He’d better hope Hillary doesn’t get hold of this. (HT: Laure.)

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You can now watch a bizarre experiment called Blogging Chef, a 4-way liberal/libertarian debate and cooking competition we filmed in the kitchens of Casa de Libertarios & the Florida Flophouse, between chefs Spencer Ackerman and Megan McCardle, with sous bloggers Ezra Klein and Will Wilkinson. I’m seen at the start and the end doing a […]

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Wired has posted a series of “snacktones” composed by probably the first band I was ever head-over-heels into, They Might Be Giants. The choice to name two of these “Devil Spawn” and “Friend or Foe” suggest that maybe the TMBG boys have a problem with unwanted calls, but my personal favorite is “Call Connected Thru […]

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Via Catallarchy:

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 Ok, consider my mind duly blown. Apparently Stephen Root, the guy who played nebbishy, unhinged Milton in Office Space has also portrayed… wait for it… a Klingon warrior.  

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You’ve probably already seen this. But it’s awesome, so watch it again.

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Ok, this is a fairly awesome little widget. It’s an iTunes plug-in that checks whether any of the artists in your music collection are scheduled to play shows in your vicinity, creating a personalized music calendar. Thanks, Radley.

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Hee.

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If the anticipation for next week’s State of the Union Speech is just killing you, and you’ve already watched the pregame show and bought the T-shirt, you might spend some time playing with this funky little widget that breaks down each SotU address, giving the grade-level at which the prose is pitched and showing the […]

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Things are not looking up for very-sharp-blogger Gary Farber; if you can afford to help him out a little directly, or if you know of some writing/editing work he can do telecommuting, please swing by and give the guy a hand.

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