I highly recommend AdShield. From the website: “AdShield is a freeware banner ad blocker that improves browser performance and usability by suppressing the download and display of ad images, pages and popups.”

Thanks to Rod for restoring the site after its outage yesterday. Yay!

I really like the idea of this head-tracking hands-free TrackIR mouse. However, I can imagine playing Diablo 2 with it and dying horribly while scratching my nose, or sneezing.

I watched Enterprise Wednesday night – conveniently time-shifted by my beloved Tivo. I thought it to be the best Star Trek pilot made yet. This doesn’t say much: I still have occasional terrible memories of “Encounter at Farpoint.” And yes, the theme song was definitely stolen from some deodorant commercial.

So what did you think about “Enterprise: starring ThatQuantumLeapGuy and Jolene Blaylock’s Nipples” ?

Bush and bin Laden chatting via AIM.

Interesting: My-Cast provides neighborhood-level weather reports. I’ve signed up, and we’ll see how accurate the service is, and how good they’ll honor their “opt-out-of-spam” button.

Images from Deep Space 1’s flyby of Comet Borrelly.

Yay! NCAR! It’s the National Center for Atmospheric Research!

Here’s a nice patriotic ASCII flag.

Here’s a nice photo of Osama bin Laden in his childhood. “The bin Laden children lined up next to a pink Chrysler Imperial for this snapshot on a trip to Falun, Sweden, in 1971.”