Random Linkage

• Lego MMO.  For real
• boingboing says the new Palm Pre is a better cell phone than the iPhone
  

  There was a glow on the face of every Palm employee we saw today, and deservedly so: the new Palm Pre is a hail mary product. It’s probably going to save the company.

  And it is, in many ways, better than the iPhone.

• Windows 7 public beta available now (assuming you can get through the server-crushing traffic load)
  

  Here’s the TechNet link. Go to the gray box at the bottom of the page and chose between 32-bit and 64-bit to start the process. This page is part of Microsoft’s TechNet website, and the beta was released early to TechNet subscribers. So it is possible that this isn’t the official download link. However, users all over the web are reporting varying levels of success in getting the download to work. Most can’t get the links to work, though.

• The Bush legacy by the numbers, covering the economy, the war, human rights, healthcare, and more
  

  Until not too long ago, President Bush’s supporters could be heard to argue that the economy was the unheralded success story of his administration. In 2006, Larry Kudlow called it “The Greatest Story Never Told.” While praising Bush, Ramesh Ponnuru decried the unfairness of it all. “It seems to happen every week: Some new piece of good economic news comes out, and Republicans sink a little deeper in the polls.” To share their admiration, it helped if you ignored the way the wealth was being distributed. Or if you were a repo man.

  . . .

  How bad is it? “An average recession is one in which we lose about 3 percent of GDP. Three percent of GDP is about $500 billion,” UCLA economist Lee Ohanian told Salon. “It’s not inconceivable that this could be twice as worse, which would be close to a trillion.”

• 8 reasons you should keep Coke away from your vagina (via Pharyngula)

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