- Bored? Looking to rouse some rabble? Check out Protest.Net to see what's hot. (I find myself wondering why AAA doesn't have a pointer to this so you know where NOT to go on vacation. It really woulda sucked to be vacationing in Seattle last week.)
- Do you have Urine Trouble? Since the late 1980s, the degrading ritual of peeing into a cup on demand has become increasingly familiar to American employees. My solution: work for myself.
- Prehensile.com asks you to Laugh till you pee. I don't know if it's that funny, but it does have pointers to other good things. And it kinda fits with the previous link.
- I started a survey asking What happened to the Mars Polar Lander? You have to register to vote, but don't let that discourage you.
- Dan Lyke asks What are archives for and doesn't really come up with answers, but brings up some issues that need to be solved. For example: Why save just the URL for something interesting?
- The History Channel's This Day In History also lets you see what happened on any day of the year.
- PDR.net for Consumers has healthcare information you can trust. They're not far wrong, and it's handy being able to look up more information about a prescription than you normally get. The only downside is that you have to register.
- Rip Rense is Having yet another LTSEWH day (which stands for Less than satisfying encounters with humanity and is something that bugs me, too.)
- Selectsmart's Presidential Selector lets you enter how you feel on some issues and then tells you who you should vote for. Saves having to think! (And it told me I should vote for the Constitution Party candidate, with the Libertarian a close second.)
- The Economist: The style guide is handy if you're writing, and I wish more people would use it when they're writing things I end up reading. Similarly, the DOs and DON'Ts for News Sites has some good ideas about how to put news on the web.
- Alan Keyes called me a racist tells of a reporter's run-in with Alan Keyes. OK, I've thought about it. Keyes has become unhinged and unreasonable. Personally, I'm trying to decide if being a nutcase keeps someone from being a viable candidate.
- Fireball lct - world's quietest desktop HDD is a story I'd like to see more of. I've got three computers running most of the time, and the hum gets deafening sometime. Quieter is good.
- Dan Gillmor's Civil cases and wronged consumers talks specifically about the Microsoft cases, but covers class-action suits in general. The only ones who win are the lawyers.
- Bryan Pfaffenberger of the Linux Journal asks "Is There an "Alarming" Shortage of IT Workers?" and points out that the H1-B program is an excellent mechanism for holding down wages. The only real shortage is of skilled, unmarried, youthful workers who are willing to work 80-hour weeks. Bryan also has written Copyright Strikes Back, which is another good article that has the premise that Copyleft is Copyright done right.