<p>first off, if you're not using <a href="http://flickr.com/">flickr</a> for photo sharing, you should be.</p>

<p>secondly, flickr just recently <a href="http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/great_shot_wher.html">added photo geocoding</a> to their <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/organize/">organizr</a> (which was awesome already). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding" rel="bookmark">geocoding</a> is the process of putting photos on map or giving them some kind of location, usually in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude" rel="bookmark">long</a> / <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude" rel="bookmark">lat</a>.</p>

<p>i spent the other night geocoding my over 1100 photos. you can see <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/map/">my photos on a map</a> or explore <a href="http://flickr.com/map">all of flickr's geocoded photos</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59550149/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/25/59550149_ebb9b3cefc.jpg" alt="timone high action shot."></a></p>

<p>a dear friend of mine, shawn, experienced a great loss a few months ago. i meant to write this back then when it happened. his dog was close to him and he was important to his dog. timone was insanely loyal. he was obedient. he came when you call him. he cuddled. he played one hell of a game of fetch. he'd catch anything you threw at him. literally. i never saw him not like someone. timone was hit by car and was killed. i'm sorry, shawn. i'm sorry, timone. i've been through this more times than anyone should.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/108068228/" title="Photo Sharing 1"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/43/108068228_02d31c30b4_t.jpg" alt="chris isn't the only dinghy in this photo."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59545299/" title="Photo Sharing 2"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/33/59545299_43cbd755c5_t.jpg" alt="timone totallys 0wn3rz3d that couch."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59549812/" title="Photo Sharing 3"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/29/59549812_af71dea10b_t.jpg" alt="timone just got james in the mouth."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59549697/" title="Photo Sharing 4"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/27/59549697_f53e4f069c_t.jpg" alt="puny human. you are too slow to avoid my dog kisses. -timone."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59549601/" title="Photo Sharing 5"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/28/59549601_a3470f45d1_t.jpg" alt="look at how cute this dog is that i'm pointing at. -some random hand."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59554502/" title="Photo Sharing 6"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/28/59554502_885df10931_t.jpg" alt="tim motherfucking one."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59549934/" title="Photo Sharing 7"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/31/59549934_f9b99f9d98_t.jpg" alt="dog hugs and kisses. and james too."></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/59550082/" title="Photo Sharing 8"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/29/59550082_692a7f1085_t.jpg" alt="hugs not drugs."></a></p>

<p>when gmail first came out i thought 'yeh, this is certainly cooler than most <a href="http://hotmail.com/">webmail</a>, but i use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol" rel="bookmark">pop mail</a> so i don't really need it.' i held on to my gmail account just for funsies. plus, its awesome: veganstraightedge@gmail.com.</p>

<p>i didn't really use much at first. then i let my mindspring (earthlink) accounts [veganstraightedge@mindspring.com &amp; gyromx@mindspring.com] die. so my gmail account became my primary. this was after google flipped the switch on popping gmail down. so basically nothing changes for me. righteous.</p>

<p>then one day i got my first piece of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam" rel="bookmark">spam</a>. that's weird. really weird. gmail's spam filtering had been so good that people were actually creating gmail accounts just to use as <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/EC7RC5XC7REP2864UU/?ALLSTEPS">psuedo spam proxys</a>. then i got 2 or 3 in one day. then i was getting just blasted with the whole gamut of spam: porn, prescription drugs, casinos, mortgage, insurance, softwares ...you name it.</p>

<p>keep in mind this wasn't sneaking stuff. it might as well have had a giant flashing neon sign saying "I'M A PIECE OF SPAM. PLEASE FILTER ME." subjects like this:  </p>

<ul>
  <li>[No Joke: 3 Laptop Computers to Test &amp; Keep]</li>
  <li>SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: held spotted mother democratic enough the rh64kSU5j8Q</li>
  <li>* Valium bestseller *</li>
  <li>REDUCE your DEBT by 40 % - 60 %</li>
</ul>

<p>i decided to poke around on the <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/">gmail help</a> for some spam filtering help. the best i found was <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1519">Avoiding Spam</a>.</p>

<p><cite><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6602&amp;topic=1519">How do I get rid of spam?</a></cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6602&amp;topic=1519">
  <p>To remove spam from your inbox, check the box next to the unwanted message, and click Report Spam. If you discover a message is spam once you have opened it, just click 'Report Spam' along the top of the message to send it to the Gmail Team.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Real Fucking Helpful™. thanks a lot, gmail team.</p>

<p>ok. so their help documentation isn't great. that's ok. i understand. i'll just write them at their support email which is... let's see its somewhere on here, right? i mean, surely google has a some mechanism to ask for help. c'mon. well, i wasn't able to find one. so i wrote them at the help@gmail.com, support@gmail.com and contact@gmail.com. this is what transpired.</p>

<p><cite>I</cite> wrote them:</p>
<blockquote>
  <p>
    From: 	  veganstraightedge@gmail.com<br>
    Subject: 	<strong>spam filtering not working</strong><br>
    Date: 	April 3, 2006 11:18:47 AM PDT<br>
    To: 	  help@gmail.com, support@gmail.com, contact@gmail.com
  </p>
  <p>i don't know where to send this email, because there's no clear support address. so i just tried a few.</p>

  <p>but here's the problem. i used to rave about gmail's spam filtering. until recently, it was great. nothing slipped through. then all of the sudden i had 1 or 2 everyday. then a few more and so on. now i consistently get 3 to 10 spam messages a day sllip through. and they aren't clever or sneaky. they're very obvious ones, like:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>[No Joke: 3 Laptop Computers to Test &amp; Keep]</li>
    <li>SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT: held spotted mother democratic enough the rh64kSU5j8Q</li>
    <li>* Valium bestseller *</li>
    <li>REDUCE your DEBT by 40 % - 60 %</li>
    <li>and so on.</li>
  </ul>

  <p>i certainly don't mean its not working at all or even very great. these just seem so obvious and similar to stuff that does get caught by the filter.</p>

  <p>anyhow. that's that.</p>
  <p>take care.</p>
  <p>shaners</p>
</blockquote>

<p><cite>They</cite> bounced back this:</p>
<blockquote>
  <p>Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: help@gmail.com.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><cite>They</cite> auto-replied this:</p>
<blockquote>
  <p>
    From: 	  mail-support@google.com<br>
    Subject: 	Re: [#52566500] spam filtering not working<br>
    Date: 	April 3, 2006 11:19:19 AM PDT<br>
    To: 	  veganstraightedge@gmail.com
  </p>
  <p>Hello,</p>

  <p>Thanks for contacting us. We aren't able to respond directly to inquiries submitted to this email address.</p>

  <p>Please visit our Help Center at http://mail.google.com/support/, or by clicking 'Help' at the top of any Gmail page within your account. Our Help Center provides answers to the most commonly asked questions, and offers information about Gmail and all of its features.</p>

  <p>If you are unable to log in to your Gmail account, please follow the steps to reset your password by clicking 'Forgot your password?' on http://mail.google.com.</p>

  <p>Sincerely,</p>

  <p>The Google Team</p>

  <p>------</p>
  <p>If you'd like to learn more about how Gmail's features work, check out the Gmail Help Discussion (http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-ABCs) where our users share helpful tips and tricks with one another.</p>
  <p>------</p>
</blockquote>

<p>short story: that's a bunch of whack bullshit!</p>

<p><cite>Paul Graham</cite> wrote:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.paulgraham.com/copy.html">
  <p>... most painters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used brownish colors.  They were imitating the great painters of the Renaissance, whose paintings by that time were brown with dirt.  Those paintings have since been cleaned, revealing brilliant colors; their imitators are of course still brown.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>ha ha! suckers!</p>

<p>quite awhile back i read on <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/map/">Martin Pittenauer's</a> <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/map/log/">blog</a> about a documentary called "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/">The Elegant Universe</a>" that originally aired on <a href="http://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a>' <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/">Nova</a>. i was pretty stoked to hear about it, because way back a few years ago when i lived in missouri (aka the state of misery) i remember seeing commercials for it and wanting to watch it, but then missing it. ah, you've got to love the internet.</p>

<p>just as he noted, the whole thing is <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html" rel="bookmark">viewable online</a>. but the annoying thing was that all videos were wrapped up in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language">.smil</a> file. in short that means, i'd have to stream it al and watch it while i had internet access and hope that there weren't any hiccups in network status. so after asking him how he watched it, he wrote me back with a copy of the smil and advice that now seems obvious. if you open the smil file in a <a href="http://codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html">text</a> <a href="http://www.macromates.com/">editor</a>, you can see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier">URI</a> of all the movies chapters.</p>

<p>i did you the favor of busting the links out so you don't have to look at an ugly ugly <code>smil</code>.</p>

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a388.g.akamai.net/5/388/142/3f9e93f2/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c01_hi_100.mov">A Theory of Everything?</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1572.g.akamai.net/5/1572/142/3f9e693c/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c02_hi_100.mov">Newton's Embarassing Secret</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/5/1204/142/3f9e68c5/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c03_hi_100.mov">A New Picture of Gravity</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a28.g.akamai.net/5/28/142/3f9e6ac5/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c04_hi_100.mov">A Strange New World</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1652.g.akamai.net/5/1652/142/3f9e6b39/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c05_hi_100.mov">The Quantum Cafe</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1420.g.akamai.net/5/1420/142/3f9e6982/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c06_hi_100.mov">Gravity - The Odd Man Out</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a920.g.akamai.net/5/920/142/3f9e6a34/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c07_hi_100.mov">Strings to the Rescue</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a16.g.akamai.net/5/16/142/3f9e6a87/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3012c08_hi_100.mov">Science or Philosophy?</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1988.g.akamai.net/5/1988/142/3f9e74cf/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c01_hi_100.mov">The Conflicting Sets of Laws</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a352.g.akamai.net/5/352/142/3f9e7c11/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c02_hi_100.mov">One Master Equation</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a376.g.akamai.net/5/376/142/3f9e7b6b/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c03_hi_100.mov">The Birth of String Theory</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1640.g.akamai.net/5/1640/142/3f9e7581/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c04_hi_100.mov">The Standard Model</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a176.g.akamai.net/5/176/142/3f9e7807/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c05_hi_100.mov">Wrestling With String Theory</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1740.g.akamai.net/5/1740/142/3f9e76b1/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c06_hi_100.mov">The Theory of Everything</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1920.g.akamai.net/5/1920/142/3f9e760c/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c07_hi_100.mov">Multiple Dimensions</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a576.g.akamai.net/5/576/142/3f9e7a62/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3013c08_hi_100.mov">Five Flavors of String Theory</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a500.g.akamai.net/5/500/142/3fa7ef34/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c01_hi_100.mov">The Wild West of Physics</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a2044.g.akamai.net/5/2044/142/3fa7f007/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c02_hi_100.mov">The Potential of Strings</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1716.g.akamai.net/5/1716/142/3fa7fd44/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c03_hi_100.mov">Getting to One Theory</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a612.g.akamai.net/5/612/142/3fa7edcc/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c04_hi_100.mov">Parallel Universes</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1040.g.akamai.net/5/1040/142/3fa7ece4/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c05_hi_100.mov">Escaping Gravity</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1168.g.akamai.net/5/1168/142/3fa7eae4/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c06_hi_100.mov">Riddle of the Big Bang</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a1096.g.akamai.net/5/1096/142/3fa8fd67/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c07_hi_100.mov">Signs of Strings</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="http://a304.g.akamai.net/5/304/142/3fa7dc5e/1a1a1afb6ae049ae214fc034aad839a91985ea187bea5786f362d841a61948bf2688f01f87fb6fdf0e7ceb61c22186fb/nova_eu_3014c08_hi_100.mov">Too Elegant to be Wrong?</a>
  </li>
</ul>

<p>go forth and nerd it up.</p>

<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <em>Simple Song</em> by Avail</p>

<p>does anyone remember that turd? basically <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour_(comics)" rel="bookmark">Zero Hour</a> was supposed to fix all the crazy continuity that poor editing / managing / writing for decades had created. all kinds of alternate futures, pasts, presents. ugh.</p>

<p><cite>Wikipedia</cite> had this to say:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour_(comics)">
  <p>It promised to do for the inconsistent future timelines of the DC Universe what Crisis had done for its parallel worlds: unify them into a new one.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>well, good luck with that.</p>

<p>but this isn't about that. this is about a different kind of <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero_hour" rel="bookmark">zero hour</a>. about a month and a half ago, i wrote about my new email policy which i called an <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/1/1/email-zero-hour/" rel="bookmark me">email zero hour</a>. basically, restarting the clock on my inbox.</p>

<p>i completely caught up. and i've vowed to keep up by acting on all new mail within 3 days. also i no longer store everything on my machine. i've been popping mail down from <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/3/2/obfuscated-email-address/" rel="bookmark"> my gmail account</a>, while leaving an archive of it on the google servers. so i was just eating up tons and tons of hard disk by keeping mail that i never really ever went back to and that i already had a copy of somewhere else. pretty silly, right?</p>

<p>i reply faster now. i delete locally now. i've started clearing out the archives, too. its just boat loads of crap in there that i have no idea why i think i'd ever need it.</p>

<p>all along while doing that i had planned on doing a weblog zero hour, too. there are always these little things that i wanna blog about that i see on the webba or that we do or that i hear someone say, but i don't feel right blogging those little things when i have all these bigger more important things that i've been planning on writing about forever. <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0108037/" rel="bookmark">FOR. EV. ER.</a></p>

<p>so this is the start of the Weblog Zero Hour. here's a teaser of the shape of posts to come.</p>

<ul>
  <li>copy what you like</li>
  <li>the answer to <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/26/2/the-hint-718-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-song-and-a-backward-k/" rel="bookmark me">the hint</a>

</li> <li>everything burns bright when its new</li> <li>1000 number paintings and the million dollar website</li> <li>elegant universe</li> <li>gmail help straight dissing me</li> <li>ev, i♥4</li> <li>social networks of the future? look no further than…</li> <li>salt lake city planetarium</li> <li>ev-sb date recaps</li> <li>seattle mariners baseball game against the giants</li> <li>$20 parking</li> <li>i guarengodamnfuckentee it</li> <li>tags, categories, wordpress and technorati</li> <li>re: vk. i’m a big dumb dummy</li> <li>my dad is a dead beat</li> <li>emily stapzka. i’m sorry</li> <li>a whole series of very public apoligies</li> <li>good time. bad times. haunt me. looking back.</li> <li>timone was a good dog</li> <li>godzilla was too</li> <li>my friends are my family. they’ve saved my life many times over.</li> <li>trial reunion show trip (yes, i’m still planning on finishing this)</li> <li>sxsw goodies</li> <li>the problems i have, catholic guilt and penance</li> <li>new theme</li> <li>kern hoodie</li> <li>comiccon recap</li> <li>tufte, new project, listyourlist and dashboards</li> <li>bulletproofing</li> <li>upcoming project redesign</li> <li>batting cage</li> </ul>

<p>looks like i've got my work cut out for me. so i'm off...</p>

<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <em>All Falls Down</em> by Kanye West</p>

<p>for years and years it seemed like, save for a couple exceptions, i was the one always traveling all over the place to visit friends. but they would never come to visit me. but the past year or so that has changed. more of my friends have come the other direction. my family still hasn't. and a few friends that are really important to me. but it feels nice to be in a way street sometimes. [a couple were just here visiting, and we have 3 - 6 more on the way real soon like. nice.]</p>

<p><cite>J.Ivy</cite> in a kanye west song</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Kanye-West/Never-Let-Me-Down.html">
  If I were on the highest cliff on the highest riff<br>
  And you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life in my grip<br>
  I would never, ever, let you down
</blockquote>

<p>its just so good.</p>

<p>i've already shown what <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com">this site</a> and <a href="http://zinedistro.org/">zinedistro</a> <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/articles/2006/6/1/2/websites-as-graphs-zinedistroorg/">look like</a>. now you can hear what they sound like. i made these by using <a href="http://69.111.148.2/wlb/webmusic.aspx">The World's Largest Band</a>.</p>

The World's Largest Band applet works by translating HTML tags into notes. When a tag opens, it starts a loop, which will continue until the tag ends. Nested tags lead to nested loops, while the attributes of those tags will trigger the appropriate beat drops and solos. With a little trial and error, HTML can be written explicitly for this instrument, to quickly make some very intricate songs.

here are both zinedistro as midi (in mp3) and this blog as midi (in mp3). i’ve been sitting on these for a while meaning to post them. like a million other things. i’m trying to get caught up. so these next handful of posts might be a bit shorter.

<ul>
  <li><a href="http://assets.veganstraightedge.com/audio/linked/2006-06-30/zd.mid" title="World's Largest Band">zinedistro in .mid</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://assets.veganstraightedge.com/audio/linked/2006-06-30/tra.mid" title="World's Largest Band">the resistance army in .mid</a></li>
</ul>

<p>i've got a post in the works about this thing. the hints are in the title.</p>

<p>roommates who know, please don't give it away.</p>

<p>i recently submitted some designs to a potential <em>client</em> for some web work. i'm still waiting to hear back from them. so i don't feel like i can talk about it freely yet, but i'm really excited about how the designs went. especially compared to what they had to begin with. so for now, here are the pencil sketches.</p>

<p>enjoy.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/175885364/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/73/175885364_805396c41d_m.jpg" alt="client sketch main"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/175885383/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/60/175885383_8852fc66b9_m.jpg" alt="client sketch catalog"></a></p>

<p>this is my email address : <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:veganstraightedge@gmail.com" rel="me">veganstraightedge@gmail.com</a>.</span></p>

<p>or at least the way you see it when reading this page is. the source code has been obfuscated to make it not look like an email address, so that when spam robots are crawling the web looking for victims, i'll get skipped. one can only hope. this is not fool proof. spam crawlers could get smarter and learn to look for these kinds of things, but its a constant battle for my inbox and every little bit helps.</p>

<p>for the nerdy here is what it looks like when its garbled up:</p>

<textarea rows="5" cols="40" readonly>&amp;#118;&amp;#101;&amp;#103;&amp;#97;&amp;#110;&amp;#115;&amp;#116;&amp;#114;&amp;#97;&amp;#105;&amp;#103;&amp;#104;&amp;#116;&amp;#101;&amp;#100;&amp;#103;&amp;#101;&amp;#64;&amp;#103;&amp;#109;&amp;#97;&amp;#105;&amp;#108;&amp;#46;&amp;#99;&amp;#111;&amp;#109;</textarea>

<p><a href="http://snapflashphoto.blogspot.com/" rel="friend met">david maki</a>, i'm looking at you...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/159187521/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/55/159187521_eeea01251e_o.png" alt="punkin pie"></a></p>

<p>this is from an <a href="http://www.iconfactory.com/preview.asp?type=show&amp;id=228">icon set</a> on the <a href="http://iconfactory.com/" rel="bookmark">IconFactory</a>. it made me think of a serious awesome stomach tattoo my friend wanted to get.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/main/we_are_poor.html"><strong>CrimethInc. far east is broke.</strong></a></p>

<p>they're asking for some help. donations, sure. but also, just orders, too.</p>

<p><cite>Crimethinc. Far East</cite> wrote:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.crimethinc.com/main/we_are_poor.html">
  <p>If you have been meaning to get a book or two from us, buy that DVD for your friend, or grab some stickers for the local mall, now is the time to do it.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>if you haven't read <a href="http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/sid=620447542/books.html#evasion">evasion</a>, i highly recommend it. <a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/a/cookbook/">recipes for disaster</a> is probably the best thing ever <a href="http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/sid=620447542/books.html#cook">for $12</a>.  they have some <a href="http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/sid=620447542/free.html">free things</a> that come with every order. <a href="http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/sid=620447542/zines.html">rolling thunder : anarchist journal of dangerous living</a> is a great magazine format quarterly publication. (Punch cops in the face ...and get away with it!). and finally, with <a href="http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/sid=620447542/video.html">CrimethInc. Guerrilla Film Series, Volume One</a> you could get 3 awesome <a href="http://www.centellas.org/miguel/archives/000961.html">agit-doc</a> feature films and 5 shorts for $10: <a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/a/dvd/">Pickaxe, Breaking the Spell, and The Miami Model</a>.</p>

<p>so here's the grand finale...</p>

<p>they did a fifth edition, tenth printing fancy pants version of <a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/a/days/">days of war, nights of love</a> and are giving to people who donate $100 or more. i know its a little silly, but i think they do good things and i'm ok with supporting what they do. we put in our order last night in the evening and it arrived today early afternoon. now that's service. (we're in seattle. they're in oregon. it was sent priority. but still, that's exciting.) <a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/main/days_neplus.html">read all about it</a>. it really is as pretty as it looks in the pictures.</p>

<p><cite>CrimethInc. Far East</cite> wrote:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.crimethinc.com/main/days_neplus.html">
  <p>To celebrate the tenth printing and fifth anniversary of <a href="http://www.crimethinc.com/a/days/">Day of War, Nights of Love</a>, we have produced an especially limited, deluxe, hardcover printing of 100 copies. Of the 100, 50 are as pictured below and will be made available only as gifts for people who donate $100 or more. The other 50 have slightly different endsheets, and have been given as gifts to the 50 people who have offered the most indispensable assistance to CrimethInc. in the past five years (it is too late to get on that list now).</p>
  <h3>How To Get One</h3>
  <p>Only 50 copies of this edition will ever be made publicly available, and will be offered exclusively as gifts in return for donations of $100 or more. There will never be any other printings, and the books will never be available for smaller donations, regardless of how long it takes to reach 50 donations of $100. They are available on a first-come, first-serve basis (if you are reading this, it means copies are still available). In addition to the book, donations of $100 or more also include up to 500 copies of FFOL. All books will be mailed via Priority Mail and come in a protective and resealable mylar sleeve. <a href="http://www.buyolympia.com/crimethinc/temp.html">You can donate $100 here.</a></p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158942158/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/158942158_2567732c67_m.jpg" alt="days of war, nights of love ne plus ultra edition"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158942132/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/61/158942132_9ad295e405_m.jpg" alt="days of war, nights of love ne plus ultra edition"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158942022/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/70/158942022_41d02390ba_m.jpg" alt="days of war, nights of love ne plus ultra edition"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158942071/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/75/158942071_f39783fa9c_m.jpg" alt="days of war, nights of love ne plus ultra edition"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158941997/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/58/158941997_29de67ca34_m.jpg" alt="days of war, nights of love ne plus ultra edition"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158941954/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/74/158941954_7f3e0685e7_m.jpg" alt="days of war, nights of love ne plus ultra edition"></a></p>

<p>this is how you do a proper blockquote and citation. ho-way! for <a href="http://microformats.org/">microformats</a>.</p>

<p><cite>Eric Meyer</cite> wrote:</p>
<blockquote cite="http://meyerweb.../social-protocols/">
<p>
What's so interesting to me is that the guys who decided
to focus on the positive went out and did something;
those who want to mix in the negative seem to have
nothing to offer except complaints.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>An excellent contrast between those who want to
build new things and those who want to tear them down.
</p>

  <p>(Via <a href="http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/">The Elements of Meaningful XHTML : slide 12</a>.)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158927982/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/55/158927982_ca8166d674_m.jpg" alt="ant nest excavation"></a></p>

<p>Full <a href="http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&amp;doi=10.1672%2F1536-2442%282004%29004%5B0001%3ATNAOTF%5D2.0.CO%3B2#toclink6">study and photo/chart gallery</a> is available to read. WARNING: it is loooooong.</p>

<p>i ran across this on <a href="http://www.thinkvitamin.com/">vitamin</a>'s <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/vnews" rel="rss">news feed</a>. its a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/">safari</a> input manager implementing <a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/">tidy</a>. it does a few specific task really well. if you know me at all, you know i like that kind of thing.</p>

<h3>errors and warnings in the status bar (aka footer):</h3>

<p>
  <img src="http://www.zappatic.net/safaritidy/img/err.png" alt="errors">
  <img src="http://www.zappatic.net/safaritidy/img/war.png" alt="warnings">
  <img src="http://www.zappatic.net/safaritidy/img/ok.png" alt="ok">
</p>

<h3>error and warning details in source view:</h3>

<p><img src="http://www.zappatic.net/safaritidy/img/detail.png" alt="details"></p>

<p>you can <a href="http://www.zappatic.net/safaritidy/download.html">download</a> it here from zappatic.net.</p>

<p>more useful <a href="http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/web-development-with-safari" rel="bookmark">safari web development</a> tips can be found over at hicksdesign.</p>

<p><cite>Dave Cerebrum</cite> wrote:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Edavep/fightclub">
  <p>Time flows from left to right (at the end of each row it skips to the beginning of the next row). Movement up or down indicates character movement. Height indicates intensity (clearer in later pictures) Red - Chapter divisions, Blue - Narrator, White - Tyler Durden, Light Green - Space Monkeys/Project Mayhem...</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158913878/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/52/158913878_2ff642ede8_o.jpg" alt="fight club 3D plot graphs of movies in LEGO (showing height)"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158913864/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/62/158913864_cd2e580cb8_o.jpg" alt="fight club 3D plot graphs of movies in LEGO (first half)"></a>
</p>

<p>(Via <a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/6/3d_plot_graphs_of_movies_in_le.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890">makezine blog</a>.)</p>

<p><cite>The Onion</cite> wrote:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48972">
  <p>The Al Gore-produced global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth is being panned by critics nationwide who claim the 90-plus minute environmental film is "too disturbingly realistic and well-researched to enjoy." "I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief in man-made climate change for the first half-hour - and utterly impossible after that -  which makes for a movie-going experience that's far more educational than it is enjoyable," said New York Post film critic Skip Hack.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>oh onion, you so crazy.</p>

<p>(Via <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48972">Critics Blast Al Gore's Documentary As 'Realistic'</a>.)</p>

<p><cite>John Harwood</cite> wrote:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.crnc.org/index.php?content=beach">
  <p>Stage an event like this one to grab the attention of your campus and raise awareness on the falsities of the global warming phenomenon.  Engage with students and debunk some of the myths and cool the hyperbole surrounding the issue.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Sometimes you think its a joke, but then it turns out to be real.</p>

<p>(Via <a href="http://www.crnc.org/index.php?content=beach">College Republican National Committee Run a “Global Cooling” Snow Cone Stand</a>.)</p>

<p>she talks a lot of revolution, but then cites a lot of reformist tactics. so... sort of mixed messages. but still, i wish more of the 90 years in the world (in general, and in this country specifically) were this <em>radical</em>.</p>

<p><cite> Doris "Granny D" Haddock</cite> said:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.energybulletin.net/16715.html">
  <p>Some of the places survive as small communities or weekend retreats where friends may be free and happy. The parties are good, I am told. But gray heads cannot change the world alone, and, while escapism is healthy for personal renewal, it is not revolution, and revolution is what we need. It will come from people now in junior high school and younger.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>(Via <a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/16715.html">Preparing for the Post-Carbon Age | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse</a>.)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/">Websites as Graphs</a> is a site that will create a pretty tree diagram of any web <em>page</em> you enter. don't be fooled; its not a graph of your web <strong>site</strong>, just the single page that you ask for. either way, its awesome.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158339457/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/75/158339457_95587cf91a.jpg" alt="zinedistro dot org"></a></p>

<p>this is the graph of <a href="http://zinedistro.org/">zinedistro.org</a>. and the one below is of this very <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com">blog</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158367600/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/68/158367600_8b8a4e5214.jpg" alt="veganstraightedge.wordpress.com"></a></p>

<p>i recently migrated all of my blog images to my <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/sets/72157594145398277/">flickr account</a>. then i got caught up on email. next up is a blog post catch up. sorry.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/158175226/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/57/158175226_464f440ccd.jpg" alt="email zero hour"></a></p>

<p>i have a new email policy. i deal with email within 3 days, tops. reply, file it away, delete it, act on it in some way.</p>

<p>i hope i stick to it.</p>

<p>Last male of purebred rabbit species dies</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The last male purebred Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit has died, leaving just two females in a captive breeding program created to try to save the endangered species from extinction.</p>

  <p>The tiny rabbits are only found in Douglas County in north-central Washington. None are believed to exist in the wild, which means the two females — Lolo and Bryn — are the only known purebred pygmy rabbits left in existence.</p>

  <p>"This is a population that has existed since before the last Ice Age in Eastern Washington.  The loss is something we can never calculate," said Jon Marvel, executive director of the Idaho-based Western Watersheds Project, which works to protect pygmy rabbit populations across the West.  "Any time we lose a species it diminishes us all."</p>
</blockquote>

<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12851338/from/RSS/">Last male of purebred rabbit species dies - Science - MSNBC.com</a>

<p>i finally rebuilt <a href="http://theresistancearmy.com/">the resistance army</a> homepage. before it was just a link to my blog and podcast. then it was <a href="http://theresistancearmy.com/old%20tra%20home/">this lame thing</a> hastily thrown together. though, that pink gun is still pretty nice. now its this. a <a href="http://weblog.zinedistro.org/2006/4/30/join-the-resistance-fall-in-love/">fuller explanation</a> of it is over on the <a href="http://weblog.zinedistro.org/">zinedistro blog</a>. i don't like cross posting the same thing.</p>

<p><img src="/blog/images/uploads/pinkgun/tra-gun-pink.png" alt="pink half toned AK-47 type gun"></p>