When the water sommelier comes over, I reach for my gun.

—Anthony Bourdain, in Radar’s delightful survey of most overrated food trends

New York Times officially drops TimesSelect

“€œWhat wasn'€™t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others.“€ Huh, that’s odd, because I remember EVERYFUCKINGBODY saying that when TimesSelect launched.

Seattle city council votes no on that ridiculous night club license, for now

Going to spend a year looking at the problem some more before voting again. How about you just resolve to enforce the laws on the books and be done with it.

jQuery gets some fancy ui

Like scriptaculous for jQuery. Looks sharp.

Google has an amazingly impressive 2007 election guide for Australia

The mapping stuff alone is nothing short of awesome, this is a warning shot across the bow of the mainstream media ship in the U.S. for ‘08

Femtroopers, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age [via]

Would it be considered passive aggressive to print this out and slide it under my neighbor’s door

Nintendo is the number one console maker for the first time in 17 years

Has now outsold the Xbox 360, which had a one year head start. Unbelievable.

And other geek cufflinks

Last.fm is now fingerprinting your MP3 collection for better metadata tagging

Eventual plans include a query-able API that will let you fix the broken metadata on your music, using the power of collectivized tagging. Pretty nifty.