• Apparently my glowing review of “Super Size Me” isn’t getting much attention in Singapore:
  

  Spurred on by shouts of “Shove it in, shove it in!” 19-year-old Don Ezra Nicholas stuffed more than three McDonald’s hamburgers into his mouth – without swallowing – and claimed a new global record at the end of Singapore’s contest to be the world’s wackiest.
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  Those Singaporians. They never listen, do they?

• Aren’t there some things you wish your computer had?
• Google announced a cool service this week called Google SMS (Short Message Service). It lets you text-message a query to Google and get results on your phone. So, if you’re looking for my house (because you’re stalking me, or because I’m stalking you and you’d like to ask me, in person, to stop) you could just send a message to 46645 (GOOGL) with the text “Bruno Bornsztein 55108″. Within a few minutes Google will text you back with my directory information. You could also do “Pizza 55108″ to find pizza places in my zip code, which is probably a good idea, since I’m more likely to be there than at home.
• Perhaps you are just looking for pictures of my neighborhood from times long past? No problem, the Minnesota Historical Society has a nice searchable database of historical images of Minnesota.
• And finally, if yesterday’s spirited debate didn’t help you decide how to cast your vote, maybe some famous novelists can. I mean, their lives are so much like you life, right? Most of them swing Kerry’s way, with the exception of Orson Scott Card:
  

  “We’re at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do.”

  But then, he also thinks our future in space involves training genius kids to fight giant alien ant-colonies. Maybe Ender would make a better candidate?

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