Links and Stuff of the Moment

Links and Stuff of the Moment

• He’s Not In It For The Money: Frank Zappa’s Big Band Brother Ed Palermo
• QRIO: Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With!
• Zinni, Vietnam veteran, Bush supporter in 2000, against the conflict in Iraq
• Judge: I saw police commit felonies: A judge who said he witnessed some of the anti-free trade protests complains in open court about how police handled the demonstrations.
• Net Smartass Extraordinaire gives us: Shock and Awe: Merry Christmas from the White House!
• Mission creep for Patriot Act
• From Leah: Tolerance.org: MISOGYNY IN MUSIC: Have Videos Gone Wild?
• Hilarious Audio from NPR: NPR : Humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris—a Santaland Diary thing. Very very very funny.
• My Quixtar URLs Page was updated.
• I like this Doug Welch column, which can be summed up as Think.
• NFL Click for Cans
• jwz points to Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler—wow! bitter, smart, witty!
• HTTP made easy
• What Does LVX Mean?
• Great quote: “No man was more comprehensively doomed than him whose chief source of gratification was making favorable impressions on some particular woman.”—Quicksilver p. 389
• Slugging—I did not believe in this—but my sister who lives in DC says: My friend slugs to work every day. She lives with her dad way out in Potomac Mills, slugs to the Pentagon, takes the metro there and is work in about a half an hour to forty minutes. Otherwise it would take her up to an hour to two hours (on a bad day) to get to work. Evidently, there are unspoken rules, for example, no talking, driver controls the radio, driver must pick up two people (to make it safe), and you don’t make future arrangements to meet up. It’s a great way to commute because all parties involved benefit and there’s no commitment. Driver gets to take the HOV lane and everybody gets to work faster. Erica was saying that they did a piece on NPR and she heard that it was started by military folks who lived out in the burbs when the HOV lane was created. Or, so I’ve heard.

It’s 11:24 on 11/23. Here comes Christmas!

Onward.