I might've found a minor league team with a worse/better name than the Montgomery Biscuits: the Modesto Nuts.

Eh, I still prefer Biscuits.

2007 salary vs. performance
An interactive graph that lets you see what baseball teams are spending their money well (related to their record) over the course of the 2007 season.

My First Day with the Yankees
Here's a great story of how a kid became the batboy for the New York Yankees, and his first day on the job. (via kottke)

Lore Sjöberg used to run The Brunching Shuttlecocks (which was one of my favorite humor sites at the time) and I especially liked his ratings of random things. which are archived over at Book of Ratings. Now he's back with a video version: State Quarters Part VII.

Somebody turned one today...

Jeremy took his first steps on his own today, and I have video to prove it...

Pearls Before Breakfast is a fantastic article that touches on much more than just "will people in a subway station stop to listen to a great musician?" (via kottke)

Each passerby had a quick choice to make, one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of the cityscape: Do you stop and listen? Do you hurry past with a blend of guilt and irritation, aware of your cupidity but annoyed by the unbidden demand on your time and your wallet? Do you throw in a buck, just to be polite? Does your decision change if he's really bad? What if he's really good? Do you have time for beauty? Shouldn't you? What's the moral mathematics of the moment?

[T]hose private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities -- as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?

Kurt Vonnegut: 1922 - 2007

This is very cool: Snipshot is a website that is essentially a very basic photo editor (think Photoshop Elements Extra-Lite). You can edit a photo from your computer or a website and resize, crop, and adjust brightness/contrast/saturation/sharpness to your liking, then save it. It even allows for undos. If you need to do basic photo editing and don't have the software to do it, check it out.

I added a new video of Amelia finally getting to use her sled. I hope to add new videos of the boy soon...