The IM LJ-ifyer. (Via made_of_paradox, who got it from fulguritis)

Description: "Do you prefer to use LJ tags when referring to your friends in your journal? Isn't it a pain in the ass to change it manually when they appear ten times in an IM log? Just paste a log snippet below, enter the names to swap, and your conversations will be clickable. Alternatively, you can swap out screen names for real names, initials, or just the word "Anonymous.""

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Defective Yeti: Residents of Old MacDonald's Farm as Inventoried by My Three Year-Old Son, Who, as the Song Wore On, Found it Increasingly Difficult to Avoid Repetition


The Oops List (via sunfell)

The first in a series of parodies of the Mac/PC commercials played out with Spider-Man and Superman. (YouTube) Via spiritualmonkey, who got it from kitos.

Essential Bookmark of the Day: Yahoo Shortcuts

"Do you have change for a ton?" "On Thursday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart lampooned former US Iraq consul Paul Bremer -- who somehow managed to lose $8.8 billion of $12 billion in cash. Said Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the US effort to send so much money to Iraq, "To do that, the Federal Reserve Bank had to pack 281 million individual bills... This money, mainly $100 bills, was packed into bricks and each brick was worth $400,000 each... The cash weighed more than 363 tons."

The Personal Finance Advice LJ Syn: pfadvice

Or, you could just do this....

American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century

Fortune Magazine: India won't be a superpower until it alleviates poverty

Pandora Internet Radio

Chef Anthony Bourdain bites the hands that feed him, sorta. (Edit: Nope, he doesn't work for FoodNet anymore! Hat tip to our resident expert, quixotickitten!) A blog post in which he reviews the other chefs currently populating the Food Network. Best description of Rachael Ray I've ever read, too.

For chiutoy: The Joe Bob Report Reviews

TravelWriters.com

The Latin Library (...where's a Latin plugin for Babelfish when I need one...)

How to detect lies

SFWriter Robert J. Sawyer: How To Write

iWorkout

FitnessFootwear.com

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On Flickr, Storytelling:

• Andrew Losowsky started a set of images of Doorbells of Florence, where each photo of a doorbell is accompanied by an original short story. This form has been coined "flicktion" (=flickr + fiction) which others have picked up as a way to use images and story together. See photos tagged with flicktion to see more examples.


• A flickr group called Visual Storytelling has created a visual form of story in which the entire tale must be told with only 5 images (and no text)-- see the example shown, called The Mosquito.


• Six Word Story picks up on Hemingway's rise to the challenge of writing a complete story in only six words. In this version, a story must be told in one image and six words.

Also on Flickr, Interesting Photos from the Last 7 Days

Science and Technology
windswept: How to kill RFID tags with a cell phone.

When pills fail, electrical implants can mend brains damaged by Parkinson’s, stroke, and depression.

The Richard Dawkins Multimedia Archive. Dawkins, author of many books on Evolution, including The Blind Watchmaker, is an outspoken scientist and atheist.

14+ Money Saving Computer User Ideas

A slim cable for a space elevator has been built stretching a mile into the sky, enabling robots to scrabble some way up and down the line. LiftPort Group, a private US company on a quest to build a space elevator by April 2018, stretched the strong carbon ribbon 1 mile into the sky from the Arizona desert outside Phoenix in January tests.

Microsoft has released a new, free version of Windows Defender.


Miscellany
bigboobedcanuck: Olympic Figure Skating for Dummies

wordweaverlynn points out that photography from the 1906 SF earthquake is on exhibit at the SF MOMA.

The DFL blog celebrates last-place finishers at the Olympics.

This year’s hair trends from the runways.

The FDA has reopened a probe into possible benzene contamination of soft drinks.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, tyee.com is running a “Love on the Edge” series this week: “Breast Wishes” / “Why We Love the Geeks” / “Married to the Wrong Sex”


Politics
The WashPost reported that the GOP was concerned that our VP wasn’t speaking out about shooting his hunting partner. Ari Fleischer chimed in as did Marlin Fitzwater and a variety of editorial columnists. (that last link’s from made_of_paradox.) So... Cheney issued a public statement about the incident yesterday. The WH Press Secretary is having a rough week. Note who is asking him questions: Two of the outlets mentioned in the article are Republican: the NYPost and Cox Communications.

I have a bad feeling about this: Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas joined House Democratic leaders at a town hall meeting on Tuesday to roll out an “innovation agenda” that aims to prepare the next generation of technological entrepreneurs. Note to the Dems, don’t let him write your speeches.

The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials.