Two reasons I wish I still owned a Mac: Watson and Konfabulator.

As if there wasn’t enough to be sad about these days, Fred Rogers died today at 74. The emperor of “so uncool he’s cool” will be missed.

I feel I need to clarify the previous item. I made it into a joke. But when I first read Winer’s comment, I was so spitting mad I couldn’t see straight. The simple fact is, I hate what this country has become, literally in the blink of an eye. I hate it. What I love is the idea that there’s still some hope to get it back.

This one is priceless

Dave Winer says we can finance the war with Iraq by taking their oil. Great idea! Why didn’t I think of that? Hey Dave, can we invade Belgium next? I’d love some good chocolate.

Sad Pop Culture Moment of the Week

Watching Lindsay Wagner hawking air beds on an infomercial. She was the Bionic Woman, for god’s sake.

As part of a bet/promise with my friend Nicole, I watched “Gilmore Girls” last night for the first time. (See how I’m willing to admit embarrassing stuff for your entertainment?) I can’t say it wasn’t entertaining and funny at times. But the rapid-fire, mannered, David-Mamet-with-ovaries dialogue, which seemed cute and funny at first, soon made me want to shoot out the TV like a late-model Elvis. Plus, during one earnest cell phone conversation between galpals about pregnancy, I think I actually began to grow a uterus. And I have all the internal organs I need, thank you.

Fred, you’re not helping.

“I just really hope we are in agreeance that this war should go away as soon as possible.”

– Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit at the Grammy Awards

I predict that after Sarah and Frenchie, “I only did it to pay off my student loans” will become the catch-all excuse in American culture.

ROBERT BLAKE: I needed my wife’s insurance money to pay off my student loans.

BUSH: I didn’t want to invade Iraq, but I had all these student loans to pay off. Yale and Harvard don’t come cheap, you know.

CYBILL SHEPHERD: Student loans. Need I say more?

My fame knows no bounds

FROM: Sparx443@wmconnect.com
TO: adam@lucky8ball.com

SUBJECT: aRE YOU KKINDA LIKE A VOODOO DOLL???

Dear lucky 8 ball,
are you like an internet voodoo doll?And what does yuor website have to do on it????And how did you get the name?

$omeone you dont know,
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Perhaps contrary to yesterday’s entry, I do have a rather large web project launching today: FightingBob.com, an online magazine dealing with Wisconsin politics from a progressive perspective. It’s not large in terms of content – not yet – but it could eventually be the most-read site I’ve ever designed. I’m not involved on the editorial side at all, but I think there’s definitely a market out there (in Madison, at least) for this brand of political news and activism.

Let me know what you think.