I Read The News Today, Oh Boy

[filkertom]

• Longtime Detroit Tiger fans has a sad, as outfielder and slugger Jim Northrup has passed away at the age of 71.
• Generally, I consider NYT columnist Thomas Friedman to be a near-perfect ass. But, as siliconshaman points out, he's locked onto the most pressing problem in the world, possibly in the history of the world: the Earth is full.
• If you want a very cool animation program, with lip-synching and bones and everything, there's a special deal this weekend only on Smith Micro's Anime Studio, brand-new version 8.
• Today would have been the 96th birthday of Les Paul. Google commemorates it.

More later.

Comments

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I remember the first one of those mega-births. It was in my home state of Iowa. People were thanking God that it was successful and they forgot about the doctors who made it possible.