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Lisa Williams waxes poetic with a Valentine’s Day sonnet on blogging. She apparently also knows of Jef’s Candy Heartmaker.

Those lads at BoingBoing pointed their readers to a contest to win a signed Ray Harryhausen DVD set. Cool! Don’t surf on over there, I’d like to maximize my own chances of winning. 🙂 One of the great perks of working Pixar is that occasionally you get to meet interesting people. Ray has stopped by […]

A fellow blogger has a turn of good luck, even though his cat has been sick. Go read his story, and revel in the myriad of human stories that the blogosphere offers. Congrats to you Wil, and give Sketch a hug.

I bet that somewhere, someone deep inside Google labs is trying to find a way to put Google into your DNA. In any case though, Google Maps appears to be pretty cool.

“If you’re getting into open source because you see it as a career path, you’re doing something wrong.” It’s not that Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he doesn’t), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate […]

The Campfire Blog has a nice example of what you can do with Photoshop and some historic photos from the Library of Congress website. Neat!

All you have to do is rely on directions from MSN and you’ll be well on your way. This would be slightly amusing, but is elevated by the apologies of Robert Scoble, who once again rises to the level of apologist for all things Microsoft.

Courtesy of a link on BoingBoing, here is a nicely done Warner Bros. Cartoons Filmography with frame grabs of lots of title cards. I’ve seen way more of these cartoons than I’d care to admit…

Apparently over in Lisa’s world, her little one took a header off the bed and bumped his noggin. All seems to be well (phew!) but it put me in mind the story of my little sister (now, not so little, with four boys of her own). When she was little, she used to like jumping […]

While chatting with Tom over lunch, I was reminded of a guy who built his own Apollo Guidance Computer Replica. Tom was the guy who got me to write an emulator for the PDP-1 (he wrote one as well) so that we could run the original Spacewar! on a PC, so this was right up […]

Doc Searles snapped a picture of the town of La Conchita on a flight to Santa Barbara. Surf on over there and check out the hillside that hovers over those homes. Anybody who rebuilds there is not just a fool, but a damned fool.

One industrious hacker created this master list of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas cheat codes by wiring a PS/2 controller to his PC’s parallel port and stepping through key combinations looking for cheat codes. That’s just simply brilliant! Well done!

I score 38.5. I’m not sure if I wanted it to be higher or lower. (Found via mobitopia).

I’m 40 years old now, and I’ve realized two things: I’m much wiser than I was when I was 25, or even 35. My raw talent, ambition and enthusiasm only carries me so far. Toward that end I’ve made some changes in the last couple of years. I’m exercising, I’m trying to keep more regular […]

A Flash Presentation on the Future of Media Thought provoking look at a possible future where collaborative media replaces traditional news media.