Physiologically, I think I know what a donut top is, but what's a muffin top? I should probably not lead with this Everyman bit, but this series is all about the joy of shared discovery, after all. Fun washingtonpost.com article on Facebook using profile information for advertising with the female reporter not appreciating receiving ads on Muffin Tops. The article photo defines the term for the more astute, but I appreciated the author explaining it to me. "For those blissfully unacquainted with the slur, it's when a woman wears too-tight jeans and a roll of flab hangs over her waistband."
Standing at the banks of the lifestream. I unsubscribed to Steve Rubel's blog a while back. Not sure why. I re-subscribed tonight and encountered my first true lifestream feed. Steve's blog feed contains Tweets, FriendFeed conversations, Flickr photos, shared items from Google Reader, you name it. There's something here that will spill over the metaphoric banks before long for more than just A-listers.
Trends in PR and Marketing. "Trends that will help define the Future of PR and Marketing" is why I re-subscribed to Rubel's feed, uh, I mean, rewired my conscious into Rubel's lifestream. Really excellent post on attention scarcity, digital curators, the ubiquity of social networking functionality, and Google as media. Worth a read.
Movable Type Pro goes social. Speaking of the ubiquitous social networking website, Movable Type Pro adds "social networking features like profiles, ratings, user registration, forums, following, and more."
Nordic Track Booklist for September 3. I just finished Turning the Future Into Revenue: What Business and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Futures. 4-out-of-5 stars. Excerpts coming. 
I'm rotating between Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, 
The Success of Open Source,
and The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years.
Extreme Future is a surprise book for me, prompting a lot more thinking than I anticipated. Consider this, "The cost-effectiveness of robots over human labor will be a major factor in their adoption...and will displace skilled human labor. This is inevitable and will lead to a new interpretation of human work and careers. If you think folks are angry about outsourcing, wait until they see robots replacing humans in the future." This predication might not be new, but more than ever before I could see a "robot" writing most if not all of the code I write today. The evolution of coding patterns upon patterns upon masses of archived code will no doubt radically change how I spend my developer's day in 10 years--if I'm even classified as a developer, that is.
Cashier's Check Day. A client sent me a cashier's check which today found its way to Vermont. This was the first time I was paid with a cashier's check, and it proved once again how my clients are smarter than I am. I received an automated call on my business phone from UPS shortly after 8:00 this morning saying a delivery would be made to my home requiring a signature between the hours of 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM. So much for walking the dog or a trip to the grocery store. I even Nordic Track'd without plugging into my Zune to make sure I could hear the front door bell. And other than watching a little Hunt for Red October while standing at the kitchen counter eating a salad for lunch, I was chained to my desk banging out code all day. And when did Brown arrive? 6:47 PM. My client won another one.
Palin. You thought I was going to Everyman on Palin, didn't you? Nope, ain't gonna do it. Ohhhh, alright. Here's a photo. What I want to know is what that kid sucking on a cigarette in the background (her son?) is drinking. It looks like a Schlitz! Dang, I haven't see a Schlitz since 1978! [UPDATE] Thanks to Aaron Robinson for pointing out that the photo was fake. I never would have posted it had I known. Sorry. Here was the source page, "10 Pictures Sarah Palin Doesn’t Want You To See." The original photo Aaron provided is here. Geez. At least the Schlitz is real.