Okay, launchtime: FreethoughtFilter. It's digg for atheism! 

You won't believe this folks, but I'm using my top-of-the-range MacBook Pro to play Sonic 3. And I suck at it. Actually, not too much. 

An old site I used a lot, emulation.net, still exists. Nice. Might be able to play some of my old (legally-owned) games on my Mac. 

This is the best story you'll read for a while. Seriously. We need to teach kids to be addicted to the Internet. More on that soon. 

I heard, thank you, Dr. Fran! And thanks, Madge for the mention. Love your show. 

Damn, my host is being an arse. It'll be worth the wait, folks. I'm just preloading it with data. 

The site has launched in super-private beta. That means I'm using it and haven't told anyone about it yet. See how annoying this is?  

Okay, a few more rules of the game: the site is in LAMP (not Rails), it will use Ajax, it will have a light blue colour scheme, it services a community (or "vertical market", if you're being 1.0) of which I am a quite active member, will have RSS feed(s), user registration and possibly something to do with OPML, although I haven't quite thought that bit through yet. It is a one man band in design, but not necessarily in other ways. Think about that, and you will probably understand what I am doing. 

In the spirit of Web 2.0ish secrecy, I'm going to be releasing a new application very soon. I'd give you all a teaser, but I can't think up something distinctly short and Valleywagish to put on it. And I'd give you all invite codes, but I think the whole invite codes thing is fucking stupid and against the ideas which underpin Web 2.0 - that of openness and transparency - by turning it into a cliquey, nepotistic game of "hunt the invite" which bores the living fuck out of me. Anyway, once the server is up, you'll hear about it first here, or probably on a mailing list. Those on the mailing list will know who they are.