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    A Test Of One’s Own Google Reader Shared Items

    Recently, Dave over at DDtB noted that Google Reader’s shared items can scroll off one’s web page widget pretty quickly, but that it set up a fairly nice unordered list if you copied it off the widget for further commentary on your blog. And so it does, especially if you choose Paste Special > Remove MS Word formatting, which also removes Mozilla- and Google-added style elements. This is handy if you have a number of links grouped together and want to grab them for a quick omnibus post. Not so easy if they’ve already scrolled off the widget and are on either your…

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    McCain Voters Have An Image Problem

    Namely, this one: Are they really all white, older, infirm, and completely dead to the world? I’d have wondered if this were a Photoshop job, but there’s a natural looking curve in the one guy’s sign, and you can see the edge of another held by the guy behind him. The walker is just icing on the cake. h/t One Utah » Blog Archive » McCain’s America, previously from Bob Casca’s Goddamn Awesome Blog.

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    Rainy Sunday Redux: Staying Out of the Weather

    Chicago weather from the Chicago Tribune. Including Tom Skilling 7 day local weather forecast. WGN-TV and the Chicago Tribune — chicagotribune.com Weather Severe Thunderstorm Watch in IL: Cook , DeKalb , DuPage , Grundy , Kane , Kankakee , Kendall , Lee , Ogle , Will , Winnebago Severe Thunderstorm Warning in IL: Cook , DuPage , Will Flood Warning in IL: Henry , Jo Daviess , Kane , Lake , McHenry , Mercer , Ogle , Rock Island , Stephenson , Whiteside , Winnebago Flash Flood Watch in IL: Mercer , Rock Island A few moments ago lightning struck…

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    Rainy Sunday

    Good thing we got out to Morton Arboretum yesterday, it looks like it’ll rain all day today. We even got on the bikes to ride one of the loops although I had trouble downshifting. On the way down we listened to Car Talk and I actually submitted an answer to this week’s Puzzler via my trusty iPhone. I know why the cement mixer will get a quicker start than the dump truck, do you? Yeah, another post by iPhone. Lately it seems I use Google Reader to stay current and they recently added the ability to add notes to the…

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    Tit for Tat: As Ye Ambush, So Shall Ye Be Ambushed

    Check it out: a producer for FOX’s Bill O’Reilly attempts to beard the dragon in his den, and ambushes Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform. He tried the “repeat the question, repeat the question” badgering tactic, asking Moyers about his political affiliation, with the obvious implication that the conference is a nest of disloyal, pinko leftists. But Bill turns the tables on him, attempting to engage him, upbraiding him for acting as a shill for a man he calls “not a journalist, but a pugilist,” and challenges him to go back to his boss with an offer…

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    A Rest Stop Development: Nekkid Man at Scenic Viewpoint

    Here’s a way to get yourself noticed: strip and jump in front of cars. In remote eastern Utah. On a Sunday. Honk! Scenic view included nude man, police say – Salt Lake Tribune Police in eastern Utah arrested a naked man they say was jumping in front of cars on a highway. About 11:50 p.m. Sunday, Uintah County Sheriffs deputies and a Vernal officer found the naked 24-year-old from Austin, Colo., at a scenic viewing spot along U.S. Highway 40. Sheriffs Lt. John Laursen said motorists reported the man was jumping in front of their vehicles and as deputies arrived…