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Popdialer in Self Magazine, originally uploaded by bantic.

The Popularity Dialer was featured in Self Magazine’s November 2007 issue, page 32. It’s in the “15 Minutes to Your Best Self” section.

A man who puts anti-infested faggot into his knee should not be annoyed when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
Dan’s in Nigeria right now. He just sent me that proverb.

Check out this funny story involving an attractive woman and a ruby programmer.

I was skeptical of Chime.Tv until I spent 45 minutes last night watching peep show. Nice.

There’s a generational gap right around age 45 that divides those who send mass emails out with a link to a video and those who send the video as an attachment. I’ve always considered attaching the video as antiquated practice. Today my dad forwarded me a WMV file that showed a baseball getting [...]

Steven was speaking in Rhode Island yesterday to a group that included Jason Fried, the co-creator of Rails. Here’s a picture of him giving me encouragement.*

* Christian and I work together very closely on outside.in, and the co-nickname that we were given is “the Chronic”. I think I started this when I christened [...]

Saw the Hold Steady tonight at 7 WTC as part of the Downtown Music festival. It was an excellent show. The lead singer really looked incredibly happy the whole time. It’s been awhile since I saw a band where I knew more than half the songs they were playing, so this was [...]

I’ve been playing a lot of weboggle since discovering it when I was home a few weeks ago. For the most part, it has been a humbling experience. Before, I considered myself pretty good at boggle. I would win most games that I played with my family and against others. After [...]

Made it out to the conflux festival in Williamsburg yesterday with my friend Wilm. It was a wacky time. Rob Faludi mentioned that it felt just like an outdoor ITP 4th floor. There must have been at least 10 ITP or post-ITPers around.

I’ve been seeing a lot of “here’s what I want” posts from Fred at AVC, such as his FPhone post, and it’s inspired me to think about ways that I would tailor the products I use in my life.
Here’s what’s missing from my ideal ipod:
I want to be able to easily track which songs I [...]

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Bbc world service, originally uploaded by bantic.

Jenny and I had an interview with the BBC World Service last week. I was at the BBC World Service Studios on the
west side of NYC, she [...]

I saw The Bourne Ultimatum on Thursday. I had originally torrented it, but after watching the first few minutes on my computer, and after having read an article claiming it’s the best American film trilogy I decided it was best to see this one in the theater.
The Bourne Ultimatum was fun. It’s a [...]

I’ve been personalizing the blog a bit more lately. I took about a half hour to read through flickr’s api and write a php code snippet that shows my latest flickr picture above my posts column. I did it to make my photos more prominent on the site, but I still don’t really [...]

To air is human. To air guitar, divine.
Last night I attended the US Air Guitar Championships with Sander, Kim and Carol. The tournament featured 12 regional champs from around the country. 4th place: Mcnallica. 3rd places (tie): Hot Lixx Hulahan (last year’s champ) and Big Rig. Second place: The Rockness Fucking Monster from [...]

The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of three
Times the cosine
Of three pi over nine
Equals log of the cube root of e

Thanks, Dan!

Update: Gothamist, in an interview with the band, declares the show definitely off the charts. I agree. In the interview the boys also explain how it happened that they never before played in Brooklyn.

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In a recent issue of New York Magazine they listed the best burgers in NYC and the Shake Shack wasn’t in their list of 12! The restaurants Prune and Resto got the highest scores, so I’m excited to give them both a shot this weekend.

I just came up with the term YouFamous to describe people that become famous via, and whose fame is primarily limited to, the YouTube viewing audience. Turns out there are already a few matches on Google for the term, although I only count three in their first page of results, and a search on [...]