Scamming the true believers

I don’t know how to feel about a group of Republicans duping right-wing idealogues into donating millions of dollars for no-name campaigns and pocketing most of the cash. Just desserts? [via Clusterflock]

the week i had off from facebook was probably one of my best weeks in recent memory. i know it sounds absurd, but not being able to spend hours trolling facebook (during work, on my iphone, at home while watching a movie/tv show/talking to my roommates, before i dozed off to bed) left me with so much time to… read. think. run. write. do nothing. etc. in that week, i realized the extent to which i was addicted to this thing - my virtual world of friends and updates and identity molding… things that, during my week off, i didn’t MISS, but felt relieved to not have to deal with. when taken away from me, this thing i spent so much time with - my facebook reality (it pains me to have to write thos words) - felt so trivial, meaningless and inconsequential.

—Christine, who had her Facebook account overtaken by Ze Frank, on how little she missed the bastard child of Zuckerberg. [via Snarkmarket]

Everything is pretty much run by the engineering - PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process.

—Sergey Solyanik, on why he went back to Microsoft after a stint at Google. For clarification, Sergey is saying the dearth of PMs at Google is a bad thing.

A more effecient milk jug throws consumers off

The new design is dramatically more efficient, doesn’t require plastic shipping containers and is even cheaper, but more difficult to use at first. Still, I like the idea of pushing the new design as…

Everyblock adds two new cities, Philadelphia and Charlotte

With some design tweaks and a new listing for libraries. I guess I’m going to have to start sending Adrian weekly shipments of beer and smoked salmon to get Seattle on the list.

It’s a shame this wasn’t taken at a wide enough angle to include the roast beef carving station at the local Baby on a Dog.

Rock the Net, a compilation CD put out by Future of Music supporting Net Neutrality, looks pretty excellent

Including a new track from The Wrens!

Better CSS font stacks

Upgrade your thinking on web typography

daryn:

Sunday, July 6th, 4:00pm King’s Hardware ( map )

That’s right, we’re having our first Seattle meetup on Sunday the 6th! Come join us at King’s for delicious food and drinks, an excellent jukebox, and a sunny patio (and they have skeeball!)

So far, karion, suitep, and daryn will be there, how about you? Reblog and spread the word!

(photo from The Kozy Shack on flickr)

Tumblrs at the toolshed. Sure, why not.

Christopher Blizzard’s whoisi looks pretty interesting

Sort of a wiki to track what people are doing, minus the hoopla of FriendFeed