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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says President Bush is afraid of horses. What’s interesting about that to me is that when Will Ferrell portrayed President Bush in a campaign video for ACT in 2004, one of the running themes was Bush’s fear of horses. Was it just a guess?

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Jason Kottke found what is most likely the first piece of restaurant criticism published in the New York Times, in 1859. Really, truly interesting stuff.

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You want to know why they call it the “imperial Presidency”? Here’s why:

Every morning, Josh Bolten, the chief of staff, greets Bush with the same words: “Thank you for the privilege of serving today.”

Doesn’t that just tell you everything you’d need to know about President Bush? What kind of person willingly [...]

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Six Apart (the folks behind Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, and LiveJournal) have announced that they will be opening the “social graph,” the list of people to whom you are connected on their social networks so that you can use it in any way that you choose. They’ll be doing so through open standards, in a [...]

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I watched some of the new TV show Kid Nation tonight, and happened to find a gem on the bio page for one of the cast members, Sophia:

Who have been some of the worst U.S. presidents, and why? I think George W. Bush takes the cake. The planet is disintegrating, [...]

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Today is the 25th birthday of the emoticon. I may mark myself as tragically out of step by saying so, but I have always been a big emoticon fan.

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I’ve been following the political problems in Belgium between the Flemings and the Walloons with interest over the past few weeks. The best explanation of I’ve seen of what’s going on was published today at Strange Maps. I had always known that Belgium was home to groups of people who speak different languages, but I [...]

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Yesterday I read that on Friday, President Bush sat down with a group of “milbloggers” to discuss how things are going in Iraq, and more importantly, get his version of the truth out to the public without its being filtered by people who give a crap about whether or not what he’s said is true [...]

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Epitaph Records has decided to remove all of its music from eMusic because eMusic refuses to sell its songs at 99 cents a track, like iTunes. That’s a real shame, because Epitaph offered some of the most interesting music on eMusic. In announcing the departure of Epitaph, eMusic CEO David Pakman makes the following [...]

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I had the same reaction I’ve seen from many people online to the first pictures I saw of the iPod Nano. It looked like a “fat” Nano, because its aspect ratio is so different from its predecessor’s. Then I saw the Nanos in the Apple Store today and realized they should be called the miniscule [...]

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