“As history marches on, this decade will be known for its stumbles and reversals. The scolds and doubters reminded us that hope is not a plan. But neither is despair a winning strategy. The smart move is to look back at the 2000s glancingly, and then turn, with optimism, to the decade ahead.”

Then somewhere along the line I changed it to the current one, “It’s time to take this bull by the horns and milk it.”, which is wholly original, and I think, clever. Don’t believe me? This one is mine.

Now.. how do I get Googlebot to forget my old (Google-operated) BlogSpot blog and point here? It’s a quandry.

• Ever heard of a “man cave?” I wouldn’t mind having one even a little bit.
• Neil Young plays All along the Watchtower. Well.
• Tesla vs. Einstein – I love Nikola, but my money’s on Albert.
• I read this book recently and recommend it highly. The Lady Janet liked it too!
• Britney does Alanis surprisingly well.
• A friend recommended this music threory site.
• Mike Judge (Office Space, King of the Hill, Idiocracy) has a new movie!
• Odd page of really interesting links on a site that reviews gourmet shaving products. Really.
• The Talent Code is another really good book – it’s all about the 10,000 hours of practice rule for developing talent.
• Fidelity.com’s investment study page – if you’re over 23 and you aren’t saving for your retirement, you’re doing something wrong.
• Put your text on various templates (Asparagus Pee for Dummies)?”
• Chronicling America – great source for a bunch of old newspapers. I found a great article about our hometown from 100 years ago.
• Did you hear that the Beatles have re-released all their material? Here’s the Rolling Stone Beatles headquarters, which includes the audio recordings of John Lennon’s interviews with Jan Wenner.
• Need a tagline for your signature? Here’s a handy site. My favorite (under “making you think”) is: “A self-addressed envelope would be addressed ‘envelope’.”; it’s very Steven Wright.
• The Top 50 websites, according to Time magazine.
• Intriguing graphic illustration of the bailout by a Motley Fool blogger.
• eSarcasm – kinda like The Onion, but a little more geeky and not as good. But still good.
• Results page for my personality test at the BBC’s really cool mind and body site – please explore the site too.
• Health reform: Joel Achenbach blogs on the treatment of Stephen Hawking under the national health.
• Duct tape made it to the moon. And it came in really handy. Really.
• “I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his lifetime.” – James M. Barrie (Really good article by Michael Shermer, of the Skeptics Society.)
• The Lady Janet (my wifey to any newbies) is President of the Audio Publishers Association. (I’m very proud to be the first gentleman in our industry.)
• Euler’s identity, my favorite equation. By the way, a very clever British chum of mine who went to University finally taught me that this is pronounced “Oiler.”
• Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food) has some things to say about American eating habits in light of the popularity of cooking shows, including Julie & Julia.
• Zappa on John & Yoko (also lots of other good Zappa YouTubes).
• Tristan Prettyman with Jason Mraz – good song – is this his girlfriend?
• Bob Schneider’s Captain Kirk – cool video and good YouTube channel.
• How the world looked to Richard P. Feynman and me.
• Feynman on religion.
• If you really want to grill anything properly, ribs say, you need to listen to this guy. I followed his recipe for ribs (grilled for 5 hours over smoke and water)… mmm.

I was over looking at Google Trends’ new business trends models at Google Domestic Trends, and I stumbled on this nifty flu tracker page: Google Flu Trends.

By the way, there appears to be no “real” plural of “flu,” so I have decided to declare that the plural of “flu” is “flus” — it certainly isn’t “flues.”