It has been busy — as I’m sure you can tell from the photoblog. Man, oh man is that 2blog folder full!

Starting with all things overheard:

• Overheard in the Office | I Thought That Chick Seemed a Little Young
• Overheard in the Office | It’s Quite Possible That Women Have Dirtier Minds Than Men
• Overheard Everywhere | Straight Men: Dammit, You Guys Ruin Everything!
• Overheard Everywhere | Good Thing Pluto Didn’t Hear That
• Overheard Everywhere | Then What’s Sap?
• Overheard Everywhere | Just Part of What It Means to Be an American
• Overheard Everywhere | It’s Funny ’til Somebody Loses an Aircraft
• Overheard Everywhere | Guess Which One’s the “Naughty Librarian”
• Overheard in New York | More Like She Was Doing a Pigeon Impersonation and My Penis Happened to Be There
• Overheard in New York | Probably Isn’t a Single Spit-Free Surface in New York
• Overheard in New York | Aw Well, Let’s Head on Back to Columbia
• Overheard in the Office | Very Slowly
• Overheard in the Office | So Are We Just Chitchatting, or Are We Robbing This Bank?
• Overheard Everywhere | Just the Guy We’ve Been Looking For!
• Overheard Everywhere | But We Call Them “American Voters”
• Overheard in New York | Now on to “Mary Had a Little Cab”

(I told you it has been a while!)

And, in honor of the official end of the Democratic primary season, all things political come next:

• swing-em-home
• STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE || A SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE
• Obama Over The Top: How New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map | Progress Illinois
• The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
• 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed | Cracked.com
• Bill O’Reilly’s Producer – CollegeHumor video
• Congressman Cracks Down on Soft Porn at the PX | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
• Cover story: ‘Christopher Hitchens’ by Alexander Linklater | Prospect Magazine May 2008 issue 146
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• The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
• offical
• Bad Astronomy Blog » That’s it. Texas really is doomed.
• Gene Expression: Biblical literalism or low IQ: which came first?

There are a slew of geeky links:

• 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples | Six Revisions
• stat – perldoc.perl.org
• Anatomy of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
• YouTube – First scientifically accurate visualization of 9/11 attack
• mod_auth_mysql and phpass « Barry on WordPress
• PC World – 26 Tricks to Help You Tame Google Calendar
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
• Main Page – Geo Hashing
• Want That Post to Go Popular? Here’s The Best and Worst Times to Post It – ReadWriteWeb
• Hackers change grades at Fort Bend ISD high school | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
• Start a Fire Without Matches | The Art of Manliness
• Neatorama » Blog Archive » 10 Insulting Words You Should Know
• Migrating to ext4
• Austin WordPress Professional Office « Andy Skelton
• Hive Five: Five Best Start Pages
• Server theft knocks Peter Gabriel off the web | The Register
• Encrypted backup using BackupPC, LVM and cryptsetup | Michael’s Domain
• Link by Link – This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix – NYTimes.com
• Towel Day – Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams
• mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
• Alan Taylor has collected the longest drives that Google Maps… (kottke.org)
• malevole – Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
• imaginary numbers
• Real vs. Fake
• 15×15 (Worhol would be proud)
  

It’s summertime here in Austin:

• How to Grill Meat, Seafood, and Vegetables | The Ultimate Guide to Grilling | Food : RealSimple.com
• Skills for Men – Things Men Should Be Able to Do – Esquire
• Ananova – Dad’s pirate flag battle

I’m not such a bad dad, after all…

• Parents try to sell baby on eBay – CNN.com
• Driver buckles beer in car — but not child – CNN.com
• Dad died saving his little girl :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime
• LISD HS#5
• Fabulously40.com – 25 Ways To Tell You’re Grown Up
• Skills for Men – Things Men Should Be Able to Do – Esquire
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• Marginal Revolution: When should you take photographs?
• not bacon
• Fight back against restaurants’ cruel abuse of wine drinkers. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine

Film:

• scanners
• GLI Press: Review: 13 Rule-Breaking Films
• The Mutopia Project

Funny:

• jwz – a proclamation
• jwz – show me on the doll where the bad monkey touched you
• Bad Astronomy Blog » UFOh noes!
• where are the clowns
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