Letter Block Challenge

With a 13 month old at home, we have a set of 26 letter blocks at home. This evening I came up with a challenge for myself that took far too much of my time: Spell words with all the letters and leave as few as possible left over. The blocks can't be twisted to represent letters that have already been used.
My best so far is 5 blocks left over. Two hours before this post, my best was 6 left over, so obviously not the best use of my time.

New $100 bill

I'm always a fan of money redesigns... I'm looking forward to getting one of these new $100 bills in my hands:

From NewMoney

Above image is a full screen capture of: http://www.youtube.com/uscurrency

Babies - Movie Trailer

I can't wait to see this movie about how babies in 4 different parts of the world spend their first year of life. The page on youtube says it'll be out april 16, 2010:

Sesame Street: Soliloquy On B

Patrick Stewart at his finest.

Dear President Obama and President Bush

Please stop by my house for some homemade hamburgers and to meet our new baby any time. (if only it were really this easy to chat with either of these two)

Inaguration Gigapan

Click on the image for a large screen capture of a small part of the gigantic 1474 megapixel stitched gigapan photo created by David Bergman.

Jump right to Yo Yo Ma taking an iPhone photo on the gigapan site...

Using Google Chart Server for Election Maps

I find myself wishing more people would take advantage of google chart server for election maps and maps of polling data...