Ryan Tomayko

Check out these HTML5 demos —

A bunch of animated gifs are worth a thousand words.

HTTP Status Code Drinking Game —

Use this to get kicked out of the party.

How Software Engineers and Designers Can Increase Their Focus —

Finally, a How To Be Productive system I can get behind:

Q: Favorite web or mobile apps for getting focused?

A: I don’t use apps to get focused. Playing around with productivity apps is just another way to procrastinate. You become more productive by getting into the habit of doing actual work regularly, not by constantly thinking about how you can get more work done.

I don’t even use a to-do app. If something is important, I’ll remember it. If I have an idea I’m afraid I might forget, I set a reminder in my calendar on a date when I know I’ll have time to work on it. On that date, I’ll either work on it, discard it, or reschedule it.

Don’t miss Lukas’s definitive tip for massive increasing productivity and intelligence at the end. It’s money in the bank.

What really happens when you navigate to a URL —

“The facebook server responds with a permanent redirect”

WTF - Haml —

I love this so much:

… one way or another it seems I need something called EMACS.. WTF..!!!!! I dare you to install it and see how many WTFsss you will say…. it’s like some text editor that is so smart that you dont use the mouse dont even use the cursor keys..if you want to go back one character you hit control then B!!! Brilliant!!! two random keys instead of one with an arrow!!!! WWWTTTFFFF!! ok I might not need this crap…. lost a day learning to use the Rubik cube of text editors.

It’s easy to pfft and blow off this kind of … criticism, but if you can look past the make believe grammar and punctuation you really do get a sense for how hard it is for newbies to wrap their heads around even very basic set of tools needed to build things on the web. Maybe what we do is just hard and complex and there’s nothing we can do to make it simpler. I’m just always surprised when I get to peek through someone else’s eyes and see just how fucked up everything must seem.

/dev/fort —

A master plan:

Imagine a place of no distractions, no IM, no Twitter — in fact, no internet. Within, a group of a dozen or more developers, designers, thinkers and doers. And a lot of a food.

Now imagine that place is a fort.

They’re serious:

ASCII Table - The Pronunciation Guide —

ASCII punctuation characters and their various pronunciations. e.g., the entry for Exclamation point (!) lists:

exclamation (mark), (ex)clam, excl, wow, hey, boing, bang, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat, smash, cuss, store, potion (NetHack), not (UNIX) ©, dammit (UNIX)

That last one has a footnote: “as in ‘quit, dammit!’ while exiting vi and hoping one hasn’t clobbered a file too badly.”

Do It Now —

Nice. The todo / email / information “management system” I’ve been using for a while has a name now:

This doesn’t just apply to email, of course — it works for any todo list. But only if you say no to reordering, prioritizing, estimating deadlines, and doing the most important things first. Forget all that. Do it now.

Seriously. All that productivity snake oil is destroying your productivity. Being productive at managing productivity is not the same as being productive.

Beastie Boys - The Bill Adler File —

Nobody ever believes me when I tell them the Beastie Boys toured with Madonna in 1984-85. Here’s a great set of super high-res press clippings to prove it:

Why isn’t everybody this cool?:

Bill Adler was the director of publicity for Def Jam in the 80s. He allowed me to photocopy his press file on the Beastie Boys from the time when they opened for Madonna.

This is presently the topic of great discussion in the GitHub campfire.

"It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it." —

This email exchange is quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever read on the web. Here’s a tiny piece:

Actually, you were asking me to design a logotype which would have taken me a few hours and fifteen years experience. For free. With pie charts. Usually when people don’t ask me to design them a logo, pie charts or website, I, in return, do not ask them to paint my apartment, drive me to the airport, represent me in court or whatever it is they do for a living. Unfortunately though, as your business model consists entirely of “Facebook is cool, I am going to make a website just like that”, this non exchange of free services has no foundation as you offer nothing of which I wont ask for.

It’s just pages and pages of that.

Thank you @mojombo.

UPDATE: @SimonEdhouse responds
UPDATE: zing

Primer (2004) —

In honor of the greatest xkcd ever, this is Primer in its entirety. It really is that fucked up.

Is AT&T’s 3G network misconfigured? —

It’s definitely misconfigured in one way or the other as evidenced by the fact that it sucks and has sucked consistently for over a year.

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension —

Good article. The comments are even better:

reading this article reminds me countless time I have looked at the clock and the second hand it not moving and then it starts, I am sure this takes longer than a second

That’s always freaked me out. I’ve mentioned it once or twice but people just think I’m crazy so I don’t bring it up anymore. This guy, Frank, explains the phenomenon:

In more ‘joe sixpack’-terms. After you move your eyes fast, they are unable to collect information for a fraction of a second. When the eyes comes back ‘online’ the brain collects motion-information for an equal fraction of a second, and extrapolates the information backwards to create what things should have looked like and fills this fabricated visual information into your memory. Since the needle (or digit) didn’t move while the brain was collecting info for the extrapolation, it won’t be able to predict that it moved in the past either.

Crazy. I knew something was going on.

The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See —

Cloud computing at its best.

Ant Hills = Brains = Cities —

I don’t even know how to summarize this. Let’s do this: follow this link if one or more of the following apply to you. 1.) you’ve read Godel Escher Bach and appreciated the anthill discussion between Achilles and Anteater, 2.) are interested in how brains work, 3.) like cities but not overly planned ones, 4.) would like to see evidence of a city constructed in the shape of an airplane.

25 And Over —

“If you have reached the age of 25, I have a bit of bad news for you, to wit: it is time, if you have not already done so, for you to emerge from your cocoon of post-adolescent dithering and self-absorption and join the rest of us in the world.”

Very well done.

Abandoned: Six Flags New Orleans —

They shut the park down before Katrina and just left everything. There’s still prizes and stuff hanging on the walls. Spooky indeed. (Via @timbray)

Devil's RailsConf 2009 Dictionary —

Christian Neukirchen’s RailsConf 2009 wrap up. I had a pretty amazing time at the conference but sharing a Hookah with Chris was definitely a highlight.

How False Rumors Can Cost Lives —

Kragen Javier Sitaker: “I have said that spreading false rumors in time of epidemic costs lives. People have asked me how…”

This is why I recommend everyone subscribe to kragen-tol.

Danny MacAskill on a Bike —

Sick.

Things I hate about kitchen user interfaces —

For real. The best microwave is one that has a single timer dial that moves as time elapses. No one ever uses all those buttons. I use exactly one button on my current microwave: “Quick Minute” (hitting it as many times as needed) but I’d prefer a dial.

Comcast Van Towage / Songbird Tow Fail Ritual —

“I was having sort of a crap day, and spending 10 minutes watching this guy get towed completely brightened my day up. I normally feel slightly guilty watching everyday people’s cars get towed – so it was nice not to have any conscience eating at me this time.”

Enterprise static files —

This reddit comment makes me wish lesscode.org was still around :)

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes (YouTube) —

“My mother used to say, ‘Butter is better with butter.’”

"Unix is a system computers use to define time." —

proggit on shoddy reporting by NPR.

Cornify - Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand —

If I was stranded on a desert island and could bring only one website …

PEE - App Store Popularity EnhancEr —

You cannot find this special offer anywhere else. A Twitter client, a fart noise generator, and a flashlight, all in one app for the iPhone. Act now!

How to Talk to Strangers —

“If you’re still terrified by the idea of talking to strangers, challenge yourself to talk to one stranger a day, every day, for 30 days. If you’re walking past someone on the sidewalk, say ‘Hi’, and the person looks at you and keeps walking (done that many times), your job is done for the day. If you walk up to a girl in a club and say ‘Hey!’, and she responds, with a slightly grossed out look ‘I have a boyfriend.’, congratulations, you’re one step closer to improving your love life. The point of this exercise is to get you used to talking to people you don’t know and form the habit of being more social.”

Extension/Scripting language comparisons - comp.lang.scheme —

“While I do consider the adjective ‘baroque’ to be a compliment, I must point out that Perl is actually more of a romantic piece, with allusions to various classical motifs. My favorite composer is Mahler, which should surprise no one.” — Larry Wall

11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Aren't —

I almost died.

Why Does Hollywood Hate the Suburbs? —

“The reflexive reverence for Revolutionary Road is a testament to the degree to which antisuburban sentiment is one of the most unexamined attitudes in American culture.”

Is Merb Rails? —

“Built with Rack Middleware ONLY (Rails 4.0)”

Concluding Remarks —

Jean-Jacques Dubray: “How do the RESTafarians work? They take Roy’s REST, they try to use it for anything in their day to day activities, and then when they stumble upon a problem, they try to find a more or less ‘RESTful’ solution and post it on a blog.”

Precisely!

Obama 'could stop using e-mail' —

BBC: “The paper quoted aides saying that his emails, sometimes sent as late as 0100 or 0300, were ‘generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons’.”

Can you imagine?

Dear Mr. Karzai,

im in ur country, bombing ur lands. =p

k thx.
--
- O

Rails vs Merb ¿drama? —

You’ve got to be kidding me.

Two logical fallacies that we must avoid —

“… the implications of many of the scientific ideas and theories, whether mine or otherwise, are indeed immoral, ugly, contrary to our ideals, or offensive either to men or women (or some other groups of people). I simply do not care. If what I say is wrong (because it is illogical or lacks credible scientific evidence), then it is my problem. If what I say offends you, it is your problem.”

Qwitter: Catching Twitter quitters —

Sends an email notification when someone stops following you on Twitter. I don’t have the nervous system for it myself.

Dear Leg-Shaker —

I’m pretty sure this exact thought occurs to everyone that sits at a table connected to mine on a daily—maybe hourly—basis. I’m sorry!

The Subprime Primer —

The financial crisis explained using the crappiest cartoon stick figures ever. Also, the best overview I’ve seen yet.

Graduating from Beer to Whisky: 10 Facts You Need to Know —

“Beer is the people’s drink. Whiskey on the other hand is seen as a hard drink. It is a drinker’s drink. The sole preserve of men. It’s serious. It is the opposite end of the spectrum to fruit-based neon-coloured liquids sporting little paper umbrellas.”

On Bacon and Simplicity —

Thomas Jefferson: “I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

Spotted on bacon.reddit.com…

Documents Reveal Django Pony, Caught In Tail Of Lies —

Aha!

Dead Man's Switch —

Sends emails to people when you die. Awesome.

“This is how this works. You write a few e-mails, and choose the recipients. These emails are encrypted with military-grade algorithms, so you can be sure that no-one except the intended recipient will ever read them. Your switch will email you every so often, asking you to show that you are fine by clicking a link. If something were to… happen… to you, your switch would then send the emails you wrote to the recipients you specified. Sort of an ‘electronic will’, one could say.”

UNIX —

Talk about a religious attachment…

Typography for Lawyers —

For lawyers?!?? This site is way too useful and right to limit it to lawyers.

bacon.reddit.com -- Bacon - Nuff' Said... —

An active community of bacon lovers with 2,356 members.

Shaper_pmp explains the importance of pedantry —

“It also becomes a good-natured game. Think of it like golf. In golf you’re trying to hit the ball into the hole in fewer strokes than your opponent. In Pedantry Golf you’re trying to be more correct than your opponent, by correcting edge-cases, mistakes or assumptions in the previous post or statement (see also: Perl Golf).”

xkcd - The End is Not for a While —

Is xkcd ever going to stop being funny?

Velvet Underground / The Gift —

According to Wikipedia, the short story recited in the left stereo channel during “The Gift” was something Lou Reed put together as a writing project during his college days. My favorite part is when Bill tells Marsha that he still respects her and that, while he didn’t love her, he did feel a certain affection for her.

Best Comment Policy Ever —

“This ain’t the goddamn Barney show, I’m not a goddamn purple dinosaur, and I don’t give a flying fuck about your feelings. I don’t love you, I don’t want to be your friend, and as far as I’m concerned, caring means not setting your house on fire.” — Phillip Birmingham

rtomayko.muxtape.com —

Just great stuff.

Notes From The Zeitgeist —

Koshi’s been hanging out at the legendary San Francisco dive bar, “The Zeitgeist,” every day for thirty days now; takes photo’s and blogs about the picnic table discussion.

Caganer —

“… the caganer is often tucked away in a corner of the model, typically nowhere near the manger scene. There is a good reason for his obscure position in the display, for ‘caganer’ translates from Catalan to English as ‘pooper’, and that is exactly what this little statue is doing — defecating.”

How I Roll… —

Who says legibility and correct punctuation aren’t street?

Today is the Day —

The greatest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet.

Not Being a Real Person —

“We’re born as unreal people but somehow get turned into respectable members of society with good cover stories.”

The Letter in the Pond —

Letter found hidden beneath a backyard pond to the person who would eventually remove the pond. One of the best pieces of writing I’ve seen all year.

Firefox Add-on: AmIOnMySpace.com —

“This plugin will alert you if you accidentally stumble onto MySpace.com, and take you back to the site you came from.”

No Smoking —

“It is against the law to break the law in these premises, or anywhere!”

REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing —

Boo! Horrible name collision imminent. Is REST really that unknown or do they just not care?

xkcd: Forks and Spoons —

Reading xkcd has become one of my last regular forms of physical exercise. My abs are burning right now from violent guttural reactions to this one.

‘I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!’: A Guide to Proper Usage —

I finally watched “There Will Be Blood” a few days ago and the milkshake line practically jumps out of the movie at you. I have no idea what the hell happened in the movie but that line made it all worth while.

My initial reaction to Google App Engine (in Simon Willison's comments) —

I’ve since went to sleep and reawakened. I’m typically fairly curmudgeony when I wake up but I’m still having the same reaction.

April First Reconsidered —

Interesting take on AFD as launch-crazy-but-legit-projects day. I didn’t use the Internet at all this AFD and sent everything in my reader to /dev/null. Now, I feel kind of bad. Sorry about that, internet.

Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” —

Mark contributes the obligatory fisking.

Dion Almaer's Home Page —

This takes “the use of code in weblog titles” to a whole new level. Hilarious.

Mozilla Bug 417302 – about:robots —

“In the spirit of the Firefox 3 firstrun pages, I would like to permanently commemorate the noble deeds of the robot community in their fight for an open web.”

RubyForge: cameltoe-0.0.1-released —

“Cameltoe is a set of utility functions for making Ruby objects more like camel toes.” — You’ve piqued my interest :) It looks like this adds a String#cameltoeize method, amongst other things…

Will Ferrell Crashes CNBC Power Lunch —

He’s insane.

Modern Firefox Theme That Looks Like Netscape 3.0 Running On Windows 3.1 —

This is pretty funny. Even the options dialogs are themed.

Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs —

Includes a nice chart of the Differentiation of Fat Joe’s Liquid Based Promiscuity :)

Provide us with the email address we should not contact. —

Makes sense to me.

The apostrophe key does not mean "Holy shit, here comes an s!" —

“You think your better then me just because you no grammar?” :)

I need a woman who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix —

“Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family.”

Flunked: 14 Signs of a Deficient Intellect —

“Groj Sale”

depressing —

“maybe try coding something in c”

The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes —

Great tune!

Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters —

“No one party has a monopoly on bullshit” … “it’s not just about talking bullshit, it’s also about living it…”

An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today —

“Facebook isn’t the internet, dipshit.”

Why we should hang out: a mathematical proof —

“Clearly, after inspecting r guys, the expected utility of inspecting one more an continuing optimally is 1/(r+1) * the sum of b = 1 to r + 1 of U*(b, r+1). Call this expression Z.”

Inappropriate "Talk Like a Pirate Day" remarks —

“Aaaaaaaar! Home a day early, ye are, husband. This varmint a poor stranger be who lost his clothes.” :)

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! [youtube.com] —

I just had this exact conversation with my wife. No one understands…

Bo Jackson - Tecmo Super Bowl Run [youtube.com] —

Coast to coast… THREE TIMES! The original TecmoBowl soundtrack is fried into the deepest areas of my brain.

3D Mailbox - FREE 3-Dimensional Email Software. Bring e-mail to life! (And put spam to death!) —

This just ruined my day. I’m going home. Absolutely horrible. Just horrible.

Words to Live By —

“Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live.”

How to make a Ninja Mask with a shirt —

This should immediately supercede your present Ninja Mask technique.

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 [google.com] —

“Results 1 – 10 of about 283,000 for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0” – This is officially the craziest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet (with the exception of the Hasselhoffian Recursion).

Streisand effect [wikipedia.org] —

“Streisand Effect is a category of Internet phenomena in which an attempt to censor or remove a certain piece of information instead backfires, causing the information in question to receive extensive publicity…”

Blowing a raspberry [wikipedia.org] —

“In the terminology of phonetics, this sound does not appear to have an official name, but might be characterized as a linguolabial trill. It is never used in human language phonemically, but it is widely used across human cultures and by other primates”

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [youtube.com] —

Oh man. This song was not this horribly bad when I was a kid.

How much is inside Ramen noodles? [answered] —

Great research like this is what I love most about the internet.

your clever screen name is not clever —

“There’s a time and place for a penis decal on your forehead and the Monday morning staff meeting is not it.”

Amos O. Olagunju / St. Cloud State University —

This is the “home page” of a professor who teaches web design at St. Cloud State University. Don’t go there.

W3C Markup Validator Results for "You, me and the W3C (aka Reinventing HTML)" —

Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I’m just being mean now — ignore me. no but seriously.)

Fully licensed —

“I hope you can wipe the screen off!” — I fell off my chair.

TeleTech / Verizon Exit Interview —

Q: Did you learn all you needed to know to be capable of doing the job? A: Yes, bullshitting through the interview provided me with the skills to effectively bullshit to customers…

Everybody LOVES a math joke —

“A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician were sitting in a street café watching the crowd…”

The Morning News - MetaFilter in the Ruins —

“When the apocalypse comes, when the world ends as we know it, you can bet someone will be updating Metafilter.”

The (Unofficial) Digg Soundboard —

Cute. The latest Digg flames all in one place :) Kind of Digg zeitgeist, I suppose.

Proposed Solution To Global Warming —

Fix it at the source: “… Thus I propose that we turn off the Sun for roughly 0.2% of each solar day, or two to four minutes every 24 hours.” Brilliant!

Creating a password to convince yourself you have traveled back in time —

Brilliant!

Mr. CooL ICE —

Oh my.

Twelve Days —

“For n = 12 we perform a total of 364 reps! Thank goodness there aren’t 13 days or we’d have to do 454.”

Whatever Happened To The Zune? —

“I have yet to find a women who wants to be squirted with a Zune. I’ve stopped asking.”

Oh Dear Lord! BEEEES! —

“OH DEAR LORD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL. I AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.”

Surfing Lake Erie is basically disgusting —

Cleveland is so hard-core. Sometimes I really do love this place.

Programming Languages are like Women —

This guy gets around…

The most popular url on del.icio.us? —

I don’t know but it’s definitely the coolest.

Head for the hills - the new survivalists —

“So what do you do when you’re pretty sure that the end of the world as we know it is coming soon, but your girlfriend doesn’t believe you?” (via skvidal)

"A Horse Named Paul Revere," a children's book by The Beastie Boys —

All hail the king adrock.

MIT Hackers Put Huge Zelda Triforce on Great Dome —

MIT is representin'

Office Space (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) —

I give Aaron two weeks (tops!) at Wired before he’s off to something bigger and better.

The Beatles on the Ukulele —

The kid is sick.

Mike's Michigan Jokes —

Q: What do you call a Michigan cheerleader with two brain cells? A: Pregnant

I plan to travel back to the 1400s. Any advice on how to recreate the Internet? —

“You know what I love about Reddit? Someone can ask a question like this, and not one comment points out how completely ridiculous it is.”

Safety Not Guaranteed —

This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life.

How We Wish Our SOs Really Talked —

“Why would my sister want to borrow someone else’s broom, you sexist ass? My sister is a lawyer for the friggin' ACLU! before tossing her Napa Valley cab in the poor guy’s face.”

Man Pops Eye-Balls Out Really Far —

“I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, I feel blessed.”

Grue (monster) —

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Goldmine of Geeky Your Momma Jokes —

Your mom is like HTML, a tiny and a whole lot a .

The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay —

“The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and ‘Jeopardy’ comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.”

Demystifying Scientology's Fundamental Reality -- The BT's —

people pay for this shit?

Science vs. Norse Mythology —

Norse Mythology soooo kicks science’s ass in this issue…

Help Win My Bet —

Help a brother out: “if I could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that’s a threesome to you non french-speakers)”

How to pull an all-nighter —

Fairly acurate prescription…

Everyone Hates the Christians —

“When I became a convert from Judaism to born-again Christianity after watching The Chronicles of Narnia, I thought things were going to get a lot easier for me…”

Comment of the Day. On "Evidence of the Missing Link Found?" —

Evolution is at work. We leave them to themselves and we’ll stick to ourselves, and in another 250,000 years we can eat them as either game or domesticated farm animals. God knows we don’t have to selectively breed them for size.

Too many words about The Matrix —

this is insane

The Most Popular Myths in Science Results —

Bullshit: “It takes seven years to digest gum”

Yak Shaving —

I do this all the time…

Male nipples can keep babies calm —

Serendipitously appeared during a google images search for “newpaper”.

fastr - a flickr game —

best game ever…

Comic Sans was a mistake —

What a surprise!

Thermite burning a hole in a car —

Holy crap! Where can I get some thermite?

Google Campus Video Tour —

ABC’s Bob Woodruff got a camera in there somehow..

How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study —

Bwwwahahahahahahahahhaa..

Chuck Norris Facts —

“Guns don’t kill people, Chuck Norris kills people” :)

web economy bullshit generator —

haha!

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript —

Awesome!

Flight 93 (movie about 9/11) Trailor —

Nice to see hollywood capitalizing on national crisis so soon. Bastards.

rednecksurfing.wmv —

Dumbass..

Shining —

hahahahaaaa!

Holy Squid! Photos Offer First Glimpse of Live Deep-Sea Giant —

Mmmm.. If only I had 1000 lemons.

ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS —

I don’t even know what to say. Robertson has left reality.

Playmobil - Security Check Point —

Now kids can get in on all the fun of airport security!

Black people loot, white people find? —

Thanks Xeni… I’ve been meaning to write something to this effect as its so blatantly obviously.

Einstein and Godel on a walk —

Godel looks scrappy – I think he could kick Einstein’s ass if he got a sucker punch in to start…

Is your son a computer hacker? —

OMFG this is so messed up. I feel so bad for the kid whose parents read this and take it seriously.

Utah dance party broken up by police —

Developing story… From the video it looks like it was broken up by military using assault rifles and tear gas. The video making its way onto the web is scary…

Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge —

“We are willing to pay any individual $250,0000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory —

Bwwwhhahahahaaaa

potter crash —

Video of a guy plot-spoiling the latest Harry Potter books to a crowd of many in front of Barnes and Noble.

Guide to Grammar and Writing —

always useful…

This Spartan Life - Episode 1 - Module 5 —

Podcasting Red vs. Blue style?

CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE —

Right on…

Cartoon Network Acquires Neon Genesis Evangelon —

w00t!

JURY SERVICE —

An short story y Cory Doctorow… Will need to read this at some point..

Journalism and weblogs, part 327 —

Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)

Hotel Lost Liberty —

Brilliant!

All your base are belong to us —

The original european zero-wing introduction followed by a load of AYBABTU spottings in teh wild..

... All Your Base Rhapsody —

oh hell no.

Get Rich Quick With Blogs —

The always insightful James Governor’s with a fist full of insight into insightless topics such t-shirts… weeeeeeee!

Join us now and share the software —

As it turn out, Sun Microsystems owns the word “share” and they aren’t sharing it..

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah —

haha

Priest crucifies nun —

Holy crap.

Rejected Sun Microsystems slogans —

Bwwahhahahahaaa.

The Apple Blog - Quicksilver Changes Everything —

Seriously.

No hero —

Fuck yea, Len..

Tomato Salsa Recipe —

Holy crap I’m going to be eating this in about two hours…

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman —

Holy crap a new Feynman book! Published by his daughter.

Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction —

Finally located while orbiting a strange gaseous planet…

How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? —

Bwwwhhhaaahhaahahaaaaahhaa!

Disco Apache video —

It’s kind of amazing that at some time in some place in this very universe this actually took place.

World of Ends —

What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.

Preparing for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Installation -- Avoiding issues before and after updating —

Notes on stuff that should be backed up and other tips for a smooth upgrade. The comment thread looks promising as well with everyone reporting in with problems and opinion.

Accomplishments —

Wow! I didn’t think this was actually possible. I’m sure I’ll try at some point in my life but I don’t have any dilusions about actually reaching Marc’s level of accomplishment.

Afghan woman stoned to death for adultery —

Husband has wife stoned and her adulterer whipped 100 times and released.

Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It... —

About time someone noticed.

Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? —

Superb slashdot pile-on regarding the switching off of analog TV signals on 1/1/2006. The FCC/MSM do not know what to do since NO ONE will be switched over to digital.

Email destroys the mind faster than marijuana —

I’m sooo screwed.

tecosystems: Five Developer Blogs You Should Read —

Awww shucks, Mr. O'Grady, I’m flattered!

How to patch drywall —

:)

The Brick Testament —

Old Testament meets Lego – brilliant!

Laser-controlled headless zombie flies —

The beauty of science ladies and gentlemen.

Mr. Yum —

A great snap of Seth Vidal, quite possibly the best project leader I’ve ever had the privilege of working with.

Malcolm Gladwell's South by Southwest (SXSW) 2005 Keynote —

Talks about Blink and other cool stuff as usual.

Markdown + Make vs. Microsoft Word —

Hell yea..

TIOBE Programming Community Index —

A non-deterministic market index for programming languages. Pretty cool, really – and somewhat surprising I guess.

Learn the Difference Between AFFECT and EFFECT —

I’m sure I always get these wrong and likely always will.

The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin —

Mark Cuban gets it.

Upcoming changes in Python 1.5 —

Best c.l.p thread ever: irritating whitespace-based indentation gone, death of for loop, all strings are regular expressions, and WE FINALLYY GET BRACES! (via Hans Nowak)

Starbucks Delocator —

Find locally owned alternatives to Starbucks in your neighborhood.

Water found on Mars —

Oh wow, this is huge – the hard evidence we’ve been waiting for…

Two Is An Impossible Number —

Wow, this may be the most serendipitous page I’ve come across on the c2 wiki. It starts with strategies for when generalization is okay, leads into caveman number systems, how many objects the brain can recognize without counting, God as Lisp programmer,

[delicious-discuss] big news —

Joshua gets some funding for del.icio.us so that he can work it full time. Congrats!

Paul Graham - Return of the Mac

Black Hole created in Lab? —

holy shit

MIT Backs Brazil's Free Software over Microsoft —

I’m seriously considering considering moving to Brazil. That country is really starting to get their shit together and the gov seems close to the people.

Who Will Free Fiona Apple? —

Awesome look at how big music companies DON’T GET IT! Ugghh. This stuff drives me crazy.

"Closed Open Source" —

Superb rant against Sun’s licensing tactics and especially Gosling’s cluelessness wrt what’s important in a license.

Yahoo! Buzz Game —

Interesting prediction market that uses buzz around different technologies. I split my starting cash between REST, delicious, and Python.

Tim Bandits - What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? —

Yea, this is the coolest thing I’ve read in a long time. Tim: let me borrow that “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book – I’ll tear that shit up in a night, I swear…

The unspoken language of the office —

How to properly use body language to convey your negative feelings at the office…

Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers —

hehe.

Bill sets?fine for low-riding pants —

$50 fines for anyone who displays his or her… wait for it… no. now.. wait for it…. UNDERPANTS! AHHHHHHH!

It’s Not Dangerous —

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

When is a hacker a "hacker" and when is software flawed? —

that’s what i’m saying, bro..

AMERICA - ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN —

Simon Willison showed me this scan of a Newspaper from April 14, 1865. It looks like a blog.

The Ever-Worsening Curse of the Cog —

Nice little “People who make up new rules continue to be in very short supply.”

Lucid Dreaming FAQ —

I tried to do this for two months straight in college but it never worked..

Dive Winer Just Killed Podcasting —

This is just horrible Dave. Please, stop.. Stop… huuuurrting us.

GartnerWatch —

Weblog for watching and reporting shady Gartner activity. Those guys are crooked as a barrell of snakes if you ask me.

Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web —

Oh wow. This is cool.

Cory's Y2K Compliance Statement —

Has this been entered into the smithsonian yet?

What happens when you meet Tim Berners-Lee? —

heh.

The Associated Press RSS Feeds —

The AP just put out some RSS feeds. ‘bout time, eh?

Top Posting Is Evil —

Stop it, I’m serious.

Microsoft's first explicit anti-GNU/Linux ad —

From Oct 23, 2000 issue of the German language magazine c’t

Ball Revamped —

Kick-ass flash game. Level 23 is impossible.

Malcolm Gladwell - Tech Nation —

Nice. Gladwell talks about his new book “Blink” on IT Conversations. I haven’t listened yet but it’s impossible for Gladwell to say anything that is uninteresting.

I, Robot (Doctorow) —

A short story by Corey Doctorow.

Best Voicemail Ever! —

“She just hit em in the head with a bible!!”

Altered HIV Attacks Mice Tumors —

HIV as a possible cure for cancer?

R.I.P. Microsoft? —

That’s a big prediction for having a “bad smell” but whatever…

Rockys Back —

Rocky warm-up spoof. This guy is my hero.

Open Sores Software Development —

“Save Money, Save Time, Save Your Ass”

Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction —

Google for president!

Why Craigslist Works, by Craig —

The whole PDF requirement at ChangeThis sucks but this looks like a good read anyway..

Neal Stephenson?'s Past, Present, and Future —

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America

Gizoogle - Fo all you beotches who wanna find shiznit —

All yo resizzle is shizzilated and shizzle, nizzle..

Wikipes! —

Community-contributed distributed recipe thing.

cluetrain/hughtrain —

Cluetrain Manifesto: “This is why we hate you.” Hughtrain Manifesto: “This is how we’re going to fuck you up.”

Worst weatherman ever —

This is almost too painful to watch.

HOWTO: Mod a microwave to melt iron —

Perfect science experiment for the kids.

Why is the president's daughter throwing signs? —

“Is it me, or is Jenna Bush holding up the sign of Satan next to her father’s face?”

What You'll Wish You'd Known —

Paul Graham takes the honest route with High School kids and tells them what they should really be worried about. Great quote: “Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience.”

Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends? —

Truly odd. What’s going on here?

Prepare to lose your mind —

AAaahhhhhhhh! Stop! Make it stop!

Full-back Zelda Tat —

9 hours under the needle. hardcore.

Clutter by Sprote Rsrch. —

“Clutter is a small Mac OS X application that lets you put music CDs on your desktop. You can drag them anywhere. Line them up neatly or put them in piles, it’s your choice.”

Picasa —

Photo management software, free from Google. Find, edit, share photos.

Darth Tater & Wookiee Soaker: New Star Wars Toys —

Check out the new Star War’s themed Mr. Potatohead lineup.

Ban Comic Sans —

Putting the Sans in Comic Sans – The source for anti-comic sans propoganda.

Hacking Coke Machines —

Fun!

Mac mini As A Home Media Server —

Some discussion on turning the new Mac Mini into a Media PC for the living room.

Mac mini —

Apple’s Mac Mini product page.

Electr-O-Sketch —

Hooking a mouse up to the Etch A Sketch.. Impressive!

Old People —

Gabe from Penny Arcade let’s the geezers in on this little secret the whipper-snappers have been hoarding to themselves called “The Internet.” Check it out at your local library!

Quitting the Paint Factory - On the virtues of idleness —

I would love to read this but I’m too busy doing work. Let me know if it’s interesting. Work, work, work! ;)

Bashing Google —

Howard Stern and journalists throw some jabs at Google.

Worlds Largest Blue Screen of Death —

nice…

CNN Lets 'Crossfire' Host Carlson Go —

HA! The CNN exec who did the firing is quoted as saying “I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp”. Amazing!

Ponarv (A Definition) —

PONARV (PO narv) n. [acronym] A project of no apparent redeeming value. Hence, Ponarvian: one who pursues such projects.

Stapless Stapler —

Staples without staples… Brilliant!

100 years of Einstein —

The Economist explains Einstein’s contributions to the science world.

Patent for "Automated Detection of Pornographic Images" —

nice..

Amateur Tsunami Video —

home video of the tsunami hitting all over the place. unbelievable.

Christmas Interlude —

Adam Bosworth is the last person I would have guessed would summarize my religious and political position… but I’ll take what I can get.

The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism —

What “The Wizard of Oz” was really about..

Sharper minds —

Drugs that make you smart; sign me up.

Dear Santa —

haha

Microsoft Attempts To Shutdown MacSlash —

dumb.

I'm just not evil enough —

if only more people had that problem.

Dilbert 12/17/2004 —

ouch!

Massive Frog Eats Three-Legged Radioactive Dog! —

The frog is probably radioactive too.. it’s pretty big.

Gish —

Supposedly kick ass video game for OS X, Linux, and Windows. Free demo available.

Have a coprophilic Catalan Christmas —

We’ll be adopting this tradition in my home this Christman. no doubt.

New file system (WinFS) has long road to Windows —

It’s not going to happen you guys…

Laptops a Hot Fertility Issue —

I’ve been looking for an alternative to vasectomy.

bugzilla.redhat.com: Bug 127369 —

Best bug report I’ve ever seen in my life.

Apple of IBM's eye? —

Did IBM drop the x86 PC so it could start selling Mac’s? Interesting..

MSN Spaces: seven dirty blogs —

BoingBoing tests the MSN blogs censors..

1.2 Terabyte Linux based media PC for $2000 —

Sorry, no one is getting christmas presents from me this year.

The Naked Ape : A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal —

This book is excellent. B&N and Borders keep telling me it’s out of print.

How to Kill a Mockingbird - The Book Report —

I forgot about the burning shark!

Full-back HTML tattoo —

hardcore!

New Security Vulnerability: Clueless Users —

Oh man that’s sad..

Neal Stephenson's System of the World concludes the Baroque Trilogy —

Doctorow with a short review of the Baroque Cycle.

12many —

Count the stars game. Surprisingly addictive.

Metaphilm - Fight Club —

Tremendous theory on how Fight Club is based on, and a continuation of, Calvin and Hobbes.

Official Rules for Calling Shotgun —

A guide to calling shotgun.

Virgin Mary sandwich —

phaw! how do we know that’s not some other virgin?

communication skills —

Punctuation substitution!

Status Report: Wormwood to Screwtape —

Hell is making tremendous progress.. I’m going to move my previous recommendation of a moderate-buy to a strong-buy due to a recent strong showing in the market.

Real Ghost Sighting Caught on Film —

wow! I’m not sure how they could have faked this. the voices are clear as day with the volume cranked.

RoboDump 1.0 —

real pooping sounds! fun for the whole office!

Is Microsoft using 'Halo 2' to thwart Xbox hackers? —

How to be wrong: “I would argue that Xbox Live is a great experience for the end user precisely because it’s a closed, controlled environment, and anything that threatens that is a real concern for Microsoft.”

Fun With PrimeNumbers —

Different methods of finding primes. Quantum machinary not required.

Los Alamos Hermit —

This guy is living the dream. I wonder if there’s room in his cave for me and my powerbook. Does he get wifi in there?

New North America —

Tim Bray redesigns North America for efficiency.

Choose Life —

The poem that inspired the book that inspired the movie that tweaked my brain for about two weeks.

Psychologist Finds Instance Where 'Two Wrongs Do Make A Right' —

ha!

Don’t use a GPS-enabled cellphone to prank call 911 —

good to know..

How do you whistle with your fingers in your mouth really loudly (or at all)? —

note: trying to learn this at work seems to annoy people.

defective yeti —

omfg. make it stop! make the bad man stop!

Jon "I'm not your Monkey" Stewart on 60 Minutes —

Stewart will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday talking about the same things he was talking about on Crossfire.

Lots of Random Facts —

“Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously” — good to know!

Slashdot - Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor —

This QA session is a book in itself. Stephenson’s a complete madman.

Monster washes up on beach in New Zealand —

One fish story to rule them all..

Crossfire responds to Jon Stewart (washingtonpost.com) —

Includes some quotes from Novak and Carville. Funny Carlson and Begala couldn’t make a single valid point while Stewart was on the show.

SongWrite —

Python based guitar tab editor/viewer.

Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related —

Dell Exec: “Spyware installed on roughly 90% of computers.”

The Toilet Online - Leave It To Bush! —

US Citizenship 101: Freedom of Expression :)

recent college grads seek entourage - mm4mm —

Almost as good as the guy who was auctioning an “ass whoopin'” on ebay.

128 bit storage: are you high? —

What do Moore’s law and boiling oceans have in common? Sun’s Jeff Bonwick explains in three easy paragraphs. Really brilliant stuff.

The Onion's 2004 Election Guide —

“Bush Vows To Pay Closer Attention To Needs Of Non-Presidents”

Retro TV Themes —

AirWolf, Alf, The A-Team, Fraggle Rock!, Gadget, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Thundercats!, Transformers, and many many more!

'New' giant ape found in DR Congo —

nuckin futs!

Yahoo! News - Man Mistakenly Cuts Off Penis, Dog Eats It —

owe

How to Write Unmaintainable Code —

“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. — Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.”

Dear Laura.. —

Breaking up w/ PowerPoint.

Final Warning. Vote for Bush, Feel the Wraith. —

“This is no longer an interesting coincidence. It is an unmistakable message from God.”

Easy Card Trick Index

10 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die —

I can die in four things…

Google Labs Aptitude Test —

21 Reason’s Google will never hire me.

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19 —

Arrrrr!

Obsessively detailed map of Springfield —

Map Homer’s daily route from home to moes, to work, to moes, and then back home.

The secret diary of William Clark —

What really happened on Louis and Clark’s trip.

DOOM 3 Classic —

The original DOOM ported to DOOM 3 graphic engine.

The Time Travel Fund[tm] —

“…we pay the future to come and pick you up..”

Fortress Maximus: The Transfan's Wet Dream —

I would have literally killed for one of these.

Bad Gas - Striking a Lynndie —

“The image has shocked, sickened and outraged people. But more importantly, it has captured the imagination of young men and women up and down the country who don’t give much of a shit about anything.”

Answers (about the web) for young people [Tim Berners-Lee] —

You gotta love TBL.

What Happens When You Buy a Post Office on eBay —

postoffice.ebay.com

Don't Copy That Floppy —

“Two kids committing the carnal sin of copying a game onto a floppy disk..”

Why specs matter —

Mark pretty obviously prefers morons to assholes.

It's Just the 'internet' Now —

What about God?

Blog Interrupted —

Some lady that throws away mail for my very own Sen. Mike DeWine got fired because she kept an anonymous X-Rated blog about relations w/ FIVE upper staffers.

WEBoggle —

waste time here.

Interviews with the cast of Office Space

'Cable A La Carte' TV Picks Up Steam —

My cable bill would be $5/month. I watch Comedy Central, C-SPAN, and Cartoon Network. The 50 shop-at-home channels are kind of cool though too. I’d hate to lose those.

Bumper-Sticker Computer Science —

“Of all my programming bugs, 80% are syntax errors. Of the remaining 20%, 80% are trivial logical errors. Of the remaining 4%, 80% are pointer errors. And the remaining 0.8% are hard.” —Marc Donner

Five Things You Probably Didn't Notice in The Shining —

“If the wood moves, it’s because he decided he wanted it that way. Can you possibly conceive of it as an accident? Do you think Stanley Fucking Kubrick didn’t notice that the wood moved? Everything in the film is on purpose. There are no mistakes.”

Radio-Locator —

“We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.”

Various Ways of Cooking Plantains

Thomas H. Huxley Quotes —

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”

Ghost in the Shell 2 Trailer