Much delayed catchup blogging…
Published Date: November 12th, 2008Category: Culture, Geek, funny, golf, overheard, parenting, politics, pop
As usual, starting with things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | And I’ll Miss You While You’re in Kinderjail
- Overheard in New York | For Bonus Points, Answer the Question with Two Dicks in Your Mouth
- Overheard in New York | I’ve Got Mounds of Hatred Today
- Overheard in New York | Then Go With My Blessing, Caped Crusader
- Overheard in New York | Tonight’s Lifetime Movie: Dakota– Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Overheard Everywhere | The Thin Line Between Wine Appreciation and Drunken Debauchery
- Overheard Everywhere | …The Fifth Being My Blackberry.
- Overheard Everywhere | The Bambi Theme Party Was a Better Idea in Theory Than in Practice
- Overheard Everywhere | Interestingly, Gay Recruiters Use the Same Argument
- Overheard in the Office | Betty: Yet Another Ingenious Excuse to Get Out of Working
- Overheard in the Office | Jeez, I Already Know How to Pass Out at Parties
Many, many geeky links to catch up on:
- Term::GentooFunctions
- Heroes: Man Tells Fax Spammers To Go Fax Themselves… And They Comply
- 8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data
- APOD: 2004 September 26 – Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
- APOD: 2008 September 20 – A Darkened Sky
- APOD: 2008 June 23 – The International Space Station Expands Again
- APOD: 2008 May 17 – Logarithmic Spirals
- Logarithmic Spiral — from Wolfram MathWorld
- FreeScience.info
- TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL: 10 Best Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux
- SPACE.com — Mysterious New ‘Dark Flow’ Discovered in Space
- 13 WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
- Pick a lock. For fun. (It’s legal too) — chicagotribune.com
- Letterfu – Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue
- 17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use! – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
- TechEBlog » Math Clock – Photo
- Linux.com :: VLC goes to nine point two
- iTWire – Linux alternatives to Windows SBS part two
- How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1 » Themetation
- Tux Training » Blog Archive » How to make Ubuntu extremely fast
- 10 must-have Linux office applications | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
- 30+ (More) Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks and Hacks | WordPress
- 15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
- Linux.com :: Clean up your filesystems with fslint
- 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know – NETTUTS
- 8 Ways to Maintain a Clean, Lean Ubuntu Machine – Make Tech Easier
- Slashdot | Spammer Perjury Is Worth Prosecuting
- 10 power-saving myths debunked | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-10-06 | By Logan G. Harbaugh
- Monitoring Asterisk 1.4 with SNMP and CACTI for pretty graphs!
- Experimental Firefox Extensions: Experimental Extensions We’d Like to Go Mainstream
- NASA – NASA TV
- 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
- 25 essential Firefox add-ons for power users | News | TechRadar UK
- The State of Linux Docks | LinuxHaxor.net
- Ubuntu Tutorials : Dapper – Gutsy – Hardy – Intrepid
- Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’ | TorrentFreak
- Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials | Noupe
- Lazy Linux: 11 secrets for lazy cluster admins
- IPMI – Community Ubuntu Documentation
- IPMI HOWTO for Debian GNU/Linux on the Intel SR2300 (Server Board SE7501WV2)
- Dell BIOS firmware updates on Debian | MDLog:/sysadmin
- Flashing a Dell Bios with Linux (en) – FelixSchwarz
- Dell BIOS Update on Linux PC / Laptops | Southend Linux Wiki Site
- How to: Flashing your system BIOS under Linux
- Curved AWN dock. « Linux Owns
- neuron-galaxy.jpg (image)
- Annoying Body Glitches: Can We Prevent Them?
Family/golf things:
- USGS Release: Beach Sand Often More Contaminated than Water (9/12/2008 1:50:30 PM)
- Urban Dictionary: gaybie
- The glossy, sanitized new versions of fairy tales leave out what matters: the scary parts – The Boston Globe
- Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts
- 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography
- Seton Free Wireless
- Golf and lawyers
- BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Golf secret not all in the wrists
Political links (yes, overdue):
- ABC News: Why Do We Believe Impossible Things?
- Voter Registration information for all 50 states
- 6 Brainwashing Techniques They’re Using On You Right Now | Cracked.com
- Presidential Elections
- Without God – The New York Review of Books
- Tsa: TSA Airport Screener Steals Over $200,000 in Gadgets, Almost Gets Away With It
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 04, 2008) – So Many Volunteers, So Few Voters
Purely entertaining:
- Abstruse Goose » say what you mean
- Shut Up… No, YOU Shut Up! – Features – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
- xkcd – A Webcomic – Height
- The Best of NC-17 Movies: 10 Films Somewhere Between R & X
- Why is everyone saying “fail” all of a sudden? – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine
- Periodic table of vulgarity
- xkcd – A Webcomic – Election
- hatejobhunting.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×338 pixels)
