Very cool video, produced entirely on an Apple Mac…
According to Entertainment Weekly, Lori Loughlin has joined the cast of the as-yet untitled Beverly Hills 90210 spin-off that is currently in development.
I know… I don’t understand either why anyone would think to create a 90210 spin-off now, but that’s beside the point.
The point is that I’ve been in love with Lori Loughlin since I was a teenager (anyone else remember Secret Admirer?), and I’m overjoyed at the possibility of seeing her on a weekly basis again.
Welcome back Lori!
Check out this amazing story on ESPN.com about a college softball game that will be remembered for a long time because of the athletes, not the athletics…
Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky had never hit a home run in her career. Central Washington senior Mallory Holtman was already her school’s career leader in them. But when a twist of fate and a torn knee ligament brought them face to face with each other and face to face with the end of their playing days, they combined on a home run trot that celebrated the collective human spirit far more than individual athletic achievement.
That’s what it’s all about.
At 4:37 AM local time last night, a 5.2 earthquake struck near West Salem, Illinois, which is approximately 150 miles away from Springfield.
According to local news reports (and my coworkers), the quake rattled houses and knocked items off shelves and bookcases, but there were no local damage or injuries.
Of course, I slept through it all.
So far, I’ve survived the Godless Tornadoes of ’06 and the Great Quake of ’08…
I think Springfield is due for a hurricane in 2010. Or maybe locusts.
More quake coverage…
5.2 earthquake one of the strongest to hit Illinois (State Journal Register)
Earthquake measuring 5.2 rattles St. Louis region (St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Earthquake rattles Chicago area, Midwest (Chicago Tribune)
Earthquake rattles Indiana this morning (Indianapolis Star)
Little damage in Louisville from quake (Louisville Courier-Journal)
April 18, 2008 Midwest Earthquake (Wikipedia)
UPDATE 10:20 AM… We just felt a strong aftershock, which has been reported as magnitude 4.6. I work on the sixth floor of a building that was constructed sometime in the 1930s (I think), and our building shook noticeably for five or six seconds.
Hmm, why is it that I have the sudden urge to take the rest of the day off? 
Visit the free Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial and leave a tribute, story, or photograph about any of the 58,256 veterans killed or missing in the Vietnam War…
Humbling.
Jewel Staite and a number of other actors are auctioning off dinner dates on eBay to fund cancer treatments for a fellow actor named Babz Chula (which explains the sign Jewel is holding in the photo above)…
The winning bidder will receive a free dinner with Paul McGillian and Jewel Staite at a pre-selected restaurant in Vancouver, BC at a mutually agreeable date to be determined by both parties in between May 1, 2008 and December 1, 2009.
As any red-blooded sci-fi geek is aware, Jewel played the role of the adorable Kaylee in the Firefly TV series and the follow-up movie Serenity. She is currently appearing in Stargate Atlantis on the Sci-Fi Channel.
The auction runs through April 12th and is currently at $1,500 (Canadian). Other dinner dates include David Duchovny and Chris Carter from the X-Files, as well as other actors that you might (or might not) recognize.
So, anyone have a couple grand and a ticket to Vancouver to spare?
Ways To Tell That Your Pet Cat Hasn’t Adjusted to Daylight Savings Yet:
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(Confession… I was going to do a “Top 5” but couldn’t think of two more. 
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That word is: clbuttic.
Found this today on The Daily WTF (i.e. “Worse Than Failure” – a site for geeks to post “strange but true” programming stories)…
The Clbuttic Mistake
Browsing through a web archive of some old computer club conversations, I ran across this sentence:
“Apple made the clbuttic mistake of forcing out their visionary – I mean, look at what NeXT has been up to!”
Hmm. “clbuttic”.
Google “clbuttic” – thousands of hits!
There’s someone who call his car ‘clbuttic’.
There are “Clbuttic Steam Engine” message boards.
Webster’s dictionary – no help.
Hmm. What can this be?
HINT: People who make buttumptions about their regex scripts, will be embarbutted when they repeat this mbuttive mistake.
Took me a while to figure out just what “clbuttic” means, but I finally did.
Read more for the answer…
Continue reading “I learned a new non-word today…”
Star Wars according to a 3 year old…
The word “precious” comes to mind. I think she did a better job than I could’ve.
(via ExtraLife)
Netvibes has earned a place on the list of tabs auto-loaded every time I open my browser. With Netvibes, I can satisfy my craving for daily info by organizing the sites I read regularly (currently a few more than fifty) into tabbed pages of RSS subscription feeds.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a standard way for Websites to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, or podcasts. An RSS reader like the one in Netvibes can display the content published on any number of sites without having to actually browse to each and every site. Even if I get lazy, uh busy and manage to fall a few days behind, RSS makes it easy to wade through what would otherwise be information overload.
If you’re not already reading this blog entry in Netvibes, I recommend you try it and see for yourself.
