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CSS guru and all-around good read Eric Meyer is convinced that the new comic strip Frazz by Jef Mallett is actually the secret new strip from Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson.

We need to spread the word. The people hiding in the shadows might be able to take Eric off to a rubber room, but they can’t get all of us.

GOP senator John McCain told Meet the Press today that he wouldn’t consider being John Kerry’s veep.

“No, no and no. I will not leave the Republican Party. I cherish the ideals and principles of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan,” McCain said on the NBC newsmagazine.

Apparently there’s much speculation that John Kerry is thinking about John McCain – a Republican – as his running mate. That’d make things interesting.

(via [Apprentice Watch) NBC has released a Donald Trump music video for the song __Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

I haven’t been able to post a review yet, but in a nutshell: Go see Hellboy!

It turns out that Gmail’s not a joke. Google says they had fun with the announcement, but the service is real.

Google announced a new 1 gig webmail system today. The story was picked up by various outlets like the NY Times, but given the date and tone of the press release and Google’s April 1st history, we can probably assume this is a hoax. It’ll be interesting to see how many other outlets pick up the story before the egg hits the face.

Update: Paidcontent.org rec’d my email and is starting to question it too.

Microsoft announced today that they’re cutting the price of the Xbox to $149.99 from $179.99.

Anybody wanna buy me one?

William Hung, the rather talentless chap that American Idol is using for publicity purposes, is releasing a CD. iTunes has some early tracks, including his painful rendition of Rocket Man. (Requires iTunes for link to work.)

Days after being released from one jail, frequent inmate Bobby Brown is heading into another.

Brown, who was several hours late for his hearing, was sentenced by a Massachusetts judge for failing to pay child support. Brown must remain in jail for 90 days or until he pays the $60,000 in child support owes to the mother of two children he fathered.