Author: Rick Klau

Watched the Tennessee-Duke women’s basketball game on ESPN2 tonight. (Naperville native Candace Parker is a Tennessee freshman.) It’s brutal. Duke can’t miss, and Tennessee couldn’t hit the ocean from the back of a boat right now. As I write this, Duke is up 25 27 with 4 minutes to go. Unbelievable. Tennessee was ranked #1…

I just know that Feld will be all over this. Don’t let this info fall in the wrong hands. Update: Sigh, Brad already saw this. The man’s a machine.

At what point does the Bush Administration outlaw front doors, window blinds, and curtains? I mean, if you’re not doing anything illegal, why wouldn’t you want the government looking through your window, right? Right? Unreal. Today comes word that the Bush Administration wants Google to turn over: A broad range of material from its databases,…

Early yesterday morning, I got a piece of spam. Thinking nothing of it, I deleted it. Five minutes later, I received a reply to that spam. (Who does that anymore?!) It turns out this spam was special. Rather than send an e-mail out to thousands of people, the spammer instead did something infininitely funnier (in…

Saw Brad’s comment that he was excited about the FeedDemon 2.0 beta, so I decided to give it a try (I’ve been using the prior beta, 1.6, for several months). It is, in a word, incredible. The updated UI is a dramatic improvement over what was already a clean, usable interface. Now it’s incredibly powerful,…

Boing Boing today reports on the “smart” elevators being installed in Seattle. Yeah, that will go over well. We tried to warn you. In the future, everyone will wait longer for elevators. Brilliant.

… on this picture Traci snapped in Vegas. Or this one (taken just a bit earlier, when we cashed out before heading back to the bar). A Vegas initiation indeed.

Too funny. Conan O’Brien is meddling in the Finnish election. Erik should be enjoying this.

Well, add another very cool new accessory for my video iPod: the Griffin TuneCenter. This is exactly what I want to add to my home audio/video system. What does it do? It sends videos to the TV via s-video, streams Internet radio, plays your songs through the stereo (and shows song and album cover info…

Last night I lost my Las Vegas virginity, spent nearly 5 hours playing blackjack on the strip. (I won a few bucks, which certainly felt good.) Here, in no particular order, are some things I learned: Returning to your room and finding tomorrow’s newspaper on the door already means it was a long night. It’s…