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If you’re a late-night diner like me, you’ll find this useful: What’s open in downtown Mountain View, CA right now?

From BottleOfBlog: [T]here are only two kinds of grownups in modern American life who show up in public with as many contusions, lacerations, and bruises on their faces on such a regular basis as George W. Bush: 1. Prizefighters; and…

Better than NetFlix: the U.S. Postal Service will send you any or all of these five “Delivering Justice” DVDs for free! Dialing for Dollars: “how to protect yourself from investment frauds” Work at Home Scam: “how you can avoid being…

(with apologies to Frankie Wilde) The first Windows-based version of Palm Inc.’s popular Treo will be available to subscribers of U.S. wireless operator Verizon Communications Inc. from Thursday, Palm announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. First announced…

Best. News. Ever: Jon Stewart has been set to host the 78th Academy Awards telecast, producer Gil Cates announced today. This will be Stewart’s first stint as Oscar host… “As a performer, I’m truly honored to be hosting the show,”…

Good news: Nielsen To Begin Observing DVR Usagehttp://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-12-22/tv/5 Bad news: TV As We Knew It To End 2/17/09http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-12-22/tv/1

This isn’t the first time, and probably won’t be the last– Dish Network has dropped channels from their satellite TV lineup, citing “unreasonable price increases”. This time, it’s WLifetime and LMN. Read Dish’s press release or IMDb’s news item. We…

Thanks to John Rogers and Ed Brayton for spreading the good word: Judge John E. Jones III of Pennsylvania has ruled that “intelligent design (ID)” may NOT be taught in Dover’s public schools. Rogers calls it “[a] breathtakingly thorough judicial…

Today’s error message: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we appear a number of continued hiccups. [sic] We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon…

So the guy who draws Dilbert has written a book called God’s Debris, which you can download as a PDF and read for free, and in doing so has crossed the border into the land of crazy old men– jumping…