The .Mac team has a blog.

Yup.

With gems like this:

The final paper for Freshman Lit was due the next day, and Rick didn’t even have a topic yet. He was watching a cooking show at the off-campus apartment of his girlfriend, Stacy, when it hit him: A study of the use of food as a recurring motif in the works of Chaucer. He wrote it in less than two hours on Stacy’s iMac and saved it to his USB flash drive.
On the way back to his dorm, Rick fell into an impromptu game of touch football. When he dove to make the game-winning catch, the flash drive slipped out of his pocket and landed in some bushes. He didn't know it was missing until he was back in his room, ready to print the paper. He finds Freshman Lit just as challenging the second time around.

Honey, if Rick had saved his work to iDisk, he wouldn't have gotten into an impromptu game of touch football, because he'd still be waiting for the file to upload to iDisk. In fact, the wait would have been long enough for Rick and Stacy to go and get it on, and get bored with that too, and try out a few things they'd read about on the internet. This would have resulted in some painful injuries, a few incurable diseases, and a slow slide into deviant behavior. Eventually, Rick ends up in prison with the proverbial Bubba as a cell mate. You can guess where that is going. Stick to the flash drive, Rick!

If I'm ever in a position where I can require people to read stuff so that they'll be better at their job, Joel Spolsky's "Joel on Software" would be high on the list. Of course, with my luck, the company would be so cheap that they wouldn't want to spend the $25 ($17 on Amazon) for the book. Fortunately, there's a website, where everything that's in the book is available for free. But really, that's a false economy, because if your people have to read this on the web, they'll be doing it on company time, whereas if you give them the book, they'll be reading it during take-off and landing, when they don't have anything else to do anyway.

Aasif Mandvi plays a Middle East correspondent for the Daily Show:

Faves:

• "We're like children on Christmas morning.. from what I'm told"
  
• "I guess not everybody knows how to respond when Opportunity knocks their house down"

The only negative is that Aasif is smirking somewhat self-awarely. The Daily Shows "correspondents" are typically more dead-pan, as if unaware of the fact that they're funny. But it's good overall. I've watched it several times now.

I bought some Jerzees t-shirts at Target the other day. They've got labels attached to them. This is what the front looks like:


Notice that it boasts "EZ Clean" fabric. On the back of the label, the good people at Russel Corporation feel the need to illustrate what "EZ Clean" means. This is the back of the label:


I'll enhance the stupid part for you:

Yeah, it's that stupid: Fabric with dirt, dirt during wash, fabric after wash. Wow. Thanks, Russel Corporation!

From the Holy Crap! Department:

Via Ars, The Onion reports that Wikipedia celebrates 750 years of American independence.

I should not forget to plug these guys.