It says on my calendar that today is Presidents Day. Huh. As I remarked last year, it gets a lot less notice than Valentine’s Day, but hey, there’s a ton of pastel-colored and heart-shaped chocolate on sale in the stores if you want to stock up while you wonder why there wasn’t any junk mail today.
- Bush Courts ‘NASCAR Dads’ at Daytona 500, as Dale Jr. runs to a win, and Johnny Sauter endangers dozens of people with some bonehead rookie mistakes. He’ll get better, but going three-wide and wrecking Michael Waltrip wasn’t his first (or last) mistake of the day. And Scott Wimmer showed that not all rookies deserve the yellow stripe on their rear bumper that means
I don’t know what I’m doing, so don’t follow me.
In any case, NASCAR season has started again, and I’ve got something to look at on TV on Sundays until it’s time to go get sun-baked on Sundays at Saints games. - From what I could see on the TV, a lot of fans were genuinely happy to see the President at the race, but They Came to See a Race, Not a Photo-Op says that some weren’t so pleased. My impression was of a typical politician – all President Bush needed to say was
Gentlemen, start your engines,
but he couldn’t resist the temptation to say more than that. I can’t find a real story about it, but his mini-speech (lasting less than sixty seconds) before giving the command had me reaching for the fast-forward button on the TiVo. - Groklaw’s Jones Looks Beyond SCO and gives her take on the future of their lawsuit, as well as other legal threats to Linux.
- F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet, allowing delivery of bits over power-lines.
- The science of love takes a look at the chemicals involved in lust, love, and long-term attraction. I probably should have linked to this last week, but I’m sometimes slow.
- A new life for old flour mill details the latest developments in the plan for the Pillsbury A Mill, and tells about the meeting that will be this Wednesday evening at Marcy (not March) school. [press-patch]
- Here’s an article that paints Google as Big Brother. It’s an interesting article about the cons of Google, but no real news if you’ve been paying attention over the years. Still, it’s nice to have the information collected in one place. [jim]