Be sure to read this great article! Here is an excerpt:

Inspired by books and blog entries about living simply, Ms. Strobel and her husband, Logan Smith, both 31, began donating some of their belongings to charity. As the months passed, out went stacks of sweaters, shoes, books, pots and pans, even the television after a trial separation during which it was relegated to a closet. Eventually, they got rid of their cars, too. Emboldened by a Web site that challenges consumers to live with just 100 personal items, Ms. Strobel winnowed down her wardrobe and toiletries to precisely that number.

It’s a great article and the rest gets even better!

Here is my page on the 100 Personal Item’s Challenge and my progress. I’ll be curious to even see how much stuff I have!

In the game tonight it was Uruguay versus Ghana, in the final moments of overtime Ghana scores a header and a Uruguay player purposeful blocks it from going in with his hand. He was red carded, but Ghana missed the point after and subsequently lost.

Uruguay should have done the right thing and purposely missed all their penalty kicks or had the goalie stand away from the goal for the PK.

They are are bunch of cheaters with no honor and I make a solemn vow to always cheer AGAINST Uruguay. No matter whether it is in sport, economics, or politics. Until they make this wrong right.

If I visit their country (which I hopefully never will), I will pretend it is part of Brazil or refer to it as “Cheater-Land”, I will compare it to the worst third world countries I can when talking to locals, I will off handily remark about how surprised I was that it smelled so bad here, or how surprised I am that their country made it out of the stone age, and that I didn’t think babies could be that ugly, I will do all I can to encourage an oppressive military junta to take it over, and I will constantly refer to how weird it is they play soccer with their hands when the rest of the world plays it with their feet…

If the USA team had done similar I would say the same thing and go to games just to boo them! Disgusting disgusting play by Uruguay and I hope Karma destroys them.

Fuck you Uruguay “soccer” team. Ghana is better then you!

Just read this story over at TechCrunch, here is a quick summary:

Developers take note: if you’ve got a mashup built off of Craigslist’s data, don’t even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that’s the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked both his mashup and every single project built on Yahoo Pipes a few days after a friendly Email exchange he had with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark.

Hopefully this is all a big misunderstanding but I doubt it. Craigslist is a great idea that was made, has been a huge success, and has been left foundering for the last few years with zero new innovation. So much more could be done, alerts for when new items are posted, better searching, official support for mashups of housing on google maps, requiring people enter an address so the above works. All this would make it a much easier to use website.

I hope someone comes along and crushes them who has better features and an API.

Fuck no, this is what scares the living shit out of me!

Delilah, an 18-foot-long, 400-plus-pound Burmese python who had enjoyed a swell existence in an Apopka-area backyard feeding on rabbits, has a new home — for now.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials removed the giant snake from a home on Section Drive on Friday because of concerns about Delilah’s size and the security of her chain-link cage.

A complaint prompted wildlife officials to visit the home and check out the snake, which some officials called the largest python they had ever seen.

Holy fucking shit, Jesus himself couldn’t kill this snake, followed by:

“I fed her this morning, gave her seven rabbits,” Cheever said soon after the snake was placed in a container and prepared to move Friday from the small community alongside Lake Apopka. “She is as docile as can be. She’s as happy as can be.” But he acknowledged the snake, which is 30 inches around, had escaped its enclosure before.

I will never sleep again.