Hey, Baby Gap, I'm as progressive and open-minded as the next guy, but I'm not sure girl-on-girl is an appropriate concept for baby clothing:

This seems cool: nominate a woman who you think ought to run for office!

This may be old news, but it's new to me: someone has posted all of the songs from Pet Sounds with the instrumental tracks removed, leaving the only Beach Boys' vocals. It's pretty damn amazing.

Check this out:



(via nosflow)

Ouch.

[Alex] Gonzalez was re-introducing himself to some of his old teammates, and some of his new ones, when he arrived at the Ballpark at Arlington on Saturday.

"It's good to be back on the best team in the world," he said of the second-place Red Sox.

(Although, I've said it before and I'll say it again, that kind of reality check only ever appears in a newspaper's sports section, not on the front page. Weird.)

I have no doubt that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a terrible, terrible movie. However, I have a number of bones to pick with Christopher Orr's review in The New Republic.

One! "Autobot" and "Decepticon" are proper nouns, and should be capitalized.

Two! Before you start mocking "The Matrix of Leadership," perhaps you'd best sit down and watch the best movie ever made.

Three! "The movie opens with an extended monologue by chief autobot (that is, good robot) Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen, heretofore best known as the voice of Eeyore in countless Pooh cartoons)"? I think you mean, "Peter Cullen, heretofore best known as the voice of Optimus goddamn Prime."

This seems like a pretty obviously good idea.

(via MGK)

I have Google Voice, because I signed up for Grand Central ages ago, and I decided to finally start using my Google Voice number for "professional" purposes. Right now I just have my Google Voice number forward to my cell phone. The trade-off, of course, is that I'd have to trade the totally awesome iPhone visual voicemail for Google's speech-to-text voicemail. I asked Rachel to call me to test it out, with the following results:

hey john it's me i'm downstairs printed diapers and the dryer hope doing internally if you're having a nice time upstairs playing the leapfrog musical what's it i'm realizing that i forgot to put the papers that you had in the living room from yesterday i forgot to put them in with this paperwork but i will put them in tomorrow morning's okay i will be back upstairs and i'm looking forward to getting the babies some possible fred soft switch they should be genetically program full of hey alright bye

So clearly that works perfectly.

This, from Steve Waldman, is an important distinction to understand, and his proposal for transactional credit as a public good makes sense, on a first reading.

I am a huge nerd, but this is amazingly cool.