Presentation Files: OSCON 2008 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 21 – 25, 2008, Portland, Oregon –
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right –

Antivaxxers and the media | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine – Is there any conservative interest group that I haven't pissed off yet today by linking to something offensive to them?
The Meming of Life » the mix Parenting Beyond Belief on secular parenting and other natural wonders – Why do generally good and ethical religious […]

2008 Beijing Olympics | Olympics blog | For starters, it’s not ‘Ping Pong’ | Los Angeles Times – Olympian Gary Hall Jr. is now the latest Inspired by Diabetes global ambassador. Hall is currently writing for a blog on the L.A. Times website called "Olympics: Ticket to Beijing". It has updates, opinions, and […]

Finding Aid to the Transportation Library Menu Collection List of Contents, Finding Aids, Northwestern University Library – Collection of old airline menus. Believe it or not, they used to actually serve food on flights.
Building a Software Company: How to hire an idiot –

It’s just as bad as you expect. So bad, that it crosses over into funny.

If you are one of my Republican readers that actually believes the bullshit spewed by the Bush administration about how the surge is making life so great in Baghdad, please watch this series of videos (about 16 min total).
City of Walls
Killing Fields
Iraq’s lost generation
Of course, I’m sure life really is full of fuzzy bunnies in […]

This seems like it would be a lot more effective than spanking, grounding, or time outs.

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I was on the road to a horse show. Worth it? What do you think? (The slide show runs quickly, and I can’t slow it down. You might want to hit pause immediately and manually click your way through.) There is also a video of the equitation over fences class at Horseshues.

McCain tried, and mostly failed, to make an issue out the fact that Obama canceled a planned visit to a military hospital in Germany last week. It turns out that it didn’t matter either way what Obama did, because McCain had an ad ready to go blasting Obama for using the troops for political gain […]

The fact that Dan Baird had to go to Europe to release his new record is just another example of how far America has fallen. Baird is our best rock and roll troubadour, and the record is only available in Europe. That’s downright criminal.
The good news is that although the import CD is […]