Confessions of an Online Scrabble Cheat • Okay this is really funny to me, being an avid Scrabulous player. I find the secret to Scrabulous is not to cheat but to max out your two-letter words, which, since they give you a list, can’t be cheating. • 31 dec, 4:07 p.m.
22 Items You Need in Your Cleaning Kit | Cleaning : RealSimple.com • Twenty-two items?! That’s not Real Simple. • 30 dec, 10:54 p.m.
‘National Treasure’ is box office gold for another weekend - CNN.com • Amen. What a fantastic movie. “I saw the truth in his eyes!” • 30 dec, 6:47 p.m.
South Korea, Where Boys Were Kings, Revalues Its Girls - New York Times • I find stuff like this fascinating. • 23 dec, 8:41 p.m.
Web framework/restaurant/lounge on Flickr - Photo Sharing! • I’ve been wanting to make this joke for a while. • 22 dec, 8:05 p.m.
YouTube - Bumpin in the Burbs - Notorious D-A-D • I’m sold. OTP!!! • 20 dec, 5:39 p.m.
Pitchfork Feature: Top 50 Albums of 2007 • Can’t say I don’t love year-end lists. I also loved Sound of Silver, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Boxer and Neon Bible. • 18 dec, 12:23 p.m.
electric pulp, an interactive agency. we build websites. • Nice, unique design agency website. • 17 dec, 11:43 a.m.
Atlanta: Bank heist capital of nation - CNN.com • Go Atlanta!!! • 17 dec, 11:34 a.m.
tennessean.com | | news, community, entertainment, yellow pages and classifieds. Serving , • You’re better off sticking with your old design, Tennessean… And what’s with the .dll in the URL? What are you running on? • 16 dec, 10:04 a.m.
pyfacebook - Google Code • Oooh. • 14 dec, 10:12 a.m.
Yahoo’s New Widget Puts Flickr Photos at Your Blogging Fingertips | Compiler from Wired.com • I think this is incredibly cool. • 13 dec, 3:38 p.m.
The B-List: Standalone Django scripts • Referenced this all day today. Can’t believe I haven’t bookmarked it before. • 12 dec, 3:56 p.m.
Designer, builder combine talents to create Norcross cottage | ajchomefinder.com • Love this one. • 12 dec, 3:21 p.m.
New Poll Gauges Public’s Opinion of Subprime Rescue Packages • I’m against a subprime bailout • 12 dec, 1:40 p.m.
THIRD & GRAND - Amazing Websites • Have they always been in Knoxville? • 11 dec, 9:12 a.m.
Growl and Django - Wintheresque • Very cool. • 10 dec, 1:21 p.m.
Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau - 50 Fun Things To Do In Atlanta • I’ve done 16 of these. • 09 dec, 1:31 p.m.
How to eat cupcakes - a photoset on Flickr • Not that it wasn’t awesome already, but “[m]aximize the awesomeness of a cupcake with these techniques.” • 07 dec, 3:47 p.m.
A Bundle of Joy Isn’t Enough? - New York Times • This is a bunch of crap. • 07 dec, 3:32 p.m.
I’m Not Really Running, I’m Not Really Running… - New York Times • I say “calm down” to myself a lot when running. • 07 dec, 3:27 p.m.
YouTube - Wedding Dance First As A Couple FUNNY Baby Got Back • My dad sent me this today. • 06 dec, 2:33 p.m.
Asperger’s Syndrome - America’s Next Top Model - Autism - New York Times • Good story. • 05 dec, 3:42 p.m.
Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog • He actually advocates reusing passwords for low-security sites, interesting. • 05 dec, 12:37 p.m.
Metropolitan areas ranked for walkability - CNN.com • Pretty strong showing for Atlanta on this list, I think. This is an area Nashville could really improve in. • 04 dec, 10:14 a.m.
Django Basic Apps • Nathan’s basic apps for Blog, Places, People, etc. • 04 dec, 9:55 a.m.
Zillow - 121 Little St SE, Atlanta, GA 30315 • Isn’t this house adorable? Sigh. • 03 dec, 7:47 p.m.
Music snob t-shirts • Hilarious. • 03 dec, 2:52 p.m.
Sick pets, life and death choices - CNN.com • Sorry, I think $10,000 for a cat is obscene. • 29 nov, 2:06 p.m.
Adventures in $40 eyeglasses | 43 Folders • ‘For far too long, glasses have been expensive.” • 29 nov, 1:46 p.m.
AppleInsider | Apple aware some MacBooks contain flawed Seagate drives • Oh, hey, maybe this was my problem. • 28 nov, 1:02 p.m.
Installing Django on Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) | rob.cogit8.org • HUGE help today on py-mysql. • 24 nov, 11:49 p.m.
Photos taken in Atlanta on Flickr! • There are some excellent photos in here. • 20 nov, 11:02 p.m.
blurbomat.com » Early dooce® v6 Nerd FAQ • Never would have guessed they would have gone Drupal. • 20 nov, 8:45 a.m.
Apple - Trailers - 01-18-08 • I’m kind of surprised he’s actually calling it “Cloverfield,” but at least we have something to look forward to post-Christmas. • 19 nov, 9:06 p.m.
Black-Bean And Tomato Quinoa • Don’t really see why the butter is in here, but a good idea with room to customize. • 19 nov, 8:40 p.m.
flickrshow › Simple javascript slideshows for Flickr • Can’t believe I haven’t seen this before. • 19 nov, 2:41 p.m.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Airline dispatchers are pissed at our iPhone ad • “Wait till v2.0 of iPhone comes out with complete pilot instructions, so that people can do more than just double-guess the “experts,” but can actually fly the plane.” • 16 nov, 11:57 a.m.
SpiekerBlog (en): Complete forgery • Never really thought about typography in this way. Very cool. (Via Kottke) • 16 nov, 10:58 a.m.
To Make Lemons Into Lemonade, Try ‘Miracle Fruit’ - WSJ.com • This world is an amazing place. • 15 nov, 4:51 p.m.
idiolectal.org | Season Ticket’s Greetings • I plead the 5th. • 15 nov, 8:31 a.m.
Baseball Pitches Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakar • Excellent. (Via Kottke) • 14 nov, 10:35 a.m.
99 Luftballons: blik Surface Graphics. • They actually give you 99 decals. Love this. • 13 nov, 4 p.m.
UrbanOutfitters.com > Motherboard Christmas Tree • For my desk at work. (P.S. UrbanOutfitters, make your URLs suck less.) • 12 nov, 10:01 a.m.
ad free blog *saying no to corporate advertising* • I don’t think I’d do any ads on this blog, with the exception of that one time I (disastrously) tried AdSense. That said, I’d write a topical blog specifically for ads. • 09 nov, 4:40 p.m.
The B-List: Documentation bookmarklets • Awesome. My idea. • 08 nov, 7 p.m.
Programming Language Popularity • Where does ASP fall into this? When I was looking for a job, all anyone seemed to want was a freaking ASP programmer. Yuck. • 06 nov, 5:24 p.m.
» 10 types of programmers you’ll encounter in the field | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com • I am really none of these, but I would most like to be the Ninja. • 06 nov, 9:43 a.m.
The Frugal Traveler - In Chicago, Amid Architectural Glories, Piles of Cheap Fun - Travel - New York Times • I love Chicago. • 05 nov, 4:30 p.m.
Natural, Organic Beauty - New York Times • They used “truthiness” in this article. • 01 nov, 2:26 p.m.
AskTog: • “Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.” • 31 oct, 3:52 p.m.
Make My Logo Bigger Cream • Funny, but the video is way too long. • 31 oct, 3:39 p.m.
Free Agency? Weird. « 38 Pitches • Atlanta’s on his (not so) short list. I’ll be interested to see whether the Sox go after sentimental favorites (Lowell, too). • 31 oct, 10:34 a.m.
Most Popular Free Quality Fonts | Tech Magazine • Good collection • 30 oct, 1:42 p.m.
Detroit Tigers fill a need, trading for SS Renteria from Braves - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • NOOO! EDGAR! • 29 oct, 4:12 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Possible Titles for Kanye West’s Next Album. • “Soul-Crushing Entry-Level Position That Wears on Your Spirit, Your Integrity, Your Ambition, Involves Taking an Inordinate Amount of Shit From People Who Don’t Even Have a Degree, and Doesn’t Pay Enough to Even Make a Dent in Your Student Loans” • 29 oct, 1:09 p.m.
Open - Code - New York Times Blog • A blog about open source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers. • 28 oct, 12:37 p.m.
idiolectal.org | How To: Choose Which Team to Root For in the World Series • Wasn’t hard for me, but it might be for you. • 26 oct, 1:07 p.m.
10 Great Workouts to Spice Up Your Running Program | zen habits • “Throw some variety into your running program to make things interesting and become a better runner.” • 26 oct, 10:19 a.m.
Terry Francona Announces Josh Beckett Will Start Games 1, 4, 7, 2, 6, 3, 5 | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source • “According to Francona, Beckett should also be ready to pitch in late-inning relief of himself in games four and six…” • 25 oct, 10:47 p.m.
The Superest • “Who is the superest hero of them all?” • 23 oct, 7:28 p.m.
Ask 37signals: Can I build a product business if I’m just a designer? - (37signals) • I have to say, I loved reading about how they got started. • 23 oct, 7:09 p.m.
New to Being Dry, the South Struggles to Adapt - New York Times • “And life, for the most part, has gone on just as before.” • 23 oct, 1:46 p.m.
Is it Christmas? • There’s even a feed. • 22 oct, 12:27 p.m.
Beckett Rules Indians Again as Red Sox Inch Back - New York Times • “Beckett is 3-0 with a 1.17 earned run average in the postseason and is 1-0 in verbal skirmishes.” Just liked the line. • 19 oct, 10:28 a.m.
YouTube - David & Elisha’s very special half minute • Doesn’t get much better than this. • 18 oct, 12:57 p.m.
YouTube - PUNCHED SNL DIGITAL SHORT NBC OCTOBER 13 2007 ANDY SAMBERG • Sounds like humor for 13-year-old boys, but it’s actually funny, • 17 oct, 1:58 p.m.
Pillar on Flickr - Photo Sharing! • ‘It’s like looking into the face of God, and having him say “You are my most splendid creation.”’ • 16 oct, 10:39 a.m.
Blog on Blog: Jeff Croft • ‘“Reinhardt may be the greatest guitarist in the history of the instrument, despite a mangled playing hand, and we wanted to bring a bit of that to web development.” When asked to explain the connection, the subject was abruptly changed.’ • 16 oct, 8:23 a.m.
A Mock Columnist, Amok - New York Times • “I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace.” • 15 oct, 9:14 a.m.
Unfuddle: Free Source Control, Bug and Issue Tracking • SVN + Trac + Basecamp = not a bad idea. • 12 oct, 2:42 p.m.
ProgProg : Inside Django’s Template Inheritance • Tried to get this to work once as well, but it makes sense. • 12 oct, 9:17 a.m.
CNN Political Ticker - Draft Gore group steps up efforts • After watching An Inconvenient Truth, I can’t see how he could, in good conscience, not run. • 10 oct, 11:04 p.m.
Exploits of a Mom - xkcd • I am such a nerd! I loved this. • 10 oct, 8:57 p.m.
vowe dot net :: How to open links in Safari from Lotus Notes • Zellyn is my hero • 08 oct, 10:05 a.m.
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Brain drain • “But the young net natives, for the most part, rank too low in the organizations that employ them to be invited to the pivotal discussions determining the stratgeic initiatives that could help their employers sustain their franchises.” • 05 oct, 3:23 p.m.
Simply Recipes: Apple Cranberry Stuffed Pork Roast Recipe • Oh, this looks perfect for this weekend. • 05 oct, 12:54 p.m.
Braves, Andruw Jones to part ways | ajc.com • Well, there you have it. • 02 oct, 4:03 p.m.
The official unofficial Django favicon • “Take that, Rails!” • 02 oct, 11:02 a.m.
smitten kitchen | couscous and feta-stuffed peppers • Made these this weekend — wonderful. Added spicy Italian sausage and substituted quinoa for couscous. Next time will sub mozzarella for the feta cheese. • 01 oct, 10:08 p.m.
Top Small Workplaces 2007 - WSJ.com • “What makes a great workplace? Among other things: Having employees who feel empowered and convinced they have a future at the company.” • 01 oct, 3:27 p.m.
Senior T-shirt controversy - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com • This is a joke, right? • 01 oct, 3:20 p.m.
Amazon.com: Greatest Hits: Music: The Goo Goo Dolls • Clearly, someone at WEA/Reprise has been reading my diary. • 01 oct, 8:28 a.m.
CNN.com - CNN Political Ticker Clinton: Give every newborn $5,000 • Ugh, Hillary Clinton. Look for ways to spend less money, not more • 28 sep, 5:18 p.m.
raquo » • Most useful site I’ve found today. • 28 sep, 10:06 a.m.
NaBloPoMo Returns - Fussy • I was just thinking about this yesterday. • 27 sep, 2:24 p.m.
Transforming the Architecture • This article is a lot about the AJC. • 27 sep, 2:10 p.m.
Gallery | It’s all about family at Andruw and Nicole Jones’ house | ajc.com • Private quarters has got to be my favorite thing at the AJC. Check out Andruw Jones’ house. • 27 sep, 12:52 p.m.
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) • Oh, darn, I liked these books, now they are probably going to ruin it. • 26 sep, 11:24 a.m.
Take 10: Best-EVER historic team names | Prep Zone • Funny blog. Hopefully it won’t disappear this time. • 25 sep, 4:02 p.m.
Insomnia: blik Surface Graphics. • How adorable is this. • 24 sep, 2:53 p.m.
On using Subversion for web projects « Athletics • Duh. But very thorough write-up. • 24 sep, 2:04 p.m.
I Run for the Party • I did, this weekend. • 23 sep, 2:16 p.m.
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O’Reilly Ruby • Yes, you can write MVC PHP, but most people don’t. • 23 sep, 2:15 p.m.
Official Ticketmaster site. Jimmy Eat World tickets Center Stage Theatre Atlanta, GA, Directions, seating chart. • OMG! JEW! • 21 sep, 12:56 p.m.
Django and Crontab: Best Friends :: SuperJared.com • Maybe this is why my cron jobs don’t work. :-) • 21 sep, 12:27 p.m.
Scrap text resize widgets and teach people how to resize text | 456 Berea Street • “…my…guess is that a majority of sites that have a feature like that are a long way from being accessible and use a text resizing widget as a band-aid…” I’d tend to agree. It might not be our job to resize text for users. • 21 sep, 8:15 a.m.
Jeff Bennett hurts former team’s chances, leads Braves past Brewers 3-1 • He got a standing ovation when he left the field. • 20 sep, 10:43 p.m.
Django snippets: Flash Message Template Tag • Thanks, rtconner. • 19 sep, 2:46 p.m.
MOO | Stickers - Print stickers using your images • I want these. But, I don’t know what for. • 18 sep, 11:37 a.m.
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times • Charging for content = bad. Putting your content behind a registration wall = also bad. • 18 sep, 7:08 a.m.
jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions • I guess I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this, as I’ve become the jQuery evangelist at work. • 17 sep, 3:42 p.m.
magtable coffee table - Tables - Umbra Store • I am a huge fan of this table. However, I wish it came in a darker wood finish. • 17 sep, 12:38 p.m.
Django snippets: Allow filtering and ordering by counts of related query results • A mouthful! But something I needed. • 12 sep, 3:29 p.m.
Describe what you did before you saw this message (kottke.org) • “…Caught a baby mouse in a drinking glass at the office. Went to get lunch with the gang…” • 12 sep, 2:53 p.m.
Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails vs Django - Commercial #7 • DJ Ango! • 11 sep, 9:13 a.m.
cabedge: nashville web design & development • Nice, simple redesign. Don’t really agree with the text in the Flash but overall more usable than their old site. This is where I’d want to work if I lived in Nashville. • 10 sep, 6:03 p.m.
Lunch for a porcelain doll? Here is the place | ajc.com • I remember when American Girls were books, just books. I still have some. I actually wouldn’t mind having one of the dolls for nostalgic reasons, but I don’t know what I’d do with it. • 10 sep, 1:56 p.m.
Django | Weblog | Join us for a worldwide sprint • Let’s sprint! • 07 sep, 12:30 p.m.
Apple - To all iPhone customers • Gah I should have said something, but yesterday when they announced the price drop I was pretty sure they would do something like this. • 06 sep, 4:06 p.m.
Sending SMS Messages With Your Web Application at Debatably Beta • With Django, of course. • 06 sep, 9:10 a.m.
No love for the Snake? - write - Greg Bowers, designer | illustrator | opinionated • We’ve actually talked at work about doing one. • 06 sep, 9:05 a.m.
InnerFade with jquery • Incredibly nice fader - fade anything in and out! • 04 sep, 1:23 p.m.
An Unwanted Passenger - New York Times • We were just talking about the cost to operate a taxi in NYC. • 04 sep, 10:49 a.m.
Accessible News Slider: A jQuery Plugin • The “view all” is the best part. • 31 aug, 2:41 p.m.
YouTube sensations to sing at Turner Field | ajc.com • ARGH! This sucks that I am missing this. • 30 aug, 3:06 p.m.
University of Notre Dame • You know, I was going to say nice things about the ND redesign, but the “friendly” message about upgrading my Flash player put me off. • 29 aug, 2:30 p.m.
YouTube - Uhhh…what did she just say?? Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 • I am guessing she is one of the “U.S. Americans” who can’t locate the U.S. on a map. • 27 aug, 8:14 p.m.
bassistance.de » jQuery plugin: Validation • jQuery fun. • 27 aug, 2:02 p.m.
Django | Weblog | Django roundup: August 26 • I am so damn famous. • 26 aug, 10:05 p.m.
Whole Foods Market : Recipes : Cast Iron Skillet Pizza • Don’t worry. We added lots of meat. • 25 aug, 7:22 p.m.
car-chase.net | Chase Davis • Just found this nice, Django-oriented blog. Sadly my new design is slightly similar. Slightly. • 24 aug, 2:41 p.m.
Perez Hilton » New Music From Britney Spears!!!!!! • Yes. It is bad. I can’t believe I am even tagging this as “music.” • 23 aug, 8:09 p.m.
Snap • Here is how you disable Snap Shots in your browser via a cookie. If you have Snap Shots on your site, I hate you. • 22 aug, 1:19 p.m.
Content Aware Image Resizing • Absolutely fascinating. • 22 aug, 10:11 a.m.
Shop Once, Eat For A Week - Men’s Health • Still a great article. For anyone. • 21 aug, 10:20 a.m.
YouTube - Mark Teixeira Tribute • These guys have Teixeira fever. • 21 aug, 8:56 a.m.
CrunchNotes » What A Comment Stream Would Look Like In A Meeting • Yeah. This made me laugh out loud. At work. • 20 aug, 4:16 p.m.
Boston University Maps • Incredibly good-looking mashup. • 17 aug, 1:06 p.m.
Top 10 Best Newspaper Websites » The Bivings Report • Really nice nod for the Knoxville News-Sentinel - good site and Ellington-powered. I kind of like the new main page of the Tennessean but anything beyond that still looks like crap. • 16 aug, 4:22 p.m.
Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care - New York Times • I think I’m going to use my 20% time to improve health care! • 15 aug, 2 p.m.
Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver » Graham English’s Integral Conversations • I have hit the motherload. • 15 aug, 1:34 p.m.
zetta • James is offering some free hosting. Find out if he supports Django. • 14 aug, 2:54 p.m.
Official Google Maps API Blog: v2.77: GMarker show, hide, and isHidden = Quick & Easy Marker Toggling! • With groups of markers! • 14 aug, 2:28 p.m.
SitePoint Blogs » Closures and executing JavaScript on page load • I can’t believe I am already having problems needing lexical closures. • 13 aug, 4:34 p.m.
Walk Score - Helping homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods. • Mine is 85… I suppose that’s pretty good. Old apartment was 54. • 10 aug, 11:27 a.m.
The38thSignal • Screens Around the House is pretty funny. • 09 aug, 1:24 p.m.
H&M bringing cheap chic to Atlantic Station | ajc.com • I knew I moved here for a reason! • 09 aug, 12:07 p.m.
Google Maps: Coloured Markers | BenjaminKeen.com • Like the default set only in different colors and actually look better. • 06 aug, 4:25 p.m.
Photos from everyone tagged peachtreeroadrace, with geodata - Google Maps • If you have a valid GeoRSS feed (or I’m guessing also KML or XML) you can put it straight into Google Maps search like this, very cool. Here are some photos from the Peachtree Road Race on Flickr. • 03 aug, 11:29 a.m.
Braves drop another marathon game | ajc.com • What they failed to mention in this article is that they had Chuck James (one of the starting pitchers!) pinch hit. I still got my Brian McCann tshirt, though. • 03 aug, 10:41 a.m.
Peter’s Blog - The window.onload problem (still) • This is vaguely related to something I am working on right now so I will bookmark it. • 02 aug, 3:30 p.m.
Syncotype Your Baselines — RobGoodlatte.com • Oh this is hot. Bookmarklet to automatically overlay a baseline grid. • 02 aug, 1:10 p.m.
Teixeira trade finalized with Rangers | ajc.com • Bye, Salty. I’ll miss you. • 30 jul, 12:56 p.m.
geopy - Geocoding Toolbox for Python • A Python geocoder - exactly what I was looking for. • 24 jul, 8:20 a.m.
Best Cities For Young Professionals - Forbes.com • Atlanta is number three. • 17 jul, 7:11 p.m.
Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec • Will It Blend: iPhone! • 11 jul, 10:45 a.m.
The Mansfield Hotel, New York - A Midtown Manhattan Boutique Hotel • This is where we are staying in September. • 08 jul, 12:23 p.m.
Ollie Kottke (kottke.org) • Good golly, Ollie! What a cutie. • 06 jul, 4:24 p.m.
knoxnews.com : Knoxville, Tennessee, News, Business, Homes, Jobs, Cars & Information • The Knoxville News-Sentinel relaunched its website yesterday. Django/Ellington-powered. • 29 jun, 11:49 a.m.
List of snowclones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Wikipedia is amazing. • 15 jun, 10:05 a.m.
home · LOLCODE • HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE “HAI WORLD!”
KTHXBYE • 14 jun, 1:15 p.m.
IKEA | Home • IKEA is Web 2.0! Actually I really like this, a lot like the old site but cleaned up. • 13 jun, 9:14 p.m.
Am I Dumb - How dumb are you? Bet you aren’t as smart as you think. • I am smarter than 96.33% of the rest of the world. • 12 jun, 10:53 p.m.
YouTube - Cingular Commercial - ‘bff Jill’ • IDK my BFF Jill? • 12 jun, 11:36 a.m.
LOST-Theories.com: Homepage • Redesign. It’s a Jeff Croft link day. • 12 jun, 8:56 a.m.
JeffCroft.com: My Posse’s On Broadway • Jeff got a new job. • 12 jun, 8:51 a.m.
A List Apart: Articles: Frameworks for Designers • by Jeff Croft • 12 jun, 8:42 a.m.
Party line (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • I can’t remember who now, but someone questioned my use of “party line” to refer to company policy. See the Wikipedia definition! • 07 jun, 10:35 a.m.
Reason Magazine - Presidential Scouting Reports • From June 2007. Interesting and also humorous. • 06 jun, 11:21 a.m.
What the World Eats | Photo Essays | TIME • Everyone eats bananas. • 05 jun, 10:23 p.m.
Standarized Testing - Education - Schools - Test Scores - New York Times • I started when I was 4 and I turned out okay. • 05 jun, 11:26 a.m.
HTML Entity Character Lookup › Left Logic • Mmm useful widgets. • 04 jun, 1:57 p.m.
CNN.com beta • Some things I like, some things I don’t. I can’t believe I am about to say this, but I think their logo could be bigger. • 04 jun, 8:48 a.m.
Knocked Up (2007): Reviews • I had NO IDEA this movie was going to be so well-reviewed. • 31 may, 10:41 p.m.
Pixelmator • Looks = cool. Not yet available = not cool. • 31 may, 10:40 a.m.
Don’t Point That Menu at My Child, Please - New York Times • The nature of children’s palates is something I find very interesting. Perhaps more on this later. • 30 may, 4:11 p.m.
Chris Shiflett: Guru Speak: Storing Sessions in a Database • Well-written tutorial. • 29 may, 2:43 p.m.
A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie — megnut.com • Best line: “Pre-heat oven to 354.17°F, or as close as you can get.” • 28 may, 10:42 p.m.
ABC News: Davies Helps Braves Dominate Mets • Kyle Davies may have hit/pitched his way into my heart last night. • 23 may, 4:07 p.m.
Let’s Make Website Mashups, Like Netflickr, Figg and BoingPress • Many good ones here but: “WikiHarmony: Welcome to the only online dating service with profiles that anyone can edit!” • 23 may, 2:04 p.m.
Knight Foundation grant | Holovaty.com • What a cool opportunity. • 23 may, 1:21 p.m.
ON THE JOB / The mystery of the daytime idle: Why aren’t you working? • Have wondered this myself, but actually it makes more sense now that I’m an adult. • 22 may, 12:28 p.m.
hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo • Like the design here. • 18 may, 7:11 a.m.
salary vs performance | ben fry • The Yankees are throwing money away. Like that’s a surprise. • 17 may, 7:20 p.m.
Golden Grahams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • “With a salt content of 2.5 grams per 100 grams, Golden Grahams is one of the saltiest cereals - sea water comes in at 3.5 grams per 100 g.” Learn something new every day. • 17 may, 10:01 a.m.
Screw it. I quit. on Flickr - Photo Sharing! • I love it! • 16 may, 8:08 p.m.
Rails Envy: Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails… • You know, I’m really not a Rails basher, but I’d love to see one of these with Django vs Rails. • 16 may, 5:42 p.m.
The 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs in the Whole World: No. 11 - Spinner.com - Free MP3s, Interviews, Music News, Live Performances, Songs and Videos • I remember when some friends in high school wouldn’t believe “Brick” was about abortion. • 15 may, 2:26 p.m.
Derek Powazek – DePo Clean WordPress Theme • This is a great theme. • 15 may, 11:44 a.m.
Slider.js Example • More fun with prototype. • 14 may, 7:17 p.m.
YouTube - Pachelbel Rant • Funny. Also, I am sick of hearing it at weddings. • 13 may, 1:06 a.m.
TinyMCE Forum / Tip: toogle button to enable/disable TinyMCE • On the fly, with a button. Convenient. • 10 may, 12:41 p.m.
‘Top Chef’ Dreams Crushed by Student Loan Debt - New York Times • Just interesting. • 08 may, 10:41 p.m.
90’s Flowchart - xkcd • I am in tears. • 03 may, 12:08 p.m.
Tulowitski turns unassisted triple play for Rockies - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • This guy is earning his paycheck. • 30 apr, 7:17 p.m.
Extending Django’s database API to include full-text search (Mercurytide) • This works great overall but has a couple of problems. Don’t replace your objects manager with it - do a custom manager instead. • 30 apr, 4:11 p.m.
What’s a “kernel panic”? (Mac OS X) • I had my very first kernel panic on my Mac tonight. I had no idea what was going on. • 24 apr, 9:08 p.m.
Students attend school’s first integrated prom - CNN.com • And you thought Tennessee was bass ackwards. • 24 apr, 5:52 p.m.
Zoom Zoom Zoom • Have I bookmarked this before? • 24 apr, 4:39 p.m.
UK Thoughts | CSS submit buttons • Something to try. • 24 apr, 3:49 p.m.
Boston hits 4 straight homers off Yankees rookie Wright - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • Yeah, this was pretty exciting. • 23 apr, 7:54 p.m.
Panic - Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X • Yeah I’m pretty excited about this. • 23 apr, 1:46 p.m.
Washington Nationals first baseman Dmitri Young fields a grounder during th… - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • The Nationals wore Virginia Tech hats in memory of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. • 17 apr, 10:41 p.m.
FromKeetra - Blood Puddle Pillows • Haha this is so great. • 17 apr, 6:12 p.m.
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview [dive into mark] • The whole thing has been taken way too seriously, but, damn, this is funny. • 16 apr, 8:23 p.m.
5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne • Really interesting comments on Rails. • 12 apr, 5:55 p.m.
Nitty Gritty Ajax • Super-easy example with drop-downs. • 12 apr, 10:17 a.m.
TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows • Too good to be true. I will have to try it. • 11 apr, 4:12 p.m.
A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid • I am doing this in my new design. • 10 apr, 10:20 a.m.
graphicPUSH: Free icons and free icon sets for web designers. • Free grayscale icons. • 09 apr, 10:13 p.m.
Makers of Artificial Sweeteners Go to Court - New York Times • I don’t see this preventing anyone from buying more Splenda. • 06 apr, 2:11 p.m.
Forty - Business Blog - Where Company Names Come From • “Notice that you don’t see too many origins like ‘Developed during brainstorming session with $100k naming consultant.’ Just goes to show that you can go a long [way] with a little creativity of your own.” • 06 apr, 1:35 p.m.
The easiest way to PNG support in IE6 • Fingers crossed. • 03 apr, 6:52 p.m.
PNG in Windows IE • Okay just include a script and PNGs magically work? Awesome. • 03 apr, 10:17 a.m.
reboot.7 • I would like to do the May 1st Reboot. But it’s a dated, all-Flash site with sounds and tiny text circa 2001. What gives? • 03 apr, 9:06 a.m.
Flickr: The SimpleFools Pool • Everyone got their bits on. • 02 apr, 7:37 p.m.
Adactio: Journal - Ghost in the Machine Tags • Damn this is clever. • 02 apr, 10:57 a.m.
Md. Senate Advances Bill To Dodge Electoral College - washingtonpost.com • Read through the specifics. Pretty interesting. • 29 mar, 2:20 p.m.
Students give up social networks for Lent - CNN.com • Dammit that would have been a good idea. • 29 mar, 11:47 a.m.
Hack Attack: A beginner’s guide to Quicksilver - Lifehacker • I should read this and actually get into Quicksilver. Maybe. • 28 mar, 10:58 p.m.
Newsvine - Hacking John McCain • Mike D is so, so funny. • 27 mar, 7:11 p.m.
YouTube - How to Prepare for Daylight Saving Time • Holy crap! His emails just disappear! • 27 mar, 10:23 a.m.
People banned from SNL - Infamous moments in Saturday Night Live history - Zimbio • Don’t piss off Lorne Michaels. • 27 mar, 9:22 a.m.
Saturday Night Live: United Way (3/24/07) • I am really sad that I missed this now. • 26 mar, 2:02 p.m.
How do you intercept someone else’s text message? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine • Cool, except most text messages are inane. • 23 mar, 11:44 p.m.
More men taking wives’ last names - USATODAY.com • I always wondered about Sam Van Hallgren. • 22 mar, 11:50 p.m.
Weightshift: Under the Hood at AIGA.org • Screenshots of the admin for the new AIGA site. • 22 mar, 9:32 p.m.
Zend Developer Zone | Using MySQL Full-text Searching • Holy crap! Why have I never used full-text searching? • 22 mar, 9:59 a.m.
The Overboard • This is only 40$?! • 21 mar, 10:36 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Roommate Wanted: Share My West Village Pad. • “If I choose you at the open house, you must pay a security deposit and the first six months’ rent and the last six months’ rent up-front. I look forward to meeting everyone!” • 21 mar, 3:40 p.m.
Shouts & Murmurs: The Wisdom of Children: Humor: The New Yorker • I. is so appropriate given my recent post. • 20 mar, 9:57 p.m.
Potter star refuses to sign up for final films | News | Guardian Unlimited Film • Emma Watson causing some drama. • 20 mar, 7:28 a.m.
Twitter / minarets • Picked a bad day to start using Twitter again, as it’s been slower than Christmas. • 19 mar, 4:21 p.m.
Recipe: Skillet Irish Soda Bread Served With Cheddar and Apples - New York Times • Irish soda bread in a skillet?! Sold! • 15 mar, 10:43 p.m.
The Morning News - South by South-BEST! by Todd Levin • “Damn, Girl, I Wish I Were That Scoliosis Brace”: Leaving Comments on Women’s MySpace Profile Pictures and the Art of Seduction • 15 mar, 10:50 a.m.
Web Typography Sucks | Slides and notes from SxSW 2007 • Sure does. My favorite part of my site right now is the typographic quotes. • 14 mar, 9:30 a.m.
COLOURlovers Coup.0 :: Color Trends & Palettes • Mmm color palettes. • 13 mar, 10:02 p.m.
YouTube - Introducing…the Apple iRack • Pretty clever for late-night sketch. • 12 mar, 1:16 p.m.
Celebrating a life - Author Jane Yolen dedicates an evening of stories to a special fan - NewStandard: 11/12/99 • I was Googling some people I went to elementary school with and found this about Seth, one of my classmates. How sad. • 11 mar, 10:26 p.m.
A bookmark collection of 50 weblogs • Really great company. I’ll take this as a compliment. • 09 mar, 3:17 p.m.
Threadless T-Shirts - Mozart Didn’t Like To Practice Either by Philip Tseng • Makes me feel better. • 07 mar, 11:52 p.m.
Maura on Virb.com • Virb is live. Let’s be friends. • 07 mar, 11:29 p.m.
Hot Meteor :: Web, Print, and Branding • There’s something I really, really like about this. Please hold while I put my finger on it. • 04 mar, 11:50 p.m.
Fish Bowl Bookends at Wrapables - Bookends • Hot, except for when your books are too heavy and knock them over (via). • 02 mar, 2:42 p.m.
listentoamovie.com • I imagine this would work better if you had already seen it. • 02 mar, 8:34 a.m.
Ironic Sans: 50 States in 10 Minutes • I was pretty fast (under 2 minutes), but I bet I could do it faster. • 01 mar, 6:33 p.m.
Showdown - Markdown in Javascript • Tried to use a Javascript Markdown a while ago for a live comment preview, but it worked pretty poorly. Might try this. • 01 mar, 8:18 a.m.
Django snippets: Welcome • After much harassment, I made an account. • 27 feb, 2:15 p.m.
swfIR: swf Image Replacement • Not for cleaning floors. • 27 feb, 8:14 a.m.
Krispy Kreme offers whole wheat doughnut • Shaun is going to be so excited. • 26 feb, 10:50 p.m.
Hide/Show Layer • This is, I believe, really old, but a really lightweight script I’ve been trying to find again so I’m bookmarking it. • 26 feb, 6:58 p.m.
Jonathan Coulton • “Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself” • 23 feb, 9:35 a.m.
Whole Foods Makes Offer for a Smaller Rival - New York Times • Does that mean our Wild Oats will become a Whole Foods?! Sweet! • 22 feb, 1:16 p.m.
Ad pictures Tennessee well, except it’s Alaska - Tennessean.com • Turns out it’s also 10 years old. • 22 feb, 1:06 p.m.
All-Day Breakfast Is Coming To McDonald’s? - Consumerist • McGriddles day or night! Woohoo! Except I’ve never had one because they are 569385 calories. • 21 feb, 11:11 p.m.
PHP-Style Use of Django’s New Form Engine | Mike Cantelon • Apparently a good overview of newforms. To read. • 21 feb, 11:55 a.m.
YouTube - Barenaked Ladies - Sound of Your Voice • Their new video stars YouTube celebs (via). • 20 feb, 9:43 p.m.
Django on Dreamhost: incomplete headers « Automatthias • I changed my django.fcgi file to dispatch.fcgi. I’m not having problems per se, but I’m curious whether it will make a difference. • 20 feb, 6:37 p.m.
The Container Store > Chrome Folding Hamper with White Bag • I’m going to the Container Store this weekend. I’m coming back broke. • 19 feb, 9 p.m.
From 0 to 60 to World Domination - New York Times • Pretty interesting article about Toyota’s cars and company culture… Sounds like a place I would want to work. • 19 feb, 4:42 p.m.
VIRB • I have 15 invites. Email me. • 19 feb, 2:23 p.m.
AppleInsider | Apple to re-enter the sub-notebook market • You know, I bet it will be pretty hot, but I am not interested in going any smaller than my 13” MacBook. • 16 feb, 1:49 p.m.
So Naughty, So Nice - New York Times • I live in the capital S South so it’s amusing to me that red velvet cake is now “in.” The recipe is pretty similar to one I’ve used in the past. • 15 feb, 12:02 p.m.
The Morning News - My Bloodthirsty Valentine by Eric Feezell • “Fellas, I got my girlfriend a wolverine for Valentine’s Day a few years ago, and our relationship has been a distillery of bliss ever since.” • 14 feb, 3:53 p.m.
State Farm: no new home insurance policies in Mississippi • Apparently, unlike a good neighbor, State Farm isn’t there. • 14 feb, 3:06 p.m.
Digital Web Magazine - The Village Stew • Some reading on the “too many cooks in the kitchen” phenomenon. • 13 feb, 5:20 p.m.
Bill to require HPV vaccine stirs concern - Los Angeles Times • “She’s not gonna need it,” said Warren… “I’m a good parent. I tell her what’s right and wrong.” You just keep telling yourself that. (Although it shouldn’t be required.) • 12 feb, 4:18 p.m.
More Washington News | NWCN.com | News for Seattle, Washington • “If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they can not have children together, it follows that all couples who cannot or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage.” Fantastic. • 12 feb, 4:16 p.m.
BarackObama.com • The new kind of Presidential campaign - with accounts on Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. • 12 feb, 11:25 a.m.
Influence vs. Inspiration ~ Authentic Boredom • Another classic from Cameron Moll. • 08 feb, 5:11 p.m.
Drew Warkentin | Creative Solutions Daily. • Nice and simple. Like the splash (literally) of color at the top. • 07 feb, 2:51 p.m.
Happy Cog Studios • I have some critique-y things to say about this design BUT I really like the watercolor I’ve been seeing online here and there. • 07 feb, 2:47 p.m.
Useless Account • One of the account questions is, “Are your pants from outer space? Because your ass is out of this world.” • 06 feb, 5:26 p.m.
Jessica Simpson: ‘Notebook’ spurred divorce • I consult Nicholas Sparks on all of my important relationship decisions, too. • 05 feb, 4:46 p.m.
Why you should be using disambiguated URLs • “Links to (and within) your site should never, ever end with index.php / index.html / default.aspx / any default directory index filename.” Please, please, yes. • 05 feb, 1:25 p.m.
python-twitter - Google Code • A python wrapper around the Twitter API. Unfortunately I can’t get my python cron jobs to go, but I’m working on it. • 05 feb, 1:24 p.m.
YouTube - GM Robot Superbowl Commercial • This is either a testament to the quality of the ad or proof that I am a pathetic sap, but this commercial got me misty-eyed. • 05 feb, 12:23 p.m.
Intype • Basically Textmate for Windows. • 05 feb, 11:07 a.m.
How to Make a 3D Paper Snowflake - WikiHow • Pretty cool looking. • 02 feb, 4:11 p.m.
Burn • Free burning application for Mac OS X. • 02 feb, 12:58 p.m.
Last Harry Potter book a best-seller ahead of July release - Feb. 2, 2007 • Hmm… I think I’ll just pick it up in stores. • 02 feb, 9:43 a.m.
ThinkGeek :: DIY Blood Typing Test Kit • Only nine dollars? I need this. • 31 jan, 11:34 p.m.
Bev’s Chocolate Chip Cookies on Yahoo! Food • Made with oats and whole-wheat flour. • 31 jan, 1:42 p.m.
YouTube - TDS: Gates Crash! • I laughed out loud. • 31 jan, 8:45 a.m.
Flickr: Forums: FlickrHelp: Official Old Skool Merge Topic • I didn’t know people would get so crazy about this. I merged yesterday. I’m a little sad that I had to do it with maura.chace@yahoo.com but oh well. • 31 jan, 8:36 a.m.
AppleInsider | High-quality images of Apple’s first orange iPod (shuffle) • Doing colors on the shuffle was obvious, and the orange is the most interesting one. Go Vols! • 30 jan, 4:49 p.m.
Some RSS and remaindered links changes (kottke.org) • One big feed… I was actually okay with getting just the posts via RSS and then I checked his site during the day for links, but this works, too. • 30 jan, 4:47 p.m.
YouTube - How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta • Obviously fake but hilarious. Also make sure to read the comments. • 29 jan, 1:38 p.m.
Mint • I wish the upgrade price was more like… 15$. • 29 jan, 10:09 a.m.
iTunes everywhere: Using Amazon S3 as your music library | Pain in the Tech • Oh. I like this idea. • 26 jan, 3:34 p.m.
CollyLogic | Simon Collison’s Illogical Waffle • I couldn’t remember if I’d bookmarked this before… Absolutely love the “undesign” and the handling of the third column on smaller windows. • 24 jan, 5:27 p.m.
YouTube - Food Network Subliminal Advertising? • You’d think most people watching Food Network wouldn’t be the type to eat at McDonald’s anyway. • 23 jan, 11:33 p.m.
Video: How a Canadian Dresses for Winter Running » Complete Running Network • I do like running when it’s fairly cold, because of course it beats running when it’s hot. • 23 jan, 9:32 p.m.
Bush to Democrats: Let’s cooperate to ‘achieve big things’ • Oh, the state of the union was today? Totally slipped my mind. • 23 jan, 9:27 p.m.
Six Degrees - Home • Kevin Bacon made a website. • 23 jan, 3:48 p.m.
The Morning News - Red, White, and You by Todd Levin • “FANCY SERIF FONT + PARCHMENT LABEL + SOMETHING YOU KIND OF REMEMBERED FROM THE MOVIE SIDEWAYS + $12-$16 PRICE TAG = SUCCESS” The wine pairing is remarkably accurate. • 22 jan, 10:04 a.m.
YouTube - Colbert Report - AT&T • It’s funny because it’s true. • 17 jan, 11:39 p.m.
51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse - New York Times • I love being a statistic. • 16 jan, 3:15 p.m.
Linking a word automatically with Javascript • Something I was looking for a long time ago. • 16 jan, 2:36 p.m.
14kt 1ct TW Emerald Cut & Round Diamond Bridal Set (Limited Edition) • Love • 11 jan, 6:29 p.m.
Apple’s iPhone a threat to mobile operators? | CNET News.com • I used to know a guy who works pretty high up at Verizon Wireless. Tempted to email him and ask what he thinks of the iPhone. • 11 jan, 4:04 p.m.
webmunchkin.jpg (JPEG Image, 750x600 pixels) • This is pretty funny. “I hope you realize it took me a long time to find images I liked.” • 11 jan, 3:12 p.m.
O’Reilly, Colbert to appear on each other’s shows - CNN.com • Count me in. • 09 jan, 5:38 p.m.
Apple - iPhone • Cool, but expensive. And do I really need a “smart” phone? I’m torn. Also, I don’t want to wait until June. • 09 jan, 3:45 p.m.
Ocarina of Time and Mario Kart 64 coming to the VC - Nintendo Wii News - Europe’s PAL Gaming Network • Mario Kart 64! Sign me up. • 09 jan, 11:15 a.m.
Target Price Drop Hack - Consumerist • This isn’t really that big of a secret… I learned this when I worked there. • 09 jan, 11:14 a.m.
2008 Honda Accord Coupe Concept unveiled | Leftlane News • I could buy one of those. • 08 jan, 4:55 p.m.
YouTube - Spiders On Drugs • Make sure you watch it all the way through. I particularly liked the hammock web. • 08 jan, 2:38 p.m.
leaf platter shopping in CB2 tabletop • This is cool. And on sale • 05 jan, 4:32 p.m.
Blackhole Media - Noise • Pink noise application. Makes me wish I had a Mac at work. • 03 jan, 10:29 p.m.
What Does 200 Calories Look Like? • You can have a lot of celery and Splenda but not even a whole Snickers. • 03 jan, 3:50 p.m.
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm - New York Times • If nothing else, check out the ridiculously huge monitor in the photo. • 03 jan, 11:41 a.m.
‘Pirates’ is top movie of 2006 - CNN.com • I only saw six of these. And Pirates blew. • 02 jan, 10:31 p.m.
