Seattle Weather Update

Snow turned into rain late last night, and big chunks of ice started falling on the roof. The cars coming back from the State Championship Football Game (Bothell lost) hit high levels of slush. By morning the roads were clear because there was no overnight freeze. Yay! Now the windstorm is moving in. If I don't post, it's because the power is out.

Linkdump

I received a copy of Devilish Greetings, as reported on Boing Boing. My only complaint is that I wish the book had a little more text putting the postcards into context. There's some editor's notes at the end of the book alongside the translations of the text, but I wanted just a bit more. Still, it's quite an intriguing book.

It's about to get very hard for me to get through downtown. Luckily, a new traffic light has been installed further up the main road that will allow me to take an alternate route once constriction starts.

Happy Constitution Day.

The Annotated Constitution. If you haven't read the constitution recently, read it again now.

Gah, Colleen has horrified me, with this:

But this morning I nearly had a cardiac arrest when the hipper than thou designer on Dress This Nest gleefully removed the dust jackets from all the books in one client's library because dust jackets are just "protective covering" and books look prettier without them.

I'd have to shoot him.

"Books are awfully decorative, don’t you think?"

Wearing Pink. Two boys stand up to bullies. Via MetaFilter.

Emerald City Comicon has a guest list started, and it's looking good!

Forbidden LEGO. Mmmm, I think I want this book.

Steve Irwin's New Turtle.

Beehive in a Glass Jar.

Distracted Driving. Don't we have laws against driving while distracted? Like "negligent driving" and such? Why do we need new laws? Just punish people to the full extent of the current laws. Sheesh. Why do we have to spell out what people can or cannot do?

Ooh, ooh! I want a solar powered PC.

Robots Play Operation.

Comcast sort of, kind of clarifies what level of use is "extreme". They won't set a hard limit, but they'll kick you off if you hit their unspoken limit.

The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time, from the Museum of Hoaxes.

Ah, the love of a parent (LOLBirds).

Rest in Peace, Robert Jordan.

Non Sequitur

I smell like grass and dirt.

Blarg o' Links

Scipio makes me cry.

365 Reasons to Love Comics #138: Ramona Fradon and 365 Reasons to Love Comics #139: Nick Cardy.

Torvald isn't eligible?

Bully's Ten of a Kind: To Infinity.

*sigh* Iran upset over Persepolis. How dare that woman tell it like it is! At least this one is actually about Iran, unlike 300, which wasn't even about the current Persians' ancestors.

The Top Three Causes of Nosebleeds in comics.

Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #103. I wanna see that Wonder Woman/Xena crossover, darn it!

The Amazing Miss Arrowette.

Lest I be accused of techphobia or elitism, I joined twitter to test it out. Um. Ok.

Top Ten 80's Movies.

Doctor Who/Red Dwarf LOL.

Cool 3-D Art from Pulp Covers.

Reusable Designer Grocery Bags. I can't imagine paying $960 for a shopping bag, but some people are odd that way. Hubby-Eric and I use cloth bags for our groceries.

Race for the Cure. My team's page. Unfortunately, we need 10 for a team, so we probably won't be an official team on the day of the walk.

The TSA took his food. Congresscritter surviving on $21 a week (foodstamps amount) gets food taken by airport security. More here.

Need to fly, need ID? Make your own.

Ancient Birth Control. I'd heard of this one before. Another reason to make sure plants don't go extinct.

Jim Henson was more than just Muppets. The Cube and Limbo: The Organized Mind.

Wellington Grey: When I'm King.

A Fair(y) Use Tale (YouTube). It's over ten minutes, but amazingly clever and interesting.

Forever in Print. Infinite Copyright. The digital world is changing rights, I wonder how it will all shake out in the end?

Pyramid Cam. Cool.

This rate increase hit us directly. We can only afford catastrophic coverage, and we can barely afford that.

Radical changes coming to my hometown. I walk past that building every time I visit the library.

Why DRM is useless.

FilkerTom writes a song about LOLCats. It's turned into a YouTube video: Macro Cats. Slate tells us we can't resist them. And Diane Duane posts the best LOLCat ever, and the reason it's the best.

More Pug for the in-laws.

Morning Links

I must avoid downtown Bothell today. Not a problem... but BULLY is coming to visit today, so I hope he and John don't get caught in traffic from the parade.

Not a crop circle... a desert circle? Who made this, and why?

Ooooh, instructions on installing Ubuntu to dual-boot with Windows. I'm almost to the point where I've got my system properly backed-up for the install. Soon I will be running Ubuntu at least part of the time.

Vintage Seattle on Denny Hill, thanks to a question I asked. Cool!

The origins of the word "picnic".

Being thin doesn't mean you are healthy. Another argument in favor of exercise and not just diet to lost weight.

If you didn't see it, it's worth checking out. First watch Cooking With Feminists and see Stephen Colbert's first kiss with Jane Fonda. Then check out Colbert's Wednesday night interview with Jane Fonda, in which she stuns Colbert and almost manages to render him speechless, though he bravely forges on. I had to watch it twice I was laughing so hard.

Huh. Nobody helped me with my GIMP scripting problem I mentioned. That's really unusual. I've found that with blogs, I usually get an answer within a day. Oh well.

And for the in-laws: Darth Pug.

Sunday Linkage

Lea Hernandez tries to not weigh in on the poorly named "Minx" line from DC. Can't anyone name a line for women/girls some name that doesn't have negative connotations?

Johnny B's NFL Picks.

FilkerTom is thinking about destroying model cities.

Bothell Lost. Oh well.

Linkdump

Happy Birthday Elayne.

Just FYI for anyone living in the North Seattle/Kenmore/Bothell area, my local comic shop, Corner Comics just massively increased the amount of Manga she's carrying. No, I'm not getting anything for blogging this. Just wanted to let people know. And I'm curious to see how well it sells, as she's been hesitant to carry titles that regular customers weren't ordering.

My thanks to everyone who clicked on my Blogshares and QuackTrack links to help me out in my on-line game. I got some "chips" in the game, which allowed me to get some other cool stuff. All virtual stuff, but I'm enjoying myself.

Speaking of enjoying, the local high school team, Bothell High School, is playing in the state championship for football tonight. Earlier this year, the Cougars set a state record, and tied a national record, for most overtimes in a high school playoff game.

The First-Christmas/Holiday-Card-Of-The-Season award goes to Baboon Books. One of these years I really ought to send out Christmas cards.

Here's a summary of Seattle's November.

The Incident on Niihau Island. Another story from DI.

Need a dose of Cute, and Cute Overload just isn't cutting it? Try The Cutest.info, and vote for the cutest if you feel like it. I'm kind of partial to The Funniest.info, but it's often NSFW.

Linkages

Johnny B's NFL Picks.

Galactus is Coming.

Dr Sordid profiles Aquaman.

This happened just down the hill from us.

Making Light has a round up of information about the UCLA student who was Tasered repeatedly by police after he'd been cuffed and subdued.

Boing Boing asks if RIAA lawsuit damages are unconstitutional.