“Trendy” name aside, zpizza is awesome. I just had lunch there and dined on their Napoli pizza. A great thin crust, just a little chewy, topped with a schmear of garlicky sauce, good mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil hit the spot. The chain (website here) started out in “the art colony of Laguna Beach, California, where [...]

is a book by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. The words are listed below with links to the M-W definition (I hope). What do you think and how did you do?

What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil? This woman gets a wild hair and decides to find out. Very funny stuff (and some naughty words).

Your Score: Mohinder Suresh You scored 41 Idealism, 45 Nonconformity, 41 Nerdiness My father spent his life chasing after this insanity. Now I’m wasting mine trying to prove he was sane.Congratulations, you’re Mohinder Suresh! You’re a curious, passionate, and intelligent person. You’re prone to changing your mind about the important things in life, though. You’re [...]

These two articles Dell Officially Announces Ubuntu Line-up and 22 Things to Know About the $99 Zonbu Linux PC seem to indicate that *nux systems are finally getting into the mainstream. The one that’s most interesting to me is that $99 box. Granted you only get that price if you get the Amazon online storage [...]

Sid’s 2nd Rebuttal is up in our on going debate. Feel free to comment here if you like.

No, not Ziggy. I’ve been reading Neil Gaiman’s blog (not the best celebrity blog I read, but good nonetheless) and he’s been talking a little about Stardust, a movie based on his book. I quite enjoyed American Gods and the Sandman comics, so I guess I’m looking forward to this movie. De Niro as a [...]

It was good. I say that with a little reservation because there were a few problems I had with it. And regardless of what I said in the spoiler thread I’ll save my complaints for the jump.

It’s… interesting. I think it will be fun to see a Joker that’s a little less Cah-razy and a little more Psycho. I’m not one of these fanboys that cries, “Darker! Darker!”, but the Joker is deep down a very nasty, insane freak. As fun as Jack was in the role, I’m hoping that they [...]

Seeing a shirt on Threadless (posted to my tumblelog) that “spoils” a few classics and one or two recent movies got me to thinking. What should the shelf life on spoilers be? I don’t get out to the movies much and as a result have missed a fair number of “classics”. For me to moan [...]