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Two in a row?
Hell, I’d be happy with one. Ever!
Iowan Shoots One In 67 Million Golf Game – Sports News Story – KCCI Des Moines
Rainy days and Mondays…
Now cheer me up. Why? Because the golf courses will be really nice and green when I play!
Catchup blogging
Geeky things to start off:
- ZipTie.org
- DBI Recipes
- TAP Modem Numbers
- Fight Splogs – Wired How-To Wiki
- O’Reilly Network — The CSS Anarchist’s Cookbook
- http://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/
Other interesting things:
- Six steps to beat procrastination – I meant to post this days ago.
- Top 10 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
- Top 10 Greatest Movie Rants
Worst. Idea. Ever.
Combine “Star Wars” — especially episode 1 — with Andrew Lloyd Weber. What do you get?
Phanton of the Menace
I give it 20 years before it is made without irony. Either that or:
Ani Get Your Saber
Idea from this vader poster.
Look at the irony-meter!
It has spun around so strongly that it is right back where it started!
Time to go with catchup blogging…
Nothing overheard this week — I’ve been busy, so let’s start with geeky things:
- Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » FAQ on WordPress 2.5
- cronolog(1) – Linux man page
- photo stitch in ubuntu [Archive] – Ubuntu Forums
- Hugin tutorial — Stitching flat scanned images
- Blog Header Generator: Spiff up your blog with a custom header
- pedge_2970_rack_overview_01.jpg (JPEG Image, 633×231 pixels)
Political links:
- Kos: Dem Fighting a Good Thing | Newsweek.com
- Andrew Sullivan: Bush Administration Officials Will Be ‘Indicted For War Crimes’ – Politics on The Huffington Post
- Hundreds picket Westboro Baptist Church – Yahoo! News
- David Horsey: 25 Best Bush Cartoons | Photos from seattlepi.com
- Daily Kos: The GOPs 800 Pound Gorilla
- Daily Kos: Obama Didn’t Want My Money
- 10 impossibilities conquered by science – tech – 03 April 2008 – New Scientist Tech
Entertainment/celebrity:
- The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time – Nerve.com
- FEATURE: The 27 Greatest Horror Comedies Ever Made – OMG Horror.com – The Blog of the Living Dead: Horror Movie News, Features, Reviews, Games, Free Horror Films, Splatter, Gore, Puppies
- YouTube – Purdue SPE takes first place at 2008 Rube Goldberg
And just a few personal items:
If science was our national passtime…
then this would lead to a congressional investigation.
And I was in on every one of them…
Oneline die roller
Since G wanted to play mousetrap, we pulled it out. Of course, now it is missing pieces — imagine my surprise!
One of the missing pieces? The die. Laptop to the rescue!
(Although we actually used Online Die Roller)
Not so much privacy now, eh?
Time to take his guns, right?
Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dead at 84.
Thanks to Cy for the bad joke.
Catch blogging, expect more frequent updates now that the server is faster!
In honor of the new server, we’ll start out with geeky links first:
- Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins | Blueprint Design Studio
- WP Super Cache 0.6 – Holy Shmoly!
- The WordPress Expert
- WordPress MU › Home
- Gentoo Linux Documentation — Gentoo LVM2 installation
- The Unix Geek: Why I switched back to Ubuntu
- the { buckblogs :here }: Mongrel, SSL, and Apache 1.3
- Ext2fsd – http://ext2.yeah.net
- Dynamically configured mass virtual hosting – Apache HTTP Server
- Gentoo Linux Documentation — Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
- Gentoo Linux Documentation — Gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide
- Mass Install/Upgrade WordPress with Gentoo + webapp_config | SYP
- CodeChimp.net » Turning on Dynamic VHosts in Apache 2 on Gentoo Linux
- MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 5.1.3 System Variables
- Get Back your Screen Space: Maximize Firefox Viewing Area | MakeUseOf.com
- Trusted Root – Root Sign Certificate for Microsoft Certificate Services CA / Inhouse CA
- http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/courier-exec.txt
- 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site – Inside CRM
- Srizbi now leads the spam pack :: Marshal
- Second mass hack exposed – Security – iTnews Australia
- I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Antisocial | PBS
Geeky or funny — you make the call:
Now, just funny stuff:
- DOT Creates New Lane For Reckless Drivers | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
- Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures – I Can Has Cheezburger?
- America’s Drunkest Cities: Men’s Health.com
- No returns
- Being John Malkovich script by Charlie Kaufman
- beer_spill_3.jpg (JPEG Image, 652×488 pixels)
Golf stuff (I want, but not that badly)
- Full Swing Golf Swing Simulators Let You Play Onine | BallerHouse.com
- Full Swing Golf – Golf Simulators, Indoor Golf Simulator, Club Fitting, Golf Instruction
Interesting:
Catchup blogging is the latest rage
Few overhead things this time:
Some other funny things:
- Shroud Of Turin Accidentally Washed With Red Shirt | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
- Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die – Wasn’t this the point of Roseanna’s Grave (1997)?
Speaking of movies:
Geeky things:
- Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation – Wired How-To Wiki
- Bad Astronomy Blog » Earth and Moon, from Mars
- Forget Facebook. The Web’s platform is Firefox | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
- ‘Spam King’ pleads guilty to wire fraud – Security- msnbc.com
- *THE* classic Unix horror story | WSU Linux Users Group
- Creating a shortcut to a VPN connection – Network
- “Switch User” shortcut or command? – Neowin Forums
- the { buckblogs :here }: Mongrel, SSL, and Apache 1.3
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | What on earth is 42?
- PC World – Linux Communications Suite Enters Beta
- Google Sky
- Build A Digital Music Server – Wired How-To Wiki
- 10 Killer Firefox Extensions That You Probably Don’t Know About
- 3 Ways to access ‘Must Sign Up to View’ Sites | MakeUseOf.com
- Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop | The Iconoclast – politics, law, and technology – CNET News.com
- Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars? | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine
- Breast cancer ‘master gene’ breakthrough – Telegraph
- Neatorama » Blog Archive » 10 Most Beautiful Bridges in the World
Since golf is big in my life again:
- River Place Country Club
- Northgate Country Club, Houston, Texas
- Longest Golf Holes | ForbesTraveler.com
Since we took Grace to Longhorn Cavern State Park during spring break and bought two fossils:
Political and secular things:
- atheist.jpg (JPEG Image, 780×1000 pixels)
- Reason
- ABC News: What You Don’t Know About Living in Space
- Citizen’s Arrest Attempted on Karl Rove…Twice « WriteChic Press
- Think Progress » Rove: ‘I Fully Expect To Be Indicted By The End Of The Year’
- Stumper : The Real Problem with Power’s “Monster” Remark
- Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney | Reuters
- The Bush Memorial
No matter what happens I am going to keep believing what the tv says
No matter what happens I am going to keep believing what the tv says
