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links for 2007-11-30

• Late entrant for the 2007 Retardo Montelban Award for nearly fantasy levels of stupidity
  "A receptionist for the Cook County public defender's office accepted delivery of almost 40 pounds of marijuana at her Loop office, prosecutors alleged Wednesday."
  (tags: funny fuckedup retardo)
• :: Save Lincoln Square ::
  Or, more accurately, the crappy buildings along Western near it.
  (tags: chicago lincolnsquare NearWhereILive)
• mental_floss Blog » 7 Things You Probably Don’t Know about The Golden Girls
  You know you're super gay when you actually DID know these seven things. (Yes, I'm super gay.)
  (tags: tv goldengirls)

links for 2007-11-19

So for some reason my del.icio.us links haven't been posting, so even my minimal blogging hasn't been happening.  I think I fixed it but I copied these that got missed in the meantime.

• How to Fold a Towel Elephant
  This is really cute -- even though it sounds really dirty.  (posted 3 days ago)
• Chocolatier Offers Sweet Ride With Free Samples
  Free ferry rides downtown...perfect if your family is coming into town for Christmas and you have no freakin' idea how you will entertain them (posted 6 days ago)
• World Clock
  This clock not only tells you the time but uses estimated rates of change to approximate the world's populations, diseases, species extinction, and other depressing factoids. (posted 6 days ago)
• 'Daily Show' writer: Why I went from punch lines to the picket line  (posted 10 days ago -- the strike is still happening)

links for 2007-11-10

• What would "24" look like in 1994?
  (tags: awesome 24 comedy)
• 'Daily Show' writer: Why I went from punch lines to the picket line

Make Doctor Who the People's Choice

links for 2007-11-09

• Priest Arrested For Stalking Conan O'Brien - November 8, 2007
  If there is one thing I've learned the hard way (snicker), it's that you can't trust many Catholic priests, clergy, or seminarians with boyish red-headed smart asses -- may they be me or the late night talk host. These letters are creepy.
  (tags: conan)
• Scribus :: Open Source Desktop Publishing for Linux, Mac OS® X and Windows®
  Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
  (tags: free publishing software opensource download)
• The Morning News - 100 Ways to Say I Love You by Paul Ford
  Elephant shoes.
  (tags: funny humour essay humor)

links for 2007-11-08

• Crazy Like a Firefox!
  Don't worry; this loophole isn't too nerdy, too technical or too hard for the average person. Assuming you use Firefox for your browser, follow the simple steps detailed below and you will be surfing the web much faster than before.
  (tags: awesome firefox speed)
• Mango Languages - Home
  (tags: awesome free language tutorials)

links for 2007-11-06

• Nicola's Drawings Thread
  Cute Doctor Who anime-style comics.
• Ten Days Until Time Crash
  (tags: doctorwho)

Quote of the Day

"If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they do in churches, angry mobs would burn 'em all down...Yeah, yeah: churches do more than facilitate the sexual abuse of children. They do good works. Denny's serves delicious Grand Slam breakfasts--and magic chocolate chip waffles that cure hangovers. And Denny's would still be out of business--burned to the ground by angry mobs, shuttered by the outraged authorities--if kids got raped by Denny's cooks and waitresses as often as kids are raped by ministers, priests, and youth pastors."  Dan Savage

links for 2007-11-05

• WriteCloud
  is a collaborative writing game like an Exquisite Corprse except that you choose the next character (letters or spaces or apostrophe so far) to come next. After 10 votes, the character chosen most often is posted. It's interesting, though incredibly slo
  (tags: game social exquisitecorpse writingIdeas)

Solidarity from the little guy

In case you're curious, I'll miss The Daily Show and be upset if my shows get thrown off schedule because of the strike, but I'm fully behind the WGA.  Sure my support doesn't mean as much as these producers (like the lovely Tina Fey, pictured left), but it's there nonetheless.  (Speaking of, did you catch the Family Guy special last night?  I didn't realize Seth McFarland was so dreamy.  Weird.) 

TV Guide has created a Strike Watch blog to keep those of us outside the know updated on how the networks will be affected.

To read lots of great stuff on the strike from a real live writer who's going to be on the picket line today, check out Mark Evanier's page here, here, here, here, here, and here.    Actually, just read his page all the time because he's always got cool stuff.   And he had dinner with Neil Gaiman last night.  Again, the only word to describe it is cool.  Or wicked if you're from Boston or 1989 England.