What a great piece of audio software: Max has cdparanoia and LAME built-in so you get perfect MP3 rips/encodes every time. I was using Blacktree’s iTunes-LAME plugin but I found I got skipping from questionable CDs. Max solves all that. Finally!

Man runs every street of Washington, D.C.: “His passion for unusual diversions is nothing new, as far as his mother is concerned. ‘Our Michael,’ Dorothy Bryant half-chuckled and half-sighed into the telephone. ‘He’s one of a kind.’”

I’ve seen plenty of duct tape wallets, but this is the first clear packing tape one I’ve seen. Cool!

I guess I won’t be visiting Skyline Caverns the next time we head out to Shenandoah

The Perfect Wave

Actual pictures of Sealand. Not sure I’d really trust HavenCo after seeing the condition everything is in. Even the machine room is tiny! And with a rotating fan?!