Movies • This is hard, but, collectively, we got them all. Spell Reservoir Dogs correctly if you do it. • 19 dec, 3:54 p.m.
adfreak: iTunes freebie: John Hodgman’s audiobook • It’s free! • 19 dec, 12:58 p.m.
How to turn your blog in to an OpenID • Awesome. • 19 dec, 12:21 p.m.
Snowfall - A Screen Saver for Mac OS X • Note to self: download and check out. • 19 dec, 12:16 p.m.
Type that keeps the beat - (37signals) • A lot like the previous link (on vertical rhythm), but the illustrations really help. • 18 dec, 4:16 p.m.
24 ways: Compose to a Vertical Rhythm • Interesting. Going to look into this on my blog. • 18 dec, 4:15 p.m.
Charts – Users at Last.fm • What? “Insistor” by Tapes ‘n Tapes is my most listened to song this year? Wow. So surprising. • 17 dec, 11:57 p.m.
Young people who cook at home eat better | Health | Reuters.com • I don’t cook for myself nearly enough. But when I do, it’s definitely healthy. • 17 dec, 11 p.m.
Google gets into website registration - USATODAY.com • I couldn’t find any way to move an existing domain over to them, though. Sad. I need to change all of my domains over to private registrations. • 15 dec, 3:46 p.m.
David Seah : Mint versus Google Analytics • I love Mint. • 15 dec, 3:16 p.m.
Tiffany And Andrew — The Personal Life Of A Newly Married Couple • This is so cute and well-designed. Although couple-y stuff generally makes me gag, doing something like this would be fun. • 12 dec, 10:14 p.m.
iTunes sales ‘collapsing’ | The Register • I think it’s mostly because music sucks right now. • 12 dec, 1:03 p.m.
MacHeist » Bundle • Worth it because TextMate is 50$ by itself, but that and NewsFire won’t be unlocked unless they raise a certain amount. I’ll wait to see how well it goes. • 11 dec, 1:27 p.m.
..:Things My Boyfriend Says:.. • “You shouldn’t buy me things. Save your money for unicorn rides or whatever it is girls spend money on.” • 08 dec, 4:32 p.m.
Drivl.com | What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies) • Remember in Independence Day when whatshisface-math-guy writes a virus that works on both his apple laptop AND an alien mothership? Bullshit! If real life were like film I’d be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter. • 08 dec, 10:45 a.m.
The Awakening (Johnson sculpture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Having some eighth-grade flashbacks today. • 06 dec, 11:32 p.m.
TechEBlog » 7 Home Gadgets You Can’t Buy • I like the rollertoaster. • 06 dec, 5:05 p.m.
Report: Recent Wednesday Felt Like Thursday | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source • Today does. Alas. • 06 dec, 10:48 a.m.
Fossil - Pink Dial • Liked this one, too. • 04 dec, 9:41 p.m.
Fossil - Circle Link • Got a random Fossil catalog in the mail. Thought this was cool. • 04 dec, 9:37 p.m.
Threadless T-Shirts - Rock Out With Your Cock Out by Simon Massey di Vallazza • Bwahaha. I love this. • 04 dec, 4:01 p.m.
WORLD MAP - countries of the world • I admit it: I have no idea which African countries are which. • 04 dec, 3:42 p.m.
Christmas Holiday Icons • Very cute. • 04 dec, 11:17 a.m.
IEBlog : IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine • I’m using a hacked standalone of IE6, but this might be better. • 01 dec, 8:03 a.m.
YouTube - Things you CAN’T do when you’re NOT in a pool • This was filmed in Shaun‘s neighborhood. • 30 nov, 11:02 p.m.
Fake Your Space | Be Popular | MySpace, Facebook • Haha! I love it. • 30 nov, 4:32 p.m.
Rumor: More Wiis and PS3s Hitting Retail Sunday? - Kotaku • Apparently everyone should be able to get a Wii on Sunday. • 30 nov, 10:12 a.m.
Quick Fix (Nerdy Shirts :: The Most Awesome Shirts in the World) • I remember doing this. • 30 nov, 10:09 a.m.
Low End Theory • Like the design here. • 29 nov, 6:35 p.m.
Cities Compete in Hipness Battle to Attract Young - New York Times • Specifically focusing on Atlanta • 26 nov, 12:28 a.m.
More Accurate Wikipedia Warnings :: CRACKED.com • “This article’s only source is a 1988 issue of Teen Beat.” Via James. • 22 nov, 2 p.m.
3quarksdaily • Some brain teasers, via Kottke. • 22 nov, 11:11 a.m.
The Bargainist | Deals, Sales & Coupons • Deals, etc. • 22 nov, 9:48 a.m.
Flickr: Camera Finder: Canon: PowerShot SD400 • My camera is having a serious decline in popularity. • 22 nov, 9:12 a.m.
The Best Grocery List of All Time • For runners. Mostly obvious stuff, but nice to see the sweet potato oven fries mention. • 21 nov, 3:33 p.m.
Cook’s Thesaurus • “The Cook’s Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.” • 20 nov, 11:38 p.m.
Order of the Phoenix Trailer • They all look so old. This first trailer is kind of weak, actually. • 20 nov, 11:27 p.m.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes really are getting married - The Superficial - www.thesuperficial.com • “I wonder when they’ll announce the color of the fake spaceship they’ve got set up for their big entrance. Or how long the laser show is gonna last. There’s still so much we don’t know!” • 17 nov, 2:40 p.m.
Asthmatic Kitty Records - Sufjan Xmas Stream • I’ve listened to some streams and think this is worth the 20$… But why not on iTunes/eMusic? • 17 nov, 11:18 a.m.
Information Leafblower - The Top 40 Bands in America - 2006 Edition • Lavender Diamond is on this list?! Above Tapes ‘n Tapes?!?!?! • 16 nov, 1:16 p.m.
2006 NFL TV distribution maps • Interesting. • 16 nov, 12:53 p.m.
Government study: Internet 1 percent porn • That’s it? • 15 nov, 1:19 p.m.
FaviconizeTab | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation • Nice. • 15 nov, 1:03 p.m.
OMG, it’s the NaBloPoMo Randomizer! • Where my free time goes. • 14 nov, 9:06 p.m.
Adobe - Dreamweaver TechNote : Dreamweaver 8 for Windows loses FTP login settings • I am having this problem. Thank goodness I Googled for it. • 14 nov, 3:39 p.m.
Popular Blog Posts • Mine was the iPod/boyfriend one, and a bit after it was posted, too. • 14 nov, 12:34 p.m.
01.20.09 Bush’s Last Day Buttons, Magnets, Decals, Hats, Mugs and Bumperstickers, T-shirts and Countdown Clocks • I saw a bumper sticker for this and thought, “Damn, that is a long time.” • 13 nov, 11:12 a.m.
Slashdot | Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins • Haha awesome. • 09 nov, 10:02 p.m.
Mac Rumors: More Core 2 Duo MacBook Rumblings • Please. Steve Jobs. For my birthday. • 07 nov, 8:08 p.m.
Britney Spears Files for Divorce - TMZ.com • No way! • 07 nov, 4:19 p.m.
Django Admin Hack - Fields varying with user permissions • If nothing else, a way to get the current user. • 03 nov, 3:25 p.m.
pacmanchart.png (PNG Image, 635x404 pixels) • Percentage of chart which resembles Pac-man. • 02 nov, 8:05 p.m.
word to day one at cloudyday.org • Emma says it’s day one. • 01 nov, 5:27 p.m.
winnelliott.com » Blog Archive » 11.01.06 • Winn says it’s day one. • 01 nov, 5:27 p.m.
The Django Book • All two chapters of it. • 31 oct, 5:42 p.m.
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe Split - TMZ.com • No! What about the kids? • 31 oct, 9:39 a.m.
Fussy | NaBloPoMo • All signed up. Frightening. • 30 oct, 12:20 p.m.
Give your résumé a face lift » LifeClever ;-) • Simple modifications. Only thing is, I don't like the hanging bullets. • 25 oct, 3:28 p.m.
Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories • You know, a lot of these aren't really stories as much as funny things in six words. • 25 oct, 1:04 p.m.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Endings of 10 Famous Novels You Always Meant to Read but Never Got Around To. • “A fire destroys everything.” • 24 oct, 2:33 p.m.
The Morning News - At-Home Halloween Costumes by The Editors • Ingredients: The truth, three chords, red iPod / Costume: Bono • 24 oct, 2:31 p.m.
Why does orange juice taste so bad after brushing your teeth? :: ABC Gold & Tweed Coasts • Fascinating. • 24 oct, 2:17 p.m.
Apple - Education - Why Mac for Computer Science - Video • Do you think DHH usually sits on the end of Jason Fried’s desk like that? • 20 oct, 10:47 a.m.
‘Fraggle Rock’ to be made into movie - CNN.com • Chase your cares away! • 20 oct, 10:20 a.m.
Allrecipes.com • Nice clean and simple redesign. I wonder who is responsible. • 19 oct, 10:01 a.m.
Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com | TV Watch: The ”Project Runway” finale: Fashion wins • “So what put [Laura] out of contention? The tired old ”We don’t see you growing” argument. What’s wrong with this line of thinking… is that Laura got to the finals by being herself and was then penalized for not turning into someone else.” • 19 oct, 9:04 a.m.
New Ten Best Free Wordpress Templates « Scribez • A lot of great Wordpress themes never make it to the Wordpress site. • 19 oct, 8:20 a.m.
Core 2 Duo MacBook and MacBook Pro due this November? - Engadget • Please please please be true. • 18 oct, 4:09 p.m.
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Steer well clear of all meetings … • “Answering a phone in an office generally means speaking to a customer or your boss. As neither will call unless they want something, answering the phone will probably mean doing work.” • 18 oct, 4:04 p.m.
To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered - New York Times • Only 49.7 percent, or 55.2 million, of the nation’s 111.1 million households in 2005 were made up of married couples. • 16 oct, 9:40 a.m.
How Many of Me - Front Page • There are actually 0 of me, so I don’t exist. • 15 oct, 11:35 p.m.
Ambassador Youth - Blogs - and God’s Youth • “Let me emphasize that no one—including adults—should have a blog or personal website.” Apparently God doesn’t want you to blog. (via Jeff) • 15 oct, 8 p.m.
Matt’s Blog: iPod Training Data: Under the hood • It’d almost be easier if I could just pull this from the Nike site somehow. They should make an API. • 11 oct, 3:31 p.m.
List of songs whose title constitutes the entire lyrics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • There’s really quite a lot of these. • 11 oct, 12:31 p.m.
Kick Ass Classical - Classical Music’s Top 100 Greatest Hits • With clips. • 11 oct, 11:08 a.m.
tourfilter | atlanta concert notifications • Also for other cities. Why is everything I want to see in ATL on a freaking Sunday night?! • 11 oct, 10:22 a.m.
Django Djumpstart: Build a To-do List in 30 Minutes [Server Side Essentials] • James! Sitepoint! • 11 oct, 10:19 a.m.
TUL.com • You have to take the handwriting analysis. It’s hilarious. • 10 oct, 1:23 p.m.
Top 10 Reasons Why Your 5 Tips About 7 Cutting-Edge Technologies will annoy me | A Whole Lotta Nothing • Amen. • 06 oct, 2:27 p.m.
winnelliott.com • The triumphant return. • 05 oct, 2:35 p.m.
Bill de hÓra: Using TinyMCE in Django’s admin • Worked like a CHARM. Also really convenient because it’s added within the model. • 05 oct, 2:31 p.m.
Falling Bullets - Blog - WordPress Clone in 27 Seconds (Part 1 of 40) • With Django. • 05 oct, 8:45 a.m.
Atlanta Celebrates Photography • I’ve seen the ones at the Midtown Prominade. • 04 oct, 12:05 p.m.
Brad Pitt and Marriage - Donald Trump • “It makes him look really concerned about the plight of other people. Yet at the same time, he doesn’t have to get married. This guy is smarter than I thought.” • 03 oct, 6:57 p.m.
The Toughest Critics Are the Smallest - New York Times • This reminds me of a “friend” in high school who said my parents didn’t have any money, even though our house was larger and more modernly furnished than hers. • 03 oct, 3:50 p.m.
TV DINNERS - The rise of food television (The New Yorker: Fact) • Funny, Julia Child vs Food Network actually came up this weekend. • 03 oct, 2:07 p.m.
Jet: Shine On: Pitchfork Record Review • I don’t think they liked it. • 03 oct, 12:44 p.m.
vNES • No. Freaking. Way. You probably don’t want to click on this link at work, because you won’t be doing any. • 03 oct, 10:18 a.m.
Even-toed ungulate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Bison are even-toed ungulates. You learn something new every day. • 02 oct, 11:43 p.m.
Everything Louder Than Everything Else • Interesting article about album loudness. • 02 oct, 2:03 p.m.
OSResources - How to create CSS overlapping tabs? • May come in useful. • 02 oct, 1:43 p.m.
Wal-Mart to Add Wage Caps and Part-Timers - New York Times • Oh, Wal-Mart. So fair to your employees. • 02 oct, 12 p.m.
The Morning News • …redesigns. Clean, nice, although almost too sparse. Kind of surprised there’s no credits/extra links/feeds at the bottom. • 02 oct, 11:17 a.m.
33′ Rockers | The 10 commandments of Web Design • “You should only use html, PHP or ASP to create your web pages.” Um, no. • 29 sep, 9:02 a.m.
Clean-Cut Peach Pie - USA WEEKEND Magazine • Some experimentation with crust and filling. • 27 sep, 9:44 p.m.
The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Best tips that no one seems to know about? • “The best “windows tip” [I] know of is to replace it with Ubuntu Linux.” Hahaha. • 27 sep, 5:14 p.m.
Digital Web Magazine - Push my button • Styling the button tag. • 26 sep, 9:49 a.m.
Dishwasher Salmon - Wine X Magazine • I don’t know how you’d ever be satisfied the foil is watertight. • 25 sep, 7:57 p.m.
ArsGeek :: Ubuntu tricks - how to mount your Windows partition and make it read/writable • “When you’re done you should be able to have your NTFS partition mounted at boot, be able to write to it and read from it and be able to lift three times your body weight without breaking a sweat.” • 25 sep, 7:52 p.m.
YouTube - Clinton on the Daily Show • My man. • 19 sep, 5:01 p.m.
Web2.0tshirts.com - T-Shirt Beta • 19 sep, 1:16 p.m.
Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19 • Arrrr! • 19 sep, 9:24 a.m.
DailyLit • “Too busy for books? Read them by e-mail.” • 13 sep, 5:28 p.m.
YouTube - Roddick vs Pong • “Watch out for this guy. He returns everything.” • 12 sep, 8:15 p.m.
Here Comes Trouble Baby Annoucements | Outblush • Haha. If I ever have kids, count me in. • 12 sep, 5:38 p.m.
Silver-plated Pink Ribbon Bangle Bracelet at The Breast Cancer Site • I wish the ribbon was solid instead of crystals, but basically what I’m looking for. • 12 sep, 5:34 p.m.
Apple - iPod nano • MUST. HAVE. PINK. NANO. • 12 sep, 1:33 p.m.
Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer ~ Authentic Boredom • Great advice, especially #3 (Those who code XHTML/CSS as well as they design will always have an edge over those who only design) and #4 (Communicate, don’t decorate). • 11 sep, 1 p.m.
activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool. • Basecamp for free. Wish it had cleaner URLs. • 11 sep, 10:49 a.m.
Growing Up Healthy: No brats allowed! - Growing Up Healthy - MSNBC.com • While I think parents should make sure their children behave in public, yeah, I agree, there’s an anti-children sentiment going on. • 10 sep, 9:15 p.m.
Cool Tool: Pictopia • “This is a very convenient way to produce large-scale hi-fi color prints from digital images.” • 10 sep, 12:11 a.m.
Suckerfish Dropdowns - HTML Dog • Will probably be using this. • 07 sep, 2:43 p.m.
ColorJack: Studio (beta) • Had fun playing with this. • 06 sep, 11:15 p.m.
How to correctly insert a Flash into XHTML » La Trine • Used this today to satisfy my Tidy Firefox plugin. • 06 sep, 4:41 p.m.
Wired News: The Ultimate Blog Post • “Blog” itself is short for “weblog,” which is short for “we blog because we weren’t very popular in high school and we’re trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people.” • 06 sep, 3:41 p.m.
Daily Color Scheme - Your every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh colorschemes • Needs some more options, but not bad. • 06 sep, 11:27 a.m.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | MySpace set to sell music online • Could be big. • 06 sep, 11:12 a.m.
CNN.com - Irwin died ‘doing what he loved’ • It’s really kind of hard to believe he’s gone. • 04 sep, 10:08 p.m.
Fiber in the home thanks to Tennessee’s Tenvera - Engadget • More interesting are the comments re: Franklin (my hometown). “Just about every town is between Memphis and Knoxville. They are on opposite sides of the state.” • 31 aug, 3:53 p.m.
Pointers - xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language • Yes, another one… +10 geek points if you get this. • 29 aug, 8:48 p.m.
Sandwich - xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language • Via James. Note: sudo command does not apply to pie baking. • 29 aug, 2:36 p.m.
Installing MythTV on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) with a Hauppauge PVR-150/250/350/500 • What, did I ditch TiVo? Yes. • 28 aug, 10:48 p.m.
Business Opportunities Weblog | How Much Is My Blog Worth • $37,824.18 • 28 aug, 3:32 p.m.
LA Weekly - The Evidence Room: Five Signs You’re Gentrifying • Sign #5 - Gelato. • 27 aug, 10:36 p.m.
dooce: For the Love of God! • Was searching for something else on Dooce but came across this hilarity: “I cannot possibly extol the virtues of nested tables enough: Car won’t start? Try nested tables. Having trouble in your relationship? Try nested tables…” • 25 aug, 11:55 a.m.
How We Ended Welfare, Together - New York Times • I <3 Bill. • 23 aug, 3:29 p.m.
Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks - Lifehacker • 23 aug, 3:08 p.m.
Linux.com | Ten tips for new Ubuntu users • 23 aug, 3:07 p.m.
No snakes, no planes (kottke.org) • I didn’t mention it, but I did see it opening weekend. • 23 aug, 1:42 p.m.
Lens Solution Caused Eye Infections, Report Says - New York Times • So my favorite solution will officially not be coming back. • 22 aug, 3:26 p.m.
101 Cookbooks - Whole-Grain Pancakes with Blueberry Maple Syrup • Uses white whole wheat flour. • 22 aug, 8:59 a.m.
PhotoField - verdjn - code for the Django Python web application framework • “PhotoField is a custom Django field based on ImageField that provides image resizing capabilities.” • 21 aug, 7:29 p.m.
Black Bean And Mango Chicken Salad • 21 aug, 12:25 p.m.
fullduplex.org » How to Do Nothing at Work, and Get Away With It • “Choose a profession people don’t understand: I’m a web developer. Most people don’t REALLY understand what you need to do to be a web developer, so I might be doing a blog post, but they’re thinking I’m working. Golden!” Funny. • 16 aug, 10:17 a.m.
SEOmoz Blog | 5 HTML elements you probably never use (but perhaps should) • I use fieldset and legend. • 16 aug, 10:10 a.m.
Sporadic Nonsense » Firefox Crop Circles • Wow. In Oregon. • 15 aug, 5:59 p.m.
aching brain dot net - Stuff - Akismet • Uber-easy Akismet class for PHP5. • 11 aug, 10:05 a.m.
winter blossom [black] : wild garden online shop • Love this. • 10 aug, 5:29 p.m.
notmyself.com (syndicated by LiveJournal.com) • Someone syndicated my site to LiveJournal, so you can subscribe there if you want. • 10 aug, 9:34 a.m.
Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2006 • 50 Million Blogs and Counting. • 09 aug, 4:17 p.m.
Gas Prices Alter Habits of Many, but Far From All - New York Times • Sadly, I’m driving more, at least on the weekends, but I’ve optimized my work/apartment/gym situation for during the week. • 09 aug, 10:51 a.m.
photos you likebetter: you are what you like • It thought I was a guy in my 40s, but pretty accurate beyond that. • 08 aug, 10:12 p.m.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters • The best one is expendability. • 08 aug, 8:57 p.m.
Baby Rock Records • Rock songs redone as lullabies. Not enough samples for listening, though. • 08 aug, 3:08 p.m.
CNN.com - Paris Hilton: I’m going celibate - Aug 7, 2006 • Surely a sign of the imminent apocalypse. • 07 aug, 10:27 p.m.
If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine • And most don’t. • 06 aug, 10:01 p.m.
Flooded Lizard Kingdom: Everyone Should Be Reading Your Blog! (a.k.a. Making Your Blog Accessible) • I forgot to mention that Skye did an awesome job at BlogHer as well, her presentation was informative as well as entertaining. • 03 aug, 12:40 p.m.
LATTICE-TOP BLACKBERRY PIE Recipe at Epicurious.com • 03 aug, 10:50 a.m.
Snakes On A Plane :: Send a Message From Samuel L. Jackson! • Best viral marketing ever. • 03 aug, 10:34 a.m.
Creating Passionate Users: I am not a “woman blogger” • Some excellent thoughts, in the same vein as my own. I would also like to say that was never trying to bash the conference itself, because it was good and well-organized. • 02 aug, 8:44 p.m.
Sharon, Lois & Bram, MP3 Music Download at eMusic • I think I’ve died and gone to heaven. • 02 aug, 1:56 p.m.
Naturopathyworks - food cravings… • Chart of what you should be eating if you’re craving something in particular. Really fascinating. • 02 aug, 10:15 a.m.
IMG_4887 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! • This was me speaking at BlogHer. • 02 aug, 12:06 a.m.
USATODAY.com - EMusic’s pitch: Download song and own it • “EMusic has quietly climbed into second place to iTunes, albeit with an 11% market share to iTunes’ 67%” • 01 aug, 11:50 p.m.
CNN.com - Authors to Rowling: Don’t kill Harry Potter • “John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling … not to kill … Harry Potter.” Does anyone else find this funny? • 01 aug, 10:54 p.m.
Powazek: Just a Thought: 10 Insights on Blogs from PEW • “The blogging population is evenly split between women and men, and racially diverse.” • 01 aug, 10:36 p.m.
Rule of thirds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • a compositional rule of thumb in photography • 28 jul, 4:50 p.m.
NikkelWHOIS! :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software • Lightweight WHOIS Lookup - Adds a small WHOIS button next to your URL “go” button. • 28 jul, 3:46 p.m.
MercuryNews.com | 07/28/2006 | Female bloggers revving up • “San Jose conference celebrates new era in online writing” • 28 jul, 3 p.m.
spammimic - hide a message in spam • Funny. I tried “your mom.” • 28 jul, 2:56 p.m.
Secondhand Tryptophan • The “liveblog” from my session. It’s Chace not Chase, btw. :-) • 28 jul, 2:43 p.m.
Blogging, her way | CNET News.com • “In what might be the largest-ever event of its kind, hundreds of women bloggers will gather here Friday and Saturday for the second annual BlogHer conference.” • 28 jul, 10:18 a.m.
Yay Hooray | yh collab: redesign famous logos in web 2.0 format! • Some of these are good, but most are just the same thing with a little gradient and a reflection. • 25 jul, 9:09 a.m.
[BLACKBERRY-RECIPE] LOGGING ROAD BLACKBERRY CRUNCH PIE • 24 jul, 6:23 p.m.
PNC Park Threatens To Leave Pittsburgh Unless Better Team Is Built | The Onion • After five years of serving Pittsburgh as their state-of-the-art sporting facility, PNC Park, the home of the rundown, poorly maintained Pirates, said Tuesday it is threatening to leave Pittsburgh unless a new team can be built within the next three years • 21 jul, 9:06 a.m.
How to attract Jeff Bezos’ attention… (plasticbag.org) • “[T]he next three companies that Bezos is likely to invest in will start with 31, 25 and 19.” • 20 jul, 5:02 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Shows I Pitched VH1. • It Was an OK Week, I Guess • 20 jul, 9:46 a.m.
That Girl Emily • Yikes. A woman scorned. ETA: this is possibly viral marketing. For what, I don’t know. • 18 jul, 4:17 p.m.
Nixon - The Socialite • I really like the face design here. • 18 jul, 12:36 p.m.
Good Hodgkins » Blogosphere Consensus: Top Albums Of 2006 In Progress • I have … three of these. • 17 jul, 9:08 a.m.
The B-List: Django tips: Hacking FreeComment • Indispensable if you’re building a Django blog. • 17 jul, 8:33 a.m.
Framework Performance in Ruby on Rails • Blah blah, Django’s awesome, blah blah. • 14 jul, 5:04 p.m.
Independent Sources » Blog Archive » The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs • In their defense, First Cumming Methodist Church was screwed anyway. • 14 jul, 5:02 p.m.
Dr. Google Sends Pain Relief : Andy Beal’s MarketingPilgrim.com • Dear Google, I Need a Million Dollars. • 14 jul, 3:06 p.m.
Senator Stevens explaining the Internet • “The internet needs to go on a diet.” • 13 jul, 2:29 p.m.
Vox • I have four invites. Email me. • 13 jul, 12:56 p.m.
fusionfox: design, technology, & marketing • Is it just me, or is this kind of a Cameron Moll ripoff? • 12 jul, 1:23 p.m.
SaraJoy Pond • Like the design. • 12 jul, 1:18 p.m.
BrazilName - Generate your own Brazil football shirt! • Your Brazilname is “Maurildo”. • 12 jul, 10:20 a.m.
liz revision » SMS (Text-Messaging) Shorthand for Geeks Using Server Response Codes • 202 • 12 jul, 9:02 a.m.
Hilarious Hamlet Essay Circulated In Teachers’ Lounge | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source • “Listen to this: ‘When we first see Hamlet comma he is getting over his father’s death comma which some say comma indeed comma was a shock to Hamlet comma and he could not get over it when he sees his father’s ghost comma which comma wants revenge.’” • 11 jul, 11:32 a.m.
Suri Cruise birth certificate - The Superficial • “huh…that’s odd, under ‘first name’ it says ‘Maverick’….and under ‘place of birth’ it says ‘highway to the dangerzone’….” (#13) • 10 jul, 8:06 p.m.
Good Hodgkins » ESSAY: The Garden State effect • On music snobbery. • 07 jul, 9:14 a.m.
On July 14th, one del.icio.us user will win $100. Enter this contest. • I’ll bite. • 07 jul, 8:50 a.m.
A Developer’s Guide to Surviving Meetings • “Yes, it’s possible, but no sane soul on earth would ever wanna do that.” • 06 jul, 2:20 p.m.
Coke Ad • I’ve seen this a couple of places now, and it’s really good. • 06 jul, 1:43 p.m.
IKEA Everyday Fabulous! Exhibit • I especially like the pillow at the bottom of the slide. • 06 jul, 1:16 p.m.
Agents Arrest 3 in Plot to Sell Coca-Cola Secrets to PepsiCo • I want to know how they fit all that money in a Girl Scout cookie box. • 06 jul, 1:03 p.m.
Springwise: Repackaging barcodes • Neat, novel barcodes. • 06 jul, 12:34 p.m.
WASABI » Blog Archive » WordPress Related Entries plugin • 05 jul, 10:41 p.m.
adam @ 404 » Friends RSS Aggregator • Hot. Doing this with my Django blog. • 05 jul, 10:39 p.m.
David Crow: BubbleShare WordPress Plugin • 05 jul, 10:27 p.m.
Lifes a Bench » Blog Archive » WP-Flickr v0.2 • 05 jul, 10:03 p.m.
manalang.com » WordPress Plugin: WP-Amazon • 05 jul, 10:01 p.m.
lazyi.net // Ryan Prins’ Blog » Amazon Wishlist • 05 jul, 9:56 p.m.
tijs.org » Blog Archive » Last.fm recent tracks Wordpress plugin • 05 jul, 9:55 p.m.
One Nation Under JC » firstRSS WordPress Plugin • really simple one • 05 jul, 9:55 p.m.
Jeremy’s Brain Dump » Announcing a Feedburner Wordpress Widget • 05 jul, 9:54 p.m.
SimplePie: Documentation » SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress • Love SimplePie. • 05 jul, 9:52 p.m.
5ives » Five things, besides lying, that Shakira’s hips don’t do • 2. long division • 05 jul, 11:38 a.m.
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) on the internet • “[T]he internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.” • 05 jul, 10:36 a.m.
The Six Most Feared but Least Likely Causes of Death • Holy crap! What are these sexual behaviors under actual leading causes of death?! • 04 jul, 11:14 p.m.
Stargazer’s Funnies - Things That Are Difficult To Say When You’re Drunk • “Sorry, but you’re not really my type.” (via Rachel) • 30 jun, 3:12 p.m.
Html Validator for Firefox and Mozilla • “HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla.” Best extension I’ve installed in a while. • 30 jun, 10:57 a.m.
librarian.net » social, prosocial, anti-social • Interesting thoughts about breaking up in a world of social software. “Do I take my ex off my buddy list? Do I remove his blog from my RSS feed reader?” Something I haven’t had to deal with…yet. • 30 jun, 9:27 a.m.
PHP & CSS Dynamic Text Replacement (P+C DTR) with word-wrapping • May have to try this out. • 29 jun, 11:01 p.m.
Britney Spears poses nude in Bazaar - The Superficial - www.thesuperficial.com • I have one word for you: airbrush. • 29 jun, 10:20 p.m.
graphicPUSH - KC Chiefs’ Tragic Online Fumble • I find that most sports teams’ websites blow. Good writeup. • 29 jun, 11:29 a.m.
the cool hunter - ads • Kind of wondering if the airbag one is real, but I hope it is. It’s hilarious. • 29 jun, 10:55 a.m.
AXE CLIX • Funny commercial with Nick Lachey. • 28 jun, 11:13 p.m.
A Funny Podcast About A Sad Girl. | Hope Is Emo • The first podcast is funnier than the second one. • 28 jun, 1:30 p.m.
Threadless T-Shirts - Purple is the new blue and red by Phillip Tang • *Chuckle* • 28 jun, 12:50 p.m.
You know where you are. • If I wanted to rip off a blog design right now, this would be it. • 28 jun, 11:21 a.m.
Nate’s Blog » Blog Archive » Sure, Im a webdesigner! I have Dreamweaver! • “They will just continue making very beautiful designs, that load slow, use images where they should use h1…” • 28 jun, 9:44 a.m.
Strange statues around the world | haha.nu - interesting findings over the net • Uh, yeah. • 28 jun, 9:33 a.m.
Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Airline Tickets - Farecast • This is going to be awesome when they expand the “from” cities. • 27 jun, 1:19 p.m.
Nelly Furtado: Loose: Pitchfork Record Review • This review, unfortunately, is dead on. • 27 jun, 1:15 p.m.
Stars are Blind - EP • Six remixes of Paris Hilton’s new song! I’ve died and gone to heaven!!! • 27 jun, 9:58 a.m.
Rowling hints Harry Potter might die • Frankly, I think she should kill him off. As long as Hermoine and Ron are together in the end, I’ll be fine! • 26 jun, 8:15 p.m.
Animation-Station.com - Free Webmaster Tools - Free Animations and Backgrounds - Animated Gifs • Because who doesn’t need more animated GIFs in their life? • 23 jun, 1:59 p.m.
Posts · Fingertips • Wow, really simple, but I really like the design here. • 23 jun, 9:16 a.m.
Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design • “Time spent wishing a slow, painful death on Bill Gates and more swearing.” • 23 jun, 8:32 a.m.
Design by Fire • Really nice design. • 22 jun, 9:55 a.m.
About Us | Flickr ing • Importing Flickr into Django. For my reference. • 21 jun, 10:35 p.m.
The Morning News Gallery - Files Are Not for Sharing, by Matthew Baldwin & Goopymart • Funny. Especially the Keanu Reeves part. • 20 jun, 10:49 p.m.
Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos • For when you have a couple hours to waste. • 20 jun, 4:09 p.m.
A List Apart: Articles: Prettier Accessible Forms • I’ve gotten more fond of the definition list way, myself. • 20 jun, 11:19 a.m.
Stars Are Blind - Paris Hilton • It’s a great day, because you can buy the Paris Hilton single from iTunes. Kidding! • 20 jun, 9:18 a.m.
Learn Chinese in 5 minutes • Funny. Via Rachel. • 19 jun, 1:51 p.m.
GROTRIAN Pianos • I’m not even sure what this is, but it’s awesome. • 18 jun, 10:48 p.m.
TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Luxury Gadgets • Basically regular stuff with lots of diamonds. • 18 jun, 4:30 p.m.
Useless Facts • “Almonds are a member of the peach family.” The pit does remind me of an almond. • 18 jun, 4:21 p.m.
New Catholic Mass translation OK’d • Yeah, because a few wording changes are going to bring Catholics back to Mass. Ha. That said, I am against all of these wording changes. • 16 jun, 9:37 a.m.
What users hate most about Web sites | InfoWorld | News | 2006-06-14 | By Sandra Rossi, Computerworld Today (Australia) • “Cunnington describes Flash as a classic example of “Jurassic Park Design,” that is, designing what you ‘can,’ rather than what you ‘should.’” • 15 jun, 9:45 a.m.
Clinton Seeks Middle Ground in Abortion Debate - New York Times • Pretty much the way I feel about it. • 13 jun, 4:20 p.m.
Threadless T-Shirts - Nice Boobies by Seth Kirkendall • Hilarious. • 13 jun, 9:58 a.m.
Apple - Get a Mac • New ads. More fun out of the box. • 13 jun, 8:58 a.m.
Dunkin’ Donuts New Look - Boston.com • And with much, much better donuts than Krispy Kreme. • 11 jun, 11:29 p.m.
Typography for Headlines | Smiley Cat Web Design • How many can you recognize? • 09 jun, 6:36 a.m.
CNN.com - Senate blocks same-sex marriage ban • “Opponents called the measure an election-year ploy that wasted precious time on the legislative calendar.” • 07 jun, 10:31 a.m.
The new lies about women’s health • The sad thing is, none of this surprised me. • 07 jun, 9:51 a.m.
ONLamp.com — PHP Web Services Without SOAP • It’s almost “Making/processing REST Requests for Dummies,” which I’m still looking for. • 06 jun, 11:13 p.m.
Maura’s Profile • Denise hooked me up with a basic Vox account, so if you have one, we should be friends and stuff. • 05 jun, 10:08 p.m.
Django | Documentation | How to serve static files • 31 may, 2:30 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Mobile-Phone Models That Improve Upon the RAZR, SLVR, and PEBL. • “RAZR XTREM” • 31 may, 1:04 p.m.
Christian Montoya » Bad Ideas of Web Design • I SO agree on the “display-on-hover” thing. • 31 may, 11:52 a.m.
Katie Couric gets ‘Today’ send-off • It was a tearjerker. • 31 may, 9:31 a.m.
Click opera - Tell me about couples and surfing! • “The internet age feels less communal than the TV age did.” • 30 may, 7:38 p.m.
Reasons Why Your Startup Should Use Ruby On Rails (RoR) • “By this point, all VCs have read about the huge Ruby On Rails movement in their in-flight magazine on the way back from their vacation in Hawaii.” • 30 may, 3:55 p.m.
Forty Media - Blog - Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches • “The Flirty Customer Service Gal: Operators are standing by to take your call…and your heart.” • 30 may, 2:13 p.m.
Content with Style: CSS is Worthless • Some good points here. • 30 may, 12:38 p.m.
Virginity Pledge 2.0 • “Trust us on this one. By the time your kids are old enough to understand any of this stuff, they’ll have zero interest in your former love life and, like all children, will remain convinced you were born 40 years old and lacking genitalia.” • 26 may, 2:24 p.m.
Yummy Body Scrub Recipes • Spa-quality scrubs for a fraction of the price. • 26 may, 12:35 p.m.
Mr. Right • Yes! I have finally found him! • 25 may, 6:50 p.m.
New Balance Classics W574 - Suede & Mesh - New Balance Women’s Collection (Mercury/Pink/3m® Silver Pop) • To buy. • 25 may, 9:28 a.m.
SanDisk launches ‘iDon’t’ anti-iPod campaign • Yeah, that won’t backfire. • 23 may, 4:09 p.m.
The Most Offensive Show On Television | The A.V. Club • “So apparently, what turning 16 is ‘really like’ entails a grotesque, seemingly soulless teenager who coerces his/her spineless parents into paying for parties that cost many times more than most people’s weddings. It’s just as I remembered!” • 23 may, 10:10 a.m.
Screens Around Town: Inspired #2 - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) • A site I worked on showed up here. Wild. • 23 may, 9:29 a.m.
mkaz.com : JavaScript : Select Menu List • Useful widget for many-to-many relationships. • 18 may, 3:33 p.m.
And if It’s a Boy, Will It Be Lleh? • Article about the rise of the girl’s name Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards), which is interesting because it’s completely made-up. • 18 may, 11:54 a.m.
Paying for camouflage | A Whole Lotta Nothing • The whole thing sucks, frankly. • 16 may, 9:04 p.m.
Apple - MacBook • MacBooks are here! Will be buying one of these in the not-too-distant future. • 16 may, 10:51 a.m.
Style-Force Semplice Pixelfonts • Some nice pixel fonts. Actually kind of wishing the “Munica” wasn’t a pixel font. • 13 may, 11:45 p.m.
Emily, Jacob still most popular baby names • Emma’s a loser! • 13 may, 12:52 a.m.
Pink Motorola SLVR L7 | Outblush • Pink SLVR! Love. • 12 may, 5:13 p.m.
W I L C O • That photo on the main page right now—I am in it! Somewhere… • 12 may, 9:19 a.m.
Agency rejects ‘.xxx’ domain name • I really don’t see why this is a problem. I so want maura.xxx as my sex blog. Kidding. • 11 may, 10:42 a.m.
A List Apart: Articles: Hybrid CSS Dropdowns • Used this one today. ALA is so freaking awesome. • 10 may, 4:22 p.m.
django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines - Google Video • Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s talk at Google. Pretty much having Django’s babies once I get better with it. • 10 may, 1:23 p.m.
Newsvine - Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House • I’ll definitely move to Canada if this happens. • 10 may, 11:12 a.m.
USA National Gas Temperature Map • Really puts things into perspective. • 10 may, 8:27 a.m.
A List Apart: Articles: The Four-Day Week Challenge • “And then it hit me: there will always be more to do. Working more won’t change that. In fact, working more is actually counter-productive.” • 09 may, 8:20 a.m.
AJAX Edit In Place With Prototype • 08 may, 5:09 p.m.
The undersigned » Blog Archive » From XHTML/CSS to WordPress • Useful. • 04 may, 11:27 a.m.
Leta reading Skymall • My uterus just skipped a beat. • 04 may, 9:17 a.m.
SELFies: Downloads: Index • Completely forgot about the ridiculous amount of free Self music you can get. • 04 may, 8:54 a.m.
Videos of Okkervil River • The “For Real” video is something else. • 04 may, 7:54 a.m.
QDN: The dishonor of Blue Security • Interesting writeup of the real reason behind the Six Apart downtime. • 03 may, 9:31 p.m.
Outblush | The Online Shopping Magazine For Women • Uncrate was enough for me, so this is just gravy. Delicious, delicious gravy. • 03 may, 5:22 p.m.
WSJ.com - Hollywood’s Take on the Internet Often Favors Fun Over Facts • I hate when Hollywood tries to “sex up” programming. • 03 may, 4:15 p.m.
Niggle — A weblog about details in design. • Really nice. • 03 may, 3:25 p.m.
Creating Passionate Users: The strangest, easiest way to lose weight • I have to be honest… This is interesting. • 03 may, 8:32 a.m.
The Man in Blue > CSS Love Child • Easily thirty minutes of fun. • 02 may, 6:35 p.m.
Apple - Get a Mac - Watch The TV Ads • These are pretty cute. Especially the network one. • 02 may, 8:40 a.m.
MomAdvice: The Community of Tips, Advice and Articles for Moms • Looks great. • 01 may, 2:25 p.m.
blog.critical | An Occasionally Interesting Blog by Andy Pearson • A better example of what I was going for with my current design. Kinda. • 01 may, 2:24 p.m.
Boot it. (jeffcroft.com) • Ushering in the year of the Django-powered blog. • 01 may, 10:26 a.m.
Mike Davidson: How to Snatch an Expiring Domain • This is an oldie but a goodie… Something I’ve referred to a few times. • 28 apr, 10:40 a.m.
How Your Birth Order Affects Your Romantic Compatibility • Really girly, I know, but the effects of birth order/sibling gender and numbers is something I find fascinating. • 28 apr, 12:24 a.m.
How to Stay Awake in Boring Meetings • It’s bullshit bingo. • 27 apr, 2:28 p.m.
O’Reilly Radar > Database War Stories #2: bloglines and memeorandum • Bloglines doesn’t use a database. Interesting. • 27 apr, 10:58 a.m.
Subtraction: The Movable Feast Got Away from Movable Type • This is pretty much exactly how I feel, too. • 25 apr, 10:52 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m a Little Unnerved by My eHarmony Profile. • “You sometimes run like a girl when you’re jogging.” • 25 apr, 12:16 p.m.
Monopoly to roll the dice and change its board • You can vote on the landmarks from various cities. • 25 apr, 8:43 a.m.
brain flatulence | intensify.org • “Those whores knows hows to party, yo.” Best compliment, ever! • 24 apr, 4:08 p.m.
The Virtues of a Second Screen - New York Times • “If you’re trying to take over the world, it’s rather helpful,” says Bill Blomgren, a computer consultant in Charlotte, N.C. • 20 apr, 2:59 p.m.
CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions: Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll • You know, I want to buy this book, but the TEN PAGE errata kind of turns me off. • 20 apr, 10:39 a.m.
CNN.com - Bowling tournament prize: Bowling alley • And who doesn’t want a bowling alley in North Dakota? • 20 apr, 10:06 a.m.
Rhode Island set to become first wireless state - Metro • 19 apr, 2:12 p.m.
Vitamin Features » How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? • Fairly crappy. Heh. • 19 apr, 2:11 p.m.
