So, which conspiracy theory is best?
Governor’s Mansion fire investigation:
- (for Democrats) What was so compellingly revealing that it had to be burnt in the Governor’s Mansion?
- (for Republicans) Which delegate left a bag of burning dog doo on the porch, not knowing there was nobody home to stomp it out?
The longest six weeks. Ever.
They cannot wait until the democratic Pennsylvania primary is over.
2blog folder catchup
As usual, we begin with things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | Sometimes We Even Have Sex
- Overheard in New York | Upon Hearing This, Several New Yorkers Burst into Flames
- Overheard in New York | How to Get Some Personal Space on a Crowded Train
- Overheard in the Office | That’s Usually More of a Minor, but She’s Really Motivated
- Overheard in the Office | The CEO Didn’t Realize the Gravity of Mr. Cheney’s Warning Until It Was Too Late
- Overheard Everywhere | Don’t They Have, Like, a Three-Day Lifespan Anyway?
Political things (since I did, in fact, caucus last night):
- News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | TOP STORIES | Obama rally draws thousands downtown Friday
- Daily Kos: I Refuse to Buy into the Obama Hype (now a supporter)
- John Cleese’s “Letter to America†« Things Are Looking Up…
- Elections Department
Geeky things:
- Slashdot | Obsolete Technical Skills
- Slashdot | Chroot in OpenSSH
- NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse
- Greatest technological challenges facing humanity | Science | guardian.co.uk
- Don’t Shut Off Vista UAC, There’s A Better Way - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek
- How To Change Windows’ Logon Screensaver ~ Windows Fanatics
- Media Direct Button(other uses) - Page 4 - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion
Feature: Use Your Wii as a Media Center - Humor: How Grandma Sees The Remote
- SourceForge.net: ubuntuzilla » home
- Feature: Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop
- 9 (More) Useful Websites You Should Know About, But Probably Don’t
- Table Manner Tips Every Guy Should Know
And some funny stuff:
They say: “No, Ralph.”
Ralph Nader is running for POTUS again.
Bad Ralph! No cookie! No vote! No contributions! Bad, bad Ralph!
Catchup blogging for the new year…
(This is a big list)
All things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | With New Yorkers, That’s a Safe Bet
- Overheard in New York | How Seacrest Saved Britney
- Overheard in the Office | Have We Learned Nothing from the “Cock Diagram” Incident?
- Overheard Everywhere | Is There a Polite Response That Doesn’t Sound Gay?
- Overheard in New York | Your Ad Said You Were Docile and Stupid! I Demand a Refund!
- Overheard in New York | It Looks Like Goodwill, Honey, but I Wanted to Give You the Benefit of the Doubt
- Overheard in the Office | Sacrilicious!
- Overheard in the Office | And I’d Like the Singing Version of All Three
- Overheard in the Office | All Right, All Right, I’ll Like It.
- Overheard in the Office | Regardless, Could You Put Yours On?
- Overheard in the Office | President Bush Defines “Democracy”
- Overheard in the Office | Chewbacca’s Agent Finally Snaps
- Overheard Everywhere | … Bitch
- Overheard Everywhere | And Leave Wet Spots Wherever They Go
- Overheard Everywhere | If Only the UN Were This Tolerant
- Overheard Everywhere | Don’t Make Me Come Down There and Rescue You
- Overheard in the Office | Like You’ve Never Wondered?
Now that you are in a good mood, here come the geeky things:
- DNS poisoning used to redirect unwitting surfers
- Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation | Tux Deluxe
- Geek About » The Ultimate Rollercoasters On Earth
- 10officegadgets
- DVICE: 12 Great Geek Gifts for Under $30
- Tiling
- AskMen.com - 5 things you didn’t know about Star Trek
- Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians
- Chandler Wiki : Cosmo Home
Now, let’s explore what grabbed my attention politically:
- America’s atheists | Believe it or not | Economist.com
- Rednecks vs. gay marriage | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- Straight Dope Message Board - I waterboard!
- Dickheads of the Year : Photos : Rolling Stone
- ABC News: Match-O-Matic
- FOXNews.com - Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
- Three Charged In Attacks On North Carolina Football Players - Local News Story - WXII Winston-Salem
- The Atheist Experience: TEA’s science curriculum director forced to resign for promoting science
- Duelity
- occamsrazorbu0.jpg (JPEG Image, 750×600 pixels)
Parenting stuff:
- The McSweeney’s Store
- Most Controversial Films of All Time
- The Delicate Matter of the Truth About Santa | LiveScience
- Index of secret recipies?
- How to Free Yourself from Guilt | ThinkSimpleNow.com
Funny things:
- Standard Disclaimer [rec.humor.funny]
- Rampaging Santas strike again in N.Z. - Weird news- msnbc.com
- Rob’s SketchBlog: Happy Holidays!
- Simpsons House In Real World | thecontaminated.com
- IKE ‘BEATS’ TINA TO DEATH
- Tiger Woods Putts Baby Into Diaper | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (thanks to Robert)
- Motivational Posters
- Parody Motivator Generator
And finally, just a few things that are interesting:
- How do I save my expiring frequent-flier miles? - CNN.com
- Magic Uproar - Magic Tricks: Top 30 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time - Part One
- Ford Offers Glass Roof For 2009 Mustang
- Innovation Canada | i2eye with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin | Graeme Stemp-Morlock
- Resistentialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More catchup blogging…
Once again, we start with things overheard:
- Overheard in the Office | Now Hop on One Foot While I Take Your Wallets
- Overheard Everywhere | More Likely He’d Giggle and Start Talking about Threesomes
- Overheard Everywhere | Maybe I Should Find a Nice Lesbian and Settle Down
- Overheard Everywhere | Why Children Should Not Be Taught New Words
- Overheard in New York | How Could You Not Love This Town?
- Overheard in the Office | You Call Your Mom by Her First Name?
- Overheard in the Office | Relax — That’s Just Canadian for “Good Morning”
- Overheard in New York | The Two Main Options for Young Gentlemen These Days
- Overheard in the Office | Except for Larry, Who Can Keep the Tutu
- Overheard in New York | Someone’s Been Listening to the President’s Speeches
- Overheard in the Office | It’s Quite Possible That Women Have Dirtier Minds Than Men
- Overheard in New York | Is a Goddamn Miniature Jack Too Much to Fucking Ask?
- Overheard Everywhere | Stop Poking at My Fishnets, Please
- Overheard Everywhere | Why His Family Has Stopped Drinking at Christmas
And continue with geeky things:
- Re: Sending Fax through CUPS
- Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac
- Direct2Dell - Dell’s Blog
- The Programmer Dress Code
- 9 BitTorrent how-to’s | TorrentFreak
- Stop Downloading Fakes and Junk From BitTorrent | TorrentFreak
- SourceForge.net: hylafax-users
- chumby
- Linux: Rip DVDs in Linux the (Semi-)Easy Way
- Gentoo-Portage - News
- Journal of toby (759)
- SNPP Information for Paging Carriers
- Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
General interest:
- 2010 Ford Mustang: 2010 Ford Mustang
- 50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know
- YouTube - TERMINUS
- TheMishMash.com: 9 Telltale Signs You’re Probably an Asshole
- 10 Most Unusual ‘Top 10′ Lists | NicheGeek.com
- The Best of RHF
- How to make exercise more fun than sex | Jonathan Fields | Awake At The Wheel
- What the police can learn when they run a background check on your name. - By Brad Flora - Slate Magazine
- Anecdotes [rec.humor.funny]
- Witzelsucht [rec.humor.funny]
- Pranks: Google Maps Catches Sophisticated High School Football Field Prank
- What various awards on The Daily Dish mean
- Good Question (leads to Islam’s Silent Moderates - New York Times)
- Why am I not listed here?
Catching up more often, lately…
- HOWTO create a logserver with syslog-ng - Gentoo Linux Wiki
- AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries | TechnoTarget
- AKSN1P3R: Firefox Asterisk Revealer
- Openfiler — Friendly enterprise storage management platform
- Five Desktop Blog Editors for GNU/Linux Users
- 5min - How to make a wi-fi booster - Video
- 15 cool word illusions
- Damon likes his Guitar lessons
- WikiCharts — Top 100
- 2blowhards.com
- CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
- » 5 yo boy dressed as Spiderman saves baby from blaze
- Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Telegraph
- [0711.0770] An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
- Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster - CNN.com
- TheMishMash.com: [Please Don't] Send in the Clowns: 11 Clowns You Hope Never Work Your Child’s Birthday Party
- Pigeon Point Lighthouse on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- The Hardware Aisle: Turkey tools moisten meat, resemble weapons
Blog catchup, yet again
- What TOP GUN is really about by Quentin Tarantino - Video - transcript
- Post to WordPress Blogs from Nokia Lifeblog
- WordPress Theme Hacks
- 40 Tips for optimizing your php Code
- GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Mark Peters on the Colbert Suffix
- 10 Ways To Improve Your Financial Situation In Just 15 Minutes | zen habits | simple productivity
- Military inadvertently recruits gays - USATODAY.com
- Hot Homework Tips for Parents
- UnSecureFlight.com :: Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier
- Roller coasters: 56 American scream machines : Kathika.com
- 25 Skills Every Man Should Know - Essential DIY - Popular Mechanics
- men who look like old lesbians
- YouTube - Commercial - Homocil
- USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon install | Pen Drive Linux
- The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Fathers at Ririan Project
- What to Save From a Fire - TIME
- Drinking stories that put yours to shame - CNN.com
- Overheard Everywhere | Like a Scat Burglar?
- Mike’s Blog » Best security sign ever!
- YouTube - Cheerleader Gets Run Over By Football Team
- Small World ride revamped for bigger passengers (CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)
- Happy Linux Thoughts: Cracking Windows passwords with Linux
- Polycom reboot hardphone script - voip-info.org
- Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters
- WallStreetFighter: How to Get Laid in 1977 and Your Ass Kicked in 2007
- Phelps Phucked | Slog | The Stranger | Seattle’s Only Newspaper
- Arjewtino » Blog Archive » I shaved it off for Movember
- Overheard in New York | Isn’t “Creepy Clown” Redundant?
- HOWTO Install HylaFax with iaxmodem on a running CentOS 4.3 + Asterisk 1.2.7.1 system with FreePBX 2.1 | FreePBX
- Why They Called It the Manhattan Project - New York Times
- Overheard Everywhere | The Cardinal of Contempt? The Deacon of Disdain?
- WordPress Super Cache 0.1 at Holy Shmoly!
- Identity Theft: How To Freeze Your Credit Report
- How to Win at Monopoly ® - a Surefire Strategy
- Bullet Points: 10 Really Weird Fetishes
- Overheard in the Office | Do You Need an Epipen?
- Overheard in the Office | Measuring Out My Life with Coffee Spoons
- Overheard in the Office | But the Horrified Looks on My Kids’ Faces Always Set Me Straight
- Overheard in the Office | Then He’d Play with Them in His Crib
- Overheard in the Office | They’re Considering Sacking Us
- Overheard in the Office | We’ll Be Married 10 Years This April
- Overheard Everywhere | … Bob
- Phelps hearts Bill Oreilly