Freyburg

If you’ve ever wanted to hear a radio show about LEGO, here’s your chance.

Just installed the newest Mac iteration of OS X. So far, smooth sailing. Comment, Mac brethren!

Sorry, everyone. My domain name expired this morning, and for a little while there Freyburg.com was free for the taking. Luckily only about five people read this thing, or my secret plans for cornering the e-goat space would have been in ruins.

Now I have to go through the terrible, frightening process of wrestling my domain name from the villains at Network Solutions and into the kind, angelic hands of W3 Media.

All praise Cam, who put together a Flickr photo box of my latest photographic shenanigans

Jason Kottke lays down some thoughts on how the popping of the dot.com bubble led to a lot of neat tinkering, and how new infusions of money will reduce this cauldron of creativity to old fashioned money chasing.

The New York Review of Books has a good breakdown of how the Republicans won the 2004 election through some pretty low-down appeals to the religious right, then tossed all their kerfuffle about gay marriage and the like out the window once they got into office. The article is written by Thomas Frank, who edits the Baffler, not the most unbiased of tomes, but its still an interesting read.

The title says it all. Feast your eyes on some sweet funny bookery. Then laugh at the worst covers ever.

Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of tech coolness, has a good article by Stewart Brand about environmental heresy and another article about the conflict between digital and paper libraries.

Ever wonder what kind of financial trickery and mumblesuch the studios get up to for their blockbuster summer product? Slate tells all.

From the always reliable Bookslut, here’s a parable of how a subscription to a magazine can go out of control in an amusing fashion.