John Watson has created some nice “screen time” tickets to teach kids to self-regulate their TV and computer time.  I like this idea a lot.

NicheGeek has 10 Stupid Online Ideas that Made Someone Rich.

Donna Bogatin says that Bill Gates says the Yellow Pages will be gone in 5 years.  I thought they were gone already.

Doc Searls on why he keeps blogging.  “Even if many bloggers are now entertaining hopes of Buck Two or Buck Two Thousand, blogging is still that garage band. And, at its best, it still rocks.”

Amazon bought Digital Photo Review, the best digital photography review site.

Here are some Star Trek inspirational posters.  Perfect for your desktop background.

Web Development has 15 cool Firefox Tricks.  Too bad playing embedded Windows Media files isn’t one of them.  I use Firefox, but the WM problem is a pain in the ass.

A “body farm” has been scrapped due to buzzard concerns.  I guess a scarecrow wouldn’t help.

Mashable has 10 digital Mother’s Day gift ideas.

Richard Querin on photos + music.  I use Photostory all the time.  Here’s a video I made of my dad’s World War II scrapbook (link for feeds).

I like the New Radicals’ You Get What You Give, too.  But Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark may be the most solid record ever made.  There’s not a song on it I would rate less than a 9.5 on a 10 scale.

On a related note, I have started looking to Wikipedia for my album links, simply because AllMusic is not link friendly.  They better change that before they become irrelevant.

I don’t really care who’s on the board of judges for TechCrunch 20, because I don’t really care about TechCrunch 20.  It’s like the WWF.  I know it’s out there, I sometimes come across the participants all pumped up and beating their chests, but it just doesn’t interest me.  Maybe if Wahoo McDaniel was on the board…then I might care.  Or Wonder Mike.  Or Big Bank Hank.

Frank Gruber has discovered a new poll making application.  I’m going to try it out, just because it is called Polldaddy.  I once thought about changing my name to Catdaddy.

[[[UPDATE: My beautiful poll won’t display, so I deleted it.]]]

It probably won’t work in feeds, so here’s the link for those who want to exercise their right to voice their opinion in this very important decision.

@Jackson: Big companies seem to like the Blackberry server best for pushing email.  I have one, but I would much rather have a Treo.  Or two cans and some string.  Or a conch shell.

TDavid has a good writeup on videoblogging.  If it’s harder than podcasting, then I want nooooo part of it.

I don’t understand any of this, but I felt compelled to link to it.

Happy Cinco de Mayo.

Here are 12 U.S. laws every blogger should know.

I think those Geico cavemen commercials are hilarious.  This one is my favorite.  When I heard they were making a sitcom with them, I was excited.  Until now.  Why in the world would they not use the same actors!?

Adam Messinger has a great post on web design and the lack thereof on the new ABCNews.com page.

Gotham Gal has a good review of Wesabe, a personal finance and financial goal tracking application.  I have played around with Wesabe a little bit, and I have to say that it is a very well designed application.  It has a social networking feature that is actually designed to be useful.  In sum, I am pretty impressed with what I’ve seen so far.

Amy bought a cool fan.  I love retro stuff like that.

I really miss Deadwood.  Now comes word that the movies to finish up the stories won’t air until 2008, at the earliest.  No BSG in 2007.  No Deadwood.  At least we get a little Mal Reynolds fix via Drive.

James Kendrick doesn’t like reading one side of a conversation on Twitter.  He says it “goes against what makes Twitter so appealing.”  Amen.  We have the blogosphere for one sided conversations.

I’m not sure, but it looks like Gizmodo makes people audition for the right to post a comment.  No problem.  When I was a kid most of my buddies wanted to be firemen or policemen when we grew up.  Me, I wanted to be a commenter on Gizmodo.

Dave Taylor tells you how to remove one of the scourges of many a computer.  I can’t express how much I dislike Norton anything, though I once tried to do so.

The 20 Greatest Historical Myths.

The world’s hardest sudoku.  A few weeks ago, I printed it out and gave it to a guy I work with who likes sudoku.  I told him it was in the medium level of difficulty.  He’s still working on it.

Thomas Hawk wrote a very thoughtful post on race and photography.  Now if someone would explain to me why churches, of all places, are not more integrated.  It makes me sad, on this Easter weekend, that there will not be more people of different colors celebrating together on Sunday.

Dwight Silverman has a nice summary of Goog-411.  I have been experimenting with it off and all day, and so far I’d have to say it is awesome.  You can connect to the number or just say “text message” and Google will text the name, address and telephone number to your phone.  Since my wife hasn’t used a phone book in years, maybe this will save me some money.

Daniel Terdiman on a threat to Second Life’s virtual economy.

Ed Bott busts some Vista myths.

I can’t believe Marc Canter was turned down by SXSW.  I’m all about democracy and whatnot, but sheesh.

Mark Evans on the growing house of cards.  Basically, the myth of endless online advertising gives all of Web 2.0 an excuse to forego a real business plan.  A few people, like Jason Calacanis, will get rich in the meantime.

Bigger than Freddy vs Jason?  YouTube sends TechCrunch a cease and desist letter.

DownloadSquad has their 15 essential Firefox plugins.  I use BugMeNot, FoxyTunes, Imagebot and IE Tab regularly.

Pronet Advertising has their 50 favorite blogging resources.

Doc and Nick on Ted Leonsis’ blogging approach.  I suspect there are a lot of CEOs and big companies who’s main internet objective is to show up first on Google.

Frank Gruber on FanPop, the rebirth of the sports-oriented community.

Steve Rubel on Edelman’s recently announced Second Life business.  More from The Electric Sheep Company.

And finally, Engadget has a detailed look at installing Microsoft’s Zune media player.

Dwight Silverman takes a look around the net at what some folks are saying about the pending release of Microsoft’s Zune media player.

Ethan Johnson on the elections.  Kent on the elections: now the Republicans can start tossing bombs at Congress.  Everybody’s a critic, but no one is a problem solver.  There are only different versions of the extreme.  That’s why I am bored with politics.

I really, really, really don’t agree with Fred Wilson that ads are content just like everything else.  Here’s why: content is meant to inform or entertain; ads are designed to separate you from your money.  Fred has a follow-up post with more of his thoughts about ads.  I like Fred, but he’s way off the mark when he thinks you can feather up the dog to look like a chicken.

Ian Delaney on ReviewMe.  I don’t think it’s reality or a selling of the soul.  I think it’s a fad.  Like pet rocks or cabbage patch dolls.  Most of us will ignore paid posts just like most of us ignore traditional ads.

Larry Borsato on going paperless.  I have been largely paperless at home for years.  Paperport (a great program sold by a clueless and customer unfriendly company) conspired with online bill payment years ago to eliminate my personal file cabinets.  It’s easy to go paperless at home, but we are at least a decade away from paperless offices.

Ian Delaney on Second Life.  I run hot and cold on Second Life, but I’m encouraged by the number of businesses that seem to be lining up to make it more than a game.  We won’t know what Second Life is for another year or so.

Kate Trgovac on the branding of Halloween costumes.  My kids were Wonder Woman, a rock star and a ninja.  I didn’t see a single ghost.

Kevin Hales went 15-0 in a recent Scrabble tournament.  As an NC State fan, he needs something to pass the time during football season. (Go Deacs!)

Nick Carr on the true nature of Web 2.0.  What started out as something interesting and collective has become just another “pre-owned cars” slogan aimed at our pocketbooks.  And on that note- I want to interview anyone who paid $375 for Tim O’Reilly’s latest essay out of their own pocket.