Category: General

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:

• The worst airline — ever – Business travel- msnbc.com
• My 2008 father-of-the-year entry
• Where Ideas Come From
• Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill | LiveScience
• Twenty-five Signs You Have Grown Up