“You know email, you know video games. What you don’t know is the two just hooked up!” Yeah, and then the next morning, email discovered it got chlamydia and video games won’t call back.

The Million Marker Map

A flash/google maps component with support for large data sets and, this should prove cool, the ability to “spray paint” areas of interest. Nicely done.

Belltown residents get all pissed off becuase they live in a neighborhood with bars

Jesus, this is what annoys me the most about people in Seattle. They want to live in a city, just not, you know, deal with the fact that THEY LIVE IN A GODDAMN CITY! Passive aggressive egg throwing douchebags should move to fucking Kirkland.

25 surprisingly sensible improvements for the iPhone

MSNBC.com has a really good list of what needs improving on the iPhone - and not a single one of them involves Exchange server

BusinessWeek article on how much money pro bloggers make a month

Perez Hilton makes $100k a month?! Fucking Arrington makes $200k a month!?!

Tech media is dying as ads shift to blogs and Google

Good riddance to the hyper-opinionated, barely concealed ad copy that was most tech “journalism” anyway. If only someone could make Arrington go away, too.

Blue C sushi is using RFID to track their sushi plates

Partnering with Microsoft to upgrade from the barcode method they were using to track how long the plates stay on the conveyor.

The Open Library

A new, incredibly ambitious project from Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, to catalog every book in existence.

I wasn’t aware there were brains behind Drudge

—Ben

Mad Men looks like Glengary, Glen Ross, but with ‘60’s era ad execs. And lots of martinis.