Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ Following Leno. I can’t think on anything more screwed up than the position NBC has put itself in, and I fail to understand how they haven’t fired their head of programming. To screw around with the traditional Late Night timeslot in order to accommodate Leno is sort of like chopping off your own foot because you think your knee might walk better; you’re never recovering from that. What a bunch of retards.
His last album was, shall I say, underwhelming, but this new video from RJD2, for a track called Let There Be Horns, could be a pleasing return to form. Hopefully the new album will be as good.
I’d be more exited about the news that Soundgarden is reuniting if it was circa Louder Than Love Soundgarden, not Superunknown Soundgarden. Oh, well.
This is an online diary of a guy who found, bought and restored a 1963 330GT America mostly by himself. All I can say is, wow.
There’s an article in The New Republic which argues that the decline of American manufacturing is due in large part to the change in management—from people who were trained to build things to people who were trained to count figures.
“…the conglomerate structure forced managers to think of their firms as a collection of financial assets, where the goal was to allocate capital efficiently, rather than as makers of specific products, where the goal was to maximize quality and long-term market share.”
Rush geeks, this one’s for you: The song Red Barchetta was based on a short story written in 1973 called “A Nice Morning Drive”. It turns out that the author of that story finally met up with the band after 34 years and went on a motorcycle trip between tour stops together. it also turns out that the author lives about a half-mile away from me.
A handy guide from the EFF: Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Key quoted quote:
“…users should never forget that Facebook remains, at heart, not a community but a Silicon Valley startup… and take Facebook’s recommendations with a huge grain of salt.”
I built a Yahoo Pipe earlier in the year to search Craigslist for Scout parts, and it worked great for months. Lately it seems to be bombing out with errors (I wonder if they’ve caught on to me) so I was interested to find a link for Search Tempest, which searches for listings within an area code radius. (Avoid the Java implementation).
Phail-adelphia – The city of Philadelphia’s new logo. Most of the comments are (in my opinion) much too harsh in regards to the design firm; this is clearly a product of design-by-committee. But the logo does suck.
This site is chock full of motorsports goodness: Tony Adamowicz started a out as an SCCA racer in Virginia and four years later found himself behind the wheel of a Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Dreams really do come true.