17. January, 2006 - Happy Emperor Norton’s Birthday!

… or perhaps not. According to Wikipedia, nobody knows for sure when he was born. Of course it was wikipedia which gave me today’s date as one of his possible birthdays.
Yesterday, Reason wished us a Happy Martin Luther King Day! This holiday is as good a time as any to remember how one of our greatest Americans was bugged and harassed by a paranoid, power-mad J. Edgar Hoover, in the name of National Security. Indeed. [instapundit]
Hugh has the top ten blogger lies. Funny. [instapundit]
Here’s a website that shows you how to stack pennies to make bridges, towers, etc. Cool stuff, constructed with no glue. Or you can stack empty cans to make art. [boing boing and fark!]
I know it wouldn’t fit (either physically or aesthetically) in my living room, but dang this Croissant Sofa is cool-looking. [boing boing]
Over in St. Paul, Como seeks money for bear, ape spaces. They’re asking for ten million to give the critters more room. I’ve always liked Como more than the big new zoo out in the ’burbs. [press-patch]
Am I paranoid when I see the Washington Post’s editorial Killing Made Easy and think they want to steal my property when I read Political long shot that it may be, a national ban on the general manufacture, sale and ownership of handguns ought be enacted. Well, come and get ’em seems like the only appropriate response. [war on guns]