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Between the end of the LAX runway and the Pacific Ocean is a little sliver of land that, from the satellite image, looks like a residential housing development…without any houses. That’s what it used to be, but it was seized and razed by the government in the 60s. Now it’s just a ghost town, and…

But sometimes at my job, without anyone’s permission or direction, without any papers in hand or abbreviations or acronyms or any right except a self-imposed one, I say something that feels very, very important to me. It’s this: It’s going to be okay. I was raised by a single mom, and I turned out just…

One of my Top 5 favorites from the NES has been reborn. Blaster Master… …has gotten a 2D sequel. It’s available for purchase starting today on WiiWare. Nobody even knew that SunSoft was working on it until they announced it last Friday!

Blogger announced that it’s dropping support for FTP publishing, so I’m announcing that I’m dropping support for Blogger.  I’ve been using it for ten years (this month) and it’s time to move on! I’ve imported the last decade of Blogger posts into a custom WordPress install with a free theme I found.  I figured why…

There. I fixed it.

The electoral college system is dumb, but EC reform probably won’t happen in our lifetime. One solution is to do an end-run around the whole system and re-draw state boundaries with an eye toward equalizing the population across all 50. Check out the map that would make this happen. Hilarious.

Pampers decided to completely change their Cruisers line, and it’s rubbing parents the wrong way. Wasn’t that clever? Seriously though, they’ve completely changed the composition of their Cruisers diapers, and the new version is awful. Ad Age reviews the changes – a thinner diaper that’s 25% more absorbent – and appears to side with Pampers…

National Geographic magazine has been around for over 120 years. They’re now selling a digital compilation of every issue all the way back to #1 in 1888. You can buy it on either six DVDs ($90) or a 160GB hard drive ($200). They don’t provide any specs on the scans other than to say that…

The unofficial Rapidshare Automatic Downloader for free users will save you hours of work. You just paste in a bunch of Rapidshare URLs and it sits through all the countdowns and presses all the buttons for you. This is particularly helpful as we near the end of the 2009 Christmas sharity season, as an overwhelming…

Back in 2001 Leonard Maltin approached Dick Cook at the Disney studio with an idea to reach back into the studio archives and release old Disney material on DVD. The plan went forward and the end result was a series of extremely limited edition DVD releases sold under the name Disney Treasures. There have been…