You Scorpios are the most strategic sign of the zodiac. Like chess masters, you’re often thinking ten moves ahead. At the same time, your ability to concentrate on what’s right in front of you is almost scarily potent; your piercing attention resembles a magnifying glass focusing the sun’s rays on a bug on the sidewalk. This combination may make you difficult to read and impossible to outmaneuver: You can be intensely zeroed in on the present, yet furiously scanning the past and future for clues on how to take maximum advantage of all the possibilities. Everything I just described is currently at a peak of expression. May you use it to create abundant good works for all concerned.

(– Horoscope from http://www.realastrology.com/ –)

Rene Descartes. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” [Quotes of the Day]

For the Sanrio fan in your household, the Hello Kitty USB Hub. I think the thing that scares me most is that it ‘talks’ with you.

Now if they just had a Badtz Maru hub I’d get one.

(Shamelessly stolen from Boing Boing

RealNetworks mulling adult pay-per-view. It’s not just a dirty rumor. One Real exec says the company is expanding its tiers of service, possibly including “even an adult tier.” Will users be able to subscribe to smut? [CNET News.com]

I guess I’m surprised they aren’t already offering adult content. Given that it’s probably one of the biggest money-makers on the net. That whole market sector also tends to be early adopters of new technologies. Seems like a hookup just waiting to happen.

Andre Gide. “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” [Quotes of the Day]

Adam helped show me once again that everything is connected:

Jake nails it with his plea for a plugin that will enable basic writing from within a browser. ANYONE who delivers this widget will be an instant overnight success, by enabling millions to perform one of the simplest actions known to intellelctual homo-sapiens.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

This morning in my email a friend of mine had just emailed me about a company called Editize. They seem to make a browser plugin that lets you edit in HTML from within a web page. Looks pretty cool. Here’s the problem though, it’s pricey. I couldn’t see spending $130 to use with a tool that costs $30 (like radio).

Adding to the topic of water frmo a few days ago:

Drinking Too Much Water Can Kill You: “A new review of three deaths of US military recruits highlights the dangers of drinking too much water.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

Water toxicity is quite scary. I read an article recently that was talking about marathon runners who had the same problem. In one case the woman didn’t have any issues until after she’d already gone home after the race.

This one made me both chuckle and cringe at the same time:

Recall Is Ordered at Large Supplier of Implant Tissue. The F.D.A. shut down a substantial part of the CryoLife Corporation, the nation’s largest processor of donated human tissue, due to fears of infection in its products. By Sandra Blakeslee. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

I just had this odd image of them asking for a lung back after giving it to me. It’s not that kind of tissue though. It’s more things like tendons and cartilage. On some level it still freaks me out though.

I finally got around to watching the last episode of Kanon. Wow. I was so not expecting it to end that way. It was a neat little series. I didn’t love it, but I thought it was pretty cool.

It woud be interesting if the game was released over here.

The New York Times today has a nice little article about In-N-Out. Of course now I’m craving a double double animal style with no tomatoes. There are a few things I really miss from living in Southern Califnornia and this is one of them. It’s a shame that they’ll never open up one here.