Miscellaneous garbage

I've got some media to share with you and your immediate family.

• An enjoyable comic strip
• Former President Bill Clinton appeared on FOX News to speak about his environmental initiative, and was instead asked why he failed to catch Bin Laden. Result: an awesome interview. Watch the whole interview here. Jon Stewart's take on the media's reaction was also enjoyable:
  

• I've also recently discovered an enjoyable read, the Dilbert Blog. Contrary to the title, it is written by and in the voice of Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator. It is not written from a Dilbert perspective. He comments on recent events, and does his best to be controversial. He rouses a great deal of dissension in the comments to his posts, and it is clear he enjoys it.
• A somewhat creepy article topic in the Guardian: The last words of Texas death-row inmates as recorded and displayed by the state's justice department's website.
• Check out the project We Feel Fine. It is visually stunning.
  

  We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.

• Extroverted like Me, by Seth Stevenson on Slate magazine. A shy guy takes social anxiety medicine as an experiment. It is interesting.

Nothing about me this time, really.

Stay classy.