The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real) - The Y! Music Playlist Blog

Funny, I've had all of these at some point.

Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon - washingtonpost.com

Doonesbury does Carlin

He may right,  but he made be wrong.

"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, MotherFucker and Tits"

Another sad day for me as comedy legend George Carlin dies in Los Angeles. Never underestimated the power of negative thinking. Question Authority. Crap, Question everything.

The Huffington Post has a collection of YouTube snippet from George's HBO specials

Anti-Establishment icon gained fame with his ‘Seven Dirty Words’ routine - Comedian George Carlin dies at 71 - Celebrities- msnbc.com

Microsoft After Gates. (And Bill After Microsoft.) | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com

Scum Also Rises - "Publicity, self-promotion, and integrity: How do you think Miley Cyrus got where she did?" -

"Let me tell you, if you're lucky enough to have people who want you to sign your book, you better put on your best shirt and show up an hour early."

Scum Also Rises, page 1 - Music - Seattle Weekly

Disbeliefnet.com

The future is here. or over there. I couldn't tell which.

Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing

A bunch of great, "cynical" quotes found here - 

"Millennials are younger. Healthier. They got to do anal in high school. They think updating a spreadsheet while posting to a Twitter account about gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill"

"We may not be the next Greatest Generation, but we're pretty good at calling bullshit."

Features : Radar Online : A Call to Arms Against Millennials

Then there is this counter piece, which is naive at best:

"Why Gen Y will change the web" - the funniest quote -

"Gen Y sees no reason why a company can't be more accommodating, offering benefits like the ability to work from anywhere, flex-time, a culture that supports team communication, and a "fun" work environment. They're also not going to blindly follow orders just because you're the boss."

Just a quick post to catch my breath, so please take a lingering look around MSDN and TechNet, you notice that the teams have deployed a new graphic design to the sites. One of the more exciting features showcased, are in the content itself, as the blogs for Soma Somasegar, Scott Guthrie and Mark Russinovich are "smack-dab" in the center of each home page. You can't get a more direct connection to Microsoft "rock stars" than that!

Ok, back to "thumb-typing".

Americans are generally pretty brave... although some are apparently terrified of people who listen to Pink Floyd and eat Cheetos.

Deep Thoughts about the Drug War

Elect Me.

Here are some of webcasts you might need or enjoy for learning the ins and outs of SilverLight. Microsoft Silverlight: Light Up the Web

Election Guide 2008 - Presidential Election - Politics - Superdelegates - The New York Times

I Got What America Needs Right Here | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Fareed Zakaria is one of my favorites, with great insight into the world outside US Borders, which he refers to as "Post Americanism".

Excerpt: Fareed Zakaria’s ‘The Post-American World’ | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com

Hind sight is 20/20, Welcome to Generation Pessimist. You have to love that way P.J. O'Rourke "spins" his views, which end up not being to far from accurate.

"But the problem isn't politicians -- it's politics. Politics won't allow for the truth. And we can't blame the politicians for that. Imagine what even a little truth would sound like on today's campaign trail:

"No, I can't fix public education. The problem isn't the teachers unions or a lack of funding for salaries, vouchers or more computer equipment-The problem is your kids!"

Fairness, idealism and other atrocities - Los Angeles Times

Body of War

Some teammates making headlines today - Redmond | News: Microsoft Plans MSDN Revamp

Is it me, or do people just keep getting crazier and crazier?

Alaska Independence Movement - Pravda.Ru

Report: 1998 Was Ten Fucking Years Ago | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

The Golden Rule

I hate hearing this news, but...

CTV.ca | Canadian blues guitarist Jeff Healey dies at 41

XML is ten years old today

ongoing · XML People

The Dumbing Of America - washingtonpost.com

"During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible"

The Anonymity Experiment | Popular Science

Just plain eery.

Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning | the Daily Mail

Cannon Challenge Game : Future Weapons : Discovery Channel

Conan Shows Up To Confront Stewart And Colbert And "Kick Some Comedy Central Ass" - Media on The Huffington Post

National overview - 2008 Primary Results- msnbc.com

The Flying V Turns 50

RIP, Old Pal. You turned Moscow on it's ears, when we played there in '92.

Ben McMillan, singer for Gruntruck and Skin Yard, dead at 46

Geez, and I thought  I was paranoid.

With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

reddit.com: what's new online

DirectX vs. OpenGL

Some Graphic Novels You Should Probably Check Out....Yes, They're Free to Download.

PETA's shameless "Naked State of the PETA Union Speech" [NSFW]

The Germans of 1933-45 and the Americans of 2000-present: An excerpt from, They Thought They Were Free

2008 Prediction I: RIA vs. AJAX

Does C# 3.0 Beat Dynamic Languages at their Own Game?

Making a raytracer from scratch [pics]

Most Hilarious Guitar Design Ever

Creating fractal images with C# 3.0 features and Parallel Extensions

First Class Functions in C