what’s up? Raleigh Man Killed In Shooting Outside Southpoint Mall Theatre

oh, so that’s what oasdi stands for

a cheat sheet for the next four years:

• filibuster

• cloture
• supermajority

Two Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide On UNC Property

evil quote of the day: I am [a scary guy], I change constitutions, I put churches in schools –karl rove

dad’s christmas light display is looking fancy

found it! the desk that i’ve been searching for (really): wave desk

nice desk, wrong price

new word: psephological (meaning: the scientific study of elections)

retro! desk circa elementary school

i really love these: Textbook disclaimer stickers

i want one: Moto Razr V3

danger will robinson (the new bad thing): You see, Reffy is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer, which means that it will make a connection to a buttload of sites of your choosing with any referrer URL and User-Agent that you specify.

photo of the day: trixie’s book mosaic

sheesh: OOoFf!

what collaborative article editing looks like: history flow

new word: dross (meaning waste or impure matter)

frighteningest album cover: stardust…

funny name, fast internet: FIOS

BOO to WUNC stick it to ‘em ipas

i meant to post this before, but: i think these pictures/this project is beautiful

file this under unexpected acronyms: BYOV (i was looking for bring your own vegetables)

prediction: the popularity of civil unions will skyrocket among heterosexual couples as an alternative to (or in protest of) recent moves by many states to affirm marriage as a discriminatory union.

hella neat firefox extension: conquery (adds search plugin options to right-click menu)

eek: tomato shortage

as chosen by bloggers: The Top 40 Bands In America Today

new word: micturate (meaning: to urinate)

picture of the day: lilush.jpg

witness the ivory tower crumbling down: Google Scholar

depressing quote of the day: We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said, ‘If you just had a gun for that.’

hmm. so who is oh_velveteen i wonder?

neat blog: To Speak of Trees: Musings of a Young Traveler (of someone in ghana teaching english)

unexpected web-surfing destination: Tubular Bells (has anyone ever listened to this?)

so beautiful: cataloged by color

Robert McHenry, Former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica and freeloader on humanity’s collective knowledge

new word: crepuscular (meaning: resembling twilight)

more holiday-themed sodas: turkey and gravy, cranberry, mashed potato and butter, green bean casserole, and fruitcake

i never noticed that there is a subliminal arrow in the FedEx logo

perhaps the coolest commercial ever: the new citroën c4: alive with technology

the new microfiche? High Density Rosetta

to read later: RLG DigiNews Volume 8, Number 4 (scroll down to Applying 3-Dimensional Modeling Tools to Analysis of Handwritten Manuscripts for some neat visualizations)

an OS i’ve never heard of: SkyOS

saw this scripty arabic eid stamp at the post office and had no idea what it was–apparently it’s for eid ul-fitr, the end of ramadan

good blog, not so much about gadgets: Gadgetopia

from the onion: I Must Take Issue With The Wikipedia Entry For ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

watch out: Pepsi Holiday Spice

another achewood snorter: alternative lifestyle turkeys, huh?

achewood: and that finger better be fadin’ fast

btw, Firefox went 1.0 this week. i was installing on all the computers in the hotel business center before i discovered that i could plug my laptop in.

snort: a real thumb drive

sweet: $1337

request: i’d like to see this election results by county map cartogram-ified

post-election quote of the day: A slim majority of American voters think torture of prisoners is OK as long as those gays can’t get married. (from robin)

why i love boingboing: kerry concedes

this is news: the guy behind the excellent electoral-vote.com is andrew s. tenanbaum, the same guy who created minix (a small unix-like os for teaching operating systems to computer science students) and whose refusal to allow people to modify minix, most notably linus torvalds, inadvertantly sparked (or furthered) creation of the linux kernel and the gnu/linux os.

am i behind the times? has anyone heard about this dubai world project? i saw it described on an airport advertisment in heathrow. here’s the official flash-o-rific website. i need to check out this dubai.

apparently this is the face of terror (vote kerry!)

kudos to the chapel hill police for finding my bike (and primary mode of transportation) which i discovered had been stolen on the day i left for ghana. the first stolen bike they’ve recovered in 4 years! rock on officer kramer.