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Katie sent me a link to this awesome Transformers animated short: “Heroes Of Cybertron.”

My quest for more information goes running off in the weeds again, and tonight I’ve gotten an itch for more information about tornados.

I’ve lived in Alabama all my life, so tornados are something that I’ve come to accept. For some reason, a random trivium bubbled up into consciousness tonight that North America experiences something like 80% of the world’s tornados. For you Alabama readers, think about that: there are people who’ve never had to duck and cover in school, who’ve never sat in basements wondering if their houses are ok, who’ve never had to wait through obnoxious tornado drills. Of course, I suppose the same could be said about Alabamians and not worrying about air raids.

Anil Dash: Blogging is supposed to be about popularity contests, and incestuous linkage, and hating George Bush, not anorexia.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cafeteria… Lunchbots attack!

Yet another device that fills me with fear: the LuvSeat. The fact that this thing exists is terrifying enough, but digging deeper into the site, you’ll find that it supports “up to 500 pounds.” Is that for one person, or two? One 100lb person, and a 400lb person? It also has accessories, such as “securely-attached steel hooks or eyes for attaching restraints.” Oh, and for you naughty weasels browsing from work, be careful scrolling down; the animated gifs are classics.

Occasionally some friends of mine will complain about my choice in colors on this site, or the lack of graphics, or the overabundance of text. First, this survey states “the most readable color combination is black text on white background and overall, there is a stronger preference for any combination containing black.” The key for me is readability. This site is about storing information. Almost all of that information comes in the form of text. The common way of retrieving that information is by reading that text. Thus, I make the text black, on a white background, to make it easier to retrieve.

Ooh: Kevin found some nice MP3s apparently leaked from Castlevania: Resurrection, which was made for the Dreamcast but never released.

Mark has written a nice rant about the whole Napster/Anti-Napster debate.

What I find so amusing is the whole irrelevancy of Napster; enormous amounts of illicit data were traded before Napster was even a gleam in some coder’s eye, and even more is traded today, without ever touching a Nap server. All this fuss about Napster is akin to running front-page newspaper articles about a speeding ticket in Idaho that happened in 1972.

Eventually, I’m getting new glasses. I say eventually because the people at America’s Best Eyeglasses don’t seem very interested in common mammalian traits such as moving, breathing, or completing orders in a timely fashion. In the meantime, I’ve been reading more about the shape memory alloys that my frames are composed of. Be careful with that article, kids. It’s pretty dense.

Yeah, this is bringing back a few supressed high-school memories for me: A lot of Popular Kids^TM electing themselves as kings and queens of their own little circle-jerk. Why bother voting? The outcome will be as easy as an acronym: BBBUKEMS&SFBNR.