My favorite book so far this summer: Shop Class as Soulcraft.

WordPress news: WordPress 2.8 was released last night and iThemes is now offering their paid WordPress themes under the GPL license.

I like this picture that my daughter took the other day:

My normally very calm and collected wife almost went postal at an Apple store yesterday (having to do with trying to get her iPhone fixed at the annoyingly named genius bar). I can relate.

The New York Times covered the Story of Stuff today:

Thomas Benkö recently interviewed me for a Swiss newspaper.

A great post by Matt about how P2 has changed our communication style at Automattic.

P2 is a WordPress theme. I’m currently using it on this blog as well, though it was originally developed for group communications.

BuddyPress goes 1.0! Congratulations to Andy and everyone else who has helped develop BuddyPress.

I remember talking to Andy for the first time in early 2008. He had blogged about taking the work he did for the ChickSpeak project and releasing it as open source, but found he didn’t have a lot of time to work on it. So we called him up to ask if he wanted to join Automattic and work on BuddyPress full time. He loved the idea and we made it happen. A little over a year later, BuddyPress 1.0 is born. Looking forward to what people will do with this exciting platform.

Wired has switched their blogs to WordPress (from Typepad). 9 of Wired’s 11 blogs are in the Technorati top 100 (according to Pingdom), so this move will further boost the already significant standing WordPress has among the world’s top bloggers.

PS: I found this cool tidbit while surfing the Wired blogs

Good news for Lotus Super 7 geeks.