Meet Mozilla, my latest Web Review article is up, complete with a cute illustration of a baby lizard growing up. Nice!

The Hogwarts Express got jammed up in Scotland while filming Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Bad that the train got stuck, but cool that they're shooting book 2!

Borders.com is not Borders... it's Amazon. Weird.

The government of India has decided to make TV sets cheaper so people will watch television instead of having sex in an effort to control the one-billion-plus population. Here's the article. Who knows, maybe it'll work. Do they have the Spice channel in India?

Heinz to introduce vegan line. It kinda sounds cool except macaroni and cheese is not actually vegan due to the fact that their is, um, cheese in it. Actually, most "soy cheeze" isn't even vegan because they make it with casein--a milk protein. I'll have to peruse the ingredients list when they release these products worldwide.

I'm trying out this new Flash blog posting tool called flogsh. It's cool to be trying out a new blogging tool but it's not as good as the little "blogthis!" bookmarklet because you can't paste in text, it doesn't preload a link for you, it can't remember you're username/password/id for you, and when you're done posting it says, "Posted! Maybe even successfully." Still, it's cool that somebody built this. Keep up the good work!

A lady was sitting on a bridge contemplating suicide while the local police tried their best to coax her down. Angry because of the resulting traffic jam on the bridge, fellow humans urged her to jump. So she did.

How about a gruesome story involving a murder where the body is disposed of piecemeal with an in-sink-erator? After all, it is called a "dispose all." Then, a plumber discovers the situation and it just spirals deeper and deeper into darkness. Nice! Columbo would crack that case in five minutes.

Bill Clinton Goes Bikini Shopping in Rio "It was not immediately clear who he was shopping for." I'll have you know, Bill works for Genius Labs now. Those bikinis are part of an elaborate plot to ensnare our enemies in thier own deceitful web! $113 is a small price to pay--if the plan works.

Hey, the newest release of blogBuddy is available for dowload. Take note of the icon and the "I'm using blogBuddy" button--they're genius!

Check out this EW article about blogs. That's some serious mainstream action. (via matt)

Jamie, the Monks Lifted the 'Never Sleep' Curse. Go to bed.

Comprehensive, unlimited war does not sound good.

A bug flew into Livia's ear today and stayed in there for a while. I didn't 100% believe her at first because there have been times when I thought a bug flew into my ear when in reality, no such thing occured. Then I saw it fly out and I believed her. Thankfully, it flew out the same ear it flew in. If that had not been the case, we may have had a situation on our hands.

Biz Stone: Reel Speaking of actors who blog, I'm a blogger that acts. Check out my reel that some friends cut together for me. I need to put a permanent link to it here on the front page soon.

Wil Wheaton has a weblog. Nice.

After almost 2 years of me talking about blogs: evhead, megnut, haughey, etc. Livia finally asked me tonight, "who's cuter, Evan or Kottke? (after explaining that she thought haughey was kottke and confessing that she's a little jealous that I read megnut) So I consulted Google's image search to bring up some pictures and found something interesting. There's a kind of whiskey called Evan Williams that looks really good.

Oh... and Livia thinks Evan is cuter. (Sorry Jason--but you do have Meg)

This Old Blog: Home Improvements for the New Home Page is up at WebReview along with a few other articles about blogs and blogging. Check it out!

FBI arrests 8 in fraud scheme targeting McDonald's The ringleader of the scam is Jerome P. Jacobson, 58, known as "Uncle Jerry," a security official with the company that McDonald's hired to run the Monopoly game. He sold million dollar winning prize pieces for $50K in advance. Nice!

If you can't find the answer yourself, why not ask Google for $3. Or you can just ask me because I'm a genius. (via Metafilter)

This morning my computer gave me the old flashing question mark trick instead of starting up. I don't know why but I think it might have something to do with aliens. I'm checking into it.

I'm still working on it but here's the front page of a new site I'm building for a friend. See if you can find the secret hidden pics of Willie Nelson! There's no prize if you do. It's just for fun.

The votes are in! The new blogBuddy icon is a product of Genius Labs. Good luck blogBuddy, may you take over the world.

You too can have the coveted LA look. All you need is giant reading glasses from Rite Aid and some masking tape!

Quickly jump to your very own page at blogdex using Blogdexter! Don't you wanna know what people are saying about you? Find out with Blogdexter. New from Genius Labs.

There's a lot of activity these days in the blogging community. This morning, I've been checking out a new cell phone tool for blogging, a small application called blogBuddy that enables remote control of blogs, and cool news that Google is now indexing weblogs every day.

Also, I really like the relatively new tool, blogdex, "a system built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news content into one navigable source, moving democratic media to the masses."

I'm looking forward to all the cool stuff that will come from the release of the Blogger API, a move that enables "independent developers and partners who are interested in hooking into Blogger with other programs, interfaces, or environments." Should be fun. If anyone hears of a cool new mac-specific blogging tool, please let me know!

"Heroic images or NASA fraud? At last we have the conclusive proof!" Check out thses images from the NASA archive that proves they faked a moon landing.

I guess the fifth time is not a charm for Steve Fosset, american adventurer. "I dragged for about a mile, bouncing along, and finally I used the cable cutters to cut the balloon away from the capsule."

Scientists Discover Planentary System "From our perspective, this space is empty. But when you ask, 'What can you hide in this space?' -- you could hide Earth. This is the only star that has a big empty zone in the habitable region around a star, the place where water could exist." Nice! Maybe we'll discover a new Earth-like planet just in time for the premiere of Enterprise.

I think having your guestbook signed by your mom might be the web equivelant of a PA announcement that the lunch you forgot to bring to school today is waiting for you at the office -- in your Incredible Hulk lunchbox.

Women Cut Off Sex to Get Water "A group of women in southern Turkey have banished their husbands from the bedroom in a protest against a lack of running water in their village..." This sounds like a funny little Miramax art house movie.

The latest issue of Dwell Magazine gives airships some props. Check it out, I scanned it in for the good of the airship industry.

Paint the Moon. "The Goal: To unite millions of people in an effort to 'paint' a red spot on the dark portion of a first-quarter moon using common laser pointers during a five-minute period this autumn." Somehow it seems Don Burgy should be related to this endevour.

It's killing me that Metafilter is on vacation. When I don't have any good emails, Metafilter is my go-to guy. Son of a...!

"How quickly do you need your new office address in Europe? How about tomorrow?" Go to mygermanoffice.com and you can have your very own virtual german office. Genius Labs new HQ? Perhaps.

BBC News: US makes 'weather control powder' "A company in the United States claims it has invented a powder that can be used to remove clouds from the sky and even stop the development of hurricanes." This doesn't seem quite right somehow.

"NASA's Galileo spacecraft will buzz the north pole of Jupiter's moon Io early next week to get unprecedented magnetic measurements and examine the site of a dramatic recent volcanic eruption."

Pop-under ads fail to catch buyers - Tech News - CNET.com "As pop-under ads gain steam, they fall short of converting Web surfers into buyers, according to a new report released Wednesday." Oh no, all those pop under ads I bought for my "Make Your Own Air Conditioner" kit are going to cost me.

"The owner of a small Toronto coffee shop had grounds for dismay when..." I love the old-style opener for this story about a Coffee Shop Owner Shocked by $1.6 Billion Bill.

For one of those days when you don't quite feel right but you don't feel bad either, you just feel "off" here's your soundtrack.

We Are Some Kind Of Fat. This is a funny article about how humans are fat and ugly. Don't forget that humans are also a disease on this planet and you pretty much have it all wrapped up. One day humans will be extinct. Ahhh.

Check out this article and X-ray about a guy with a 3 inch nail shot into his head. It missed everything and he's fine. Amazing.

Research debunks long-standing dinosaur nostril theory. The nostrils are near the end of the snout, not toward the top of the head. Too late for Jurassic Park III creature-tronics. Suckas!

Ever wonder where the term "threshold" came from? What about "saved by the bell" or the origins of the funeral custom known as a wake. Read Laraine Anne Barker's Fascinating Facts from the 1500s and you will know more than you wanted to.

Wow, the Web Server Statistics for blogdex show over 20,000 successful requests in one week. That seems like a lot. Nice! There's also a bunch of other reports there and some nice pie charts. Pie chahts kid.

Huh...huh... Huhrggggh!