The Chappelle Theory: "He knew that at the same time he was signing his record-setting deal, there was a secret cabal of powerful African-American leaders from the business, political, and entertainment industries working together to ensure that the third season of Chappelle's Show would never happen."
It's not too early to start campaigning for the Winter Olympics. Ice planet of Hoth, 2014!
FoxiPod uses Greasemonkey with Firefox to allow you to download MP3s directly into iTunes, something I'd been wishing I could do in Firefox for a long time. Safari dumps MP3s into iTunes already, but when doing so it initiates playback right away which can be disruptive.
Curling audio clip mash-up (MP3). Sure seemed like curling got a love of media love, even if in jest, this year.
Judith Harris first came to prominence for her groundbreaking book The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, which argued that a children's peers were far more influential on their personality development than their parents. Now Harris has written a new book, No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality, which updates and builds on her earlier work. I look forward to reading it.