Ironic Sans has your scientist Valentines

Google unseated Yahoo at a cost of about $20 million in financing, simply by being effective software developers and tasteful interface designers. We can infer from this offer that Microsoft expects its own programmers to be only 1/2000th as effective, dollar for dollar, as Google’s. In comparing Vista to XP and dividing by the amount of coding effort that went into Vista, it would be tough to argue with this conclusion.

—Phillip Greenspun, on Microsoft’s Yahoo bid

Mark Bittman has been blogging over at the New York Times since November and nobody told me!

For those of us who can’t get enough Bittman

WSJ is reporting that Yahoo’s board plans to reject Microsoft takeover bid

Microsoft could take the deal directly to shareholders, with a proposed replacement board, or even offer more money. This is pure theater, I love it.

Frances Bean Cobain is as cool as you’d hope

Finds all the attention directed at her “creepy” and thinks she may want to be a journalist some day.

One toke, sweet Jesus! [via ckwinny]

Polaroid will stop making instant film after 2009

Says they are willing to license the technology to anyone who wants to take up the mantle. Not terribly surprising considering that they’ve been scaling down for years, but sad nonetheless.

New Wall-E trailer looks fantastic. [via Kottke]

The 2008 Bonnaroo lineup is out

Looks a lot like the Coachella lineup so maybe I’ll just wait until they all come my way for Sasquatch.

The pillars of McCain’s campaign. Old white dudes FTW?