Oxford researchers compiled a list of the ten most annoying phrases in common use today. There are a lot of good ones in the comments, too.

YouTube has several new features, including the ability to add closed captions to videos.

This pretty much comes naturally to me, but in case you need some tips, the Boston Globe printed up a neat chart on how to nap.

I don’t use IM much anymore, but I have found myself using Facebook’s built in chat feature. So, I have been very pleased with the Facebook Pidgin plugin.

The 2008 MLB World Series set a record low for viewership. Like, lowest viewers ever. Even though I declared the season officially over after the Dodgers were knocked out, I actually ended up watching all 5 games, along with like fifteen other people.

Two weeks ago, my brother took his stock 1959 Chevy Biscayne up to the Little River Dragway in Temple, Texas for the Day of the Drags. That’s him smokin’ a ’59 El Camino in second gear.

What’s left of the old Aquarena Springs amusement park/resort will be demolished, and the park will finally be returned to something that will closer resemble its natural state.

This was the scene yesterday during early voting at my polling place. The entire line was at least twice this long, and according to the officials it has stayed that way since early voting started.

I’m more of an illy guy, but Lavazza commissioned Annie Leibovitz to shoot a really cool Rome-themed calendar.

New Yorker’s tricks for navigating life in the city.

Time spent on the Internet has been shown to increase brain activity in middle aged and older Americans who had previous web surfing experience.

“Our most striking finding was that Internet searching appears to engage a greater extent of neural circuitry that is not activated during reading, but only in those people with prior Internet experience,”

As punishment for violating the city’s noise ordinance by playing loud rap music in his car, an Urbana man was sentenced to listen to 20 hours of symphonic music or pay a $130 fine. The symphonic selections included Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, DeBussy and other composers. He lasted 15 minutes and chose to instead pay the fine. I think I would have sentenced him to listen to an entire atonal opera.

“I don’t give a shit but I care quite a lot.” –Richard Serra

Wikipedia has chosen Ubuntu to power its 400 servers that run the website. From Computerworld:

Wikimedia’s switch from Red Hat to Ubuntu is also likely a result of Ubuntu’s making the enterprise server and consumer desktop versions of its operating systems available for free to all users, with no lightening of the systems for nonpaying customers.