• Guitar Noise, an awesome blog for guitar players of all levels, especially this section for beginners.
• An online metronome, because I don’t have an offline metronome.
• Guake, which lets me access my terminal almost as fast as I can think.
• Frati Gelato Cafe in downtown Fullerton.
• rdiff-backup, which keeps an automatic rolling 30 day backup of all of my stuff.
• Gnome Do, which I’ve been using for months and is shaping up to be Quicksilver for Linux.
• Meld, a super, visual diff tool.

Find anything awesome lately?

• So, Cuil. I don’t think it’ll catch on because people would rather google themselves than cuil themselves.
• The lovely and talented wife was miming typing on a computer and every so often she’d ding and hit the carriage return lever. I think that explains a lot.
• There is water on Mars. We might be able to grow plants there, transform it to support human life, and have martian babies. Yay!
• I heart librarians.
• I had to listen to a children’s version of Vertigo on Friday (you know, “uno, dos, tres, catorce”). Surprisingly, worse than the original.
• Sitting down? Move your right foot in clockwise circles. Then, while you’re doing that, draw the number 6 in the air slowly with your right hand. (via Caterina.net)
  
• I recently read Old Man’s War which was awesome. I just realized that it’s part of a trilogy but I think I may leave it because I don’t want to spoil it.
• The “food” industry spent $1.6 billion in 2006 telling kids what to eat. Soda advertisers spent seven times as much as milk advertisers.
• Danny Elfman is composing for the American Ballet Theater. Yes, that Danny Elfman. We’ve got tickets.