Got an email the other day mentioning that “electile dysfunction” was a new term for 2008.
(being mentioned in connection with the super-Tuesday primaries which include Minnesota in a couple days). A quick search here shows that I’ve been using the term since 2000, and I’m pretty sure I stole it from somewhere else. Just in case you were wondering.
I hear there’s some sort of important American Football match later today. Huh! For me, the sports year of 2008 will begin in two weeks with the 50th running of the Daytona 500 [warning: annoying noise], but then there are those who say that I “just ain’t right.” Plus in ten days, pitchers and catchers report, which is also a possible marker for the start of the sporting year. I’m more excited about the rednecks turning left though, since spring training for the Saints won’t begin until late March (with the league-wide tryout camp down in Texas).
And that’s about it for today. I feel like I’ve been struggling through these updates lately, since I’m often short on links, and when I do go out looking for new and exciting crap to point you towards, I get depressed by the news and don’t feel like I can write anything about it without sounding glum.
- Marc Rochkind has developed an application that will look at the Meta-Metadata in Adobe Lightroom. Looks interesting, and I hope to get the time to play with it soon. I expect I’ll find out some interesting things about my photography. [top]
- As the EFF says, Illegal Government Surveillance: It’s Not Just For Foreigners. Apparently the fight in Washington isn’t over yet. If you’re concerned about the government hoovering up all of your phone calls and emails, you might want to express that to your elected representatives. [metafilter]
- This list of The Top Ten Things Environmentalists Need to Learn has some good points. But it doesn’t mention regulations, such as the one that limits the maximum speeds of certain vehicles to 25 mph (not even fast enough to leave my neighborhood without someone trying to climb inside my trunk), which basically prevent me from buying something like the Zenn Car. If the same vehicle could go 35 or 40, I could actually drive it around town, but at 25 mph, I’d get rear-ended inside of a month. [metafilter]
- This story about Catching Wild Pigs has been making the rounds on teh intarwebs lately. Google knows of over two thousand occurrences of the phrase
Do you know how to catch wild pigs
ever, and over two hundred just this year. Does any search engine offer a way to search for the first time such a thing appeared? Not that I can see. In any case, it’s a nice little story, and expresses why I almost certainly won’t be voting for the candidate from either of the two major parties come November. Update: Bill St. Clair pointed me to his mirror of the story, dated from March 21, 2003. The place he got it has gone 404. - Jim mentions The Baseball Reliquary, saying it’s
a sort of alternative Hall of Fame for baseball fans.
Looking at their website, it looks more like a collection of baseball artwork to me. Not that that’s a bad thing. But there’s their Shrine of the Eternals which does look like a good alternative to the Hall. [jim]