15. December, 2003 - Bill of Rights Day

• Today’s Bill of Rights day. I’m tempted to say it should be a day of mourning, but I woke up in too good of a mood this morning.
• Have fun with this interactive snowglobe. But spend some time watching it before you give it a shake. [metafilter]
• Carbon monoxide deaths prompt caution to new Minnesotans is the other side to people being new to the idea of winter. I feel bad for the kids who died, but wonder why people don’t get some sort of checklist when moving to Minnesota.
  1. Bring Warm Clothes.
  2. Don’t run your car in the garage.
  3. Don’t drive your truck on the lake until the ice is a foot thick.
  4. Keep emergency supplies in your car.
  5. Never lick a frozen flagpole.
  Those are all things you just pick up growing up around here. Feel free to send in more. [strib]
• The pepys project at aka cooties is a hand-maintained list of weblogs, and it’s nearly reached 3000 entries. It’s not as comprehensive as other lists of blogs, but because it requires manual submission and manual listing, it’s probably a bit higher quality. Mike wants to break 3000 by the end of the year, so someone should probably add a few more blogs to the list.
• Jim has a writeup on The alleged capture of Saddam Hussein. Looking at the pictures, my first thought was I thought the Unabomber was already in jail. Joey, meanwhile, uses the opportunity to critique geek grooming. [jim]
• Says here the Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam, but so far nobody but the Telegraph is going with the story. The story actually broke before Saddam Hussein’s capture.

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:08:23.