A brief history of Microsoft in your living room

Up until a few months ago, I still had to test for the horrific abomination that is MSN TV. Die, motherfucker, die.

Queen Anne has a farmer’s market now

Hope they made the aisles nice and big for all the goddamn SUV strollers. HA! Just kidding, love you QA!

Seattle DOT is finally replacing all those old, small, dingy hard to read road signs

And auctioning off the old ones, if you’re in to that sorta thing

CNN.com’s redesign tailored for advertisers

It’s easy to be cynical about this, but it does underscore a point: that advertisers want “uncluttered” environments as much as readers do.

Stereogum asked some of their favorite artists to create an OK Computer cover album

In celebration of the 10 year anniversary (man, that makes me old). Dave Bazan, John Vanderslice, Cold War Kids, etc.

A letter to Optimus Prime from his GEICO auto insurance agent

“I suggest that next time you either settle things peaceably or leave your Autobot Matrix of Leadership at home so it doesn’t break. GEICO does not cover Autobot Matrix of Leaderships.” So. Good.

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

“Perhaps even harder hit - America’s blogging community”

Nielsen to rank Web sites by visit lengths

May the pageview finally die the death it so richly deserves

100 days that changed music

Dylan goes electric? Elvis shaking his hips? Michael Jackson’s hair on fire?

Vaity Fair has a long article on the history of The Simpsons

With interviews from Rupert Murdoch, Matt Groening, Art Spiegelman, Brad Bird, and various other Simpsonenia