late breaking Stack Overflow change -- downmod is -2 to target, but -1 to you as well. Discuss amongst yourselves.

@robconery make sure you install from vista sp1 media ; massive bugs with big memory in original Vista setup

Feel the power of the Anarchy Cowbell Packaging http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3949/anarchycowbellpackagingsx1.jpg

FTR "when did MS last ship a useful version of BASIC?" is from @mdhughes -- and still funny! Hello LINQ! Hello XML literals!

"when did MS last ship a useful version of BASIC?" now you're parading ignorance. check out VB 2008 Express. It's free-- and awesome.

@andrewbarnett (dutifully admiring your screwdrivers) I'm bored. Let's go build something.

I'm starting to think that RSS feeds which update dozens of times per day are rarely worth the cognitive time they take to process

"traffic to a film's stand-alone promotional website is a fairly accurate indicator of Opening Weekend Box Office" http://is.gd/1eKK

"If this is incomprehensible to you, well, that's why you own a PC and not a Mac."

@andrewbarnett building things and communicating with other people makes me happy. Screwdrivers vs. Couture. http://is.gd/1eK5

This is pretty much why I think the MSFT model, despite its (MANY!) flaws, is better than the Apple model: http://is.gd/1eJi

Stack Overflow team meeting minutes: "q: what's the task today? a: same task as every day: kick ass"

RBI Baseball (1988) &Tecmo Super Bowl (1991) active players http://www.markbottrell.com/?p=58

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at ComicCon 2008; like shootin' fish in a barrel http://is.gd/1evs

@drylight I am not sure, right now feels like private beta for 2 - 4 weeks will be enough -- but who knows?

hrm, learn something new every day. Stack Overflow poster mentioned Colemak keyboard layout: http://colemak.com/

browsing the Opera web site and seeing the devs, I have an uncontrollable urge to punch those guys right in the kisser. With love, I mean.

To quote sir mix-a-lot. I LIKE 'EM BIG, AND ROUND! er.. my click targets, that is.. http://is.gd/y1X

@changenlocher enumclaw is for (horse) lovers

oh intarweb: "The farm was talked about in chat rooms as a destination for people looking to have sex with livestock" http://is.gd/1dwL

Why does Opera have to be the short bus of browsers? Just because it works in Safari, IE, and FF, doesn't mean it's RIGHT OR ANYTHING

ok, so key JQuery events don't fire in Opera 9.51. Wonderful. Awesome. I didn't need OnBlur or OnSubmit to work, anyways..

OS X Time Machine failures are the new airport travel delay update tweets

"one of the world's pre-eminent experts in the field is so depressed by the state of copyright that he can't bring himself to blog about it"

user: "wow, something really weird happened! Also, I'm using Opera 9.52!" (groan)

the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000; good readin' http://ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.cfm

at the pyramid brewery in berkely with kevin dente, ted dziuba, jon galloway

the big lie of Vista hate is that XP is somehow "good". It ain't. And if you think it is, you're part of the problem.

99% of the "issues" with Vista would be resolved if MSFT adopted an OS X like pricing scheme. $99 for ultimate. period. But noooo.

I know I'm supposed to hate it like everyone else, but I really like Vista. Way better than XP. not $300 better, but *definitely* better.

we need more ruby/perl/python centric devs on Stack Overflow -- if you're willing to ask/answer, email me for an invite!

Brilliant bit of advice from the Simpsons: "Just. Don't. Look." http://kottke.org/08/07/just-dont-look

"Our whole system of government is based on the idea that the purpose of the state is to preserve individual liberties" http://is.gd/19IG

"Frankly, from my POV, Knol looks like an abysmal failure." http://tinyurl.com/5ldev6

"Lulz is watching someone lose their mind at their computer 2,000 miles away while you chat with friends and laugh" http://is.gd/1c4h

wow those watchmen movie posters http://is.gd/1c9D are based on the original comic print ads! http://is.gd/1cm0 so cool!

More than 1.2 Americans is a Californian; CA has the 8th largest economy in the world; CA produces 13% of the US GDP. Also, cosplay.

I would have done *exactly* what Hasbro did. Invent your own original game and make it popular, lamers.

so the strategy is, copy someone else's IP in the most blatant fashion possible, make it popular-- then force 'em to cut you a giant check?

"Scrabulous is very plainly a copycat of Scrabble." Duh. And they richly deserve the banhammer they got.

Blood types by country http://tinyurl.com/5qr45n

my wife @betsyphd has a super-cool exotic blood type, and my blood type is totally boring and unoriginal. The blood, it fails me.

Hey guys -- advertising is BAD and DECEPTIVE! in other shocking news, sky still blue, water still wet, earth still round.

#1 programmer training issue with MarkDown: indent code with 4 spaces. Or use the toolbar button to do same.

nice set of Watchmen posters http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37736

random profile driveby -- "About Me: I am awesome."

SUBSCRIBE. TO. THIS. BLOG!

oh yeah, thanks for the press release, I'm TOTALLY saving the date for the annual salesforce.com "dreamforce" conference! It's gonna ROCK!!

Global Thermonuclear War http://www.falkensmaze.org/gamesList.html

and so the stack overflow private beta begins. "Can you feel it? I don't feel nothin' at all." http://is.gd/1bwU

Please, No Stairway To Heaven. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000804.html

we stopped by Guitar Center on our daily walk today, and some guy was actually playing Stairway to Heaven in the acoustic guitar room. Hee.

beta users scare me

"stupid users! stop using our systems in ways we did not forsee! i hate you!"

list of all cowbell songs (enter "all" and click search) http://www.geekspeakweekly.com/cowbell/

Queuing up the all-cowbell winamp playlist. now listening to: Zeppelin's "Good Times, Bad Times".

just got my pearl anarchy cowbell. SO awesome. Package copy: "no rules heavy metal cowbell" & "brutal cutting tone" http://is.gd/1aYK

"PaulieWalnuts, Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey, The Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah, Patrick Bateman and HitlerHitlerHitler" http://is.gd/19sb

the most insane, improbable music pairing ever in my book: Tammy Wynette and KLF http://tinyurl.com/yrrug9

via @timbray valentine cards for database lovers http://you.presscue.com/node/1234

HIGH SPEED NINJA ACTION http://tinyurl.com/38v6yl

"a cruel, corporate run society that treats you like a wallet mounted on the back of an entranced magpie" http://is.gd/19iL

hey, LOL, that's *my* picture in that Paul Graham entry http://tinyurl.com/5cunwk

why isn't Mom running Apache? http://tinyurl.com/66n48b

via @waxpancake awesome Donkey Kong assembly barrely code deconstruction http://is.gd/19Uh

"[analog] was a zero-sum game, and it's nice to be back to [digital] non-zero-sum game situation." http://is.gd/19U8

@drylight if you worked on the stack overflow team you'd have a 30" monitor and steelcase or herman miller chair, too! :) buying pcs, too..

@KathySierra fear is for wusses! :)

@KathySierra most people use Tumblr for the space in between twitter and blogging

my first informal pressflip.com review: NEEDS MORE LOGOS. And larger ones.

having lunch with Ted Dziuba of Uncov and Pressflip fame later today. What should I ask him?

I always think American Psycho when I hear Huey Lewis and the News now. "The power of love, is a curious thing" indeed

I think appearing on that "web celebrities" list has increased my unwanted email by about 3x. Thanks for the "honor"!

all sentences beginning with "might I be so bold as to..." will be interrupted with an immediate NO.

Appeal to Mediocrity: I'm just an average guy! I drink beer and have flaws! Also, I'd like to be president kthxbye

downloading Opera to test our site and stave off the most vocal 1% of any userbase..

wow, Kindle doesn't support monospaced fonts? I hate to say it, but.. FAIL

Installing the Mojave OS. It's flippin' sweet, people. Makes OS X look like week old luncheon meat.

Apple pulled the ultimate "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" by going x86. I argue also one of *the* smartest biz decisions they ever made.

"Many individuals have asked me in past months, why moist towelette collecting? Why not stamp collecting, or numismatics?" http://is.gd/18pU

"Some zoom in so far that, by the end, the 1st viewed frame would be as large as (or larger than) the known universe." http://is.gd/18pB

glass: is it a liquid or a solid? http://tinyurl.com/5zf37

How can the new Intel Atom and VIA Nano platforms have 10w+ higher idle than my HTPC?? Lame. http://is.gd/18oK

I have a very hard time not seeing this as 10,000 Year Wankery http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock/

Seriously, who is this "Miss Fipi Lele" that keeps popping up everywhere! Not kidding! Who is she?

stack overflow team is now asking me for "permission to take a bathroom break, boss?" DENIED

when I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. http://tinyurl.com/5rw9uj

Online T-Shirt Sales ProTip: Showcase all your wares on attractive busty female models -- not the hoagie-loving dudes who actually buy 'em

@drylight I dunno, after watching "Mad Men" TV series, starting to get back into the "advertising isn't 100% evil, just 99%" mindset

@jhurtado was referring to "mojave experiment" ad from CP&B, the Burger King ad company http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

A post-Windows OS future at Microsoft? Eh, we'll probably end up with UNIX same as always. http://is.gd/18dd

"Kudos to Microsoft's ad agency for this one, I've never seen MS do anything decent with their ads before." Crispin Porter and Bogusky

Oh, hi, I'd like to order a Big Ma -- aaaaaaaaaaaaah! http://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=788

"Spelling it M$ doesn't really add to your credibility."

I apologize; all this CSS munging is making me extra-cranky. Rarrr! I love the smell of selectors in the morning!

to be fair, I've spent *plenty* of my own time pissing on other people's fun, so I probably deserve it. Seriously.

I wonder if soldiers find Call of Duty as much of an affront to their profession as some musicians apparently do for Rock Band

oh, designer who decided to make <h2> float: left -- it is SO uncool to radically redefine core tags like that.

it is so aggravating the way <tables> seem to exist in another universe from the perspective of CSS. You're part of the body text, ...

I can't wait for Rock Band 2. I need it to be September 14th NOW. C'mon. C'mon! C'mon!!! http://is.gd/WDV