Stefan Hayden

There is a Spore survey out. Not a ton of information hidden in it but you do get a glimpse of the types of body parts and paint styles they are thinking of adding:

New Body Parts: Robotic, Human, Alien, Skeletal, Cute, Reptile, Monster

New Paint Types: Fur, Feathers, Fanciful, Cartoon, Realistic, Anime

I should keep better track of the stats on Books I Am Reading and since I am not backing up the data automatically here’s what they look like today.

<div class="list-title">Top Books People Want To Read</div>

1. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell and Erich Fromm - 8 people
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - 5 people
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling and Mary GrandPré - 5 people
4. The Difference Engine (Spectra Special Editions) by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling - 4 people
5. The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen - 4 people

<div class="list-title">Top Books People Are Currently Reading</div>

1. Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer - 3 people
2. Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville and Tom Quirk - 2 people
3. The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien - 2 people
4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - 2 people
5. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy and Richard Pevear - 2 people

<div class="list-title">Top Books People Have Finished</div>

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling and Mary GrandPré - 13 people
2. 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell and Erich Fromm - 11 people
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling and Mary GrandPré - 9 people
4. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - 8 people
5. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - 5 people

<div class="list-title">Top Books People Have Given Up On</div>

1. Halting State by Charles Stross - 1 person
2. The New School of Information Security by Adam Shostack - 1 person
3. The Call of the Wild by Jack London - 1 person
4. Practical Cryptography by Niels Ferguson - 1 person
5. Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp - 1 person

Just a fun avatar creator.

I like Olbermann when he is not being a complete troll.

via Feministing

In a recent interview with GQ Aaron Sorkin mentioned that he was talking to HBO and was looking for series ideas (He was half joking). But I have had a killer idea for Sorkin and HBO would be the perfect place for it. He should redo the West Wing but do it for a poor war torn country in Africa. It would keep all the drama of the West Wing but have a completely different set of obstacles to over come. Pressure from super powers, constant bankruptcy, military takeovers and other problems that only poor African countries have.