Right-wingers can dish it out,

Right-wingers can dish it out, but they just can't take it. There's a whispering campaign about boycotting CNN's Crossfire now that Carville and Begala are the left-side hosts, and they don't put up with the usual right-side bullying. Wimps.

Comments from a newly-married couple

Comments from a newly-married couple doing taxes jointly for the first time:

Him: Can we take that as a deduction?
Her: Why should we be able to?
Him (adopting fake RFK accent): When it comes to deductions, some people ask "Why?" I look upon them and say, "Why not?"

It's almost 7 pm, and

It's almost 7 pm, and I've had neither food nor caffeine today. Computers, so far as I can tell, are begging me to throw them out the window. I'm going to go whine somewhere far away from these electronic beasts, or one of us is really going to regret something.

I made fun of Gina

I made fun of Gina Smith when she took the job at New Internet Computer Co., so I should probably make a note now that she's lost it. Twenty-six months is actually a pretty impressive run for a CEO in that position, but has anyone ever actually even seen a NIC for retail sale to a consumer?

Via Hack the Planet, it's

Via Hack the Planet, it's the California Community Colocation Project (CCCP). Free virtual and colocated Internet access to individuals and non-profits--sounds like something to keep in mind for the future.

Poor Maureen Dowd whines that

Poor Maureen Dowd whines that she can't get a date. A while back, I saw the same complaint from Ann Coulter. Now, let's get real: their job, what has made them famous, is to write vicious, bitchy columns. Who, other than a masochist, would want to get into a relationship with these women, knowing that a dating misstep could easily end up being mocked in print? Dowd blames men and their "eggshell egos," of course, then decends into drivel about how life would be so much easier for her if men acted like bonobo monkeys. She says that she was told by a male friend that her job made her too intimidating. Bzzzzzt. Her problem with getting a date isn't that she's a powerful woman with a high-powered job (speaking for myself, what's better than a smart, funny woman?). It's that she's known for using her power for evil, not for good.

MS cancels Hailstorm after coming

MS cancels Hailstorm after coming to the awful realization that no one wants to partner with MS or have MS store their customer data. When they say "We're sort of in the Hegelian synthesis of figuring out where the products go once they've encountered the reality of the marketplace," it means "We don't know what to do when we can't even give it away!"

Question for the day: How

Question for the day: How many weblog tool companies are there which currently employ (full or part-time) a programmer other than the founder(s)?

Current evidence says zero--if you know of any, drop me a line. [Update: Jason worked on Blogger Pro.]

Kissing Hank's Ass, via View

Kissing Hank's Ass, via View From the Heart. Why does this sound so familiar, hmmm?

Just too geekily cool for

Just too geekily cool for words: Solitaire and Text Invaders--done solely in QuickTime (via Jerry Kindall).

Joel does a brief rant

Joel does a brief rant about review[s] for a new "bloat-free" MS Office competitor, and mentions one of our favorite features, word count. The fact is that any reviewer is going to be assigned to write a review with X number of words. If your word processor doesn't tell you when you've hit that number, your word processor is useless to reviewers. And as they're the ones reviewing your app, it's always going to be a gripe.

The rest of the world that uses word processors may not care a smidge about word count, but so long as professional reviewers are the ones writing professional reviews, word count will be a must-have feature.