G5 enters volume production! A 1.6GHz PowerMac G5 featuring the all new "Gigawire" technology by January 3rd? I'll take two. Just put it on the Underhill's tab. Thanks.

There's been a breakthrough with my Vegan Deluxe Pizza recipe. I used a new product called VeganRella last night. It's a vegan cheese alternative and it's great! I think I'll modify the the original recipe to be a Greek style pizza. Good stuff!

The image of this guy wading in an ocean of eProp coins is the ultimate eProp for me since I created the eProp "coin." What? So I like Super Mario Brothers.

For immediate release: My secret work here in California is nearing its end for now. Genius Labs will be setting up shop in New England in December 2001. The future location is, at this time, undisclosed. Carry on.

Hubble Telescope Sees Alien Planet's Atmosphere Hubble rocks! "We have entered into a new phase in the era of extrasolar planet discovery and characterization." Nice.

Peet's Coffee & Tea took out a Blogger Ad. Cool, that's kinda mainstream. But, they tried to include an image—doh!

I've joined the Amazon Honor System as a way to accept holiday cheer on my website. If you're a friend of mine... you probably don't have any money. But hey, I thought I'd set it up anyway. Maybe I can buy a used book. Happy holidays!

Yoga Class Banned From Church Hall "I fully appreciate that for some people yoga is just exercise, but I am also aware that yoga is often a gateway to other things... We are here to promote Jesus and don't want to offer a platform to anybody who is going to undermine that." And if you're a Harry Potter fan too—fahgetaboutit.

For some reason I never really got into swearing. So the other day when somebody swerved in front of me in traffic I said, "Nice job... Pinkstain!" Livia started laughing uncontrolably. Pinkstain? Pink stain? What is that? The unfortunate result of the incident is that now Livia is using the word every once in a while. You can't just throw a word like that around willy nilly. It's dangerous!

One of the interesting side effects of working in a book cover design department is that you run the risk of showing up on a book cover every once in a while. Especially if the art director thinks you look like a troubled teen. Me, troubled?

This is what Earth looks like with your gravity glasses on. "A new gravity map of the Earth suggests that if you want to lose weight you should go to India, where the pull of gravity is slightly less than it is elsewhere on the planet." Nice!

We went to Kathleen's for some Thanksgiving cheer yesterday. We were given our own "vegan table" and our food was prepared separately with little signs, Kathleen rocks! When the figure skater started dancing on the roof, I suddenly regretted having topped off her wine. Nobody died a horrible death on my watch. Whew.

I was trying to find out what all the helicopter and police car hulabaloo near our apartment was last night and I came across the L.A. Examiner, a news aggregate powered by Blogger. Nice.

Weblog as OS: "Microsoft and IBM are searching for alternatives to the next computer interface. They're examining metaphors taken from other media, such as books or diaries." Much better for me than the desktop metaphor. Genius Labs will be looking into this.

Seitan entrée, corn sage stuffing, mashed potatoes with golden gravy, green bean casserole, candied yams, butternut squash bisque, cranberry relish, pumkin pie with tofu whip, green salad, and some red wine. It's a damn fine vegan meal and we adopted a Farm Sanctuary turkey again this year. His name is Pee Wee and he is going to live out his natural life in upstate New York. Maybe he will grow up to be a crime fighting flightless bird, you never know!

Read about why Moby is a vegan in his own words. Many people consider Moby to be a musical genius. Again, veganism linked to genius. Conspiracy? Maybe. However, if it is a conspiracy, it is one of intelligent compassion and health so there's no need to worry. Carry on.

Taking advantage of an Amazon typo ("Buy this camera and get that bag free" becomes "Buy this bag and get that camera free") got some quick-click online shoppers a $350 Minolta Maxxum SLR for the price of a $40 camera bag. See this Metafilter discussion for more details.

The Los Angeles Times reports on Federal directives to destroy public records, clear web pages, and wipe out other information usually offered to the public—locations of hazardous waste sites near day care centers, safety controls at nuclear power plants, and numbers of people being detained in terrorist related cases. Genius Labs has yet to be contacted about deleting archived documentation.

Sauce Lands Thieves in Pickle: Four thieves robbed a Chinese food delivery man by bashing him in the head with a bag of crackers. They were nabbed after police followed a tell-tale trail of spicy sauce. The delivery man was not seriously hurt.

Introducing: TextBanners! The newest kind of self-serve micro advertising. Well, sort of—it's just an idea, not an actual finished product. "TextBanners are great for weblog community sites already displaying banner ads because they won't disrupt the existing layout, users enjoy giving a little back to their service providers, and attracting new visitors is always welcomed." Sound good? Good.

We saw Harry Potter today. It was great. I saw Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz afterwards waiting to go to the bathroom. I'd already been... ahhh. Long movie.

Blogger's great new service, pyRads uses graphics that pay homage to assembler.org. It's micro advertising that makes art with machine code!

This memo from Osama to his cavemates is funny. Thanks to Jason Shellen for finding it while approving some Blogger ads.

Daypop launches ad program, sort of. Just give they guy ten bucks, email him your title, URL, and description, and he'll see to it that you get 2500 impressions. It's not very futuristic, but it sounds okay to me.

Bruce Lee is back! "Bruce Lee is to be resurrected by computer technology to star in Dragon Warrior, the first time a dead actor will be re-created in a major movie role, according to US trade magazine Variety." Genius Labs may or may not be affiliated with this project.

Pyra launches pyRads, "Web advertising that doesn't suck." pyRads is a service for purchasing, managing, and serving micro advertising on web sites and you can see it in action (and buy and ad) on the Blogger front page. It's great to see this stuff happening!

For Sale: Metafilter. Current owner and creator of the popular community weblog Matt Haughey says, "If I got a serious offer that paid off all my college debt and gave me a six month buffer to enjoy life and take my time picking my next project, I would take it in a heartbeat. Seriously." He says 50k outta do it. If you do buy Metafilter, I would recommend hiring Matt to run it for you. It wouldn't be the same without him.

Traffic Information Center - Sig Alerts "The term "sig alert" was coined by Southern California broadcasting pioneer Loyd C. Sigmon. Loyd would get information about road hazards from police headquarters and broadcast it to his listeners. The first sig alert went out on Labor Day weekend in 1955." Or at least that's what they want us to believe.

Here in LA the radio updates often include a "sig alert" warning for various highways. I've asked several Angelenos what this means and nobody seems to know. I did discover, however, that "cig alert" is a heavy alternative rock band based in Orange County. Their specialty is funk rooted bass lines, powerful vocals, and guitar. Sounds good.

Honda's new human-like robot is earning more than $166k per year as a receptionist at IBM Japan. Little do they know its only a kid in a plastic suit. Everybody knows there's no such thing as robots! Also note: it looks suspiciously like the little Lego™ spacemen. Coincidence? I'm on the case.

From animator Bruce Timm who worked on the WB's cool Superman and Batman series comes Justice League. It's on the Cartoon Network this fall. They have a space station!

My article about WebCrimson is up at WebReview this week. If you're in the market for a new CMS—or you have a client that would be interested in a co-branded, browser-based, WYSIWYG web editor, I highly recommend it. Even if I do say so myself.

Morale here at the lab has been low these past few days due to an outbreak of unidentified and unwanted "intense under-the-weatherness." Thankfully the "feel horrible and wait-it-out" method appears to be working and things are getting back on track.

Dr. Yoshiro NakaMats is wacked. He's "soft in the head" from sitting too long in his electric-current chair. That's why I didn't show up at the supposed genius convention in Tokyo. Plus, I'm too busy for that kind of thing because I'm developing some new projects that I'll divulge soon!

The world's supply of chocolate is in danger. "South America's cacao growers are warily watching the spread of witches'-broom fungus, which infects seed pods and sends out evil-looking orange shoots. It has slashed Brazil’s cocoa production by more than 25 percent in the past five years." Genius Labs is against the genetic uniformity inherent in commercial farming.

The results are in: "You are a dedicated weblogger. You post frequently because you enjoy weblogging a lot, yet you still manage to have a social life. You're the best kind of weblogger. Way to go!" I'm not sure about the social life part. Are You A Blogaholic?

The weblog search engine Daypop plans to roll out self serve text advertising. Cool, count me in!

Only at Trader Joes can you buy more than enough dinner for two—including a bottle of wine for $5. Okay, so I'm not a sommelier but somebody's gotta drink the stuff.

Finding Fluffy: "The OneTrace is a pager-sized, battery-operated unit that could be clipped to a belt or another piece of equipment. Radio signals traveling between a low Earth orbit satellite and the OneTrace give a precise location for the device by using the Doppler shift created by the satellite's movement." The creators of this device are switching from pets to defense in an attempt to raise 2 million. Genius Labs needs to get in on that.

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci drew a bridge. "The Leonardo Bridge is an elegant, perfectly pressed-bow construction. Its principle is that the force of an arch can be distributed in wider spans when the foot of the arch is compensatorily widened and utilizes the tension provided by the counterforce of the terrrain. It was conceived 300 years prior to its engineering principal being generally accepted, proving da Vinci's genius as a technological innovator equal to his genius as an artist and visionary." 500 years later, The bridge is finally being constructed.

I just posted a short explanation of how I got my name in my writing section. If you've ever wondered how I came to be known as "Biz," now's your chance to find out! If you already know, then you can skip it and do something else—but be careful, because that three minutes could change everything.

The Anti-Stress Soul Soother Aromatherapeutic™ Natural Shower Gel fell in the shower with a sharp BANG and I actually had a pain in my chest. I should go easy on the salt.