J’s blog

Rip Currents: The Ocean’s Deadliest Trick | LiveScience.

Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily
2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College (270towin.com)

FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
Pollster.com – Political Poll Trends, Charts and Analysis

Happy SysAdmin Day! | Geekdad from Wired.com.

Overheard in New York | Wednesdays Make You Want to Have One-Liners of Your Own.
One more to share…

As is my custom, we begin with things overheard:

Overheard Everywhere | Not the First Time He’s Had to Clarify That Today
Overheard Everywhere | Fine– Arby’s It Is
Overheard in the Office | Let’s All Brush Up on Our Speakerphone Etiquette
Overheard in the Office | I Haven’t Decided Which Half

And since we’ve been travelling waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much, [...]

When over fifty percent of the people in it have gone foetal from mental anguish.

First, things overheard:

Overheard in the Office | And Get Yourself Some Therapy?
Overheard at the Beach | Especially for the Part of It That’s Passing Through Me
Overheard Everywhere | Fine– Arby’s It Is

Geeky things:

12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript
Dlink DWL-G122 WPA – Ubuntu Forums
Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
Study: Perception of hole size influenced by [...]

Oooo…Media
Digg – This Is Why I Hate CNN (Pic)
Digg – No, f*** you, reader of CNN
Geeky things:
Vlc: Master Your Digital Media with VLC
Optimize Ubuntu 8.04 for Speed – Speed up Hardy Heron! – Softpedia
Gallery2:How To Write Scripts – Gallery Codex
Debian – you can never be sure
Ten tips for securing Linux desktops – at ZDNet.co.uk
Hands on: [...]

For those who care, I have really, *really* short names for my bookmarks toolbar folders — for instance, my leftmost folder, which contains links that I visit daily, is labelled simply ‘1′.  I use foxmarks to keep my bookmarks synchronized between all my browsers, and I use the “Add Bookmark Here2” plugin to just add [...]