Man attacks inflatable ghosts, pumpkin – Yahoo! News Perhaps he was engraged by the commercialization and trivialization of an ancient Pagan holiday, or perhaps he just rilly, rilly hates the beginning of Inflatable Yard Display Season.
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Search for boots by size | DUO boots Holy crap, my calves are HOW many centimetres around? UK pounds are how many US dollars? But it may be worth it…
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Cruise 19 – EXTRA WIDE Calf Boot by David Tate (Black) Ooooh… could these actually fit my monstrously chunky calves??
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Orcinus notes that the recent Barna poll of young adults under 30 shows that the ultra-conservative religious right does not have time or demographics on its side – can I get an amen? They’re not going to be having it all their way for many more years.
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Evangelical Movement – Voters – Religion – Politics – Christians and Christianity – Republicans – New York Times The “old lions” of the Religious Right aren’t roaring as loudly as before, and the Republican Party is turning an increasingly deaf ear on their “RALLY BASE!” hot-button issues. Hurrah.
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Full-Circle Revival Grr. Parish poaching in Torrance (tags: Episcopal schism Anglican Nigeria) The Christian Century Sigh. By the way, iIsn’t the conservative faction really just a bunch of Baptists in Anglican drag? (tags: Episcopalian Baptist McCain) Glenn Greenwald calls them “Dead-Enders” The 30% (is it really that many) of the American electorate that backs Bush no matter what, until his last moment in office, are described as “dead-enders” by Greenwald. Nice one. (tags: Republican Deadenders)
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The Raw Story | Soldier once warned family: Investigate if I die (tags: ReadLater)
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NPR : 1957 Was the Year of the Icons Robert Siegel did a little culture piece today about 1957, the year that launched Sputnik, the X-13, and me. Apparently, Eisenhower dispatched the federal troops to Little Rock on the day I was actually born, although my parents were probably too busy at the time to notice. A lot of cool stuff happened in 1957. I’d better surf this trend as long as I can – probably 50 minutes’ worth.
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Curse you, amiable and erudite Mr. Fry, for being an accomplished WordPress blogger at the first attempt. Now I’ll be forced to add your feed to my “must read” list. Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Device and Desires My husband and his best friend are seriously into cell phone technology, and they constantly compare phones and features and contracts whenever either of them get a new phone. Stephen Fry’s comprehensive look at telephonic devices he has known, loved, or loathed beats my geeky hubby and his friend and their obsession all to bits and bytes. It’s an extremely detailed…
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Traverse Corporate Firewalls / Wired How To’s (tags: computers Firefox)