Ramble On

File this under "Ways To Not Start Your Day": When my bus pulled up to the Pentagon this AM, they had the upper half of the bus depot closed off with police tape and a whole lotta Hazmat and police type people were springing into action. Turns out it was Suspicious package and nothing more. And in typical DC/Pentagon fashion, as they herded about eight buses worth of people to the one open entrance/exit to the Metro station, they had two of the three escalators going up and all the bus riders formed the most giganticist bottleneck of all time in trying to get underground to the train. Yeesh. The brightside? The Metro station and train were virtually empty.

Argh! I believe that ESPN is sinking further and further into the quagmire.

Hey, the Boston media remembers there is a basketball team in town. Oh, and Tony Allen will return to the lineup tonight.

R'uh R'oh. Now you know why Superbowl tickets are so expensive.

So let me get this straight. The federal government is going to subpeona players like Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, Rafael Palmeiro and Curt Schilling (??), but not barry Bonds, to get to the bottom of this steroid issue in MLB. Why bother?

You know when you stick a CD into your computer and iTunes accesses the Gracenote CD database to get the track names and info? Well that info is recorded and tracked by Gracenote.

Ben Lee has a blog! I loves me some Noise Addict. [via Stereogum]

Scenestars have the new Coldplay track for your downloading pleasure [via the entire blogoshpere]

Oh no they didn't! Pretty neat trick, but not as good as when they turned it into a giant Rubix Cube. That shit was tight. [via Catchdubs]

Want to see the next big thing in gadgets? Check out The Hipster PDA. This is gonna revolutionize the PDA market. Here's another version being test marketed now.

DC type people might find The DCeiver's Mercury Panic Pictorial Threat Index. This after he already completed the blogger trifecta.

Anyone heading to SXSW might want to check out the Gorillaz listening party on March 17th at 3 PM. Email me if you want/need more details.