Everyone loves Zappos so much, it almost makes me wish I cared about shoes.

"select" isn't broken. except when it is. http://bit.ly/WErBe

yeah I think we totally just took out errorwear.com . Please click *responsibly* you animals!

errorwear has added a few new/old errors since the last time I checked. http://www.errorwear.com/index.php

RIP THE BOSS "He was da Best" 1972-2009 http://bit.ly/Wwc1y

r @kevindente I beg to differ. about:blank is the only start page out there that doesn't suck.

Stack Overflow flash mob at #oscon. So cool! http://bit.ly/3LIhEx

rt @siracusa @clint Fancy Fast Food! http://bit.ly/Uy282

Windows 7 Trim command + new Intel 34 nm SSD = WANT http://is.gd/1GP3F

cancelled our landline telephone. Between Skype and dual iPhones, seemed like an unnecessary expense.

Kenny Rogers made me do it. http://twitpic.com/b5ad9

"Project Bovine RC5-64 .. reached a speed of 76.1 Billion passwords per second" http://is.gd/1Gb2S

r @flitzwald "[free soloing] is like patching the live server without running unit tests first" yeah except the part where NOBODY DIES

I don't "get" free climbing. video: http://is.gd/1G52r defined: http://is.gd/1G539

r @hmxcasey The Only Reason You Need to Buy Guitar Hero 5 -- "Fat Bottom Girls" with 4 simultaneous bassists. 'NUFF SAID

new The Beatles: Rock Band trailer! http://is.gd/1FVlW

r @shanselman more to the point, why ARE there mattress salespeople? Why is selling mattresses apparently a trazillion dollar industry?

I mean a LITERAL asterisk as in example.com/foo/bar*

apparently it is literally *impossible* to use an asterisk (*) in an ASP.NET MVC route. Prove me wrong!

The Noam Chomsky Show http://bit.ly/TDGnO

apparently Terminator: Salvation was written by that 15 year old kid who writes all those books about dragons. Such a disappointment.

who killed Software Engineering? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001288.html

Joss Stone: "piracy is great" (... as long as you come to the live shows) http://bit.ly/UdHw

"This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games." http://is.gd/1E2m8

r @anildash we got this knife sharpener, it is officially Cool Tools(tm)(r)(c) approved!! http://is.gd/1DQBV

r @dssstrkl why yes in fact! also: why is "clothing optional beach" always synonymous with "mottled, pudgy middle aged dudes"?

so @betsyphd neglected to tell us that sightseeing beach in San Francisco also happened to be a "clothing optional" one. ACH MEIN EYES!!

r @jfaulken I'm still waiting patiently over here for Prax War to ship.

r @aithne_darkyce Programmer's Nightmare board game looks pretty scary to me -- AND comic sans! brr! http://www.silcom.com/~tomjolly/pn.htm

oh, and oddly enough, last week's episode of Weeds featured an android phone rather prominently. REBEL BOAT ROCKERS!

if you can find someone to play THIS board game with you, they are true friends indeed http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3564

Microsoft's first product? programming language. Mascot? sweaty ass billionaire screaming DEVELOPERS! They nail this part, every time.

say what you will about Microsoft, but this sort of developer relations fiasco would NEVER fly there http://www.marco.org/143265621

rock the Magnum P.I. look http://www.hawaiiankinestuff.com/mapjubish.html

does anyone have examples of outstanding (easy, good-lookin', jQuery-fied, etc) HTML data entry forms they can point me to?

rt @snookca OH: glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Zombieland looks like good fun, but Shaun of the Dead set the bar very high http://www.zombieland.com/

Orwellian Kindle Episode http://bit.ly/8nT4V

At Pixar motorama, at the invitation of a stack overflow user

I'm probably going to go to hell for saying this, but watching grandmas get dragon-punched by robots TOTALLY works for me.

three funny Public Service Announcements http://bit.ly/12BYPZ

rt @sids @zmanian "I get around that by keeping Firebug installed/enabled only in a separate 'debug' Firefox profile." good tip!

I really, really wish I didn't have to restart firefox every time I wanted to disable or enable a plugin. Worse than Windows w/rebooting.

firebug is great, and all, but it makes Firefox completely freak out over time if I leave it enabled during "normal" browsing.

Its 1.0 rating, as of April 2007, is still the lowest score ever given to a game on Gamespot. http://bit.ly/KWan6

high scalability blog covers Stack Overflow: http://bit.ly/HnJ0k

podcast with @migueldeicaza is now up! http://bit.ly/DBMNC

exactly. and Arrington wonders why people spit in his face. Not that I condone bad behavior, but karma's a bitch.

apparently it doesn't matter if you're being a dick as long as what you do is newsworthy. http://is.gd/1zqy5

so @jarrod_dixon of the stackoverflow.com dev team is visiting. First thing we did? A Peaches & Herb duet of Reunited in Xbox "Lips".

superuser.com semi-private beta begins! GET OUT YER EWOKS!! http://is.gd/1znZP

considering a gender reassignment operation -- are there any sites on the internet where so-called "experts" on this topic can be consulted?

make mine a 007. http://007.atomicmartinis.com/intro.htm

"the iPhone seems to be doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business without the government’s help" http://is.gd/1yRfH

you know what romance novels need? some NASCAR that's what http://bit.ly/bL7NY

r @maggiel any field where I am considered a "thought leader" is already in deep, DEEP trouble.

talent is far less important than enthusiasm. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000187.html

when they say "let the healing begin", what they don't tell you is that it starts with a punch right in the kisser

rt @betsyphd Happy Bastille Day! http://bit.ly/XUqNX

r @shanselman based on your latest blog post I regretfully must ask you to turn in your Dude Card. http://is.gd/1y6vi

I love that there's 14 freaking revisions of the 4-line accepted wedding cake code. Just like real life!

racing the beam http://bit.ly/8IxUY

aww, the first Stack Overflow wedding cake! For reals -- the cake text is from the accepted answer! http://is.gd/1xg9A

Win7, Natal, Office 2k10, bah. Pales next to the majesty of Windows Vista. You'll get my Vista when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands!!

lol @cshirky just told me "there's a big market for fetish". Tell me something I don't know, brother man!

Alan Ruck and Jamie Gertz in 80s D&D commercial http://bit.ly/9Nkw5

"Windows Mobile 6, which feels as though it was designed by PDA designers frozen in an iceberg in 2000." it's not nearly that nice IMO

based on the trends, looks like we can schedule our Stack Overflow "first million pageview day" party sometime in early September

rt @bishboria I drew a sand abacus. Takes 18 years to boot vista, but what's new?

so superuser.com aka "the one with the ewoks" ( http://is.gd/1wUnc ) should be going private beta on Tuesday.

r @kmh well, the iPhone is "only"* $99, and most apps are free or $1.99 - $0.99. Apple is doing an outstanding job with the iPhone.

r @rob_rix Quality is irrelevant. Cheap and popular and *everywhere* always wins. That's why PHP is the world's default programming language

or, MacBook Air... starting at $1,500. Not quite "apples to apples" but at 1/2 the price, it doesn't need to be.

MSI Wind X340. 2.8 lbs, .79" thick, 13.4" 1366x768 display, 2GB, 320GB, Core 2 Solo CPU: $789. http://is.gd/1wR73

who still buys the MacBook Air? Well, I guess elitists need *something* to spend their money on.

r @jcoehoorn the stackoverflow cookie accounts with the highest rep (but not TTL) are the celebrity ones -- @unclebobmartin and Alan Kay

"So we had a lot of people running around telling engineers what to do but nobody is f-ing doing anything." http://is.gd/1wFRw

we have stack overflow users who have juggled exclusively cookie-based accounts for 9+ months without registering. amazing..

ooh, it looks like the phoenix editor add-on is what I want (firebug is not quite right for live CSS plain-text editing) http://is.gd/1vO3Y

r @loicwolff @miksago thanks for the tip -- using css tab, edit button works a treat in FireBug (and it has search!) -- didn't realize!

are there any tools other than WebDeveloper which allow live editing, *as plain text* (not a FireBug dom tree), of the CSS in the browser?

mr @jarrod_dixon likes ternary operators so much he's going to marry them. It'll be a freaky three-way relationship, just how he likes it!

in the last 4 1/2 years, storage (hard drive) performance barely doubled. that's actually better than I expected. http://is.gd/1vvbA

Eric Lippert (huge fan!!) has 3,479 Stack Overflow rep and has cast.. all of five votes -- all downvotes. LOL. I'd hate to be those posts.

the actual "Don't Copy That Floppy" guy doing a modern update? wow. http://bit.ly/htpD9

maybe all those IE6 users are using it in an ironic, hipster way?

"If you change your mind and decide you want your kids to grow up to be men, not pu**ies, let me know." http://is.gd/1uzSi

days I have owned an iPhone 3GS: 21. number of phone calls I've made or received on it: 0.

r @ALyman "Stack Overflow -- we believe in you, even if you don't" ©®

how far Guitar Hero: World Tour has fallen. Full band kit, $89.99 -- http://bit.ly/XzUNT

r donpark I agree, I expect ChromeOS to be similar to iPhone ecosystem for PC, semi-controlled, but more open, with App Store.

hilarious email from Chinese blogger trying to translate the terms "full release" and "home of the gentleman's rebate" from current entry

using ie6 in a VM to verify the site. Feel like I'm in that shower scene from The Crying Game. THE SHAME, IT WILL NOT WASH OFF

r @shanselman the best pic on the "sexy people" [sfw] site? http://bit.ly/UPxVY

bah, IE6 is still 7.5% of all stack overflow visitors. DIE! http://blog.digg.com/?p=878

yeah, wall-e was pretty much Idiocracy for teh chiltrens. if you hated idiocracy, you better have hated wall-e. Same stuff in cartoon form

r @sarajchipps if you watch Idiocracy and get "eugenics is good stuff" out of it, you have much deeper problems to contend with.

I don't get people that don't "get" the movie Idiocracy. LOOK AROUND YOU. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

in the future, being a dick is a crime. http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2595/idiocracywanted.jpg

for female adventurers, armor class 4 has a whole different meaning http://bit.ly/npIiL