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.