Week of 12/17/06 thru 12/2316/06
It feels good to be getting back to the desktop again! I didn't miss the mouse as much as I thought I would, as I can do the tracking pad with my left hand and it gave my right hand a nice rest, but Firefox's Performancing add-on icon doesn't show on the MacBook and it takes about three steps to open it to the edit window so I can type. Not being able to just toggle it back and forth (and to use a mouse to quickly copy and paste URLs) plays havoc with any link-rich posts I want to do, like my weekly Liberal Coalition blogaround:
• The big LC news this week is the return of Lilith Devlin and her blog A Rational Animal. Lilith was the first LC blogger I ever met, I think before there even was a coalition, and I'm delighted she's back blogging again! Now that her feed is working properly, and Mike's switched Left is Right to the new Blogger so his Atom feed is working as well, I can finally read all the LC members' posts via my Bloglines subs, hoorah!
• Bora has a great Silly Site for the season: Conspiracy Carols, a generator that lets you insert a subversive backwards message of your choice into Jingle Bells! Very cute. Also, congrats are due to him for having gone through his entire blogrolling alphabet.
• Echidne is perplexed at the hyperbole inherent in American English.
• Apparently Jeff also believes "the reason for Christmas has little to do with Jesus." As I implied yesterday, the reason for the season may have little to do with Jesus and much to do with the winter solstice, but it still seems pretty clear that the celebration of the Christian savior's birth is indeed the reason for Christ-mas itself, right down to the name.
• Kathy has a great illustration of the power of love to transcend the nonsensical boundaries put up by organized religion. She also sings the praises of Scott Ritter's prophetic abilities.
• The coiner of NODWISH, MercuryX23, wishes us a happy merry one, and has hung out a branch for Wishy the NODWISH Owl.
• Michael bemoans the latest hockey gimmick. Me, I'm still pouty that brightly-colored baseballs aren't in vogue.
• Mustang Bobby's itchy dilemma leads to one of the most groan-inducing pun headlines I've read all year. Also, he's taking a poll on everyone's favorite movie musical. I guess I'd have to say Wizard of Oz, as that's my favorite all-time movie, but for pure music and dance and romance elements I want to go with Brigadoon. That Cyd Charisse, she's the Cyd Charissest!
• Norbizness is reviewing the year month by month. He got as far as July by yesterday.
• NTodd notes an anniversary.
• Steve G details why the proposed Atlantic Yards is a crappy plan ,
And a couple bonus non-LC links:
• I've moved Ornicus firmly into my Dynamic Duos section now, as David Niewert's co-blogger Sara Robinson appears here to stay and I thank goodness for that, she has had some outstanding writing. Must-reads this past week include her paeon to real citizen journalism and her 2006 roundup. For his part, David skewers Apocalypto from the POV of someone who actually knows something about Mayan culture (even I remembered enough from grade school to know the "primitive people scared of eclipse" characterization was bullshit, as these folks were pretty big on astronomy).
• Teresa reviews how to wrap a package. Some great advice!
Time to go knock on my downstairs neighbor's door to give her her Christmas gift (this)...
• The big LC news this week is the return of Lilith Devlin and her blog A Rational Animal. Lilith was the first LC blogger I ever met, I think before there even was a coalition, and I'm delighted she's back blogging again! Now that her feed is working properly, and Mike's switched Left is Right to the new Blogger so his Atom feed is working as well, I can finally read all the LC members' posts via my Bloglines subs, hoorah!
• Bora has a great Silly Site for the season: Conspiracy Carols, a generator that lets you insert a subversive backwards message of your choice into Jingle Bells! Very cute. Also, congrats are due to him for having gone through his entire blogrolling alphabet.
• Echidne is perplexed at the hyperbole inherent in American English.
• Apparently Jeff also believes "the reason for Christmas has little to do with Jesus." As I implied yesterday, the reason for the season may have little to do with Jesus and much to do with the winter solstice, but it still seems pretty clear that the celebration of the Christian savior's birth is indeed the reason for Christ-mas itself, right down to the name.
• Kathy has a great illustration of the power of love to transcend the nonsensical boundaries put up by organized religion. She also sings the praises of Scott Ritter's prophetic abilities.
• The coiner of NODWISH, MercuryX23, wishes us a happy merry one, and has hung out a branch for Wishy the NODWISH Owl.
• Michael bemoans the latest hockey gimmick. Me, I'm still pouty that brightly-colored baseballs aren't in vogue.
• Mustang Bobby's itchy dilemma leads to one of the most groan-inducing pun headlines I've read all year. Also, he's taking a poll on everyone's favorite movie musical. I guess I'd have to say Wizard of Oz, as that's my favorite all-time movie, but for pure music and dance and romance elements I want to go with Brigadoon. That Cyd Charisse, she's the Cyd Charissest!
• Norbizness is reviewing the year month by month. He got as far as July by yesterday.
• NTodd notes an anniversary.
• Steve G details why the proposed Atlantic Yards is a crappy plan ,
And a couple bonus non-LC links:
• I've moved Ornicus firmly into my Dynamic Duos section now, as David Niewert's co-blogger Sara Robinson appears here to stay and I thank goodness for that, she has had some outstanding writing. Must-reads this past week include her paeon to real citizen journalism and her 2006 roundup. For his part, David skewers Apocalypto from the POV of someone who actually knows something about Mayan culture (even I remembered enough from grade school to know the "primitive people scared of eclipse" characterization was bullshit, as these folks were pretty big on astronomy).
• Teresa reviews how to wrap a package. Some great advice!
Time to go knock on my downstairs neighbor's door to give her her Christmas gift (this)...
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