I know, it's been a while. Blah blah blah.

Check out the headlines on this Google archive search of James Taranto's "Bottom Story of the Day:"

Some of my favorites:

"Construction Leaves Parts of Downtown Raleigh Dusty"--headline, WRAL-TV Web site (Raleigh, N.C.), Jan. 17, 2006

"Argentina Advances Partial Opening of Squid Season"--headline, Mercopress (Montevideo, Uruguay), Jan. 13, 2006

"Mira Sorvino Made Honorary Pa. Deputy"--headline, Associated Press, Dec. 28, 2005

"(Hillary) Duff's Rockin' New Year"--headline, E! Online, Nov. 30, 2005

"Three Laid-Off Americans Struggle to Find Work"--front-page headline, USA Today, Feb. 16, 2005

"Nike Corporate Jet Makes Safe Landing"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 21, 2005

"Lynndie England Burned in Prison Kitchen; Soldier jailed for Abu Ghraib abuse suffered grease burn"--headline and subheadline, MSNBC.com, Dec. 30, 2005

"Air Force, Rockers Use Same Earplugs"--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 11, 2005

"Pet Snake Survives Fire"--headline, Journal Times (Racine, Wis.), Jan. 5, 2006

We have a new kitten in the house. My daughter named him "Lenny." I have no idea why. Here are some pictures.

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The coolest thing about Audioscrobbler is its sister site, last.fm. After you listen to enough songs for Audioscrobbler to get a profile of you, you automatically get two streaming radio stations. One is based on the songs in your collection(called Personal Station), the other streamed from the collection of the people who share your taste (your Profile Station) who have their systems active.

You can find instructions on listening as well as my stations at last.fm.

If you want to participate, I recommend starting at Audioscrobbler and then once your profile is up and running check out your stations. Let me know if you get it going and we can add each other as contacts.

I have come across a couple of interesting sites lately. One combines photos and community, the other music and community. The first, Flickr has a ton of very cool pictures taken by amateur and semi-professional photographers. It's more about sharing your photos and letting people comment on them than it is about ordering prints, so the irritation factor is very low. Send me an email if you want to see my pictures.

Audioscrobbler (a site badly in need of a better name) is a great music site. It uploads a list of what you listen to and then refines a profile of you so that the database can offer you recommendations. You can browse what other people with similar tastes listen to on their computer and iPod. To see my statistics, go here.