I’m truly saddened by this, and I wish the best to her family and friends. She wrote one of the best books on George W. Bush I’ve ever read. It made me laugh out loud and made me mad at the same time. Only the rarest of satirists can pull that off. Rest in Peace, Molly Ivins. (via Atrios)

I’m watching the first season of Numb3rs and noticed that Krumholtz’s love interest/assistant doesn’t get credited in the opening credit roll. Any ideas on why? She has as many lines in most episodes as Peter MacNicol. She’s Navi Rawat, for the record, and she’s decent in her role.

There are deceptively simple ideas that become interesting products. Twitter is one of those ideas. Essentially a status message web service, it’s a place where i can leave a quick update of what I’m up to right now. There are SMS, IM, and web-based interfaces plus a bunch of third-party apps that integrate this into the other places you leave status messages. (Think away messages in IM)

After hearing about it a bunch on the different blogs I read, I decided to give it a go. So far, so easy. We’ll see how long I use it, though I suspect that depends on how many of you end up following my feed.

If you want more on the service, this post from David Chartier gives you the positives, and Eric Meyer runs down what he thinks could make the service better.

Take a look, and if you’re interested in giving it a try, drop me a line, add me as a friend, or just leave a comment below.

If you missed this past week’s episode of Scrubs, you really missed the best episode ever. The episode, called My Musical, was a musical episode based on the premise that a patient in the ER keeps hearing everyone around her singing. The episode was amazing. TVSquad has the rundown of the episode, but I basically just wanted to post the following clip on FM:

There are about 9 songs that make up the episode. They were written by the folks behind the musical Avenue Q, and they have the feel of a traditional musical with the big dance numbers and the whole works.

If you want more information on the episode, Heidi mentions that Wikipedia has a page on the episode. Enjoy.

Update: YouTube has removed the clip, so Hulu it is…

Does anyone find it absurd to say, “The homeless are urged to seek shelter?” I just heard that on CNN in reference to the ridiculously cold and windy weather out here in New England.

I’ve seen The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, and The Family Stone and through those films, I’ve become a fan of Rachel McAdams. Now, I’m watching Mean Girls and I’m floored that this is the same Rachel McAdams. She’s a pretty good actress, but it’s hard to believe she’s the evil blonde in Mean Girls. All four characters are pretty different and she’s been believable in all of them.

The speech he gave this morning during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was… wow. I’m curious what the rest of the Senators said. I don’t agree with him on many things, but his speech was refreshing. YouTube has the video:

(via this site)