Letter Never Sent Tell me when to go.

Spielberg teams up with EA. “The acclaimed film director and producer has agreed to develop three new games under a long-term exclusive deal with video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. The deal to be announced Friday reflects the increasingly intertwined interests of Hollywood and the video game industry.” Looks like the LA studio is finally showing its value, ie. close relationships with Hollywood. Courtesy of linkbunnies.

Hanlon’s Razor “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny’s linkblog. Paranoid types should bear this in mind.

I noticed an unknown (to me) salacious rap euphemism while driving around today: “beat it up” For example lyrics: petey pablo, Young Jeezy (NSFW), Pretty Ricky, OutKast,
David Banner (NSFW), Missy Elliot (NSFW), Ying Yang Twins, 2Pac (NSFW).

The Lorem Ipsum generator. Generate the traditional dummy text. “Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.”

THE NAMES OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CABINET ACCORDING TO THE ETYMOLOGICAL BACKGROUNDS OF THEIR FIRST AND LAST NAMES, AND OF THEIR MIDDLE NAMES WHEN AVAILABLE.*

Pizazz. If you’ve been to the Alamo Drafthouse recently, you’ve probably seen this. Quicktime.

Astroventure lets you Search, Design, and Build your very own planet…then test if it can support life! Courtesy of digg.

Bittorrent supernova.org clone for those that miss that format. New nova. Warning: piratical (piradical?) link ahoy.

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Disorganized twenty-something writer interviews a very
patient Margaret Atwood. “I’m now the home for other people. That’s how it works.”

The World According to Kurt Vonnegut “Where is home? I’ve wondered where home is, and I realized, it’s not Mars or someplace like that, it’s Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there’s no way I can get there again.” I just remembered that I had the pleasure of seeing him speak several years ago at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Exercise amount more important than intensity “In journal CHEST, researchers from North Carolina report that people who walk briskly for 12 miles per week or for about 125 to 200 minutes per week will significantly improve their aerobic fitness and lower their risk of developing heart disease.”

Addicts’ own stories confirm neuroscience “Research has shown that stress is a major contributor to addiction. People who repeatedly take drugs may end up with an exaggerated response to stress, so minor stressors become major ones, says Frank Vocci, director of NIDA’s Division of Pharmacotherapies and Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse.” Great article.

Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason)

Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body “A large, new study, for example, provides the latest in a flurry of evidence suggesting that the nation’s obesity epidemic is being driven, at least in part, by a corresponding decrease in the average number of hours that Americans are sleeping, possibly by disrupting hormones that regulate appetite. The analysis of a nationally representative sample of nearly 10,000 adults found that those between the ages of 32 and 49 who sleep less than seven hours a night are significantly more likely to be obese.”

20 of your unusual words “So far as I’m aware, no other language has anything equivalent to the Icelandic ‘setja upp gestaspjot’, a verbal phrase denoting the action taken by a cat when cleaning itself, with its body curled tightly in a circle and one back leg sticking directly up in the air. Literally it means ‘put up a guest-spear’ and when a cat was seen doing this it was supposed to indicate that visitors would be turning up.”

Vonnegut, on politics, presidents and librarians “The America I loved,” he writes, “still exists in the front desks of public libraries.”

China to Develop Its Own DVD Format “Up to 80 percent of DVD players are made in China, but makers have to cough up around 40 percent of the cost of each player to license holders, according to Chinese reports.” Good leverage.

Snake bursts after gobbling gator An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida’s swamps.

Intro go anywhere disposable scrabble game.

I/O Brush: The World as the Palette: I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them.

10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat! What’s so bad about Bugles? The highly saturated coconut oil that General Mills fries them in –oil that’s about twice as saturated as lard.

A first look at GIMP 2.4

AMERICAN DIASPORA “the above map was based on more than 40,000 postings on Internet “safe lists” by Katrina survivors. ePodunk analyzed messages containing both the person’s hometown and the location after fleeing the storm. Pass your cursor over points on the map to see city names and to click to information about the community.”

Watched 40-year Old Virgin last night. Laughed. So. Hard.

Eureka – 29 is perfect age for a big idea RESEARCHERS investigating the achievements of thousands of innovators have established that 29 is the age at which you are most likely to have your first big, original idea. The age represents the optimum combination of education and energy levels required for great ideas to emerge, according to the study. Courtesy of Business Opportunities Weblog.

Korean creativity. Cute.

The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

General Zod for president in 2008. ” When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn’t know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote.”

Sharon Stone comes to the defense of Kate Moss. “If you are in here and haven’t made a mistake, I’d like to meet you because I’ve been waiting for Jesus — and today would be the day,” Stone said to loud laughter.” Even Pat O’Brien got better treatment than this.

VIA and Mini-box Announce the VoomPC. Now you can put a computer in your car for that mobile wifi hotspot you’ve been planning.

Live dogs used cruelly as shark bait.

Free WordPress hosting with Blogsome. Get your feet wet.

A Miniature (Christo) Gate in Hot Pursuit of a Miniature Central Park

The Shining remixed as a comedy. Courtesy of Waxy.

indietits – a web comic involving tufted titmice

Sorry gotta go. Sound clips you play in the background to get off the phone. Courtesy of Chris of Cynical C.

Nevblog apes the million dollar webpage. $800 and up. Millions of people are kicking themselves about this idea.

Dog gets jiggy with Pokemon. Video courtesy of linkbunnies.

The truly hard-core roll their own iPods. DIY: Build your own portable MP3 player

List of songs whose title includes a phone number

Comprehensive gallery of movie posters from MST3K movies. Courtesy of poster wire.

How to find a human in various automated telephone systems.

Google Gets Own Birthday Wrong “lmaonade”!

A fascinating test of Google Page Rank I like to play around with Google’s search features, and one of the things I tried doing was entering a search query which would yeild all 8,168,684,336 pages. I came close; 7,180,000,000. What’s interesting (though not surprising) is how effective pagerank is in this situation. Check it out, and compare the results with Alexa read more | digg story