Link Aggregator

• Poor moron needs to check the images he posts on Craig's List
  
• For a very special day, you have to have Cat Butt Gum
  
• A google widget: people doing random stuff
  
• Top 10 Astronomy Images of the Year (via Slashdot)
  
• It seems that video games fill a psychological need.
  
• A few interesting tools: DivShare to share any file with anyone (how do they make money on that, exactly?), AnonTXT to send anonymous SMS messages, and Instructables to share how-to instructions yourself.
  
• Open a beer with legos for the very very bored.
  
• Love Heroes? Check out the Heroes Wiki.
  
• Knit complicated mathematics.
  
• Check out the uber creepy guy
  
• United Air ripped off an elderly couple for $3000, and offered $600 in vouchers in return. That sounds about right for United, which in my experience is staffed by semi-retarded orangutans.
  
• The Royal Mail delivered a letter with just a map, no address.
  
• Wacky celebrity patents.
  
• The perfect gift for those with a macabre sense of humor: the L.A. county coroner welcome mat.
  

• Dave Barry's must-read 2006 Year in Review is out.
  
• The history behind the Apple Clover symbol, from TUAW
  
• A German tourist wanted to go to Syndey, Australia, but he booked his trip to Sidney instead - Sidney, Montana. He assumed you could get to Australia via the US from Germany, but got worried when he landed in Billings.
  
• Watch out! If you use Google Mail and Firefox, someone might be able to steal your contact list. IE was untested.
  
• To add a classy touch, a story whose headline says it all: "Brussels sprouts cause turtle fart alarm" (via Dave Barry)
  

Catching up on a couple of tech toy sites, I found Clocky, a clock on wheels. When you hit the snooze bar, it rolls off the table it's on and repositions itself somewhere random in the room, so you have to find it before you can hit snooze again. Cool. Another cool thing is this site where you can create your own skin for any device - cellphone, iPod, PDA, what have you - with Tego.

• I like Waldo's Virginia political blog aggregator better than mine.
  
• Check out the amazing inflatible flash drive
  
• I'm generally not one for stupid Bush-bashing, and the "Bush is a moron" meme was tiresome even when it was new, but the George W. Bush Speechwriter amuses me for some reason.
  
• I've taken note of interesting in-county news over at Leesburg Talk.
  

Check out The Baby Name Wizard from iVillage. It's a very cool little widget that shows graphically the popularity of names over the decades. I found that I had to click on the area where you type names in order to get it to accept a name. For example, it's fascinating to put the names in of people you know, and see which ones were specifically popular in the time they were born (Heather, and Trevor).

Just some random stuff.

• A low fat diet does not cut health risks for women, in WaPo (via Ann Althouse).
• Interesting article on the history of telegrams.
• They've made over Ken (as in Barbie). His new image: "Ken's new garb includes a motorcycle jacket and cargo pants. But that's not all: he now dabbles in Buddhism."

• A guy with Pac Man on his butt
  
• "Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches"
  
• A USB drive in a twig
  

I have been using a new RSS reader program, Vienna. I highly reccomend it to anyone using Mac OS X.

• JK Rowling wants to kill Harry Potter? (via CQ)
  
• Forbes's list of the wealthiest fictional characters (via SST)
  
• The FBI put up a fake candidate in a West Virginia election to nab some vote-buying shenanigans. (via CC)
  
• There's now a word: "Schumed". It denotes "the act of taking credit for the work of a colleague" (via Malkin).
  
• The foul spectacle of megachurches closing for Christmas.
  

Just from some back email, I find these things:

• Inmates vie for title of Miss Penitenitary
  
• USB powered heated slippers
  
• Dumb Criminal of the Day

It has been a while since I trolled around to look at the weird things on the net. This is what struck my eye...

• iBelieve, for the Christian with an iPod
  
• The Open Library, a library of public domain books with a cool interface (bb)
  
• Google Base, an open database to whole the world in Google
  
• Massive numbers of mass-produced junk as art (bb)
  
• Chaucerian version of the lyrics to Shaft (bb)
  

I have had a large number of things come to my attention recently, and it's just overpowering to blog about them all. So here is another Link Rodeo.

• Google is now indexing scholarly papers at Google Scholar. For example, check out it's search results for TCL.
  
• The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed an open-source medical records system
  
• Captain Ed captures a profile of inconsistent application of hate crimes laws looking at two gang-related assaults in Buffalo.
  
• Chrenkoff found a pretty cool couple of online geography quizzes, for Europe, Africa, and US states.
  
• Hanoi Jane is becoming Jihad Jane (via Malkin, name courtesy of Tigerhawk)
  

• If Bush was smirking a bit when announcing Justice Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court, it was because Roberts' son was breakdancing in front of them.
  
• How popular is your AOL Instant Messenger screen name? Check AIM Fight.
  

• I need some of these! "I Park Like An Idiot" bumper stickers for parking lot offenders. (thanks to IMAO)
  
• An amusing article by Dan Dresner on rock, paper, scissors in a multimillion dollar context. (via Instapundit)
  
• There was a billboard in Los Angeles that advertised for a TV station, that advertised that it was for "Los Angeles, Mexico", with "California" stricken in favor of "Mexico". Well, someone put a flag over the "Mexico". And a radio station is counter-advertising
  
• The FTC has a mothers day card for you. (from the Volokh Conspiracy)
  
• They found Hitler's nurse, and she talked. (via Althouse)
  
• And just mentioning alcohol makes men randy. (hat tip: Dave Barry)
  
• The new Army transport, the Light Strike Vehicle sounds really cool, and looks like you will be able to buy one just like Humvee did. (hat tip: Sic Semper Tyrannis)
  
• For those who found the First Lady's address at the White House Correspondent's Association dinner amusing, C-Span has it here in Real Media format. (thanks to the Volokh Conspiracy again) Also, here is the transcript. (thanks to Sic Semper Tyrannis for that one)
  
• If you happen to be in Clearfield, PA, check out the monster fifteen pound burger.
  
• The caption contests over at WizBang are very funny; check out this latest one.
  

Oops, looks like I never posted this one... it was slated to be posted March 1.

Closing out the month of February:

• Lynn Swann for Governor of Pennsylvania
  
• Althouse contemplates the nature of power and a woman's image, thoughts brought on by Condoleeza's black boots.
  
• At the University of Alabama the student senate is condemning the free speech code adopted by the faculty senate.
  
• I am not Catholic any more, but using the Eucharist as a comedy prop still causes revulsion in me.
  
• The photos of the Canadian couple killed by the tsunami, whose digital camera was recovered recently, are here
  

Lots of weird stuff in the news it seems...

• A lady who was going to have a huge wedding fled and, when discovered, claimed she had been abducted, then recanted. I would hate to be that groom. (from: Althouse, Dave Barry)
  
• A car careened off the road and into the top floor of a house.
  
• A guy who relieved himself, then set fire to the toilet paper, ended up causing a huge forest fire.
  
• Someone found a snake in the celery. (from: Dave Barry)
  
• Police surrounded a school, complete with snipers on the roof, after a false alarm. A kid brought a huge burrito into the school all wrapped up and someone thought it was a weapon. (from: Dave Barry)
  
• They are started to recruit basketball talent as young as eleven. (from: Commonwealth Conservative)
  
• Michelle Malkin reports on a book, "Who's in a Family", that explains to Kindergardners about "'multicultural contemporary family units' including nuclear, intergenerational, mixed-race, and lesbian and gay arrangements". A parent came in, insisted that the school inform parents when it was going to send home "adult themed" behavior. He ended up spending the night in jail for his concern.
  
• Google News needs to look at their feeds more often, it seems.