Here we are again, scrounging up links from Google Reader. But let’s catch up with what’s been going on the last couple of weeks:

• Hawaii was great. We went kayaking, snorkeling, hiking (kind of) and saw my brother get married. Congrats! I also go the worst sunburn in recent memory.
• Tinh’s wedding was great and it was a good time playing bocce (and getting our asses handed to us) by kids literally half our age. We are getting old.
• Sarah’s wedding was also awesome and we had some great food along the way, including a tasty burger at Garden State. Maybe I’ll write up more on that later.
• Saw Scott Pilgrim and Despicable Me in the last week. While Jonas has some valid points, I can’t agree on the overall sentiment that there was really nothing there. But more on that later (promises, promises).
• We had a pretty constant flow of visitors the past couple of weeks, and it’s been so much fun, especially with the nice weather and food we’ve been consuming. I’m pretty stoked that B-dogg is moving to B-ham (again) and hopefully we will get some new music going very soon. On the hunt for a bass cabinet.

Desperately hoping to go to NYC in the next couple of months in order to get it the hell out of my system since I’m actually really loving being back in the NW now, what with all the people and weather. Fall is coming, and it really is my favorite time of year with those late afternoon suns and crisp days. Reminds me of going to school.

Lastly, there’s a couple things that I’d definitely revisit below. One of which is Ebert’s 10 things about the mosque, which, while I really should not be talking about it anymore, is a list of very good points about the mosque. If there had been a mosque there already, would it have to be torn down in order to appease the Right?

In any case, to wash the taste of tiring politics out of your mouth, I’d also watch Cee-lo’s song. It’s too catchy.

• Ceelo: "Fuck You" = Hell Yes
   + OH AWESOME
• Transatlantic
   + awesome
• Ten things I know about the mosque
• Solving the Rubik’s Cube in Twenty Moves or Less
   + mortals!
• YouTube - The Globes "Little Slickers" @ NW Folklife at EMP/SFM 2009
   + pretty good
• Hallowed Ground
   + NON-TROVERSY
• San Francisco Urban Informatics
   + i'd love to see how these tweets are triaged.
• Entanglement
   + 62 is my high score after 10 min. fun!

Yo! We’ve been soaking up the sun here for the past few days, but it looks like we’re going to get some rain this weekend. No matter, because as of 5pm today, I’ll officially be on a week’s vacation. It’s our Week of Weddings coming up, and folks have been in town all week. We have batch 5 (6?) of strawberry ice cream in the works, and B-dogg also whipped up some egg nog ice cream. Our first try at mint ice cream is sitting in the fridge waiting to be frozen. Deliciousness, here we come.

The end of summer is coming way too fast. Sorry for the reminder. GOLDEN GARDENS BONFIRE ANYONE???

• Soda Pop « Not Dabbling In Normal
• Riding The Much Improved Coast Starlight
   + i rode this before the improvements and it took something like 36 hours to get from seattle to LA. i didn't have a computer (or rather, my powerbook's screen broke 2 minutes after i got on the train) but i ended up reading a book from beginning to end. didn't have a sleeper car, didn't have a shower, but did have a decent time enjoying the scenery.
• Massive censorship of Digg uncovered
   + wow. infuriating and kind of scary.
• Chart Of The Day
   + this is so black and white. sure, i could use that so-called cognitive surplus that i'm wasting on television to work on wikipedia, but what if i blow your mind by contributing an article on the real housewives of orange county to wikipedia? that is factually incorrect? sounds like that cognitive surplus isn't doing anyone any good.i want to make an infoviz about how useful infoviz is. it'd be something like this:[------------] time spent creating meaningless graphs to explain a concept[-] time it could have taken to just use words
• Proposition 8 ruling: Gay marriage ban overturned
   + take that jerks!
• This is not your Mom's Girl Scouts
   + ha the shorthands look a lot like the virb shorthands.
• Capo 2.0
• Virb is the New Virb
   + virb redesign looks good, but i'm not sure where the market for this is.
• Marlins call on Morrison
• http://athleticsnyc.com: Designer - IA/UX
   + i love the apply directions: "Please mention David Bowie." that's a good way to avoid job and agency spammers.
• Great Bill Murray interview
   + I think I should change my name to Ethan Coen and start selling some gd scripts.
• Design to Annoy: inefficient cigarette packaging

Yeah, it’s been a little while, huh? Sorry, we’ve been busy over here making ice cream with the kitchen aid, swimming in the lake, hanging out in Yosemite, and generally enjoying summer. We’re gearing up for Wedding Week 2010, where we go to 3 weddings in 7 days.

I also have to go get two wisdom teeth out today, which might be fun, but probably not.

Damn, that Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin album and Sir Luscious Leftfoot are goooood. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. What have you been doing?

• The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style
   + It's posts like this that got Kenji that six-figure book deal. So, burgers this weekend, anyone? I'm thinking Shake Shack v. In-and-Out burgers.
• The New RED Trailer
   + Note sure what I think about this yet, even though I really want to like it because I enjoyed the graphic novel.
• Which Congressional Candidate Brought a Gun to The Stranger Yesterday? Let's Go to the Videotape.
   + Eli Sanders: So did you pull out your concealed weapon at The Chronicles of Narnia?you never know when someone's gonna freak out at toy story 3.
• Simple Mad Men posters
   + can someone who watches this show explain these posters to me?
• When You Spill Oil In Water Perhaps The Things In The Water Evolve
   + We're all dead!
• Foursquare Launches Layers: Annotated Collections of Places From IFC, HuffPo, and More
   + Finally! Push advertising becomes a reality. The question now is when will the world come to an end.
• What is vacation good for?
   + "the researchers found that going on vacation gave a notable boost to pre-vacation mood but had hardly any effect on post-vacation feelings."
• 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children
   + avatar: bad for your health. no, really.
• Senate Forecast: After Primaries, Picture Slightly Improved for Dems
   + i like those WA numbers.