Have you heard about Amazon's Mechanical Turk yet? It's stuff that computers can't do, so they ask humans to do them and report the results back to them for processing. Very cool idea, and you get paid for it, to boot.

Ever wondered about podcasts, but were afraid you couldn't participate because you didn't have an iPod? Well, worry no more: no iPod required!

Speaking of music, I think it sucks that Myspace Music videos won't play with a Firefox/Windows Media Player combination. Lame. Speaking of Myspace, the musician "Bill" now has a website (as opposed to just a Myspace Music band page). Cool.

I found another cool podcast transcription service, Castingwords. It's very cool to see this new type of service come about. For Valentine's Day last night, we celebrated with a heart-shaped pizza from Idaho Pizza:



Here are some IE 7 beta observances I've made recently:

1. I like the built-in ClearType font scaling and smoothing, as well as the wonderful zoom capabilities. (Much better than Firefox!)
   
   
2. I don't like that some RSS feeds (including vBulletin RSS 1.0 feeds) won't display correctly in IE 7, but will just fine in both Firefox and IE 6. Question: is the problem only with 1.0 feeds - 2.0 feeds seem to be working just fine...? UPDATE: No, also some 2.0 feeds with certain doctypes won't display.
   
   
3. Blogger's homepage looks completely wacked in IE 7.
   
   
4. I don't like that the toolbars aren't movable/configurable yet. Note to MS developers: make sure that all the toolbars can be combined side-by-side into one bar, like in IE 6.

Dick Cheney's shotgun-faced friend had a mild heart attack. Does the fun never end for him?! Poor guy.   =(