I’m not exactly in line with his politics, but I have become an avid reader of the War Nerd (at Exiled). His commentary is almost always insightful, and he does a good job at connecting the dots. His coverage of the Russia-Georgia war and the Mumbai terrorist attacks have been excellent. Some NSFW language.

A few years back, a guy tried this, lost the gun, and wandered into LAX airspace.
From snopes.com

Now, there’s a guy trying it for real to go from central Oregon to Idaho (let’s hope there’s no restricted airspace near him): Yahoo story

These have been around for a while, but I never spent the time to find the whole list. Basically Eddie Izzard skits acted out in stop motion using legos. As I love the original stand-up comedy, the legos are an added (but well executed) bonus.

Warning: NSFW language

Eddie Izzard Lego Skits on YouTube

It would be true greatness for Gabe and Tycho to write a middling review of this game. Cause that’s what it is so far.

Saw Eddie Izzard last night at DAR Constitution Hall last night with J. The acoustics were horrible, so I only caught about 85% of the show. It was pretty fresh, unlike Sexie. He did riffs on Wikipedia (pulling out an iPhone on stage to look something up in Wikipedia), Apple vs PC Software updates, god vs. no god, the history of the world, intelligent design vs. evolution, and how some figures from the bible were probably real. Many God and Dinosaur impressions - no Sean Connery, no James Mason. Oh yeah, and no womens’ clothing.

The quotable lines, I believe, will be:
• “Monkey, Monkey, Monkey, You”
• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ox? That’s the whole basis of trade!
• The bible journalists were here!
• Rawr (dinosaur impression)

The DC crowd was a bit antsy since the show started almost 30 minutes late and, as mentioned, the acoustics sucked. There was a lot of yelling from the audience for Eddie to this this and that, which he took graciously for most of the show. Some of his stuff did fall flat (there was a lot more of the “scribbling notes to self about not using this joke or that joke” than in the previous acts I’ve seen).

Dressed to Kill still sets the bar, but, in my opinion, this takes the second spot easily.

For a while, I have been using PopURLs as a quick and dirty way of scanning interesting websites for what’s new. It is not a RSS reader substitute, but if I have a couple of minutes and just want to see something new, it’s a good spot to stop. A few weeks ago, with a few free cycles, I wondered just how difficult it would be to roll my own. Nothing as pretty, but something that would give me some exposure to what’s under the covers.>

A couple of days ago, buzz started to build around Alltop which was built by Guy Kawasaki’s Nononina, also behind the site Truemors. Alltop is a very pretty site with a wide variety of content, but it too is based on the same content (and looking at the page sources, potentially the same code base).

If you want to build your own, I offer you my findings, code and lessons learned

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We have put up a wedding site at www.rajandjae.org. Details / stories / updates will be there more than here.

Picked some of the better photos from the India trip and uploaded them. Photos here

Been reading a lot, especially with the trip to India (more on that when I have time to upload photos, do some actual writing). Here’s what made the list
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Would that be because he was named in it? Or is it the ‘roid rage coming through?
CNN Story