Someone remind me to spend a little while looking through William Gedney’s pictures of New York when I get more time.

How badly do you think the world needs a toaster that burns your local weather report into the toast? The scary thing is that Robin Southgate is apparently turning this in as her (his?) major project.

Let’s be perfectly clear about this — the Los Angeles Lakers made my San Antonio Spurs look like a high school pickup team in last night’s 39-point rout. This one is over.

I can’t tell you how saddening it is that advertisements are going to be digitally inserted into the syndicated Law & Order episodes that are going to be run on TNT this year. One of the best shows on TV is going to become one of the most gimmicky stunts on TV — great.

God, I was hoping that the switch of Jim Jeffords to the independent column in the Senate would lead to the failure of Ted Olson’s Solicitor General nomination. Unfortunately, Republicans slid him in under the wire; we now have a man who lied to Congress as the head defender of the United States government in court.

Originally found over at (the on hiatus, sorry Dan!) Lake Effect, I’ve been hanging onto this great way to work around Netscape’s terrible style sheet incompatibilities. (Now, I just need to implement the damn thing.)

I’m sitting here reinstalling Linux (thanks to a hard disk that didn’t didn’t want to go on living), with the constant reminder why I like Microsoft operating systems — the installation is much, much easier. Nevermind the idiotic interface and terrible documentation; the package dependency feature alone is enough to cause my blood pressure to skyrocket.