A PVRBlog post discusses a new way advertisers are trying to stop viewers from skipping through ads. Looks like some ads are covered with a banner while fast-forwarding. A few comments below the post complain that it's difficult to tell when your show comes back on.

Like I've said before, we're a two-TiVo family. I'm all for finding ways to keep TiVo a viable business, but not by screwing up the service. (I'll post some TiVo money-making schemes tomorrow.)

If this is happening to your TiVo, and if it's a pain in the ass, here are the instructions for O'Reilly 30-Second Skip.

Umm, that's it really, just a cool little audio toy.

Beth Robinson creates beautiful but highly disturbing and strange dolls out of polymer clays and vintage fabrics. They are like something out of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" if it had been directed by Joel Peter Witkin.

Strangedolls.net is where you can buy her dolls.

via Metafilter

Ever think about taking a shortcut and ask yourself, "What's the worst that could happen?"

For Laura K. Pahl, a Lewis University student looking for some Internet help with a term paper, she couldn't have imagined this.

(Brian Murphy sent me this link. Don't want to get charged with plagiarism myself.)

Link to story about Tom Delay telling the Family Research Council (who?) "One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo" and "This is exactly the issue that is going on in America, of attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others".

Link to story about Tom Delay deciding, along with his family (in private), not to extend the life of his own dying father.

Yes, I appreciate the irony of my posting this. Congress had no business butting into a private family matter that was decided at the state level...so why am I butting in to write about.

PS: This is the page on Google that comes up if you type in "Tom", "Delay" and "Asshole".

A sketch a day? Pfffft. How last week. Try A Painting A Day.

Love filling out brackets but hate college basketball?

The authors of Why Business People Speak Like Idiots are judging this year's crop of Annual Reports on the worst (ab)use of language and pointing out the most egregious examples of business speak. Like Honeywell proclaiming "We have turned the corner." Four times.

Check it out at fightthebull.com.

Print out your own bracket.

Straight from the pages of Silence of the Lambs, it's the perfect gift for dad - the Apron of Heads.