links for 2007-02-08

William L. Murphy, who was born in Columbia, California, near Stockton on January 1, 1876, moved to San Francisco at the turn of the century where he met his future wife. He lived in a one-room apartment that had a standard bed taking up most of the floor

“Fast, Cheap & Out of Control” may be Errol Morris’ most unusual work yet. Morris himself calls it “the ultimate low-concept movie–a film that utterly resists the possibility of a one-line summary”

A site that works like YouTube, only for Free Flash Games. Awesome. Set the mark for when this site will be blocked at work.

Wow, Melissa hits the New York Times. Proud to say I know that vulgar, inflammatory female just a little bit.

“Everyone “feels” nervous on occasion. For example, watching the SuperBowl with friends and loved ones during those cheesy prime time commercial breaks, your first manly-man kiss, or even bearing your chest in public can often cause that “butterflies-in-y

Thanks, Snickers! Now I’m Snickerphobic!

Mid-century modern paint colors, from a scanned image of a paint palette from the 1950s.

Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year.

“With minor exceptions, the ads this year were disappointingly small and instantly forgettable.”

Sad that with all the attention being lavished on Tony Dungy of Indianapolis and Lovie Smith of Chicago as the first black head coaches in Super Bowl history, the broadcast of Super Bowl XLI ended up being so homophobic.