Preview for Mike Judge's new psychological thriller. digg story

I was reading an old article on ars technica (IBM and OSDL to help Patent Office get organized -Jan 2006) about IBM's work with the USPTO to help reform the patent system, and ran across this quote:

it's the end of the world as we know it

I'm a little over the whole "tag cloud" (a simple weighted list, really) thing as applied to blog posts, but applying it to more socially "interesting" texts is a clever idea. Here Chirag Mehta has run a series of tag clouds on 360 speeches and documents by Presidents of the United States - US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.

From the Creating Passionate Users blog:

What you get when you unpack an Apple refurbished product.

This 360' skateboard ramp is insane. Some people have way too much time and adrenaline on their hands.

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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:

Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:

Most of us went through these. And I love the colors on that site.

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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago:

I read Tom Clancy's "Teeth Of The Tiger" this weekend. Yawn.

With heartfelt apologies to Alanis:

I finally got around to removing the Google ads from monkinetic. I never did make money off them (though Google insists it sent me a $100 check back in '05 sometime) and I was beginning to find them annoying. So... buh bye.

So, perhaps I should rename this site to "That-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Updated". ;-)

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Originally uploaded by redmonk.

My desk at work. The closest I could come to making the Windows PC bearable was put R.E.M. on the desktop and my Apple/Mac totems nearby.

OMG, the countdown to Sept 26 continues. Witness White and Nerdy (some tidbits on Wikipedia), Weird Al's new single from Straight Outta Lynwood. Look for a cameo from Seth Green (as an action figure collector, which he really is) and an inspired appearance by Donny Osmond (and probably others).

(Geekery ahead)

"have all your geek buddies messed up iTunes or something?"