Bloggers are putting out lots of info on the hurricane disaster in New Orleans. Some of the corporate media outlets are blogging reports as they come in from the field, not waiting to put it out in polished reports.

1) In the words of Ron Burgundy, Bea Arthur has a dirty, whory mouth.

2) Pam Anderson in a see-through top is the only thing worth 3 minutes of Tommy Lee’s solo music.

3) These Comedy Central roasts are becoming an annoying clique-fest among the same gang of Kimmel/Corolla/Dick/Di Paulo/etc.

4) If Courtney Love was really clean and sober, then she has some serious permanent damage.

This is a really cool OS X app that not only shows how much of a charge is left on your iBook or PowerBook battery, but also how much of the battery’s original capacity is left. Over time all laptop batteries gradually lose capacity, but most of the time you can’t tell how much of that life is left.

This nonsense about President Bush “out on the ranch” has got to stop. First of all, it’s not a real ranch. It’s a small cattle farm that Bush only bought when he started running for the presidency. Before that he no history as a rancher. The whole thing is manufactured set design to provide a backdrop for photo ops of the Bush keeping it real out in boonies.

Second, Bush’s awh shucks Texas manner is a lie. The man was born and raised in Maine and attended private New England boarding schools and an Ivy League university. He’s every bit of the Northeastern Yankee that John Kerry was criticized for being. The Texas accent, mannerisms, and vocabulary are all fake. The ranch is just one of many deceptions carefully crafted to project an image of a character that does not exist in real life.

This is why laptops shouldn’t actually be used on one’s lap, especially if one is male and might want to procreate one day.

Occasionally good things do come from St. Louis Check out the whole array of “Blunt Doesn’t Care About Me” clothing. However, I don’t understand why this guy isn’t offering the obligatory CafePress thong, which would be very useful if the Missouri Taliban succeeds in covering up our strippers’ naughty bits.

A regular Joe who just happens to be stalked by a family of deranged circus clowns.

The unthinkable has finally happened. Apple has finally joined the multi-button mouse world, 10 years after Microsoft. I can’t go so far as to it was worth a ten year wait, but it is a really sweet piece of hardware. The new Mighty Mouse looks like the regular one button model, but underneath it acts like it has two buttons, plus a cool 360º scroll nubbin. And for the mouse purists out there, it can be set to act just like the regular one button mouse.

Ars Technica’s Mac blog has a great description…

Apple has done what was considered impossible by the HCI world — keeping one-button simplicity (which continually comes back over and over in usability tests as the most suitable mouse solution for the majority of computer users, who are often very, very confused when they are told to “right click”) while finally giving into the sinful and anal-retentive pleasures of the multi-button crowd.