I'd have to say that this is my favorite, but then I've always been partial to geeks.

"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing." --Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

100 Best First Lines from Novels. (via ko)

After this mornings walk to the dog park, I came up with a couple reasons why I feel it is best not to start conversations with dog owners^*. (a work in progress)

1. A woman and a friend pass by talking about her dog, and I over hear her say, "...so I had to squeeze his other anal gland too." She glances over at me and says, "Good morning." I attempt to close my gapped jaw, and she walks by, smiling.
2. A few moments later a woman yells screaming after her dog who is running towards the road, "Auntie Clarisse, Auuuntie Clarisse, Auuuntie Clarieeeesse!" Auntie Clarisse is, of course, ignoring every screamed syllable.

* The notion that I am also a dog owner at the park is not lost on me, and I fear that my sanity may be slipping away.

Little Boxes (.mov 5.9 megs), intro to weeds.

A phone conversation about hacking the roomba.

Mark: I could mount a embedded computer with wifi and a camera on it, and control the roomba from my desktop.

Brian: Take the dog for walk...

Mark: heh, I could program it to walk the dog too!

Brian: No, I mean go outside. Take your dog for a walk. The last thing you need to be doing is sitting at home hacking your damn roomba.

Mormon Temple - Salt Lake City


Fountain outside the LDS temple

If you are interested in finding out more about the Mormon faith, or are as ignorant as I, Under the Banner of Heaven is an absurd and fascinating read about the violent history of the Latter Day Saints, one I imagine most Mormons would decry as blasphemy.

Church on 7th ave.

A beautiful day today in the BK.

A project I have been working on for the huffington post went live today.

The Huffington Post Contagious Festival

The Huffington Post Contagious Festival is a unique opportunity for talented designers, political activists of any persuasion, filmmakers and comics to reach millions of people with creative, viral online work.

The contagious festival lets you create a website under the cf.huffingtonpost.com domain. The system will rank the entries by visits, and a group of judges will judge entries based on merit, and I imagine amount of nudity. The best ranked and most favorably judged winners get prizes and fame and/or fortune.

It's perty cool.

I'm brewing up a festival site mashup of Nixon's fairwell speech and Public Enemy: Fairwell to the Powers that Be (just a little taste).

A Yahoo News photo of a Cyclops Kitten born with one eye and no nose. (via bo)

I think the appropriate term is perceptually challenged.

update: Tam calls bullshit, as cats don't open their eyes for a few days after being born, and the article notes that the cat lived for just one day. Quote the vet tech, "That may be a real kitten, but they doctored that eye."

With over 100,000 posts, the gawker database is taking a bit to update to MT 3.2.

been running for about 30 minutes now...

update: finished in about 40 minutes. And yes, this is what qualifies as content around here now-a-days