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AWS FACE - because the cloud should really be in a cloud. maybe the only amusing thing we'll see on 4/1 this year?

the oakland tribune covered san francisco's first baconcamp, including a photo of me judging some bacon-wrapped dates on the front page of the timeout section

i think this time travel rts (demoed at GDC) might actually be too confusing to play. damn

the rich data being capture and shared around everything these days is awesome - the earthquake a few minutes ago, available seconds after it happened

who i hate drupal is a nice variation on mu django talk, but one that's more needed - that group has been headed in odd directions in the last few years

omfg, i need a remote control shark. and a public swimming pool

omg, shark in venice might just be the best bit of cinema EVER MADE

omg i love crif dogs so much. i can recommend the spicy redneck. not often i say that

"capcom aren't bad people, they're just idiots"

xtrabackup sounds like really good news for people backing up large innodb instances. streaming backups? yes pls

sometimes we can be bad people

a nice piece on the constant redevelopment of sf's market street

noah stokes' new "portfolio" is excellent. i'd hire him

a couple of patches for my php4 OAuth library - it now correctly url-encodes spaces (that explains the intermittent failure!) and works with E_WARNINGS. now with a test case too :)

the readability bookmarklet seems like a good idea, but i haven't found a site it works on - just ends up only showing the navigation or some other small crap. am i using it wrong?

i haven't played ginormo sword is ages. yay!!

did i write this? i don't think so

book spines as pixel art? kinda cool. but my books are all different sizes

american boy on acoustic guitar is kinda awesome. very mellow

aviary is very very well done. the demo videos are pretty well put together. barrier to doing something slick on the web has gone up a lot lately.

not sure why i have fluid design in my 'to read' folder. i mean, it's pretty stuff. maybe i know someone who works there? maybe you work there? hmmm?

the movie timeline is a lovely compilation of dates

i'm not sure if the sense of scale measurements are correct, but it looks great

this awesome promo video makes me want to bust out reason right now

i need to get me a juice pack for my iphone. extended battery life and much harder to break than the ones that extend downwards (oops)

this is what IE6 deprecation pages should look like. well, maybe.

the new ipod shuffle looks pretty cool - tinyer than ever and now with playlists. the voiceover stuff is barely better than text-to-speech 10 years ago though. i wonder if itunes on your mac generates the speech files, or if the ipod has the software to do it at runtime?

the watchmen screenwriter is urging people to go and see it again. shame

just finished watching dead set back to back. awesome, awesome stuff

and worldwide best selling artists is interesting too (yay tom jones - 100m+ records sold)

it's wikipedia evening! the world list of best selling albums is really interesting. a bunch on there that you wouldn't have suspected. the uk list is a little more embarrassing

the quirksmode page on wrappable zero-width spacing for the web is interesting. seems like we still need to browser detect, but we can use ­ everywhere but FF2, so it's not a tough detection (=~ /Firefox\/2./). I wonder though, does putting the hyphen within (as in ppk's example) a function name cause ambiguity? maybe zero-width space (with wbr tags for old IEs) is a better generic solution. what are other people using?

heston blumenthal's new show sounds awesome [via tom]

has anyone played with stainless as a browser for osx?

detecting the click track through science. nice

after a weekend of dorking around with bidirectional text on the web, i've put together a short guide to understanding bidirectional text in unicode. comments welcome