Apparently you can have Mr. T (Yes, that Mr. T) speak your driving instructions if you have a TomTom GPS unit that supports “NavTones”. He’s not the only one: Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, and (newly added) Gary Busey. No tag for this post.

You know, I’m amazed at how much news there is out there. I mean, when you really think about it. From the guy who skunked me at one game of cribbage during lunch, and won the next fairly handily. Tags: game, lunch

The new Flat Earth chips that I have been enjoying are produced by Frito-Lay. No tag for this post.

The Super Mario Theme performed by three trombonists! No tag for this post.

From Terry Pratchett: Let grammar, spelling and punctuation enter your life. Yes, publishers have people who will do this sort of thing—and they are called authors. (I haven’t been able to run down a link to the quote, and I only have it from an AuthorTracker message.) No tag for this post.

I just need to link to the MnDOT Data Tools website. It is quite possibly one of the most cool data resources I have ever run across. No tag for this post.

Infodoodads pointed me to another social book site that I think might fit my needs a bit better than the other three that I’ve played with so far: goodreads. My profile can be found here and I might play with the widget a bit and see what it looks like. Tags: social

As I was getting ready to leave work this evening I went into Perforce to find out who all had files checked out despite the request to get everything checked in before a major outage this weekend. I noticed there were a huge number and that there were some really low numbered changelist numbers so [...]

From the maker of the Grow series, some of my favorite puzzle games ever, comes Dwarf Complete! I may or may not have stayed up all night trying to complete it, and I only needed hints from the web twice! Woot! Tags: game

I’ve been enjoying all sorts of stuff from Infodoodads this week but this one is probably the most interesting to a broad audience: Graphically explore the popularity of baby names over time with real census data. Tags: pop