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A person will do certain things for money.

A friend decided the old pornstar name formula was good enough to use to name her blog, as she explains in her launch story. So, should this be the Nick Hastings blog? Elsewhere, another friend is struggling with the decision to blog.

Mike Evangelist’s look behind the magic curtain of Apple Keynotes during his time with the company.

My inner 13-year-old is cracking up over the notion of a shipwrecked load of toilets in the Mediterranean.

“The tag cloud is the mullet of the internet.”

Found at phpFlickr. Look closely.

Color me amused to learn that somebody (don’t worry, Amazon will never tell me who) bought Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease after following one of my Amazon affiliate links.

SimpleSearch – a Full-Text solution | Beau Collins

Engadget and Gizmodo both have the skinny on a USB turntable.

macminicolo.net explains how to use it.

open-ils blog » Blog Archive » OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review

Ryan Eby tells me that the current issue of Library Hi Tech includes some discussion of open source software’s uses in libraries.

Dave English explains why airport codes can be so darn confusing (even while some of them are stupid obvious).

The docs are in the codex, this tag plugin offers quite a few examples, as does Jerome’s Keywords plugin.

I don’t know how I missed cyberhobo‘s geo-mashup-plugin (also at wp-plugins.org) until now.

I might be reading this wrong, but it looks like I’ve been using AHAH when I’ve thought I was using AJAX. Hmm…

Yahoo! News tells me that Brigitte Hoffmann’s Tages-Bar in Berlin gets robbed a lot.

I’m about to release a public beta of my WordPress plugin over at MaisonBisson. Information about my favorite new feature, bsuggestive, online now. bsuite started out as bstat, and continues to offer rich stats tracking features.

update:  bsuite b2 is out!

Wayfaring:

With Wayfaring.com you can explore maps created by others, or create your own personalized map. Share them with friends or the whole world.

Now imagine it with Earthcomber integration. Wouldn’t that be neat.

Rollyo:

Roll your own search engine. Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Relevant. Reliable. Rollyo.

They call them “searchrolls”

This Car Climbed Hubbert Peak bumper stickers from HubbertPeak.net.

Gnarly Trees: “this group is for trees with oddly-formed limbs, strange bulges or growths, braided roots, or otherwise abnormal looking parts.”

How did I miss this before? The Venkman JavaScript Debugger; available here, with user’s guide and FAQ.

Maybe the meaning is simply lost in translation, but take a look at the captions for this photo essay of the Russian Navy titled “BALTOPS military exercise: Russia is showing its muscles.” Here, have two big ships, some big anti-aircraft ships, a big landing ship, a big anti-submarine ship, even a big atomic missile cruiser, and add this heavy atomic cruiser. Now how would you feel about captaining the one small landing ship? But take a look, a small ship is still huge.