Maggie Mason learns how to roll a kayak. If you haven't been following this Intel has been sponsoring Mightygirl.com to run through her life list (a list of things she's always wanted to do in life).

Anyway, the first few seconds of that video on the kayak are why "rolling a kayak" is going on my "never in my life list".

NOTE: Federated Media (my employer and a company I co-founded 275 years ago) is the company that brokered this campaign. So in fairness, I should point out that I am linking to something that is in some part beneficial to me and my family.

Intel makes you taller.

Anil has launched a new site/idea that I am very much excited about. It's called Last Year's Model and it's all about recognizing you don't need to get on the newest gadget treadmill that some gadget blogs and manufacturers would like you to believe.

Design is by Mule, it's super fancy.

Not a whole lot of feature changes, but a definite jump in style, I've re-launched Listable with a design provided by Mule Design.

Some lists I like:

1. Most Commonly Used Passwords — Stick that in a local database and clean against your users logging into your site.
2. Airport Code Country Airport
3. HTML Tag List — Nice if you're building some kind of HTML parsing script and need a list.
4. Chinese Zodiac — Again, what I built this site for. If someone needs a list, here it is in a myriad of formats.
5. Words Containing The Letter X — So good.
6. Common XSS Vectors — Eep.

I first became aware of Buster Mcleod from his All Consuming project. He has a lot of projects that seem to spiral off from what he was doing with All Consuming. Projects that track a particular time of day on Flickr. Projects that display what is in season for your location. His Morale-O-Meter used to track his mood and other statuses throughout the week. He sums it up in his post "History of my self-tracking":

The reason I am obsessed with self-tracking is because I think there is a way to track yourself in such a way that it leads to epiphanies about yourself, about the cause and effect of things, in such a way that these numbers would eventually be able to tell you things about yourself that you didn’t already know. This is the only reason to self-track, in my opinion.

You can now watch him go in a new weblog called Enjoymentland.

I just remembered, it's Gothtober time again, and the official site is back with a Christmas-like advent calendar to take us to Halloween.

The first video has a sample from a classic video that always kills me.

Derek launches MagCloud along with HP Labs. That dude is obsessed. [in a good way]

Two friends at work have started a unique podcast called White Noise Lounge.

From the about page:
We went back and forth like this for a while, cracking each other up with ideas like “white noise radio,” that played nothing but a continuous low hum, all—day—long. The next morning she was still giggling to herself about it.

I've been listening to them all morning. It's interesting how the different background noises can affect your mood. The idling Vespa made me anxious, the bridge joints were calming, and the sound of tinkling dishes and silverware was pleasant.

Sometimes life is too quiet, instead of turning on a TV or a distracting radio, why not invite some dishwashers into your house?

Amber and I ended up at Needles and Pens this weekend and I turned the corner into the art gallery wall to find ZINES. And not just zines, but SKATE ZINES. I actually recognized Tod Swank's zine, of course, and a few other names seemed to be familiar.

I must scan and upload my zine (MEGA zine) before our next move. At least the issue with my friend Justin on the cover, all teeth missing or bent outwards, and smiling like a dope.

Dude made his own sword from scratch.

This turned into an unexpected late night. Shift refresh, you should see a new site (or an old site if you read (un)filtered).

I'm not a designer, but I know what I like. When I saw Michael's new site I knew it was what I wanted for myself. I got the "okay" from him and redid his site by hand with CSS and only one table (shakes fist at HTML forms). I couldn't bring myself to copy and paste it, plus I have been wanting to learn how to do my own custom template through TypePad so it became a project.

It's late, I haven't had a chance to debug, and I have almost 1,000 entries to re-classify after realizing I really didn't need most of them (genitals?).