Pete Townshend has premiered his new rock opera, “Lifehouse”. He intends to broadcast it on the Internet in a few months.

I saw a stretch SUV the other day on 101. I think it was a Lincoln Navigator or some such luxury sport UV. I’ve already seen a stretch Hummer and Porsche 911. I’m wondering if someone has managed to stretch one of the new VW Beetles. Of course they’d have to add extra bud vases!

I was struck by a future vision of myself as a mother, watching my daughter customize her first computer’s user interface with all sorts of pretty colors (in the pink family of course), biting my tongue and holding myself back from giving her a lecture on usability and eyestrain. What would be worse is if I don’t have what I consider a useable system to buy for her. Tog has some nice ideas in his March special article “Apple Squandering the Advantage”.

Something serious. The New England Journal of Medicine has published the first study to document physician experiences with requests for assisted suicide under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. Medscape has a summary. A survey of 2649 physicians showed that 144 (5%) had received 221 requests for lethal prescriptions. 1 out of 6 requests were honored and 1 out of 10 requests resulted in suicide.

The last page of the Internet has been found. We can all safely disembark now from our surfboards. Please take small children by the hand and check all personal belongings before exiting. Thank you.

What a wonderful idea! Fresh cookies and milk delivered to your door from CookiesNMilk.net. Yum yum yum. This business model may not scale well, but you don’t need to be a big success to make a nice pot of money. Maybe they’ll add freshly baked brownies too! That’d be awesome.

I’ll go to the Oscars with you, Trey Parker! I know who won the Civil War. And I forgive you for killing Kenny every week. Pick me, pick me!

I heard myself using the phrase “talk to the hand!” today and was appalled, because a) I hate using catch phrases even though I do it all the time and b) I have no idea where the expression originated from and it’s always good idea to know your sources. Being the good little web addict that I am, I did a search. Apparently we have Fran Drescher as “The Nanny” to thank for this contribution to American pop culture lingo. This article gave me the answer. How many of you know where the phrase “round up the usual suspects” comes from?

A favorite conversation starter: “What would you rather win? An Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Pulitzer, or how about one of the Nobel Prizes?” Hmm. Perhaps I need to add something like the Webby Awards to bring the choices into the new millenium. I guess I’d go for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but I’d certainly settle for a Pulitzer. I’m not too picky.

Just wanted to make sure no one missed the news that David Bowie and Iman are expecting a baby in August. I know — who really cares ‘cept me?