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• Name Your Band, Create Your Album Cover With Wikipedia & Flickr
  at Synthtopia (via JA) — I came up with:
  
  (tagged: todo flickr language surreal fun )
• The Joy of Clojure
  ‘grats to my man Mike
  (tagged: Clojure friend )
• Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
  via B² — EPIC
  (tagged: lebowski parody literature humor fun )
• The Loom
  at Discover Magazine (via B²) — science tattoos!
  (tagged: science art blog )
• Cool Things You can do with the WordPress “more” Tag
  at Digging into WordPress
  (tagged: wordpress tutorial )

• Cool Stuff: Zombie Wedding Cake
  Awesome. A.: Ben is right, this needs to be the cake at our 2nd wedding.
  (tagged: via:kheiligh zombie ambulothanatophobia food )
• Steak House or Gay Bar?
  Fun for 5 minutes worth of laughter.
  (tagged: humor )
• Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It’s Better Than Facebook’s.
  About damn time.
  (tagged: flickr )
• The GOP’s Violence Problem
  at Media Matters Action Network — I'm all for 1st Amendment free speech and having a little fun with the rhetoric but I agree that the violent overtones have gone too far. (Bachmann with the trifecta!) See also: how many Republican Senators would support a corporation over a rape victim? (Answer: 30, including the GOP's presidential nominee in '08!)
  (tagged: politics violence )
• Jackpot
  by John Gruber — sounds like my mom…
  (tagged: Halloween essay )

This showed up on Facebook re: Flickr hiring:

You might’ve seen it there, too.

Being the nosy SOB that I am, I clicked on the image.  First I was wondering:  is that really the Flickr dev pod?  And sure enough, it is.  Or was?  I noticed on the user’s profile that he used to work for Flickr.

Now, the photo is licensed as Attribution-Sharealike; which is great.  And I don’t believe that this is in any way a violation of the license.  It’s just…  Call me crazy but it seemed like a little bit of an odd choice, using a former employee’s photo.  But maybe only slightly?

Enjoy. It’s getting quite a bit of action on Flickr right now.

• Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson
  at Strange Horizons Fiction
  (tagged: writing scifi humor satire dinosaurs fiction )
• BusyCal
  via [GusMueller blog] — "Share Calendars on a LAN and sync with Google Calendar" — I've historically been disappointed with these apps/plugins/whatever but always seem to be willing to try another… so here's to trying another.
  (tagged: Mac OSX productivity GTD calendar ical todo )
• Can AT&T Handle The iPhone?
  via DF — nutshell answer: "No. No they can't." And I couldn't agree more. Great device mired by a mediocre-or-worse carrier.
  (tagged: Apple iphone at&t )
• The Ultimate Guide to Decoding the Flickr API
  at Nettuts+
  (tagged: webdev tutorial javascript flickr api todo )
• On Language – All-Purpose Pronoun
  at NYTimes.com (via DF) — They will be pleased…?
  (tagged: history language linguistics grammar essay todo research )

• Friday Q&A 2009-06-19: Mac OS X Process Memory Statistics
  at mikeash.com (via DF) — echo: good layman's terms run-down of what's happening inside that silver slap sitting on your lap
  (tagged: memory hardware essay )
• Nearby on Your Phone
  at Flickr Blog (via DF) — I hate to say it but there goes my last lingering reason to use Darkslide…
  (tagged: flickr iphone mobile local )
• Glyphboard 2
  via DF — love it. love it more now that these show up in Twitterific.
  (tagged: tools glyph iphone )
• TownSync.com
  hmm…
  (tagged: tools news calendar service local todo )
• When the Bat Signal calls
  at The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It (via JW):
  

  The key is to move from the reactive, desultory world of Charlie Brown to one in which you appreciate that you are generally at least as empowered as the next person, and to realize the ethical dimension that accompanies the day-by-day as well as the landmark events in life.

  (tagged: humor education inspiration essay )

• The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
  via B²
  (tagged: design literature scifi art typography illustration )
• Here & There
  via Warren Ellis — "a horizonless projection in Manhattan" (awesome)
  (tagged: design visualization art map )
• Classic Illustrators by Name
  via the w00t blog — a Flickr collection of scans of classic "Golden Age of Advertising" illustrations. One thing is for sure, it is sad that no one really does this kind of illustrating anymore.
  (tagged: design graphics illustration flickr history art )
• 4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding
  at washingtonpost.com — an interesting story, no matter how you want to dunk it
  (tagged: news politics )
• MAC TREAT #83: Splitting And Managing Your iTunes Library
  at Barkings! — a couple good tips in there
  (tagged: iTunes )
• Hacker changes road sign’s message
  at burlingtonfreepress.com — "ZOMBIE INVASION!!!!!!!" lulz in Colchester
  (tagged: Vermont zombie ambulothanatophobia Colchester )

• Cutting The Grocery Bill–How?
  at Al Dente
  (tagged: food groceries budget money essay todo )
• Gantter Does Project Management in Your Browser
  at LifeHacker
  (tagged: lifehacks productivity projectmanagement GTD projects )
• Polar Rose
  via LifeHacker: "Naming is sharing!" — face recognition for Flickr? on the web?
  (tagged: software tools photography flickr social todo )
• Ajax Experience Talks: Resig, Slocum, and Heilmann
  at Ajaxian
  (tagged: javascript webdev video css todo work )
• Tech Test Drive: Nothing small about Mac Mini’s media-center capabilities
  at TwinCities.com (via Apple News)
  (tagged: MacMini Apple hardware todo )
• 64 Things Every Geek Should Know
  at LaptopLogic.com — a couple of fun-looking projects on here.
  (tagged: hack todo )
• Confluence and JIRA – 5 users for $5
  at Atlassian Developer Blog — no catch!
  (tagged: Confluence JIRA Atlassian via:fogus )

• The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own
  …according to Esquire. Not such a bad list, actually; and surprisingly well-rounded and eclectic.
  (tagged: todo music )
• The Case for Paying the A.I.G. Bonuses
  at NYTimes.com :
  

  That may strike many people as a bit of convenient legalese, but maybe there is something to it. If you think this economy is a mess now, imagine what it would look like if the business community started to worry that the government would start abrogating contracts left and right.

  The exception of course being that most companies didn't nearly bankrupt the Western Hemisphere and then ask for a hand-out to keep going. Fuck the contracts. Had AIG gone under all together, these guys wouldn't be getting paid. So don't pay them now. Or: keep them on board, tax the shit out of the bonuses they do get, and pay them $1/year (like their CEO) until they've dug themselves and the economy out of the mess that they got it into. (Sorry guys, guess those trips to Tahiti will have to wait another couple years.)

  (tagged: econocalypse news opinion blog )
• Fox’s Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans
  via B² — pure hilarity! where does he come up with this A+ comedic material?
  (tagged: video politics blog )
• Grassley to AIG execs: Resign or commit suicide | Reuters

  AIG in a statement said: "The remark is very disappointing, but AIG's employees continue to work with poise and professionalism to take care of policyholders and repay taxpayers."

  …repay taxpayers BY GIVING OURSELVES HUGE FUCKING BONUSES.

  (tagged: news econocalypse )
• Image Rollover Borders That Do Not Change Layout
  potential fix for miserable little Flickr badge annoyance…
  (tagged: Flickr webdev CSS todo )