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• Buy it later
  Adds a button to Amazon.com webpages, sending you email or tweets when items come back “In Stock”, or the price changes…
  Great for Wiis, Kindles, or watching for unannounced “sales” on big-ticket purchases.
  Save money and time, while shopping online
  (tags: extension firefox shopping amazon)

• The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6
  Marc Andreesen of Netscape walks through a speech by Charlie Munger, cofounder of Berkshire Hathaway. Do not be intimidated by the brains in this blog, many valuable treasures lie within. Steal them and put them in your headmeats.
  (tags: books business education management entrepreneur toread psychology entrepreneurship)

• Victim of the Brain
  1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter”. It was created by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos. Features interviews with Doug Hofstadter and Dan Dennett.
  (tags: video consciousness theory cognition)
• Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  Jakob’s article that condemns nonstandard links. Jakob is kind of a nudge about lots of stuff, but it is good to have a source where someone says “DON’T UNDERLINE NON-LINK TEXT”.
  (tags: accessibility advice 2006 bestof article usability webdesign mistakes development design)
• Design Guidelines for Visualizing Links (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  Don’t underline any text that’s not a link, even if your links aren’t underlined. Reserve underlining for links.
  (tags: webdesign usability links accessibility article guide)

• Lovd By Less — Who loves you, baby?
  Built with Ruby on Rails this open source project has all the basic features you will need to setup a basic social network. Includes following, messaging, flickr and youtube integration, etc.
  (tags: framework opensource rubyonrails socialnetworking software socialsoftware)
• Whitechapel - The Devil in Fiction
  Nice thread with lots of good recommendations. It’s always good to read about old scratch.
  (tags: literature books satan evil)

• B: Matt Stuart: What Was He Thinking?
  (tags: street photography photographer interview photos)
• TasteSpotting
  beautiful website full of food
  (tags: food, menu,)

I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere.

This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis balls to become soaked in saliva. Maybe it is a way to generate dog orgone? Perhaps it is a dog liberation device, a way for you to have a more equitable relationship with your dog. If you had an automatic feeding machine and this ball thrower, would your relationship with your dog be less of a servant-master relationship?

I like music videos with loops. My friend Rafal just recommended to me that I check out Swedish Band “The Sounds” and of course they have a loopy video. I’m a bigger fan of their “Song with a Mission“, but their video of “Tony the Beat” loops in and around itself.

• Electronic Crafts | Main / Shakelight
  How to make a shaker light for yourself!
  Will never actually make but will always long to make it.
  (tags: diy flashlight electronics led interesting hardware)
• Domain Lookup Firefox Extension
  In case you were trying to pick a domain, see if phrases that catch your eye are available
  (tags: firefox extension domains addon)
• Business Technology : Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity
  They laughed when I said we should have more monitors. Now everyone knows its true.
  (tags: productivity hardware monitor research gimme+more+more+more)
• Utah Avalanche Center FAQ
  prime safety tip: don’t be in one. After that, the rest is marginally useful.
  (tags: snowboarding avalanche survival)
• F.A.T. » tourettes machine
  a greasemonkey script or firefox extension that makes your browser insert curse words randomly into text boxes.
  (tags: art computer firefox humor extension plugin internet)
• Capoeira Angola Quintal: Contact Us
  It’s at 107 suffolk st between delancey and rivington.
  (tags: capoeira nyc)

• Why you don’t talk on your cellphone in the restroom….
  This is not safe for your brain.
  (tags: poop humor funny)
• 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You — Cory Doctorow — InformationWeek
  What makes a site blogger-unfriendly? I’ve been keeping a list for the past couple of months. These are simple design and deployment mistakes that kept me from picking up a link and reposting it where millions might find it.
  (tags: tips howto blogging marketing)

• Steep and Cheap - Fuel Your Addiction from Steepandcheap.com
  Instant alert firefox plugin for huge deals on sports shit
  (tags: bargains cheap deals shopping skiing snowboarding firefox plugin)
• Cetaceans, sex & sea serpents
  Reports of ancient sea serpents might be the result of sightings of ancient whale penises. Page also has a picture of the aformentioned appendage, entirely safe for work, unless you are a whale. In which case, nice waterproof computer!
  (tags: cryptozoology, myth, whales, penises)
• WebSlices in Firefox, who wants to try ?-) -
  bits of a page embedded in your toolbar. why? because ie8 has it. ff 3+ only.
  (tags: extension firefox)

Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building.

Sometimes it is much better.

This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for this? How much should he be fined? Why?