She didn't get why it was funny at first but Livia actually brought home bananas from the Gorilla foundation. Free bananas: perk of the volunteer front.

These mini-movies composed of Super Mario Brothers scenes are fine art. Be sure to check them out: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. Good stuff.

For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button. The city deactivated the buttons long ago. Push away, it has no effect on the signal.

Wacky merchandising. See The Movie, Buy The Nail: "But nothing says 'slightly masochistic Jesus fanatic' like adorning your fine self with a two-inch silver pewter crucifixion-nail pendant, hanging 'round your neck...It's an actual product, available right now for about ten bucks from Mel Gibson's official 'Passion of the Christ' movie Web site, while supplies last, which they will forever and ever because they're doubtlessly made in bulk by Malaysian sweatshop workers wearing faded 'Lethal Weapon IV' T-shirts who all believe in a very unhappy Allah."

I work with very cool friends.

Wired Magazine Issue 12.03 is all about Google. There's like twenty pages of all different kinds of stuff. "They named their new search engine Google, for the biggest number they could imagine. But it wasn't big enough. Today Google's a library, an almanac, a settler of bets. It's a parlor game, a dating service, a shopping mall. It's a Microsoft rival. It's a verb. At more than 200 million requests a day, it is, by far, the world's biggest search engine. And now, on the eve of a very public stock offering, it's cast as savior, a harbinger of rebirth in the Valley. How can it be so many things? It's Goooooooooogle."

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Testing Something

I wonder if I can use iOrganize to post to my blog via mail-to-Blogger.
That way if I do have the occasional something-or-other that I feel
would make a blogworthy post. Well, then I can post it. Update: That worked well.

I've had a blog for years and I can search it for old stuff and ideas I've put in there. But not everything goes in the blog and I'm really bad with managing stuff that I want to keep in mind or do later. I use mac Stickies, Tex-Edit, Word, and email notes to myself. I keep unsaved files minimized in my dock so I'll remember them later. Horrible. Then every month or so, I go through and delete everything. What I need is a simple but effective desktop blog. So I found iOrganize and I'm going to try it out for 30 days. I hope it helps.

Yo, Amazon. My birthday is March 10 and I was hoping to put some gift certificates in my wish list. One for $10, one for $20, and one for $50 (in case a big spender drops by.) What's the deal. How come I can't put a Gift certificate in my wish list?

Shooter McGavin makes with the shout-outs.

Save Angel - A Fandom Campaign to Save Angel: The Series: "We have banded together as a collective body to support the continuation of ANGEL beyond this season."

There are new AdSense formats. I like the new 125x125 "button." It's pretty close to my ideal blogger sized ad.

Do I have anything stuck in my teeth?

When Shellen got back from LA, he gave me the OC Shirt. Nice! I've had a few people ask me about it already. Maybe it's because I tend to wear shirts on a weekly, rather than daily, schedule. Still, when they ask me "Where'd you score that shirt?" I square up and punch 'em in the jaw 'cause I'm from Chino but now I live in the pool house. Thanks Shellen!

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content: "There are currently no reviews available to display for this product." What happened to all the reviews of my book? The last time I checked there were more than twenty reviews there. I hope they're not gone for good. Update: They're back!

Thanks to a semicolon, gays and lesbians keep marrying in San Francisco: "'The way you've written this it has a semicolon where it should have the word 'or',' the judge told them. 'I don't have the authority to issue it under these circumstances.'"

Clever title for an article about the death of an HTML help site.

Something That Happened: "So I'm gonna read your book, and we'll see if your strategies are truly genius. I just wanted to let you know, Einstein." Harold has just threatened to read my book. I've had people email me or blog a review after reading my book but this warning shot off my port bow is a first. I hope he likes it!

Astronomers spy 10 billion trillion trillion-carat diamond : "The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics."

I work on the other side of this screen. And yes, I'm here now.

Star Wars footage allegedly leaked on the web from someone who snuck a camcorder into a marketing meeting between Target and Lucasfilm.

Word of the Day
buss \BUS\, noun:
A kiss; a playful kiss; a smack.

Patriotically is tracking candidate mentions in the blogosphere. "We're not pundits or party players, we just wanted to use our data to see if we could find out anything interesting about the upcoming election."

Space Telescope Sends Rose: "Out of the dark and dusty cosmos comes an unusual valentine -- a stella nursery resembling a shimmering pink rosebud. This cluster of newborn stars called a reflection nebula, was captured by state-of-the-art infrared detector onboard NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Spac Infrared Telescope Facility."

How To Date and Blog by Jennifer Garrett.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay made a paperback cameo on tonight's OC. Cool. Phil designed that cover.

I was inspired to write a short creative tutorial called How To Network With Blogger as a kind of Valentines Day type of thing. Tomorrow or Thursday we'll publish part two in the two part series. I didn't write it, it's a secret new writer who will be revealed when the time is right.

You've gotta hear this. Ev has only had a copy of Garage Band for a week or so and he's already a ninja master: Genius Attack is a techo-remix of some of my audblog posts. Listen to it and you'll see how I'm right about that. So funny.

I use the @ character way more than I use the number two. I'd rather have an @ key and hold down shift for the 2. It's the future people. If we're not going to have flying cars at least we can update the keyboard.

Chris Walkin, Blogger fan. I really need to stop with the audioblogging and the bad Chris Walkin impersonations. What is it about the 101 that drives me to do this? There must be subliminal messaging somewhere between Google and Potrero Hill. I'll have people check into it.

I'm trying to work in a Starbucks again today. It is freezing in here and the AC is cranking. I asked the woman behind the counter if she could turn it down. It is now colder and stronger. She has the look of someone angry at everything. She probably took my request as a challenge. I'm now sitting here with my hat and coat on. I am not getting my work done. The terrorists have won.

There's a fancy party for the Orkut launch (and Orkut-the-man's birthday) tonight at some swanky downtown San Francisco locale. I'm gonna stay home and watch Monk. I'm holding out for my own swanky birthday party in a downtown club.

Do you watch movies? Do you like films? Are you a fan of "the talkies?" Are you nuts about flicks? Are you a FlickNut?

Cool, my friends in Arev: Armenian Folk Ensemble got some good press: Singing a song of love for Armenia: "The chatter in the audience reflected the music that would soon be heard on stage - a smattering of Armenian here and bits of English there. Armenian nationalism could be felt inside Boston University's Tsai Performance Center last Saturday night, and it was all for a good cause." If you're into traditional Armenian music, buy their CD!

Did Shellen take a picture of a vitreous glass mosaic tile that Livia crafted or is this some evidence that a version of Blogger existed way before 1999? Hmm. More information may be needed.

Google Services & Tools: "Google has many special services and tools to help you to find exactly what you're looking for." Including one that let's you "Create your own blog to publish your thoughts on the web. A free service." We finally put Blogger up on the Google Services page. Takin' care of business over here people. That's what we're all about.

Henry on the barber shop experience: "Went to get my hair cut today. I've been going to the same barber, Luis Jesus Gonzalez, aka 'Mr. Luis' at Astor Place Barber for years. 'Like always?' he ask, 'Yeah, but keep it a little longer on top.' As he starts buzzing, I straighten my head and look forward..."