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title: Things That Are Awesome
date: 2008-07-23T16:40:44Z
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My excuse? Mark [asked](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2008/07/17/things).

- [htop](http://htop.sourceforge.net/) (it’s top, but shiny, and I like shiny things)
- [Fire Joe Morgan](http://firejoemorgan.com) (fighting irrationalism with hilarity)
- [Lenovo X300](http://lenovo.com) (only the most awesome laptop yet created by man)
- [GNOME Do](http://do.davebsd.com/) (how did I live without this, precisely?)
- [Johncompanies](http://www.johncompanies.com/) (or maybe you know another colo host whose average response time to email support is under five minutes)
- [PITCHf/x](http://webusers.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/pob/pitchtracker.html) (baseball data porn)
- [S3](http://aws.amazon.com) (yes, in spite of the downtime; I’m with [Joshua](http://twitter.com/joshu/statuses/865429297))
- [Sealab 2021](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealab_2021) (the ultimate cartoon mashup)
- [Street and Company](http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/maine/portland/restaurant-detail.html?vid=1154654638648) (favorite eats in real Portland)
- [The Avett Brothers](http://theavettbrothers.com) (and I don’t even care for bluegrass, particularly)
- [Volvo S40 T5](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/505010893/) (two years in and still love it, and Volvo’s the official car of the Red Sox)
- [WordPress](http://wordpress.org) (so awesome I take it for granted)