THE ORWELL PRIZE is what we were talking about the other day.? It begins today!
More information on the Perseid Meteor Shower which peaks August 12
SPACE.com — Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks August 12.
We’re making our plans!
Here are some fun facts about the meteor shower.
Time to make the 2blog folder catchup post…
As usual, starting with all things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | What’s That on Your Shirt? A Maple Leaf?
- Overheard in the Office | Next Time Use the “Dying Fetus” Sound Effect
- Overheard in the Office | Well You Did Plan the Whole Funeral
- Overheard at the Beach | At the “That’s What She Said” Quarterfinals
For geeky things, I’m going to start off with some privacy links (to opt-out of tracking for advertising cookies):
And the rest of the geek links:
- polishlinux.org » Ext3, ReiserFS & XFS in Windows thanks to coLinux
- 10 icons sets to customize your GNU/Linux desktop
- How to Create The Ultimate Windows XP Installation CD/DVD | A New Morning
- 10 Excellent CSS Tips and Tutorials | Design Reviver
- Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
- » 5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode | Cracked.com
- Pareto principle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Abstruse Goose » Veritas Vos Liberabit
- Abstruse Goose » Life Imitates Art
- Review: The Dark Knight || kuro5hin.org
Political things:
- Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
- Holy Controversy: Religulous Reviews Hit Web | /Film
- YouTube – What is a narcissist?
Some parenting links:
- Overly clean homes may up bowel disease risk – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
- ‘Gen X’ author tells how guys really view age – Men’s health- msnbc.com
- and, since Grace now likes the “cloud game”: 30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth | Environmental Graffiti
Some things just for Cy:
And just plain interesting:
catchup blogging, again
Things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | Wednesdays Make You Want to Have One-Liners of Your Own
- Overheard in New York | Jesus Wept
- Overheard in New York | Then They Both Linked Arms and Skipped Off to Eternal Damnation
- Overheard Everywhere | But If Enough Rain Builds Up, You Can Watch Me Walk on Water
- Overheard in New York | Today It’s a Lolly. Tomorrow It’s a BMW
- Overheard in New York | Is Our Tourists Learning?
- Overheard in the Office | Now That Maggie Retired
- Overheard in the Office | Which Is When He Told Me About Overheardintheoffice.com!
- Overheard Everywhere | But Odds Are You Still Aren’t Paying Attention
- Overheard Everywhere | …Roll Videotape, Please
- Overheard Everywhere | It’s Easily Mistaken for a Leak in the Basement
- Overheard Everywhere | Where Are You Going with This?
- And vaguely related: CO-ED Magazine » How To Not Be A Douchebag Tourist In NYC
Geeky links:
- Generating Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates « UrbanSensor’s Weblog
- Chris Hall: The Perfect Margarita
- Linux.com :: Get to know Ubuntu’s Logical Volume Manager
- R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 – Columns by PC Magazine
- Schneier on Security: Why You Should Never Talk to the Police
- Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
Political things:
- 8 salary-talk traps to avoid – CNN.com
- Crimes and Misdemeanors – By Emily Bazelon, Kara Hadge, Dahlia Lithwick, and Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine
- Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — The TSA Guide to Reading Faces for Security Workers
- Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs – Yahoo! News
Interesting/funny/parenting and golf things:
- mental_floss Blog » Pass the Knowledge: The Origins of Your Favorite Condiments
- House of lies: Is fibbing to your kids ever OK? – Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
- How to Take Portraits – 19 Portrait Photography Tutorials
- 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything – Stepcase Lifehack
- YouTube – Swing Vision Tiger Woods
- 1069, Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, and other names so weird that judges forbade them. – By Eugene Volokh – Slate Magazine
That last one makes my first idea for Grace’s name (Entropy) seem positively mundane. Right?
I suppose it is redundant…
For me to link to a post about a post on The fun of fatherhood.
Myself, I was never much for D&D (I played once or twice, but have always preferred SciFi over fantasy).
Grace wants to see a meteor shower…
And http://meteorshowersonline.com/ has a page dedicated to the Perseids.
Happy SysAdmin Day! | Geekdad from Wired.com
Time for catchup blogging!
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, here are some beach sites:
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
Geeky things:
- Harvey Balls – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Shibboleth® 2.0 Available
- Blackberry vs. iPhone
- Why you want a Linux Live CD | Defensive Computing – CNET News.com
- Not a Guessing Game – Vixie on the DNS vulnerability
- 189 Funny UNIX Error Messages | fsckin w/ linux
- Linux.com :: Improve system performance by moving your log files to RAM
- Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
- ‘Spam King’ escapes from federal prison | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
- Escaped spammer dies in murder-suicide – Crime & courts- msnbc.com
Political things:
- Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily
- FSM in fireworks2.jpg (JPEG Image, 450×347 pixels)
- Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
Funny things:
- This cartoon wrote a sweary word on your toilet wall. « the rut.
- » Highlights Magazine: The Evil Version
- Which Cocktails Pack Most Calories? – Photos – KNTV | San Francisco
- mental_floss Blog » Pass the Knowledge: The Origins of Your Favorite Condiments
And finally, parenting:
Catching up again…
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 performance
- MySQL Blog:: MySQL: Replication stopped: Lock wait timeout exceeded
- DNSSEC HOWTO
- Heh
- How to win Arguments – Dos, Don’ts and Sneaky Tactics – Stepcase Lifehack
- What’s Inside: ‘Just for Men’ Hair Color
Politics:
- Congressional Confidential: Farewell, Jesse Helms | Indecision2008 | Comedy Central
- Think Progress » McClellan: Iraq’s Oil ‘Certainly Played Heavily’ In Cheney’s Desire To Launch War
- Bourbon business booms – MSN Money
- An American Pastime: Smoking Pot – TIME
Film:
2blog folder is not full, but here goes anyway…
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: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3 – LinuxWorld
The Urge to End It – Understanding Suicide – NYTimes.com
How to “Peel” Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Parenting things:
Why Most Sunscreens Don’t Work | Newsweek To Your Health | Newsweek.com
Funny things:
The 5 Most Unintentionally Scarring ’80s Music Videos | Cracked.com
Pranks: Just Say ‘Yes’ To Telemarketers
Abstruse Goose » At the Driving Range
Local News: Man found in WI basement covered in BBQ sauce | sauce, basement, covered : WWMT NEWSCHANNEL 3 (What makes this funny is that I’ve been in Appleton)
Time to empty the 2blog folder
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 pages to that 2blog folder when I come across a page I want to share later.
Then, once it gets overwhelmingly large, I just copy the links from that folder to a post.
As usual I start with things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | So Are We Having Lunch at McDonald’s?
- Overheard in New York | We’ll Keep Romance Alive Until Straight People Want It Again
- Overheard in New York | Hasn’t Bush Passed a Law About This?
- Overheard in New York | Is That a New Gay Bar in Chelsea?
- Overheard in the Office | Gouda Luck!
- Overheard in the Office | It’s Like a Party in My Diaphragm!
- Overheard in the Office | That’s a Sobriety Test in and of Itself
- Overheard in the Office | Sorry, the Clown Suit Keeps Throwing Me Off
- Overheard in the Office | Another Texan Reveals That He’s Not a Steer
- Overheard in the Office | That Sucks, Frank
Geeky things:
- SourceForge.net: Hobbit monitor
- The Emperor Workstation
- Banshee » Home
- View topic – Vista: Tweaked, Tuned, Hacked
- Computerworld > Asperger’s: the IT industry’s dark secret
- The Stalled Server Room – The Daily WTF
Political things:
- 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
- FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: 51,199,463,116,367 (Shout-Outs)
- Gay marriages worth $684 million – CNN.com
- Intelligent people ‘less likely to believe in God’ – Telegraph
- Where Is My Gay Apocalypse? / Over 3,500 gay marriages and, what, no hellfire? I was promised hellfire. And riots. What gives?
- Obama the Delegator Picks When to Take Reins – NYTimes.com
- Lambda Legal: Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in California
Just generally interesting:
Quickie catchup blogging
- Banshee » Home
- The worst airline — ever – Business travel- msnbc.com
- 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
- Gay marriages worth $684 million – CNN.com
- J gets another father of the year nomination, courtesy of The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: 51,199,463,116,367 (Shout-Outs)
- Intelligent people ‘less likely to believe in God’ – Telegraph
- Obama the Delegator Picks When to Take Reins – NYTimes.com
- Where Ideas Come From
- Lambda Legal: Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in California – is a trip to CA in my future soon?
- 15 Browser Add Ons You Can’t Afford to Miss | Nethackz.com
- Marc Ambinder (June 17, 2008) – Images Of The Election: A Pin In Dallas — wow, does that describe desperation, eh?
This is a bad year to be a celebrity…
(No mention of the global economy, however)
Catching up again…
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
- atheism11.gif (GIF Image, 576×630 pixels) – Scaled (93%)
- 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
- extinctiontimeline.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500×1061 pixels)
- Marginal Revolution: When should you take photographs?
- not bacon
- Fight back against restaurants’ cruel abuse of wine drinkers. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine
Film:
Funny:
It happened sometime earlier this year…
But I have now been on the internet more than half of my life.