- Men’s flight bag – Bags – Paul Smith: [whimper of infantile lust]
- U.S. Senate Roll Call for the "restore habeas corpus" amendment to the military spending bill: I just wrote both of my Senators to inform them that in my eyes, they are guilty of treason. I’m probably on a list somewhere now, if I wasn’t already, but I’m pretty pissed off right now.
- HRC | Buying for Equality: The Human Rights Campaign has released the 2008 edition of its guide for those who want to "vote with their dollars" regarding GLBT issues. My employer is, unsurprisingly, in the yellow zone.
- lolsecretz: LOLcats + Postsecret. Arrr, that be a natural progression.
- 20×200 : ny.07.#20: pretty!
- Spoken Word Not Enough for Dictionary: I never thought about it, but I suppose it must be someone’s job to read a bunch of crap and spot neologisms. This may just be me, but: Best. Job. Ever.
- Temp Hides Fun, Fulfilling Life From Rest Of Office | The Onion: Particularly relevant considering I just accepted a new job — located via a temp agency.
- Kanye West – Young Folks / The Hype Machine: Yes, it’s exactly what you think. Kanye has lost his got damned mind.
- NYT: One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.: Finally decided what I want to be when I grow up. An expat.
- CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 million | TechCrunch: I hate to be a knee-jerker, but really, CBS is never, ever going to get the web. I’ve been watching the interaction of old media and the internet for over a decade, and everything points to this being last.fm’s death knell. Sad.
- The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids: Cement: "’It was at this point in the conversation that I burst out laughing.’ If the pyramids were indeed cast, someone should have proven it beyond a doubt by now, in this day and age, with just a few hours of electron microscopy. "
- Hype Machine Download Links – Userscripts.org: By one Jason Rhyley. I am become the ultimate lazyblogger.
- GNU Songanizer Home Page – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF): "GNU Songanizer is a shell script to organize a directory [of music]. Creates virtual directory structures to give different views of the data, but without redundant copies of the files." Awesome.
- The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:: "People who think of the VCR as old and stable, and the PC as a relatively new invention, are not the kind of people who think up Tivo[, it's ppl] presented with two storage choices, tape or disk, without historical bias making tape seem more normal."
- Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2: Replace the default keyboard shortcuts in The Gimp with some more familiar ones.
- Set Gmail as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu
- FeedWordPress: "…an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from newsfeeds that you choose into your WordPress blog." Slick. On second thought, a bit too complicated for what I do at rhyley.org.
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