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Geekery ahead.

Adelina and I went to see Happy Feet last weekend... the movie was really good (if a bit preachy towards the end), but I wish that Adelina had been able to see the real penguins in March of the Penguins first. Luckily, it came on TV this weekend and we were able to TiVo it, so she got to see it while the other was still fresh in her mind. We all enjoyed the movie, though we decided that emperor penguins, while being cute and fuzzy as chicks and fun and funny as adults, lead a life that we're glad we don't.

Massive, giant, enormous, huge, terrifying, flesh-eating centipede.

In response to Ethan:

A while back, I registered deliciouslymeta.com and setup a simple Wordpress linklog. I posted to it for a while, but it fell out of use.

Chuckle. Merlin Mann on today's MacBreak Weekly:

1. Document (3) - Finest Worksong, It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), The One I Love
2. Green (3) - World Leader Pretend, Orange Crush, Turn You Inside-Out
3. Out Of Time (2) - Belong, Country Feedback
4. Automatic For The People (1) - Man On The Moon
5. Eponymous (1) - Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum-Horn Mix)

1. World Leader Pretend
2. Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix)
3. Country Feedback (6 minute Green tour version - from L.A. I think)
4. Turn You Inside-Out
5. Begin The Begin

Chatting with Dad about buying a new Macbook pro...

It seems to me that Cory Doctorow is working a little too hard to make Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, his work of science fiction set in a world where the artists and geeks of Disney World have taken over operation of the park in a sort of anarchistic revolution - come true. At least, for some virtual version of "true", as realized in the huge virtual world of Second Life. From Rough Type:

Scott Adams just got over the flu:

>"I sat in the Situation Room in secret meetings for nearly twenty years under five Presidents, and all I can say is that some awfully crazy schemes might well have been approved had everyone present not known and expected hard questions, debate, and criticism from the Hill

Nice cover I'd not heard before.

Tips for efficient tantrumming.

I've added a subscribe-by-email box in the sidebar, provided by FeedBurner, so if you're the email type instead of the RSS-in-a-newsreader type, you can now get tasty morsels of tech, trivia, and R.E.M. delivered to your inbox. Oh happy day!

Interesting article on color in Digital Web Magazine, but I find it deeply ironic that the article is completely in black and white.

I was reading over on Yahoo and tried clicking the little purple arrow next to the world Iraq...