geez, left 4 dead is really difficult in solo mode with the 3 bot friends. Those end stages are brutal. "buddy" AI not cutting it.

I am convinced @betsyphd is watching that show about the couple with 8 kids just to taunt me. ONE IS GOOD KTHXBYE http://is.gd/5aNt

"The only thing a standard Joe user is likely to do is: sudo apt-get pissedoff"

first "woot", now "meh". a winner is us! http://tinyurl.com/56q6xx

it's like a treadmill, but outside! hooray for the mother of invention! http://tinyurl.com/6j66xe

The only thing I hate more than email? People. I'm gonna go crawl back into my cave, now.

in related news, undamped tambourines are SURPRISINGLY LOUD

e-tambourine is now rocking in the free world http://tinyurl.com/5bb934

"he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the 1st American president to do so." http://is.gd/7Gsw

carrot top gun http://tinyurl.com/6osu7c Also, search for "carrot top" images, is he the white Michael Jackson now?

weekend project: creating electronic tambourine and electronic cowbell. No, I'm not kidding.

Pre-natal Yoga? Bah. Pre-natal Ju-Jitsu. That's what I'm talkin 'bout!

Philip Greenspun: still awesome after all these years.

"We are bozos." http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/losers/index.html

nonograms are annoying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram

Most people say women are NP-complete, but if I get you into bed, I can solve you in polynomial time!

the great pop vs. soda controversy, with map http://popvssoda.com:2998/

where did "bubblegum flavor" come from? http://tinyurl.com/6a47tr

there's a flickr group called "does this look infected to you?" No, I won't be looking that one up.

Xplay's X3: Reunion review, a.k.a. Respect the Kha'ak. http://tinyurl.com/mx3p8

"The processor was initially named 'Dog Leftover' in Chinese." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

Poe's Law http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law

youtube seriously needs to make &fmt=18 high quality the standard. The default quality level may have been OK in 2005, but man.. it's bad.

holy cow, Bemani had a *24-key* rhythm arcade game called KeyboardMania?! http://tinyurl.com/6m9yb2

People are in fact filthy dirty pirates; what are you gonna do? http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55906

oh dear God, paramore covers "My Hero". Ugh. Painful. Not even gonna link it. That's what I get for letting my heart win, man!

"There goes my hero -- he's ordinary" http://tinyurl.com/3afys2

@UMLGuy this is at the real grocery store. Apparently 8 packs are the new 12 packs. They're everywhere. Like the short bus for sodas.

why does my beloved soda pop come in 8-packs instead of 12-packs now? This is unacceptable. I hate and fear change.

I admire the bravery of companies who festoon their tech devices with plain white LEDs. Not that annoying blinking BRIGHT BLUE isn't awesome

I am officially sick of World War II games now. kthxbye.

ok so Pud of "F**ked Company" fame plays.. White Lion's When The Children Cry on guitar? huhwhathow? http://ask.pud.com/

California, Uber Alles http://tinyurl.com/6acsj8

this firefox 3 bug with certain non-scrolling backgrounds causing horridly bad performance is kind of a showstopper for particular websites

ultra-secret geek confession. I have always hated, HATED Mario 2d platforming games. Even as a kid. Couldn't stand 'em.

"Henry James, as far as we know, never had a sexual relationship (of the 'complete' type, anyway) with anyone."

T. S. Eliot's sex life. Do we really want to go there? http://tinyurl.com/5kzvnz

there's nothing good on the internet any more.

man there are some FUNNY band names in the Rock Band leaderboards. "Kathleen Turner Overdryve"? "Death by Cowbell"?

starting with Windows Server 08 R2, "32-bit versions of Windows Server are now officially obsolete". Good riddance!

Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline http://is.gd/7c6u

Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren't Really Looking for Him http://tinyurl.com/6et54p

"you are coming to a sad realization; cancel or allow?" http://tinyurl.com/292o3w

the first page of google results from a search for the word "the" is strangely illuminating

DEAR WINDOWS: I never want the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" delivered as a mandatory software update. ever. EVER!

It's question so many of us have struggled with; Haddaway answered it for a generation http://is.gd/7iGK

Thanks to Trader Joe's excellent and delicious frozen lime bars, I am no longer at risk of developing scurvy.

"Begich Goes Into Lead by Three Votes." And economists said voting didn't matter. http://is.gd/7flP

Coop makes guitar hero faceplates? NOBODY TOLD ME! http://tinyurl.com/5zrss9

I feel like occasionally I find unique heroic-class rare drops among the zillion pounds of dreck on eBay.

"The [Windows 3.1] hot dog stand [color] theme is called "sennep og ketchup" (mustard and ketchup) in danish"

sooo tempted to get the Zune brown aspire 1. But I don't *NEED* it. Of course, when has that ever stopped me before?

Spider-man? Scrabble? The Wire? Most Awesome President Ever? http://is.gd/6H0B

acer aspire one netbook down to $311, no tax, no shipping http://tinyurl.com/6gsawn

my next blog entry has an obvious reference to the Smiths in the title. This one goes out to my homey @nathanbowers

I didn't realize that the album version of "Kitty" by the Presidents actually drops the f-bomb. Several times. Heh.

hey look, I'm a book right next to MANOLO THE MOTHERFLIPPIN' SHOEBLOGGER!! Woo! http://www.blogblazers.com/

I'm thinking it might be a mild form of ADHD which many people suf ... hey let's ride bikes!!!!

I need to make one of these Instant Zombie Defense Kits http://tinyurl.com/639nkm

Cyanide and Happiness, an internet tragedy in 4 acts and 0 sentences http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1879/tehinternetsve0mj4.png

It's the one t-shirt sales strategy that never, ever loses: showcase your wares on busty models -- one t-shirt size too small.

here are our Fallout-inspired wedding pre-invites from 1999 http://wumpus.homestead.com/

hey remember that time when you were on top of the world? http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/9797/pg2avanillaice300kf3.jpg

"we are gonna use sonar just for spite now and mess your blubbery asses all the f*** up" http://tinyurl.com/62w344

80% of our stackoverflow.com traffic is from Google now.

emails that contain the phrase "This is NOT SPAM", man, it's like they're not even trying.

"Indulge yourself until pleasure sickens you. Then you will be near me." http://thefaceknife.org/?p=19

I'm thinking if your post title is all stop words, it probably isn't a good title. Probably.

oh, the neverending joy of post titles that contain nothing but search stop words.

oh, and mine is 4x faster.

Rock Band has taken music I initially hated and turned it into music I enjoy. It's insanity. http://tinyurl.com/5gchms

computers: they're overrated.

woo! Mr. Fusion, as promised in Back To the Future, has arrived! http://is.gd/6KD5

hey, a Zune brown Acer Aspire one netbook. W A N T http://tinyurl.com/6mqgmy

Amazon product discussions: not always a good idea. Topic on current page: "Any hot girls in here that game?" Why yes! THOUSANDS!

did you ever feel like your made up, misheard lyrics are somehow better than the actual song lyrics? me too, man.

Task #1: build website. Task #2: keep website from exploding.

if you're a video on YouTube and you're not &fmt=18 capable, then you are dead to me.

screw it, I'm moving to Boston. See #11 in this list. http://tinyurl.com/5fn59a

"The best way to measure spam is to be a spammer" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stm

Team Fortress 2 meets Rock Band 2 : http://tinyurl.com/6n9bld

"Hey, what's your name?" "Charles de Mar." "Shut up, geek."

"Scary part: You have to believe the user is smart."

"The effort to write a Wikipedia article is less than the effort to decide whether it should be deleted" http://is.gd/6YPf

I must say the new Hotmail is noticeably less crappy than the old Hotmail.

DirectDraw reborn. Direct2D. Weird. http://blogs.technet.com/thomasolsen/archive/2008/10/29/introducing-the-microsoft-direct2d-api.aspx

guitargeek -- the guitar rig database http://guitargeek.com/rigview/258/

we did nuclear bomb tests with humans 2 miles away from ground zero in 1950s? wow. http://is.gd/6Yop

"if you had a monopoly over the top 1,000 search terms across all search engines, you’d still be missing out on 90% of all search traffic"

"The whole of queueing theory springs from the theories worked out by telephone switch engineers." http://is.gd/57pt

"Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit."

ocarina for iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhCJq7EAJJA

Bush now less popular than resignation-era Nixon. http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081110/pl_politico/15478

the Shakespeare programming language. http://tinyurl.com/ovj8u

delicious deep fried bytes! podcast roundtable with myself and a few friends. http://is.gd/6E1x

"Nintendo does not have a path that would allow us to distribute Intellivision Lives! ourselves directly to the public." http://is.gd/6XDl

replaced failing PSU and did a motherboard swap on @betsyphd 's PC. Amazingly, no OS reinstall required, must have been similar hw family.

swedish dance bands from the 70's. http://tinyurl.com/4m2ejk

the amphicar -- world's only commercially produced amphibious automobile! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphicar

my email response debt level just went from "debilitating" to "soul-crushing"