These are my links for October 27th through October 28th: The Power of Passive Campaigning - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com - "What he [Obama] (or his campaign) doesn’t do is bring up the Keating Five, or make veiled references to McCain’s treatment of his first wife, or make fun of Sarah Palin (she doesn’t need any help), or disparage his opponent’s experience, or hint at the disabilities of age. He just stands there looking languid (George Will called him the Fred Astaire of politics), always smiling and never raising his voice." Container Condo To Be Built In Detroit : TreeHugger - How on earth are they going to insulate those puppies? Keeping them cool in Florida or warm in ...

These are my links for October 21st through October 24th: russell davies: patina - Interesting thought. How does a website get a patina? How does anything digital get a patina, for that matter? Do bytes fall out? Chips in the CSS? Dirt worn into the cracks of the program? Ariane Sherine: All aboard the Atheist Bus Campaign | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Another item from the 'Christianity Relies on Fear to Perpetuate Itself" file: "There's no doubt that advertising can be effective, and religious advertising works particularly well on those who are vulnerable, frightening them into believing. Religious organisations' jobs are made easier because there's no publicly visible counter-view to refute their threats of eternal damnation." Blogging For ...

These are my links for October 19th through October 20th: Facelift Image Replacement | Quick Start Guide - Woah. Non-Flash image replacement for text. S N A P - shoulder bags - Wow. Such beautiful bags! Reversal of Fortune: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com - Steiglitz. Long, but really good. Makes frequent calls to make sure that the people who got us into this mess (Republicans, commercial bankers) are not allowed to shape the process of how we get out of it.

I bought a new laptop this week - one of the new 13" MacBooks. It's very pretty and I'm enjoying it very much. My HP laptop died a month or two ago, so I'd been waiting on tenterhooks for the announcement of these new Mac laptops. I tried to go get one the day after the announcement, but the Briarwood store was useless and didn't have any. But my dear friends wouldn't let me be deterred and we went out to Novi on Wednesday afternoon. They had them there - yay - and now I have one. It was an interesting sight at the store - one after another after another new laptops walking out the door. I made an apple ...

These are my links for October 14th through October 16th: Vote 2008 - The Takeaway - Track the Electoral College vote predictions - Interesting visualization of electoral vote projections. The Rude Pundit - (As always with the Rude One, there is some naughty language in this post. But I love it anyway.) "Obama's approach to the whole campaign has been incredibly straightforward: He is not running to be your buddy, Americans. He is running to be your president." Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily - Interesting theory: "The consequence of this whole campaign could be far reaching. If Obama wins and the exit polls show independents voted overwhelmingly for him, the pundits are going to lay the blame at Palin's high ...

We have a big ancient apple tree in our front yard. Mostly, it's the source of consternation: apples have to be picked up before they rot and before the grass can be cut. We don't spray or otherwise tend to the fruit, so we haven't ever really tried to eat them. But as you can see, they're pretty decent looking, albeit with some insect blemishes. So this year we tried to collect some for eating. Now, from this picture, you might suppose we could just reach up and grab them. But the apples in the picture are really high up - about level with the second story dormer. We ...

These are my links for October 7th through October 13th: 3quarksdaily - Great essay on the religious right, Pascal's wager, communism, bolshevism, etc. "Pascal had supposed that the persuasiveness of his argument to any rational thinker would result in submission to the long-standing authority of the Catholic church. But the problem is that the argument is no more, and no less, compelling coming from a 17th-century Catholic philosopher defending traditional faith than coming from a couple of rough and unwashed rednecks in Louisiana in defense of a strain of enthusiastic neo-Protestantism that Pascal himself would have deemed diabolical." Hullabaloo - When desperation starts hurting America: McCain's campaign "But even knowing that his candidacy was always very likely doomed is not stopping ...

These are my links for October 3rd through October 6th: LYRICS - This Land Is Your Land - Check the last stanza. It might change your impression of the song the way you learned it in school. (hat tip: The Ann Arbor Chronicle) More Illustrator export scripts / journal / hicksdesign - Export layers to various kinds of PNG Ike: The Silent Storm | CommonDreams.org - Think there's freedom of the press in America? Think again. "The Media was not allowed to film people being rescued from rooftops in Texas. They were prohibited from flying over the small towns and beaches isolated by flooding and decimated by the hurricane. Local press raged about the conditions, then fell silent in a game ...

These are my links for October 1st through October 2nd: Stammtisch - Standing table. We need one. Primo? Habana? ABC? Knight's? (I think they might already have some for some groups.) Maine Farmhouse Journal Entry, Stammtisch sharpens German language skills, January 27, 2005 - How do we get one of these? By squatting and force of habit, like A2B3? ANTIQUE STERLING WATCH FOB CHARM MEDAL 1921 - eBay (item 120291528708 end time Oct-05-08 06:53:13 PDT) - Item of interest.

These are my links for September 29th through October 1st: Graph Paper | Konigi - Grid paper specifically for web design. Download pdfs or buy pads. NoiseBridge - Noise Bridge - Sigh. Learning to love brussels sprouts this winter - Mostly Eating -