7:35AM: I’m a little behind today, but I’ll be there around 8:30-9:00.
7:51AM: Okay, I take it back. This is my life, folks. I get all my stuff together, walk out the door, and find it’s raining. Okay, fine. So I go back inside to get a different hat, and my key is now irretrievably stuck [...]

The iPod Observer – Now Playing – iTMS to Exclusively Sell Beach Boys Album Pet Sounds For Four Weeks

Just in case I needed a reason to dislike Steely Dan (other than the tedious nature of their music)....

Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com – WENN - 25 July 2006

Oh, excellent. Toy Story, here we come. This almost made my day.

OLPC will be powered by pulling a string – Engadget
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I just finished Kage Baker’s Life of the World to Come. I broke my usual rule regarding reading series out of order, but Baker’s books are a bitch to find, and I happened to see a paperback (not trade paperback, actual honest to goodness mass market paperback) at the grungily magical De Laur’s newsstand in [...]

We saw A Scanner Darkly today at the Landmark Shattuck. The movie was good—the rotoscoping technique from Waking Life was exceedingly well-paired with the content, and the performances ranged from pretty good (Reeves) to absolutely perfect (Robert Downey, Jr.). It was near Sin City levels of authenticity, which is definitely unusual in the realm of [...]

Zwicky at Language Log has posted a great historical overview of anti-passive bigotry that totally makes up for how mean he was to the etymology of the word passion.

Language Log: How long have we been avoiding the passive, and why?