• U.S. Senate Roll Call for the "restore habeas corpus" amendment to the military spending bill: I just wrote both of my Senators to inform them that in my eyes, they are guilty of treason. I’m probably on a list somewhere now, if I wasn’t already, but I’m pretty pissed off right now.
  » americanfascism congress law

• HRC | Buying for Equality: The Human Rights Campaign has released the 2008 edition of its guide for those who want to "vote with their dollars" regarding GLBT issues. My employer is, unsurprisingly, in the yellow zone.
  » glbt society
• lolsecretz: LOLcats + Postsecret. Arrr, that be a natural progression.
  » comedy lolcats memes

• 20×200 : ny.07.#20: pretty!
  » art avarice buyme

• Spoken Word Not Enough for Dictionary: I never thought about it, but I suppose it must be someone’s job to read a bunch of crap and spot neologisms. This may just be me, but: Best. Job. Ever.
  » ap dictionary language news

We use a fairly complicated spreadsheet full of formulas and pretty colors in my house to keep track of bills. This is shared on the network, but as it lives on my computer it is not available when my pc is off (alas, I have not got around to creating a fileserver yet). It occurred to me to me tonight, as I was filling in this month’s values, to try Google Docs & Spreadsheets and see if it might work for what I do. Incidentally, at first I couldn’t remember what it was called, so I googled “Google Office.” Any guesses what the first result for that query was? Anyway, so I click “upload,” upload my spreadsheet, click “share,” start typing the addresses of my housemates and they are completed from my gmail address book.

In short: yeah, so it’s over, and Google won. The end. Productivity applications are now commodity software, and Microsoft is so fucked.

• indexed: Albus Severus, I hope you turn to the dark side.: Yes.
  » harrypotter humor

Two weeks, 5000 items in the feed reader, 9 calls to comcast tech support. North Charleston, SC does not have internet cafes. I feel almost like I’ve been on vacation in a foreign country where no one speaks the same language as me and all of the TV news is about crazy stuff you can’t imagine anyone caring about.

Actually, it was exactly like that.

It’s good to be home.

• Temp Hides Fun, Fulfilling Life From Rest Of Office | The Onion: Particularly relevant considering I just accepted a new job — located via a temp agency.
  » culture funny life philosophy work

• Kanye West - Young Folks / The Hype Machine: Yes, it’s exactly what you think. Kanye has lost his got damned mind.
  » hiphop music remix sampling

• NYT: One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.: Finally decided what I want to be when I grow up. An expat.
  » education science society

• CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 million | TechCrunch: I hate to be a knee-jerker, but really, CBS is never, ever going to get the web. I’ve been watching the interaction of old media and the internet for over a decade, and everything points to this being last.fm’s death knell. Sad.
  » business music

• The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids: Cement: "’It was at this point in the conversation that I burst out laughing.’ If the pyramids were indeed cast, someone should have proven it beyond a doubt by now, in this day and age, with just a few hours of electron microscopy. "
  » cool egypt history science

• Hype Machine Download Links - Userscripts.org: By one Jason Rhyley. I am become the ultimate lazyblogger.
  » hypem mememe music userscripts

• GNU Songanizer Home Page - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF): "GNU Songanizer is a shell script to organize a directory [of music]. Creates virtual directory structures to give different views of the data, but without redundant copies of the files." Awesome.
  » linux mp3 music scripting
• The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:: "People who think of the VCR as old and stable, and the PC as a relatively new invention, are not the kind of people who think up Tivo[, it’s ppl] presented with two storage choices, tape or disk, without historical bias making tape seem more normal."
  » business cshirky entrepreneurship society

• Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2: Replace the default keyboard shortcuts in The Gimp with some more familiar ones.
  » gimp graphics photoshop thegimp

• Set Gmail as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu» firefox gmail linux scripting
• FeedWordPress: "…an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from newsfeeds that you choose into your WordPress blog." Slick. On second thought, a bit too complicated for what I do at rhyley.org.
  » feeds php plugin rss syndication wordpress