Google's "Add a Tab" Disappeared

I use Google Personalized homepage to keep track of some of my most read RSS feeds. They added a "tabs" feature a few weeks ago. However, now the "Add a tab" link has disappeared.

Before:
After:
Update 9/22/2006 @ 10:22AM: Aha. It turns out that Google instituted a max tab limit of 6. Someone found a hack around this limit however.

Where'd The Whiz Kids Go?

In fact, right now a UW student with a bachelor's degree in computer science can expect to make $75,000 in his or her first year. Top students are also being routinely lured with $20,000 signing bonuses — something not seen since the late 1990s. (link)

Web 2.0 (that I find useful)

• Wikispaces : free wiki hosting
• Backpack : free file, image, calendaring, todo list hosting (pages can be marked private)
  
• Farecast : airline fare predictor
  
• Zillow : real estate pricing predictor
  
• Digg : social bookmarking/linking site
  
• Google Calendar : online calendaring
• Del.icio.us : social bookmarking
  

Hiking Mount Washington, New Hampshire

Hiking Up Mount Washington








Hiking Down Mount Washington

More Free Icons

I use the Tango Icon Project in my work. I also ran across the famfamfam icon set called silk, which is a collection of 700+ free 16x16 icons.

Cognition in the Wild

"... name calling is a way of asserting one's own identity" -Edwin Hutchins

My copy of Cognition in the Wild arrived in the mail yesterday (thanks Amazon). I was struck, first, by its strange proportions. I have the paperback version and its height dimension seems abnormally long--almost textbooky. I've only read until page 17 (and skipped the introduction) but have been impressed so far. I didn't expect the narrative to be so novel-like, particulary with the suspense driven opening. The academic speak has been fairly limited to asides/digressions. At this point, Hutchins is still detailing his first impressions of the Navy as an institution and social organization, which is where I found the quote above.

Hiking Mount Pilchuck

Natural Tendency of Writing

The following strikes me as profoundly true:

It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity. It's all tending toward mediocrity in the same way that all atoms are sort of dissipating out toward the expanse of the universe. - Ira Glass (host/producer of This American Life)

(link)

Waterborne Spinner Dolphins

To accompany a previous post and to highlight the beautiful aqua-green water of Hawaii.

Gates Apparently on Circumcision Promotion Tour

Google News aggregation makes for some interesting combinations of headlines. I saw this one last night and couldn't help but take a screenshot. The primary headline, "Circumcision promoted," actually has no accompanying graphic. The Bill Gates shot, shown just to the right of the "Circumcision promoted" text, is actually related to the third headline link: "AIDS Funding: Gates Steps Up as Rich Countries Step Back." However, given the proximity/layout of the Gates graphics and the Circumcision headline, it's easy to interpret that they are related.

Airborne Spinner Dolphin

Victoria, BC (Vancouver Island)

Gary Gulman, 9 to 5

For my birthday last year my clever gf got me an autographed copy of Conversations With Inanimate Objects by Gary Gulman, who is one of our favorite comedians. First saw him opening for Dane Cook a few years ago at the Improv in Irvine. Comic Genius. Hard to upstage Dane but Gary definitely held his own.

9 to 5, eh. You know what the worst part of the 9 to 5 is... the 9. Noon to 5, OK. 9 to 5? I'm not even up at 9, what am I a farmer?

West Seattle Facing the Olympics

Hiking Mount Rainier

Pirates Ahoy!

American Gluttony

Two different lovely views of my lunch today. Enjoy!

Gasworks, a Seattle Nightview

Cinema on the Lawn

Outdoor movies are great fun.

(link)

Hilarious IM

them: OHMYGOSH
me: wut?

them: i just swallowed a cherry pit!!

(Ah how I love IM; also note the gratuitous txtspk here to save myself a letter)

Inkscape Rocks

Hard to believe something so good could be free. Go check it out yourself here.

Advisor Stickers

I'm about 1 month behind here, which is about par for the course, but I should mention that my former advisor has a posse (indexical reference to maintain searchbot anonymity--wouldn't want to fan the flames now would we?).

Gnarls Barkley

Crazy. That is all.

Canoeing Lake Washington

The present participle of canoe is "canoeing"--which just looks wrong to me. Perhaps it's the juxtaposition of o + e + i. I'm sure 'u' feels left out. Photos by Danyel Fisher.

Iowa State's Cave

It's fully immersive you know. 6-sided even. And it's only getting better. (link)