Chipping the web – duration of double 5′s

When you roll double 5′s in backgammon, you move a total of 20 points.

Shelley provides the most concise yet comprehensive review to date on the new social media app Twitter. Word for the day: laconic.

In other online news news, John Koetsier announces the pre-alpha for fatboynews. Add another link to the disambiguation page. It will be interesting to see what’s new with news reading come January.

As if death wasn’t bad enough, here are 19 disturbing things about death you probably didn’t know (via Mercola). The 20th: this list is on a life insurance site. I guess that’s having a passion for your product.

Also via Mercola: an Esheresque moving picture that takes PiP to strange new depths (requires shockwave).

Damn Near Anything: Researchers create logic circuits using DNA (thanks, Armchair Anarchist). Sounds like the beginning of a scifi novel. “…and then something went horribly wrong.”

Looks like Vista may need iron supplements to avoid anemic performance.

Today’s the big day. Congratulations, Ponzi and Chris!

Thanks for adding me to your blogroll, Vaspers the Grate! You’re in mine, too. OK, I understand “the Grate“, but what does “Vaspers” mean?