Happy Thanksgiving!

An album cover design meant to look like a copied disc with handwritten lettering. I like it. Steal This Album.

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Kevin Conboy of alternate.org is going to be creating the bold new look of Blogger 2.0.

Exploit Boston is Boston's independent arts and entertainment calendar and its powered by Movabletype.org.

Tonight's episode of CSI: Miami is directed by Greg Yaitanes, director of the upcoming Sci fi extravaganza, Children of Dune. Watch and enjoy!

I was at MASS MoCA yesterday on a secret genius labs expedition and I was psyched to see an entire industrial sized hallway entirely wallpapered with the the crazy toonistrations of J. Otto Seibold, illustrator behind the famed Mr. Lunch Borrows a Canoe and so many other great children's books.

Wow, its really foggy out today and I'm going on a little road trip. In the meantime, feel free to take a look at some photos mostly of my train ride from Boston to San Diego last year. Or was it the year before? Can't remember. Must be the fog.

I'm going to watch Star Trek: Enterprise now. If you've got a problem with that, you can take it up with my supervisor.

Molly's book, Teach Yourself Blogging, will be out in the spring from Sams Publishing.

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Google Hacks features contributions from various folks of the blogosphere. Sounds cool.

Two versions of the A.L.I.C.E chatbot have a conversation. Here's a snippet.

Alice1: What would you rather talk about?
Alice2: It's not profitable to speak in hypothetical terms.
Alice1: That seems a bit negative.
Alice2: A bit negative is a terrible thing to waste.
Alice1: How much?
Alice2: How much can you spare?
Alice1: As much as I need to?
Alice2: How much is that?
Alice1: You can download me for free!
Alice2: No I don't think I can do it.

I wonder how long it will be until I am sitting down in a modern art museum watching actors perform the first absurd play written by two chatbots. Eesh.

Amazon.com: Electronics: Segway Human Transporter -- First come, first served for delivery starting March 2003.

Not sure what colors to use on your next web design project? ColorMatch 5K will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website. Just define a single color that you like and matching colors will be calculated. Nice.

Macromedia Contribute "With Contribute, non-technical users can make web site changes while automatically respecting site standards for style, layout, and code without knowing HTML."

Lisa Lutz: Please Stop Talking, I Have to Use the Bathroom.

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Customers who shopped for this item also wear:
* Clean Underwear from Amazon's Eddie Bauer Store
* Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom Store
* Headwraps from Amazon's International Male Store
* Cheetah Print Slippers from Amazon's Old Navy Store
Is this telling me something about my writing style?

I adapted part of a chapter on design from my book for DevWebPro and called it Blog Design: Show Some Restraint.

Provacative social and political commentator and blogger Andrew Sullivan will be speaking at Wellesley next week. Cool, I'll be there.

If there were some kind of award for innovative tab design, Amazon would sweep. I love this jacket tab I spotted this morning. It only works when one tab is unique but its so much cooler than just a huge tab.

Cool, Printable paper rulers! (via)

Hello. Just testing something. Update: its not working.

I like JungleScan, I've been using it to track my book's progress at Amazon since it first appeared. I've got my own chart. Not a pie chart, but a chart nevertheless.

Blog Studio is "a fast, free, simple and reliable blogging service and host that breaks new ground."

Idea for Trident chewing gum: pez style dispensers. Call me when it's ready? Nice.

Although I am posting an image of the President of the United States, I would like to point out that George Bush does not work for Genius Labs. Here at the lab, we always remember to take the lens caps off our binoculars before we pretend to know what we are looking at. Just to be clear, again: George Bush: not an employee of Genius Labs. Thank you, you may resume your usual goings on.

Onfocus.com: BookPost works with Amazon and Blogger to make book-blogging easy (and your posts look good). I love it!

Toyota 2012: all vehicles to be gas/electric. Hybrids boost fuel economy and reduce emissions by meshing a gasoline engine and an electric motor. When the vehicle is accelerating rapidly, the electric motor supplements the gas engine. When the vehicle is slowing down, the gas engine shuts down and the energy generated during braking recharges the batteries for the electric motor.