I’m loving Vulture’s campaign to nominate ‘Wall-E’ for Best Picture

I was pushing for ‘The Incredibles’ in 2006, here’s hoping!

Your word of the day: spatchcocked

Much more fun to say than “butterflied”

Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-collar worker per year, and then directing one third of the proceeds to curing AIDS and malaria. That, effectively, is what Bill Gates has done.

—Anil Dash, from a very thoughtful piece on the legacy of Bill Gates. I think the part where the argument falls apart is that the Gates foundation owes as much, if not more, to the prodding of Melinda than Bill’s inherent good will, but I certainly won’t deny the good that the foundation has already done and will certainly continue to do.

Intel: Vista outside

Intel won’t be upgrading 80,000 of its employees’ computers to Vista

The Website Is Down

“I can’t ‘sort by penis’”

Adaptive Path interviews Stamen Design

I’ve been really big on broccoli lately, man. Nah mean? There’s a couple of ways to make it. You can sauté it with butter and olive oil together. Or I like to soak it rosemary oil and then lightly fry it. Put that shit over some rice … that shit is tasty, my nigga.

—rapper, producer, actor, chess master and noted vegetarian The RZA

Whip iTunes into shape

Lots of useful plug-ins and add-ons for wrangling your iTunes library

One thing that makes a Shack Burger great is the bun. Buns are to hamburgers as ice is to cocktails: most people treat them as incidental afterthoughts, not realizing that they often make the difference between an outstanding burger and a common one.

—I hope Briana doesn’t mind, but I just might have to make out with Buzz this weekend because he said that.

What’s amazing about this is how accurate Carlin was in his language - every noun and verb actually makes sense, in context. The man definitely still had it. [via John Gruber]