Link lists, round-ups, recaps, Delicious.com dumps, and other sometimes somewhat salacious sundry sediments and sentiments.
Dismember-Me Plush Zombie at ThinkGeek :: ZOMG! this is *awesome* Funding the Future with a Financial Savings Plan at Get Rich Slowly How to Rescue a Piece when You Write a Frankenstein at Write to Done 32 Fool-Proof Federal Income-Tax-Saving Strategies at Fix My Personal Finance The 10 Things I Won’t Give Up Just To […]
Get Started With Prototype at Webmonkey Books for MacOS X via LifeHacker The Choice: Comment at The New Yorker: It is perfectly legitimate to call attention, as McCain has done, to Obama’s lack of conventional national and international policymaking experience. We, too, wish he had more of it. But office-holding is not the only kind […]
Leahy votes for bailout bill, Sanders against via Politicker VT Top 11 Things Geeks Would Do with $700 Billion Via Ben: Commission five more seasons of Firefly… Next POTUS At ongoing: [Obama is] an outstanding manager. His built-from-scratch campaign organization went mano a mano with the mighty Clinton machine and won, and is now inflicting […]
Break Through Writer’s Block via Stepcase Lifehack Why Banned Books Week matters By John Mark Ockerbloom, writing at Everybody’s Libraries: My oldest child is only 8, but he’s already coming up with new and challenging questions on an almost-daily basis. By the time kids reach double-digit ages (which is the young end of the audience […]
Private Rockets Could Boost Military, Too via Danger Room from Wired.com Pirated Arms Freighter Cornered by U.S. Navy via NYTimes.com: this story is fucking fascinating to me Let’s Play Palin VP Bingo! via gedblog (via a DF tweet) Flickr: Genres A pool for iTunes "genre" art. To go along with that whole "Genius" feature and […]
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time Neal Stephenson reads from Anathem via mefogus Neal Stephenson and the 10,000-Year Clock via mefogus 10 Essential Principles of the Javascript Masters Scenes from India fascinating pictures
Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter Section 8 alone should be enough reason to throw Paulson out on his ass; this is totally unacceptable. CALL YOUR SENATORS!! WordPress Archive that *works*: StepxStep Guide and Plugins Using jQuery for Background Image Animations this is just plain sick Hiding in Plain Sight […]
How We Became the United States of France at Time.com (via Beyond the Beyond): You just know the Frogs have only increased their disdain for us, if that is indeed possible. And why shouldn't they? The average American is working two and half jobs, gets two weeks off, and has all the employment security of […]
Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? New York Magazine: Books, he says, “were like Internet stocks, getting enormous advances without demonstrating any moneymaking whatsoever.” ClimbingVibe Climbing News by the Community As Synthetic Biology Becomes Affordable, Amateur Labs Thrive via B^2: "Deeb, who said he was trying to make safer […]
Hubble Finds a Mystery Object via SkyandTelescope.com (via Gizmodo (via /.) ) Personal Space and Writing Novels in the Internet Era David Foster Wallace (Harper’s Magazine) via DF: Harper's posting a collection of essays and shorts If You’re Not Using It, Get Rid of It: Ten Ways to Declutter and Put Cash in Your Pocket […]