If tongue-in-cheek, fantasy-themed dirt rock is your idea of a good time, you should go listen to Blood On The Moors, a side project from a Dallas friend. Like any good themed music, it is of course a concept album and should be listened to start to finish. (Though the tracks Blood On The Moors and Sensitive Mother will rock you most.)

Super-helpful error messages I’ve gotten today from Photoshop:

Could not complete your request because of a program error.

Could not complete your request because something prevented the text engine from being initialized.

Something? Seriously?

What, like Nazis? David Duchovny? Like you would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling kids? How does copy like that ever make it into production?

Most Hired aggregates the job board listings from sites like Krop, 37signals, Authentic Jobs, etc. in one handy location. The interface could be more functional, but if you’re in the market for work, this might save you some time.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

Quote, “Today’s weather… 30 percent chance of showers… 60 percent chance of rope.” I love Married To The Sea so very much.

New features in Backpack from 37signals. I dig the new features, even if the splashpage that announces said features is cluttered and hard to read (typographically speaking.)

You can now customize Vimeo’s embeddable video player. It’s worth it just for the size-changing functionality knowing the correct aspect ratio. Thanks guys (and gals).

All that stands between me and internet brand world domination? For those rare few early adopters or lucky squatters who signed up for various web services and chose urls like flickr.com/photos/blankenship and last.fm/user/blankenship to realize other people with that last name actually USE THE FREAKING INTERNET.

Flickr Blankenship? You haven’t uploaded a photo since September 18, 2005. And Last.fm Blankenship? You’re still listening to music, scrobbler plugin churning away in the depths of your iTunes, but you haven’t been seen on the site since May 2006. Have you people no sense of netiquette? Get the heck out of the city. I need url consistency here.

Please, magically wake up tomorrow, epiphany in metaphorical hand, knowing that your first priority is to eat a healthy breakfast and then promptly delete your respective (neglected!) accounts.

And send me a friendly email notifying said events.

Thank you, in advance, for your url aid,
Joshua (/blankenship)

Now that I’m laptop-less and using two desktops (home and office), I’m finally seeing the benefit of del.icio.us for centralizing bookmarks. You can find me at del.icio.us/blankenship for links that may not otherwise show up here.

I started using the internet in 2002 and one of the first “blogs” I ever visited was Michael Eades’ Yewknee. I figure I’ve visited it almost every weekday for five years, which I don’t think I can say for any other website. It’s consistently great stuff, and Michael put up a redesign today that I like quite a bit. Go say hello.

Responding to Naz Hamid‘s invite to The Items We Carry group, these are the items I typically carry with me on an average day. You can see individual notes on everything on the Flickr page.

Naz Hamid started a lovely little Flickr group called Items We Carry. I’m always fascinated by this kind of stuff, especially keyrings. I think you can tell a lot about a person based on their keys.

Facebook just bought Parakey, a so-called “Web Operating System” company that let’s users run applications online and offline. Facebook’s got something up their sleeve, for sure. I wonder if they’ll just go public instead of selling?

Mike Davidson moves to a five-sentence email response method. Smart.

Quote, “I have often wondered: would it be possible to look at a photograph shorn of all its context, caption-less, unconnected to current thought and ideas?” Filmmaker Errol Morris is blogging for the NY Times. Great thoughts.

As I’ve mentioned before, you’re a practically perfect blog-maker. And after a few hours of really digging in, changing styles and such, I’m even more convinced of your almost-perfection. So convinced that I’d ditch WordPress in a second (including all the hours I’ve put into hacking a future iteration of this blog so it will do… well… exactly what you already do so easily) if it weren’t for one thing. Well, actually, thousands of things – my faithful readers and the 11,716 (and counting) comments they’ve written in response to almost 4,000 posts here over the past 3 years.

While your makers assure us that some form of two-way, reader-to-author communication is in the works, it’s no where to be seen and I’m not a patient man. In short, the people that read this site and comment are 75% the reason I even write online. This is a community. A community I like. I’ve worked hard to be a part of building it and I’m not willing to give that up just to have an internet monologue. That’s the last thing anybody needs.

So, please. Comments. Soon.

My love is a tumbling thing,
Joshua

1. Slimmy wallet
2. Canon PowerShot SD750 camera
3. Marmot Ion jacket
4. Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
5. Lowe Alpine Contour Runner 25 backpack

Quote, “Organize Magazine is the first magazine dedicated solely to helping people tackle their organization needs.”

Mulheres Barbadas is dense, fun, creative illustration work. Their about blurb sums it up well, “We take turns until there are no empty spaces (or just not too many).”

Black Stacey from Jakob Lodwick and Vimeo.

This is a Saul Williams song about growing up black, which is a funny lip dub choice for the turbo-white Jakob. Still, somewhat endearing.

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