Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Tennessee Considering Bills to Authorize Church-Specific License Plates – Wow. This is several different colors of wrong.
- Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle – Ars Technica – With great power comes great responsibility — or you won’t have the power for very long.
- Attention: Your Insurance Doesn’t Cover Damage From Corpse Fluid [Oh My God] – Well, I certainly need to talk to my agent about this!
- Microwaving a cellphone is surprisingly cool – Well, that’s certainly interesting. And it explains a lot.
- Visit to a smouldering coal-fire ghost-town – Very cool, in an horrific sort of way.
- The “New” GOP: “people learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh than they do in high school or college.” – I think the headline says it all about the problems that the GOP (new or old) has. Yeesh.
- Coroner: Driver painting nails kills biker – Chicago Breaking News – Okay, generally horrible — but yet another reminder that cell phone users aren’t the only ones fatally distracting themselves from driving.
- Eccleston Shows Us How Supervillainy Is Done, In New G.I. Joe Trailer [G.I. Joe] – Okay, yeah, this sounds fun. Though I don’t recall the Joes using powered armor.
- Michele Bachmann Lies About a Founding Father, Obama, etc. – With all the goofballs who have been elected from districts that I reside in, I’m pleased to say that Bachmann, at least, isn’t my representative (shudders).
- YouTube – Coming Home on Friday, Going to Work on Monday – Heh. Yeah, that's about the size of it. (via Jim & Ginger)
- YouTube – Coming Home on Friday, Going to Work on Monday – Heh. Yeah, that's about the size of it. (via Jim & Ginger)
- YouTube – Wolverine (in 30 Seconds) – Yeah, I had a feeling.
- Make Twitter Conversational with Twitoaster – This is one of the few useful-founding Twitter extensions I’ve read of.
- Time’s hacked poll – Of vague interest, except in the telling (first link) of how the group tried to break reCAPTCHA, but in the end could only brute-force their way around it.
- Gene Kelly tap dancing on roller skates – Very cool. I fell down just watching.
- Pork Pushers Demand Name Change for Swine Flu – Names mean things. Changing what we call something because the old name is too uncomfortably accurate is a bad idea.
- En Tequila Es Verdad: Happy Hour Discurso – No, no, no, no, I’m sure that blocking a new FEMA head just prior to hurricane season is solely a matter of principle!
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