On my way home from work yesterday I stopped next to somebody who was completely focused on their cellphone. Texting or whatever. I thought it would be funny to honk my horn while the light was still red, in hopes that they would be startled and hit the gas, rear-ending the vehicle in front of them. Sort of an instant reaction to hearing a car horn while their attention is somewhere else, but before realizing the light hadn't turned green yet. The more I thought about doing this, the more it seemed like it would work.

The only thing that stopped me was the fact that I wasn't directly behind them, which would mean the person in front of me would think I was honking at them. Then I thought I could just give some kind of "I'm sorry" hand gesture in that case, but I was stuck thinking of one. There are half a dozen ways to say "hey eff you man" with your hands, but not a single way to say "oh hey my bad". At least not a way that is common enough for me to know about it in the 23 years I have been living and seven years I have been driving. I guess everyone thinks they're always in the right. SILLY HUMANS AMIRITE.

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If you haven't noticed, I've been compiling all my online activities into one general news feed that appears on my home page, but I couldn't find anywhere that let me view my favorite YouTube videos as an RSS or Atom feed. Until now. I found this handy link while looking through the developer's guide for the Youtube API:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/your_youtube_username/favorites

It's not listed anywhere on the YouTube feeds page, and I couldn't find it posted on any blogs or other sites either. Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but now I'm happy.

I also had a hard time coming up with a past tense verb meaning "to favorite". I would use "favorited", but it's not a real word and that bothers me. I'd also use "loved" but I am already using it for my Last.fm loved tracks. So I settled on "liked", but I am not entirely happy with it. It'll have to do for now until I think of a better word to use, or somebody recommends one that I like.

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I have created the single most distubing MP3. I took the audio from a video of a baby laughing in slow motion and combined it with a song by a drone-metal band called Sunn O))). I think it's the greatest thing I've ever done. In my entire life. Listen to it here.

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I've never had immortality explained to me in a way that made perfect logical sense:

Actuarial escape velocity is the concept of a point in time at which the rate of advancement in biomedical technology surpasses the rate at which humans age. At this point it is proposed the average human life expectancy would increase by at least one year each year. In this manner, reaching acturial escape velocity has been proposed as a mechinism to achieve indefinite lifespan.

How about that.

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So I redesigned the home page a little bit to have a news feed much like Facebook. Right now it lists whenever I update my blog as well as whenever I share something using my Google Reader account. I took the Last.fm recently played songs list off for now, but I will probably tweak the design a little bit more and find somewhere for it.

One day the dream is to list other junk in there, maybe my Twitter activity (which is pretty non-existent right now).

The news feed on the home page now lists my Twitter activity, as well as my Last.fm loved tracks. You can also view the history all the way back to the beginning of my life of using online services such as Twitter and Last.fm. Amazing!

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