I have submitted a request to the White House address the controversial excerpt of page 16 that all the right wing pundits have had a field day with lately.

Personally, I am fine with any solution that will reduce my health care expenses by any degree. Since we are already being rationed by insurance companies, I see no down side to a government option. Paying for health care is the single most cumbersome aspect of being American.

Radio Shack needs a major overhaul and it should take advantage of the idiosyncratic products they carry that you can hardly find anywhere else, a sort of geek thrift store. The Shack campaign is insipid at best and harmful to the brand at worst.

As is usually the case, I mostly agree. However, the notion that Radio Shack needs a major overhaul is subjective. They are, after all, possibly the most profitable electronics retailer in the country.

Cold Stone Creamery Gotta Have It PB&C Shake. 2,010 calories. 131 g fat (68 g saturated). 153 g sugars

I love reading these articles. It makes all those high calorie beers I drink look light by comparison.

I, myself, am in favor of decriminalizing all of the above drugs in America. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. I tend to favor ideas that have been proven to work.

Atheist Ireland members voted to test the new law by publishing a blasphemous statement, deliberately designed to cause offence. The statement will be finalised in the coming days.

I totally can’t wait to hear this zinger.

We name our daughters Faith and Hope. We never name them Doubt or Skeptic. Those are not valued traits. I believe they should be.

The subject of Dr. Davis’ new book is a topic I think a lot about. The interview is short and sweet. The book is now at the top of my to-read list.

Also related, I saw a really cool new equal rights sign on the news this morning, but I haven’t been able to find it on the internet. It's a circle around an equal sign.

Six of the ultra-modern Tesla Roadsters were brought to the charging station by Tesla Motors representatives from Menlo Park. The sleek, low-slung sports cars are capable of traveling 250 miles on a single electric charge. The cars themselves can go from 0-60 miles an hour in 4 seconds.

There is no other car I have been more excited to see in person. While I would never spend $101,500 on an automobile, there certainly are many people who would. And those people who have purchased them have provided the research and development capitol for the auto maker to produce the Tesla Model S. A sedan that starts just under $50,000.

It can only be a matter of time that a $25,000 Tesla auto is available to the masses. A failing GM will have a much harder time lobbing against the electric car this time.

And AIR apps are like modern day Java applets... sure, they run on every platform. But they also suck on every platform.

I have been dying for a native, elegant, multi account Twitter client for Mac OS X for months. It seems that the Adobe AIR runtime was invented for making Twitter clients. Tweetie is the best, and I couldn't be happier that Loren Brichter feels the same way I do about Java and Adobe runtimes.

Papa Roach’s new album, Metamorphosis is available now on Interscope and has officially made the Billboard Top 10 in the US.

via S.britt

Props to @writegrrrl for breaking the story in my twitter feed. She’s good.

On the weed!

Who’s this cat, anyway?

Kudos to Joe Lewis for making my morning...

Our family isn’t religious, and we have yet to have the big Jesus/Mohammed/Zeus/etc. talk with our kids. When our daughter, Ella (6 years old), sat down with her friend (also 6 years old) to a pretend dinner in Ella’s bedroom last night, her friend suggested they bow their heads and pray to Jesus before they eat, and she began to fold her hands.

Ella looked at her hands with some confusion, trying to mimic her friend. When she couldn’t figure out what she was doing, she suggested, “How ’bout we rochambeau?”

[...] the best thing for business is to make sure you have the best product available. That’s both the beauty and the challenge of any “try before you buy” system. Good products win, bad products are quickly forgotten. I suspect that the root of the music industry’s problem is this: they have been able to produce sub-standard product for many years. I know there are many albums in my collection that consist of few great tracks along with a bunch of crap that I’d rather not listen to. 

• With version targeting, IE stays on the path of web standards.
• Without it, ineptly made websites “break,” putting IE’s standards compliance at risk.
• If IE were to stop supporting standards, standards would stop working.

I don't actually know him—so it's none of my business—but if I ever found myself in the same situation, I always pictured myself doing the exact same thing.

Calm, cool, and collected, I'm back from the 2007 cabin trip and back in action. It was full of the usual fun, and without any of the danger or discomforts of the past. With each trip, you learn a little more about how to make the next one that much better.

Happy birthday, sis. 

Daddy, what do you say you hook us up with somthin' tah drink?

That’s what GRINDHOUSE is. It’s a taquito buffet that you puke up after getting hit with a motorcycle, and it turns into a bikini chick that blows you and kills your boss with a hammer.

At first I considered sending an email to John Gruber about how I overcame iCal's short comings. He is understandably irritated by the interface and all the damned tabbing required to add an event. But then I got to thinking about how drastic a change it was to interact with iCal this new way, and how much muscle memory factored into the process. I thought it might be more helpful to tell the whole internet.

The particulars are below:

Saturday, March 17th @ 2PM Dillian's Bar & Grill 605 G St Lincoln, CA 95648 (916) 434-8171

A nice frothy Guinness, 1940's style bluegrass, and green socks. Now isn't that just the most delightful way you can picture spending your St. Patty's day?

Well, I like strawberries in my princess whiskey.

• iPods play music purchased from stores besides the iTunes Store.
• Apple does not lock down music to keep their iPod on the top.
• 97% of music on iPods was purchased somewhere other than the iTunes Store.
• 90% of music sold by the "Big 4" does not have DRM protection.

The biggest, most exciting remark was to urge the industry to put pressure the Big 4 to stop requiring retailers to sell DRM protected music. He backed up this statement by saying that Apple would jump at the chance to sell music in the iTunes Store without DRM protection. I'm thinking big changes are afoot.

A am equally horrified and awestruck. I am reminded of David Byrne's genius E.E.E.I. project, but I am also tortured by repressed memories of Microsoft Office's WordArt. I implore each and every one of you to dive deeply into their portfolio. Never in my history as an artist, designer, and web developer have I encountered such a blatant and equal disregard for artistic vision, usability and semantics. It is beautiful.

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1, and I totally dig it. I mostly dig the code name, "Ella", but the biggest mind-blowingly welcome improvements are what they did to the WYSIWYG editor.

I was just downloading the Macworld podcast of Cable Sasser and John Gruber from Macworld.com and spotted an ad for a website I spent the last few weeks building out. I'm sure Dan and Greg (project manager and designer respectively) will be equally as tickled to see the fruits of our labor being hocked above two of our favorite Mac bloggers/Developers.

Sorry if I embarrassed you in front of the ladies, guys.

I was cruzin' around the Google Earth this morning and found the Woodland Wikipedia entry floating menacingly over Oak Street like a bright white death star. Woodland California is the town where I live. I was wowed by the following trivia entries in the article.

The results are in. The thing on my arm came back negative for life altering bad news. Now I just need to get these dang itchy stitches out.