RFID tags in your clothes could make your washing machine smarter

No more fiddling with cold for darks, hot for whites. Or is it the other way ‘round?

Network solutions squats on domain names when you use their whois

As if you needed further proof that they’re a bunch of worthless scumbags.

The cnnbreaking twitter account is pretty great disinformation

For when the real world is just a little to depressing

Urban Mapping is opening up their neighborhood database

Now you have an API to query against that will return neighborhood geodata. Rad.

NewsGator releases all of their client software as freeware

Including the best RSS client available on any platform, NetNewsWire on the Mac. Syncing is now free, too. They’re giving away the client software to sell more enterprise server software.

…back in the day, we’d all get together and talk about the job or girls or cars or whatever. Now all we talk about is, “How’s your cholesterol level?” Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

—Anthony Bourdain, talking to TV Guide of all things. And Kottke points to a much better interview with Bourdain in The Onion AV Club.

“This is gonna be stupid hard advanced”

And you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to return the card for cash, and then I’m going to download the album off of Pirate Bay, because you’ve confused and upset my mom. And annoyed me.

—John Scalzi, on the absolute idiocy of Sony’s supposedly DRM-free music. Read for yourself how fucktardedly stupid MusicPass is.

StupidFilter is building a system to programatically recognize stupid comments

Uses Bayesian statistical analysis, much like spam filtering, to find the stupid stuff; so far, YouTube seems to be their test corpus (brilliant). I love that this could be a webservice that you could plug into to reduce stupid comments.

What are the odds that these two fellas are both tight ends? [via clusterflock]