Really, we don’t take anybody’s death lightly, but we just couldn’t look ourselves in the eye if we didn’t mention McDonald’s Restaurants‘ CEO dropping dead, apparently of a heart attack.

Yesterday, my favorite librarian turned me on to Live365‘s Pranksta Radio, which in turn pointed me at ccc’s mashups galore. If you check out nothing else, scroll down to "Stand By Me" and give it a listen.

It was developed as a fire suppression tool, but surely there would be other uses for such a way cool fluid. Check out its magical evaporation while extinguishing a tealight.

Breakthrough scientific research reveals people who are feeling sad might want to talk to, or shag, or embrace someone. Who’d have thought that human contact would be useful in combating the blues? Unless you’re in Scotland, in which case you’d just rather get blitzed.

Yeah, so there’s this funny article describing how to boot Linux on a dead badger. The really cool thing, though, is it’s published in a magazine that pays for sf.

Tim Minear’s show Wonderfalls has been cancelled after something like two episodes. I would have watched it, but Fox has made their signal too expensive to receive with my antenna. Perhaps as sad as the news of the cancellation, though, is the phrase "scripted shows".

Ashcroft’s obscenity czar believes "Just about everything on the Internet and almost everything in the video stores and everything in the adult bookstores is still prosecutable illegal obscenity," so we’re spending millions of dollars going after an industry with huge money and which has therefore previously been supportive of the Republicans (yeah, I’m treating the adult entertainment industry as being indistinguishable from the cable industry, simply because the latter profits from the former). I wonder how many pointless prosecutions it will take before that money starts flowing into Democrats’ campaigns.

A somewhat chilling Washington Monthly article on housing prices and the economy makes a fairly convincing (to me) case that the housing market this year is not unlike the stock market in the late ’90s, and that its collapse will be even more catastrophic for the economy at large. This would be spectacularly bad for whoever gets elected this year.
(that last sentence’s construction would have been useful in weeding out the grammar god wannabes, I expect)

Somebody at quizilla says:
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla

Based on the frequency of Grammar god scores visible via blogdex, a perfect score is not required. It’s also possible that one or more questions had more than one correct answer (in fact, one of them had to have had more than one correct answer, which gives the prescriptive morons a false sense of correctness).