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Colin N. Doyle of Osaka, Japan snapped this one:

Your crown’s gonna fall off if you go “skipping,” right?

“Urban” photos of graffiti-laden dumpsters are so retro they’re like wearing ripped-up jackets and mohawk haircuts.

Dirt, brick, and concrete are dumped at the foot of the Leslie St. Spit, adding to the peninsula it is. An astonishing waste-management policy, but it actually provides habitat for birds.

I just can’t get over the effort required to vinyl-wrap a Mini to advertise waste management. (And what a transparent tax write-off!)

Will it fit in a dumpster?

And why are their warning signs always beaten to shit? Did somebody back a speedboat into them?

1. Astronomy Picture of the Day
2. The Old Car Manual Project. Cf. losing the Bricklin manual
3. Takedown: Tough-guy dating site. [In John Cleese British Pathé–inspired voice] “Brawlerboy hails from east London. His interests include submission wrestling and Thai boxing. And with dramatic lighting like that, B’boy, we’re sure you’ll find the NHB you’re looking for!”
4. Mini Woody, from, of course, Italy
5. Text on Things. I’m thinking of starting a category for such myself.
6. BigMuscle(Bears) userIDs de l’instant: Huskerdude and Fin Diesel. (The Finns are usually quite horse-faced and homely, which this fella’s horrorshow photograph neither confirms nor denies.) Also Toddo, of course.
7. The old Kurzweil Reading Machine. To this day I can still get one of these up and reading, though I can’t do much more with it.
8. VisualJournalism.com
9. Pap(p)adams: Try this at home (Cf. original query)
10. I think guys in chairs with dyed-red hair are the hottest. I always read their profiles!
11. Beyond Lisping: Code-switching and gay speech styles
12. The Bible and the Semantic Web
13. Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation:

    Half the people in the audience normally attend because it’s on the last day and a lot of people leave anyway. They showed up and some kind of flash mob thing occurred. There was some kind of electronically assisted gathering happening at my house. Because people were showing up and they were showing up in buddy lists. It wasn’t just the usual foot traffic of one and two people. There would be at half-past one…there were sudden clusters or armadas of taxis coming in from two or three directions and people would get out of the taxis and are name-checking each other and sort of clustering together and coming into the party in a mass. Guys are phone-camming the party.

14. Collapsing-spring keyboards, but still none with USB. Also: The old Model M (and in French)
15. How do I convert HTML to PDF? And when you manage it (as I have), why isn’t the resulting documen a tagged PDF?
16. “JOE CLARK starkers and covered in baby oil… at last!” Cleaning me up would be like de-skunking a dog
17. Kitty photo of the month (my sole concession to cuteness): Labrador retriever terrorized
18. Blind for a day
19. Redesigning the validator. You do understand what the validator is for by now, don’t you? If not, ask (or trackback and we can start one of those Weblog-style conversations)
20. Google can’t read this: XML files are sometimes unreadable, which makes no sense at all, seeing as how it can index old WordPerfect files
21. Visual Thesaurus
22. Best of Google Answers
23. One of several headless laptops. Who needs a screen?
24. PixelBlocks: Building blocks that, in essence, produce a Commodore 64–resolution version of Idoru
25. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
26. Touring Standard Deluxe, a screenprinting house.
27. Frish, a symphony in brown. Love that Dutch: Michael Moore wint Palme d’Or met Fahrenheit 911; WordPress 1.2 is uit
28. The Book of Bunny Suicides. Bunnies continue their memetic onslaught. Also Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK. And how did they narrow it down to 50?
29. BigMuscleTypographicInstallation
30. DTD-Mapper. Good idea, though possibly not very useful.
31. 3D CSS Box Model. The mapping of 3D onto a 2D illustration makes it impossible to understand in the most important details, like margins and padding. Similarly, Separation: Thoughts and Illustration uses too-abstract (and arbitrary) components of a simple diagram of a sphere in a cube
32. Blind Chance: David Faucheux’s Audio Weblog. A nice accessibility solution for blind people – audioblogs. Right? Wrong. It encourages illiteracy (blind people’s spelling is often terrible if they don’t read Braille) and causes other inaccessibilities. If you upload dictation, don’t you have to caption it?
33. Digital Talking Books Daily

The HTML spec tells us that id (and name) attributes:

must begin with a letter ([A–Z[,]a–z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0–9]), hyphens (-), underscores (_), colons (:), and periods (.).

I decided to test it out. I duplicated a previous posting and added a paragraph at the very end.

For its identifier, I removed all illegal characters from an entire chapter of my book. That’s 39,209 characters. Yes, it clears the validator.

And you’d probably like to hit a link to that paragraph now, wouldn’t you?

I don’t quite understand why we need a garage with an angled cantilevered roof in the wastelands of the Toronto harbour, but here it is. I think the fire-alarm annunciator is a hopeful touch. Do materials like these even burn?