• Overlapr.com tells you Twitter which friends of yours overlap with another friend.

• Here’s the story of the girl who grew up with two hearts.  Eventually, the back-up heart failed and was removed, but it gave the primary heart enough time to strengthen itself.

• First review of “Wii Sports Resort” I’ve seen so far. Mind you, I wasn’t looking very hard, but this is hopeful.  I haven’t played too many video games lately, but I’d love to give this one a spin.

• Why “Wipeout” wins. Answer: a dearth of slapstick television.

• Remember when the Harry Potter movie series began, and everyone said the same actors couldn’t make all the movies?  It would take too much out of their childhoods, or they’d age faster than the movies could keep up with them, etc?  Ah, we were so naive then.  (No link.  I just felt like pointing that out.)

• It’s just so crazy it might work.  No, not really.  It’s complete and utter madness, but it is hilarious: Convert Central Park into an airport!

Belgian authorities are checking out public profiles of their citizenry to determine who might not be reporting their entire income.  It’s enough to launch an investigation, and perfectly legal.

Think twice before opening our mouth on-line again. You know the IRS will be all over this soon enough.  (“You reviewed that ‘Harry Potter’ book, but I don’t see you paying taxes from Amazon purchases anywhere on your tax return?  AUDIT!”)

Hi all,

I’m over at FriendFeed, scratching the same old itches. . .

Find me here.

I have thoughts I NEED to express, but nobody who cares.

Heck, I likely have that with Twitter, too. So nevermind.

But I do need to say this: Apologies for there being no photo on AugieShoots.com yesterday. That’s the first time it’s happened this year, and it’s a complete Stupid Stupid User mistake on my part. I loaded up yesterday’s image — and today’s — with next month’s date. So the photos are up there now.

Also, I had a roast beef sandwich for lunch.

What, isn’t that what Twitter is for?

For unknown reasons, Twitter has suspended my account for “strange activity.”

I haven’t done anything wrong, I’ve dropped them a line, we’ll see how this turns out.

I imagine I’ll be back eventually.

Sorry things have slowed up here so much again lately.  Here are some links to keep you busy for a while as an apologia:

• Weezer covering Lady Gaga, because it’s what all the cool kids do today.

• Speaking of whom, check out Lady Gaga’s Muppets dress.  Cool!

• How to make a triptych in Lightroom. (OK, I put this one up here as a reminder to myself of something I want to do someday soon.)

• Dance to the Mii Channel theme music. Bonus: he’s a one time MTV reality show contestant.

• So, they cut the original Star Wars movie up into 472 fifteen second clips, and invited the world to take one and make their own version.  The goal is to make a new and complete movie from those bits.  Hilarious?  Insane waste of time?  Bound for failure?  You make the call.

• How to get banned from Sesame Street’s forum.  Funniest geek thing I’ve seen in a long time.

• eBay?  Still dying.

Good news: I’m working on something to revitalize this blog, for at least a couple of weeks. . That debuts on Monday.  In the meantime, some links:

• Quote of the day: “Live and learn, die and forget it all.”

• 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds

• Movies in 4 Frames.  Boiling it down to the pure essence, eh?

• Every now and then, I think it’d be a swell idea to digitize some of my VHS library that still sits unloved in boxes somewhere.  This Mac tool might make it easier, but it still isn’t going to happen.  Plus, most of the stuff I saved on VHS is now out on DVD. Not all of it, though. . .

• MetaFilter has the links to every episode of the great original British edition of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”

• In the same vein as Guitar Hero, now you can be a DJ Hero.  Video of game play at the link.

• There’s a new Super Mario Bros. Wii game coming.  Here’s some video.  Bonus: The voice of Mario.

• Watch every Idol song on YouTube.

• Want to see Adam Lambert performing musical theater?  It starts slow, but does build to a classic deafening Lambert crescendo!
• Nintendo is refusing to allow an Intellivision system game on the DSi.  Now THAT’S a shame.
• Amazing picture of Rockefeller Center in 1933.  The architecture, the lighting, EVERYTHING is so very cool in this pic.
• Todd Klein expertly dissects why Comic Sans sucks. (I normally don’t do comics-related blogging here, but this is a much bigger issue than mere comics.  This is proper fontography!)
• “The Wrath of Khan” performed by the Amazon Kindle and an iPod.
• Drafting a pro golfer to test the usability of “The Happy Gilmore Tee Shot.”  I love the internet.
• Soon, Jeopardy! might have its first Computer Contestant.

I think this is about right, Top two rows are the left and right channels of the interviewee. Bottom two channels are the interviewer (me), left and right. A lot of those blue spikes will be edited out completely in the final audio. There’s no need to hear all of my little grunts and laughs and whatnot in the final interview.

This interview should be going up in the beginning of next week.

Undoing Meg Whitman’s eBay – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

More subtly, but maybe more important, Mr. Donahoe is backing off from Ms. Whitman’s initiative to take on Amazon.com and make eBay an important player for the purchase of new, current-season goods. Her acquisition of Shopping.com was part of that, as was the move to expand features such as eBay stores on the main site.

The new focus seems to be on making eBay into an outlet shopping experience.  I suppose this might be half a step in a better direction.

Finally got frames, so it’s time to decorate the den a little.

Buy your own from Todd Klein.

TwitScoop provides a lovely word cloud of hot topics of the moment on Twitter. Tonight, some wild storms buzzed through the East Coast.  Lots of bright flashes of lights and loud booms came with it.  Spring has sprung! This gave the internet a chance to show its ignorance once again.  Here’s a segment of that word cloud:

At first, I thought perhaps that there was a new Photoshop tutorial that taught people how to better lighten up a particular part of a picture.  I clicked through to see what everyone was talking about:

Shame on you all.

Spell it with me: “Thunder and lightning.”  Thanks.

I know it isn’t as beloved as the previous one, but I still want to see it:

It’s also available for purchase for iTunes in High Def for $20.  Bit steep, but you can also rent it there for $4.99.

That box on the right is for the two-disc DVD set.  There’s a single disc release, as well, that’ll save you roughly $5.

• As it turns out, the bundled version of Guitar Hero: World Tour with the drums and all outsold both the game-only and guitar-only versions. I’m guessing that the Guitar Hero die-hards who wanted a piece of the Rock Band action were waiting for this.  I have no room for all of it, and didn’t want to spend $200 for the ottoman that it would all fit into, so I wound up with the guitar bundle. I wanted to play with the slider thingy.

• This one’s been all over, but it’s too cool to pass up: story conference notes from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

• Topps is doing some weird gimmicky 3-D baseball card thing.  No, not Sportsflics.  This is webcam-ready.  Weird.  I guess my biggest question, then, is this: Is there any hobby that can survive without having to interact with a computer?  Is nothing pure anymore?

• The thing that drives me the most nuts about professional “basketball” is how they never call traveling fouls.  Kottke rounded up some links to this phenomenon.

• Here’s a webtool to view all fonts on your computer.

Running out of time.  Let’s do this quickly:

Who goes out in what order:

1. Kris Allen – how did he get here in the first place?
2. Michael Sarver – Ditto, besides the Nice Guy story.
3. Jasmine Murray – barely made it in in the first place.
4. Matt Giraud – He WANTS to be that guy who sang that awful ColdPlay song.  He’s doomed.
5. Jorge Nunez – The accent/lack-of-accent gets to America. Puerto Rico’s solid voting block only goes so far.
6. Anoop – A novelty act. Simon cries.
7. Alexis Grace – Likable, but not inspiring.
8. Scott MacIntyre – Not inspiring, vocally.  Paula cries.
9. Adam Lambert – Too much screaming.
10. Allison Iraheta — officially becomes the token redhead to go the further in the competition, if you don’t count Nikki McKibbin’s dye job.
11. Megan Joy – Probably made it much further (farther?) than she should have.
12. Lil Rounds – Powerful voice, a bit old but otherwise a cookie cutter American Idol contestant.
13. Danny Gokey – Not the most inspiring or skilled singer.  But people have loved him since Day One.

More guys, but more girls make it into the later rounds.  I’d count on that, if nothing else.  By the time we’re down to 5, you’ll see 3 girls/2 guys, I think.

Who I’m rooting for — nobody in particular this year.  Lots of “eh” this season.  Some good singers, some interesting personalities. I’m hoping someone separates themselves from the pack.  Otherwise, I’m in it for the spectacle.

Round of 13 begins in a matter of hours. . .