I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta 1 into a VM on my Mac, and I find it to not only be inoffensive, but actually quite nice! Well worth the hour or two necessary to get it up and running, especially if you’re using Vista :P
The Boston Globe has a retrospective of the best 120 photos of 2008 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) up on Boston.com. I highly recommend looking at all of them, but if you don’t have the time, here are my favorites: Lighting above a volcano Space sh...
It snowed here in Seattle starting in the wee hours of the morning. I woke up from a thunderclap around 5:30AM, and then heard another one a few minutes later. We’ve only received a couple inches, but that’s still enough to tank the whole city. Ch...
From Thomas Hawk: It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog. Far be it from me to not follow a meme:
The Minnesota Senatorial battle continues with a statewide recount. Nate Silver thinks Franken will win. Maybe. Or not. Who knows. Meanwhile, MPR has posted a collection of photos of challenged ballots, including my personal favorite, Lizard Peopl...
So, it looks like Nader might have cost Obama the state of Missouri. Check it out: McCain: 1,445,812 Obama: 1,442,810 Nader: 17,813 Barr: 11,386 If you assume that 3rd party voters would have voted for their more closely aligned major party ...
h/t to Daily Kos for the link to this unbelievably good clone of Super Mario World.
"You know," [Chuck Heath, Sarah Palin's father] said, "the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for." (from Maureen Dowd) You know, I bet Bristol just has the worst time remembering where she left her underwear. When is her wedd...
Newsweek had a number of reporters embedded in the McCain, Obama and Clinton campaigns for the past year, working on a multi-part inside story on what happened over the past year. Part 4 of 7 was posted this morning, and it’s well worth the time t...