There’s a lot of different skateboardings but they all just make me want to go skateboard.

My friend Nick used to put art on eperil. Now he puts art on paper and canvas and the internet.

Skateboarding is fun.

How did I not know Trans Am has a new record?

Remember M.U.S.C.L.E. men? Millions of unusual small creatures lurking everywhere indeed.

So many neat things being built for smart browsers, 0 to 255 and CSS Desk among them.

Putting the video back in skateboard photo sequences.

Pretty convinced The Brutalist Bricks is the best Ted Leo + Rx record yet which is neat as they still seem to be picking up popularity at the same time. Fantastic show touring for it as well despite some technical difficulties.

Saab is the one that is “built on jet engines” or something right? Best ever.

Time well spent. OK Go has a new video and pulled a Weezer with it.

Canvas vs SVG web editors. Like Photoshop vs Illustrator.

Lady Gaga discussion and a Murder at Sea plug on the Insophisticate.

It’s nice when art depicts space.

I like rock n roll. I like posters. I like printing presses. Died Young, Stayed Pretty.

I miss Echoes. Osmos is pretty rad though. Thanks CDM.

More punk rock than your punk rock posters: hip hop posters.

Synth Brittania. Shame the last part isn’t available in my country without location spoofing. Though, the first half seems way better anyway.

Italy. 50s. Police. Motorcycles. Fun.

How to pronounce M-O-O-G, by Bob Moog. Or the Tegan and Sara version.

I’m not really into sports, but this sports team name poster looks neat. If only it came in more megapickles.

An old fart reminiscing. Leave me alone. I don’t think I’ve had a conversation this good in the 3½ years at my current work. Previously they were near daily events. Sorry guys.

I get excited about the 1.5tb of external harddrive space that sits on my desk. Physical Storage vs Digital Storage

Speaking of urbanimals, bears like skateboarding too.

Finally got a hand in building a mountain website. Painful looking at pictures of snow all day when it’s 106 degrees.

Watching traffic is the new storm chasing. Google Maps just made it even better (for those of us living in a blessed location).

Awesome animation. All the way through the credits.

Those Echo Nest folks sure provide the foundation for lots of fun: Pix n Mixer and iPhone Visualizer. Totally jealous of all parties involved.

The MDC is great for documentation and now Mozilla adds another usefull resource: Tools.

Sheer volume of new features vs fast as hell. Not to say Firefox 3.5 is slow or Safari 4 lacks features.

Still surprised at the number of dollars in skateboarding.

If only these future worlds were in 1280×800. Thanks Colour Lovers.

Blasters!

Finding new music. I dig the difference clouds and why.

I sorta wish I had a euphonium. Or a tuba.

Zombi’s new record Spirit Animal is as epic as expected. Seeing as their record label gets it (splash screens excepted), you can stream the whole thing. But you should probably just stop by your favorite record store and buy it.

Oregon is 150 and OSU, Flickr and The Commons are awesome.

Holy canvas tag. Mozilla’s new web based code editor, Bespin.

Double Dragon, Watchmen style. Minutemen

Thanks NASA. Pretty much set for desktop backgrounds for the time being.

I may not be seeing a bunch of my bookmarks again. This time not because I forget about them but because they are actually gone.

Interesting to see the thought Google puts into efficient computing.

Because a Lamborghini has a lot in common with a snowboard. I’ll stick with Banana Technology.

Never heard of Travis Bean guitars before but they sure look nice.

It launched. New ISITEDesign.com. Drupal 6.

30 Ways to Die of Electrocution

Perhaps just the excuse I needed to rebuild this thing: WP 2.7.

CNN.com’s front end design and code makes me happy. Those resizing read/video tabs get me every time and external controls for Flash video never hurts.

Clean up data, real easy.

Noise noise noise.

My friend Chris likes the Phillies. Just a little bit.

Who knew sorting could be so fun? I could do this all day.

Bloglines. Apple. Come on. You guys are killing me.

Probably been around for a while, but just noticed Pencil. Which seems to more or less be an entire app built into a Firefox extension.

It makes me happy to hear there is still new stuff showing up that math doesn’t quite understand. It makes me think very little of my brain in that those new objects can even be detected and given guesses as to distance away.

This new Rock Band bass makes me glad I wasn’t able to get a bass with that color scheme.

Pretty stoked I fixed the crowd RSS.

Pretty stoked I broke the crowd RSS.

I try to pay attention to music related internet stuff yet I had no idea about any of these sites. Makes me wonder how there are enough users to make it work.

“Chop off the highs, chop off the lows, then compress it.” Every day.

Robots and rayguns.

Browser sniffing server-side CSS hacks.

I certainly do approve of robots.

Trans Am better still be filling in the dates. Two days off is plenty for a Portland show.

Some wonderful looking noise makers.

All this time and all it took to make Gmail not lousy was to switch on the basic version in my user preferences. If only I would have accepted from the start that not all good things require javascript.

I was quite pleased with Wells Fargo’s new ATM UI when I first experienced it a few weeks ago. Nice to get a look into its design process.

See. Powerpoint isn’t so bad when you get to create your slides online.

Chances are you will like ten of these bands but never get a chance to see them play.

I fail to take photos once a week. Everyday for 18 years? And Polaroids? Neat.

My friends make good music. Bluebird is up for download including artwork. Now if only the documentary was on Vimeo.

Searching the Geonames. Maps are fun.

One more reason to buy a house in the city: avoid CV08: the suburb eating robot! Charming graphics too.

Apple, if Dell can get an 8-in-1 card reader nearly unnoticeably into their XPS laptops there’s no reason you can’t get one into the array of ports on a MacBook Pro. Dell, there’s no reason all your product photos have to be locked up in .swf files.

Thank goodness for that 90 second limit (and pro requirement) else I might have stop tell everyone Vimeo is the best video site.

Too busy Hobnoxing.

Sometimes I get pretty stoked on what Flash can do: Photoshop Express.

WebKit is making me smile more often than Gecko as of late. Never ending feature support. Never ending! Or maybe I’m just more aware of it.

Looks like I would have hated 12th and Burnside in 1939 too.

Producing just gets more options making decisions even more difficult to come by.

These six word reviews and observations of this years SXSW music torrent sort of make my previous years “the” and Portland tallies look silly.

Electronic music at the University of Iowa. In 1978.

Old skateboard stickers are way better than new skateboard stickers.

Nerdier than MIDI: OSC

Portland. Art. Bikes. Photos. Maps. Maps! Teams of Portland.

Go make some word associations.

Death comes ripping.

MySpace is in on the OpenSocial and it took me two days to notice.

Many apologies to all those ending up here in their quest for tax form information.

Wait. How many years did I wait for that color?

Listened to Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga today and couldn’t help but think of Keepon.

I’ve always thought bookmark webapps were pointless but I’m starting to change my mind. These might be coming through Magnolia someday.

Some Wii games I can get into.

Minesweeper in Kindle? Totally sold! Right…

My hometown, 1913

Let me guess, Songza is old news too.

Hill bombing.

Announced a while ago, but the site just launched. It’d feel dirty not to link The Email Standards Project.

Thinking about setting up a site using Indexhibit just cause. Does this sound like a tweet? It’s not.

Engineerer or designer. Design or engineer. Or the other way around. I’m not sure.

More Flickr gushing.

Goodnight, Safari 2. Should I be updating that post to mention the fact it is no longer relevant?

This video a coworker made is alright I guess.

The (clicked) Superest: Forcing click throughs by not including images in the RSS. Grrrr. I guess no daily art comes without clicking.

This one has been sitting on my desktop for a while waiting to get a listen. It’s good. Full album download of Darker My Love.

Lots of cool features to look forward to. IE, where’s yours? WebKit gets client-side DB while FF3 adds microformat juiciness.

Just another reason to favor Vimeo: HD.

I got excited about bouncing balls and paint so might as well be excited about bunnies too.

Because Portland wouldn’t be Portland with the carts.

Two new browsers, of sorts: WebRunner and Glitch Browser.

What’s better, building a custom guitar from parts or wiring up classic recording studio equipment?

Machine tags fixed? I think so. What broke? Still not sure. But a different method of searching seems to work.

Editing MySpace profiles makes me want to tear my eyes out and feed my hands to the dogs. I can’t believe people actually provide that as a service.

Flickr machine tags, why did you suddenly stop working? I’ve cleared your cache and tickled your tummy.

Graffiti/stop motion. And another.

My boomerang once landed on the roof the elementary school – first throw of the session even. Maybe if it had lights that wouldn’t have happened.

Neat for two reasons: I like the internet and it’s done in SVG.

Browsing Flickr sets to fend off the addiction as frugally as possible. Though maybe this will just result in more shaking despite the myth of it all.

Writing posts sans CSS and JS because my host can’t resolve the www. is fun. Now to blame them or WordPress for hard coding it in the admin rather than basing the path off the current URL?

The dashed line in use. Reminds me of my inability to draw.

Tacoma finally makes Seattle weak in the knees: Mono In VCF. And I like Stars because they remind me to listen to Asobi Seksu

In case anyone forgot how much of a map and microformat nerd I am, if you saw me smiling today it was probably because of Google’s addition of hCard to Google Map results.

Thanks to the 70s and skateboarding and electronica. I once had a skinny skateboard sans kicktail.

I’ve never been into eMusic but their Summer Hits list has a fist full of winners.

Extending the extensions.

Trainband. Trainband. Trainband. Trainband.

I never felt the need to get my hands on the cards, but who can resist stickers?

Somedays I wish I was a math nerd.

The best part about iPhone apps being web apps built for Safari and a small screen is I can still enjoy them even without the hardware: Movies.app.

Google one-ups tab/shift+tab. Keyboards are awesome.

Remember, if both the weekly papers tout a show as going to be awesome, don’t expect to show up at the door at show time and still be able to buy tickets.

More map envy. You can now add destinations to direction maps on Google plus drag and drop the route to different streets. So nice.

Totally missed Go Skateboarding Day because I was too busy being a nerd.

I guess this means I no longer have an excuse for things not lining up very well in the footer.

Skid Row » Sum 41 » Scorpions. Thank you Pandora.

10 Shoot Stuff
20 Die
30 Goto 10

Das not compute: overhidden: flow;

Skate Hard Retard! Dig the Anti-Sit Devices.

Because I really need another couple songs to listen to everyday.

Heard about some helpful bookmarklets for IE HTML/CSS/JS debugging at BarCamp. It really just needs its own Firebug though.

I’ve been reading a page a day for 324 days. I’m really into today’s.

Interrupted by another episode of Peter Griffin vs Chicken, complete with a Snakes on a Plane reference.

.blueLinks { color:#990000; }

[ (CSS + Reboot) / 6 months ] * 9 columns = New Matches

The White Stripes have a new song called Icky Thump. It is real good. I’d have never guessed Dinosaur Jr. to be the MySpace sort of folks.

It’s actually a bit of break dancing madness, but the timing makes La chute quite exciting.

POSH

An extra one million dollars for skateboard parks never hurt anyone. See, I told you Portland likes skateboarders.

WWII cutaway drawings via Neatorama. I can draw like that. Really.

Amazing what a little cracked pepper will do for a cracker. Mmmm.

It’s a big day for new blog designs that have something to do with changing colors. Elan3 is all new and .NET’d.

“To understand how fish stocks in the Southern Ocean are changing, scientists cunningly recruit the world’s cutest research assistants.” There’s even an OK Go reference.

I work with a bunch of rock stars. Last month we received an award for our lunar newsletter.

Interesting discussion at IndieHQ regarding a blog giving away entire albums.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if planes were coming to Portland for the beginnings of my fleet?

The episodes are almost as good as the action names. Pulverizer Fisticuffs! Still not as good as so many VW commercials.

1.618 has a spacey rocker today. Listen to it over and over while downloading 3.1gb of SXSW 2007 mp3’s. And no, I haven’t done the math on this years The bands.

Yeah. I want one. With a mini ramp outside.

Noticed this while being bummed about Flickr’s “massage”. Go Madison.

Google’s new traffic map almost makes me want to start driving more often. OK, that’s a lie. But I like maps.

Yesterday it was the steampunk keyboard. Today it’s the cardboard micro synths. Details.

Self defense. With a stick. Good tips and better images.

A half million minutes of copying is a lot of work. Glad that finished up early this morning.

Make yourself smile. Listen to MSDW by Voxtrot.

I’m excited about food lately. If the box mentions granola and/or oat clusters it’s pretty much guaranteed to destroy Tigers and Leprechauns.

Pretty design and music. Even if it does autoplay. How often I envy Flash for its background stretching abilities. Stupid CSS.

Spending $208,000 on a truck that doubles as a venue just for a crumby screamo band to play out of is a waste. I’m way more into Friends Forever version of playing out of their car.

One. Man. Band.

Neat time lapse of old Arcade games. The rest of the site is rad as well.

Pipes. Not tubes.

I need to learn to make my own chicken soup. I’ve tried every canned variety and they are all ass-strep.

I bet I will never find one of these in my mailbox. In all fairness, I bet no one will ever receive one from me either.

I’m hesitant to admit to digging anything that might be labeled prog or screamo, but sometimes The Fall of Troy rocks my face off.

The other day at work I listened to Electrelane while playing with XPath. Be sure to listen to “Love Builds Up” and “Only One Thing Is Needed” and try the examples in XLab. I love it when I think bands are new to me but then their website looks ridiculously familiar. Glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t redesign.

I once made an audio piece using only samples taken while skateboarding. Musique Concrete.

The naked people are coming to Portland this summer.

All I wanted from NAMM was new pbass colors. So far all I got is an interesting new toy from Roland. D BEAM on a guitar processor plus on-the-fly alternate tunings.

I noticed the term interCaps while reading some docs in the Songbird wiki. Turns out there are quite a few alternate terms for camelCase. NerdCaps? Wonderful.

I dig Metric. I also dig their singer on her own.

Just as IE7 starts to slowly make my job easier, Outlook 2007 makes an already frustrating (but currently very small) part of it even worse.

This was supposed to be where I link to the new 12″ MacBook Pro and comment on the hawesome new features of Leopard plus maybe an additional cool toy or two. Instead, here’s a pop song 3hive linked today.

What? Portland didn’t make the ten top tech towns? They must not have factored in the new tram.

I browsed a bit of digg: 2006 in Music on Wikipedia. Certainly a few bands I wish I could add to the disbanded list. 20 ways the world could end – I’m gunning for three, twelve and thirteen. Almost forgot: How to turn a PS comp to CSS in 30 seconds. Right.

Rather than having a single hero color for their shoes, Emerica randomly loads a featured color. To keep things cohesive, the links from the overview page to the individual shoe pages are matched to the current color. Nice touch.

One step closer to desktop-like apps in your browser. Be sure to play with the examples.

I think Supergrass has ten websites. Ahhhhh… ay ya ya.

PC World has their 20 most innovative products of 2006 list out. I used to get bummed on year end lists yet this is already the second to get linked for 2006. Wish I had known about Farecast six weeks ago.

First it was drop shadows not bombs. Now it’s drop Helvetica not Arial.

There must be at least one old gadget whose design I can steal to cobble together a wicked retro-tech theme.

Ten years of causing trouble.

I’ve been playing this page in Songbird lately. It makes me smile.

Some pretty nice free holiday clip art and not your usual free clip art style of site. Yeah WordPress!

Snowboarders are nerds.

Hot or Not for effects chains at NoiseFX. Can’t get enough of the pr0n.

A neat tool sporting clean urls to make finding CSS documentation from the W3C so much quicker.

I’m of the opinion the Firefox folks got a little carried away with their forced XML/RSS feed previews (as did the IE7 crew). It can break sites and make development more difficult. Here’s how to disable it.

That spacey robot is back with his skateboard tricks.

Paper jedi. And Emperor. And Driods. And Yoda. More Flickr!

No more excuses for developers not to run IE7. Microsoft released an IE6 Testing VPC image, good for four months.

Some nerd stuff we were talking about at work today: Joe Clark’s /. interview and his thoughts on HTML5

Opening day vs opening day. I can’t get enough Flickr.

Digging the full page design of Vail’s weekly weather forecast, especially the icons. Not digging the markup and site wide empty title element. Why am I looking at Vail’s weather in the first place?

Finding colors is fun.

I like gamma because it means new ideas are still being added.

Even though I’m not yet using it and am not working on anything that would be particularly useful as a mobile application, I find it really interesting. Current favorites for checking the mobile experience: MobiReady Report and Google.com/m.

Too much time perusing, not enough time doing: The Art of Musical Maintenance 3, CSA Images, Storytelling.

If you customize your browser to the point of disabling scripts from resizing windows, this won’t meet its potential. If not, well, witness the first good thing to ever come out of that browser method.

The Sprockettes just make me smile. So I should be smiling all weekend.

So cute. Mr. Afraid-of-Anything-but-Heights is my favorite, despite it’s beta-ish status.

What’s worse than linking to a band’s MySpace page when they have a real website? Linking to something created by Microsoft that only runs in IE and requires an ActiveX install. Regardless, Photosynth is looking rather rad. I wonder if anyone else might already be working on a less browser centric version?

Ice cream sandwiches are the new cookies. No link, just saying.

Finally a tag cloud I actually find interesting. Besides, who can resist JS sliders.

Gnarly enough to make me think “WTF?” but not gnarly enough to immediately think earthquake.

I must be getting mellow in my old age. Or it just makes for nice cold, rainy day music: Nellie McKay.

Now let’s associate all the photos and events with location and weather patterns to determine when and where legends will be made.

Now seems like a good time to claim having written Green Day’s American Idiot – in 1992. Only in Oregon.

The double comma is way more interesting than the vaporware.

I can’t get enough pop songs or computer generated art.

Another company I love to hate tries to make good. A friend of mine refers to Sparta as “The Mars Volta and At the Drive In for sissies”. Whatevs. AOL is streaming their new album. As well as The Walkmen’s.

Official release of Firefox 2.0. And unlike that other new browser installation doesn’t require a restart.

More Canadian pop bliss: Bella. Spiral Beach. The Awkward Stage. And more rock than pop: Choke.

Sony may be frustrating but they sure have pretty ads. First they did that bouncy ball thing, now this paint thing.

Why did it take two restarts and over five minutes of grinding to install the official release of IE7?

Currently watching: Deck Dogz. Noseslide underflip darkslide!

A day for fictional cities: Springfield and Urville.

Can you make it through an entire Orthrelm song? Maybe Ocrilim?

IKEA still makes rad Flash pieces. Junior Pantherz make rad rock music. Must have something to do with both being from Canada and having z’s in their name. What? Sweden? Never heard of it.

WTF

Virtual NES.

It’s pages like this that remind me how useful Songbird is.

Remember that band Sunny Day Real Estate? Jeremy (ouch, that’s a myspace link) has a new solo album out in about a week.

Google Code Search searches code. So did Koders.

They say I’m a map nerd.

Yahoo just keeps giving away code. Mashup madness!

More music you don’t have time for.

If you don’t eat Nilla Wafers, you really should. If you don’t eat Oreos, you really should. If you don’t get homemade cookies in the mail, you really should.

Like I said, the button tag really is the new black.

Damn skateboarders and their headphones. Via The Skateboard Mag.

Almost makes me wish I had a del.icio.us account to see my own habits.

Scientists are gnarly. The Inner Life of the Cell.

Where’s the halfpike? Skate or die punk!

Actually tempting. Must be drugs. And infatuation.

Homie showed me fractal hands today.

I was just discussing dirty word filters for a different site and now have cause to consider getting one for comments here.

Old skool Portland on video. Plus a nice Google Maps/YouTube mashup. And we all know I love my maps.

Stolen links from this guy’s site that I surfed from the comments on some other site: new Planes Mistaken for Stars stream (scroll down to #29 in the player) and Murder City Devils summer reunion.

It takes Dreamweaver approximately three minutes to remove 5,347 scattered instances of   from 812 lines of code. Just thought you might be interested.

My house of the future will have a mini in the backyard. And a mountain wouldn’t hurt.

This is just turning into a list of bands I’m digging here and there. Catlow.

I would have thought of skateboarding as being one of the few things proving civilization is not doomed.

The ratio of good bands to terrible bands on Epitaph looks worse every month. Heavens pushes the ratio the right direction for once.

MS’s IntelliPoint 5.5 software has a nice magnify feature for the scroll wheel on any mouse pushing Windows around.

flickr’d.

First Platinum Seagulls post their video Weekend Warriors for all to download and now Wiskate.com has all the parts from the mostly unreleased Hurry Up and Die video on YouTube: Intro, Ben Vance, Pat Forster and Bill Kaschner, Montage, Jon Bunch, Greg Lutzka, Outro. Go Midwest!

adidas has some wicked Flash going on. I suppose paying for it is why their magic shoes cost more than a good pair of skate shoes. I remember when adidas always seemed to play second to Nike in the Flash craziness.

Last night: ir77. One week: Escramble.

Simplifying all those complicated issues.

Be a deer in the Headlights.

OK Go is better than anyone at coordinated dance videos. The most recent and in case you missed the previous sensation. Ha! I just chose your video format for you!

Game Over. Stop motion using cupcakes and pizza. Also, KaBoom!

Craigslist various image 404s. Or just refresh a couple times cause they’re random.

I’m totally down for LEGOS. I mean LEGO bricks.

There’s been a number of times the past few months I’ve been bummed on Dreamhost, but it is hard to stay mad with their consistently rad blog posts.

Majafa made me listen to Kasabian’s last album and now their newest single. Type “Club Foot” into their video player after Empire finishes to see their other end-of-video assassination. Monster!

Rails is all about skateboarding.

Tables are more than welcome in snowboard parks but that’s no excuse for snowboard websites to litter their websites with them. TWSnow finally got rid of theirs. Funny, on the web I dig Rails and hate tables. In the snowboard park I often wish the rails would be replaced with tables.

Thanks adidas for the perfect knee-high ledges – some curved, some straight. And they can’t say no given how much they want skateboarders to love them.

It is good. But I’m convinced Natalie Portman can do no wrong.

With rumors that only the MacBook Pro will be seeing a processor upgrade this month and now the development of a WebKit based browser for Windows, a new laptop is looking less and less attractive.

3hive has a real rocker today.

Number two site in Google for the query “Korn is awesome“. Maybe this will boost me up a notch. Or knock me down for spamming.

Back in the days of Back Smiths for Donuts, I had my girl Hillary Duff phone my opponent for a bit of distraction. If I was knee deep in a contest now, I’d have Samuel L. Jackson on my side.

Sonic Youth DVD. You know that video where Jason Lee rides a skateboard? And the many others?

I’ve been going through gallons and gallons of milk lately. And it’s not that I’ve been eating more cereal or just drinking milk because it’s good, it’s that I’ve been eating lots of cookies. Cookies are so good.

There are enough good bands in Portland to fill an entire weekend with rock songs.

My tree dragon is DEAD!

Malajube has nice videos and the music isn’t bad either (if you only do one, make it Montréal -40° C). The website is pretty too. Except I hate mini scrollers and don’t read french.

Suburban Home Records is a cool indie/punk label in Denver, Colorado. Check out 18 free rock songs (hint: use Download Sampler link at the top to get a complete .zip file with cover art). When you’re done with that give the mixtape a try. Then go buy some CDs.

Did you know Thrasher Magazine is as old as I am? Clearly late on this one, but one issue a month from the first year is being posted online. Yeah pool shredding!

Today is Cap!ta day. This one is looking best for the size, but the quality is questionable for my ninja skills. A close second, but slightly long for, again, my ninja skills. If this one was a bit wider or my toes a bit shorter, no questions asked.

A bit of a jump on looking for this season’s replacement. Looks like they dropped my favorite size (from the non-pro model lineup) for 06/07. Balls.

I’m still afraid of flickr (for reasons including the one that apparently spawned the contest), but dang, nice work matches.

The Crowd doesn’t appear in the default RSS feed. In fact, those strictly on the RSS might not even know this exists. Suckers – totally missing out. If you do happen to notice and otherwise dig the RSS, here are some options: RSS this, RSS that, RSS everything.

My internet is a lonely place when Dreamhost goes down. Remember that power outage?

Just another skate map: Spotcovr.

From the front, I actually prefer the Dell over Apple displays – just need a piece of black tape for the logo. From the back, whole different story. If it were sitting on a desk where people actually see that side, it might almost be worth twice as many dollars.

I usually hate animated navigation, but I love the motion in this one.

HTML emails will never go away. Some more tips.

I dig the video player, but come on Sony/BMG/Epic/whoever you are, making me use IE is so pre2k.