From the Mercury News comes word that those Prurient puppets are on their way to S.F. Best of Broadway:

Move over, Miss Piggy! ‘Avenue Q’ is coming to town. The quirky puppet musical kicks off its national tour in San Francisco in August as the final production in the 2006-2007 Best of Broadway season.
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Tickets for the San Francisco run – Aug. 7-Sept. 2 at the Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market Street – go on sale in June.

We wanted to see this in Vegas but the show closed before we got the chance. We will definitely be seeing it while it’s in town–anyone want to come along?

A little early for April Fools, but according to this press release, Best Buy has acquired independent DSL provider Speakeasy. Speakeasy CEO Bruce Chatterly writes in an email to subscribers:

This is a significant milestone for our company as our new relationship will help us realize our goals of becoming the No. 1 provider of voice and data solutions to small businesses. It is important to note that though Speakeasy will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, we will continue to operate as a standalone, independent operating division with headquarters in Seattle.

How long until Speakeasy’s vaunted and highly professional support staff are replaced by the Geek Squad?

So last night on “Raines” (which we are quite enjoying, two weeks in), Raines acidly suggests one of his colleagues visit “www.whatingodsnameiswrongwithme.com”. Of course I had to pause the episode and check SamSpade:

Registrant:
General Electric Company
Internet Registrations
3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield CT 06828-0001
US

Yes, it’s registered to GE (parent of NBC) and it was registered on January 7th which I expect is around when this episode was filming. Too bad, because I was going to grab it if it wasn’t already…

And how do I get rid of it? It appears in a growing number of Web pages and makes them completely unreadable.

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Gliffy, a Web service that lets you draw and diagram anything you can think of—think Visio in your Web browser. And it works in Opera and Firefox.

I’ve done up my home network map in Gliffy:

The “proposed” line at the bottom signifies adding another segment for a TV in the bedroom, if we decide to do that. The existing TV is in the guest room.

Note added 2008-02-18: An updated version of this post is here.