Added a "Books I Recommend" section to the right side of the page. Pretty soon, I'm going to have to pretty up the page, or just grab a pre-designed theme. 8:40:04 PM

[via daypop]: Yeah I'm a LEGO nut. So what? These guys have more time on their hands than I do... 7:12:54 PM

[via Phil Ackley]: Clearly, the little people at Microsoft have a sense of humour. RTFM!

Then he has the good sense to explain how it was done! Thanks. Now I feel like a dork.

7:06:36 PM

[via National Post]: Makes you think twice about a career change...

A New York lawyer who escaped the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center also survived yesterday's suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem.

Mark Sokolow, 43, was among more than 100 people injured when the bomb went off on a busy downtown street. It killed a man and a woman. The woman was believed to have been the bomber, making her the first female suicide bomber in the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 6:34:02 PM

[via National Post]: Looks like the pilot that landed his jetliner full of passengers had his hand full.

Air Transat Captain Robert Piche was hailed as a hero following an emergency landing in the Azores after his Airbus developed a fuel leak. An investigator says a computer may have failed to alert the pilots.

And you thought Embedded Systems were just for microwave ovens... 6:29:37 PM

[via The Onion]: I love reading stuff from a couple of months ago on the Web, just to get some perspetive. Here's some of what they ran about 2 weeks after 9/11. Back then it wasn't all that funny, and it still isn't. But if these guys are the half the satirists they think they are, then there is a kernel of truth in it...

For nearly two full weeks, Americans sat transfixed in front of their televisions, listening to shocked newscasters struggle to maintain their composure while describing events that would have been rejected by Hollywood producers as not believable enough for a Sylvester Stallone vehicle.

"I read that the plane that crashed near Pittsburgh didn't hit its target because the passengers fought back," said Modesto, CA, dental receptionist Sandra Barkum through tears. "I just kept thinking, that's what Wesley Snipes did in Passenger 57. Except, in the end, Wesley Snipes lived. 4:59:20 PM

Looks like Userland has pulled the plug on the WinerLog. Good riddance. 3:08:06 PM

[via WinPlanet]: Review of Radio 8

We're a little too strait-laced to join the funky and insular blogging community (which likely views Radio newbies the way the Usenet elite once viewed AOL invaders). But we like the idea of effortlessly easy Web publishing, with deeply flexible intranet or productivity potential as well as democratic self-expression, and a content management system that turns simple text files into online Gutenberg material. And it's only freaking $40? Far out, dude. 1:30:18 PM

Ahhh, the mighty power of flow. We all know a picture is worth 1,000 words. Now I can say that a link from Scripting News is worth about 500 hits! 9:40:38 AM