This American Life is my favorite show on radio. It’s full of short stories, and…well pretty much just short stories. The best episodes feature real stories told by real people. Whenever David Sedaris writes a dumb story about a talking cat and a chipmunk they throw that in to appease the hipster NPR hoi-polloi, but…

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Today I did a good deed. This morning I was filling up my tires and checking my tire pressure at the gas station. A lady drove up and asked if I could help her do the same thing. So I did it for her. She offered to pay me, but I refused. I am a…

I was watching Heroes last night and I realized that all of those Pinehearst business cards that Daphne’s been handing out have a toll-free number on them. It’s not a one of those fake 555 numbers either. It’s real! 877-309-7463 They have a website too.

For more than a year Mac users have had access to TVShows, an automated TV show torrent downloader. It’s a handy utility, but it left Windows users out in the cold. I just found out about Ted and it does basically the same thing as TVShows, but it works on Macs and PCs alike through…

It started with a trickle this year. Christmas Creep. I’m not talking about the Grinch. I’m not talking about retailers putting Christmas decorations out in September. I’m talking about the vinyl sharity sites that rip and share old Christmas albums. They’ve started slipping new albums into the ether and already my compulsive nature has me…

January 16th That’s the day that Battlestar Galactica returns to TV. Confirmed by SciFi.

DCA’s Blue Sky Cellar opens to the public on Monday. It’s a preview center for what’s to come in Phase I of “Operation Fix DCA”, a four-year, 1.2 billion dollar damage-control salvage mission. The OC Register has photos. It’s clear that a lot of time, money, and energy went into this plan…and yet the whole…

Culdcept DS came out in Japan today. I’m nearly certain there’s no hope of a US release after Culdcept Saga failed to make a dent at retail… I think I know enough of how the game is played to navigate through the Japanese menus. Ergh. Maybe not.

Have you ever tried to program your electronic thermostat? I’m not talking about setting the temperature at any given time…I’m talking about setting up a weekly program- breaking up each day into chunks of time and specifying a temperature for each chunk. It’s not hard, but it typically requires a lot of button pressing and…