I like Blizzard’s latest gimmick… memebait that is actually interesting. 
Here’s my YouTube Four, care of the very appropriately named Firefox Awesome Bar:
… and a bonus one because I can’t resist. But also because 5 is a much cooler number than 4. I don’t know what Chris has been smoking.
(Hooray for Viper’s Video Quicktags! Except for that bug with incorrect YouTube links in my feed…)
surge, noun — Throwing good after bad. Such as: money, lives, reputation, international good-will.
Recent examples of use: Iraq, Wall Street, deregulation, tax cuts for the top 1%, War on Drugs.
Putting cynical populism, ignorance of global security and environmental vandalism into perspective… “Drill Here, Drill Now” is not even a short term solution, it’s a long term road to nowhere (via garrett).
In fact, that’s precisely what returning a Republican to the White House will be after eight years of cronyism, incompetence and mismanagement: A Road to Nowhere.
But hey — at least they have a bridge to sell you!
I have been playing around with the very impressive Dropbox, watching the surprisingly rapid syncing between my desktop and netbook, when I stumbled on a use case that would totally rock my socks off: I totally need a Dropbox on my Linode!
So I copied ~/.dropbox* up to my Linode VM server, checked if it had any obvious references to the machine it was originally installed on, and ran ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd (a quick ldd will show you that it is a simple daemon, and doesn’t link to any of the GUI stuff).
Voila — Dropbox on my server, synced back with my desktop and netbook, with the same delightful performance and seamless attention to detail as the desktop client. Seriously, their GNOME-like “Just Works” approach and Nautilus integration are totally awesome.
(I also posted to their forum about it, so there might be some discussion there to watch.)
Bravo, Dropboxers.
Update: In the forum, Walther points out that you can use the same computer to register two nodes with different names (using the GUI), so the Dropbox central server knows you have two different nodes connected. Great tip, particularly given that it might avoid problems in the future.
It’s wonderful to see that Matt Zimmerman has finally given in and started blogging. As a welcoming gift, I’d like to give him a hackergotchi. If it seems familiar, it’s because I tried to lure him into the blogging world with it way back in 2005! (You might want to click through for a hackergotchi of more conventional size…)
Yass’ most famous export (other than Pipka!) appeared in FailBlog today. Hooray for Yass! Hooray for FailBlog! … and hooray for annoying my entire adopted family. 
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I forgot to mention one WordPress plugin I enjoy using in my previous post, because I wasn’t sure if it was still being maintained. Turns out the maintainer, Joe Tan, just did a release today, bringing it up to speed with WordPress 2.6…
Flickr Photo Album makes it easy to use Flickr images in your blog, and the latest version integrates really nicely with the new “add media” user experience in WordPress 2.6 — it adds a Flickr icon to the toolbar, and pops up a great user interface for finding images to use (from your stream, from albums, from search results against those and all CC-BY images, etc).
Now for some celebratory Flickr-inspired imagery as tribute…
Update: Boh, looks like the caption shortcode is not working. That’s Balloons by orphanjones (linked), and hopefully the caption will make this comment redundant soon.
Hilarious video for Font Fascists (such as myself), via André Pang:
