“groovy mother...”

Email from our downstairs neighbour

Ah, the joy of watching my ragtag bunch of shell scripts and Python tools rip, convert and tag my new Beatles CDs.

Opened up the laptop in Cambridge, and noticed my laptop's timezone had already been set.

Witchcraft!

The single-serving-site loveliness of Instant Crickets, Bom Bom Bom Bom Wooo, Instant Rimshot and Sad Trombone, clipped to my OS X dashboard for those times they're urgently needed.

Can you spot the day that Twitter changed its algorithm for displaying friend icons so that early adopters such as myself didn't get disproportional prominence?

On the page of the very funny Target Women segment attacking Carl's Jr's sexist advertising campaign, Current.com promotes videos called "Adult Videos", "InfoMania: Spring Break" (illustrated with a girl in a bikini) and "Taxes and BOOBS" in the hope of snaring some precious pageviews.

Updated to add some clarification:

It's not so much the *content* offending me as the salacious titling of segments with a goal of getting page views seeming hypocritical when paired with Sarah's segment.

Attempting to profit from a funny, well-argued segment attacking mindless misogyny while simultaneously pushing content by giving a video a misleading title and thumbnail just strikes me as duplicitous and makes me embarrassed to be a champion of Current.

The latest version of Google Earth requires you install a mysterious new background process to your Mac before you can use it.

The words "fuck that shit" spring to mind. This is a dick move in the style of all those fucking annoying updates that keep getting installed in Windows system trays by douchebag invasive packages (Java, Adobe Acrobat, et al), wasting cycles.

I hit "Quit", and am waiting for someone to post a workaround before I'll consider playing with the new version of Google Earth.

(Updated to add: Apparently, I should be grateful they chose to prompt me before installing the process.)

My last three months worth of listening. Generated with last.fm data and Wordle.

My speed over the last year has been approximately that of a butterfly, according to my Dopplr profile.

My Facebook friends, mapped out using the Nexus app.

Major constellations are marked -- improvisers sure like their own, huh?

Hadn't seen this before. A lovely real-time glanceable view of the state of a football match. Progress bar showing time in the game, with markers for goals, yellow & red cards and substitutions.

You know what, Hulu? I don't think I will disable my ad-blocking software. It's almost like it's doing exactly what I want it to do.

Nice work UPS. The package Amazon overnighted me last night? Has been delivered in 2006. Now that is speedy delivery.

Thank you, The Internet, for making it possible for me to see my dogs when we're three time-zones apart. And confuse them by calling their names.

Tucked amongst the usual advertisements, in the current edition of the W33kly D1g. Made me laugh.

(Thanks to Dan for pointing this out to me)

Since NESN isn't really gonna be an option when we're in SF, I've signed up from the MLB.TV package. Their Mosaic application is pretty cool (if a tad rusty and prone to collapse at the moment) -- you can stream up to six games live to it, and flip the audio between games. Can definitely see hooking this up to the TV later in the season.

The results of sshing to the new Slim Devices Controller remote control.

An instant message I received. Not sure if it's one of my friends being funny, or something more sinister -- either way, I'm not responding!