This is madness. (This IS THE UNITED STATES!) Ahem. Three small US telephone companies (AT&T, Qwest and Verizon) are refusing to answer Congress’ questions to them about the what Bush and his administration received from them. Apparently the Director of National Intelligence invoked state secrets privilege. That seems to me like a governmental way of [...]

Categories: breakfast links

Still trying to catch up, so some more quick links…
Remember trying to get into college? That wasn’t that fun and your high school councilor was, most likely, less than useless to your efforts. Fortunately, for the low cost of $40,000 you can hire a real consultant to tell you how to get in! She won’t [...]

Categories: breakfast links · nyc

Art on Mondays is fun.
Well, I made it back and am trying to catch up. So here’s something to remember you how much you missed me.
First you can have Optimus Prime call up your friends (or less excitingly, email them) and give them a personalized message! Sadly, it’s just an ad for the new Transformers [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links

Well, I’m off to the south lands. My flight is at some godawful hour so no breakfast for me. But I’ll leave you with this video to console you in my absence. I know this is how you will feel while I’m away…

And don’t deny that it’s a good commercial, either.

Categories: breakfast links · commercials

Huh, the Zune 2 was announced last night. It’s actually pretty reasonable, the 80GB is only marginally larger than the 80GB iPod. The control is touch sensitive so it works like a 5-way d-pad but you can also flick - which works like it does on the iPhone. That’s interesting, although flicking on such a [...]

Categories: breakfast links · crazy · gear

Ok, this is the first Pixar flick that I am actually interested to see… Wall-E. The trailer is up at Yahoo, go watch it. Then you gotta check out the film site - Buy n Large, which looks like some crazy corporate site of the future. It’s pretty great, from the privacy notice:

Buy n Large [...]

Categories: breakfast links · movies · nyc

It’s a little bit o’ monday art fo’ ya.
Lego-porn. And I’m not talking about lego-porn the way the internets like to talk about cool pictures of things, no, I’m talking about pr0n. This site is about showing pictures of those li’l lego guys (and gals) doing bad things. True to its roots it’s replete with [...]

Categories: art · breakfast links · music

So we all know that the UK loves it some CCTV surveillance of it’s citizens, the criminal lot of ‘em. We thought that kinda Big Brother was confined to the loonies across the Atlantic, but it turns out we’ve got some of our very own mid-western loonies. Chicago has been rolling out “thousands of video [...]

Categories: breakfast links · privacy

Schools getting to be a tough place. The kids these days, with their guns. Well now, you can get the Backpack Shield! (via giz) This little 17″x12″ beauty fits all standard 18×12″ dome round top backpacks, which are… err… standard only on that website, I think. And they come in hot fashionable colors, which will [...]

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Lego has just released their biggest set ever and happily it is the Ultimate Collectors Millenium Falcon! The price tag on this bad boy? $499.99. That some serious scratch - the Lego shop optimistically has set a limit of 5 of these per customer. I wonder if people really were like,”I got 5 g’s burning [...]

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