• Once More? / Shop: Testing Amazon’s aStores thingy. Pure weirdness, but I can see how it might be useful to some people. I think a blog format would be better, but when your favorite tool is a hammer, everything kinda looks like a nail.
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I received the free offer for Amazon Prime again this year, so I’m using it. (Boy howdy am I using it.) Noticed though, not for the first time, that it’s pretty hard to use with so many third-party sellers hooked into Amazon — Prime won’t save you any shipping costs with them. Worse, some categories give you the option to filter by who is actually selling the item, but other categories inexplicably do not. The filtering functionality is still there, it’s just not exposed.

That was the problem. This is the solution: Amazon Only Items. Use that bookmark on any list of products on Amazon, even on searches, and it will filter out any items not sold directly by Amazon. This is useful even if you don’t have Prime, as it lets you see only items which are eligible for the $25-order-free-shipping thing. Glee! Now I can spend even more money and see my surly UPS man more often…

• Rep. McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment: Rep. Cynthia McKinney, recently ousted Democrat from Georgia’s 4th and one of my personal heroes, has never made a big secret of the fact that she’d like to see Bush in jail. It’s a shame she got voted out, she’s crazy as hell, but she’s usually right.
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• WORLD MAP – countries of the world: Identify the countries of the world in a timed game. I scored a dismal 69.
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• Drowning Your Sorrows in Drink: Three Options: Lance Arthur has a hot new boyfriend and oh by the way here are some drink recipes. (I must remember to try the Global Warming next party.)
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A la The Lady Pants, a music meme for you. Here’s the rules:

1. Open up the music player on your computer.

2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next twelve songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of twelve songs by four artists, you can if you’d like.

And here’s my list:

• New – No Doubt

• Love Of My Life – Erykah Badu Ft. Common
• Goodies – Ciara Ft. Petey Pablo
• Under Your Spell, Standing (Reprise) – Buffy
• God Only Knows – Beach Boys
• Zombie – Cranberries
• Good – Better Than Ezra
• La Copa De La Vida – Ricky Martin
• The Prime Time of Your Life – Daft Punk
• Fever – Peggy Lee
• Jerk It Out – The Caesars
• Hey Man Nice Shot – Filter

Somehow, I ended up with no Cher on here, and a lot more 90’s alt-rock than I would have thought. Another bit of ephemera for you: Firefox 2’s spell check engine does not recognize the word ‘meme’. A most egregious oversight.

• Modafinil – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia» health medicine science sleep transhumanism
• Get ready for 24-hour living – health – 18 February 2006 – New Scientist: Modafinil is just the first of a wave of new lifestyle drugs that promise to do for sleep what the contraceptive pill did for sex – unshackle it from nature.
  » health medicine science sleep transhumanism

So there’s an idea floating around whose time has come, and which finally has been given a name: the Temple of Ego. Longtime readers (Hi mom!) will remember a lil’ something I once made called Stalk Jason Rhyley, which was… well, the exact same thing as a Temple of Ego. I’ve never had prior art on something before, and I have to tell you it feels weird.

I decided that it was probably time to bring the auto-stalker up to date and make it pretty, since these days I publish way more content on other sites than I do here — and on so many other sites that it is brain-melting. Thus, I give you Jason Rhyley’s Ego Wall.

Code available on request, but be advised it may be more code than you would expect. I had to fix creaky old Magpie RSS to deal with newer versions of Atom feeds in order to make this work correctly. I know that eventually I’m going to have to give up on magpie, but it is what I know, and I am old and set in my ways.

I just realized that, as of January 3rd, Nancy Pelosi will be one heartbeat and a pretzel away from being our first female POTUS. Awesome.

• ze frank on web developers: that’s only flash developers, ze.
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• The Logos of Web 2.0» design reference typography

• City Crime Rankings by Population Group: In terms of violent crimes per 100,000 population, North Charleston, SC (where I happen to live) is 20th worst in the nation. This despite the fact that less than 100,000 people live here. We’re very proud.
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• Richard Roeper :: Fine print on $5 million contest: You don’t have a McChance: “As for the $5 million prize, [odds are 1 in 41.4.billion]. You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning while on your way home from purchasing a winning Lotto ticket with your wife, Jessica Alba, the first lady of the United States.”

• Flickr Services: Serialized PHP Response Format: Spent today rewriting several of my flickr hacks to utilize this, and I think I’m in love.
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• Top 10 Reasons Why Your 5 Tips About 7 Cutting-Edge Technologies will annoy me | A Whole Lotta Nothing: “Cool it with the lists. Feel free to use real paragraphs and explain stuff. I have time.” w3rd.
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• Apple Support: iPod shows up in Windows but not in iTunes: They provide a 10-step process involving stopping and restarting a windows service. Are you fucking kidding me?
  » apple ipod itunes rage thisisbroken