Horn­ing in on our spottily-updated ter­ri­tory, Mean Teacher gets her Dork on and pens a proper con­cert review (but not before pay­ing the price). That said, no, you’re never too old. Although it’s prob­a­bly best The Pep­pers don’t rock out with their socks out any­more… do they?

Peter Gabriel’s gone indie. (spot­ted on Genesis-Movement)

This came out of nowhere… at least to me! Microsoft enters the web design & pro­duc­tion mar­ket with Expres­sion, anal­o­gous to Adobe Cre­ative Suite in every area except Flash. Poor Adobe didn’t have a chance to prop­erly enjoy them­selves after buy­ing their only com­peti­tor. (spot­ted on Dar­ing Fire­ball)

Videos of the 20 Great­est Gui­tar Solos of All Time (accord­ing to Gui­tar World, that is, lead­ing to an extreme “clas­sic rock” prej­u­dice). In other words, 20 ugly men pos­tur­ing and gri­mac­ing before thou­sands of syco­phants. (spot­ted on Boing Boing)

Khoi Vinh notices the iPhone uses Hel­vetica through­out. (spot­ted on Dar­ing Fire­ball)

Do you have Design Dis­ease? Is it wrong that I’m jeal­ous I have only a mild case com­pared to this laun­dry list of advanced symp­toms? (spot­ted on Kottke.org)

Wikipedia’s Unusual Arti­cles entry does exactly what it says on the tin, and it’s a ver­i­ta­ble gold­mine. Just to name a few gems at ran­dom: Buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo buf­falo Buf­falo buf­falo, famous body parts, list of self-referential songs.

Bounc­ing back from last year’s bik­ing injury, Michael Brook lines up his 2007 tour dates.

Hey, there are dorks in Con­gress, too! (guest sub­mis­sion from Andrea)

Frack up your desk­top with some Bat­tlestar Galac­tica icons from The Iconfactory.

I’m not done with Bat­tlestar Galac­tica dork items yet! This gag reel is a rar­ity: gen­uinely funny to some­one out­side of the cast & crew, and per­haps even to non-fans. (spot­ted on TV Squad):

A belated announce­ment: Mean Teacher opts for a new blog per­sona in the new year: Ordi­nary World. Thrill and won­der at her first-class movie reviews and tales from the cat­box.

Nin­tendo stuff on my cat: WiiKitty.

Twit­terific, a new (free!) appli­ca­tion from The Icon­Fac­tory. Twit­ter allows one to never lose touch with all your vir­tual friends, Web 2.0-style, and strike a blow to pri­vacy and pro­duc­tiv­ity everywhere.

DGM Live News uncov­ers a star­tling, pre­vi­ously unheard track fea­tur­ing an extremely rare (per­haps for good rea­son) vocal per­for­mance by Robert Fripp over some Peter Gabriel noodling, circa 1977–78 or so. More where this came from, please!

For­tune’s piece on Apple’s secrecy sur­round­ing the iPhone high­lights two points I’ve always won­dered about: 1. in a busi­ness world where Hewlett-Packard is the news for lit­er­ally spy­ing on its own employ­ees for high-level board­room leaks to the press, Apple’s secu­rity mea­sures look decid­edly quaint. And 2. as a web designer, I often think that of the privlieged few assumed to have early access to items like this goes beyond the highly-paid CEOs, man­agers, and indus­trial design teams; what about the poor schmoes who have to crank out the web sites, prod­uct pack­ag­ing, and man­u­als with­out even being able to tell their fam­ily and loved ones what they did at work all day, honey?

The New York Times exam­ines 24’s pol­i­tics, and strongly reminds me why I refuse to watch the show to which I was once addicted.

Rolling Stone posts video of Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astro­nauts live.

How much do Lost fans not know? IGN’s Top 50 Lost Loose Ends. (spot­ted on TV Squad)

Python Terry Jones steps out of drag and crunches the num­bers on the Iraq war (spot­ted on Neil Gaiman’s Jour­nal):

This will bring the total spent on the White House’s cur­rent obses­sion with war to almost $500bn — enough to have given every US cit­i­zen $1,600 each. I won­der which the vot­ers would have gone for if given the choice: shall we (a) give every Amer­i­can $1,600 or (b) spend the money on bomb­ing a coun­try in the Mid­dle East that doesn’t use lava­tory paper?

Of course, there’s another thing that George Bush could have done with the money: he could have given every Iraqi $18,700.

A dream inter­view, no mat­ter which way around: RAW runs the com­plete tran­scrip­tion of Alan Moore vs Brian Eno orig­i­nally on BBC Radio 4.

The con­densed Kottke.org, 2006 edi­tion.

Holy frak! Bat­tlestar Galac­tica hasn’t merely been granted a fourth sea­son, there’s also to be a direct-to-dvd fea­ture film. (spot­ted on BattlestarGalacticaSite.com)

After a period of rel­a­tive quiet after being hounded by Apple’s lawyers (dur­ing which they often focused on scoop­ing other com­pa­nies’ unre­leased projects like Adobe CS3), ThinkSe­cret returns to form with a real piece of Apple news: actual screen­shot from a forth­com­ing spread­sheet app likely to be a part of iWork ’07 almost sure to be announced at Mac­World next week.