February 12th: Today in 1924 was the first performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, one of my favorite pieces of music. My favorite recording of it can be found here.

This site seeks to answer the questions about whatever happened to the cartoon stars of yesterday. Not kid friendly, not really for playing at work. I am happy to report that Skeletor turns out just fine….

February 11th: Today in 1812 Governer Elbridge Gerry attempts to draw the lines of redistricting to better serve his parties chances of being reelected. I am sure someone would have pulled this one eventually, but we have the name Gerrymandering thanks to this man. Thanks a lot. Jerk.

Sales of online items are big. Bigger than you think they are. So far nobody official has noticed them really, but with the money being passed around it is only a matter of time before the government wants their piece of the action. Julian Dibble writes about some of the tax implications in this article [...]

February 10th: Today in 1335 riots broke out between the scholars of Oxford and townsfolk that left sixty-four scholars and thirty towns people dead. Good stuff. Anyway the law came down on the side of the scholars and townsfolk had to eat crow by going thru a little ritual of humiliation until 1825 when the [...]

When I build my evil lair of doom I must have at least one system with with this set up. If you are going to covet something, I like to covet something really, really out of reach, keeps the temptation low.

February 9th: Today in 474 Zeno was named Emperor, later he would go on to fight as Captain America’s arch-nemisis.. wait that was Zemo, sorry wrong guy, this guy was just a sucessful Byzantine Emperor. That Zemo though, what a great villain!

I have just learned the newest element of the hybrid menace, they are silent killers! The answer is obvious, rather than make other cars quieter, make the hybrids louder! So I am going to hunt up an mp3 of this choir and broadcast it from an external stereo system at all times.

February 8th: Today in 1587 Mary I of Scotland was executed for treason against the throne of England. I noticed while we drove around Scotland that Mary has the George Washington place in modern Scottish tourism. Every place we passed had a sign up saying that Mary had either slept there, visited there or had [...]

Here is a brilliant flash movie that sums up massive multiplayer online games very, very well. I do enjoy them, but this is spot on. As usual with these this is much funnier if you have ever played one of these games, but having played any of them you will find it accurate. There is [...]