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I can’t get over my glee regarding virb.com. It’s a new social networking website (akin to MySpace) but it is 29284715 times better. Virb allows you to customize your profile, and not in that awful, hacky way that MySpace requires you to. They allow you access to CSS and basic HTML that you can edit [...]

the shower Turns out you can disable those obnoxious Snap previews that people keep tainting their websites with. Simply click on that link in Snap’s FAQ to disable them globally (it uses cookies). (P.S. Still working frantically on the new layout. Crossing my fingers for having it done tonight!) Edited to add: Decided to edit [...]

nothing This a follow-up to my original post about the Loowa website. If you haven’t read that yet, this post will probably be nonsense. Soon after I sent my “delete my profile” email, I received a response from the personal email address of Loowa’s creator, Scott: Meggan No worries. If you’ll send me a message [...]

guitar playing About a week and a half ago, I got a message through Flickr mail from a man who works at New York Magazine, inquiring whether I would give them permission to use one of my photos for a piece they were preparing about Chinatown. I figured I really didn’t have anything to lose, [...]

Gustav Holst – “The Planets: Mars” I just had the worst experience on a website that I’ve had in a while. The website is called “Loowa,” and I saw it linked on somebody’s website so I went there to check it out. Do not “search” for your email if you go there! (More on that [...]

nothing Is it just me, or does anyone else hate about.com? Anything I find there is either a) utterly worthless or b) so ad-filled and poorly laid out that I can’t figure out if it’s utterly worthless or not. I can’t stand that awful orangey-red color of all their sidebar links – it vibrates against [...]

office-y type noises I discovered this article today called “10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog” and in the comments, someone named RJ says he (or she) thinks the term “lurker” is creepy and non-flattering to the 90% of people who read but don’t speak up on blogs. Before I get to the [...]

MST3K DVD Many of you have probably heard about the James Kim story, especially if you are in Oregon. The Kim family took a wrong turn while driving in bad weather and ended up stranded in the snow. They attempted to keep warm by burning tires and had to live off of jelly, baby food, [...]

nothing You know what I just learned? A platypus is generally smaller than a housecat. (The website is in frames – LAME – so click on “facts” in the left nav.) See? I always envisioned a platypus being about the size of a medium to large sized dog. About the size of a collie? An [...]

Trafik – “The Perfume Suite” Interesting link of the day: The Physics of Bras

Best In Show DVD Leeching wireless Internet off your neighbors is not as easy as one might think.

Moulin Rouge Soundtrack – “Come What May” I am somewhat ashamed to admit that I like shiny, round, “Web 2.0″ designs. The designs on Carbonmade, Geek In The Park, Perfection, and Templatica make me happy. I am ashamed because these designs are what’s “in” right now. They’re super trendy. That said, I LOVE THEM. I [...]

Lacrimas Profundere – “Sweet Caroline” Daniel has been looking around Craigslist to find places to which he can submit his résumé. He found one today that totally took the cake – check out “coffee shop cashier / Barista” and try not to laugh too hard. (I can’t post it here because Craigslist terms of service [...]

Fear Factory – “Self Bias Resistor” Once again, I have nothing to say, so… LINKS! I want this rabbit. A lot. A chicken on a cat! A mad cat! I used to make this face at dinner all the time when I was small. OMG.

Nirvana – “Silver” Dear Gmail, I see that you’re having some sort of server error. This is unfortunate, but your error message kindly tells me to check back in a few minutes so I begin thinking I may be okay. My definition of a few is somewhere between 3 and 5, possibly up to 10 [...]