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“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”

— Scott Adams

There’s exciting news in the entertainment world today: Disney is working on a sequel to the 1982 classic Tron. Sweet. I remember watching that as a kid– I would’ve been ten at the time– and being astounded by the amazing computer graphics. We might laugh at that kind of stuff now, but it was landmark work back then.

And a factoid that I learned: the video game was so popular it actually earned more than the movie. Speaking as a guy who plays Armagetron (shown below) every now and then with the kids, it’s a simple but strangely addictive thing.

In a shocking survey, 59% of Americans think our country is “worse off” than it was prior to September 11, 2001.

I think the reaction of jsager on Digg sums it up nicely:

Now that’s a funny ad.

Fall doesn’t officially start for two more weeks, but I think today heralded the first day of it. The weather is grey and overcast, and only about 60 degrees. Compared with the 90-degree sun two days ago, it feels downright cold.

Even Zack thought a jacket was needed to bounce on the trampoline.

The Xbox Media Center is soooo sweet. I’ve had mine for about six months now, and I absolutely love it. I use it mainly to stream music from my computer– we never drop CD’s into our stereo any more because we have our entire 9,000+ song library right there on the XBMC and can pick any song we want with a few clicks of the remote control.

Of course it also has a ton of other spiffy features, like showing lyrics for any song, downloading album information from the internet, streaming video and TV shows, playing hundreds of old (think 1980’s) video games, displaying the weather forecast, and on and on. The Xbox itself cost me around $60 on eBay, and all of the software is completely free (with many thanks to Chancellor for letting me borrow a few hacker parts). I imagine you can get something equivalent with the Apple TV or some other media center, but those things cost a few hundred bucks.

It also helps to have a 62-inch TV.

Everyone’s familiar with M.C. Escher’s woodcut Relativity:

But check out this awesome Lego version of it:

Today’s Dilbert strip is pretty funny.

“The music business, as a whole, has lost its faith in content. Only ten years ago, companies wanted to make records, presumably good records, and see if they sold. But panic has set in, and now it’s no longer about making music, it’s all about how to sell music. And there’s no clear answer about how to fix that problem.”

— David Geffen

So I sent an e-mail to my friend Shane, and I received this bounce message:

Wow, a GMail account that’s “over quota”? I thought you got something like 1.5 gigabytes of mail storage with GMail… he must get some serious e-mail traffic!