It's a baby girl elephant!

The Japanese have invented the automated body washer. I wonder if they got their designs from The Jetsons.

Please join me in supporting the Birch as America's favorite tree. Don't let it's loss in the favorite beer category to Budweiser influence you. Vote today!

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My, how time moves around, when you're dragging it along with your mouse.

A nasty man just tried to kill us all. Bryan Ferry looks on.

Clintons to Close on D.C. House
The Clintons have lived in public housing for 20 of the past 22 years. Clinton will earn $157,000 as an ex-president.

Wasn't that funny, at lunch, when the ketchup bottle made a sound like someone farted?

Whenever "Happy Birthday to You" is sung for commercial purposes, looks like Warner Communications gets paid according to this post on Coalition for Networked Information's website.

I just found out that Jamie Lee Curtis is married to Christopher Guest.

Curious GWB

"I was writing in my Journal pretty late. You were wearing a Pink Hooded sweatshirt and a walkman. I gave you a rose, you asked if I was a poet."

If you didn't have the guts to get her phone number, when you should have, post a note at isawyou.com, maybe she'll see it and respond. Probably not though. You should have gotten her number when you had the chance.

The Fat Project at TheSpark.com: 30 Lbs in 30 Days

Rufus is a comfortable slip-on Nike shoe that Takeshi told me about. I wore it today for the first time. Nice!

Lined cargo pants are really nice for the winter. I mean, really nice! They are on sale at gap.com if they have your size in stock.

The Exploding Dictionary defines the word Tangent. Once you get here you can ask it to define anything you'd like.

In Shanghai Noon, Jackie Chan plays a Chinese man who travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and are be-friended by Indians. You'll like it if you liked The Frisco Kid, where Gene Wilder plays a rabbi from Poland who goes to America to lead a Jewish community. After teaming up with a bank robber, Harrison Ford, they form a friendship, and have many (mis)adventures including being captured by Indians.

Now you too can be a SimpleDJ or an onlineDJ. You choose. All you need is a sound card and some speakers.

Joel on Software has written a great book: User Interface Design for Programmers In it, he quotes Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Good UI designers use consistency intelligently, and, though it may not show off their creativity as well, in the long run it makes users happier. If you want to see that quote spoken in a movie, rent Next Stop Wonderland.

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