I like baseball, as those of you who know me personally know well. It’s pretty much the only sport I care about, and the only one I bother watching on television.
A few months back, I got the bright idea to try MLB’s Extra Innings package, thinking I’d get to watch games out of market at [...]

Fire eggs at Microsoft’s bombastic egghead CEO in this fun –and challenging– flash game: [link]
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There’s a non-profit running a fun game online that donates 10 grains of rice per correct answer on a vocabulary test. [link]
I’ve been playing it here-and-there throughout the day today, and I’ve racked up about 1,200 grains thus far.
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Dear Wendy’s:
When you stop wrapping your sandwiches in non-microwavable foil, I’ll stop trying to microwave non-microwavable foil.
My life might depend on it, so I’d appreciate it deeply if you made this important safety alteration today.
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When I heard that “Girls Gone Wild” mogul Joe Francis was being busted for tax evasion, my response was probably much the same as yours was. I couldn’t give a crap less.
But, watching some late-night TV, I noticed that the GGW ads are still running. With Francis imprisoned and his tax evasion case looming, who [...]

Ubuntu’s development teams recently announced a new Ubuntu flavor aimed at multimedia and video production environments. [link]
Speaking as someone who’s tried to steer video-editing friends into F/OSS, only to find the true GPL solutions “not yet ready for prime-time”, I applaud this move: the right move at the right time.
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C’mon, we all knew there was a reason for the massive influx of embedded-GIF spam touting penny stocks.
The reason is simple. It works: [link]
(via /.)
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I have no shortage of projects. I do have a shortage of time.
Since I’ve just committed to writing a book on the Joomla CMS for Packt Publishing, and because it just wouldn’t do to have no personal website for my prospective readers to link to, I was faced with a conundrum. I could:

Use my book [...]