I take no responsibility. In other news, I stopped by the shopping center where my bank is this morning, and pulled into a parking spot alongside a rather haphazardly-parked white sedan. A morose gentleman was sitting inside, staring straight ahead. It was 8:58… I’d timed it to arrive by 9 when the bank opened. So…

Has email lost all sense of eloquence? The five most recent non-spam subject lines in my inbox: Re: guess what Re: shit Re: oh yeah Re: lead for Wireless feature story Re: Hey And those subjects are all totally appropriate.

More top ten lists than you can shake a stick at!

So I had my 8th(?) and what will be final mouth-doctor visit today. For the umpteenth time in my life: There’s nothing wrong with you. Go home. My mouth hurts, so he says, because my jaw is a little crooked and I bite my lip accidentally, and now there’s scar tissue there. There’s really nothing…

Free money? Yeah, free money! This time, it’s not some come-on. Er, well, sort of. Link courtesy Jim Dedman.

How not to get a job (full text of an email I received today): Subject: HR Dept Gentlemen, You are being contactedtoday proactively to announce my immediate availability. Generally seeking employment full time or contractual in management or sales management. Travel not a problem. Fluent in German. Your consideration most appreciated. Regards van Eton London,…

Certainly this is an issue that affects very few of you, but what happened to French cut green beans? And California Pizza’s frozen potato and rosemary chicken (was it chicken? I can no longer remember…) pies? I really hate it when items are discontinued and I never hear about it. I just stare into the…

How do I get to be part of the National Bureau of Economic Research? It sounds like a great gig: You get to say things probably happened but you’re not sure when and you’re not sure when you might know. Really useful. Do we pay for this?

In my quest for finding the end to mouth pain, I read that your teeth are never supposed to touch unless you’re chewing food. This has led to an extreme amount of paranoia in keeping my teeth slightly apart at all times. Now that you’ve read this, you’ll know what a real obsession is like.…

Hey, I’m the man of the year! Christopher Null, for exemplary achievements in technology journalism and online cultural commentary. I’d like to thank the Academy…

Half Mast was spotted at a used bookstore in Houston today. $3.98. If you’re in the area, you won’t find a better price! I’m a little flattered by the whole thing. Not by whomever sold the book, but that the bookstore would actually buy the thing! If you’ve ever tried to sell used novels, you…

Buy my book, get a free DVD!

This is the kind of civil disobedience I can get behind. Staffers at an Oregon weekly took the trash of their local politicos after a ruling legalized warrant-free searching of curbside rubbish. The contents are revealed, and I’m dying to know more about the “Extremely personal note on dinner napkin, handwritten in pencil.”

Now I’m “award-winning”: Best WORK OF FICTION featuring a murderous computer geek

Official motto on Idaho license plates: FAMOUS POTATOES.

The PC I use only to connect to the Internet became infected with NIMDA, and I spent two days trying to eradicate it. This is on a machine that does nothing but send faxes and dial the modem. No email sent or received. Rarely used to view web pages. Virus definitions auto-update daily. WTF!?

My cousin-in-law made this chocolate-covered caramel trombone for my uncle as a Christmas gift. I guess he opened his present early.

Is it just me, or does it seem like the challengers are winning more often on Iron Chef?

Final Survivor pool rankings: 1 Nullifier 925 2 Renutt 875 3 Nachos 645 4 BigMama 495 5 LoRez 470 6 Hongos in Diff’rent Area Codes 370 7 Roberto 250 8 Grech 225 $60, baby!

Editors’ secrets revealed (including mine) in Ellen Ullman’s mediabistro piece!