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From Today’s Feeds

The morons over at Fox News think the Lincoln-Douglas debate was between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. Awesome.

A chinese factory prints “Free Tibet” flags.

A clear difference between pandering and leadership prioritized over what is politically expedient. Senators Clinton and McCain for removing the federal excise tax on gasoline for the summer (the one that pays for road and bridge repairs, etc.), Sen. Obama understanding that it won’t actually do anything. Maybe Senators Clinton and McCain are on to something. I mean, we don’t really need to make bridge repairs. Sen. Clinton wants to offset it by raising taxes on the oil companies, which then would pass the cost on to the consumer making the legislation effectively useless and not changing prices at all. But hey, whatever makes your stump speech exciting, right?

DCist has a neat map of some wonderful possible changes to Metro that would be just awesome.

Sen. McCain flip-flops on yet another issue. Perhaps senility has set in?

Here’s a gem from Overheard in New York:

Mid-western mother to suit crossing against light: Excuse me, sir?
Suit, in mid-intersection: Yes?
Mother: You’re setting a bad example for my daughter -crossing against the light.
Suit, continuing on his way: Yes, I am.

–45th & 5th

The White House and more revisionist history and definition changes. They’ve heard about the internet, and video cassette recorders, right?

True Sports(wo)manship.

And finally, Boomerangs in space.

Another Gem from Savage Chickens

Still Life with Ninja by Savage Chickens

(via Savage Chickens - go check it out and subscribe to the feed there!)

Bush Coins

Bush 100g Coin

(via Boing Boing)

Blog Action Day: Other Carbon-Neutrality Websites

I posted a little while ago about purchasing carbon credits through Make Me Sustainable and Native Energy.

Some folks are having issues with the Make Me Sustainable page, so here are some more sites where you can purchase credits of various types.

Laptop Update & Other Stuff

As I previously mentioned, my Super Drive on my MacBook Pro had stopped burning CDs. DVDs were fine, and it would read any media. It just wouldn’t burn CDs. I found out Friday when I went to pick it up from the Genius Bar that it wasn’t the Super Drive but the logic board that had gone bad. I just got a call from the Apple Store saying my logic board is in, so I need to drop it back off.

I’d do it tonight so I could pick it up tomorrow, but I actually have work I need to get done tonight at home, and I haven’t actually left the office yet. I’m thinking I need to buy AppleCare before January, just in case I have any more issues. My warranty expires on January 9, 2008.

In other news, work has been hectic, and more is coming in. This is good though, as I don’t really like to be idle. It just happens to come at a time when there are a lot of personal projects I want to be knocking out as well. Which is kind of a bummer.

And now, a random article on Wikipedia