Facebook -- no longer fun and games http://is.gd/17bG

huh, I didn't know the Found column in Wired, but it's fun http://tinyurl.com/5zmy3p

I am 101% totally comfortable going ahead and pre-emptively calling Google's Knol a failure.

this vampire energy graph scares me. I mean, vampires, man. http://is.gd/16Tz

"This is a race you win by getting out and walking, not sitting in front of a computer." http://is.gd/16Tq

I hate "sorry, I've been busy." Oh, not me! I've been doing nothing whatsoever! Everyone's busy, jackass.

apparently newborn babies are like grandparent crack

"Illegal copies continue to work just fine, of course, creating a perverse incentive against legal content" http://is.gd/16ER

The "puzzle box" small form factor PC http://tinyurl.com/5rl4yg

@gilesgoatboay it's not the programmery types I'm referring to; who the hell are those people and *why* do you know them? Julia Allison??

I love the fact that any given YouTube video is 50% likely to have "ass", "boobs" and/or "sex" stuffed in the tags field.

"I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star." Well, for baby porn, I guess. http://is.gd/160i

I feel bad making Twitter feature requests when they're still working on that all-important STOP SUCKING one. :) :) :) 8)

ah, the USB cassette tape! clever gift: http://www.makeamixa.com/

Twitter feature request: if I send someone a direct message, they should be able to DM me back even if I'm not following them.

ok, who's gonna pay me $50 to heckle "FAIL WHALE!! FAIL WHALE!!" at @ev 's Start Conference presentation? http://thestartconference.com/

"now is the youngest you'll ever be; act accordingly"

wow. got my first "we detected you're using an ad blocker, please turn it off" page. http://is.gd/15TY (javascript, takes about 30 sec)

This Oliver Stone Dubya movie is going to be traumatic. Leaked trailer: http://tinyurl.com/64e9fq

Deja Vu: the feeling the the same thing is happening over and over again http://is.gd/15MZ

You know what's got to be a tough job? Selling those "no solicitor" signs door-to-door.

I just realized that I have more respect for primetime television programming than the crap that ends up on Digg. Kinda sad.

wow the drum guy just full comboed GG&HT (3,800+ notes) and almost FCed Timmy. 20 hrs+ in. http://www.customhero.net/drumhell/

world's first pigmonkey. sort of disturbing. http://tinyurl.com/6mlz9u

*eighteen* hours in, and he has 69 songs still to go. Wow. http://www.customhero.net/drumhell/

ok, some guy is playing all 235 Rock Band songs in one sitting on drums, and streaming it realtime http://www.customhero.net/drumhell/

"Crypto is the second best way to go if you want to keep a secret. The first? don't put it in a computer."

"Yeah, I can easily modify my engine right now to use A MILLION CORES. However, most of the cores will be idle or blocking." - Brad Wardell

random craigslist person who bought my Aeron: "are you Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror?" (awkward silence) "Uh.. yeah?" "I read your blog!"

I am shocked, *shocked* to learn that the Zune tattoo guy is a fair weather fan! http://is.gd/1563

Pardon my French, but my ass is making sweet love to this Mirra. OMG.

"Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day [on] MobileMe." Yet there's no name on it: cluetrain derailed at Apple.

"I love amateur video, and your video is the most amateur I've ever seen." http://www.platypuscomix.net/applepalooza/take1.html

I honestly think every Wii title should be *forced* by Nintendo to include Miis. Imagine how cool Wii Rock Band would be your Miis on stage!

"There actually is a plan to bring back Karateka," Mechner revealed during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. WANT!

Since a few people asked. If you're in the SF Bay Area and want to buy an Aeron, mine is $400 http://is.gd/150h

Hey NSObject and NS*.*, you AIN'T ON NEXTSTEP ANY MORE. The Department of Redundancy Department called: they want their 2 characters back.

just fully detailed the old Aeron for sale on craigslist. Clean, armor-all, q-tips, lithium grease (for pivot). I love my furniture porn. :P

Jobs comes clean on health issues: "arrogant a**hole" vs. "slime bucket" http://is.gd/14YE

new Mirra chair arrived in green/grey. So much better than my 1998 era Aeron it isn't even funny. Totally different seating experience.

"I’ve heard hackers brag that they could have built Twitter over a weekend." http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=451

still can't get into Firebug for anything but JS debugging. It's the Microsoft of add-ins; way too much complexity. Prefer webdev.

The Bends is still the best Radiohead album by a very large margin. Kinda sad, actually.

Er.. wow. Not sure that's fit for human programmery consumption. http://tinyurl.com/6nt7bu

Requiem for a Dream: "I hated that movie, everything about it made me feel horrible and sick and I had nightmares as a result. Ugh" ass2ass!

New Robocop film to be directed by Aronofsky: will be the most depressing action movie ever

you know what's awesome? Gina Trapani's tumblelog http://scribbling.net/

even by impossibly low *internet* standards, the "goofs" pages at IMDB seem like a complete waste of so many people's collective time.

Mr. Google's Guidebook became something of a sensation. http://tinyurl.com/2yvc4d

very very impressed that Stack Overflow, even the hard-core javascript parts, work on iPhone Safari. Big ups to Apple for kicking mobile ass

Does Your Gmail Suck Too? http://tinyurl.com/6n522m

via @timoreilly fascinating article on GM's Volt http://tinyurl.com/5o823x

for comparison: how many times, in your life, has Google (the search part) been "down"? For many people it is "never".

Gmail has been so sketchy for me in the last 2-3 months. latest: "Oops... a server error occurred and your email was not sent. (#6502)"

y'know, Apple, your saucy coy secrecy isn't always the best business model http://tinyurl.com/6mlop8

@MikeG1 you should blog everything you have open and the memory info/stats; w/o Virtual Machines in play, not sure that'd even stress 4GB

@MikeG1 ok, now I'm impressed. How are you pressuring memory on an 8 GB box? Whatchootalkinboutwillis?

@MikeG1 you don't have an 8 GB box yet? 8 GB is like 200 freakin' bucks! Well, for a desktop. Real men use desktops. Just sayin'.

We saw Bjorn Again (ABBA tribute band) in Raleigh, NC. Great show. Better than the crappy new movie! http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJuDPcFCu0w

"when I download public source code, one of the first things I do before trying to understand it is remove most of the comments"

which reminds me, I need to get a tambourine/cowbell to complete my Rock Band equipment list http://is.gd/tjl

the ultimate iPhone app: cowbell http://tinyurl.com/69ukub

Today's zen koan: "If the best code is no code, what is the best comment?"

MAME + Powerbook + IKEA = awesome http://mamebook.blogspot.com/

because the apocalypse doesn't have to be lonely http://www.zombieharmony.com/

I had totally forgotten about Faith No More's excellent cover of the Commodores' Easy. http://youtube.com/watch?v=CH7J3G7Qtt0

"Yeah, when you're on a major [label], basically they own the music and they can kind of farm it out however they want." http://is.gd/13qb

comment left on my Comic Sans post ( http://is.gd/13nH ) : "COMIC SANS IS AWSOME. GET A LIFE"

Scrabulous is such a clear infringement on Scrabble; no idea how they thought they'd get away with that http://is.gd/13k3

emails from journalists are always the same. OMG PLEASE REPLY ASAP IMPORTANT!!1!, then if you reply after deadline, they could care less.

thank goodness our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

I didn't say it was rational, but welcome to the human race

@KathySierra @jongalloway it's because we somehow consider Twitter our friend. And you don't give up on your friends that easily, do you?

I just rickrolled myself. My era-appropriate playlist included The Song of The Gods.

A little birdie told me Amazon is considering Windows Server support for EC2. Your thoughts?

freaking hilarious Dragonforce parody overdub video http://tinyurl.com/39px74

ok the ITConversations folks have a fix for the podcast problems with #14 and #15 .. looks like bad ID3 tags? Should be OK now.

rumored Guitar Hero World Tour tracklist. Looks plausible to me. http://is.gd/12vq

I am getting scattered reports that the Zune player is having trouble with episodes 14 and 15 of Stack Overflow.. can anyone confirm?

I have a User.RenderFlair() method. I don't know whether to be excited or depressed.

self referencing database tables are cool, and all, but can be a giant PITA for some types of queries

Wargames: the film that turned Geeks and Phreaks into stars http://is.gd/119m

thinking about adding a secret "I am very, very angry" badge for Stack Overflow users who downmod stuff a lot

Freakonomics: "Microsoft’s cashback service is an important step in the right direction." http://is.gd/11Ph

great, just got a randin skype spam message with actual *nudity*. I'm trying to work here, man!

wow, this i-Fluid game looks really nifty http://tinyurl.com/5ra9up

science t-shirts are awesome because SCIENCE IS AWESOME http://wearscience.com/

"What could possibly be more un-American than saying that some people don’t deserve a fair trial?" Exactly.

Baby's First Internet -- hard to explain, but awesome http://tinyurl.com/6yq2ep

My #1 Vista wish. Those "file is in use" dialogs should tell you *what* is using the file and locking it -- in plain English, er, American

67 reasons the Pepsi and Coke non-choice between VB.NET and C# is a GIANT PAIN IN THE ASS http://is.gd/11fH

you know what's unexpectedly good? The Superfly "deluxe 25th anniversary" soundtrack. http://is.gd/11f6

mysql to Sun: hey man, fork you! http://tinyurl.com/5w7lva

funny thing from this week's podcast: Joel gets things done by *not* reading Getting Things Done. Paradox of paradoxes.

I approve of rosemary, find sage acceptable, am underwhelmed by thyme, and am on the fence about parsley.

college humor does fonts (via @jongalloway) http://tinyurl.com/57l6w3

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times. Nothing good can ever come of reading TechCrunch. It will literally make you stupider.

"We want a pony. Help us build it." http://tinyurl.com/68tt2w

Firefox has been a rock since 3.0.1 update for me. Tentatively optimistic.

I love thinking putty; it's my favorite desktop toy. http://www.puttyworld.com/ (Use free shipping code FREESHIP08 if you order)