New Jersey: Only the Strong Survive. In case anyone was looking for a, uh, late St. Patrick’s Day gift for me. Or something.

It’s Raining In Love. If I say, ‘Do you think it’s going to rain?’ / and she says, ‘I don’t know,’ / I start thinking: Does she really like me?

Stationary is Bad. Once you’re through the Flash animation, click on the Videos tabs for some clever shorts. Looks like Microsoft is, at least, reasonably savvy to the fact that people forward silly videos to each other in the office: I got this one from my sister.

Anxiety prompts Wall St. purging. Corporate governance has taken the slash-and-burn approach to compliance and maintaining a high ethical bar. Sarah stated aptly the other day what so many are thinking (and, indeed, the media has been pounding into our heads over the past three years): organizations of this size can’t possibly contain every ethical oversight. This isn’t news, especially if you’ve read The Jungle or The Octopus lately. Organizations like the US Department of Antitrust and the Securities and Exchange Commission exist to prosecute corporate missteps, but in a political climate where Microsoft coasts through its own antitrust hearings, you’ve got to wonder how effective we’re really being at keeping white-collar crime in check.

A Response to the Noise. Matt takes some time out of is vacation to respond to the “blogosphere drama” about the aforementioned search engine spamming for sweet moolah.

N.J. averages some long trips to work. No surprise here.

WordPress Website’s Search Engine Spam. Raises interesting questions about the ethical boundaries and disclosure of open source project funding. Sad to see such a great community step into what you would think would be an obvious PR minefield.

A Google search for some song lyrics landed me at Waterdeep’s new site, which I think is great. I wonder what they’re using to power it?

NJ Could Expand EZPass Beyond Tolls. I’ve been saying for a while that you’ll be able to use EZPass at McDonald’s drive-throughs any day now.