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Via 37 signals: Nick Denton’s Startup kit - the tools he and his companies use. Some of these look just right for a small law firm to adopt.

Since the old Perpetual Beta t-shirts are no longer in stock, you might want to use this shirt as a stand-in stocking stuffer:
I Beta-Tested Your Girlfriend
Especially charming for all your female friends.
(Points to Kotaku for the link.)

Did you feel the pent-up fanboy tension? On November 21, the impending release of the Xbox360 was more eagerly anticipated than Jessica Alba’s first big-screen nude scene. So far, Jessica no plans to give up the goods, but everyone with a Y chromosome knows it’ll be totally awesome when she does.
Compare that thought […]

Hasn’t stopped sucking yet.

This is really starting to suck.

It’s 17-0, Gators leading, and I’m still wondering when the bus will arrive that was supposed to bring my football team to Gainesville.

The halfwits in the broadcast booth have just said that this game is less important than next week’s ACC Championship game. Steve Spurrier used to say the same thing about the SEC Championship game. The idiot commentators said that Bobby Bowden must now feel the same way this year, the first year […]

My son not only likes to watch football; my son not only knows how to do the Seminole chop; he also knows to do it on the band’s cue. His mommy is so proud.

There are few moments in a man’s life when the veil separating the absolutely mundane from total bone-shaking terror parts and allows the two to mix. Today I had just such a moment, putting Christmas lights on our house for the first time.
Generations of received wisdom dictate that properly placed lights run along the […]

I’m thankful for after-dinner naps.

Compare and contrast:

The proposed typography (see also here) for an emphatic and profane way of saying “HUH?” (also known as the universal interrogative particle)
The logo of my wife’s former employer.

Discuss: Is this a branding fiasco in the making or potential subversive marketing serendpity?

My current Xbox has a buggy DVD player - sometimes it will totally fail to load new maps, cut scenes, and so on - mostly with Halo 2. Now, there’s at least one report of a new Xbox360 flaming out and smashing into the barrier wall playing Project Gotham Racing 3. The poor […]

Another sight ont he way to work today: avid gamers standing in line, waiting for the store to open so they could pick up their shiny new XBox360 systems. The folks I saw apparently weren’t able to find any of the stores that were open at midnight, but at least they got a good […]

On my way in to work I saw the local discount gas retailer hawking gas for only $2.19 - prices I last saw almost a year ago. By comparison, picking up a six-pack of a decent beer will cost you about five bucks. That’s $8.88 per gallon. (128 fluid ounces per gallon, […]

Sometime last July, the Movable Type setup that powered every weblog on our various domains went belly up. All logins failed, password retrievals failed… the database appeared to be empty. But the database was still there, and still flush with all that data. Logging into the web server and running “strings” […]

Dineen found that an Amazon.com search for “christmas stocking” includes some results which might surprise Mrs. Claus.

To check out when I next upgrade my iPod: handbrake. (Tip o’ the pirate’s hat to George).

…a relentless torrent of punches to the “Rawk!” center of the brain.

Five years on, one year off.