There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ’M-Fer, I want more iced tea.‘

—Bill O’Reilly discovers black people - they’re just like us!

NYTimes on the proliferation of great Portland restaurants

Makes note of the dearth of local chefs, though. Apparently, chefs from all over world show up in Portland and never leave, can’t say that I blame ‘em.

Finally, someone talks some sense about Facebook

Kara Swisher nails why Facebook is so overhyped. I’m one more “person I haven’t seen in a decade just friended me” away from dropping my profile.

CRAIG: Convey Republicans Away to Iran’s Gay-lessness

“In this country we have some people–they’re called Republicans–who want to prevent gay marriage and stop gay people from getting equal protection under the law. And now we know there’s a country without gay people to which the Republicans can move, thus living in peace and happiness, far from gays!”

FCC wants to fine Comcast for running an ad as news

But seriously, $4,000? How about a $4,000,000 fine for this kind of bullshit, the same for when the Bush administration does it, too.

Amazon’s mp3 download service launches

Pretty cheap, though prices are variable, DRM free and high bitrate. I see myself buying a lot of these.

12 rules of thumbs for photographers

These are ridiculously handy

NBC ready to start a Windows-only download service for television shows

NBC is saying their big concern is over piracy, yet they promise a version that will work on Macs and iPods sometime in the future. My bet is that the whole service will fail spectacularly before they ever get around to the magic of making a cross platform version.

Statup founded by a sixth grader receives $6.5M in funding

TechCrunch, of course, fails to realize how absolutely absurd this is.

In Japan it’s Talk Like a Pilot Day.

—Scott wins