Race Usain Bolt

This is incredibly well done. Love the finger “racer”.

That pattern on the screen is part of the random Cosby sweaterizer app

Trust Microsoft to adopt alcohol-themed codenames, then pick the lamest of the set. The project to name Midori must have been named Zima.

—Tiff rules

There’s the dot-com, Silicon Valley, blow-all-your-money-on-booze style. Then there’s the Chicago thing: Do something, do it well and be modest about it.

—Adrian Holovaty, on the decidedly un-dotcom approach to working at Everyblock. Brilliant.

Blogging is like masturbating into a mirror while you videotape yourself so you can watch it later while you masturbate.

—Lewis Black (via glass)

“Jenna got one a them, too. I didn’t reckon it was permanent when she called it a ‘stamp’ though. Heh.” [via Buzzfeed]

This makes me more than a little homesick. God bless these boys.

via who else but The Triumph of Bullshit

Howell Raines has a pretty compelling piece on the story that isn’t being reported about gas prices

Rather than focus on the supply/demand angle, reporters should be looking at what oil companies are doing with those record profits.

Vanity Fair nails it.

Knol, Google’s Wikipedia competitor, went live this morning

Seems to be taking the “authoritative” approach, which I swear Wikipedia tried (and failed at) back when it was Nupedia. But Nupedia didn’t have a gazillion dollars to bank on, either.