I set up a email list for 89.3 at Yahoo. Yahoo! Groups : thecurrent. I could have set up a real listserve setup, but I though this was less self-promotional than setting one up on one of my domains.

If you have been longing for a real alternative to ClearChannel radio that plays a wide variety of music in a commercial-free format, you should check out the new MPR: Radio Listening: 89.3 The Current. It's the new MPR format, in addition to their news and information station and the classical station. I've been an avid listener to the news and information service for a while, and pretty much defaulted to my MP3's for music. Now, my radio will be playing actual music again. For those without reception, there's an AAC-plus feed online which sounds pretty darn good: way better than the WMA or RealAudio feeds.

This service has a seperate budget and seperate membership, so consider joining this station's membership. I signed up as a founding member today ($20/month). Support diverse local music! After all, it's worth more than your daily coffee isn't it?

You've got to love Minnesota. This is the headline on the main page of the Star Tribune this morning:State weathers storm without undue stress. Everywhere else in the country tries to paint snowstorms as the beginning of the coming apocalypse, but our paper practically feels guilty even putting it on the front page.

While I'm not one for jumping on bandwagon's, when I read about the 50 Book Challenge, it kind of fit in with my personal goals in a better way than many other trends. The goal is to read 50 books in a year.

I'm trying to work more on setting and meeting goals and this one, along with Nanowrimo's "write a novel in a month" deal are 2 that I think I want to try to set and meet this year. I'll work on the 50 throughout the year and do Nanowrimo in November. I'm posting, at least in part, to give myself some accountability.

I was looking at how I'd replicate a restaurant's paper based order form where they have people remove the items they don't want. Checkboxes are the logical choice. So, I whipped up the function below. Obviously,
you'd have to set your default selections and chaging the "$element.checked == true" to false would invert the functionality, but it gives you a more visual way to indicate what's selected and what isn't.