Van close-up, originally uploaded by hatch.

This photo of Van was taken on Mother’s Day 2009 in our yard. He just had to wear that red hood even though it was pretty warm. I was trying to convince him to take the hood off when I shot this image. He obviously wasn’t swayed.

I saw this picture on the Fail Blog. Mmm… Tasty Pizza

Tags: blog, Fail, food, humor, menu, metal, pizza

Very cool helmet cam and video sharing site: “VholdR is a Seattle-based startup helping modern explorers to tell their stories of action, adventure and travel…making action video easy to shoot and share, creating simple video tools that enable hands-free capture and effortless sharing of video online with others.”
via VholdR

Tags: Digital Media, media, social media, social network, Video

“After eight weeks of digital-only sales, the (Byrne & Eno) duo have already grossed what they would have earned from a typical record company advance for artists of their expected sales profile. And that’s without any physical CDs–they don’t drop into retail stores until November 30.”
via Byrne/Eno succeed in cutting out the middleman | Digital Noise: Music and Tech – CNET News

Tags: audio, business, byrne, drm, eno, Music

• ThinkGeek :: Dough-Nu-Matic
  Mmmm… donuts!
  (tags: geek donuts food)

• End User: Amazon.com Launches Frustration-Free Packaging
  Awesome! "Amazon.com has launched “Frustration-Free Packaging,” a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages. Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items: those enclosed in hard plastic cases known as “clamshells” and those secured with a large number of plastic-coated wire ties, commonly used in toy packaging."
  (tags: amazon work ecommerce retail shopping)
• Family Tree of Telecommunication Companies
  "Ever wonder how your telephone company relates to other telecommunication companies? Think that AT&T’s monopoly was successfully broken up by the Feds back in the 80s? And do you know what Sprint was originally named after?"
  (tags: telecom business history phone)
• Things I wish I’d known when I was younger – Stepcase Lifehack
  "So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago. I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then."
  (tags: productivity lifehacks reference tips knowledge inspiration work)

• List of all algorithms, classified by purpose
  "A complete list of all major algorithms (300), in any domain. The goal is to provide a ready to run program for each one, or a description of the algorithm. Programming languages include Java, JavaScript and PHP, C, C++ either in direct form or generated from a Scriptol source."
  (tags: programming development reference software math science)

• Amazon Windowshop Beta
  "Enter Amazon Windowshop–a destination for discovering what's new and hot in the world of movies, music, and more. "
  (tags: shopping mashup interface tools amazon work ecommerce visualization ui flash)
• Seth Godin's Tribes Audio Book (free)
  You can download Seth Godin's great book Tribes from Audible for free.
  (tags: sethgodin tribes community socialmedia online Audible Audio download Books)

• Ten Thousand Cents
  "Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.
  (tags: web2.0 web visualization mturk amazon art croudsourcing)
• MoreCowbell.dj
  1) upload a song 2) Add some cowbell 3) Make it happen
  (tags: snl music mp3 media mashup humour funny)

• 30 Amazing photoblogs (and a few tips for creating one)
  I subscribe to many of these, but some I haven't seen before. Good for inspiration (which I need at the moment)
  (tags: photography photos blogging pictures blogs inspiration photographs)

• Will Contador leave Astana prematurely?
  No surprise — "Alberto Contador may change his mind about the return of Lance Armstrong. Initially, Contador said he would open the doors for Armstrong. Contador now may realise that Armstrong as co-captain would be bad for another bid at the Tour de France."
  (tags: cycling tdf tourdefrance)

• Armstrong joins Astana for comeback
  I wonder what this means for Levi Leipheimer — "Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has joined Team Astana for his comeback season in 2009"
  (tags: cycling tdf tourdefrance 2009)
• iPhoneModem – fast and easy sharing of iPhone's Internet connection
  "iPhoneModem is an application for the iPhone that aims at making it really easy to use the iPhone's Internet connection on your computer."
  (tags: iphone modem software applications network internet)
• Google Geo Developers Blog: Do You Speak Selenese? Contribute to our Maps API Tests!
  Selenium test suite for Google Maps
  (tags: Google QA development testing API Maps)

• Isis Bottom Bracket Removal
  "This article will discuss the removal and installation of cranks from square spindle bottom brackets"
  (tags: bike bicycle cycling mountain_biking reference howto repair)
• StopForwarding.Us | Politely and anonymously ask your friends to stop sending spam to your inbox
  Oh man, this can be useful… "Welcome to StopForwarding.Us, the website that lets you politely and anonymously ask your friends to stop sending spam to your inbox."
  (tags: spam internet friends productivity email)

• Rush playing on The Colbert Report Wednesday Jul 16 2008
  This episode of the Colbert Report features Rush playing Tom Sawyer … first time they played on US TV in 33 years.
  (tags: Music Rush video comedy Colbert online)