Forbes on Google Base & Google Payments (or whatever the commerce part is called):, a fumetti tool for Flickr, Bubblr.
Automator
AskMe question Uses for Automator, linked as a reminder that I need to spend some tinkertime with the l’il guy.
All in color for the reading
Eric at Fanta points out that Penguin is offering some old great stuff in the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions line with excellent covers by cartoonists of excellence that rivals the works themselves. Chis Ware / Voltaire. Frank Miller / Thomas Pynchon. Etc. What cool idea.
Note to self: stay out of bookstores for the next 18 months.
D. I.
Rarely has a site so well-deserved its’ dot-moniker:Damn Interesting, via MeFi.
Echo
It’s weird to be back on the Hill for the first time since the shootings. The Stranger just published their minute by minute account online, and the headlines of both the P-I and the Times banner news of the dead.
Walking by Rainbow Grocery on the way to eat from Group Health, I glanced inside and saw an old acquaintance from Bloomington who worked at Madison Market for many years: he must certainly have known the two young men who also worked there who died in the shooting.
The neighborhood feels like it did after 9/11, and something like it did during WTO, but not excited or argumentative or full of any sort of promise. It’s a shocked and grieving feeling. I have seen half a dozen folks pause and gape at the headlines blaring from the newspaper boxes.
Cut
Viv is all prepped for surgery. She’s in good spirits.
Shoot
Two nights ago I was awakened by the quick gunshots a couple blocks north and east of my house.
This morning we awakened to news of a seven-death shotgunning spree at 21st and Republican, in our old neighborhood.
Today we’re hosting an open house. Please check your firearms with me at the door.
UPDATE: For some reason, this failed to post. Viv ambushed me with a 40th birthday party. Manuel took some cameraphone pix as well as some Polaroids on really old, screwed-up film.
I’ll add these when I can.
Splash
Feed Rinse, via League Brother James, with whom I hope to dine of a weeknight at some point in the not so distant future.
V
The Greatest Bus Driver in the World has a heartfelt rant inspired by the Alan Moore disowned V is for Vendetta.
Barrows
Platform cairns and stone chambers are a rare and vanishing class of antiquities in and around New England.