Chuckle. Merlin Mann on today's MacBreak Weekly:

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

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:

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

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)

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...

I was reading an old article on ars technica (IBM and OSDL to help Patent Office get organized -Jan 2006) about IBM's work with the USPTO to help reform the patent system, and ran across this quote:

Preview for Mike Judge's new psychological thriller. digg story

it's the end of the world as we know it

I'm a little over the whole "tag cloud" (a simple weighted list, really) thing as applied to blog posts, but applying it to more socially "interesting" texts is a clever idea. Here Chirag Mehta has run a series of tag clouds on 360 speeches and documents by Presidents of the United States - US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.

From the Creating Passionate Users blog:

This 360' skateboard ramp is insane. Some people have way too much time and adrenaline on their hands.

What you get when you unpack an Apple refurbished product.

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Ethan Kaplan at BlackRimGlasses has a post up about the major newspaper losing circulation. Feedburner (I think) thought they'd be funny with the feed ads, and this is what I saw in Google Reader a few minutes ago: