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10:41 pm - “What makes you interesting?”
9:30 pm - Russell russell mo mussell banana fana fo fussell mi my mo mussell, RUSSELL!
4:24 pm - The Raveonettes – That Great Love Sound
4:20 pm - Muse – Knights of Cydonia
4:14 pm - VAST – Ecstacy
4:11 pm - Placebo – Infra-Red (Live From Nimes)
4:06 pm - Ingrid Michaelson – Die Alone
4:02 pm - Jem – Falling for You
3:58 pm - Weezer – The Damage in Your Heart
3:53 pm - Audioslave – Be Yourself
3:47 pm - The Strokes – The End Has No End
3:43 pm - The Stills – Of Montreal
10:00 am - 3D Glasses On The Street
Not something you see everyday on your way to work. a 3D Glasses On The Street

2 days ago

9:07 pm - Cameraphone (pic)
9:03 pm - The Early Graffiti, Stencils, and Drawings of Banksy [PICS]
Banksy is an artist who has risen to a strangely anonymous brand of fame with his graffiti, most of which involves stenciling. But there are many sides to this elusive artist, and his drawings, which are seen by far fewer people, are just as provocative as his large outdoor pieces.
9:02 pm - Google In Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200M"
Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source.
7:50 pm - Russell can't stop eating Tostitos.
12:29 pm - “Half price burger day! Yum!”
11:05 am - Chinese P2P Companies Free of Big MPAA Fines Booming
The profits Chinese peer-to-peer companies are making far outweigh the copyright fines imposed by rights holders. Chinese P2P advertising and venture capital flourish while U.S P2P companies struggle.
10:01 am - “dripping wet after my walk from the metro into the office. Bleh!”

3 days ago

11:07 pm - Lots of Sex May Prevent Erectile Dysfunction
Frequent sexual intercourse may cut down on a man's chances of developing erectile dysfunction, Finnish researchers report. "This is the same as any other part of the body. It's what we in vascular surgery refer to as the 'use it or lose it' concept," said Dr. Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad, an associate professor of urology at...
11:04 pm - 218 HD Resolution Desktop Wallpapers for Nerds | Nerd Business Blog
7:00 pm - Packed Metro Platform
On my way home from work where I come to find a horde of angry commuters waiting for the red line train at Metro Center. Aparently there is a system wide signaling problem. Argh! Atleast I have a bunch of podcasts to listen to while I wait. It gets better. The first train was way [...]
11:40 am - “Took a bit of a break to clean all the icon clutter on my desktop.”
10:04 am - Pro and Con on Whether US Can Achieve Energy Independence
US News World Report article presenting to opposing views. You need to decide who has the better argument.

4 days ago

8:36 pm - Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world
7:49 pm - Best. Baseball Headline. Ever. [PIC]
Involving A-Rod going deep and Wang getting hurt...
5:45 pm - A Visit To Brookside Gardens
Man do I feel ignorant. I have been living in Glenmont for a year and half and it wasn’t until this past Sunday that I discovered one of the best gardens in Maryland is located right down the street from me. Kristina and I visited Brookside Gardens to scope out a possible wedding location. Brookside [...]
5:36 pm - 41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs (PICS)
Believe it or not, all of these photos are of real life-size locations or objects. The technique of tilt-shift miniature faking makes the life-sized look like a miniature scale model. The process involves using Photoshop to fake a shallow depth of field and punching up the color saturation. The results are truly amazing.
5:35 pm - WASP Injection Knife vs. Watermelon
2:19 am - Coping Strategies When Retiring Into a Bear Market
Making plans for your retirement years in a collapsing market. Here are some ideas.
2:03 am - 3 Ways to Be a Smarter Shopper
Being a savvy shopper means measuring the "success" of our shopping by more than just the cha-ching of the cash register. In our stressful lives, how we spend our time and energy should be as important as how we spend our money. Based on studying consumer shopping behaviors across a number of categories, I have three tips for how you can be a...
12:00 am - Pwnage 2.0 is OUT!!!
Unlock 2.0 2g iPhones and jailbreak 3g

5 days ago

11:33 pm - Breathe new life into OS X Front Row
A few tips to enhance Apple's front row.
10:30 pm - Ugly Green Thrift Store Chair
Kristina and I dropped off two trash bags of clothes at the Salvation Army today. We were busy moving her from College Park to my apartment in Glenmont. Since we were at the Salvation Army, the fiance and I looked around and found this ugly $35 chair. a Ugly Green Thrift Store Chair
10:15 pm - Jesus christ what happened to this bird?
Zombie Bird?
10:14 pm - This guy strapped a camera to his cat! Verry cool.
10:09 pm - Russell took funny pictures with Kristina.
8:48 pm - Maloof $100k Street Skating Competition
By far the best street contest of the year! Paul Rodriguez goes home with $100,000 dollars and he was up against some pretty stiff competition
8:42 pm - "Drunk-O-Vision V" [PICTURE]
An illustration of the difference between sober and drunk.
12:23 pm - Take the Pew News IQ Test: Simple, Yet 1/2 Answer Wrong
To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with 1,003 randomly sampled adults asked the same questions. On average, respondents could correctly answer approximately six out of twelve questions.
12:18 pm - Bush vs. Clinton (PIC)
Farewell, Bush!

7 days ago

11:51 pm - “Lip zits are the worst.”
11:10 pm - The .ME Rush Of ‘08
.Com, .net, .org. These are the website suffixes most people are familiar with. Today Go Daddy, and a slew of other registars, began offering .Me names in hopes of reinvigorating the domain squatter market. And boy did Go Daddy rile up a stampede of people. At 11 am eastern when the landrush began Go [...]
8:32 am - The WOZ on THE Price is Right
You can clearly see woz in behind constants row
8:32 am - Police: 'Greatest Dad' Shirt Worn to Sex Meeting
33-year-old Michigan man is accused of wearing a "World's Greatest Dad" shirt to a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
8:30 am - Electrical Tape as Grid Art
Fantastically complex vinyl tape installation by Rebecca Ward.

8 days ago

11:38 pm - Woman dies after eating wild 'death angel' mushrooms
The moral of the story: Don't eat random mushrooms you find growing by the side of the road.
11:37 pm - The Cast of Home Improvement, Where Are They Now (slideshow)
This is actually one sideshow you might not mind wading through.
11:28 pm - 17 Mugshots of Offenders With Very Ironic T-Shirts [PICS]
When cops yesterday arrested Daniel Everett for allegedly trying to set up a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl he met online, he was wearing a t-shirt pronouncing him the "World's Greatest Dad. As seen in the following booking photos, drunk drivers wear t-shirts extolling their alcohol intake, perverts proclaim their love of Jesus etc
10:51 pm - Copy your files faster with TeraCopy
Enhanced copy dialog for windows.
9:10 pm - “tired tonight so it's a chill evening of reading blog posts.”
8:00 pm - Decoders Still Trying to Crack Letter Sent to Fermilab
The enigma began last year when a plain envelope with no return address arrived at the world-famous physics laboratory outside Chicago, addressed simply to "Fermilab." Inside was a single sheet marked by pen with a bizarre series of hash marks, numbers and alien-looking symbols.
7:30 pm - Beauty and the Beast: The Assassin Bug
Assassin bugs earn their name by surprising their prey and viciously attacking it. They lie in wait on flowers or in tree bark and pounce on unsuspecting victims. Using their front legs, they pin the victim down while stabbing it to death with a beak that is usually tucked into a groove on their 'chest'.
1:48 pm - “Oops! http://is.gd/V4g (geekologie.com)”
1:48 pm - “Templating, templating and more templating. Zope 4 life.”
7:51 am - Wall Street Fears Wave Of Bank Failures
Luckily, most Americans don't know much more about bank failures than we all learned from watching the Christmastime classic 'It's A Wonderful Life' with Jimmy Stewart. ... So when a big bank failed in California just a few days ago and, given some uneasy rumors.

9 days ago

11:25 pm - TWITTER ACQUIRES SUMMIZE
It's official, Twitter Blog says it all.
10:48 pm - Best Facebook Graffiti Ever
Lots of people have added the Graffiti application on Facebook allowing friends to draw a picture on their wall. Most Graffiti drawings look like they were drawn by a gifted and talented ardvark but sometimes real gems emerge. Like this one below: Not only is it well done technically but conceptually it is brilliant! It [...]
7:36 pm - Using A Skateboard To Control Music
Who would think to strap a MIDI controller to a skateboard? Apparently new media artist Simon Morris did with his project Musique Concrete which aims to “explore sound and the urban landscape through the movements on a skateboard.” This is how it works according to the site: Mounted underneath the skateboard is an interface which transmits data [...]
10:55 am - Lala Runs Her Ass Off
Literally.
10:30 am - Russell There's nothing better than the first squeeze of a new toothpaste tube.
10:30 am - “There's nothing better than the first squeeze of a new toothpaste tube.”
10:13 am - 5 Reasons a Merger Won't Save XM and Sirius
Subscription growth at both XM and Sirius has dramatically slowed, as Silicon Alley Insider recently showed. The companies partly blame the slow economy and confusion caused by the drawn-out merger approval.

10 days ago

11:09 pm - Don’t Hire Your Family to Voice Over Your Video Game
Some people are still under the impression that it’s easy to do the voice acting for a video game. You just read some dialog and head home and call it an early day. One of these people seems to be the President and CEO of O~3 Entertainment, Chris Jelinek.
11:07 pm - Man Cuts Off Own Head With Chainsaw
A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers.
11:04 pm - Our Lord the Flying Spagetti Monster spotted
Rejoice, my brothers and sisters. The Spaghetti Monster is with you. Blessed are you among sauces, and blessed is the spice from your shaker. Heated meatsauce, monster of taste, pray for us non-pirates now and at the hour of our hunger. RAmen
8:52 pm - The Amazing Shitbox
I have no idea if these portable cardboard toilets are serious products or some sick joke but I got a kick out of the page design. Featured in Smashing Magazine’s Texture and Patterns Design Showcase, TheBrownCorporation.com lured me in with their simple, to-the-point layout and Little Jack, the quirky mascot. At any rate, working at [...]
7:50 pm - Has Barack Obama Peaked
This weekend's RasmussenReports.com presidential tracking poll results are not good news for the Obama camp, despite the following caveats:
7:14 pm - 6 Signs of a Crummy Real Estate Agent
How can a homeowner tell if an agent is doing everything he or she can to get the property sold or is simply going through the motions? To answer that question, U.S. News recently spoke with a handful of industry professionals and compiled a list of six distinct signs that may indicate that an agent is not 100 percent committed to the effort.
7:14 pm - Why Divorcing Women Seek Revenge
Does women really seeking for revenge?
3:27 pm - “Longview by Green Day. Good choice Pandora. Good choice indeed.”
12:12 pm - “cursing @skunkgal for not working”

11 days ago

8:30 pm - Can’t Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone
San Francisco is preparing to undertake the nation’s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which parking spaces are free at any moment.
8:25 pm - Innovative Graffiti Uses Balloons and Tape Instead of Paint
Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up.
5:03 pm - Russell lazy sunday.
1:30 pm - Wild, Crazy Party Last Night
We had a party last night to celebrate my roommate’s 26th birthday. Things got a little out of control when a stuffed baby Shrek doll was sacrificed in our living room. Good times. a Wild, Crazy Party Last Night

12 days ago

12:13 am - Why Divorcing Women Seek Revenge
What compels women, as well as men, to spend thousands on divorce lawyers rather than give their soon-to-be-ex any "undeserved" assets? Or to air all the dirty laundry of their marriage?

13 days ago

11:15 pm - Russell sleepy, tired, ready for bed.

14 days ago

7:42 am - Russell Dear World, My bed is way to comfy. I think I'll stay here today.

15 days ago

11:43 pm - Russell mmmm Green Mint Chip Ritas water ice.
9:06 pm - Original retro wallpaper & vinyl wallcovering from the sixties & seventies - A unique collection of original 1950's to 1980's wallpapers for sale!
Vintage wall papers for web design inspiration.
8:06 pm - An Open Letter to Kevin Rose [Digg is Broken]
Nearly 1,200 Diggs in less than 24 hours without making the front page. Is Digg censoring stories based on content or is the algorithm broken. Angry Digg users demand answers.
7:57 pm - New Gmail Features Protect from Snooping
Gmail added protection from unauthorized logins Monday through new features allowing you to monitor usage and sign out remotely.
7:48 pm - Russell Ahhh Everybody Loves Raymond...
3:49 pm - Russell I'm sleepy. I plan on going to bed early tonight.
12:23 pm - Jimmie Johnson Says NASCAR Fans Will Choose McCain
Normally, NASCAR stars try to steer away from controversy, and politics is certainly one of those topics. But the soft-spoken yet intense Johnson, accompanied by his wife Chandra, had no trouble talking politics. For example, he talked twice about the political leanings of the NASCAR fan base, a group Republicans like to think they own.
12:23 pm - More Power in USB
There are some really powerful USB gadgets out there today - a 320GB USB drive, for example...you could carry movies around in your pocket on that thing. And then there's Targus portable mouse with power conservation - for up to six months of battery life.Are these things for real??

16 days ago

11:22 pm - Russell Watching my cat hide and poke his head out of a trader joes bag.
10:46 pm - For Sale: One Interesting House
When I was in elementary and middle school I would walk to and from school. And everyday I would pass this unusual, dome-shaped house hidden away in a drove a trees. Apparently it is up for sale. Besides the odd shape, all of the windows are triangular making it a nightmare for buying curtains and [...]
12:31 pm - Top 5 Alternatives to the New Apple iPhone
Let's face it, it's hard to beat Apple's user-friendly software, but these rivals offer unique features, from 3-D graphics to on-the-go television. Here are five promising alternatives to the new iPhone.
12:31 pm - Russell It's been forever since I have had half-price burgers. I love Tuesdays!
7:33 am - Russell needs to start going to bed earlier.

17 days ago

9:10 pm - Russell is running out of time!
12:26 am - Russell Made it back home from the beach.

18 days ago

11:01 am - Russell is going home today!

20 days ago

6:58 pm - Russell is having a happy 4th!

21 days ago

9:36 pm - Don't Fall Asleep On the Job
I live in Bellevue, WA a month back I was in New York to take a cruise to bermuda and I found this......
9:26 pm - What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam
Each S.P.A.M. volunteer saw an average of 70 spam messages arrive in their in-box each day, with men receiving about 15 more per day than women. That was a lot to answer, but "Penelope Retch" — the alias that Mooney chose for her S.P.A.M. adventure — answered every single message.
9:26 pm - Top 7 Flying Spaghetti Monster Pictures
"It is important to note that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has bigger balls than the traditional Judeo-Christian deity, known as God."
9:26 pm - How to Make a Mario Bros. 1UP Mushroom Burger
Your veggie nerd friends will gawk and awe over this deelish burger with a sense of humor. Remember all those childhood summers spent playing the NES indoors when it got too hot outside? Summer vacation, BBQs, and the NES. Ah...Those were the days.

25 days ago

5:53 am - Teen Decapitated by Ride at Six Flags
Authorities told the NBC affiliate's Web site, 11Alive.com that around 2:30 p.m. that the boy was decapitated when he was struck by the Batman ride, a coaster at the amusement park that can travel as fast as 50 miles per hour. The park is just west of Atlanta.

26 days ago

9:06 pm - North Carolina Wedding Photographers James and Meridith Walters with Walters and Walters Photography
Another inspirational photography site.
6:10 pm - Eric Ryan Anderson Photography // Portrait
Great photography portfolio site.
12:14 am - Russell is checking out gas prices on the way to OC.

28 days ago

10:53 pm - Roadsidepictures' photosets on Flickr
Great source of retro design inspiration
10:13 pm - TWIP » How To Select Photo Paper - TWIP
Tips for selecting a photo paper
10:01 pm - Russell has one more day in the week to go then vacation.
10:04 am - A Semantic List-Based CSS Calendar - CSSnewbie
Create a calendar out of an ordered list with just CSS. Pure genius!
7:29 am - Russell It's supposed to be pretty hot today. yuck.

30 days ago

12:18 pm - Make Money Selling Your Photos and Marketing Your Photography Business - Photopreneur
Since TWiP Recently did a show about selling photos, I though they should know about this link.

34 days ago

4:25 pm - Design215 Toolbox - Regular Expression Tester with examples
My favorite regular expression tester.

35 days ago

11:56 pm - Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
A whole slew of web related Omnigraffle stencils for Information Architechture work.
2:34 pm - Taylor McKnight
Zillions of chicklet icons.

37 days ago

11:33 pm - Ethno Port Poznań Festiwal 2008
Interesting Flash ste. Good colors, organized layout, fun interactivity.

38 days ago

10:00 pm - CR Blog » Blog Archive » Planet Tozer: How He Did It
Behind the scenes of some interesting bubble shots.
1:17 pm - DriveImage XML Backup Software
Freeware disk image tool for making backups of your drive. Consider this when I do a fresh wipe and clean install of windows on my PC laptop.

41 days ago

4:47 pm - 2008 Design Trends
Web design trends and patterns in 2008. Great example of different sites.

43 days ago

1:24 pm - Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

44 days ago

10:08 pm - Antiphrasis » Blog Archive » Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create Denim Texture
Handy step-by-step guide to creating denim in photoshop.
9:52 pm - Portfolio and blog of Jeff Sarmiento a web designer/developer from Toronto, Canada
This guy has an awesome site design.

46 days ago

8:58 pm - Turn a TI Graphing Calculator into an Intervalometer and Create Time Lapse Videos - Instructables - DIY, How To, photography, tech - Entry
Use a TI-83+ for timelapse photography.

50 days ago

7:02 pm - Hagley Museum Machinery - a set on Flickr
Awesome long exposure shots of old machinery.
4:16 pm - Brandon Hawker - Projects - Amazon Affiliate Link Builder
Simple amazon associate link builder. Neat!

51 days ago

9:16 pm - Gallup.com - Inspiration for tags
I love the way Gallup does their tags.

55 days ago

11:21 pm - The Elements of Design Applied to the Web
Applying design elements to the web.

56 days ago

5:42 pm - CSS exploit allows detection of social site use - Download Squad
Cool way to determine history and show relevant social media sites to them instead of cluttering thme up.
1:29 pm - 6 Quick’n'Dirty Photoshop Text Effects From Scratch - PSDTUTS
Breaking down how to design impressive text treatments.
12:03 am - Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
Resurces for learning how to design web 2.0 sites.

57 days ago

11:34 pm - Helvetica (2007)
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
8:24 am - 40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART
Lots of icon inspiration and resources.

58 days ago

10:23 am - MobLogic.tv: Daily News and Politics Web Show with Lindsay Campbell
Nice layout for a video-centric media blog. Big buttons on both sides of a larger than average widescreen video player. Makes navigating a breeze.
8:31 am - all manner of distractions » Blog Archive » Visualizing Radiohead
Guy programs a visualization for a Radiohead music video.

63 days ago

9:19 pm - Lakai Kost-One (Brown/Blue Nubuck) - Lakai Shoes
Cool looking shoes. Size 11 men's please.

70 days ago

10:44 am - Pancakes shaped decorative pillows.
Breakfast food has never been so much fun. Calorie free cotton and certain to last for years. The Pancakes Pillow is four pieces in one and comes complete with pat of butter.

87 days ago

2:20 pm - Pessimistic or Optimistic? T-Shirt
Is the glass half empty or half full?

93 days ago

5:00 pm - Veer: Products: Merchandise: Buck Jr. Trophy Puzzle
It's a cardboard deer head to hang on your wall!
1:38 am - Wooded Walkway
This walkway in Rosslyn was under construction. The pattern and light caught my eye.
1:37 am - Black and White Walkway
Same walkway, just a different angle and black and white. Punched up the contrast in Photoshop.
1:37 am - WJLA Channel 7 Building
If you watch local TV in the DC area you will probably have stumbled across this local ABC affiliate.
1:37 am - Building Angles
Just liked the shapes...
1:37 am - PodCampDC Sign in Flowers
These signs guided me to PodCamp
1:37 am - Empty Opening Keynote Stage
The stage before the opening keynote got started.
1:37 am - Tammy Munson Speaks
Tammy welcoming everyone to PodCampDC
1:37 am - First Session People
Mingling before the first PodCampDC session started.
1:37 am - Coordinating Gadget
Her Flip video camera (atleast that is what I think it is) matched her glasses.
1:37 am - Christopher Penn
Leading a lecture about how New Media is disrupting business.
1:37 am - Hard Time Hearing
Because there was so much discussion going on. The room was quite noisey.
1:37 am - Grandpa Rockin Ubuntu
This guy sat in front of me and was trying to find an open Wifi access point on his Acer laptop running Ubuntu. Go Linux!
1:37 am - Gretchen Vogelzang of the Mommycast
She gave on of the best talks of the conference. It was all about how the MommyCast got where it is today. Her job sounds awesome!
1:37 am - Moms Have The Most Spending Power
Slide from Gretchen Vogelzang's presentation talking about the target audience of MommyCast and why advertisers are flocking to her show.
1:37 am - Justin Thorp Is A Social Object
In case you didn't know.
1:37 am - John F Croston III
He's the DC areas web accessibility guru and probably goes to every single DC Tech event.
1:37 am - Gadget Gawking
Lots of gadget gawking going on at a geekfest like PodCampDC
1:37 am - Andrew Had A Question
Andrew wanted to create a video show using only his Blackberry. I reccomended using Postie and a WordPress blog and others reccomended live streaming via Qik.
1:37 am - New Media Jim and Andy Carvin
This dynamic duo talked about how New Media is disrupting journalism. They demoed Qik and Utterz and sparked lots of good ideas from the packed crowd.
1:37 am - Loooong Metro Elevator
I've never been on the Rosslyn Metro escalator before and boy is it long.

97 days ago

11:52 am - "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" Art Prints
Christopher Walken building a robot painting

116 days ago

5:27 pm - id=geek style=none Value T-shirt
If you know HTML/CSS you'll think this is funny. Too bad it is a Cafe Press shirt and not a Threadless one.

129 days ago

9:53 pm - Split Personality T-Shirt
Size Large. This shirt is funny.

155 days ago

8:57 pm - TIK TAK Exploding Time Wall Clock
“I wanted to express time differently – with a decorative impact as well as a practical function."

159 days ago

2:17 am - J!NX : Music Pirate T-Shirt
The best kind of pirate. Size Large!