This American Life and other NPR programs have featured some good coverage of issues related to our recent economic woes. I don't have a background in finance and economics so it is nice to have some digestible coverage that is intelligent without being boring ( Read more... )

"America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this."

I'm sure there must be some people, somewhere, who disagree with that sentiment. I'm also pretty sure that I do not want to meet said people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072301624.html?hpid=topnews

Today is the launch date for Firefox 3, which is scheduled to be available for download later this afternoon (depending on which coast you are on -- I think it's 10AM Pacific). Everyone should download this much-anticipated release and help the Mozilla folks set a record.

I totally picked this up from someone else's page but I think the video is great and deserves to be seen. Also, I've always liked the original song (by Genesis).http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7967447251412110364&q=disturbed

I'm sure that mrmojojojo and das_uber will appreciate this.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6525243

This really ought to be an episode of House. As a matter of fact, it might have been mentioned in an episode -- I'll have to look that up.

I think this is pretty amazing:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/index.htm

The show has been sold out for weeks now and I wouldn't want to be at the 9:30 Club tonight anyway but you can join me in listening to a live concert of Belle and Sebastian with the New Pornographers. It's tonight around 8:00 and you can get to it here http:// ( Read more... )

I can honestly say that Mark Warner's term as Governor has given me some sense of pride in this state. I can only hope that he will have a chance to give us back some national pride, too.

(posted just so that I could be the first to do it.)

Also, I had to check for any reference at Wikipedia, and I did find one, albeit a very small one, under this entry.