Granted, the question is leading, but the answers given are very revealing. Now, I won't pidgeonhole all McCain-Palin supporters into this stereotype, but really? Interviewer: [Obama's] a terrorist? Woman: He's got the blood-lines. Interviewer: What does that mean? Woman: Just think about the name. There's not really much …

Andrew Kramer posted another tutorial in the Meteor Crash series. The best piece of advise from the tutorial: Now, if you don't have Particular, what you can do is go in your back yard, and get a pile of dirt together. Put it in your hand, along with …

As part of Google's 10th anniversary, it is making available a search index from 2001. Apparently due to technical reasons, this is the oldest index it could use. It is still interesting to take a look at how much the web has changed in 7 years. [via NY …

On their fourth attempt, SpaceX has successfully launched the Falcon 1 into space, marking the first for a privately funded rocket.

A direct rip from Daring Fireball, but it bears repeating: For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have …

When my nerd side meets my design side: Typographunnies. [via core77]

A nice set of vector badges from DesignNerd Blog. The first one is very fitting as I'm still struggling to get some css and png transparency for this site working properly on IE 6. [Thanks garamer.]

I'm not sure if Ars Technica user ppc970 is kidding or not in a Pixelmator update post. If not, it makes me very sad. You guys don't get it. In this highly gradient-competitive web 2.0 world, the gradient tool is the most important element of any program (Yes, …

Ran across this when trying to figure out how to keep "MMS Opt Out" on my account: For the record, searching for "opt out" yields the same results.