Notes

Humans’ natural daily cycle is actually 24 hours 11 minutes, not 25 hours: Human Biological Clock Set Back an Hour

Excellent video of a couple of Russian kids running, leaping, and climbing all over the crumbling concrete urban environment around them. russian climbing – Google Video (a great example of parkour, which Scot’s blog first turned me on to)

Hardly seems credible: Firefox (Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation) made $72M last year?! – The Jason Calacanis Weblog

Pliers work very well for opening beer bottles. Just in case.

One thing Apple does truly brilliantly is the cardboard boxes its products come in. Microsoft, not so much. (parody video)

Tom Lantos is my congressman, and it’s principles like this that keep me voting for him every single time he comes up for re-election: Congressman quizzes Net companies on shame | CNET News.com

Anyone else have problems with T-Mobile Hotspots in Starbucks bumping them off the network and reconnecting every 15-20 minutes? It’s really annoying.

Locke blogged my story. I blogged his blog of my story. Then he blogged my blog of his blog of my story. Now, I’m blogging his blog of my blog of his blog of my story. Ain’t trackback fun? Krugle Blog » instant replay or infinite recursion?

Elmore Leonard’s rules of writing. (Sadly not included: Don’t center your copy, since it makes it fucking hard to read.) Category | Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle (via 43 Folders)

Winner, best business writing, February 2006: Annalee Newitz: “investors have turned their burning, collective gaze from the wastes of Mordor to the human world of Silicon Valley again” AlterNet: Son of Dot-Com

Maybe all these folks are leaving technorati because the site sucks, and they couldn’t fix it. Valleywag: Jason DeFillippo walks out Technorati’s door with Niall Kennedy

Recycling … and screaming bikini girls. Girls Crushing Cars (via Grist)