The cloud is a trap, says Stallman.

My biggest concern with it has always been having critical data elsewhere. Stallman warns it could get worse.

Barney Frank's message to the GOP.

Cheer up, little buckaroos.

The power of nightmares.

Google Video is hosting Adam Curtis's BBC documentary on the rise of radical fundamentalism.

The truth about Palin.

Rolling Stone busts the myths.

The end of Copernicus?

Get rid of dark energy, overturn Copernicus. We'll see.

Blast from the past.

A reminder from 1987. "Meet the new boss."

Hidden iTunes 8 visualizer controls.

Apple's undocumented key commands for the nifty new "Magnetosphere" visualizer. Strange that they're nowhere to be found in iTunes Help.

Who uses the visualizer? someone asked me. Everybody who smokes pot uses the visualizer.

Video tribute to Paul Newman.

Via Mashable.

Greed spirit.

Image from MAD Magazine's upcoming issue on the bailout.

Form and function.

Rooz Mousavi's OBAG.

Funny money.

The emperor has no clothes.

Larry Ellison cuts through the bullshit regarding "cloud computing."

Failin' Palin.

Palin on Russia. Via Xeni Jardin and Andrew Sullivan.

Rothko.

Anish Kapoor gives a short tour of the first big exhibition of the late work of Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern, including 15 of the Seagram murals. Jonathan Jones on their history. It's not about spiritual matters at all. It's about paint.

The new nano.

16 GB. God bless SSDs.

Katie Couric interviews Palin.

You can see why McCain has tried to cancel the VP debates. Nothing but talking points. 

Quote of the day.

"$700 billion" sounds good!

Come to papa.

I see that my MacBook Pro has made it as far as Anchorage this morning, after more than two weeks in a misadventure that began with a botched pickup, delivery to an Apple repair center in Houston right after Hurricane Ike, repair under generator power, and a host of other clusterfucks. You bet I'll be playing hooky from work tonight. Thank heavens for cloned system backups.

The T-Mobile G1.

It's an ugly sucker. Douglas Rushkoff on the OS.

Terrifying audiophile confession video.

Richard Avedon's power portraits.

A short tour of the Corcoran exhibition.

The musical road.

New nano.

I ordered one yesterday to replace the 2 1/2 year-old 1st generation nano I lost a few weeks ago. Ordered a yellow one from Apple with free engraving: "Live music is better." You Neil Young listeners should recognize that.

The lynch mob standard.

Mark Bowden on Palin's remarks at the GOP convention.

Fingers and toes evolved from fins.

As one Digg commenter wrote: "Don't tell Sarah Palin."

Corpus Clock.

World's most depressing timepiece.

Mercedes hybrid gets li ion battery.

Sure hope it lasts longer than the one in my MacBook Pro.

Unknown Mozart fragment found.

Apparently part of an unfinished Mass.

G1 under T-Mobile confirmed.

Google Android-powered HTC Dream to be unveiled September 23.

Rotary phone USB hub.

Not for me, but pretty neat.

Not quite vanilla.

Erotic photography by Ned Rosen.

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin.

So good it's scary.

This must be a joke.

I guess we're to pretend the Presidential candidate knows how to use computers. Dismal.

Floor doodling.

Olle Hemmendorff's new kitchen floor.

No sucking up.

Poetry by Simone Ellis.

Galveston respite.

I didn't know Texas had gay bars.

Courthouse confessions.

Steven Hirsch's blog of photos and statements of people leaving NYC courts.

10 parallels between Microsoft and John McCain.

Via Daniel Eran Dilger.

Cab driver brains.

It's reassuring to know we have any left.

David Foster Wallace is dead.

A sad day indeed.

My feelings exactly.

Matt Damon gets to the meat of the matter.

Strange Japanese chewing gums.

Even sex gum. Via InventorSpot.

The Bush years.

Commemorative poster, via BoingBoing.

Perfect peanut butter and jelly jars.

Design by Sherwood Forlee.

Great gift idea.

Uncut currency from the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Closed for 9/11.

Tribute in Light.

NYC readies its annual remembrance.

Today is the beginning of the end of the world.

Large hadron collider experiments begin today. Rock on!

Fitbit.

A device for people too busy/stupid/lazy to listen to their bodies. Fitness made social!

Palin the theocrat.

"What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick."

Good deal on gelato.

$3.50 at Safeway right now. The pistachio is the best.

The Apple upgrade philosophy.

Snypography.

The graphic design of Daniel Gordon.

Google at 10.

Astute, insightful prose on the sort-of-anniversary by Nicholas Carr and Om Malik.

THC may fight bacteria.

The wonder plant.

Shoe Circus.

First commercial of Microsoft's new ad campaign.

ASL on cell phones?

Coming in the near future.