A few links:
A different take on the romance novel (from a fan): I Love My Dead Gay Husband I&II and I Love My Dead Gay Husband III: Still Dead. Still Gay. And Now with Bonus Manic Episodes
There, I Fixed It – duct tape can do anything
How Many Apps Are on Your IPhone? I have 36. I need some more.
Online journalism then and now.
Open Letter To Safeway – this explains Dominicks.
If Buffy were the heroine of Twilight, it would have ended much differently.
I wasn’t able to celebrate International Sushi Day this year, but I won’t miss it next year.
I suppose I could tell you why these links are interesting, but that would be telling:
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive – some more scientific than others
‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network’s Iran absence – I’m sure there was an important story about American Idol they needed to cover
Drugs Won the War – but you knew that
The Web back in 1996-1997 – but you remember this
Target Women: Lady Friends – do these commercials persuade anyone to do anything?
America’s best-selling car – and we’re totally getting one
Katie noticed that the kid in this commercial looks like David. He does! Weird.
Palm Pre Review: Part 1- I’m getting less convinced I should get the Pre instead of an iPhone, but I’m still waiting to make up my mind.
Two for Dana: The Best 80’s Sitcoms and 10 Awesome Moments From Sesame Street – I don’t remember the llama.
Hey, Mac Users! Check out the MacUpdate Promo – good for a $30 discount on Parallels, if nothing else.
Sesame Street is as old as I am (more or less); my parents are happy about this or there wouldn’t have been much TV for me to watch. Newsweek takes a look back in ‘Sesame Street’ The show that counts. David actually doesn’t watch it that often, but he likes their website.
This week, I had fun playing with Geek Chart. I’d play with some Frank Lloyd Wright Lego sets, but they don’t have one for the Frank Thomas House yet.
So how do they know how many people die of normal flu each year, especially when flu is not often listed as the direct cause of death? Slate looks at The math behind estimating flu deaths.
Two just for Dana: Branded in the 80s and “The Facts of Life” Cast: Then & Now.
Doesn’t look like I have many this week:
Top 10 disappointing technologies – some tech works out better than others. One of them is a viable competitor to Google. Will Wolfram Alpha fill that niche? Despite the Whedon-villain name, it doesn’t look like it.
Thinking of painting a mural in Chicago that might be politically critical? Not so fast… More.
I never know how long to grill anything on the Foreman, but I ran across a neat cheat sheet this week that will help.
None of which have much to do with Mother’s Day at all.
H1N1 may be nasty, but parasites are still a global problem. They can be hugely problematic for humans — and a complete nightmare for the rest of the animal kingdom (warning: do not read while trying to eat).
Is that whiskey really as old as the seller claims? One way to find out is to check for nuclear fall out. If you find it in a whiskey which was supposed to have been bottled in 1850, the seller is lying.
The new Trek movie briefly touches on torture, but the torture is Hollywood-style and the movie doesn’t have much to say about it. TNG’s take on torture, on the other hand, was far more nuanced (not to mention prescient).
Oprah tells her audience about a coupon for free KFC chicken and causes a lot of headaches for libraries. How does that work?
