• Mini-Posts

    links for 2009-03-28

    Mass. college cancels classes, sports after 'miserable' virus sickens 100 students, faculty — chicagotribune.com Ugh. Noro is awful stuff (tags: Norovirus) Geoffrey Dunn: HuffPo Exclusive: Right-Wing PAC Behind Palin Poll Revealed Read the whole thing for a slew of stuff about Palin robocalls and more signs of the coming electopocalypse (tags: Palin Republican) Dump Michele Bachmann: Bachmann on Hannity Wednesday – Obama is Promoting "Economic Marxism" (tags: BatshitCrazy Republican RhetoricOfFailure Bachmann) Michigan Messenger » When $27 is more important than reading Macomb GOP in favor of cutting of social services to spite the place… Like libraries, animal shelters, and a…

  • Blogs Wot I Read

    Flight 1549 Recovery Photos

    The Online Photographer: AIG and US Airways Seek to Cover Up Flight 1549 Recovery Photos Two of the photos taken by Stephen Mallon to document the recovery of US1549 from the icy clutches of the Hudson are on the linked blog post. AIG and USair told the photographer to take a bunch more images down from his website. Coverup, or paranoid caution?

  • Blogs Wot I Read - The Life of Riley - Twitter

    CROCS Intervenshun – Thanks For Ur Halps LOLcatz!

    I wonder what MrRileycat_Esq would do if I came home wearing CROCS? Would he react like this stalwart cat, saving his or her human from committing shoe crime? Every now and then, I think about getting a pair of CROCS, because they’d make pretty practical gardening clogs and also for those times when we’re on vacation and need a comfortable slip-on sandal that won’t get ruined by salt water. Fortunately, the good people at I Can Has Cheezburger were there to stop me from doing irreparable harm to my dignity and self-respect.

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2009-03-27

    Dairies Strive To Go Green: Turning Waste To Watts : NPR Whoa, that idea was old back in the Sixties in the old BBC comedy "The Good Life/Good Neighbors." Tom the suburban self-sufficiency farmer had a smelly digester in the basement, which made for great comedy whenever it broke down or the prissy neighbor lady had to deal with it. (tags: NPR Green BBC) Without Bush 'millstone,' GOP can mount comeback, leader says – CNN.com I can't believe McConnell said that Bush was a millstone around the neck of the GOP in 2008 AND in 2006. Because that's admitting that…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    FAIL: Old del.icio.us comment thread

    delicious blog » using delicious on your iphone. Used to use del.icio.us more when I could use my work computer to read news and websites, fell out of the habit post-iPhone. Checked for a bookmarklet rather than an app and found this awesome! FAIL of an official blogpost demonstrating how to add a del.icio.us bookmarklet to iPhone in a video not viewable on the iPhone. All the most useful info is provided by commenters. To their credit, d.i.u. staffers kept reading and responding. I’ll try the bookmark method at home tonight.

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Pope Lanceted Over AIDS Remark

    BBC NEWS | Europe | Pope ‘distorting condom science’. Wow, this story reads like Science taking on Faith in some kind of jousting match with the Lancet literally taking point. This is another test, this time of the current “Press it!” bookmarklet from the iPhone. It brought the link into the post just fine, but the keyboard doesn’t engage. Meanwhile, it works in the HTML edit screen, but the category list has no way to scroll down, and it’s cut off after the first few categories. More tinkering is called for. Meanwhile, this all-too fallible Pope had better stick to…