After watching Curling in the Olympics, I have decided that I need to take up the sport. Apparently I can, since there is a Potomac Curling Club.

Nullsoft officially released Winamp 5.0 today. Winamp is still my favorite media player. The only media player in the same league as Winamp is Apples’ iTunes. iTunes has some great features, but it has yet to sway me from my beloved Winamp. Winamp has a simple interface and easily gives is access to the music files and streams I want.

In terms of audio quality, the audiophiles claim that Foobar2000 is superior. I have tried Foobar2000, but I prefer Winamp’s interface.

Last week I went to lunch with a friend at the World Bank. This is the visitor’s pass they made for me. They took my picture and printed me a visitor’s pass on a plastic card. It seems a bit excessive, but its the World Bank we are talking about, they waste billions a year. What’s a few bucks on a visitor’s pass?

Lunch was great. We ate in the World Bank’s cafeteria. This was no ordinary cafeteria. The cafeteria had food from all over the world including food from El Salvador, the Congo, and others countries. I ate the Congolese food since I neither seen, nor heard of Congolese food before. It was quite good.

I spent the weekend in Kentucky and I can testify that this story is true: Iraq, Kentucky Vie for World Shooting-Into-The-Air Supremacy.

I recently read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. Chabon is a great writer, has an amazing vocabulary, and takes great care in crafting his novel, but for me, the book was ultimately unsatisfying. In fact, I was so bored with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay that I set it aside for a couple days and read The Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.

A couple years ago, I saw a lot of people reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and I thought that it looked interesting. Also, it won the Pulitzer Prize, so I thought it was guaranteed to be a good book. But while it may be a good book, it wasn

I like Bill Thompson’s take on the World Internet Summit:

But not even the hardened hacks could suppress a small smile at the final press conference when the ITU

Chris Nerney argues on Internetnews.com that the “Can Spam Act” is a terrible piece of legislation that legitimizes spam and doesn’t hurt the people that need hurt.

The Return of the King won the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Picture.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

he Pennsylvania Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a Chester County family fighting to save its 48-acre horse farm from being turned into a golf course.

Dick and Nancy Saha of Valley Township have been battling for more than four years to prevent the city of Coatesville from seizing their land for a recreation complex.

“It’s devastating,” Rick Saha, the couple’s son, said of the Supreme Court’s refusal to take the case. The decision exhausted the Sahas’ legal options.

Coatesville city officials said they hoped the one-sentence order handed down by the state’s highest court on Tuesday would allow the two sides to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement.

“I’m hoping this will open up the door so we can at least sit down and talk,” Coatesville City Councilwoman Carmen Green said.

Coatesville wants to seize the Sahas’ property as part of plans for a $60 million recreation complex that would include a golf course, bowling alley and skating rinks. City Manager Paul Janssen has said the park is a key part of efforts to revitalize Coatesville, an old steel town that lost thousands of jobs in the 1970s and 1980s.

There are few things I irritate me as much as cities taking people’s land. It is outrageous that the city of Coatesville wants to take this land for a recreation complex of all things–as if that would bring back jobs. This is despicable.

Strong Bad explains what would happen if you wasn’t so cool.