It’s Friday, so I can be excused for an entry about cats. Here is a blog dedicated to cats that look like Hitler.

This one is my favorite.

Since I use a desktop PC at home and a laptop when I travel, it gets difficult storing things on my hard drive. I’ve been slowly migrating as much of my data as I can online. Here is a list of the web-based applications I have been using which have replaced local applications:

• Bloglines – News Reader
• Writely – Word Processor (now owned by Google)
• GMail – Google’s Email
• del.icio.us – Bookmarks (now owned by Yahoo)
• Google’s Calendar
• ShutterflyOnline Photo Storage

And, starting tomorrow, I hope to be able to start using Google’s new online spreadsheet.

This is a hilarious account of two people who had an Iron Chef battle in a Souplantation. (For those of you who don’t know, Souplantation is an all you can eat salad and soup restaurant.)

Iron Chef: Souplantation

Found via: la.foodblogging

I can’t believe CBS cancelled Love Monkey. There were only three episodes, but I was really starting to like the show. KCRW’s Nick Harcourt was the music consultant on the show, so the music was half decent. And tonight’s episode was supposed to have an appearance by She Wants Revenge. Networks really don’t seem to give shows a chance these days.

E! Online Story about the cancellation.

Somebody found some great Valentine’s Day cards found in Indonesia.

How does:

you.ll leare bad limes
behind nothing bul good limes on uoui mind

end up on a greeting card?

See http://flickr.com/photos/markhurst/sets/72057594064325932/ for the full set.

Update: It looks like Shoes With Souls is out of business but their website is still up and running and taking orders! See the GoVegan forum.

I just found a great cruelty-free eco-friendly online shoe store: Shoes with Souls.

I like:

• ecosneak (Since Converse is now owned by Nike, a company not know for being a good corporate citizen, these might be a good alternative)
• the Napali (For hiking up Runyon Canyon)
• the Liberator (just because they look cool).

I like their slogan “No animal had to die to make you look this good”.

I thought this was a great quote by Esther Dyson:

“Google is blind evolution. They have this … users-in-charge, bubble-up philosophy. Their employees can come up with ideas. There’s this kind of Darwinian internal selection process. … They have a very clear vision; they’re not quite north to the North Pole. They’re going west, they’re going forward but they’re blind evolution; they don’t really see where they’re going. Neither do we … Yahoo, on the other hand, is intelligent design. They have the vision of what they’re trying to build … . Two very, very different models. The other thing that’s really different is Google sees communication as a medium for the distribution of information. … whereas Yahoo, they see information as a medium of communication among people. They get people. They get communities and individuals in a way that Google really doesn’t. Google is blindingly clever. … You have very, very different models of the world. I like them both, and think they will both persist.”

This is a little more eloquent than my “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” description of Google’s strategy.

Roland Shanks is a new band I heard this morning on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. They played a new single by them that is going to be released on February 13th,Cutting Teeth. I really like their sound, reminded me of The Jam a little. They are a from London, and haven’t released an album yet. I’m looking forward to the day they do.

You can hear some of their songs, including Cutting Teeth at the Roland Shanks MySpace page.

The Daily Monkey is a great site. They have a new picture of a monkey and a monkey quote every day. They just don’t have an RSS feed yet!

via BB

This is a post to keep track of all the visits I have made to Vegas. Basically it is a list of the hotels I have stayed at. (#) indicates multiple stays. Dates indicated when I remember them. I will update it whenever I make a new trip.

Aladdin
Bally’s (2)
Barbary Coast (3)
Bellagio (June 2009)
Excalibur (?,Nov 2001, Sept 2006, Nov 2008)
Flamingo (2)
Imperial Palace
Luxor (?, Nov 2007, Aug 2009, Sept 2009)
Mandalay Bay (Aug 2007, March 2009)
MGM Grand (Nov 2006, Sept 2007, Feb 2008, Aug 2008[Signature for 1 night])
Monte Carlo(?,April 2006, Dec 2007, Jan 2009, May 2009)
New York New York
THEhotel (Dec 2006)
Treasure Island (September 2005)
Stardust
Venetian (June 2008)
Wynn (October 2005)

There are also two non-hotel trips I have taken. One way stayed at a friends (a huge mansion actually) and another was a 24-hour trip with no sleep.