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I hope these guys were going for the Most Annoying Website Design EVAR Award, because they’d be a shoo-in. (Via What do I know)

I vote moron. Only the very rich, very idle, and very, very stupid have the luxury for things like this.

San-Francisco-livin’, T-shirt-wearin’, software-programmin’ hipster-wannabe, I’ve spent some time and effort in the past months, consciously or unconsciously, on improving my nifty T-shirt collection. This is not as easy as you might think. Some big retail stores have been known to sell good T-shirts, but part of the whole nifty T-shirt mystique is that it’s got to be relatively unique. So you can only get so many interesting tees from Old Navy—though I have to admit that they are my favorite big retailer when it comes to finding well-designed T-shirts. You’re better off going to small boutiques or resale shops like Buffalo Exchange. And of course, if you are on a quest for the holy grail of cool T-shirts, Threadless is your best friend.

But I recently found another cool T-shirt store, called Fabric8, that, much like Threadless, sells artist-designed T-shirts. It’s different from Threadless, though, in that it features work by local San Francisco artists, and it doesn’t manufacture shirts; the artists are responsible for that. Best of all, its storefront is only a few blocks down the street from my new place. I haven’t actually bought anything for myself there yet, though I have for my sister, who was very happy with her present. Check it out!

Today’s FreshArrival features what is possibly the coolest product I have seen in a while:

There are more iPod cases, skins, bags, and tubes, wraps, and socks on the market that you can shake a stick at – each one uglier than the next. GelaSkins take a new stab at the iPod protection market with a novel idea: utilizing people that might know a thing or two about aesthetics, actual artists.

GelaSkins are thin adhesive vinyl coatings that are easily applied to your iPod 4G, Shuffle, Nano, or Video. The adhesive is residue-free, meaning the skins are easy to remove and will not hurt your pod. This is a good thing, because if you order the Snakes on a Plane skin now, you can easily replace it with the Snakes on a Plane 2 skin next year. Every skin also comes with a screen protector.

And what’s more, they run only about $15 + S&H. They’ve got a buy 3, get 1 free promotion going on right now, so of course I got 4 of them: this one, this one, this one and this one. Game ON.

Phill Ryu, the mind behind the recent fake Leopard screenshot contest, has started a new, American Idol-style contest called My Dream App, where contestants, assisted by a team of the best developers, designers, journalists and technophiles in the business—including Apple founder Steve Wozniak—vie to present the best Mac application idea to a panel of developer judges. Winners get their application idea implemented, prizes and royalties to the finished product:

You’re about to be involved in a revolution in the software industry: a no holds barred, totally transparent and ridiculously low barrier version of Macintosh shareware development. Ever wished you had the programming chops to create a killer app? For the first time, you’re going to have a chance to make those dream apps come true.

By entering the contest, your idea will be competing for a slot in the initial round of the 24 best, decided by our three developer judges, Austin Sarner (AppZapper), Jason Harris (ShapeShifter), and Martin Ott (SubEthaEdit). Each of these talented Mac developers will be weeding the coolest ideas out of the bunch, focusing on innovation, marketability, and feasibility of development. Then comes the fun part. These 24 entrants will, over the next five weeks, compete, blog, and further develop their ideas. The catch? The rest of the users on the site will be voting to determine who stays in.

We have high-profile Macintosh developers, well-known tech journalists, popular bloggers, and the best UI designers in the industry lined up to give feedback and help develop your ideas over the five weeks of voting. People like Kevin Rose (Digg), original Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki, New York Times columnist and best-selling author David Pogue, and even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. But of course, by the end of it, only three ideas will remain.

This is the best part. Not only will each of the winners receive a prize (ranging from iPod Shuffles to Mac Books), but under development manager John Casasanta’s watch, their ideas will be made into full shareware applications by each of the developer judges and published under My Dream App, with royalties reserved for each winner.

(Via Slashdot)

It has been conclusively proven that dark matter exists, which, needless to say, is a huge development in the field of astrophysics. The post very intelligibly explains the discovery, but astrophysics is so hardcore that I found it all on the outside edge of my understanding. Nevertheless, this is very exciting stuff! (Via Slashdot)

Every time I read James Lileks’ blog, I am humbled by, in awe of, struck speechless by his effortless writing skill. Today’s post is no different:

I’m not going to defend McCarthy, because he was a brute and boor and a butter-eating drunk who set back the anti-Communist cause four decades. To say that he was sorta right, in the sense that there were Commies about, is like saying that J. Robert Oppenheimer had a salutory effect on Japanese urban renewal. I’m not interested in those debates right now. I’d just like to point out that it’s a little late in the game to trot out a play about the mean old witch-hunts. The bravery of the scrappy idealists! The piggish philistinism of the anti-commie brutes! The smothering wet quilt of Conformity that held America motionless until it was thrown off by the undulating hips of Elvis! (Did you know they didn’t show him below the waist on TV, at first! True! It was horrible, the Fifties; no one had sex without weeping in shame afterwards. Sometimes during.) It’s just interesting how Westerners think that that Red Scare was a historical event of such towering proportions it trumps the tales of the Soviet Union in the same period. US version: communist sympathizers frozen out of screenwriting jobs, justly or unjustly. USSR version: actual communists killed in ghastly numbers by a parody of a legal system underwritten by brute force and an industrialized penal system built on slave labor. Why is the latter ignored, and the former celebrated?

Because a herd of frozen zeks dying in the snows of Wherdifugistan doesn’t really connect, you know? Whereas six guys sitting around the Carnegie Deli bitching about cowardly sponsors, that strikes a chord.

You know the drill: read the whole thing. (Via InstaPundit)

According to this, Google has opened writely.com, its online word processor, for beta testing. Let’s see, what Google services do we have available to us now? Mail, check; calendar, check; spreadsheet, check. And now there’s a word processor. My crackpot theory doesn’t sound so crazy anymore. (Via Slashdot)

according to this interview with Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, IE7 will be much more standards-compliant than IE6, if not fully standards-compliant. Yeah. I’ll believe it when I see it. (Via Slashdot)

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a three-term Democrat now running as an independent candidate, leads the man who beat him in last week’s primary vote by 12 points in a three-way race, a poll released on Thursday shows.

The latest Quinnipiac University poll, conducted between August 10-14, shows Lieberman leads Democrat Ned Lamont, a wealthy businessman with little political experience who has played on anti-war sentiment, by 53 percent to 41 percent among likely voters in November’s election. The Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger drew 4 percent, the poll shows.

(Via InstaPundit)