glTail.rb – realtime logfile visualization

This is a really neat way to visualize website hits.  I woulda been all over it back when I was webmaster for OMSI…

I’m messing around with Facebook and WordPress plugins today. I think I can get a feed from my self-hosted WordPress blog onto Facebook with a plugin called Wordbook!

Speaking of addons/plugins… it amazes me how many there are for Facebook. How do certain ones rise to the top? It’s even more Wild Westy than World of Warcraft addons because at least with WoW you could argue that the successful ones are the ones that most manage players’ cognitive load or whatever… With Facebook, it’s all so whimsical.

I have been contemplating getting rid of my MySpace account because of the spam friend invites I get (about 2 a week). But then someone out of the blue found me there and posted about Bill Winn.

Serious Eats: Pizza Hack: Broil Your Pies

Mmm  pizza…

My brother went to Burning Man (per usual) and was part of the Oakland-based team that built this!

Steampunk Tree House

He’s looking dapper.

Se, jie (2007)

[Edit 3/1/08: joke about him helping me and Robin with getting a new car removed, because obviously I was kidding… but it seems kind of weird to just remove it without saying that I removed it.  I had done so for about a day but then, out of curiosity, I went to look at my blog stats and noticed where all these new people have found my blog post about Lust, Caution.  I can’t read Chinese, so I threw the url into a translater (thanks again, Google!) and saw that someone made mention of my joke… so out of archival purposes, I threw this note in here.  🙂 ]

War Of The Worlds eComic

Dark Horse published this awesome comic adaptation online!

Or you could buy the hardcopy… 🙂

(via Drawn!)

(via a guildie!)

Hilarious!

So two years ago we couldn’t afford new glasses for me for the prices we were seeing in the mall and at local boutiques (hah!), and I ended up ordering a pair from Zenni Optical for $40. That’s including shipping! They give you instructions for how to measure you pupil distance which you have to include along with your prescription. Their selection is amazingly good, and today it is even better. I had an eye appointment two weeks ago, and when we went to the mall I remembered how expensive glasses are (even with insurance), so I hopped online again. Got two pairs this time. For $80! Nice. Even their titanium frames are really affordable. I don’t think they have anything over $50 including lenses. Wow. Now, I gotta find a contact lens place for cheap…