Yes, I know, I've been lagging in the blogging department, and while I have already prepared a short list of redundant excuses (old laptop went TU, new laptop needed Microsoft Vista 64 bit drivers, work, life, juggling small kittens, etc.), I figure it is better to just to keep blogging along like nothing has happened. Well, in reality, where I visit from time to time, all sorts of things are happening:
Self-biased political commentator, Stephen Colbert, has announced his plans to consider whether or not to announce that he has decided to think about running for the position of "President of the United States of America". Personally, I think he really just wants to rule South Carolina. In that stark placed named "reality", he is actually helping teachers in SC get teaching resources their classrooms via DonorsChoose.org, which was created by Craig of CraigsList.com fame.
Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with "NSPD-51" or , and Ron Rosenbaum, of Slate.com, asks "Who will run the country after the next 9/11?". Of course, you can read the actual public facing document here.
Since almost everyone enjoyed the conspiracy of the DaVinci Code, this article about how the Vatican destroyed the Knights Templar makes for an interesting follow up read. This also lead me some very antique ambigram matchbox artwork.
The descent of Heroin, as presented by pictures, and sort of NSFW.
The Big Blue Marble.
I came across this interesting "do it yourself" article about how to build a USB enabled guitar. This really is a great idea for a project, as I've been idly waiting for some company such as Fender to come out with this kind of modification. If anybody else has done something similar to this, like maybe putting in a FireWire connector, I'd love to hear more about the project, and hear some of the output!
And just to add a couple of links for the programming crew, I came across these two opinion pieces taking on Bjarne Stroustrup's C++. They include "10 things I love & hate about C" and "Why D is kicking C++'s ass".
And lastly, this NSFW data splice of Google Images results for the term "housewife", though it does demonstrate the power of their filtering algorithm. and Microsoft's Live Image search has similar results.