Once again a more intelligent and thoughtful writer than me puts into words exactly the thing that’s been bugging me for some time but which I haven’t been able to elucidate. The subject is “Snakes on a Plane.” Now I interviewed David Ellis, director of SOAP, a few weeks ago, and he was giddily happy…

The scene from yesterday: 108 degrees in mid-afternoonUn-air-conditioned historic mission in PasadenaFull tuxedo with vest1 1/2 hour Catholic wedding with full mass Congratulations, Brad! I’m as happy for you getting hitched as I am that I’m not dead.

The scene from yesterday: 108 degrees in mid-afternoonUn-air-conditioned historic mission in PasadenaFull tuxedo with vest1 1/2 hour Catholic wedding with full mass Congratulations, Brad! I’m as happy for you getting hitched as I am that I’m not dead.

It’s about freakin’ time. The split between Wired Magazine and wired.com has been one of the most painful things to explain to someone in the tech publishing world over the last decade. Wired News: Condé Nast Buys Wired News

Photos from “the most dangerous road in the world,” apparently in Bolivia. Yikes. hmmm

I’m so fed up with the awful search results on Google (thanks to a combination of web spam that Google can’t detect and legitimate sites that Google thinks are spam), that I’ve finally had it. My “primary search engine” is something else now. (Ok, it’s Yahoo.) I’m not the only one who thinks this. Check…

Pretty funny… anonymous posts from those abandoning WoW. WoW Detox – What brings you away from World of Warcraft

Grilling corn? This recipe looks bizarre but it came out perfectly. Cooks.com – Recipe – Easy Corn On The Grill

Props to the SFPD for bringing SIX fire trucks to our next door neighbor’s this evening (which spanned the entire city block)… apparently based on someone nearby calling when they smelled smoke. That smoke turned out to be — wait for it — some chicken cooking on a hibachi. I have literally never seen more…

Props to the SFPD for bringing SIX fire trucks to our next door neighbor’s this evening (which spanned the entire city block)… apparently based on someone nearby calling when they smelled smoke. That smoke turned out to be — wait for it — some chicken cooking on a hibachi. I have literally never seen more…

How, how, how can anyone have this much free time to lead on Nigerian scammers to the point where they actually mail him a carved replica of a Commodore 64? HOW? Welcome to the 419 Eater

Ok, this starts off slow but I was crying with laughter by the time I got to “pleasure equipment.” The Worst Family Feud Answers

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leR1EAdls4Y] Happy 4th of July! Early.

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File under arguments I never thought I’d be having, even with a three-year-old: Whether or not the inside of a peach (the pit, that is) is actually “a dog poop.”

I’m reasonably certain that my wife thinks that my job as a freelance journalist involves doing absolutely nothing all day long and then picking up fat checks shortly after dashing off a few emails here and there. Hopefully reading Paul Di Filippo’s piece — about just what it takes to get an assigned story into…

Just watch the video. He looks so peaceful. betapundit: Comcast Tech caught sleeping on the job

I knew there was something about that Apple ad that didn’t connect properly. Seth Stevenson finally puts his finger on why that ad just doesn’t work. How much longer until Apple pulls it? Apple’s mean-spirited ad campaign. By Seth Stevenson

Sorry, this CAPTCHA amused me and I had to share…

“Look at me, and look at where he is — sorry!” United Press International – NewsTrack – Duff strikes back against film critic