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Today’s Gallup Poll charts some interesting trends (with lots of nice diagrams). If they’re right, most Americans now believe they’ve been bamboozled.

Some required reading for my liberal brethren (from the New York Review of Books, via rc3.org).

A new site for wheatBlog, the blog app that runs this site, was launched yesterday. It’s designed by fellow wheatBlog developer Josh. I haven’t discussed it much here lately, but the next version of wheatBlog is going to rock.

Absolutely hysterical “translation” of Adobe’s official statement on their attempt to purchase Macromedia.

A rather frightening post at Metafilter. I was never in danger of reading anything by Michael Crichton, but I guess now I’ll have to find a new gas station.

I’m cleaning out one of my book cases. Here are a few computer programming books that I’ve listed at Amazon.com. Most of these are

I blogged about these a million years ago. Now they’re back and improved (more options, no URL superimposed on the image you create, etc.). Here’s me (and Josie), more or less (there’s no option for adding a soul patch, damnit). If you’re bored. Do one of yourself or a friend, upload it to flicker, and [...]

Mosquitoes. Tons of them. I just finished spraying the yard with Spectracide. I’ve used this product before with some luck but you have to reapply it every 3-4 weeks. (Its active ingredient is permethrin). I’ve also been doing a little research into controlling them.

I’ve never had much of an opinion about Paul Graham, mostly because I have no interest in Lisp. I remember reading his essay on graduation and thinking parts of it had some merrit: especially his advice to work on hard problems rather than focussing on particular (marketable) skill sets. And his more recent essay on [...]

I love Milo Vermeulen’s photography for many reasons. He has the gift of finding the beautiful in the everyday. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of his images, if you’re hip to that sort of thing.