R.I.P., Harvey Korman.

Some remembrances via BoingBoing. Good to see someone else enjoyed "The Star Wars Holiday Special."

Anchorage wormhole.

Via Clusterflock.

David Byrne: "Playing the building."

NYT article on David Byrne's new band. Free registration required.

Slutbucks.

US Christian extremists freak out over new Starbucks' logo.

Alaska tourist item.

We're shopping at Fred Meyer. 'Tis the tourist season.

New prose by Don Cole.

Driving?

I use to drive 5 or 6 days a week and work all the holidays. I found 1 in 5 are good and the escapees from the family ratio is way too high. I listened on and on to that shit. Some of it was even mine. I slept in a tent in the summer never paying rent, saving for a trip. Janet and I where on the way to fuck in my tent at Eagle Cab the night they were raided. I came around the Front St. corner and kept right on going. The King Cab drivers did loops around the block and heckled Don in his handcuffs. As it turned out he was just warming up to running them into the ground. The next day I pulled into Midtown to drop off and the the little kids ran out and sang "Bad boys, bad boys, what ya gonna do?"

Louis Armstrong's other art of improvisation.

Horn legend Louis Armstrong was also a collage artist, and a pretty fine one. Paris Review via BoingBoing.

10.5.3 released.

Waited a day to install it on both Macs. Both seem stable and snappier, and Address Book can finally sync with Google and Exchange. Use the whopping-big combo updater on Apple's support site to be safe (instead of Software Update), and do a backup first.

How demagogues make money.

Anybody else remember this Republican sleazebag selling us on the war and resigning in 2006? He was Bush's Press Secretary. Now you can buy his book, too. I'll sure set aside some gas money for that.

The Central Scrutinzer.

Me joking around about Joe's Garage.

Ya think?

Ground-breaking new study determines Red Bull and Jagermeister aren't good for teens. Try having four fresh-faced young GIs amped on the stuff in your taxi.

Fun facts on global bandwith.

From today's report from Akamai, via Om Malik. I guess we're _not_ living in igloos up here. At least not everyone.

Hasty phone shot.

Sunset out the Boatel Bar window tonight.

Dead moose on Craigslist.

Get your free, dead Alaska moose here.

MacBook Air is cutting-edge.

Cuts through flesh, too.

R.I.P. Sydney Pollack.

Lucky traveller.

Japanese airport mistake gives unwitting passenger 142g of cannabis.

First photos from Phoenix.

From the University of Arizona.

Sinking ship.

Run away!

What a relief.

Via Digg.

New York 10 oz.

And eggs over easy. Best breakfast in town.

All the Weezer.

All the meme. Now please have done with it.

Five bucks a gallon?

Most likely.

Woman comes back to life after rigor mortis sets in.

Via BoingBoing. Man.

Couldn't connect.

Think it might be for the best.

What's up on 5th Ave?

60 people deep at Apple's flagship store. No apparent reason.

Kubrick's lenses.

The ultimate Zeiss. Via Gruber.

User 927.

The secrets of search.

Invisible Armies.

You betcha. Worth a read. Free download. Good when you know the country's over.

AT&T offers no insurance on iPhone.

Had to get a replacement phone after total submersion in the Chena River last night after a rafting accident. One would think that if a customer signed a two-year contract, the customer would get a break on a new phone, with some insurance. No such luck. FYI.

Dave Bird saved my life last night.

Literally. I won't forget it, 'nuff said.

Paddling up the Chena River.

1'30 a.m. Wish me luck.

Free drink chip.

Just got this at the Boatel Bar in Fairbanks. Neat design, must be 15 years old at least.

The Bush Effect.

Tim Dickinson on today's "crude milestone."

For Don Cole.

The only halfway-respectable picture of a sunflower I've ever managed. I think. Taken at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Botanical Garden late last summer. God bless the macros (in this instance). Point-and-shoot Canon PowerShot, with some extras ;)

Bentley Mall, 4:15 a.m.

Hastily "snapped" with the jesus phone while I was heading home after work this morning. Sent via mobile on the fly. The colors.

Digital photo urn.

Maybe a different shape or something... nah.

3G iPhone launch date confirmed.

June it is, then.

Napster launches MP3 store.

Decides to compete with iTunes and Amazon now that it's mid-2008. How the mighty have fallen.

Steve Ballmer egged on in Hungary.

Student not so happy about Microsoft monopolies.

John McCain's Straight Talk Express.

Not so straight.

One big cause of the global food shortage.

Via NYT. Click to enlarge.

"The cockroach of gaming."

Josh Levin on the most-used Windows application in the world. Via Slate. I'll admit it: I even have a version of it on my Mac.

Destination Calabria.

Uncensored director's cut by Alex Gaudino. One hot dance number.

Progress.

Article/analysis of Shepard Fairey's Obama poster.

Then and now.

Khoi Vinh on album covers.

Alligator skin Xbox 360.

H. R. Giger-esque mod. Great work.

Life-size luxury tax.

Monopoly, Chicago-style.

Red Army hip-hop.

Truly bad-ass.

Peace monuments.

Are humans as good at honoring peace as they are at honoring war?

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 available.

Over here. All kinds of improvements.

Devastating photos of the China earthquake.

Via the Daily Mail.

Help menu.

One of the most amusing I've ever seen, from iSquint, a free iPod video converter for Mac OS X. Great software, too. Click to enlarge.

If I was a terrorist.

Thanks, Craig!

Lunch in Zimbabwe.

Now that's inflation. And a beer drinker's bad dream.

Tips on eluding an ISP BitTorrent blockade.

PC World via Slashdot.

Midnight sun.

The United States of Amnesia.

Gore Vidal on the Bush presidency.

Wingnut a**hole pops his cork.

Just in case you haven't seen it - Bill O'Reilly is such a class act.

We're here to help.

Easy ways to spy on your friends.