You should be aware that the Zen Stone 1 GB Mp3 player (and likely the 2GB version as well) will no longer function after you run over it with your car.

“Hello Ralph Nader. We are anonymous. Over the years we have been watching you.” Watch this (YouTube).

I’m fricking in love with the Garfield Minus Garfield site. What happens when you take Garfield out of the Garfield comic strip? “Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.”

Which is better for the environment—reading the Sunday paper all spread out over the kitchen table or reading it online? Who knows. (My solution is to skip the Sunday paper altogether, unless I’m at Ultimate Ice Cream where I can read their Sunday paper spread out all over one of their tables. While I eat Kahlúa mocha almond ice cream in a waffle cone with jimmies. Bliss!)

And finally, Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers. It only takes a moment to look, and it leaves an impression.

Warren Ellis’s latest comic, Freak Angels, is going up online for free. Episode 0001 is up now—look for a new episode every week. So far it looks promising.

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet is available online for free now as well. Worth reading? “Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations.” I think it just might be.

hector_rashbaum put together of a list of Mac apps that make her happy in her pants. All but one of the apps is freeware. Good deal!

I read a few recent posts on ebooks and the publishing industry this morning, the first from Janet Reid, posed at Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room. I balk at her suggestion of releasing new books in ebook format only after the hardcover and paperback formats have come out, but of course that’s because 1) ebook is my preferred reading format (I’m reading a trade paperback right now and it’s really, really good, but OMG I wish it were on my tiny little Palm instead!) and 2) I have no patience. None, zero, zilch, nada. This means I sometimes pay a premium, actually, for an a ebook—if the dead tree book is only available in hardcover, the ebook is priced much higher than when the book is available in paperback. Otherwise, I think Janet’s right: now is the time to figure this out, and if the publishing industry can notmake the same mistakes as the music industry, so much the better.

Francis over at The Shadow of the Olive Tree talks in one post about why the ebook market may generally be the comparatively small group of people who fit into the “bibliophiles” category (read it here), and then he returns from vacation to find that Tor and Harper Collins are handing out free ebooks and concludes that “despite the pricing and DRM errors that some publishers continue to make, the ebook market is becoming rather more mainstream” (read it here).

I knew about Escapepod, which offers free science fiction podcasts, but Psuedopod is news to me: horror fiction podcasts! I’m planning to sock a few away on the MP3 player for the next time we have a power outage in the middle of the night. Can you think of a better time to listen to unsettling stories?

Finally, the 2008 Dewey Decimal Book Drive is on. The book drive helps get books into libraries. This year’s drive benefits two libraries, the Children’s Institute, which serves at-risk children and families throughout Los Angeles County, and the Rockhouse Foundation, which is committed to improving the human condition of Jamaica’s children. Spread books, spread the love of reading.