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I made out nicely this year in birthday booty.

Gift Certificates to iTunes, Amazon and Amoeba
Books and CDs
A nice family portrait from Oona
A skateboard from Alanna
Hell Boy DVD

If anybody can find a copy of The Feelies – Good Earth. Please buy it for me. I will pay you back I swear. I have been trying to find this record for a while now and have even resorted to trying to find it on Ebay.

For those interested in my B-Day wishes, REI gift certificates are always a good option as well as iTunes gift certs. You can also check out my wish list on Amazon.com or Thinkgeek.comfor other lovely gift choices.

If you were to believe the news stories around Ebays purchase of a 25% stake in Craigslist.org, you would think that Ebay paid lots of money to Craigslist and that it is all part of Ebays agressive approach toward local communities.

What is missing from most of the news stories is the fact that Craigslist.org will not get one red cent from the purchase of 25% of their company, because they did not buy that stake in the company from anyone who works at Cragislist.

According to Craigs own blog, in order to afford the company some checks and balances, Craigs gave away a part of the company to someone who was working at Craigslist. That person later left the company, and in turn shopped around for someone to buy the equity stake in the company that they owned.

What is funny and disturbing about this is that not that many news sites reported how the shares traded hands.

As long as Craig is cool. I am cool.

I came across some great sites over the past couple of days.

Here are three cool bicycle sites.
http://www.rivendellbicycles.com/
http://www.antbikemike.com/
http://www.momovelo.com/

Here is a cool site where you can check the usage of a word in the English language. My name is rated 1822.
http://www.fabrica.it/wordcount/main.php