I'm not one to obsess over shipping dates, but ProVantage server order: Placed Dec. 11, will arrive Dec. 29. (they re-ship through Ohio?)

gumstix computer being put to good use, inline Tor adapter: http://tinyurl.com/9hm394

I just don't know about these specialized gaming keypads.. http://tinyurl.com/7jqqxz

errr.. twitter user real time tweets that Denver plane crash !? Hard core man. http://twitter.com/2drinksbehind?page=2

"The majority of Steam users are now running multi-core systems" http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/16092

how to get your question answered: http://bash.org/?152037

At this point I'm holding out for iPhone v3. To be clear, I use -- and this is *confirmed* by the AT&T rep -- 20 cell minutes per month.

Rolando on iPhone = awesome http://tinyurl.com/3q386h

welcome to Japan http://tinyurl.com/4xs4vs

Your oil portrait, painted like a Chinese propaganda poster http://is.gd/1TxQ

"Another list! What is it with these lists? Where do they come from, and why do people care about them?"

Why, why did I break the golden rule: don't leave the house during the last half of December.

I thought this global economic apocalypse was supposed to make my xmas shopping easier this year.

Does the world really need another it/programmer jobs network? OK, I get it, they're lucrative as hell. Congratulations on figuring that out

With a big enough novelty-sized check, I think we could come to some sort of middle ground.

every human being should watch the Planet Earth series in 1080p. It's so freaking amazing. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MRAAJM/

"There are now more slaves on the planet than at any time in human history." http://tinyurl.com/4ux2cf

first I learn that @wilshipley has a Medieval Madness pinball and a totally bitchin' car, now he has *concubines*? This is bullshit, man.

getting download error trying to download new version of Opera. "That's so Opera!"(tm)

Opera: STILL ANNOYING!

the post-sale life of digital goods http://tinyurl.com/528763

I have a nagging feeling that our first child is going to be a Raising Arizona type experience. I guess that'll be.. uh.. fun..?

I just realized that for people to pay you, you have to send them invoices. Worst. CEO. Ever.

If you enjoy old school RPGs, you have to come to terms with the fact that you're having fun playing a *spreadsheet*.

I am sooooo not a photo person. I figure if it's worth taking a picture of, I can just find one on Flickr already. People included.

we have picture frames from literally 2002 with the default stock photo people still in them. Sigh. I'm gonna pretend I know those people.

Wii Pole Dancing Game Intended For Fitness, Fun For Men And Women http://is.gd/ctRn

snoop dogg + martha stewart + mashed potatoes = crazy delicious http://tinyurl.com/6nuzge

"It’s like the Santa Claus theory of management: who’s naughty and who’s nice." http://is.gd/93xR

I still feel vaguely uncomfortable that I chose to kill all the Little Sisters in Bioshock. They looked so EVIL, man!!

$29.99 in 1983 dollars is about $62 today./

This was, and I mean this quite literally, my entire life in 1983. I have flashbacks. http://is.gd/cayY

oh yes, my very own Little Sister porcelain figurine, as featured in Bioshock. That's not creepy AT ALL. http://is.gd/ctxe

"What I like are things that are different every time. That's why I like amateurs."

best book covers of 2008 http://tinyurl.com/66plgt

I had no idea there were so many Rainbow Connection covers http://tinyurl.com/458h8l

The Worst Hotel In America (read a few of the reviews) http://is.gd/a73M

"the happiest people I've met .. have not followed their passion at all -- they have instead brought it with them" http://is.gd/cti6

"We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it." Well, except for reading.

er, wow, Sushi really is dangerous? http://tinyurl.com/3kaxdh

"Google is the answer to the problem we didn’t have. It doesn’t tell you what’s interesting or what’s important." http://is.gd/76MK

I must say alternate high DPI settings work fairly well in Vista, unlike XP. Still some rough edges, but pretty workable overall

"Cell phone rates in Canada are among the highest in the world." I've only been once and er, I agree.

"Malcolm Gladwell's observation that it takes 10,000 hours to become truly expert at something." A little more than 3 years typically

"Some say invalidity is the real revolution in XML." http://tinyurl.com/39hyn6

is anyone actually using this Google SearchWiki stuff? I just ignore it. Don't like the way it clutters search results.

I *love* that there's a horse named Small Hands, Smells Like Cabbage. http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/68592.html (ref: Austin Powers quote)

The prospect of becoming a zombie must be especially horrifying to vegetarians.

For some reason, it really bothers me when people don't follow automobile conventions on the sidewalk. Walk on your RIGHT people!

then I realize that the only programmer qualified to work with @wilshipley is @wilshipley and my dreams are dashed

I feel like @wilshipley and I should be working on some super sekrit project together...

oh, and it's not a very nice basement, either. unkempt. flickery Joe vs. the Volcano lighting. vaguely smelly.

"are we hiring?" I don't know why, but this question makes me laugh. We're tiny. Not Twitter 25 employees "tiny". 1-guy-in-a-basement tiny.

sigh. time to implement "penalize users who vote down another user 15+ times in a row" code. In other news, people suck.

another cat without loltext. It's wrong. WRONG. http://tinyurl.com/45pnmg

monoprice.com for 6ft HDMI cable w/ferrites shipped, $8.08 .. eBay, $7.95. I just saved 13 cents, suckers! haha! Purple woulda been nice tho

I got a bum 10-foot HDMI cable from eBay. Occasionally loses signal. I switched to a 6-foot with ferrite rings. I thought this was digital?

I wish I had discovered that hi-def video acceleration trick *before* ordering the new 2.6 Ghz Athlon X2 5050e CPU. Oh well, only $60.

HTTP response code 418 I'm a teapot http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

are there really any 56k modem users left? If so, they must be hating the internet right about now. http://is.gd/c6aJ

via @betsyphd Mac + Cheese + Sausage = crazy delicious. Recommended. http://tinyurl.com/59n3sr

Ninjas vs. Pirates gets ugly (punchline at end) http://www.wimp.com/ninjatime/

"There is a reason Every Single Japanese Horror movie features a scary little girl." As we geeks know, girls = scary.

Good parenting 101. Pay attention, people. This is how we do it. http://tinyurl.com/6ef7nu

trying to win things on swoopo.com, I swear I will get this next auction!

Amazon shipping error in my favor: now I have *another* Rock Band triple cymbal kit. On my way to a Neil Peart drumkit: http://is.gd/c2dm

not entirely sure this is "genetic programming", but it's .net and cool http://is.gd/aFui

You know what else is a DMCA violation? being alive.

Can we please not have evil incarnate as the Vice President? kthxbye. http://tinyurl.com/5bvzcz

"Lye, boric acid banned as food additives in China." Punchline: this is not from The Onion http://is.gd/bUCc

Here is what the world has come to: discrimination against World of Warcraft players. http://is.gd/bUvj

whatever, I can go to the Tattoo Expo. It's so much cooler than TED.

@drylight TED is kind of an elitist event, IMO. Not that the content isn't great, and all, but it leaves a bad taste. Maybe it's just me.

I don't understand the hate for Terminator 3. Underrated, IMO. Sure, it's no landmark movie like T1 or T2 but it's a solid film.

total breakthrough on hi-def video playback, discovered in obscure Australian forum. Forum mining is digital archaeology!

So apparently WMP is the culprit in my VC-1 playback issues. When I play back with http://is.gd/8QKs , goes from 90% to 10% CPU. Seriously.

scary magazine economics http://tinyurl.com/5gvrpn

Trying to figure out why VC-1 encoded 1920 x 1080 movies seem to struggle a tad on an Athlon dual core 2.3 Ghz.. specific to VC-1 afaik

Good news: Pearl Jam's full album "Ten" essentially confirmed for Rock Band. Bad news; not until March. WANT NOW.

I bought some Bette Davis stamps. Next I'll buy some Joan Crawford stamps, and then some Judy Garland stamps, and.. hey.. wait a second..

"the war has cost U.S. taxpayers $576 billion" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28220165/

Why do I feel the need to sing Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain" every time it rains? Well, I guess it beats "It's Raining Men". Maybe.

geez, new WordPress 2.7 admin UI seems like a step backwards from 2.5.

Behold the Purple Frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_frog

doom music = metal theft? http://tinyurl.com/5t8mc3

fallout 3 is awesome, and not just because of super sledge + nightie http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/861/screenshot58kf5.jpg

I didn't appreciate how bizarre some Nirvana song lyrics are until I had to sing them myself http://is.gd/bzAT

"a third of the total weight of all life in California's Monterey Bay is made up of jellyfish."

video game design between 1990 and 2008 http://tinyurl.com/6hebp6

Really regretting my decision to do a "format e: /p:1" of my old 750 GB drive. Hours and hours and hours ..

good old Windows Update. Always good for some downtime with those "critical patches" and so forth.

on Playstation Home: "In Home, I feel like a prisoner -- my uniform matches all the other inmates." prison sim? ouch.

I don't mean to sound like a cheapskate, but for my ultra-uber-basic invoicing needs, $12/mo is overkill. $5/mo would be a no brainer!

I think blinksale (online invoicing) is comically overpriced at $13 per month. Anyone got more reasonably priced alternatives?

I keep getting hits to that Burleson guy's content (usually good), and it makes me laugh every time http://www.dba-oracle.com/redneck.htm

"Blackbird is the web browser for the African American community." erwhat? http://www.blackbirdhome.com/

"apparently my wife doesn't understand that if I don't have my PS3, 360, Gamecube, Super NES, and Nintendo 64 all hooked up at once, I die"

We found 382 results tagged with cardboard and box and cat. http://tinyurl.com/6q3g4o

Charles Bronson's MANDOM! GET SOME! http://tinyurl.com/6g4bnj

via @timbray , is computer science busted? http://bitworking.org/news/388/broke