"The Google effect" reduces need for many domains. Dan Gilmore argues that Google has reduced the need for top level domains. If everyone looking for a specific webpage just used Google, we could all have whatever urls we had.  We wouldn't all need top level domains, he postulates. "With the rise of search tools that unerringly bring you to the page you want, the need for a highly specific domain name -- one that a casual Web user would be able to guess -- has practically disappeared."

My morning project was "What * are you?".  It is a list of 500 quizes and surveys. :)

Bizarre Stuff Control Panel is an ever growing warehouse of the kinds of projects some of the more demented of us tried as young people, collecting in one place many of the classic, simple science projects that have become part of the collective lore of amateur science. It is a sort of warped semi-scientific cookbook of tricks, gimmicks, and pointless experimentation, concoctions, and devices, using, for the most part, things found around the house.

Build a Better Hoax: the five steps to email scamming success.

Put a Price on His Head: How a bounty is different from a reward, and why a bounty will bring in Usama bin Laden when all the rewards in the world won't.

Question: Is it possible to select a category when using "Email-to-Weblog"?

David Hoskin is wondering how to check the spelling of his Radio posts. David, post through email and use your email client's spell check capabilities, that's what they're there for.

Brent has some great tips on using Radio. "Another pref to change: when the [news] scan runs. By default it runs at the top of the hour. But if everybody's scan is running then, that means all this extra traffic that you're contributing to, and it means your scans may be slower. So change this to any other minute but 0."

Just like in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," a baby has been born with a tail.

Yahoo! Clubs is merging with Yahoo! Groups. All of the Clubs will now act like Groups. Although this may seem like a non-event, it really is great. I've alwys considered Y! Clubs to be the worst designed Yahoo feature I've ever been forced to use.