Sopranos announced earlier today (through their newsletter) that they have a new dynamic map based on Google Maps. Each spot in the map is an important location for the show. This is great for those that don’t know the tri-state area. I checked most of the points and it works just like every other Google [...]

Weak week for blogging with my newfound addiction for Rise of Nations (yeah, I know it is not even a new game, bite me), so I was looking for some blog filler until KF told me that Google now allows linking to their videos. Here’s my little “screw you”: I hope the song gets stuck [...]

Based on this quiz and at Braddoro’s request/challenge: True Neutral Human Thief Druid Alignment: True Neutral characters are very rare. They believe that balance is the most important thing, and will not side with any other force. They will do whatever is necessary to preserve that balance, even if it means switching allegiances suddenly. Race: [...]

Somebody is freaking out because blogs have failed at making money. Bullshit. From Slashdot: Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite! Carl Bialik writes “’Reports of blogging’s demise are bosh, but if we’re lucky, something else really is going away: the by-turns overheated and uninformed obsession with blogging,’ Jason Fry writes on WSJ.com, responding to a recent [...]

How come there’s so many people writing fan fiction for LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek, yet I am yet to run into any 24-themed fan fiction? Well, this is your lucky day, because I have been thinking long and hard about how you put together an episode (or WTF, a season) of 24. I also [...]

85 years young! Real time status of Abe Vigoda Technorati Tags: history, movies

Military.com is reporting that there is a movement pushing for the USAF to allow foreign sales of the F22A, the most advanced air superiority fighter in the US arsenal. Oh, and it is expensive as hell. They report on how the fat consortium of contractors is not making enough gazillions off the fighter, so they [...]

Two days ago a Ferrari Enzo Ferrari crashed on the PCH. It split in half, scattering debris for a hundred yards or so. The driver? The sonofabitch walked away from the crash with just a cut lip. Just amazing. These pictures were taken by a Jalopnik reader, I put them in my Flickr to avoid [...]

Easy, peer pressure. The guys at #asp started checking out irssi because it may allow IRC access in places that block common IRC ports. And since it is running as a terminal application, it draws extremely little attention. Most people will see it and think it is a bunch of Unix commands. I like that. [...]

Bob Parsons, founder and president of one of my competitors, GoDaddy.com, wrote a kickass article on Verisign’s attempt to keep permanent control of the .com registry: From: A huge scam in the making. The .COM registry contract. VeriSign: Shame on you! VeriSign wants to control the .COM registry forever. VeriSign has somehow persuaded ICANN to [...]