Spore slips to 2009

Looking for a simultaneous Duke Nuken Forever release

Google gets political with a public policy blog

Sorta… odd. I’d expect this more from google.org than .com

Gruber thinks that the iPhone just might topple the Exchange hegemony

Personally, I want to believe, but I know at least six people that I work with (plus me) who won’t be getting iPhones until they sync with Exchange. In fact, the only person in our company who plans on getting an iPhone is a secretary.

Pepsi Ice Cucumber

Countries that still haven’t adopted the metric system - that would be the U.S., Liberia and Myanmar. America! FUCK! YEAH!

Scott Beale’s got a great writeup on the In-N-Out Burger

Including links to the secret menu! I hear rumors that the In-N-Out family is gonna sell and franchise the thing all over the country, which will probably be when they start to suck.

Paparazzi product placement

I’m no fan of celebrity culture, but I do like this somewhat creative way of making lemonade out of the lemons of being stalked by paparazzi.

Kottke got an early screening of Ratatouille!

I hear he was watching it on his pre-release iPhone. I gotta get me some of that blogolla… update: Kottke claims that there was some kind of public “pre-screening” all over the country and he got his tickets from something called a “Fandango” - which we all know is blogluminati speak for “we’re about to sick the Mossad on your ass if you don’t shut up right now.” I will not be silenced so easily!

Samurai cat. There’s also a how-to

Who’s doing what online

Creators, critics, collectors, joiners and spectators all broken down by generation. Nice infographic to boot.