Monday Roundup

A steamy mix-up of topical jambalaya:

• Ten years since the Netscape IPO, and the average web user is female and in their forties. Kevin Kelly brings it old-school with a look back and forward. It's good to know I'm not the only one that remembers some of the crazy talk from the early 90s - or holds out hope that a small portion of it might come true.
• But the media reality is such that we are owned by conglomerates. So the wife and I willingly surrendered our entertainment dollars to New Line Cinema and it's financial backers, saw Wedding Crashers, and laughed our proverbial butts off. Vaughn and Wilson are funny, but the few seconds of screentime they gave to Will Ferrell left me without oxygen.
• An offseason election in the second district means wall-to-wall TV coverage. Nixguy offers some thorough analysis (his own and others) on why Paul Hackett can't win. Brian Griffin peddles his trademark 'extremist' routine and appears to take solace in the fact that Democrats still have a pulse.
• Meanwhile, over at the Axis of Evil, Iran has threatened to start enriching uranium again, and our friends in North Korea - cheeky bastards - are demanding concessions before they are willing to give up their nuclear program.

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