It’s kinda like sending you a “hey, check this out!” email or iChat message.

If the headline or description intrigues you, click on the headline to go to the original site. My goal is to get you curious enough to read or watch the links.

I hope you enjoy the new style. It’s an experiment in short-form, near-daily posting.

If you find stuff I might be interested in, you can bookmark it in Delicious.com and then tag it with “for:jasonian”. It’ll show up in my Delicious Inbox. Or send it to me the old fashioned way via email or iChat.

I’ll still have more personal, longer-form entries too. And I’m working on a way to hide the Clips for those who don’t care for them.

Finally, I turned off comments on the site. Too much spamming. If you want to comment on something I wrote, I encourage email or a response and link back at your own site. The “#” symbol is a perma-link to each entry.

They are, of course, working on an iPhone app. It will use the new “MapKit” feature in iPhone OS 3.0 to show 650 wineries along with your current location. Sure to be a boon to regulars and tourists alike.

[M]y Administration has identified a number of areas in which greater equality can be achieved under existing law by extending to the same-sex partners of Federal employees many of the same benefits already available to the spouses of heterosexual Federal employees.

The President also comes out against the atrocious Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):

Unfortunately, my Administration is not authorized by existing Federal law to provide same-sex couples with the full range of benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. That’s why I stand by my long-standing commitment to work with Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. It’s discriminatory, it interferes with States’ rights, and it’s time we overturned it.

And he plans more equality:

I am also proud to announce my support for an important piece of legislation introduced in both Houses of Congress last month — the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009. This legislation will extend to the same-sex partners of Federal employees the same benefits already enjoyed by the opposite-sex spouses of Federal employees.

Small battles lead to big changes. Slow but steady wins the race.

Well, I don’t mind being wrong, if I’m legitimately wrong. It’s a learning opportunity.

So more accurately, I hate being told I’m wrong when I’m not.

It happened today, while I was killing time on Facebook. (Why was I killing time on Facebook? A very good question I have no answer to.)

Anyway, I took the “Famous Logos” quiz because someone in my circle had taken it. I figured I’d get all (or at least the vast majority) of them right.

Unfortunately, the author of the quiz neglected to do his or her homework. Question 3 of the quiz was this:

See the problem? The right answer isn’t there. I was forced to choose a wrong answer, which resulted in this:

(I chose Toyota, because the actual right answer, Lexus, is the luxury brand of Toyota.)

The logos are so different I’m not sure how they could be mistaken for each other:

I ended up with 10 out of 13 correct, or 77%, rather than 11 out of 13 correct, or 85%, making me a little more “wrong” than I actually am.

You didn’t see the illusion because you weren’t expecting one. You assumed I wasn’t fucking with your head and that this hallway is actually a normal hallway. Those assumptions work great until you walk into a wall.

The videos with the story are also great, bringing back memories of seeing them in Vegas several months ago. I’d definitely see them again.

Game-wise, the "full body" fighting looks great, the facial and voice recognition is very cool. Some of the zero-controller games and interactions (like the racecar example) look contrived. I don't think I'd want to sit there for ten minutes so I can play pit crew and change tires for five seconds, nor would I want to keep my hands in a driving position for an extended time. There's only so much "real life experience" I want while relaxing.

The Annals of Diagnostic Pathology is peer reviewed.

As it turns out, the exercises synonymous with strong, attractive abs may not be the best way to train your core—and may be doing damage to your back.

You have to watch what you eat:

If you want to burn your fat mass, make sure you have a combination of weight training and cardiovascular, but 90 percent of good abs is your nutrition.

And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm—in fact, there couldn't have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (some might argue), was not more communism, but more public-spirited pigs.

The entire rejection letter is beautifully written.

(By-the-way, the edition I linked to above is from the Everyman’s Library, my favorite collection of hardcover classics.)

The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday, is an elegant, joyous, multitouch smartphone; it’s the iPhone remixed.

I'd consider it if I wasn't wedded to my iPhone.

A challenge in film is conveying how something feels, not how it exists in reality. Research trips can be a blessing and a curse: the blessing in that visiting an actual place surpasses what you can get from video and photos alone, the curse in being too much a slave to the actual place. Imagination and feeling should dictate everything, not reality.

The $60 plan gives you 5GB data, and charges $503 per GB ($0.00048/KB) above that. Total base cost of ownership is $1639.

I'm not sure who goes for this. At the very least, AT&T should give away the netbooks.