1. Did you notice the subtle change? Look at the right, under “Recent Comments”, there’s a new section (sometimes), “Comments on Older Stories”. Certain stories I’ve posted a long time ago have taken on a life of their own, and attract a constant stream of comments that some highly influential readers of this site find somewhat uninteresting. The 183rd “KeiicHi! You rule!” comment arguably doesn’t need to be published right on the front page, so instead they’ve been relegated to the “Comments on Older Stories” section, which is hidden until you click it open. Currently, “Older Stories” means all the Mario-music related stories, and the one on Rekkaturvat. Todo: make it remember when you’ve opened that section, and allow you to click it closed again.

2. Remember how voting for Bush and extreme stupidity were highly correlated? Except they actually weren’t, the data was sourceless and probably made up? Well it turns out that it actually is true that voting for Bush and being extremely uneducated actually is highly correlated, according to the U.S. census.

3. All you people who responded to my plea to send in your feeds that break FoF: Thanks! I haven’t forgotten about you. I’ve still got all those links, and will check them out next time I work on FoF. I think you probably all already understand that I work on FoF only in my spare time, but I will get to it eventually.

4. Yes, I did finally go and watch the new Mario piano video. Yes, it rules!

5. I posted a somewhat funny anecdote from JavaOne at Crummy.com. There’s actually lots more funny/interesting/mind bending (to a mega-geek) things like that from the conference, maybe I’ll post them one day. For example: Can you understand what this class declaration means, and why? It’s how Enum, the base class of all enumerated types, is declared:

class Enum<E extends Enum<E>>

There are some pictures from San Francisco and JavaOne available, at Ofoto.

6. PHP 5.0 is out. I have no idea if FoF works with it!