This is the most amazing thing I’ve read in weeks, about Stanley Milgram’s other study: ‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'

The are a lot of good reasons to drink a glass of red wine every day. Now, there might be just as many to drink a pint of stout, too. Bring on the Guinness!

I think it’s been about four years since I purchased blank CD-R media, but somehow I have more discs than ever. This project to make a disc spindle lamp makes me want to burn a lot of them quickly.

100 Photographs that Changed the World

Read the story about Gabe's son's birth (it's the second post on that day, titled "My son"). Here are my first two thoughts:

1. That's the best baby shirt ever made.
2. Gabe (his real name is Mike Krahulik) named his son Gabe? Should I name my firstborn Plutor?

Amail, Bmail, Cmail, Dmail, Email, Fmail, Gmail, Hmail, Imail, Jmail, Kmail, Lmail, Mmail, Nmail, Omail, Pmail, Qmail, Rmail, Smail, Tmail, Umail, Vmail, Wmail, Xmail, Ymail, and Zmail

Leave it to Wikipedia to teach me a ridiculous amount of stuff about a simple thing: in this case a fricken power plug.

In January 2001, shortly before his Inauguration, The Onion published an article called “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over’”. Little did we know how true the details of what was meant to be satire would be.

Wow. Listen to George W. Bush cover U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”.

Jeopardy is showing new episodes again, and Ken Jennings has won show number 39 in a row. My favorite among some KenJen statistics: The last time that Final Jeopardy was mathematically necessary (i.e. the last time Ken did not have more than double the score of the next-best contestant) was June 29.

Update, 09-08: Huge KenJen spoiler.

Lots of numbers are special. 2 is the only even prime. 28 is perfect. And if you’re patient and know a lot of esoteric mathematics, you can find something special about every number.

Only one article so far, but I plan on following this Hacking Congress column. I’m quite interested in statistics and large data sets and screenscraping. Like I needed to tell you.

Not only do I have dreams like Roast Beef’s in today’s Achewood (substituting ‘Google’ for ‘Yahoo’), but in fact the whole story feels like Onstad is stalking me.

I was thinking of protesting at the RNC this week, since how often do you get a chance to protest something so big and so close? I was trying to come up with something vaguely nerdy but also political. This protester outdid any hypothetical alternate-universe me.

Liberated Games aren’t abandonware, but they’re just as Free (as in Beer in some cases, as in Speech in others). I was just thinking the other day how my new rig would handle Homeworld.

Woman’s skin grows over wedding ring. Massive kidneys. Note: Neither of these links are for the weak.

Not to insult M or anything, but the “Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About” seemed a lot less hilarious and insightful three or four years ago, before we got married.

Another massive construction project: Chubu International Airport (more on Wikipedia)

OMFG. The Half-Life 2 preload begins. “Purchase options will be released soon.”

Be sure to keep an eye on the Steam Network Status page (specifically the yellow line on the bottom graph). Will Steam be slashdotted?

I wish I had had the balls (and the legal argument) to respond this way when I was served a Cease and Desist.

Heh, I just noticed that it's the same law firm as my C&D. I should find it and scan that thing in.

The Tricks of the Trade

“I found a digital camera in the woods”, Blair Witch for the Internet. Keep reading a few pages.

I don’t miss this car one bit. Okay, maybe one bit, but it’s a 0.

Yeah, it’s twelve years old, but it’s an Olympic story that still moves me: Derek Redmond and the 400-meter. (Aside: Which is worse, reading something at work that makes you cry, or something that makes you laugh out loud continuously?)

“[W]hen an American mouths off about French military history, he’s not just being ignorant, he’s being ungrateful.” A war buff defends French military history against Internet jerks.