One more reason not to live in the midwest: Winter makes deadly comeback. Makes for nice pictures, though.

The ArsTechnica Cookbook of “Bachelor Chow”, a 51 page PDF compiled from recipes by Ars Technica readers. No, really.

I happened John Weir’s site, smokinggun again today. John of course is the genius behind the IHT design. Anyway, one of the more interesting things about his new smokinggun design is the use of div overlapping as design element. I’ve noticed seeing around more and more. I think we’ll be seeing a lot of that in the near future. As tables spawned a rash of grids, CSS will start spawning a lot more of these overlaps.

Speaking of CSS stuff, it’s pretty damn annoying to have to redo one’s prototype wires because IE can’t understand CSS2 selectors properly.

A fascinating read from Imaging Resource: The Great Battery Shootout

The Rayovac 1600’s came out on top, but the Powerex 1700 and GP 1800’s come within 0.2% of the Rayovac’s performance and are available much cheaper. I’ve been buying batteries from Thomas Distributing for years and highly recommend them (they also sell the much more expensive battery packs most new prosumer digicams are using).

Groovetech kicks much booty. If I were into vinyl, I’d be all over it (it’s cheaper than CDs to boot), but alas, I have no turntables to play with. Ahh well, one less vice. At least I can entertain myselves with their streams. That and submedia have been my new faves.

Too tired to write anything inciteful [edit: haha, maybe a bit inciteful, but not too insightful], but the Trillian bruhaha continues. AOL has forced 2 Trillian releases as many days (I’m sure Download.com is happy with the traffic that’s caused). And all this because AOL prefers to see IM as eyeballs rather than infrastructure. What’s interesting is watching people bitch and moan. They seem to not understand the AOLTW is a megacorp whose only responsibility is to its charter (profit!) and any largesse is weighed against the (primarily quarterly or annual) impact against said prime directive (profit!). Sound depressing? Welcome to the 21st century. God Bless Amerika!

Can you believe it? It’s Wednesday already.

Hmm, according to the Blogger Pro Post History Report (if your signed on to Blogger, this link should show you your own Blogger post history), this month (not counting this post) I’ve posted 94KB of text on my blog. Since I started using Blogger in 1999, that’s the most I’ve ever used it in a month (#2 is 77KB in March 2000, but mostly my posting seems to average around center around 20KB or 50KB. 94KB is a friggin’ lot of navel gazing. Luckily no one’s been reading any of this stuff, so I’m free to babble on, well, as long as I stay under 6KB for the next two days. After that, I get charged $3. Personally, I’m not sure if being charged/KB is the way to go. It’d almost make more sense to charge based on excessive updates/posts vs. post length?

For those with a taste of chocolate (especially with Valentine’s Day coming up), here’s something else for you to feel guilty about: How your chocolate may be tainted.

The Onion AV Club interview with Frank Miller has some really good bits. One of the more interesting (IMO):

O: One particularly interesting thing about your work is the language your characters use, especially in the two Dark Knight series and the Martha Washington books. How do you develop a realistic-sounding slang patois?

FM: The one in Dark Knight is the one I can really answer. In the other books, it’s just stuff I overheard or made up. But in Dark Knight, it all has to do with the town where [wife and colorist Lynn Varley] grew up. Her brothers—Don and Rob, by the way—were part of a bunch of kids who talked in this very peculiar manner. Whenever I heard it, I’d just go nuts, because I loved it. It was this very sarcastic mode of speech. One time I was in Michigan visiting the family, and I sat the two of them down and had them do it into a tape recorder, and I went back and studied it. Then I wrote my stories, and I would always show those parts to Lynn before I got it lettered, and she’d tell me where I got it wrong.

O: So the gang members Don and Rob in the two Dark Knight series are actually speaking a legitimate street slang?

FM: The way some kids used to talk back in the ’60s in one suburb of Detroit.

I’ve subscribed to Blogger Pro to show my support and appreciation despite the fact that I’ll more than likely be switching soon. Also with the full knowledge that I’ve been saying this for more than a little while.