Conan O'Brien picks his all-time favorite Late Night segment: http://is.gd/13g80

the perfect web spider storm http://bit.ly/SkZpP

mr @jarrod_dixon came up with this clever query, apparently simplecdn.com is about $35 / TB http://is.gd/13bxE per http://is.gd/13bzA

bandwidth: it still ain't free http://www.simplecdn.com/savings

r @marcoarment good to know; we're definitely seeing some really painful "perfect" google+yahoo bot storms.. 15 megabit is so uncool.

testing out computing with @rockhardawesome in a baby carrier. Sort of like.. mini.. babby.. voltron.. form. http://is.gd/130XL

sorry Yahoo Slurp, you and your .01% of traffic / 20% bandwidth are banned until we have time to get that Cisco in front of our servers.

Conan O'Brien and Slash go shopping for guitars on craigslist http://bit.ly/7rwbM

having a 15 megabit bandwidth problem with search spiders on SO at the moment. Apparently setting rate limits in robots.txt doesn't work?

arecibo message: Worst. Videogame. Ever. http://bit.ly/18oGSd

the singularity: "nerd rapture"

youtube is a good case study in the failure of user tagging. Sooo much abuse. "I think I'll tag this SEX!"

oh yeah, I totally need a fizzgig prop http://www.propstore.com/fizzgig.htm

Gambling is fine in moderation? I'll bet you it isn't.

rt @nathanbowers @micahcalabrese "See how the genitals make use of the gap." This is for an OFFICE CHAIR. Go fig. http://is.gd/11vNU

The ultimate arcade game: Polybius http://is.gd/11oN5

Bullets Over Broadway was so great. DON'T SPEAK! DON'T.. SPEAK! http://bit.ly/Zmnoa

Logitech G9 mouse, $30 after rebate. Fantastic mouse! http://is.gd/11eGu

Yahoo Answers struggles with one of the most important questions of this, or any generation: http://is.gd/10ADI

for some reason, w/r/t the previous quote, I can't get Juggalos out of my mind's eye. FAYGO!

passion w/o skill: “the world’s most dangerous person - highly motivated but totally incompetent! Your potential for damage is infinite!"

10 things great designers exhibit http://www.bytica.com/?p=108

r @jongalloway oh, I get it, you hate fun, and want those music-loving kids off your lawn. Man you get cranky when you're off the Geritol!

r @jongalloway guitar hero / rock band is more like MTV for this generation. Experience music instead of endless skanky reality shows

rt @angst "if facebook dies, how will we find quasi-friends from high school, friend them, and continue to not talk to them?"

Guitar Hero: Van Halen E3 demo setlist: “Panama,” “You Really Got Me,” “Jump,” and “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love.”

Facebook Must Die.

Pineview is going to change the netbook game in Oct. Cheaper, faster, 2x more efficient. http://is.gd/10qFa

bit of the old ultra-violence + Starship = well.. this. http://bit.ly/gkT1e

I know two twitter people who bought those nutty Vibram 5 finger sandals, so far. You people are sick in the.. feet. http://bit.ly/1aw66s

“When you’re explaining something to somebody and they don’t get it, that’s not their problem, it’s your problem.”

"UFC is basically the pro wrestling of today."

"the longest-running TV show in the universe - the cosmic radiation of the Big Bang-- is still playing" http://is.gd/10mmJ

live in the NY area? Check out Videotopia! http://bit.ly/iUzQA

still very bitter that target="" is not a valid attribute in HTML 4.01 strict

Things I Won't Work WIth: Thioacetone http://is.gd/ZzH6

"riskiest [malware] search terms: unscrambler, lyrics, myspace, free music downloads, phelps, game cheats, free ringtones and solitaire."

"hope I die before I get old.." http://bit.ly/170sG9

r @donpark framebusting is not possible if the framing site is smart, see: http://is.gd/Zc8G

"If I were off by myself, I would want to become an iPhone game developer." -- John Carmack http://is.gd/YlO7

iPhone 3G S has ARM Cortex A8 and PowerVR SGX, just like Palm Pre: http://is.gd/YehD

that new iPhone GS I just bought, it's for business! I swear!! http://www.firemint.com/realracing/index.html

"this is why the standard arguments for buying a PC falls on deaf ears. You're thinking screwdriver; they're thinking fashion outfit."

r @nathanbowers you're evangelizing the wrong things. Screwdrivers, not couture. http://is.gd/XQNQ

rt @carnage4life When Should You Keep Your Ideas to Yourself? - http://bit.ly/dcVRW

r @nathanbowers funny thing, there are a lot of "hackintoshes" running around. Side effect of Giant MacBook Dongle Copy Protection(tm)

evaluating daycare centers. her? 21 point checklist. me? "will my child be alive at the end of the day? and who do I make the check out to?"

r @rachelreese I would "never" use quotes unnecessarily http://is.gd/Woq5

NB: when I put things in "quotes" that means I am quoting someone else. previous tweeted quote was from Paul Graham: http://is.gd/WnoE

"Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly," he says. "But working for a large company is like being waterboarded."

r @nathanbowers nobody does semi-closed ecosystem better than Apple; they were born to do phones. I still say : iPhone > original Mac.

ordering my iphone 3gs. This is the first Apple product I've owned since 1985.

Han Solo, P.I. http://bit.ly/oYuyF

thanks expertsexchange, I mean, stackoverflow! :) http://bit.ly/9jWj3
(scroll to bottom as per usual..)

Hilarious Reasons to Turn Into the Hulk #1 (watch the whole series!) http://bit.ly/NvcdQ

vanilla ice apologizes http://bit.ly/O6yFB

if you're thinking of taking the fake plastic rock plunge, huge blowout at Gamestop / EBGames: http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/umbs/

"Married men and women, on average, have sex with their spouse 58 times a year."

getting myself ready for December 12th, 2012! http://bit.ly/h7EWc

Finally, the ultimate fashion accessory has arrived. Say hello to "The Shat!" http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyphd/3605337552/

r @migueldeicaza where can I download a keyboard cat ringtone? http://is.gd/SbcS

down with bacon! up with SAUSAGE! who's with me?! <runs out of the room, yelling incoherently>

I grow weary of the intarweb obsessive fascination with bacon. I like bacon, and all, but damn. let's move on.

details on the stackoverfow dot com, llc, comprehensive health care plan. enjoy @jarrod_dixon and @superdalgas ! http://is.gd/RkS7

Did You Know? prefixing urls with view-source: works in FF and Chrome? Like so... view-source:http://☃.net/

r @shinyplasticbag believe me, I know. http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1076144830

transforming laser mouse http://is.gd/RiQJ

Leo Laporte vs. Mike Arrington http://bit.ly/111Zhp

rt @migueldeicaza rt @jacksonh: Starting tomorrow reading my enterprise level tweets will require a support contract.

"a woman who said she purchased Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries because she believed 'crunchberries' were real fruit" http://is.gd/R3fu

rt @ryanthames A google search for "sampler plate hot wings" brings up SO question 141779 as the first result. Congratulations!

r @shanselman why didn't you use this as a base? has trackball, dual flipper buttons, etc: http://is.gd/PTbK

am I hallucinating, or was Young M.C. sporting a black guy mullet in the Bust a Move video? http://bit.ly/amaMj

in honor of all the frame-busting talk today: next day's function, high class luncheon! http://bit.ly/amaMj

hey buster, can you bust the frame-busting buster? http://bit.ly/sUbqZ

I have a new favorite @secretgeek post! http://bit.ly/hids1

some details on the "perfect storm" of Google and Yahoo bots indexing us: 16 megabit (!) http://is.gd/PmeA

There are just 711 days until the next World Beard and Moustache Championships. http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/

just registered sstatic.net so we can serve up our static content from a cookieless (and 2nd, for parallelization) domain.

godaddy apparently thinks I'm English, since all prices show in pounds to me now, even when logged in. All part of its skanky charm, gov!

lol, one of the comments on Johnny's blog is from the "skateboard kid" in the Natal concept video. That's awesome! http://is.gd/OZ2E

Project Natal: if Johnny Lee says it's all that, then by God, *it is*. http://bit.ly/11AN21

we saw 287k hits from 3 different google ips in a 3 hour period. plus 104k from yahoo at the very same time. ouch.

having to set custom crawl rate as 2 googlebots + yahoo were pulling 12+ megabit from us for a few hours on thursday http://is.gd/OYlF

r @happygiraffe yes, but who takes their security advice from giraffes? that's what I'm saying. http://bit.ly/2x9PFw

r @damienguard we get OWNED if we forget to encode *ONE TIME*. I mean capital-O-owned. That is the definition of a bad design choice.

remember kids, "safe/off by default" is *always* the correct security setting for out of box software!

it seems like every day we run into another situation where not having HTML encoded output by default in our views screws us over. sigh.

rt @kevindente Quote from guy who works at hard drive data recovery service - "a lot of my job is grief counseling".

<irony>gee, too bad Google Page Speed isn't a Chrome add-in</irony>

rt @thetorpedodog "Calvin pees on M.C. Escher": http://bit.ly/rTITB (via @apelad ← @winglmui)

r @omarshahine the whole Sprint vs. AT&T thing is like Ford vs. Chevy. We need "calvin pees on.." decals to complete the connection

recent iterations of Ninja Gaiden feel less like a game and more like a Japanese game designer getting his freak on

OMG you guys!! I got my copy of O'Reilly's Regular Expression Cookbook today, hot off the press! Goyvaerts + Levithan = PURE WIN

I'm glad Windows 7 is getting positive buzz, so people will get the f**k off XP already. Death to 8 year old operating systems!

Microsoft = GM? Wake me up when Redmond looks like Detroit. http://is.gd/OEuV

"Unfortunately, we’ve had to temporarily block reader comments due to the volume of recent comments that violate our code of conduct." lame

"you discover all these little details and hidden gems in the music that you never noticed before" http://is.gd/OzSL

Brent's excellent video about data mining the Stack Overflow CC-wiki data dump: http://is.gd/Ox7M

"I haven't been quite this blown away by a tech demo in a long time." http://is.gd/Ox5v