Hey ma.<br>
Remember last week at dinner when you guys asked me, "What's new?," and I stuttered, hesitated, and tried telling you about the Home Entertainment Show?

<I>Slate</I> writes about lolcats. ("Hard-hitting fluff," as Alan in Victoria says.) Follow the link on page 7 to Anil Dash's analysis of lolcat grammar.

"This is simply a resistor that has pretty much no resistance: in effect a bit of wire in a tiny box. It might sound like an absurd component, but they're quite common in modern circuits, because they can be used to bridge the gap between adjacent tracks on a circuit board with a standard-size component. I'd like to apologise both for knowing that and for sharing it with you."

As a work-at-home guy, I wonder about this all the time&mdash;especially when I visit Park Slope during the daytime. Doesn't anybody there have a job?

My mind is filled with audio components. I guess that's <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051407leland/">what a show does to you</a>.

"The Chinese Exclusion Act and its subsequent extensions altered the legal definition of American citizenship far more than its original drafters could have foreseen."