Jeff Veen and crew revamp Google analytics

Now powerful *and* easy to use. Looks pretty awesome.

WikipediaFS lets you mount any MediaWiki site as a filesystem on your linux box

Then you can edit using your text editor of choice. Rock?

The Vice guide to killing your parents

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and hate boomers. With a handy bit on getting rid of the bodies

The asshattery of Digg strikes again

A bunch of childish Republicans (any other kind?) are pissed that hopeless candidate Ron Paul isn’t listed in some poll, put NBC’s main switchboard number online and slander our marketing director. It’s the wisdom of the crowds!

Kottke’s got a sharp post about the growth of Twitter v. Blogger

With charts for the kids! Uses the sequential numbering of post-ids to compare message growth of the two services. UPDATE: it seems the post-id numbering scheme switched at some point and all the data is, sorta, bunk. The essence is still the same (crazy post growth) the numbers are off, though.

Transmedia newspapers

“Print isn’t bad, it’s fantastic with huge staying power but you’ve gotta produce something I’m gonna want to keep around.” I, frankly, don’t really buy the premise that newsprint can ever be anything but disposable, but I do like the comparison between movies and video games.

Mmmmm… pie

Who doesn’t believe in evolution?

Chris Matthews asked a throwaway question at the Republican debate last night, Brownback, Tancredo and Huckabee all answered affirmative. See, unlike virgin births or flying spaghetti monsters, evolution doesn’t give a god damn if you believe.

Obama wants debates in the public domain or under creative commons license

Sharp thinking, that guy

Fake Steve on Murdoch buying The Journal

“But wait a minute. Isn’t profit good? Shouldn’t the market be allowed to work? […] now Murdoch is offering a nearly 70% premium and you reporters are urging owners not to take it? Oh, Journal hacks, you are a bunch of frauds.”