Blather

Church Chat

I guess I'm kind of relieved, in a way. And say, that's a heck of a deal for a fish fry!

(Via the best stupid web trick ever, Ryland Sanders' Church Sign Generator.)

U-2: The Consumer Model

Gosh, how many times have you said to yourself: "If only technology had advanced to the point where I could buy my own $600 spy plane over the Internet!"

Dynamap

Via Gizmodo, here's Dynamap. It uses the eye-fooling technology behind the Jesus With Eyes Open/Jesus With Eyes Closed postcards to embed three levels of map data on one surface. Cool Flash demo here.

Get Bigger, Crazier D*e*a*T*h t*H*r*E*A*t*s NOW!!!

Out on bond and facing five years in jail for threatening to "cut into the left side of [a spammer's] brain using a power drill and an ice pick," a Sunnyvale, CA man told The Mercury News: "If I could go back, I wouldn't have done it. I would have realized sooner that I needed to shut my Web site down, to shut down my e-mail and to re-evaluate the way I was using the Internet." Once again I find myself saying "Maybe it's just me, but..." ...Does the guy really think that "ill-conceived use of the Internet" is among his most pressing problems? I'm not sure it's even in the Top 5. "Creepy specificity of death threats" has gotta be #1.

But maybe it's just me.

Achtung! Puttenzei der Big Mac wrapper in der can! Schnell!

It isn't so much the fact that Berlin is about to get talking trash cans that's troubling. It's the prospect of what could happen if one of them decides to get the others together.

Legal News

Guys who popularize pop-unders sue X10, win $4.3 million. Millions wonder who, if anybody, to sympathize with.

This Week's Flash Timesucker

RSVP -- it's all the gnawing social misery of a bad dinner party PLUS the trendy busyness of Flash animation! (And it isn't like it's cruelly addictive or anything. No way. I'm waaaay too smart for that.)

Serves Me Right

This is what I get for Googling myself.