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@imolta Non-profits are welcome to use Kickstarter, like this one launched yesterday: [ http]
- 7/28, 11pm
from web
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@billder You're on to us. Panic's secretly writing a Kickstarter client for OS X with Twitter integration.
- 7/27, 3pm
from Tweetie
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@sweetums Both were created by the same (now banned) Bit.ly user and each had about ten clicks.
- 7/23, 5pm
from Tweetie
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RIP Les Lye, the comic legend who played Barth, Ross, El Capitano, and every other adult male character on You Can't Do That On Television.
- 7/22, 9pm
from web
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Like in NYC, I've found Parisians to be very warm and friendly. The stereotypes are way off.
- 7/6, 1am
from web
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Surfing the web on the Metro North from NYC to the family reunion in New Haven. iPhone tethering is the best thing ever.
- 6/20, 6am
from web
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@flyddw Layar, augmented reality for Android. Now that iPhone 3G S got a compass, it should get something similar soon: [ http]
- 6/19, 6pm
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Our neighbor has a Clerodendrum plant in his yard, which smells just like peanut butter when you rub the leaves. Now he needs a jelly bush.
- 6/17, 10am
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Appearing on TWiT's net@night show in a few minutes with @ambermac and @leolaporte. Watch it live! [ http]
- 6/16, 4pm
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The night before, dreamt Bill Gates mocked my Perl code for using two conditionals to do an exclusive-OR instead of the 'xor' operator.
- 6/15, 1pm
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Very excited for @dooce & @blurb and @ethank & @amyhabkap, who are both in labor right at this moment!
- 6/13, 11pm
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This Russian site hotlinked 14 of my Meme Scenery pics, with no credit or link. What should I replace their images with? [ http]
- 6/13, 9pm
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Texting while driving is completely pervasive in L.A. now, even at 70mph on the freeway, which I've never seen in PDX.
- 6/10, 10am
from Tweetie
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Eliot's singing Parry Gripp's "Nom Nom Nom" song while eating edamame. Cute meter is pegged to 11. [ http]
- 5/27, 11am
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@Spacehog Sure, I'm already shipping several overseas.
- 5/12, 3pm
from web
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Yay, Kickstarter launched! If anyone has a project idea, lemme know and I'll get you a creator invite: [ http]
- 4/28, 2pm
from web
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@jdowdell Very sad. Network Solutions doesn't allow renewals from third parties, so I'd try to contact his widow or call NetSol directly.
- 4/21, 3pm
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I love the cascade created by accidental tweets, and then the fun of yanking it off Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, and who knows where else.
- 4/21, 12pm
from web
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I'm a bit obsessed with watching 4chan attempt to beat @aplusk and @cnnbrk to 1M followers. Follow along here: [ http]
- 4/16, 11am
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@tedder42 Thanks for the tip on the broken Flickr links of tiny sitcom sets. The creator sadly privatized all the large-size photos.
- 4/8, 5pm
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By my request, someone on YouTube uploaded "Oo De Lally" in Hebrew, the only version I was missing. I love the Internet. [ http]
- 4/7, 8am
from web
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Taking advantage of Fake Spring while we can, sipping cool drinks at the Bye & Bye.
- 4/5, 5pm
from TwitterFon
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Whew. A very productive coding day, thanks to loud music and SelfControl: [ http]
- 4/1, 6pm
from web
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Looking for the Where The Wild Things Are trailer? Apple just posted it in glorious HD: [ http]
- 3/25, 11am
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NetShare, Proxifier, and a 3G iPhone are a sweet little combo. I'm never paying for airport wifi again.
- 3/18, 12pm
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Are the best talks always on the last day? The speakers on the Copyright Trainwreck panel are great.
- 3/17, 1pm
from TwitterFon
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We're making a pilgrimage to Rudy's, my favorite BBQ in Austin, but need cars. If you can drive or love BBQ, meet at the Legos at 12:45!
- 3/16, 10am
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@genmon I promise to shut up about SXSW in about three days. (For a year, anyway.)
- 3/15, 7am
from mobile web
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Drinks with Frontalot, R. Stevens, Rands and Gruber, and ran into Jonathan Coulton, Merlin, and @lonelysandwich on my way out. Only at SXSW!
- 3/14, 10pm
from web
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En route to dinner with The Deck posse -- Coudal, Zeldman, Gruber, Storey, and other people with last names.
- 3/14, 4pm
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They're making me choose between seeing John Gruber/Merlin Mann or the creators of Braid/World of Goo/fl0w!? No fair.
- 3/14, 1pm
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@paulycus I tried to interview Kutiman, but his manager says he's shy. Interviewing the sources is a good idea, though!
- 3/12, 10am
from web
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The New York Times asked me to rework my Economist article for today's paper! My first byline in a national newspaper: [ http]
- 3/2, 8am
from web
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Any native Chinese speakers want to help me translate a little text for an upcoming Waxy post? Get in touch.
- 2/25, 3pm
from web
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Just discovered iLike stores passwords in plaintext, after doing a password reminder. Ask Reddit why that's a bad idea: [ http]
- 2/18, 10am
from web
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Neat, I was on American Public Media's Future Tense radio show talking about Oscar screener piracy. MP3 here: [ http]
- 1/31, 12pm
from web
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@jonathancoulton, @paulandstorm, and @molly23 were magical. They even made it snow.
- 1/25, 12am
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Funny, my Oscar piracy article is now the #5 search result for "2009 Oscars" and #35 for just "Oscars." Google likes me.
- 1/24, 11am
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Out of 26 nominated feature films, all but 3 were leaked online in DVD quality! My Oscar piracy data, updated for 2009: [ http]
- 1/22, 2pm
from web
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En route to Townshend's on Alberta to cowork with @adamd, feel free to join us.
- 1/21, 2pm
from TwitterFon
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Watching Obama sworn in at @rael and @parenthacks party, with a roomful of kids. Congrats, world!
- 1/20, 9am
from TwitterFon
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It's morning again in America and, this time, it's real.
- 1/20, 7am
from web
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Twitter's texting me multiple copies of a single direct message, about one SMS per minute. Eight so far, when will it stop?
- 1/19, 3pm
from web
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It's official... I'm a judge at Masterbacon, the bacon conference in Portland this Saturday. I hope my vegan wife (and heart) forgives me.
- 1/15, 11am
from web
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I'm amazed at how much Etsy hates Polyvore. They only see theft, instead of the creative spirit and promotional value: [ http]
- 1/10, 2am
from web
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Interesting. The usually-kooky CAP Alert gave Wall-E a 95%, one of their highest ratings ever: [ http]
- 1/7, 7pm
from web
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Looks like I brought home an unwelcome souvenir from Disneyland -- a very painful stomach flu.
- 1/7, 8am
from web
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Rigged up a karaoke rig with my Macbook Pro, kJams, an HDTV, cheap mic and CD-G songs from Usenet. Now I just need enough booze to enjoy it.
- 12/31, 7pm
from TwitterFon
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A glorious lunch of Tan-Tan Men and boba at Ramenya with @gknauss, @getluky, @dintzner and @anthro.
- 12/30, 3pm
from TwitterFon
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Drinking Cabernale, a cabernet grape-infused beer, at Pure Luck in L.A. SoCal friends, I'm here until the 6th! Get in touch!
- 12/29, 8pm
from TwitterFon
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Eliot's doing his best pirate Santa in the backseat: "Yo Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!"
- 12/24, 11pm
from mobile web
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Mega Man 9 is very faithful to Mega Man 1, down to the urge to throw the console through my TV. Someone at Capcom is going to hell for this.
- 12/20, 6pm
from web
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Dotster lets anyone renew domains, so I dropped the $15 to bring KHAAAN.com back online. I can't live in a Shatner-less web.
- 12/17, 9am
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Khaaan.com, one of the oldest single-serving sites, expired a week ago and is about to be deleted! Anyone out there know who created it?
- 12/17, 12am
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Just found this in an old file called IDEAS.TXT from 2001: "User-driven concert calendar." I guess I can check that off the to-do list.
- 12/15, 6pm
from web
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It's snowing! For someone born and raised in Los Angeles, it might as well be raining cotton candy and gumdrops.
- 12/14, 9am
from web
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Just got spammed by Bill Cosby for his Oakland show next year. After sending me a cease-and-desist, they must've put me on the mailing list.
- 12/12, 11am
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Yahoo! -- "If you worked here, you'd be home by now."
- 12/10, 1pm
from web
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From a clue in a 1997 email, finally found the old college roommate I lost touch with in 2000. My Gmail archiving work just paid for itself.
- 12/8, 3pm
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After 14 years, switched my default homepage from Yahoo to iGoogle. I love Y! News, but now I can get it along with Reader, GCal, and Gmail.
- 11/26, 12pm
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Used SearchWiki to make Rotten Tomatoes the first result for "rotten" instead of Rotten.com, but it didn't affect I'm Feeling Lucky queries.
- 4pm
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My latest Mechanical Turk experiment, asking anonymous users to show their faces for money. Here's what MTurk looks like: [ http]
- yesterday, 2pm
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Up late exploring the new Google iPhone app, trying to reverse-engineer the voice recognition API. Anyone help? [ http]
- 11/18, 6am
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In a packed house for @jdroth's talk at the PDX Central Library.
- 11/15, 2pm
from mobile web
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Thanks, everyone! The best MyBO screenshots were in this blog post [(http]) and Flickr set [(http]).
- 11/11, 8pm
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Yes, we *did*.
- 11/4, 8pm
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Votes on Facebook are coming in at about 500k/hour. By 9pm, it should hit 5 million people, more than half of Facebook's daily visitors.
- 11/4, 2pm
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The college newspaper my mom advises just started streaming live for the first time with Ustream! Give 'em your love. [ http]
- 11/4, 1pm
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2.5M users have clicked the "I Voted" button on Facebook as of noon PST. That's 22% of the total 18-24 turnout in 2004. (Or 12% of 18-29.)
- 11/4, 11am
from web
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There's something very wrong about playing "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" in a toy store filled with little kids.
- 11/1, 1pm
from mobile web
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If you have an iPhone, go install RjDj Single (it's free), pop in your headphones, start it up, and go back to whatever you were doing.
- 10/27, 2pm
from web
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Ami rawked the SF Marathon yesterday. Celebrated with a day off the grid in Cambria.
- 10/21, 12pm
from mobile web
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Heading to San Francisco... My wife's running her first marathon on Sunday!
- 10/17, 7pm
from mobile web
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I'm tempted to tweet something offensive and alienating just to test Qwitter: [ http]
- 10/17, 9am
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Spent the last hour tracking down everyone who's ever mentioned the Frotzophone, and adding most of them to Google Reader.
- 10/15, 3am
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It's a little early, but I think World of Goo is my Game of the Year. Level 4 just blew my mind with a miniature meta-Internet.
- 10/12, 5pm
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World of Goo was released, and it's amazing! I pre-ordered back in February and it was well worth the wait.Trailer: [ http]
- 10/6, 9pm
from web
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Drinks with Matt Haughey and Adam Savage after the excellent Mythbusters show.
- 10/5, 7pm
from mobile web
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In the VP debate, Gwen Ifill said the word "also" twice and Joe Biden said it three times. Sarah Palin used it 47 times. Also, also, also!
- 10/3, 8pm
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Whoa, just found out my brother-in-law Todd won this week's Songfight in a landslide. Congrats! [ http]
- 10/2, 5pm
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Several people asked how I transcribed my phone interview (while I slept!) using Mechanical Turk. Here's my tutorial: [ http]
- 9/22, 5pm
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The director of the "Code Rush" documentary about Mozilla asked me to take it offline... but agreed to an interview! [ http]
- 9/19, 3pm
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Avast, bilge rats! Upcoming.org be turnin' five years old today! [ http]
- 9/19, 9am
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Again, I'm floored by Mechanical Turk. I just had a 40-minute interview transcribed in four hours for $15 while I slept, and with no errors.
- 9/18, 8am
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@CliffSpence G4 rents a small studio at KATU on an as-needed basis, point a camera at you, and let it rip. The whole thing took a half hour.
- 9/17, 5pm
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Oddpost cofounder Ethan Diamond launched his startup last night and gave me exclusive access. Take that, Techcrunch! [ http]
- 9/17, 8am
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Cheese alert! Here's Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows in "Computability," an obscure 1984 computer video I ripped from VHS: [ http]
- 9/15, 4pm
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Just got an advance of the new John Hodgman book in the mail, due out next month. It's like I can READ into the FUTURE!
- 9/15, 2pm
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A 10-year-old girl just asked my wife if she goes to her school. That's even better than being carded!
- 9/14, 5pm
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Watching the Charlie Gibson interview with Sarah Palin *after* watching the film Idiocracy is seriously freaking me out.
- 9/12, 10pm
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Yes, I'd love to talk in your SXSW Interactive session. (And yes, I'm using you to get a free pass.) Get in touch!
- 9/11, 11am
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I used Amazon Mechanical Turk to dig into Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" album. Girl Turk! [ http]
- 9/10, 6pm
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Ami's reading the I Can Haz Cheezburger book to Eliot, bringing lots of giggles. 4-year-olds are the perfect audience for a book on LOLCats.
- 9/9, 4pm
from web
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Yes, please ignore the ground noise and the static.
- 9/4, 7pm
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I love how Google Chrome has virtually no chrome at all.
- 9/2, 2pm
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Friday, zipline the North Shore. Saturday, cliff diving over a waterfall. Sunday, snorkel at Ke'e Beach. Today, caught up in Google Reader!
- 8/19, 3am
from web
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Drinking an horchata espresso (!) and watching live jazz under the full Hawaiian moon.
- 8/15, 11pm
from Twinkle
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Finally able to submit my Mechanical Turk job. In the first minute, there were six answers from three people... every one correct.
- 8/7, 1pm
from web
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@mat honan is my new bicycle. Congrats on the book release! [ http]
- 8/6, 6pm
from web
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Killer, the new Aurora video features Upcoming heavily and has a cameo by the G-Man from Half-Life: [ http]
- 8/6, 10am
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I have a 372.7 upload ratio on "The Machine That Changed the World" torrent that I'm seeding locally. Over a terabyte served so far.
- 8/1, 5pm
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We're having a Pee & Poo Party at our house today! (Celebrating Eliot's potty-training, of course. Get your head out of the gutter, people.)
- 7/31, 12pm
from web
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Chatting with @getluky about the quake: "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I was in the shower and felt like I had too much coffee."
- 7/29, 12pm
from web
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Just learned that Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) voiced all the mutants in I Am Legend. [ http]
- 7/24, 4pm
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Dinner and drinks at the Bye & Bye with a ragtag group of OSCON geeks
- 7/23, 10pm
from mobile web
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Just saw Dark Knight at the Gotham River AMC. Everyone was going nuts with every shot of Chicago.
- 7/18, 3pm
from mobile web
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Free Pitchfork preview show with Extra Golden and Fleet Foxes show in Millennium Park.
- 7/17, 6pm
from txt
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Riding the 'L' through downtown Chicago after eating a Vienna dog. Chi-town cliches, ahoy!
- 7/17, 1pm
from mobile web
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Watching The Pixar Story and floored by the access Leslie Iwerks was given. Rare footage, home movies, and interviews with all key players.
- 7/15, 12am
from web
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Thrilled that Devo's "Uncontrollable Urge," Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up," and Journey's "Any Way You Want It" will be in Rock Band 2.
- 7/14, 3pm
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I'm sad to miss Foo Camp this year, but after going to the first five, I can't complain. (Besides, the werewolves need fresh blood!)
- 7/11, 11pm
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Has anyone seen a list of newly-released apps on App Store? Ideally as an RSS feed?
- 7/11, 9am
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Just noticed all the download counts were removed from App Store, shortly after @gruber posted his analysis: [ http]
- 7/10, 10pm
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Listening to random voicemail messages on SayNow.com left by diehard fans. Weirdly voyeuristic.
- 7/9, 4pm
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Working on a silly little project at our local Italian bistro. This tweet brought to you by slow-roasted pork and strawberry lemonade.
- 7/8, 1pm
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Drunk hippie watching fireworks: "It's like a cigarette stubbed out my eye, man!"
- 7/4, 10pm
from mobile web
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PDX takes the 4th seriously. Block parties everywhere, many with massive fireworks displays. Very fun.
- 7/4, 10pm
from mobile web
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In a totally avoidable act of idiocy, showed up at 8pm for my 7:30pm flight. I still made it, in a sweaty nervous mess.
- 7/3, 5pm
from mobile web
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Hanging out in Union Square. NYC Lazyweb, gimme something to do!
- 7/2, 7pm
from mobile web
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Just landed at JFK. Couldn't sleep at all, but I did beat Professor Layton.
- 7/1, 5am
from mobile web
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Drinking Blue Frog Hefe, Sheaf Stout and La Fin du Monde on June Lake. [this is good]
- 6/24, 4pm
from txt
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Stewardess, upon arriving in Reno: "Please refrain from smoking for the rest of your life... Or until you reach a designated smoking area."
- 6/23, 3pm
from web
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I can't believe I stayed up until 4am beating a game called "Puzzle Farter."
- 6/22, 4am
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I'm such a big fan of Boston.com's Big Picture blog that I tracked down Alan Taylor and interviewed him about it: [ http]
- 6/20, 8pm
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In honor of Firefox Download Day, I posted "Code Rush," the killer 2000 documentary about the first Mozilla release: [ http]
- 6/17, 2pm
from web
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Ice cream and ghost-hunting at the Rimsky-Korsakoffee House
- 6/16, 9pm
from web
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Eliot's obsessed with playing Pac-Man on our TV. It's like watching myself in 1982.
- 6/12, 9am
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Phew, posted the last two parts of the computer history documentary and the torrent of all 5 videos in a 3.1GB download: [ http]
- 6/7, 1am
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Just posted part 3 of the computing history documentary, covering the history of the GUI, from Sketchpad to the Mac: [ http]
- 6/6, 12pm
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Just posted part two of the computer documentary, covering the '50s and '60s. Porky Pig and Donald Duck use a UNIVAC: [ http]
- 6/3, 8pm
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@NuclearStr1der I love YouTube, but the videos I'm uploading to Google Video are an hour long. YouTube's capped at ten minutes.
- 5/31, 7pm
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@voyagerfan5761 I used Microsoft Excel for all the charts. It takes work to make them look nice, but it's possible.
- 5/21, 11pm
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Revisiting the original server logs from the Star Wars Kid meme, five years later.
- 5/20, 4pm
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In other news, Garry Kasparov was griefed in real-life by a flying penis. [ http]
- 5/19, 12pm
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Just bought Everyday Shooter on Steam for $8.99, cheap! [ http]
- 5/17, 4pm
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@bokardo The biggest one-hit wonder of all-time is (probably) Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" from 2006. I posted some others in an update.
- 5/17, 3am
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Posted part 2 of my Billboard chart analysis, this time looking at one-hit wonders and the longevity of pop songs: [ http]
- 5/17, 2am
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Up way too late trying to plot 24,000 songs with Processing. Giving up for the night.
- 5/16, 4am
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Just read that CBS bought the tv.com and news.com domains for $900M each. The current owners even tossed in a videogame/food site for free.
- 5/15, 12pm
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I just unfollowed ten of my chattiest friends on Twitter. I still love you, but you were Scoble-ing out everyone else I know.
- 5/14, 8am
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