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Well, I watched every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. All seven seasons. In about a month. Like crack it is.

The two most notable things I learned from watching TNG: The quality of episodes ranged from really really great to utter crap, and Wesley Crusher hooked up with Ashley Judd.

Quoting the FAQ from WilWheaton.net:

Is it true that you were really Ashley Judd's first onscreen kiss, and you ruined her for the rest of her life?

Yep. It is 100% true. Ashley Judd played Robin Lefler, in the episode "The Game", and Uncle Willie went to bootytown.

Eek.

Tasty. All vegetable-y and stuff. Not too hot though. Just felt like sharing.

Disclaimer: This is in no way a barb about our fighting men overseas, just about questionable election tactics.

I was listening to the radio, and I heard that Donald Rumsfeld was in the Middle East, and that one of the things he did was to present a wounded soldier with his second Purple Heart.

The first thing that popped in my head was "Cool! If he gives the guy one more, he can call him a coward and a liar!"

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A couple whose frozen embryo was accidentally destroyed at a fertility clinic has the right in Illinois to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a judge has ruled in a case that some legal experts say could have implications in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

In an opinion issued Friday, Cook County Judge Jeffrey Lawrence said "a pre-embryo is a 'human being' ... whether or not it is implanted in its mother's womb."

He said the couple is as entitled to seek compensation as any parents whose child has been killed.

"It was like watching an egg hatching slowly," said Olufunmibi Awoshiley, a hospital administrator, "and I didn't know what it was going to look like. Now I see it, and it's beautiful."

The Gates went up today in New York. Looks awesome. Bummed I didn't get to go and help (In case you were unaware, I was supposed to be one of the workers. I hate money.).

Video at NYT.

OK, maybe a few select ones...

My friend often refers to the need to see something new. Here you go.

"Everything she says," Maybelle's eyes went into her coffee, another trust broken, "has a pin in it. Even the nice things."
Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

After ninety-six hours, it's not a pencil anymore, it's a yellow pointypointy that makes marks for you when you give it brain signals and frankly it's bored and wants a life of its own. Can you blame it? Of course you can. Someone made it. How did they get the hard blackyblack in there? Was it Space Beings? The pointypointy drops yellow to the floor. The floor is fifty feet down. You'll drown if you go after it. No more pointypointy. A pen, yes, get a pen. Yes. It would feel clean and good in your hand, if your fingers weren't numb. No blackyblack in it. Bluesygoo.
Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys

Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit! My server crashed, so a week of my online life has disappeared! Shit!

I might have to buy my first Mac product...

found at Shuffle Art Archives.

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a bit of a whore for magazines. Looks like I need to add one more.

O'Reilly's Make is like ReadyMade for techies that don't like to make things from hemp. It's a quarterly, but it's sold like a book, so check the shelves, not the newsstand. Buy here, read first 20 pages here.

There's no such thing as free kittens.
Brian P. Cleary, 45, Cleveland, Ohio

Soooooo queasy...

I thought I had a grasp on successful eBay marketing. I was wrong.

The Fossil Code Dial watch. Apparently, the little symbols scroll down the watch face, a la The Matrix. I want.