Given the multiple fireworks displays (and no, I’m not talking about last night’s standard entertainment) yesterday, it should be interesting. Scheduled in about half an hour, and 12:15 PM EDT.

Acidman has gone to the big blog in the sky. RIP.

Descarte said “Cogito, ergo sum,” (I think, therefore I am).

What would the equivalent be for “I think, therefore they are”?

We went to see an exhibit of Chihuli glass at the Saint Louis Botanical Garden on Sunday. In watching the video of the artist working, we wondered why he didn’t have a glass eye. Just think of all the cool possibilities.

RIP, Lloyd Bentsen. I’m glad he never became vice president, though.

The Tigers are in first place in their division, having won seven straight, with the best record in the major leagues. That has to boost the mood in Detroit, amid the GM/Delphi financial woes. Of course, it will also help if the Pistons can pull out two wins to stay alive in the championships. But I hate basketball.

Watch a flexible economy re-price capital in real time. A subcompact is renting for more than an SUV in Boston from Avis according to WSJ. This is a strong signal (though not the first) that it is time to retool. Honda is building new plants to churn out hundreds of thousands of hybrids that will hit the market in a few years.

Instapundit is discussing coffee makers.

As a non-coffee drinker who makes the coffee for Her, she objects to me performing initial preparation the night before, because the grounds aren’t fresh. I have to get up before her, and make a latte on a little two-cup Krups (model 872-42), complete with milk steamer, which has worked fine except the plastic cover over the carafe broke off the little tabs that clip it on within a few months of purchase (it’s about a year and a half old now), and requires careful cleaning of the little pinhole at the end of the steam nozzle with a safety pin (or if one is more bold, a straight one), lest one end up with naught but unfoamy warm mammary juice into which to lovingly pour the sacred sludge.

Lest one think me a true hero of domesticity, let it be known that I work at home while she has an often-ugly commute.

Looks like window seats may be harder to get soon. Last week New Tech Spy said this.

Microsoft plans to buy Massive Inc. for $300 million +/- $100 million. They do ad placements in video games. More in the Wall Street Journal. In-game ads are expected to triple from $56 million last year to $160 million this year and be $700 million by 2010.