The coolest screenshot of Task Manager you've ever seen, guaranteed http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx

I like rain, I like ham, I like you. You're around, you're right here, so you'll do.

*incredibly* obscure "The Shield" reference. I'll be impressed if anyone gets it. http://d00kie.ytmnd.com/

In the original 150+ year old AMA charter, physicians were warned to “avoid all contumelious and sarcastic remarks.” House MD, not so much.

yet another reason San Francisco is awesome: crowdsourced haircuts! http://tinyurl.com/5d4vj2

Amazon wasn't affected by their own S3 outage because they cache: http://tinyurl.com/6eq2ag

well, to be fair, when I said "analyst" I really meant "person who submitted a comment on my blog"

"It might take a few years, but HTML is doomed, and it'll be gone sooner than most people think." wow. worst analyst EVER.

my impulse control is pretty much nonexistent. OH LOOK SHINY THING! (runs away)

wow -- an upcoming cover of Esquire will have an electronic e-ink cover bit, amazing http://is.gd/ZtB

choice kills http://tinyurl.com/5fxaos

paradise unpaved http://www.frankejames.com/debate/?p=98

A HUNDRED AND TWELVE year old artist? http://tinyurl.com/6llad3

buying the Team America World Police album from Amazon MP3. I meant to do this on the 4th of July but forgot. http://is.gd/ZnO

"We know fish have a way of forgetting everything they ever knew every three seconds or so." For me, it's more like four days.

Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for their hardware division innovations. Check out the "Arc Mouse" http://is.gd/YLA

@pacifika yeah, in the .net world you can use any CLR language you want as long as it's C#

so what if 95% of them fail. That's part of the fun. You'll learn more in 1 year at a startup than, well, anything I can think of.

Paul Graham is kind of a dick about it sometimes, but he's right that starting a small business is where it's at. Startups = teh future.

"My question more fundamental: Why are all people named 'Scott' programmers. Is this some kind of national law that I'm not aware of."

"IMDB.com, where film criticism goes to die (and then have its corpse gang-raped, called a racist, and accused of supporting Al-Qaeda.)"

Hooray for reCAPTCHA! http://recaptcha.net/

To me, the iPhone is one thing: a mobile device that replicates the desktop browser experience for the first time. Killer app! calls? meh.

"the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference."

Is it wrong to say I preferred Twitter without the images? Although the image -> person connection is helpful, I must say.

"For all the hubbub regarding the new App Store, most 'iPhone software' runs in the web browser." I SMELL THE FUTURE

Why, why, why did I buy something from an eBay seller with reputation 0. I know better than that. Sigh. I blame myself for being greedy.

LINQ is great, but it can be difficult to get the exact SQL you need. I just want to emit "select count(*) from table where parentid=3" ..

anyone using HTTP response code HTTP/204 no-content? It's an interesting one; prevents browser navigation after request.

even the slowest GPU implementation was nearly 6 times faster than the best-performing CPU version http://is.gd/Y5c

@BPAndrew the App Store / Xbox Live Store model could very well be the future. Locked down platform, corporate (benevolent?) gatekeeper.

If there is one lesson MSFT should internalize, it is this: third party developers will screw the user fairly often, given the chance.

I want to believe that developer community matters, but in my heart I know Apple's right: a quality 1st party end2end experience trumps all.

YOU GET AN EFF MINUS http://gadgets.boingboing.net/worstconsole.png

Wow, GTX 280 cards are down to $420 from $650 at intro 1 (!) MONTH AGO. Thank you AMD/ATI and the invisible hand.

"We wanna be free.. we wanna be free to *do* what we wanna *do*.. " http://tinyurl.com/5sag6h

In case it's not clear, I am saying this approach does have its advantages.

MSFT has to be very careful not to piss off partners, customers, regulators, etc. Apple: f**k 'em all, we do what we want. And you like it!

The advantage of Apple's approach is that they *just don't care* when they crush a third-party competitor. Nobody else seems to, either.

"California uses more gas than any country in the world (except the USA), including China." http://is.gd/Wb3

Apple, fundamentally speaking, is NOT a developer centric company, and never will be, IMHO. No "developers, developers, developers" there.

IPhone Developer: Apple's Secrecy, Slowness Makes Things Difficult http://tinyurl.com/6mjbm2

Guitar Hero II introduced me to My Chemical Romance; I know it's emo as hell, but I like that Black Parade album. Music FTW.

"I prefer to think of the Long Tail as being a tail to a different animal." http://is.gd/XXN

now that I use Skype so much I get to dust off my "let's go voice" chat phrase which, I swear to God, I last used in about 1986 w/modems

It's important that I watch that Eric Prydz "Call on Me" video every few months, for .. y'know.. educational purposes.

"My feeling is, if you're not going to take the criticism seriously, then you can't really take the praise personally."

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will http://tinyurl.com/36otth

Dark Night was really, really dark, much darker than expected. Almost horror movie like at times. Great flick though, if a little.. long.

squidoo making horrible rookie XSS mistakes in early 2007 http://is.gd/XsL

why a world ruled by Apple is infinitely scarier, to me, than a world ruled by Microsoft: http://is.gd/XqG

@bethgo it puts the location in the basket. IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BASKET.

If you actually *READ* the link I provided, it contains a citation for the "58% never read" statistic. Just sayin'. http://is.gd/Xql

delicious mock tofu—all you need is chicken fat, puréed pork loin, and five cups of piping-hot tallow http://is.gd/Xpx

"58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school." http://parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm

saw Durian potato chips at the Vietnamese deli. I'm scared. See: sign forbidding Durians on Singapore's MRT http://is.gd/XoS

kottke found this gem: List of fictional films mentioned in Seinfeld http://tinyurl.com/3eo7pv

maybe this 3.0.1 fix will stop the FF3 crashes I was seeing, repro sounds REAL familiar http://tinyurl.com/5gqz6b

http://tinyurl.com/5ehpqr is kinda cool. I have a lot of "arena_dalloc_small" (#1) in my about:crashes as well.

The Who -- really, The Who -- played a great live set at E3 for Harmonix' Rock Band 2 party. Holy cow. http://is.gd/WGw

holy crap that Watchmen trailer looked far better than I expected. Must.. not.. get.. hopes.. up..

leaked Watchmen trailer ***SQUEE*** http://tinyurl.com/5qtqk8

why do I always read Yosemite as Yo, Semite!

I have no idea what this is, but it's awesome. Two rock band drum kits played at once? http://tinyurl.com/6rcjms

ok, I'll try NoScript, I guess. It blocks ads?

anyway, I'm not convinced the FF add-ons are the culprit. I use like, THREE, and all wildly popular ones. I average 2 crashes per day so far

also, for those "it ain't FF, it's the add-ons" people, guess what? It ain't Windows, it's usually the drivers and apps. Responsibility..?

I hope all the obscenities I'm adding to my FF3 crash reports are helping the Mozilla developers troublehsoot the problem.

In the UK, Meat Loaf "is one of only two artists with an album *never to have left the music charts*" Scary. http://is.gd/VJs

graffiti for butterflies http://www.dziga.com/graffiti/

George Bush doesn't care about black people; WordPress doesn't care about Windows users. As usual. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/189058

"When it comes to your pocketbook and wine, ignorance is bliss." http://tinyurl.com/59puuf

I just donated $9 to this guy; you should too. Read it: http://tinyurl.com/6gqfor

watched Mad Men season 1. Great show; ends *exceptionally* strong. Stick with it through the first 3-4 episodes.

protip: when your coworkers leave their computers unlocked, "helpfully" change their default IDE font to Comic Sans.

http://uservoice.com versus http://getsatisfaction.com -- FIGHT! Well, the kind of fight where everyone wins.

I am *this* close to believing my own hype. It's not good.

"crosses all cultural barriers to become the dumbest movie I've seen in an entire generation. But it is also funny as hell" http://is.gd/VC9

@bethgo we are HUGE Shield fans, too, *squeeeeee*

asp.net folks -- what's the best way to set up a recurring page load for background processing? scheduled task? something else?

NEWS FLASH: Guitar Hero: World Tour will work with Rock Band drums/instruments on the xbox360 -- confirmed! http://is.gd/UCq

great novelty USB flash drive http://www.worldwidefred.com/hacked.htm

Ze Frank going to Hollywood was not a good idea; I thought he was smarter than that http://www.vimeo.com/1341185

Vimeo is like taking a cool, refreshing shower after watching YouTube

"figure out the least we can possibly do, then implement those basic features with as much attention to detail as we can."

Meher Baba on his deathbed: "conveying by his last gestures, 'Do not forget that I am God.'" I don't think Gods should go out like that.

random thing I mention on our podcast: there's a little Meher Baba church down the street from us in a strip mall http://is.gd/Uns

by the way, The Who tracks for Rock Band (released today) are freaking great. http://is.gd/UmX

remember, kids, statistically speaking, you'll be dead forever! sleep tight.

incredible craving for Andy Capp's Hot Fries. I once bought a case of these because I couldn't get them anywhere. http://is.gd/TGZ

Summize is pretty damn unreliable. 50% of my queries are "something went wrong." Twitter effect, I guess.

if you were stuck on an island and could eat only one type of food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Alton Brown got it: cheese.

setting up a man-date with @cisellis for Batman on friday. MAN DATE! I AIN'T ASHAMED!

K. Scott Allen's advice on premature optimization http://tinyurl.com/6s8sdv

"Loopt is a location-based social network for douchebags who wear two ill-fitting polo shirts at the same time." --gruber http://is.gd/TAC

**686** watts under load? Holy fershlugginer crapballs. http://tinyurl.com/5z9k8m

"It turns out love doesn’t conquer all. It’s a myth." http://is.gd/Tsj

@robconery has so many weird PC problems he doesn't just need an IT guy, he needs an exorcist

a fellow dev is offended by my use of var, and now our IM conversations go like this: How's it going? var. What are you working on? var.

It's amazing how much utter crap you can delete from web.config. Kitchensinkitis, man. You Aren't Gonna Need All That Crap.