the stats of rap thanks evann

The stats of rap (thanks, Evann!)

The stats of rap (thanks, Evann!)
Does anyone here remember that totally awesome book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs????
—Gawker commenters officially fail harder than just about anyone else on the internet. Yes, including YouTube.
You predict the weather at cumul.us
Ben got the baby out the door, nice work
Turn off Firebug for Gmail to make Firefox not suck
You think Google will be forming an OpenSearch alliance any time soon, to help also-rans in search get a share of the spoils? Me neither.
—Fake Steve on the gPhone “alliance”
New NPR music site looks sharp
Lots of streaming music, great aggregation of stations, including Seattle’s own KEXP
It’s with no small amount of pride that I got to write the mea culpa inviting Firefox, Safari and, yes, even Opera users back to msnbc.com
Alpha Channel is our new “this is what we’re working on” blog
Launching to showcase the redesign work, eventually this will be our ongoing work blog. My colleague and officemate Ben Tesch did the conceptual and design work on this one, which is why it looks awesome.
Build a machine capable of feeling and make it fall in love with you, then abandon it for six months in a closet without an internet connection and only top 40 radio as company. Take the hundreds of sad love songs it writes and sell them under a variety of pseudonyms to A-list stars. Before you retire to your own island, unplug the machine so that no one ever discovers your secret.
—Paul Ford, who has 99 other ways to say I love you
I dig the new features, though I’m not quite sure what to do about the channels part. Seriously time to design a bloody template, though.