Well its good to see that having the MSN searchbot visit my page more than anyone or anything else (over 100 hits a day on average) is good for something.

I am the top search result for social networking for brand whores.

I just received a little novelty gadget called 20 Q (aka 20 Questions Handheld Game. It’s probably no suprise that it plays 20 questions. What is a bit suprising is how good a job it does for a ~$15 device. More suprising to me, is that it uses a neural net that’s been in training for 17 years to do it.

Learn more on “Cool Tools”:http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000725.php

Yeeeeee-fuckin-ha!

MercuryNews.com | 05/16/2005 | Fox saves `Arrested Development’

Arrested Development is one of just a few shows I seek to watch, and when it kept getting pre-empted last season for various programming stunts, I thought it was going to go the way of past favorites like Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks that received similar treatment on their way to cancellation.

And so, it was a pleasant suprise to see they’d been picked up for a full third season.

I’m so happy, I might even watch some of the commercials.

I rarely look beyond the front page at “Slashdot”:http://slashdot.org these days because any insigtful community commentary is usually lost among the thought-free braying of anti-Microsoft zealots. A couple times a week though, I’ll look beyond the front page, and if I manage to find an insightful or informed post, I might even click on the author and read anything else they’ve posted recently.

Last night I was reading a thread about apple starting to distribute video via the iTunes music store when I came across a poster who goes byAs Seen On TV. He was making some well considered and well informed points about Apple’s place in the content business, and he was using the royal “we” when representing Apple’s position.

He’s clearly an Apple employee, and people are “already speculating”:http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148958&cid=12485560 about who he is (assuming, no doubt incorrectly, that he is near the top of the hierarchy.)

A blog forSparkle Body Spray. This might be worse than “Yub”:http://www.yub.com.

At least they don’t appear to be censoring comments. Four of six are critical of the entire concept (the other two appear to be shills).

To be honest, I feel gross even linking to it, so I put in a no-follow attribute so as not to help their google rank.

via “Gaping Void”:http://www.gapingvoid.com