Yeardley Smith -- the voice of Lisa Simpson -- is interviewed on Here & Now, discussing working on The Simpsons and her off-Broadway show. Plus, hear Lisa read a Kleenex box!

I know Red Sox-bashing is in vogue in the baseball world, but every year it gets more and more out of control. It's happening all over again ... in fact, it's happening even more than usual as the team gets better. I can't wait for the Sox to win it all, just to put an end to all this bullshit.

The people who talk about the "Curse of the Bambino" are not Red Sox fans, but the media (and with the exception of Dan Shaughnessy, most aren't from Boston). Just watch Fox or ESPN any time they broadcast a Red Sox-Yankees game and count the curse references. (That might be a decent drinking game...) Here's a fact for you non-Sox fans caught up in the "curse" hype: We don't talk about it. We don't think about it. We don't believe in it. It's just something lazy sportcasters and sporswriters use as a crutch instead of reporting real stories and analysis.

On a related note, the new thing to do besides bash the "pathetic" Red Sox is to pity the Cubs. And it's usually Yankee fans/writers doing this. In fact, Frank Deford was particularly condescending to Cubs fans in this article:

I like the Cubs fans better. They go out and accept defeat the way they always have, with that grace that comes with resignation.

As someone commented at Bambino's Curse:

If I were a Cubs fan, I'd be pissed off. It sounds so condescending coming from a Yankees fan (assuming he is one...he sure sounds like one): "Why can't Red Sox fans be more like Cubs fans? They just lose quietly and go away."

Well f*** you, Frank Deford. If the Sox have to be a pain the Yankees' side while George tries to buy another World Series, so be it. Sorry if the Sox won't lie down and let the Yankees pass on by, like the Cubs allegedly would do if they were in the AL East.

Let the season begin!

Check out a damn funny clip from David Letterman -- "George W. Bush Invigorating America's Youth" -- and Dave's reaction to the White House calling the video a fake. Links to both videos available here at k10k.

Marlins 4, Red Sox 0

Spring training at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, FL. Not the best game the Sox have played, but it was nice to be somewhere warm watching a ballgame.

Regular readers might know about my general dislike for Flash on websites. But the truth is, I just dislike poorly-used Flash. It can be a very good thing when used in the right context and for the right purpose.

Case in point: the site for Good Bye Lenin! While this design wouldn't work for a company's site, it's great for a movie promo site. It has a very (but not overly) clever interface that's easy and fun to figure out and use...plus it has the coolest "page" transitions I've seen on the web.

For my (and your?) future use, here are some great favelets for debugging HTML and CSS:

• Web Development Bookmarklets
• Accessibility-checking favelets

While using my company's TV product, MyBestBets.tv, I was recommended a show on DIY Network, "Weekend Gardening," so I TiVo'd it and checked it out. Not only was it a pretty good show, but the episode was about starting a garden from seeds -- something I was planning to do this year.

So why am I bothering to put this here? Not because I think you care, but just so I don't forget to check out the DIY site's episode page...

Ridiculent points out that...

If we're going to create a constitutional amendment about marriage, we might as go all the way.

In Defense of Biblical Marriage sets the record straight...

On the way to work this morning, I passed a truck with quite possibly the worst name for a company I think I've ever seen: Putzmeister. If there's a worse-named company out there, I'd like to hear it...or perhaps I don't.

I made some minor updates to my mother-in-law's website, barbarapeavey.com. I kept the basic design, but gave it a slightly more modern look (since the original design was done in '01 and looked it). I also cleaned up the HTML & CSS a lot -- I'm on a no-table kick now that I know how easy it is to build and maintain a site with such simple code.

So if you're interested in oil paintings of Nantucket and other New England coastal landscapes, check it out...