Plaidophile

I just opened up my feedreader and what do I find, but a new comic by Shaenon Garrity! Woo! (Well, written by Garrity and Wells.)

Only one strip has been posted so far and it's already looking quite awesome. (Hopefully Wells' writing won't get as goofy and "random" as his stories normally are, though.)

No new ideas, but arranged in a nice, readable way.

Schadenfood

In the style of the LiveJournal Random Image Generator, I bring you the Flickr Random Image Generatr.

I can't be the only one who's noticed that like every single comic on the Internet has a guest strip by Ryan Estrada today.

I was just looking for more information about boost::any_cast and came across this old article by ucblockhead. The comments are pure gold, and not because of any sort of insight they bring.

It is my understanding that the Claremont hotel in Berkeley, CA is not a very good place to stay.

Dear IT guy, techno-retarded guy, and the other IT guy:

1. Shut up
2. Shut up
3. Shut up
4. Shut up
5. Shut up
6. Shut up
7. Shut up
8. Shut up
9. Shut up
10. Please shut up

Everyone's all atwitter with the gay bomb thing that was recently reported, except several news sources broke this story a year and a half ago. Has righteous indignation on the Internet gained much more critical mass since then?

Two of my guilty pleasures, together at last:

These things are so cute. I must have one or two or fifteen. (via the often-entertaining Music Thing)

Indie Guitarist: Maximizing Your Recording Time. Really good to know about, since this means I have everything I need to record concerts after all.

Now that there's Amazon Unbox on TiVo I'm actually kind of interested in getting a TiVo. Though on the other hand I've been kind of thinking of just putting an ElGato HDTV tuner on my G5 and have that serve up content over the network, either for my mini or for an Apple TV, since it still seems silly to pay $12.95/mo for a TV listing service. Plus, true HD reception is still way better than the 480p stuff Unbox sells (and my G5 would actually be able to handle recording it, not to mention there's probably a better TV signal in the room the G5 is in).

xkcd always says it best

Election results. Personally I voted 'yes' on viaduct, 'no' on tunnel. Seems that most people hated both options, though. Too bad they didn't provide an election for 'surface streets' which seems to be what most people want (actually that's what I'd have voted for as well if it were an option, though I'm not sure how that'd work without making the waterfront even harder to access than it is already, so at least in terms of practicality I think sticking with the viaduct would be best).

OGGTours produces pretty slick audio tour guides for various cities around the world. I found out about them via Jamglue, since they used one of my audio tracks in their introduction to Central Rattanakosin (Bangkok, Thailand). (Though I don't know if they honor the CC 'by' license on that track on the purchasable version, since they don't seem to have any credits listed on the tracks on the website.)

(Also, wow, Jamglue's embed player code has gotten so massive that it doesn't fit into their text box anymore. Both ugly and broken!)

Not sure what the point to Twitter is, but feel free to friend me. OMGLOL. etc.

then now

I've been using my Palm more and more lately, which makes it even more aggravating to have to keep it in sync with my phone (especially for meeting reminders, which I have to deal with a heck of a lot lately).

• Going price for Treo 650 on eBay: $200ish after shipping.
• Size comparison between Sidekick 3, iPhone, Treo 650, and K510i: I'm surprised at how small the Treo and iPhone both are. The K510i is a really tiny phone. The Treo's about twice as heavy though (but then I could finally ditch my Zodiac and have decent web browsing again).
• A nice Treo 650 hard shell: lets you protect the screen without obscuring it, and without adding a lot of weight or size to the phone. Plus, you could probably paint the inside to customize the color. Prevents cracked screens (which are the most common problem with Treos in a pocket, and which is why I never really considered getting one until now when I'm finally fed up with too many devices to sync and dismiss alarms on)
• Unbranding an unlocked Treo 650: Useful, since most of the Treos on eBay are Cingular-branded.
• Google Maps Mobile: has a native PalmOS version, which would almost certainly be better than the MIDP version on the K510i. (Especially on the 320x320 touch screen vs. 128x160 with gimpy joystick.)
• USB charge+sync cable: it's funny how most phones are USB-syncable but not USB-chargeable. This cable fixes that for the Treo 650. (Though most likely I'd charge at home and sync via BlueTooth, and use the OEM cable at work.)
• Palm-compatible Bluetooth GPS: Would be pretty cool for driving directions etc.
• Interesting article about changing attitudes towards transgender health care in Seattle (has nothing to do with the above, but I figured I was linkdumping already anyway)

I'd consider this article on transsexuality to be refreshingly progressive if it were published today, and yet it came out in January, 1936!

Obviously a lot of the notions and medical understandings of the day have gone obsolete since then, but the attitude of the author is something I actually agree with, and isn't presented in a "ha ha, look at the freaks" manner that even modern articles about transsexuality still exude.