another one of those videos that people send you a link and you watch it and think "ha ha ha." then you watch it again a few weeks later and it's still kinda funny then another 10 people send you the link and you don't think it's funny any more then a year ...

Here's an old one I created the design before going to Pubcon in 2006. No one ordered it. you can get one here btw, in case you can't fill in the obscured words, it says "I met httpwebwitch at Pubcon and all I got was this fucking T-shirt ...

Rae Hoffman, aka Sugarrae, had me over for a guest post on her popular blog. She calls her guest bloggers "guestwhores", in keeping with a recurring theme on her blog (if you're a regular reader, you'll get it). For the occasion, I prepared a little guide to canonicalization. ...

Something this useful: you'd suppose MySQL would do it efficiently. Return a random row from a table. the conventional way to do it is: select * from mytable order by rand() limit 1 that's fine on very small tables... but as you apply it to larger datasets, it gets quite expensive. I applied ...

Once again, a post that merely says "look at this cool thing I found on YouTube". Anyone who argues that the world isn't a fascinating place only has to contemplate this... "Doing the thriller" is one of those bizarre cultural things... I ...

A whole pantload of people are discovering Joy Division for the first time, because Radiohead did a cover of "Ceremony". Educate yourself. This is the original: Followed soon after by ...

My second major facebook app is ready for the world. The first portfolio facebook app, leveraging the amazing poetry generator at randomhaiku.com, tore through the facebook world with gusto and reached 300 users in only a couple of weeks. It's reached a plateau at around 450 users, which I ...

my 7mo baby loves watching this

Says-it.com lets you choose a photo of a celebrity, and enter some text to appear in a speech bubble. then you can buy that customized cartoon on mugs and t-shirts and such. here is a C+D letter they got from Chuck Norris http://says-it.com/chuck/ Holy Fuck. If I got a letter like that ...

MMP lost. What a disappointment. Yet another year that my vote has made no difference, and I once again get 0% representation in government. I heard a mini-poll conducted by a dude on the radio, asking people as they went into the polls, if they knew what the referendum question was. ...