KEXP partners with Radio New York

Will broadcast KEXP from 6am to noon, host a nightly world music show and a weekly Kevin Cole show.

Republican valentine’s are about as lame as you’d expect. [via Ze Frank]

Commuter Feed uses Twitter to create a local traffic report

Users report traffic accidents, which get collated by location. Smart.

Now AOL has created a mobile platform

Not an operating system like Android but software dev platform that lives on top of a mobile OS. Noticeably absent is iPhone support, curious to see if this will come when the SDK gets released.

Yet another reasong to hate Facebook: they won’t let you leave

Deactivating your Facebook account still leaves all of your personal information up

Ironic Sans has your scientist Valentines

Google unseated Yahoo at a cost of about $20 million in financing, simply by being effective software developers and tasteful interface designers. We can infer from this offer that Microsoft expects its own programmers to be only 1/2000th as effective, dollar for dollar, as Google’s. In comparing Vista to XP and dividing by the amount of coding effort that went into Vista, it would be tough to argue with this conclusion.

—Phillip Greenspun, on Microsoft’s Yahoo bid

Mark Bittman has been blogging over at the New York Times since November and nobody told me!

For those of us who can’t get enough Bittman

WSJ is reporting that Yahoo’s board plans to reject Microsoft takeover bid

Microsoft could take the deal directly to shareholders, with a proposed replacement board, or even offer more money. This is pure theater, I love it.

Frances Bean Cobain is as cool as you’d hope

Finds all the attention directed at her “creepy” and thinks she may want to be a journalist some day.