• There sure are a lot of good-looking girls at the beach in LA. Hey, I’m just sayin’.

• More fun than a rampaging pack of Zebranskys! The best game ever packed into 11 megabytes is now available as a free download for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Cinematics are broken, pretty much everything else works great. God bless open source.^[1]

• Rummaging through the iTunes Music store is just way too much fun. Anyone remember Shriekback? I do.

  Just don’t browse iTunes while tipsy, or you might end up buying more cheesy music than is safe for human consumption. Ah-WHOA! I just died in your arms tonight! Damnit.

• Dynegy crook treated unfairly! Actually, the article is really about the unfairness of minimum mandatory sentencing. Still, it is puzzling that the crook in question is described as a “middle-level manager” (he was a VP) who “did not personally profit from his crime” (umm, no).

  You know… I like to think that Evil is nuanced. Real villains aren’t cartoon characters. A book that has the bad guys sitting around and cackling about how evil they are can be immediately discounted as hokey and unrealistic. Right? So why can’t real-life bad guys live up to literary standards?

• It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. Words to live by, especially when your company softball team is coming off a season-opening 17-1 loss.^[2]

1. For more time-wasting pleasure, there’s a remake of the classic Avalon Hill boardgame Titan. God bless open source and Java.

2. Unfortunately we can’t use “Wait ’till next year!” for at least a couple of months.