John Edward is The Oprah of the Other Side. A good New York Times article on John Edward, host of the SCIFI channel's Crossing Over. (There's no fee, but you need to register with NYT to read it.)

I was looking up Martin Sheen with my IMDB bookmarklet to see if his real name really is Ramon Estevez. It is. And I happened to discover that there's a True Lies 2 in production. Cool!

When we went to the Los Angeles Animal Shelter and adopted Brewster he seemed really glad to come home with us. It wasn't until later that he started to think maybe his new housemate, although he claims to be a Genius, might be a little soft in the head. What? If somebody picked me up and pretended I was a telephone, I would think it was funny. "Hello? It's for you." See, that's funny stuff.

Because they sold ten million bottles of "EZ Squirt Blastin' Green Ketchup" in seven months, Heinz is rolling out their new EZ Squirt Funky Purple Ketchup. Yeah! More crappy, nasty stuff! We're Americans, we need vast quantities of stupid, plastic jugs of green and purple slop. This is what we're all about. More! More! More! At least nothing's being slaughtered to make the "tomato" based ooze.

Happy birthday Marc! Hey, it's also JK Rowling's birthday. A coincidence? Perhaps. An elaborate scheme that ultimately results in the tragic end of all humans on Earth? More than likely. I'll look into it. In the meantime, Marc, soon we'll be old enough to go to Disney World! Hey, go to that mexican place next to your apartment and have a few margaritas -- tell them it's on the house. Then go to bed, I'm tired.

First Evidence Of Life Coming From Space Reported "Evidence of living bacterial cells entering the Earth's upper atmosphere from space has come from a joint project involving Indian and UK scientists." I found this story from the list at blogdex. Nice.

"The robotic sun catcher, a spacecraft named Genesis, is due to be launched on its three-year, 20 million-mile, round-trip mission Tuesday afternoon at the earliest. Liftoff had been scheduled for Monday, but was delayed Sunday night because..." Swatch called, they want their watch back!

Blogger puts advertising on the front page. I think it's great. Very tastefully placed in a right-side module.

Wired takes a look at blogdex. While they do that, sneak over to BlogFinder and imagine the possiblities.

Agassi Beats Sampras! I love that these guys have a 12 year rivalry going. Not that any of it matters because we're all gonna die one day. Wait... what? So yeah. Tennis!

'Babe' Actor Arrested at Va. Wendy's Protest "Cromwell, who was nominated for an Oscar for the 1995 film ''Babe'' and starred in its 1998 sequel, was taken into custody with the other demonstrators at a Wendy's in Vienna, Virginia while urging customers to eat elsewhere, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said."

Alejandro Toledo used to be a shoeshine boy. Now he's the President of Peru and he lives in a Presidential Palace. Not a house, a palace. That's much fancier than a house.

Today's weather outlook for Boston looks better than Los Angeles. What's the deal? The weather here seems pretty much the same, except it hardly ever rains. I guess the real difference will come in November or December when there's a foot and a half of brown slush sending various vehicles careening sideways down the Mass Pike. "On-Stah system or no On-stah system, yah cah will go fahkin' har-iz-antul on the Pike kid."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Printable batteries that power credit card displays? There must be a leak at Genius Labs.

This article about "Free Flight" is all well and good but where's the mention of airships? I'm going to design myself a Winnebago-style personal airship (a blimp with wings) that I can fly cross country at my leisure. Gotta go.

This X10 ad is the worst one I've seen yet. What "event" did these frat boys videotape with their tiny wireless video camera? "Record the the excitement. Watch it later." Mmm hmm.

"Under no circumstance should you see The Score." Not very high praise from this weblogger. I haven't seen the Marlon Branflakes movie yet but I was considering it. Now I'm not so sure.

By the way, if you're into bookmarklets, my article on them teaches you how to make your own. Go for it!

I made another bookmarklet. This one is called Blogfinder Link Love. It searches Blogfinder (a blog-only search engine) and displays pages that have linked to your URL. Check and see if anyone loves you! I gave it a permanent spot under my search form to the left.

The new Panasonic CatFinder "My cat and keys are only a beep away." This is old school Genius Labs, but it's good to finally see it on the market.

30 second quicktime Enterprise promo. Looks good!

You can read CNN's official account of the "occurance" but here are some highlights:

CNN Military Affairs Correspondent Jamie McIntyre was at the Pentagon looking westward out his office window around 6 p.m. when he saw a flash in the sky headed toward Earth... In Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Chief Frank Sesno was driving when he heard "what sounded like a sonic boom..." One person described it as a "ball of flame..." Witnesses said they saw a fireball fall into a corn field... Fire Chief Jerold Ross investigated a scorched section of a corn field measuring 25 feet by 20 feet... State police said their phone banks had been lit up with calls from northern Maryland to Upstate New York... The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California received word of "a bright fireball" that appeared at approximately 6:15 p.m. EDT... People in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York reported hearing sonic booms...

And of course...

"It was heading inland."

Blog Underwriting: Leave’em and Love’em. Notorious Xanga blogger Notforprophet has developed an ingenius new service, "For only $50 semi-annually we will monitor your blog and cover your absence in all instances except death." Go sign up!

I find myself looking people up at IMDB a lot these days so I made this handy bookmarklet: IMDB: Person Search. Type in the first and last name of an actor, producer, director, etc. to find out what they've worked on. Note: I've given this bookmarklet a permanent residence on the left column of this page just under the search button.

"Curtains are sucked into the shower because water droplets decelerate under the influence of aerodynamic drag, transferring energy to the bathtub's air, which begins to twist like a miniature hurricane turned on its side. As in the eye of a hurricane, the pressure in the center of this disturbance is low, pulling on the shower curtain." How to Avoid Being Attacked in the Shower from what is essentially a New York Times Weblog.

Apple Debuts New Power Mac G4 Line Housed in an updated "quicksilver" enclosure. Cool! The new G4s can go invisible!

If you search for Biz Stone without quotation marks on Google you'll get about 83,200 results and you'll be in the shopping » recreation and hobbies » models » horses category. I am not a collectible model horse, I'm a genius!

They're kind of jumpsuit-y, but with pockets. Jonathan Frakes came by and was almost in tears, "We would've killed to have pockets!" Scott Bakula comments on his new Enterprise uniform and more in this interview.

Check out some pics of the engineering department aboard the new Enterprise NX-01. I'm psyched for the new show!

We watched The Thing last night. I wasn't super-into the nasty, half-evolved, slimey mutant action, but I was into the bleak Antarctic photography and the "we don't know which one of us is actually the psycho alien" stuff. Less gore and more creeping around corners and discovering clues and I would have loved it. Good stuff though. They lock Wilford Brimley in a shed so he can eat oatmeal by himself think about why he shouldn't trash the communication systems with an axe anymore.

I'm reading Artemis Fowl aloud to Livia now, since there's no more Harry Potter's left. It's good stuff.

What if Blogger had been designed by a group of Geocities hobbyists instead of Derek Powazek. Nooo!

I love this picture of the internet. Found via metafilter

There's new stuff in the Writing section. Including How to Generate Revenue from Your Weblog and a review of Adobe Elements 1.0 for your perusal. "Dammit Jim, I'm I doctor, not an escalator!"

I just now found out that if I click and hold on the mail icon in Mac IE 5 there's a little popdown with a feature that lets you quickly email a link to the page you're on. Nice!

Hey, when I have my first book published I can put this on the copyright page: Biz Stone 1974—tk

Somebody emailed me to ask how to make money online. This was just going to be a post but I decided to put it in the How To section. Here it is: How to Generate Revenue from Your Weblog. Enjoy!

The Chronicle two hour series premiere airs tonight on the scifi channel. Just a reminder. Oh—and there's a new Farscape on before that.

Blogger is in top form today!

CafePress rocks Natick. The stuff they make is top notch. Recently they sent me a couple orders and one of them was slightly screwed up. They re-did it, mailed it right away, and told me I could keep the slightly screwed up t-shirts. Cafepress is an online service that lets you upload your artwork for t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc. and they handle all the purchasing/shipping. They're great.

We're always busy at the lab. Here's another one: A tomato stake that resembles a giant mattress spring for those unusually tall vines. Simply twist into the earth and train along the coil and you can manage your gimungus vines with ease. Patent pending.

Making up fake names on the spot is an art form in some states: "Hi, my name's Ricky McFadden. I work at Papa Gino's and I love Chevrolets. Call me anytime."

Another reason to have TiVo: You can pause Jeopardy and eliminate the stress factor involved with beating the buzzer. Livia's doing it right now. She's good!

At the lab: A feature length version of The Dukes of Hazzard starring Aidan Quinn, Brad Pitt, and Danny DeVito. The project is still being storyboarded. We're using soy based ink for all the artistic renditions of Boss Hogg.

On my way to the Sammy's Camera I walked by a situation. A girl was actually throwing her [former] boyfriend's stuff off the balcony. A skateboard, a bonzai tree, and some other belongings. She was actually throwing all his stuff out of the apartment and he was actually running around retrieving said items and growing very upset. Weird. I guess humans actually do that. I thought it was just in ads and stuff.

What is this picture all about? Is it simply a photo, or is it part of some larger vegan conspiracy?

Three things we're working on in the lab: 1.) Digital display of balance on smart-chip debit cards 2.) Shopping carts that scan products on their way in to keep a running total for help budgeting at the market. 3.) Browserware that enables remote access to TiVo.

If you're having trouble with Blogger today, try going here.

This will be on the news tonight: Eggs fertilised without sperm. So men are no longer required to make babies. Metafilter contributor UncleFes says, "Well, at least lawn care and vehicle maintenance is still ours."

This just in: dangerous government orange juice is on the rise. Know your enemy!

Spaghetti squash rocks Natick. It looks like spaghetti—but it's squash. No, that's impossible!

"Let's start a company called MyRealBox!" Famous last words.

Note to self: Do not sling various bags of differing sorts and kinds over your back and then walk from Venice beach to Santa Monica around high-noon. The resulting markings could arouse suspicion among key alien muck-a-mucks.

The Constitution of the Communist Party U.S.A is online if you'd like to read it before joining.

Point of note: To make a regular pickle, boiling water is poured into the container prior to sealing. To make a "half sour" no boiling water is used. I like half sours better.

WebReview: Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0. My review of Elements is up at WebReview. Elements rocks Natick.

Two things we're working on at the lab: 1.) Wiring the lab so that whenever we put something somewhere obscure we say it aloud and voice recognition software converts that to a text file that we can search later when we forget where said object is. 2.) A USB antenna that transmits a signal received from a website to the nearest television creating a new outlet for digital indie films and programming.

It rarely rains in Los Angeles but today it's rainy. That's okay, I hadn't planned to see any fireworks—I was just gonna shut my eyes really tight for half an hour untill I see stars and such. What?

Livia got the Diablo Expansion Pack and now she's a Druid that can summon ravens and turn into a werewolf. Nice!

I found this weblog microhost by clicking through from PaganSpeak, a site I discovered at Erin's blog which I visited from my referral logs. Hyperlink technology—the wave of the future.

It's only Tuesday, so you have a few days to buy all the ingredients you'll need to make Vegan Deluxe Pizza. Trader Joe's is a good place to shop.

Has Cameron beaten Kamen to the punch? Or has he just been watching Back to the Future too many times? (via Metafilter)

If you look long enough at any typeface, you'll eventually see what I see.

NASA has just released a proposal to visit Titan. What kind of vehicle are they planning to use to investigate the rich organic atmosphere? A helium filled airship! That's right folks, the future of air transport is airships. Take note.

"When Unbreakable was released, Bruce Willis confirmed that the film was the first in a proposed trilogy." That's from the Amazon editorial review. Cool!