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Jamaal Tinsley – point guard for the Indiana Pacers and apparently a bad person to party with – and his entourage were shot at after leaving a club around 3:30 AM, possibly with a .223 assault rifle. ESPN paraphrases Pacers’ coach Jim O’Brien with “Tinsley made an error in judgment by being out so late.” Wow, so the real problem is that after around 3 AM, the streets of downtown Indianapolis are crawling with gunmen looking for cars to shoot? He would have been fine if he went home earlier? Dang, now I’m really glad we didn’t move there. :) ...

I went out to my car a bit ago and there was a squirrel sitting on one of the tires. It was eating a seed. I shooed it away before I thought to take a picture of it. I felt a connection with it. Squirrelly (by definition) and loves seeds. I can understand that. I got a dollar bill in change this morning. On the back of the bill someone wrote the words “I LOVE YOU.” “How sweet,” I thought. Then I turned the dollar over. On the front was the word “ASSHOLE.” I don’t think I’m going to use that bill for legal commerce with another person. I shall probably use it in a machine and pass it on to someone else anonymously. If you run across this dollar, it’s probably best to read it front to back. ...

moar funny pictures Previously on The Phantom City, Interest Ratings Falling.

I can’t wait to see how much search engine traffic comes in for that headline! During my usual daily visit to the Yahoo! home page, I saw a featured article titled " Is She Attracted to Me?" Since that was a topic I was always terrible with during my dating days, I thought it’d be worth a look. (I don’t have to worry about it now, though. I’m married, and I’m pretty sure that means my wife is legally obligated to find me attractive. At least, I think that’s what all those “fat guy married to hot wife” sitcoms are relying on. What else could explain the longevity of something like Still Standing other than shared cultural experience?) ...

Like vocabulary words? Like filling bowls with rice? Then FreeRice.com is the place for you. For each word you successfully define, 10 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations to alleviate world hunger. My favorite line from their FAQ: “FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice–you are earning it 10 grains at a time.” :)

If you go to this site to rate your own blog, take a look at the results code before you paste it in. Mine had a link to a cash advance site. Link courtesy of the ACC Basketblog.

That’s really all there is to be said. Play the game, and don’t forget your grid paper. Link courtesy of Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Hey, I work across the hall from this guy! He’s got a window, but since he’s published I won’t begrudge him that. ;) The article is a good tutorial on the CFEclipse plugin for the Eclipse IDE, which I use for ColdFusion coding at work. (Eclipse and I have come to a pause in our struggle and are trying to normalize relations to avoid future conflict.) I had been ignoring the snippet feature for a while, since I didn’t see a lot of time savings with it, but Jim’s article convinced me to use it again. ...

Rumors have been swirling for quite a long time that Google was coming up with a hardware competitor for Apple’s iPhone. Apparently not. They’ve just announced Android, a collection of OS, UI, and applications for mobile devices that is meant to run across various hardware supplied by major mobile device makers. They’re planning to release an SDK for developers in November, with phones based on the platform showing up later in 2008. ...

LOLCats has given birth to LOLCode, which I’m pretty sure is the programming language of the future. Consider: > [I HAS A <var> ITZ ...](http://lolcode.com/keywords/i-has-a) > > Declare a variable. Note the following: > > - Every variable is an array. > - ITZ … has been reserved for future usage and should not be used (except possibly for initialization of single-element arrays) > - At present, all arrays are heterogeneous (they can have different types of values in them). This may change in the future! > > All values are typed, and the types are: > > - NUMBAR (signed integer, at least 32 bits wide) > - YARN (string) > - ARRAY (contains NUMBARs and/or YARNs and/or ARRAYs) > > Currently the interpreter and/or compiler does type checking at compile and/or runtime. This may get nailed down to one or the other in future recommendations. There is also a .NET compiler. ...