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Great press for ActiveWords in USA Today: Information springs from your fingertips. Like Tivo, Active Words is one of those things that doesn’t seem to make much sense until you try it – at which point you can’t imagine why others don’t use it. Check it out.

The Meetup phenomenon is continuing for the Dean campaign. Last month there were just around 20,000 people signed up on the Monday prior to the Meetup; in the next 36 hours more than 2,000 more people signed up. The same thing has happened again – this month there were 29,000 signed up on the Monday…

It’s raining inside my car – I wonder if that is the sign of a major design flaw? Well the drought finally ended last night, and it looks like we got about 2 inches of rain. I know this because I measured the rain collection in my BMW X5’s center console cup holder. So how…

WOW. If this doesn’t qualify as the most electric television on C-Span ever, I don’t know what does. (It’s a panel at BookExpo America in Los Angeles from last week.) Molly Ivins starts out by talking about her observations about President Bush, who she’s known since high school. Then Bill O’Reilly follows. The fireworks happen…

For my wife and Denise: Dressing for England – The brutal fashion critics of the BBC’s What Not To Wear. By Virginia Heffernan The review is spot on: this show is addictive. And we just added Faking It to our TiVo subscription; haven’t watched it yet but the promos look hysterical. I can only imagine what…

I find it more than a touch ironic when the search results for www.useit.com all show an incorrect date. For those that don’t know, useit.com is the online home of Jakob Nielsen, the gold standard in website usability. I’m sure this is just a minor glitch (I’ve sent them a note to let them know…

TiVo Sells Ad Skipping Data To Marketers LA Times: Tivo to Sell Data on Ad Skipping to Marketers TiVo has a wealth of information culled from its users detailing their ad skipping behavior. Today, TiVo will begin selling that information gleaned from its 700,000 users to help advertisers understand what gets skipped and why. Knowing…

Licence plates in The Matrix:The discussion thread regarding Matrix: Revolutions on the Home Theater Forum is turning up all sorts of interesting tidbits, including the fact that all the licence plates seem to be biblical quotes! The Twins’ truck on the freeway: DE2852. Deutronomy 28:52 – “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until…

Finally got around to updating the blogroll on the site. Couple new additions – Left Leaner, One Father for Dean, Shiny Glass Beads. Also added back the webring. So if you’re looking for other good sites focused on Howard Dean, you’ve got several places to go.

For those of you who are AvantGo users, you can now subscribe to this weblog from AvantGo. Every time you sync your PDA, you’ll get the latest posts downloaded to AvantGo. I’ve set it up to also follow any linked articles – so if I link to a news article or another blog post, you’ll…