• Finding Fellowship (Hairy Feet Optional) - New York Times
  Turbine gets a glowing review for LotRO from the NYTimes.
• Picasa Web Albums - Nathan
  My publicly accessible web photo albums on Picasa.

• Save the Darfur Puppy
  Humans respond better to the suffering of an individual, even an animal, than they do to the suffering of a group.
• In Praise of Budweiser
  A rather extended argument in favor of Budweiser.

• U.S. Minimum Wage History
  Adjusted for inflation.

• Horse meat - Wikipedia
  Horse meat is a lot more popular than I thought.
• Your Favorite Programming Quote
  Programmign quotes, including: “It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad c
• Future bright for FIEA grads by Jeff Rubenstein
  Orlando Sentinel blog post about FIEA’s second graduation.

• The Joy of Drinking - Barbara Holland
  “A carefree history of our long love affair with drinking.”
• The Geek Syndrome
  Could the concentration of natural technical ability in the silicon valley area be causing more autism?
• Bill Moyers interviewing Jon Stewart (pt 1)
• Bill Moyers interviewing Jon Stewart (pt 2)
• Bill Moyers interviewing Jon Stewart (pt 3)

Shades of the disappointment I felt during Matrix 3. Every time you think it can’t get worse they raise the cheesiness level. Even the special effects weren’t great.

• ps3 eye of judgment - Google Search
  This looks like a technology with a lot of potential. Especially if it’s combined with one of Microsoft’s smart tabletops they were showing off last year.
• I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
  This just wasted about an hour of my life.
• No, Really, It Was Tough: 4 People, 80 Martinis - New York Times
  “Gin and vodka have as much in common hierarchically as a president and a vice president. Vodka can fill in for gin from time to time and might even be given certain ceremonial duties of its own, but at important moments you need the real thing.”
• Opera Slinger on ManifestoGames.com
  Produced by the cohort before mine at FIEA.
• Reading sci-fi for pleasure - Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog
  “As soon as someone writes a really good sci-fi book it nearly always seems to get reclassified as something else.”