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Alcatraz

Alcatraz and the warf from a cable car

Tomorrow morning, at 7:30 I'm going to swim from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park.

And I'm pretty fucking nervous about it.

u p d a t e : just to be clear, this is not my triathlon, I'm doing this to train for the triathlon.

links for 2007-05-10

• Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley
  (tags: VC venturecapital funding)
• The Daily Record - NEWS - News Feed - MALKIED! - MALKIED!
  Malcolm McLaren vs. Mike Watt! (Well, a Mike Watt. Not *that* Mike Watt.)
  (tags: music punk sexpistols minutemen)
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Eric Schmidt's new title at Apple: "Vagina."
  (tags: fakesteve google apple)
• Forbes.com Corporate Org Chart Wiki
  Fuck, this is funny. Mouse over the names.
  (tags: funny wiki humor web2)
• Podcasts from the U.S. Government: USA.gov
  (tags: podcasting government)
• Barney Cam Vodcast by the President's Dog
  Wow.
  (tags: dog government podcast)

links for 2007-05-09

• The Daily Tube: The Best New Videos on the Web
  Great idea
  (tags: youtube blog)
• LAist: Extra, Extra - The Hills of Los Angeles Are Burrrnnnin
  (tags: losangeles griffithpark robpoynter)
• You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com
  This is just silly.
  (tags: google search)
• No more ad-skipping
  Disney announced a deal today with Cox Communications in which Cox's video-on-demand service will disable its fast-forward forward feature. This will make it impossible for subscribers to skip through ads.
  (tags: advertising media tivo dvr)

Athens Georgia Inside Out

1. I'd forgotten that whole southern guy with long hair in a puffy shirt and vest tattered angel thing
2. Peter Buck in his pajamas.

Griffith Park Fire

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Originally uploaded by iamrob.

Rob has some intense pictures of the Griffith Park fire that's raging in Los Angeles right now.

links for 2007-05-08

• TOKYOMANGO: Tokyomango Site Design Contest
  (tags: webdesign contest)
• 5195 KW - Massachusetts, please drink decaf
  DECAF YOU NEED DECAF
  (tags: cars driving commuting)
• Annals of Communications: Critical Mass: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  Walt Mossberg may be the most powerful business journalist in history.
  (tags: journalism technology tech)

links for 2007-05-07

• Aquatic Park Water Quality
  (tags: triathlon california swimming aquaticpark)
• Aquatic Park: beaches
  (tags: triathlon california swimming aquaticpark)

links for 2007-05-06

• When Kurt Vonnegut Met Sammy Davis - 10 Zen Monkeys (a webzine)
  (tags: kurtvonnegut history destiny)
• Weapons of Mass Production
  CamalBak!
  (tags: war iraq photos)
• TwitBin - twitter your browser - twitbin.com
  (tags: web2.0 widgets twitter)

links for 2007-05-04

• Big-City LA Living
  opossoms!
  (tags: animals losangeles)
• How Digg could have avoided a community revolt at Demand Satisfaction!
  The enlightened path should have been obvious to them: be completely transparent with users from the beginning. Before it took any action that stripped power from users, Digg should have shared its dilemma with the community
  (tags: digg aacs drm web)
• Cover Alert: Neutral Milk Hotel's ... Over the Sea
  Mark your calendars
  (tags: neutralmilhotel music)
• Pitchfork: Mike Watt Collab Fever: Petra Haden, Go! Team's Kaori
  As Andre said, he's the new hardest working man in show business
  (tags: music watt via:andre)
• HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BIKE?!?
  A friend of mine had her bike stolen here in San Francisco. Have you seen it?
  (tags: cycling bike sanfrancisco crime)

links for 2007-05-02

• How to Make Latte Art - WikiHow
  (tags: coffee food art howto latte)
• VC Ratings: Cilion Archives
  cleantech investors
  (tags: cleantech investing)
• Map of online communities
  (tags: comics humor web2.0 myspace)

links for 2007-05-01

• Last Plane to Jakarta: Sony: Stop It
  Albums on iTunes cost $9.99. If you're not comfortable with that, don't sell them there.
  (tags: itunes sony music)