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links for 2007-08-31

• CR Blog » Blog Archive » The New Ugly
  Interesting.
  (tags: design via:buzzfeed)
• Michael Bauer: Between Meals
  Chez Panisse does Fried Chicken right
  (tags: food review sanfrancisco)

links for 2007-08-29

• YouTube - Miss Teen SC gets a do-over
  Yep, still stupid.
  (tags: missteenusa humor culture)

links for 2007-08-28

• Joe Gannon’s Blog » Response to Social Networks Article in September Wired
  "no social network is lame as long as there are members" ORLY? Whatever, lame-o.
  (tags: bymth wired socialnetworking)
• Beware These Six Lamest Social Networks
  And here's the piece I wrote that upset the guy one link below (or, um, above)
  (tags: bymth socialnetworking socialnetworks wired)
• Technology Makes Skydiving Foolproof: Yeah, Right
  This is my friend Joe Brown's article in this month's Wired. Joe moved to Wired from PopSci recently and heads my kickball team. The story is awesome; you should read it.
  (tags: wired skydiving)
• Burning Man Set on Fire Early, Either by Arson or Accident | Laughing Squid
  d'oh!
  (tags: burningman)

Dammit, Apple

Okay, so I'm an unabashed Apple fanboy. Just glancing around my desk, I see a MacBook, MacMini, three iPods, an iPhone, an iSight, an Apple keyboard, an iLife 08 box, an Apple TV, and that's not to mention all the other flim-flamery throughout the house.

But man, does their tech support suck.

Case in point. My Mac Mini gave up the ghost, rather slowly. each time I booted it, it got a little worse until it reached the point where it wouldn't start all the way up. Now, I'm no Woz, but I know my way around these machines, and I threw everything I could at it before calling up support. After twenty minutes on hold, they have me essentially re-do all the things I've already done. The only reason to do this stuff is to humor them, obviously, but whatever. I know the drill, so I jump through the hoops. Finally, we get to the point where I knew we would, where the tech support person says "uncle" and tells me that they need me to mail in my Mac. Great. Take it.

She says my mailer should arrive the next day. It doesn't. But hell, it was Saturday. I decided to wait. Today, when DHL didn't bring it, I called tech support. Another long hold time (this time it was a mere 15 minutes). I give the guy my deets, and he has to put me on hold. A long time passes. Know what the problem was? They don't take Mac Minis as mail ins.

Oh.

"And you weren't going to let me know?"

"Well, I am letting you know right now. You need to take your computer to an Apple Store."

Oh. Right. Thanks. Thanks for being so proactive about it.

links for 2007-08-27

• Pacific Coast Trail Runs
  Runs that aren't races in beautiful places
  (tags: california running hiking sanfrancisco sports)
• Young Woz and Jobs Playset goes on sale 08/29
  (tags: LEGO Apple stevejobs woz toys nerd)
• China: The World's Smokestack
  An amazing photo essay in the NYT
  (tags: china photography pollution environment)
• Miss Teen USA® 2007: Closeup
  Lauren Caitlin Upton: Rocket scientist. "I would have to say"
  (tags: missteenusa culture humor)

Miss Teen South Carolina

I hate to say that we saw this live. But we did.

Miss Teen USA

Originally posted on mat.vox.com

links for 2007-08-25

• Hipster Olympics
  I usually don't find hipster jokes that funny, but this is well done
  (tags: culture hipster video)

links for 2007-08-23

• Scientists Drug Test Entire Cities
  Apparently, Lindsey Lohan affected the entire West Coast.
  (tags: culture drugs technology)

links for 2007-08-16

• On-Time Details
  airport on time data
  (tags: airports flights travel)

links for 2007-08-15

• Google Health coming, lets you manage your records online
  (tags: google healthcare healthinsurance health)
• Dogs wearing wigs
  Just what it says. Nine delicious pictures.
  (tags: dogs animals humiliation)

links for 2007-08-14

• Convert tools for Garmin Training Center
  Convert KML, GPX, TCX files
  (tags: conversion GPS software maps backpacking)

links for 2007-08-13

• City Cycle Wool Jersey
  City Cycle vintage-style San Francisco jersey
  (tags: cycling clothing saveforlater)

links for 2007-08-10

• studio visit: Jeremy Fish Fecal Face
  He has an opening this weekend.
  (tags: art video jeremyfish)
• Mojo Bicycle Cafe
  (tags: coffee sanfrancisco cycling)
• Not So Much Dethroning at Dethroner
  Bummer. This is my favorite blog these days. Joel is a *fantastic* writer
  (tags: blogging dethroner writing)

On Vox: Jeremy Fish

Jeremy Fish has long been one of my favorite artists--since I moved to San Francisco and started seeing his posters, really. He has an opening this weekend at White Walls, and Fecal Face previews it with a tour of his studio. I've dropped the videos in below, but click through to the site, which has some great pictures.

Studio Visit With Jeremy Fish

More Studio Visit

Originally posted on mat.vox.com

links for 2007-08-09

• How Apple Nurtured Fake Steve
  (tags: blogging apple fakesteve)
• Segway scooter user group folds due to lack of interest
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA (inhale) HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
  (tags: segway hyperbole schadenfreude)

links for 2007-08-08

• :: ROCK LOBSTER CUSTOM BICYCLES ::
  Wow these are *amazing* looking bicycles.
  (tags: cycling)
• Michael Vick Dog Chew Toy
  Revenge of the woof
  (tags: football animals dogs humor)

links for 2007-08-06

• A Mystery Solved: ‘Fake Steve’ Blogger Comes Clean - New York Times
  Bummer
  (tags: fakesteve apple)
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Damn, I am so busted, yo
  "One bright side is that at least I was busted by the Times and not Valleywag. I really, really enjoyed seeing those guys keep guessing wrong. For six months Dr. Evil and Mr. Bigglesworth put their big brains together and couldn't come up with the answer.
  (tags: fakesteve apple)

On Vox: Exit Sandman

I can has sprint triathlon:

I don't know what I was so worried about. It was fantastic, incredibly fun. Especially because since I hadn't been training, I didn't feel any pressure to finish at a certain time. This was a gorgeous course: The swim (.5 miles) went out around a pier with an old concrete shipwreck at the end of it. The bike (15 miles) was up through the Aptos hills, through some fruit orchards. The run (4 miles) ran down the length of the beach, up a set of stairs through some campsites, and back along the beach again. Running, I counted five seals and saw a pod of dolphins with at least 11 individuals. The dolphins really got into it. Maybe inspired by all the other swimmers, they put on a hugely acrobatic show, repeatedly jumping high up into the air and turning flips like they were performing at Sea World. Simply amazing.

Meanwhile, Harper spent the previous day riding in the Santa Cruz Mountain Challenge, where she climbed 10,850 feet over the course of 100 miles. I was really proud of her, she worked so hard for this, espcially considering that two years ago at this time, she was suffering from a back injury so debilitating that she could hardly walk, to say nothing of ride, for more than a year. All-around, a pretty damn good weekend.

Originally posted on mat.vox.com

links for 2007-08-02

• Walk Score - How walkable is your house?
  (tags: environment googlemaps housing transportation reference web2.0)

On Vox: Enter Sandman

This weekend, on Sunday, I'm signed up for the Sandman triathlon down near Santa Cruz. (I'm also signed up for the Santa Cruz Mountain Century on Saturday, but I'm planning on bailing.)

Sandman_620

Here's the thing. Since Alcatraz, I've been swimming exactly once. Once. In the space of a month. And that was in a pool, not in good cold water. I managed to run the San Francisco half marathon last weekend, but only with the help of my friend Rob. I'm already woefully out of shape compared to where I was a month ago. And so this weekend I'm going to try to tackle a .5 mile swim, 15 mile bike, and four mile (beach!) run without training for it whatsoever.

Wish me luck?

Originally posted on mat.vox.com