For Ann Henry.

Happy travels, my friend. (Thanks, Don!)

Google Street View van hits deer.

They have since pulled the images.

Did you know?

Not really surprising, but nice to see it like this. Music by Fatboy Slim.

"What Keeps Mankind Alive?"

William S Burroughs reciting. Thanks, Don!

"I Love Alaska."

Video projects by Sander Plug and Lernery Engelberts.

R.I.P. John Updike.

Michiko Kakutani's retrospective from NYT.

Mr. Creosote.

So awful, so funny.

Trulee's moose sighting.

Last night, near Lathrop and Kellum.

Verne Troyer madness.

F*cked up.

England reclassifies pot.

Just legalize it and avoid all this. We can hope it's "three times stronger."

25th anniversary of the Macintosh.

Andy Hertzfeld looks back.

Twittersexuality.

Violet Blue's Twitter sex guide.

The White House in the dark ages.

The Washington Post on the technological conditions of the White House and the Obama team.

Obama Airs.

On sale at Thrifty Liquor here, $80.

The Real Human Bodies Exhibit.

Narrated by forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht. Creepy, sick, and fascinating. Are all the corpses executed Chinese prisoners? (Thanks, Don!)

Presidency 2.0.

Article from Wired. I'm not sure the peckerwoods who voted for Neo-Cons can master their phones, let alone a web discussion.

Worst sleeve ever.

Just what I need with my 5 and a half-pound, 15.4-inch notebook Mac: less portability and more weight. This ought to just slide right in the ol' laptop bag. For insufferable Macintosh elitists.

End of an error.

Even bigger than NYC.

Everything you wanted to know about heaven.

Poe's 200th birthday.

Archival material from NYT.

YouTube implements download feature.

There are a thousand ways to download videos from the site, but this makes it easier.

Scrabble keyboard.

Cool mod for the Mac.

Bush: Eight years in eight minutes.

The Bush environmental legacy.

Choke.

Our habit of assent.

Tom Junod looks back on the Bush years for Esquire.

For fellow laptop users.

Engadget's done a hands-on of Dell's Adamo, and photos like this make me wonder what is up with the glossy screen fad. Makes a good mirror. If I was ready for a new notebook, I'd have snapped up a last-gen MBP 17-inch, refurbed, on discount and with matte.

Today's Steve Jobs post.

After today's news about Jobs's health, the winner has to be Dave Winer. Will my computer stop functioning until June?

Hands on with the Palm Pre.

Looks like Palm may be back.

Letterman's Top 10 George Bush moments.

Heir to Steve?

Fake Steve Jobs on Steve Jobs, spot-on. Via Newsweek.

Goldfrapp - Utopia (live).

Great performance of a song about clonation.

The politics of Facebook.

The Guardian on the "uber-capitalism" of Facebook.

How is this possible?

Just think if she started having actual conversations. Via digg.

Ass Kickin' Cajun Hot Sauce.

This stuff is pretty tasty and surprisingly good.

Wind chill.

Very small array.

The cartoons of Dorothy Gambrell.

Nicholas Carr on NPR this weekend.

Interview with "On the Media."

The Bush disaster.

Tallying up the damage, via Salon.

About f*cking time.

Apple is phasing out DRM.

College Coffeehouse tonight.

Fairly inviting at 45 below. Funny, too: everybody's all bundled up. iPhone pic.

Serious joint-rolling.

SecretTweet.

Worth following.

How to cook a squirrel.

Marlena Spieler on England's latest trendy dish.

The MacBook Wheel.

The Onion on Apple's new, revolutionary notebook: "Everything is just a few hundred clicks away."

Warming trend.

New Doctor Who.

The BBC has named the next Time Lord.

The wisdom of Hunter S. Thompson.

Motivational posters.

Kinetic.

The art and design of Kashiwa Sato.

Bush 3?

Katharine Seelye's article in today's NYT gives me nightmares.

Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Cover).

Watch "Religulous" for free.

Via Google.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics.

Ministry of Type has more on the book that came before the film which is another Chuck Jones masterpiece.

Great useless iPhone app.

The iPhone is the most useful high-tech gadget I've ever owned (aside from Mac laptops), but I also love the truly excellent, totally useless applications for it. iSteam is pretty groovy, and it's free. Check the video in that link.

iPhone 3G unlock is here.

Via Engadget, download here (looks like the Dev-Team is about to put on the final touches now, as of this writing).

Exploring hangovers.

Joan Acocella on their physical and metaphysical attributes.

Norway steps backward.

Bans the purchase of sex, creates more sex criminals.

Stocks set new record.

Worst annual performance since the Great Depression.