The rare unassisted triple play

Best part of this story? It was Larry Wayne “I’m a grown man and I insist people call me Chipper” Jones who hit the ball that made it all happen. Beautiful.

Mathowie quits his job and is chronicling his new online-only work life at fortuito.us

Should prove to be handy for folks looking to embark on The Life

Does Japan’s history of Shinto make them more open to accepting ubiquitous computing?

Really interesting thought, especially when you think about the corollary in the West: Does the Euro/US history of Christianity limit such acceptance?

Tantek’s microformats presentation from MIX

Good stuff, if you’re one of the four people in to microformats

Grab a hanky and get ready for some nostalgia: 30 minutes of 1980’s cartoon openers

GameBoy, Sega Genesis, and Turbo Graphix 16 previewed on Nickelodeon’s “Total Panic” circa 1989. It’s hard for me to decide what I love the most about this - the nostalgia for all of those old game systems, the hilariously anachronistic terms (16 bits!), the vision of the three hosts tangled up in a coke orgy backstage (you know it happened) or the Bananaman promo

The continual disappearance of 50 Cent’s newspaper from the stoop of his $4.1 million Connecticut mansion

—and other unsolved hip-hop crimes

John Stewart proves once again why he’s America’s leading media critic with this bit on the media coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings

gSpell is an OS X service that uses the Google spell check algorithm

Wicked cool because it includes all kinds of statistical anomalies and colloquialisms that the average dictionary doesn’t know about. Smart!

Scarlett Johansson onstage with The Jesus and Mary Chain at Coachella