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Great one from Google:They were just returning the favor to Topeka.

Starbucks’ April’s Fools gag was good Starbucks Listens to Customer Request for More Sizes.

Starbucks Micra and Plenta

Thanks to Dan, Barbara, Ed, Ed, John, Frank, Randall, Kelly, Ellen, Don, Dan, Bill, Ken, Nick, Kent, Steve, Ken, Tom, Jim, Gary, Ray, Bob, Glenn, Don, David, Cathy, Martha, Marie, Susan, Katherine, Tim,

Upgraded to WP 2.9.1 without help from Fantastico and it worked. I feel liberated, until something goes wrong, and I end up running to tech support for help.

Fantiastico was great for helping me get the WordPress blog started, but I was waiting to upgrade to the 2.9 versions, and I was tired of waiting.

That was so easy though, I’m tempted to try other things and probably make a mess.

Good suggestions on improving WordPress with plug-ins, etc. from Gina Trapani writing for Lifehacker.

WSJ:  R.I.P.: Budget Woes Spell Doom for Roadside Rest Stops –Drivers Looking for a Break Keep on Trucking; Virginia Leaves Door Open for July 4 Holiday. Also great slideshow.

WSJ:  M-80s: The Big, Illicit Bang

By law, a firecracker sold for on-the-ground consumer use can contain no more than 50 mg of explosives. An M-80 has at least 3,000 mg. (Contrary to urban legend, that is not equivalent to a quarter-stick of dynamite, which typically contains at least 20,000 mg.)

New York Times: How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains

One of his main messages is that overeating is not due to an absence of willpower, but a biological challenge made more difficult by the overstimulating food environment that surrounds us. “Conditioned hypereating” is a chronic problem that is made worse by dieting and needs to be managed rather than cured, he said. And while lapses are inevitable, Dr. Kessler outlines several strategies that address the behavioral, cognitive and nutritional factors that fuel overeating.

BBC: Giving up my iPod for a Walkman — a 13-year-old tries an iPod for a week

It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.

Thereifixedit.com — a funny site

Good review at Toolmonger

NY Times: Networking For The Shy Entrepreneur

Perhaps the hardest thing to do, if you are naturally shy, is to talk face-to-face to people you have never met before.

PC World: Cell Phones Getting Too Complicated, Poll Finds

61 percent of handset owners think there are too many unnecessary features on their mobile phone now

Inc.: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg — no email for an hour after waking, tried to check email infrequently, photos as daily journal when traveling.

NY Times: Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed — email as a to-do list, dictation software, macro software and try to not waste time.

Buyer’s Remorse: 5 Gadgets We Should Never Have Bought — including GPS devices, more megapixel cameras, Kindle and iPhone.

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Calculated Risk: Unemployment Rate and Level of Education

The value of education:

Catching up with Scripting News

Scripting News: URL-shorteners go Amazon

They asked what it would take for me to use bit.ly, I said: data. I need to know how many clicks each pointer got and where the clicks came from.

Scripting News: Netbooks are great XP machines

Scripting News: How newspapers ought to think of Twitter