Django | Weblog | Django 1.0 release party • Woohoo! Party! I’ll be there. • 27 aug, 9:06 a.m.
Ignore That Logo Under the Tape! - WSJ.com • At the Beijing Olympics, logos of non-sponsors have been covered up. Heard about this from http://twitter.com/zappos. • 21 aug, 10:45 p.m.
Adam Spizak - Graphic Designer, grafika. • Imaginative design. • 21 aug, 10:36 p.m.
China’s Olympic Swimming Pool: Redefining Fast : NPR • The pool is actually faster. I think that is so cool. • 21 aug, 3:43 p.m.
Hulu - Bring It On • You mean I can watch Bring It On whenever I want? Pinch me. • 21 aug, 10:11 a.m.
Great Olympic moments on YouTube • Thanks to Kottke, I spent a bunch of time yesterday looking at Olympic videos on YouTube. • 21 aug, 8:19 a.m.
More than 200,000 kids spanked at school - CNN.com • Of course it’s more prevalent in the Southeast. Go bass-ackwards-ness! • 20 aug, 10:16 a.m.
YouTube - Flight of the Conchords Ep 8 ‘Foux Da Fa Fa’ • Hilarious Flight of the Conchords video where they make fun of basic French. The best part has to be when they say Gérard Depardieu. • 19 aug, 10:46 a.m.
Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its ‘Last Stand’ - washingtonpost.com • Pandora may shut down soon. What am I going to listen to at work? • 18 aug, 12:31 p.m.
Cyberstar — chicagotribune.com • “His first job upon graduation was at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but he wasn’t happy. ‘I basically didn’t have access to a server that would let me do cool stuff,’ he says.” Sorry, had to pull that quote out. Nice profile of programmer/journalist superstar, Adrian Holovaty. • 17 aug, 10:43 p.m.
IKEA | Mattresses | Foam mattresses | SULTAN FLOKENES | Foam mattress • We are now the proud owners of one of these. • 17 aug, 10:33 p.m.
Braves Love: Happy Birthday, Will! • Kids, here’s a public service announcement. Flickr is not a place where you can go and steal photos and use them however you want. AND hotlink to them. It’s 2008. Are people still hotlinking? I was trying to do the nice thing here but because of one of the commenters I had to break the photo. Here’s my photo. • 16 aug, 9:16 a.m.
Where is Bob?: Tales of an Absentee Manager • I have no idea how all of this could be true, but it’s certainly entertaining. • 15 aug, 5:11 p.m.
This Week in Django • This Week in Django gets its own website. • 14 aug, 11:02 a.m.
Section 435 – A Cubs Fan Raped Your Mother • Shaun talks about the obnoxious, rude jerks that are Cubs fans at the Braves’ game last night. • 14 aug, 10:16 a.m.
MapIconMaker Documentation: Examples • Wow, I love this. • 11 aug, 8:34 a.m.
Honey and Spice-Glazed Pork Chops Recipe - Pork - MyRecipes.com • I’m always up for a good pork recipe, and I bet these would be good with (s)mashed sweet potatoes. • 10 aug, 10:36 p.m.
Django | Weblog | Django 1.0 alpha 2 released! • I hear there was drinking. • 09 aug, 2:25 p.m.
I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where not even sound but they says theres tanks should i be worrie - Yahoo! Answers • “THEY’VE COME FOR YOUR PEACHES!” • 08 aug, 4:08 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition). • “Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.” • 07 aug, 3:52 p.m.
TV might cause autism. - By Gregg Easterbrook - Slate Magazine • This is really, really interesting and possibly frightening. Related: Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After All. • 06 aug, 11 a.m.
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad from Paris Hilton, Chris Henchy, and Adam “Ghost Panther” McKay • The sad thing is, people would vote for her. • 06 aug, 9:54 a.m.
JeffCroft.com: “Default” templates in Django • Jeff covers some cleverness you can do with Django templates. You know, I never think to write up stuff like this because it all seems so obvious to me, but it’s really not. • 06 aug, 9:50 a.m.
McSweeney’s Rejects Mike Mussina’s Seventh Consecutive Submission | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source • “‘Sometimes the best ideas come to you on the mound,’ Mussina said. ‘That’s why I always carry around my little black notebook on the field.’” Baseball + trying to get accepted to McSweeney’s = article that was pretty much written for me. • 04 aug, 11:30 a.m.
Last.fm – the Blog · Quality Control • The bears. I want the bears. • 01 aug, 4 p.m.
DjangoCon! at Matt Croydon::Postneo • “I love that we’ll have both Journalist-programmers and Programmer-journalists on the panel, and I love that Django is so often the glue that brings the two together.” • 01 aug, 9:01 a.m.
Braves make no additional deals | ajc.com • I love Will Ohman. Please keep him. • 01 aug, 8:59 a.m.
Twitter / fakemerlinmann • Okay, I’m a navel-gazing dork because I find this funny, but he had me at “Unnnnnnhhhhhhhh…Quicksilver or whatever.” • 31 jul, 2:21 p.m.
Video - Ohman Does Carey - Baseball • Shaun sent this to me earlier today. The best part is where he questions Brian McCann’s weight. • 30 jul, 3:22 p.m.
V8 // ShaunInman.com • Holy crap, this rotated in NetNewsWire and freaked me out. • 30 jul, 2:29 p.m.
Atlanta ranks as world’s busiest airport | ajc.com • We are still the winner. • 29 jul, 5:01 p.m.
Not everyone is sold on the Braves trading Teixeira - Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • Sure, I’d love to keep Teixeira, he’s a true professional. But let’s be realistic here. • 29 jul, 3:29 p.m.
Changeset 8136 - Django Code - Trac • Django just added support for “through” tables on many-to-many relationships. Pinch me. • 29 jul, 9:31 a.m.
McCann suffers concussion in collision | Braves.com: News • “‘He wasn’t moving, and that’s what you really worry about,’ said Braves first baseman Mark Teixeira… ‘You’d almost rather see him flopping around there.’” What a way with words! • 28 jul, 11:15 a.m.
Well, it’s all over already. McCain beat Hillary, according to McCain’s website. : reddit.com • There’s a screenshot in the comments. Seriously folks, someone will find anything you put on teh interwebs. • 25 jul, 4:39 p.m.
Review: X-Files Flick Falls Short of Show’s Glory Days | The Underwire from Wired.com • Yeah… • 25 jul, 4:13 p.m.
Amazon.com: Sterling Silver Peridot, Garnet, Amethyst, Blue Topaz & Citrine Individually Boxed Stud Earring Set: Jewelry • These are so pretty. • 24 jul, 11:36 p.m.
Verizon Marketing Stunt at Piedmont Park in Atlanta | Tessa Horehled • “The Network” was silent the whole time, which was creepy. I’m going to go make a call in Piedmont Park and see what happens. • 23 jul, 11:20 a.m.
Font Conference - CollegeHumor video • “Get with the Times, New Roman.” • 23 jul, 8:53 a.m.
Never Underestimate McCain, But … - TIME • “In the end, though, it’s usually pretty simple. Everyone seems to agree that 2008 is a change election. Which of these guys looks like change?” Interesting look. • 22 jul, 3:18 p.m.
newforms-admin Migration and Screencast | oebfare • When he subclassed the UserAdmin from contrib.auth I about died. • 22 jul, 2:26 p.m.
YouTube - The Process • This is so spot on it makes me want to cry. Client work is a whole different, scary world. • 22 jul, 11 a.m.
Django | Weblog | Django 1.0 alpha released! • This is very exciting. Life will be so much better with 1.0, and we can finally upgrade from 0.96 at work. • 21 jul, 10:38 p.m.
Beijing 2008 Preparations - Three Weeks to Go - The Big Picture - Boston.com • Then how will anyone find the sex shops? • 21 jul, 7:34 p.m.
Twitter is broken for me so I’m going to be using (kottke.org) • Oh, I got a big laugh out of this. Especially the API. • 21 jul, 2:26 p.m.
Baby’s First Internet - The Morning News • “You heard a brand-new band? What luck! You’ll be the first to say they suck.” • 21 jul, 9:18 a.m.
mattwaite.com | DjangoCon and me • “I am so scared out of my freaking gourd it’s not even funny.” Personally, I’m going with “scared shitless.” • 20 jul, 6:24 p.m.
Program | DjangoCon | September 6-7, 2008 | Mountain View, CA • “moderated by Adrian Holovaty” *faint* • 20 jul, 6:10 p.m.
The Truth about Web Navigation (by Jeremy Zawodny) • This is true. And sad. • 19 jul, 11:46 p.m.
Secret’s out: N. Druid Hills great place for singles | ajc.com • That’s pretty funny, actually. • 18 jul, 3:32 p.m.
Amazon.com: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: MP3 Downloads: Spoon • If you don’t have this, for $5 you should drop what you are doing and PURCHASE IT RIGHT NOW. • 18 jul, 1:44 p.m.
AJC announces section changes, staffing cuts | ajc.com • Look, we are, ourselves, news. • 16 jul, 3:54 p.m.
Cheap Wine - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog • “What lesson should we take from this? No matter what, do not let yourself become a wine expert who can tell the difference between cheap and expensive wines. When it comes to your pocketbook and wine, ignorance is bliss.” • 16 jul, 3:39 p.m.
40,000 New Yorkers Flee State for Atlanta - July 11, 2008 - The New York Sun • They moved here, but apparently they all hate it. Screw y’all! Go home. • 14 jul, 4:59 p.m.
Django | Weblog | DjangoCon 2008 • DJANGOCON DJANGOCON DJANGOCON DJANGOCON DJANGOCON!!!!! • 14 jul, 9:14 a.m.
Why Europeans Drank Beer and Asians Drank Tea - Bitten - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog • This is very interesting. Just last night Shaun and I talked about how historically beer was an alternative to contaminated water. Thank goodness I am of European descent. • 11 jul, 2:29 p.m.
Business & Technology | U.S. Starbucks stores that may be closing | Seattle Times Newspaper • Shaun wondered if the Starbucks near our new place would be closing. So far, apparently not. • 11 jul, 1:23 p.m.
newsobserver.com | N&O subscriber sues the paper for cutting staff • If you sue the paper, they have to spend money on your lawsuit instead of on staff. Stupid. • 11 jul, 11:37 a.m.
NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers at Weekly Articles About Blogging - NxE • Danah Boyd and Mena Trott are conspicuously absent from this list. Also, why is female in quotes? Also, running BlogHer doesn’t automatically make you #1. (Via) • 10 jul, 7 p.m.
Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All • Two out of three available developers agree: we love this post. • 09 jul, 4:45 p.m.
A-Rod and Madonna: A Fan’s Guide • Am I the only one who finds allegations of a romantic relationship between these two hard to believe? • 09 jul, 11:09 a.m.
The State of the Web - Summer 2008 • I wasn’t aware of the two girls and a cup thing, but apparently it’s gross, so that’s okay. • 08 jul, 2:08 p.m.
How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer | The Register • “I believe the pester_victim_with_stupid_emails() function was added only last month, to help out everybody writing Facebook applications.” • 07 jul, 2:03 p.m.
A quote from Me • “It looks like the first ever Django conference will take place in early September in the San Francisco bay area.” Excitement! Just don’t be Labor Day weekend. • 07 jul, 1:47 p.m.
django-chunks - Officially Lucky, a blog by Clint Ecker • We were going to write something like this at work. Now it’s all done! • 06 jul, 11:32 p.m.
Time for Braves to demote “The Chosen One”? | Braves • Whoa. Ballsy. But, I agree. Time to stop wasting your talent, Francoeur. • 03 jul, 4:38 p.m.
Photograzing: Share Your Favorite Food Photos and Find Inspiration! • This looks great. Also, it has a clever and effective ad placement. • 02 jul, 5:27 p.m.
The Minimalist - 101 Picnic Dishes to Make in 20 Minutes - List - NYTimes.com • One hundred and one ideas for baseball food. And, I was just reminded of that time at trivia when I tried to say it was 1001 Dalmatians. • 02 jul, 4:50 p.m.
Amazon.com: Mic City Sons: MP3 Downloads: Heatmiser • Note to self: buy this. • 02 jul, 4:06 p.m.
Twiek • Ooh. I want. • 02 jul, 9:30 a.m.
Orange-Sesame Noodles with Grilled Shrimp Recipe - Rice/Grains - MyRecipes.com • This looks yummy and simple and could probably be eaten cold. • 01 jul, 4:59 p.m.
The Simple Dollar » Seven Ideas for Preparing Food at Home Cheaply with Minimal Space and Resources • Oatmeal with peanut butter?! I’ve got to try this. • 27 jun, 5:47 p.m.
ICANN Proposes Sweeping Changes to TLDs - ReadWriteWeb • I think this could be pretty awesome. Hefty price tag, though. • 26 jun, 2:43 p.m.
The Website Is Down • Nerdily funny. “How many times did you reboot?” “Three, man, you always tell me to do three.” • 25 jun, 4:44 p.m.
Django code_swarm | oebfare • This is completely awesome! Watch on the Vimeo page; it’s a little easier to see the names. • 25 jun, 11:44 a.m.
Nashville Scene - Not Playing Here • I definitely see a lot more shows now that I live in Atlanta. (Knoxville hardly counts here.) Interestingly, I didn’t know until I read this article that Starwood Amphitheater was no more. • 24 jun, 11:16 p.m.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo • This is kind of remarkable, I won’t lie. • 24 jun, 5:34 p.m.
Daniel Rubin: Enough already! A fan defects | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/22/2008 • Red Sox fans are the new Yankees fans, unfortunately. • 23 jun, 3:34 p.m.
The Official Site of The Atlanta Braves: News: Gonzalez glad he has Smoltz’s support • OMG MIKEY G U R AWESOME! LUV SMOLTZIE. • 20 jun, 1:04 p.m.
Southern Bakers Worry as a Treasured Flour Mill Moves North - NYTimes.com • This is kind of weird. It’s not really clear to me why the plant needs to be moved. Ahh, biscuits. • 19 jun, 10:19 a.m.
The Guardian and Conservator of a Gated Urban Park - NYTimes.com • This article seemed to take a negative view of its subject. • 19 jun, 8:54 a.m.
It’s a lock for Celtics — maybe - The Boston Globe • “It’s a sure thing. Like the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.” Amusing. • 17 jun, 11:26 a.m.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate • Sorry, I will not be taking any idea showers. • 17 jun, 11:07 a.m.
Wordle - minarets • I am only interested in humor. • 17 jun, 9:16 a.m.
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE • New movie, but a full-screen popup website straight out of 1998. Vintage! • 15 jun, 5:33 p.m.
Jonathan Coulton » Blog Archive » Washy Ad Jeffy • I’ve always wanted this. Seems like it would take a bit of work to memorize, though. • 14 jun, 12:32 p.m.
Pizza Tips on Smitten Kitchens | Slice Pizza Blog • I’m pretty sure she only has one kitchen. • 14 jun, 11:52 a.m.
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for the Whippy Light : TreeHugger • Whimsical (via). • 13 jun, 2:38 p.m.
Metallica to bloggers: don’t review our music • It’s hard to believe anyone listens to Metallica anymore with this crap. • 11 jun, 1:41 p.m.
The Minimalist - The Minimalist - Putting Meat in Its Place - NYTimes.com • Good advice. We eat beans with most meals. • 11 jun, 1:38 p.m.
Hulu - The Colbert Report - Full Episodes streaming online for free • I can watch The Colbert Report for free? I really never need to get cable. • 10 jun, 11:24 p.m.
Finding the Hits, Avoiding the Errors - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com • The Georgia Dog is SO GOOD! • 09 jun, 4:33 p.m.
Skitch.com > zellyn > russia iphone • Made us all laugh out loud in the office. • 09 jun, 2:54 p.m.
My Butt Hurts T-Shirt | Snorg Tees • How did I miss this closer to…uh…Easter? Laughed out loud. • 08 jun, 6:02 p.m.
On the subject of hand dryers (a hot popular topic,… (kottke.org) • Emma and I are big fans of the XLERATOR. • 06 jun, 4:56 p.m.
‘Top Chef’ Contestant Lisa Fernandes Hates Your Poor Blogger Ass | Serious Eats : Required Eating • “I don’t want to know what people who can’t even afford to eat in my restaurant, let alone know how to cook have to say about me…” Oh no! I’m poor! I don’t know how to prepare food! • 06 jun, 12:41 p.m.
YouTube - Red Sox/Rays Brawl • And here’s a video for you. Hilarious. • 06 jun, 10:03 a.m.
Ramirez homers, argues with teammate in Red Sox win - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • What, is this hockey now? A “bench-clearing brawl”? Check out these photos. • 05 jun, 11:17 p.m.
Man Scales Times Building and Is Arrested - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog • Hey, got my attention. • 05 jun, 5:08 p.m.
Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS - (37signals) • Additional agreement. YMMV. • 05 jun, 3:37 p.m.
Baseball Fan Discovers Awesome Baseball-Themed Website Called MLB.com | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source • “Keltner said that an additional search for other baseball-themed sites yielded only something called ESPN.com, which he described as a website about advertising.” • 04 jun, 11:46 p.m.
How to Build a Better Content Model for Your Site: Understanding News Consumption Patterns • “Consumers are weighed down by information overload and unsatisfying news experiences. As a result, some people are gravitating towards satirical news sources which can spin news in an attractive way.” Colbert? The Onion? • 04 jun, 11:38 p.m.
The 10 Most Worthless College Majors • “Reason being, communications is the major for anyone who wants to graduate, but doesn’t want to stop getting totally wasted on weekdays.” • 04 jun, 5:09 p.m.
Why we skip Photoshop - (37signals) • “Photoshop is repeating yourself. Ok, so you’ve spent 3 days on a mockup in Photoshop. Now what? Now I have to make it all over again in HTML/CSS. Wasted time.” • 03 jun, 3:29 p.m.
The Official Site of The Atlanta Braves: News: McCann sticks out in voting fans’ minds • Don’t worry McCann, I voted for you like 24580734 times last night. • 03 jun, 1:25 p.m.
YouTube - PHANTOM PLANET: Recording ‘Leader’ with Special Guests • They sound better on the album. • 01 jun, 11:17 p.m.
Manny Ramirez catches, high fives, and turns two to end the inning for the Sox - The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Multimedia: Video Playback Page • Manny, you are a nutball. • 01 jun, 7:41 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Words Never Used in the Titles of Remotely Good Films. • Ninja • 30 may, 1:09 p.m.
Leah Culver » Announcing OEmbed - An Open Standard for Embedded Content • Looks cool to me. • 29 may, 11:24 p.m.
someecards.com | Let’s celebrate female friendship by seeing Sex and the City and ripping those bitchy sluts to shreds • Oh, if only I had some female friends. • 29 may, 6:05 p.m.
Indigo by Clarks Hydrangea - Zappos • Friends, I ended up ordering these. I placed my order this morning, they shipped this afternoon, and I should receive them tomorrow. Incredible. And with Zappos’ awesome returns, I’m not worried if I don’t like them. • 29 may, 5:55 p.m.
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code • This is pretty great. I switched my site over to jQuery via Google this evening. • 27 may, 10:35 p.m.
qualitycontrol.muxtape.com • Oh, you had me at King Missile. I never, never find Muxtapes where I can actually listen to all of the songs! • 27 may, 3:54 p.m.
Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap - NYTimes.com • I have three words for you: not worth it. • 27 may, 10:53 a.m.
Link by Link - This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix - NYTimes.com • Nice (but short) profile of xkcd.com and its creator, Randall Munroe. • 26 may, 11:49 p.m.
Braves activate Carlyle from DL - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • And Chris Resop was designated for assignment. This makes my day. It’s even better than our win this afternoon. • 26 may, 5:17 p.m.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web users ‘getting more selfish’ • And this is why your splash page is a stupid idea, idiot. • 25 may, 1:11 a.m.
Gallery | Francoeur lifts Braves past Diamondbacks | ajc.com • This was just incredible to be there for — one of the many special moments I have experienced/will experience this year. I’m pretty sure regardless of what we do next year or what the postseason brings, we’ll always remember 2008. • 25 may, 12:43 a.m.
WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN • “WHEN TWITTER IS DOWN, ADDRESS ALL COMPLAINTS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THINGS YOU DON’T PAY FOR, YOU ENTITLED CRYBABY.” • 23 may, 2:40 p.m.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Some Thoughts on Twitter’s Availability Problems • Was thinking Twitter should limit the number of people you can follow, which would be problematic for spammers and Robert Scoble, neither of which I care about. Now I realize that won’t really help. • 23 may, 10:21 a.m.
Cover Story - Emily Gould - Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential - Gawker - NYTimes.com • The one good thing that came of this article is I watched a clip from the referenced episode of Larry King Live and saw how good of a fill-in host Jimmy Kimmel can be! On the flip side, this shows how well Dooce handles the “overshare.” • 22 may, 10:49 p.m.
Coding Horror: PHP Sucks, But It Doesn’t Matter • Does PHP suck? Of course it sucks… It’s a galactic supernova of incomprehensibly colossal, mind-bendingly awful suck. • 21 may, 9:47 a.m.
Francoeur not in starting lineup - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • It ended his streak of 370 consecutive games. I kept expecting Bobby to sub him in, but it never happened. He did put Kotsay in. • 21 may, 12:27 a.m.
ESPN - Royals vs. Red Sox - Recap - May 19, 2008 • Well, he beat cancer. I’m pretty sure the Royals were a breeze after that for Jon Lester. • 20 may, 9:06 a.m.
Mirror’d API - Ma.gnolia Community Wiki • WHOA, Ma.gnolia has an API that mirrors the functionality of the del.icio.us API. SOLD. • 19 may, 6:54 p.m.
YouTube - Interpretation of a Fallout Boy Song • I think “I’m just a notch in your bedpost / But you’re just a line in a song” is pretty easy to pick out, but YES on “Luleelehura.” Warning: YouTube says this video is not safe for minors. • 19 may, 11:30 a.m.
25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits” ~ Authentic Boredom • Destined to shoot straight to the top of del.icio.us/popular. • 19 may, 11:03 a.m.
Basic (Vegan) Chocolate Cupcake • These look like they could be good, although I must admit I am a bit iffy on the frosting. • 19 may, 9:50 a.m.
ABC News: Mommy Blogger: ‘Motherhood Is Awful’ • I’m not Heather Armstrong, but I thought the Nightline feature was very good — balanced and positive overall. $40K a month! Also, Jon says shmoopie! • 13 may, 11:56 p.m.
Apple - Trailers - Quarantine • Oh wait, I already saw this movie when it was called “Cloverfield.” • 13 may, 11:42 p.m.
Apple - Trailers - Jack and Jill Vs the World • Quite possibly the worst trailer I have ever seen. • 13 may, 11:37 p.m.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Good Advice From a Grand Theft Auto Dating FAQ. • “Fill the fun bar all the way to the top and keep it there for a few seconds to have a successful date.” • 13 may, 6:48 p.m.
The Most Awesome Ice Cube Tray Ever | Serious Eats : Required Eating • It’s true. • 13 may, 4:39 p.m.
Cook the Book: Falafel Crab Cakes | Serious Eats : Recipes • I would like to make this. • 12 may, 11:05 p.m.
I Can’t Believe It’s Vegan! • NIce roundup of things that are “accidentally vegan” from PETA. • 12 may, 6:44 p.m.
Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain • Such as Spam, the polio vaccine and both of Barack Obama’s parents. • 12 may, 1:54 p.m.
Coding Horror: XML: The Angle Bracket Tax • JSON FTW! • 12 may, 11:50 a.m.
Braves beat Padres in ninth inning - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • Finally, FINALLY, we win a one-run game. Pretty ugly for the Braves, but the Padres made a few errors and had to pay for them. • 08 may, 5:31 p.m.
Makin’ Music with John Mayer • “Having not been inspired since 2004…” Almost makes me want to like his new stuff. (via) • 07 may, 4:57 p.m.
Clinton fights on as focus turns to superdelegates - CNN.com • Way to Mike Huckabee it, Hillary! • 07 may, 4:48 p.m.
YouTube - Authors@Google: Michael Pollan • To watch. • 06 may, 11:23 p.m.
Pitchers who have struck out three batters on nine pitches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Buddy Carlyle appears to have been the most recent pitcher to do this, and against the Padres! • 06 may, 10:41 a.m.
The plight of the older sibling - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com • “That stricter parenting style often shapes the first-born kid into a play-by-the rules perfectionist…” • 05 may, 11:59 a.m.
Filly Eight Belles breaks down, is euthanized - More Sports - SI.com • This is incredibly sad. • 03 may, 11:15 p.m.
#7155 (dates() querysets don’t work after qsrf) - Django Code - Trac • Ohh…this just bit me. Problem is, it took me forever to identify what was going on. My investigative skills must be atrophying. • 03 may, 3:55 p.m.
Dollarshort: Wasted on the Young • Kinda funny. I have similar feelings about my youngest sister having Facebook, etc. for her high school years. • 01 may, 2:31 p.m.
Quinoa Cakes With Eggplant-Tomato Ragu And Smoked Mozzarella • I love the idea of a quinoa cake, but they sound incredibly fragile. • 01 may, 1:03 p.m.
Fan Survey - MLB - SI.com • Braves fans scored Fan IQ 20th. I can definitely vouch for that. Also, Braves fans are ridiculously negative, and it really gets to me. • 01 may, 9:15 a.m.
jQuery style chaining with the Django ORM • I used this as an example of why we should use jQuery as our JavaScript framework. (I won!) • 01 may, 9:04 a.m.
Facebook In Real Life is Today’s BIG Thing - APR 30, 2008 • Poke! Are you my friend? Confirm or ignore. • 30 apr, 2:16 p.m.
First pics of the Boston Apple Store - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) • Oh, Green Monster. That is awesome (via). • 29 apr, 11:31 p.m.
» This is How You Get sIFR to Work | Design Intellection • I tried sIFR once, ran into a roadblock and abandoned it since I simply didn’t feel like working through it at the time. (I know, I’m an inspiration.) Maybe I’ll try again. • 29 apr, 4:54 p.m.
Obituaries not available on dailygazette.com • Vote it up. (If you have a Digg account.) • 29 apr, 4:52 p.m.
Headius: The Rubyists are Wrong • “Check your favorite Ruby project. If they have a ruby in the logo, it’s probably a ‘brilliant’ cut. And I think that proves once and for all that we Rubyists aren’t as brilliant as we think.” • 29 apr, 2:12 p.m.
Media co. Cox eyes online ad growth, buys startup for $300M • Maybe I can go work for Adify. California? • 29 apr, 9:37 a.m.
3G IPhone Due on June 9, Analysts Say - Yahoo! News • I hope so. I’ve been holding out. • 25 apr, 3:41 p.m.
BlissfullyAware by Joshua Lane » Are You a Web Designer? • Yeah, I totally agree with this. I feel like there should be a good analogy here… Thoughts? • 24 apr, 11:23 p.m.
Clinton says she leads in popular vote - CNN.com • Al Gore also led the popular vote. Way to get another Republican elected, democrats! Even I’m over you. • 24 apr, 11:14 a.m.
White-Collar Redneck: The Post to End My Social Life • “Keep in mind my parents are addicted to grandchildren. I am pretty sure they freebase grandkids on the weekends.” Oh, I laughed. • 23 apr, 1:01 p.m.
A recent study of 740 first-time pregnant mothers in the UK… (kottke.org) • Wow, I am going to have to eat a lot of calories when I conceive. At least I’ll be able to eat cereal. • 23 apr, 11:20 a.m.
Google Expands Search API Beyond Javascript | Compiler from Wired.com • Yeah, I’ll stick with the Yahoo! search API for now. (It’s not perfect yet because the new site doesn’t seem to have been fully indexed.) Here’s how I did it. • 23 apr, 10:59 a.m.
Etsy :: nervoussystem :: SALE Radiolaria Necklace (white) • Wow, that is beautiful (via). • 23 apr, 10:10 a.m.
Phantom Planet: Raise The Dead (2008): Reviews • Finally, some reviews by people who have actually heard some Phantom Planet besides “California.” I love this album. • 22 apr, 4:52 p.m.
Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco? - (37signals) • So, at first I thought this was going to be a nice thing about how you can start a successful web business from anywhere in the world. But San Fran, toxic? Not sure about that. • 22 apr, 4:07 p.m.
Bottle Maker to Stop Using Plastic Linked to Health Concerns - New York Times • Yes, but does my knockoff Nalgene bottle have the chemical? • 19 apr, 11:20 a.m.
Changing Speeds to Go the Distance - New York Times • I did intervals yesterday, and it hurts today. • 18 apr, 11:33 a.m.
Braves reliever Moylan may be out for year with elbow injury - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • NOOOOO! Peter Moylan is my favorite Australian sidearmer. • 17 apr, 6:27 p.m.
Family Recipes, Passed Down From One Site to Another - New York Times • See, this is funny, because I actually forwarded that passion fruit mousse recipe to Shaun (as a joke). Farfallegate! • 16 apr, 10:44 p.m.
Tennessee Edu » CSS Mania • One of the last things I had a hand in at my old job is making the rounds on CSS sites. Weird, because it’s not new! • 16 apr, 3:32 p.m.
Bill Clinton Suggests Young Voters Too Easily Fooled - Politics on The Huffington Post • I’ve got to agree that the Clintons’ plan to marginalize anyone who won’t vote for Hillary is disappointing. • 16 apr, 1:11 p.m.
This timelapse video of man trapped in an elevator for… (kottke.org) • Covered elsewhere, but I liked Kottke’s summary. Really unfortunate and remarkable story. • 16 apr, 1:10 p.m.
Scientists May Have Found Titanic’s Weak Link - New York Times • Okay, rivets is a funny word to read over and over, kind of like Web 2.0 widgets. • 14 apr, 4:38 p.m.
WebFaction Forum / Django request.META • Oh good! I thought I was just an idiot. Turns out I need the SetRemoteAddrFromForwardedFor middleware. • 14 apr, 1:20 p.m.
YouTube - End Petlessness • The music in this ad is by Laura Gibson, who completely adorably opened for Colin Meloy last night. • 11 apr, 12:15 p.m.
A New Design and More | Blue Flavor • Incredibly different, in an incredibly great way. (Built with Django?) • 10 apr, 6:38 p.m.
Let’s See How Funny This Is in 25 Years on Flickr - Photo Sharing! • I laughed out loud. • 10 apr, 3:21 p.m.
Recipe of the Day: Crabby Crab Cakes - Bitten - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog • I love crab cakes. • 10 apr, 11:32 a.m.
Tweet Clouds - minarets • I just talk to Shaun a lot. • 09 apr, 1:48 p.m.
A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards • Part 2 of A List Apart’s EveryBlock addition. • 08 apr, 8:41 a.m.
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps • Because using Google Maps is so 2007. • 08 apr, 8:39 a.m.
Beautiful apartment next door to Piedmont Park • Wow. *Drool.* No one rent this, we want it! • 07 apr, 12:45 p.m.
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times • Blogging may be hazardous to your health! • 07 apr, 9:50 a.m.
If a Programming Language Was a Boat, What Boat Would it Be? | Compiler from Wired.com • “Python would be a catamaran. Light and functional, with conspicuous spacing.” • 04 apr, 4:02 p.m.
Ice Cream That’s Out of This World | Serious Eats : Required Eating • There’s some childhood memories. • 04 apr, 12 p.m.
ESPN - Pirates vs. Braves - Photos - April 03, 2008 • An “unruly fan” ran onto the field last night. The grass was wet and slippery, so it made for quite a spectacle. • 04 apr, 11:21 a.m.
11Alive.com - Squirrel Knocks Out Power in Midtown • So it turns out my morning power outage was caused by a squirrel. And he died. :-( • 03 apr, 2:29 p.m.
Red Pepper Hummus Recipe - MyRecipes.com • This was just delightful. I’d recommend doubling the spices, though. Is there anything more wonderful than roasted red peppers? • 02 apr, 11:56 p.m.
37signals Product Blog: [Basecamp] New Feature Preview: Replying to messages via email • Holy crap, FINALLY! • 01 apr, 1:30 p.m.
Students Apparently Copied Honor Code | ajc.com • This is hilariously meta. • 31 mar, 3:15 p.m.
Life in the ‘Burbs: Heavy Costs for Families, Climate : NPR • Luckily, I am not an average Atlantan. • 31 mar, 10:40 a.m.
ESPN - Unsung Braves built for October glory - MLB • I’d actually prefer no one was saying things like this, but, I loved the title on the ESPN main: “Brave decision.” • 30 mar, 8:33 p.m.
Section 435 – A Braves blog. From the upper deck at Turner Field. • My man made a new blog. Go Braves! • 29 mar, 8:44 p.m.
Coding Horror: I {entity} Unicode • I laughed. • 27 mar, 2:04 p.m.
Increases in the National Debt • Oh man, I miss Billy. • 27 mar, 9:29 a.m.
Phone Guy - Solid State on Vimeo • I thought about making a website in homage to how hilarious Merlin Mann is, then I realized he has plenty of his own. • 26 mar, 11 p.m.
Expired-Tired-Wired • Django is wired. I actually think this is a bad sign, like Django is going to jump the shark. • 26 mar, 3:18 p.m.
Is There a Really Good Registrar? | Compiler from Wired.com • I’m curious about the outcome of this. • 26 mar, 1:52 p.m.
Chuck’s heightened sense of AWESOME! | dooce ® • Ha, what a great story! • 25 mar, 8:04 p.m.
Original Hoo-Mee Chow Mein Mix on Flickr - Photo Sharing! • I got a box in my Easter basket and made it last night. • 25 mar, 1:31 p.m.
Will This Judd Apatow Movie Be Any Good? Vulture Does the Math — Vulture — Entertainment & Culture Blog — New York Magazine • I like when movies are quantified, like on Metacritic. • 24 mar, 1:57 p.m.
Fliggo - The Sad Truth About Relationships • Shaun, I promise not to do this to you. Except the part about doggies. And we’d use our grill all the time. • 19 mar, 9 p.m.
Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source • “According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.” • 19 mar, 6:06 p.m.
Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martin Headsets” [dive into mark] • “Hi, I’m Web Developer Barbie. Pull my string and I say, ‘Standards are tough! Let’s go shopping!’” • 18 mar, 4:30 p.m.
#6822 (date_based.archive_index should append _list to template_object_name) - Django Code - Trac • Filing tickets. • 18 mar, 4:26 p.m.
Chamblee: Kung fu pose leads to man’s capture | ajc.com • Although this story has a terrible headline, it has a wonderful ending. • 18 mar, 4:07 p.m.
Twitter / Merlin Mann: “Every time you treat Twitt… • Oh yes. If you’re telling me about your new blog post via Twitter, I hate you. • 18 mar, 8:46 a.m.
Jenn + John - our labor of love - the blog • Came across some photos of my landlords’ wedding. This is the second time this week I have come across acquaintances’ wedding photos on photographer blogs. *Not stalking.* • 17 mar, 6:41 p.m.
Amazing Black Bean Brownies Recipe - 101 Cookbooks • Count me intrigued. • 17 mar, 2:29 p.m.
Police to Atlantans: If you can, ‘stay out of the city’ - CNN.com • Oops, I’m already here. • 17 mar, 9:09 a.m.
Lasik Surgery: When the Fine Print Applies to You - New York Times • I can’t even get through an article about Lasik without being uncomfortable. I’m pretty sure I’ll never have it. • 16 mar, 6:32 p.m.
Down for everyone or just me? • Super-useful website. • 14 mar, 9:39 a.m.
Obama St. Patrick’s Day Button - 2-1/4” • OMG I want! • 13 mar, 1:45 p.m.
Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs • Nice design. • 13 mar, 7:58 a.m.
All code will eventually go stale - (37signals) • Today, I added a note in my code letting my future self know I had thought it through and should think twice about changing it in the future. • 12 mar, 3:39 p.m.
Twitter / Merlin Mann: We should thank newspapers … • Merlin Mann is my hero. • 11 mar, 10:59 a.m.
Vatican official lists new sins: drugs, pollution, DNA manipulation | ajc.com • Drug use wasn’t already a sin? Crap! I missed my chance. • 10 mar, 1:48 p.m.
Obsolete Skills: Main/Home Page • Such as “using a slide rule.” • 10 mar, 1:28 p.m.
Javascript Regular Expression Validator | Regular Expressions Library and Testing Tool • Simple. Useful. • 10 mar, 11:01 a.m.
Girl seen in Clinton’s ‘3 a.m.’ ad supports Obama - CNN.com • That is hilarious. • 10 mar, 8:43 a.m.
Matryoshkus set of six traditional Russian dolls • Nerdy! I love it. • 07 mar, 4:34 p.m.
Ties still bind Braves, Renteria | ajc.com • I miss you, Edgar! • 05 mar, 11:58 a.m.
SI.com - NFL - Favre to retire after 17 seasons - Tuesday March 4, 2008 10:13AM • No way! • 04 mar, 10:57 a.m.
My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) - New York Times • The farm bill blows. What else is new? • 03 mar, 6:54 p.m.
1718 NEELY AVENUE, EAST POINT 30344 - Georgia Multiple Listing Service • Love the kitchen and the alcove in the master bedroom. Also I love (!) staircases in the kitchen. • 03 mar, 6:31 p.m.
707 WOODSON STREET, ATLANTA 30315 - Georgia Multiple Listing Service • Quite possibly the ugliest exterior I have ever seen. • 02 mar, 11:56 p.m.
django-syncr - Google Code • Syncs Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube. • 02 mar, 7:48 p.m.
Twitter / John Gruber: Except for uptime, consiste… • Amen. But we all keep using it, so who’s laughing last? • 28 feb, 7:21 p.m.
YouTube - He’s F*cking Ben Affleck • OMG McLovin! I had tears in my eyes (from laughing). • 27 feb, 3:49 p.m.
The Audacity of Hopelessness - New York Times • “This must be the first presidential candidate in history to devote so much energy to preaching against optimism, against inspiring language and — talk about bizarre — against democracy itself.” • 27 feb, 2:44 p.m.
Shall we play a game? (kottke.org) • Aww. • 27 feb, 2:42 p.m.
LJWorld.com / Crimes reported in KU residence halls • A visualization of campus crime at KU. Very nice work by Richie, even though he doesn’t like me. Also nice work by JAMES!!! • 27 feb, 12:58 p.m.
How it Works - xkcd • This is exactly what I am talking about. • 27 feb, 11:46 a.m.
YouTube - Barack Obama Letterman Top 10 • “Appoint Mitt Romney secretary of lookin’ good.” • 27 feb, 11:30 a.m.
Survey: Americans switching faiths, dropping out - CNN.com • I have a “dropping confidence in organized religion.” • 25 feb, 5 p.m.
Liveblogging the Oscars (kottke.org) • Funny. Similar to my night except for the American Apparel tshirt. • 25 feb, 11:16 a.m.
Chez Pazienza: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career) - Media on The Huffington Post • All of us MSM-ers are toast! Thanks, CNN. • 23 feb, 4:06 p.m.
Google Static Maps API - Google Code • Welcome to my Friday. • 22 feb, 3:39 p.m.
jacobian.org : Sailing on… • !!! • 21 feb, 6:20 p.m.
Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location - New York Times • Ah, the underused semicolon. • 19 feb, 1:14 p.m.
Apple - iPod shuffle • $50!!! Must have! • 19 feb, 10:12 a.m.
Stuff White People Like • It’s funny, because it’s true. • 19 feb, 10:12 a.m.
‘Trade’ to Japan leaves Kendrick in shock - Sports Rumors - MLB - Yahoo! Sports • Hilarious, but you had to really feel for the guy with his life just turned upside down! • 18 feb, 12:30 p.m.
IKEA | Tables & desks | Dining tables | ANTNÄS | Table and 4 chairs • Saw this last night. Now I want it. • 17 feb, 8:27 p.m.
Watch the spy satellite before it’s shot down | ajc.com • “Look, in the sky, it’s a spy!” • 16 feb, 10:08 p.m.
Hand-wringing About American Culture - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? - New York Times • I feel like a genius. • 15 feb, 3:49 p.m.
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle • “Barack Obama followed you on Twitter.” • 14 feb, 11:43 p.m.
Heads up, ladies: Cupid’s condo is back on the market | ajc.com • I want! • 13 feb, 9:44 p.m.
PandoraJam • Really nice. • 13 feb, 4:26 p.m.
Beagle, a Breed Long Unsung, Wins Best in Show - New York Times • Uno is so cute! • 13 feb, 12:43 p.m.
How popular is Django ? - Django users | Google Groups • “Yesterday, Django took my lunch money.” • 13 feb, 8:52 a.m.
Yahoo to reject Microsoft bid - source - Feb. 9, 2008 • Please be true!!! • 09 feb, 3:52 p.m.
Shauns - Atlanta, GA, 30307-2543 - Citysearch • Really want to go here. Meredith Ford loves it. • 08 feb, 5:28 p.m.
Caucusing Is Easy - News - 2008 Election - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper • Illuminating. • 08 feb, 5:11 p.m.
Georgia claims stake to Tennessee water | ajc.com • Oh crap, we’re going to war with Tennessee. • 06 feb, 8:42 a.m.
User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) • Users are still idiots. Shame about the home link. • 04 feb, 11:14 p.m.
Manning Keeps Cool, and Keeps a Drive Alive - New York Times • Leave it to the New York Times to infographic the superbowl. • 04 feb, 10:41 a.m.
LJWorld.com / What is your favorite board game? • “I’ll go with The Game of Life. It teaches you a lot of life lessons, like how to become a doctor without going to school.” • 04 feb, 9:44 a.m.
Bathumphone | GEORGIA NAMES | ajc.com • I feel like this must be alluding to circumstances surrounding conception, somehow. • 01 feb, 11:48 a.m.
Cynical-C shares some of the more interesting complaints received by… (kottke.org) • I think what’s more interesting is that The Family Guy just annoys the hell out of me. • 31 jan, 4:04 p.m.
Dip Once or Dip Twice? - New York Times • “The study, to be published later this year in the Journal of Food Safety, is the only one I’ve ever seen to proclaim that it was inspired by an episode of ‘Seinfeld.”’ • 30 jan, 3:04 p.m.
Forty: Phoenix web design, branding, public relations, and interactive marketing agency • What a great, straightforward agency website. Incredible. • 30 jan, 12:15 p.m.
stevenf.com: Trees Reviewed • Funny review of trees parodying tech reviews. • 30 jan, 10:02 a.m.
Maura | GEORGIA NAMES | ajc.com • That’s actually too many Mauras for my liking. And, what’s better than Maura? Maurajah! • 29 jan, 2:36 p.m.
Best Picture Showcase | AMC Theatres • Too bad I’ve seen all the nominees except for one. • 29 jan, 9:32 a.m.
Sam Brown • Very nice how he differentiates categories in his tumblelog. • 25 jan, 1:23 p.m.
Pitchfork: Josh Grier Reveals All About New Tapes ‘n Tapes Album • Was listening to “Cowbell” when I found out. • 23 jan, 10:31 a.m.
Casual Francoeur home reflects couple’s unassuming style | ajchomefinder.com • Check out that bottle of two buck Chuck in their kitchen! • 23 jan, 8:51 a.m.
Django People • Nice but no OpenID support?! • 22 jan, 11:35 p.m.
Too Cold to Exercise? Try Another Excuse • Aww dammit. • 18 jan, 12:37 p.m.
OpenID Splash • Big Yahoo! adoption of OpenID. • 17 jan, 10:31 a.m.
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice. • “Comic Sans is illegal.” • 15 jan, 1:38 p.m.
YouTube - Terrell Owens Post Game Interview • Aww, TO needs huggles. • 14 jan, 10:36 a.m.
Cells, texting give predators secret path to kids - CNN.com • Right, blame the cell phones, not your lack of parenting. • 11 jan, 7:22 p.m.
Clear • Very nice one-page design. • 10 jan, 10:18 a.m.
The B-List: Web frameworks and web hosts • James’s reply. • 10 jan, 9:08 a.m.
The deal with shared hosts • DHH’s reply. • 10 jan, 9:08 a.m.
DreamHost Blog » How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better • *whine* Deploying Rails isn’t a walk in the park, but I actually agree with DHH on this one. • 10 jan, 9:05 a.m.
Urban Mapping Gives Us Free Neighborhoods • I’m going to play with this. • 09 jan, 11:04 a.m.
Apple - Support - Discussions - Safari 3.0.4 forgetting my cookies … • Also happening to me. • 07 jan, 1:50 p.m.
Defying Classification: Django Tip: Complex Forms • This is sorta kinda like something I did for work. • 06 jan, 9:48 p.m.
Caramelized Onion-Cranberry-Cream Cheese Bites Recipe - MyRecipes.com • Looks delicious. • 06 jan, 9:21 p.m.
Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games • Incredibly fascinating article. • 06 jan, 5:10 p.m.
Anthropologie.com > Maura Dress • I would TOTALLY wear that dress! • 05 jan, 2:41 p.m.
ThinkGeek :: SnūzNLūz - Wifi Donation Alarm Clock • Hilarious…although I’d donate to charities I liked, because I’d definitely be hitting the snooze button. • 04 jan, 12:10 p.m.
ESPN - Nashville Predators Local News - ESPN Local • I probably shouldn’t be considered a reliable source of Nashville Predators news. • 02 jan, 7:56 p.m.
Local Weather conditions and weather forecasts for US and international weather - SimpleWeather.com • Sold. • 02 jan, 2:45 p.m.
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