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I already own a tiny home in Seattle, but the NYTimes gave us an idea for a second even tinier home in our favorite Methow Valley. This one pictured below is a whole 100sq and you can buy it online with PayPal.

From the PI’s web site. Here is Scarlett Johansson dressed up as Woody Allen. Yet she still manages to be pretty hot.

The mainstream media’s take on political bloggers is always entertaining. Take for instance this piece from the NYTimes on the live blogging of the Libby Trial.

Even as they exploit the newest technologies, the Libby trial bloggers are a throwback to a journalistic style of decades ago, when many reporters made no pretense of political neutrality. Compared with the sober, neutral drudges of the establishment press, the bloggers are class clowns and crusaders, satirists and scolds.

Class clowns? That is harsh. Now I can’t imagine anything more boring then live blogging a trial, so I headed over to firedoglake and checked out “Libby Live“. Here is just a piece of the nail biting journalism you are missing:

3:26

Something happened funny. The whole court room was laughing.

Walton: Good afternoon, Happy Valentine’s Day.

One of the jurors is saying something, but it’s not celar what. Everyone seems to have a smily face on. One of the jurors was reading a poem, apparently.

Walton: Thank you very much, you’ve been a very attentive jury and everyone appreciates it.

Cline: We’d like to read a stipulation.

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Obama has been catching some slack from the bloggers recently for dissing DailyKos with this quote:

“One good test as to whether folks are doing interesting work is, Can they surprise me?” he tells me. “And increasingly, when I read Daily Kos, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s all just exactly what I would expect.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Are the Shins the next Nirvana? I find that hard to believe but the WSJ doesn’t.

And while the Shins’ debut album, “Oh, Inverted World,” only shipped 2,700 copies in its first week, “Wincing the Night Away” shipped an impressive 250,000 copies. The album also debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, selling 118,000 copies in its first week — a huge commercial breakthrough for a previously low-profile act. (Before that, the highest the Shins had been on the album charts was No. 86.)

Third album is good but I would say their second album was better. Time will tell if they become a classic alternative radio staple like Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Jobs wrote a nice letter on why I don’t buy music from the iTunes store. Sounds like most other people don’t either.

Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full.  This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats.  Its hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future.  And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music.

Now how much off that non-DRM’ed music came from their friends’ CD collection or BitTorrent?

Sounds like Jobs wants to sell more music on iTunes. Is DRM really what is stopping people from buying music on iTunes? Or are kids just not buying as many albums anymore?

The only dancing I did in P.E. was square dancing and it wasn’t to lose weight.

West Virginia, which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States, is stepping up plans to use Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution to battle the bulge in its schools.

Whatever happened to running the mile?