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Contains spoilers for Season 1: Comprehensive List of What is Known About Lost

This 40 minute album has eight actual recorded pick-up scenes to learn from. You’ll hear exactly how to pick up a busty college girl in a library, a tall pretty blond street, a dark-haired sexy swinger in a single’s bar. Each pick-up is introduced by Eric Weber, the famous author of HOW TO PICK UP GIRLS! Eric explains exactly how and what to say for each different kind of pick up. Full MP3 here. This is pretty darned hilarious. via…

Wikipedia Entry on Lost: For a teaser of season two visit http://www.oceanic-air.com/seatingchart.htm and view the Oceanic Flight 815 seating chart. There click on the “numbers” 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 to preview a promo for season two. The site also contains a hidden message and piece of the Exodus pt. 2 script which seems to reveal the identity of the island’s monster. It can be read by going to http://www.oceanic-air.com/images/oa_front-letter1a.jpg

LA Times: Teacher: Han Il Nam, how do you spell the word “revolution”? Student A: R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n. Teacher: Very good, thank you. Sit down. Ri Chol Su. What’s the Korean for “revolution”? Student B: Hyekmyeng. Teacher: Fine, thank you. Have you any questions? Student C: No questions. Teacher: Well, Kim In Su, what do you learn English for? Student D: For our revolution. Teacher: That’s right. It’s true that we learn English for our revolution.

This is from my Columbia buddy Tom Randall who I saw last weekend in DC. He’s an intern at Bloomberg in DC for the summer and occasionally is on presidential press pool duty. i went to the state dinner with indian pm, george, laura, condi, don, dick, the whole gang. libby snuck in the back door. they kicked us out after toasts, but hey, i got to stand face to face with the pres for 5 minutes in matching tuxes.…

I was up at 5 am this morning to do an interview on WRVA about robots. It went well overall, except that it had three minor issues. The first was that I was mistakenly credited as being the “editor of Macworld magazine” (Jason, I’m really not trying to take your job, I swear!). The second was that my interview was cut short due to breaking news of the 2nd round of minor London bombings. The third was that I forgot…

In the interests of punditry, I will be waking up at 5 am tomorrow to make my third appearance on “Richmond’s Morning News with Jimmy Barrett” (WRVA 1140 AM Richmond). I will be talking about household robots, including the Nuvo robot and the Roomba. I was on WRVA on April 28 2005 and April 5 2005.

I know this is really geeky, but it needs to be said. In NPR’s tribute to James Doohan, the intro music is to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which James Doohan never had anything to do with and never appeared on. C’mon guys, not all Star Treks are created equal. Learn your theme music.

AP: LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original ”Star Trek” TV series and movies who responded to the command ”Beam me up, Scotty,” died Wednesday. He was 85. Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, he said. He had…

For his first piece (the lead story, no less) in Wired News, on Cambodian blogs. Matt emailed me awhile back asking how to break into the freelance world, and will be attending Columbia this fall. Great job, Matt!