Category Archives: Blogosphere

Golly, Lance

The blogosphere seems to be competing, here and here, to see who can post the smelliest jokes about former Lance Armstrong grilfriend, singer Sheryl Crow’s suggestion that we all save the environment by using one sheet of toilet paper. Or three at the most. Typical celebrity solution. Unlike the jokers my guess is Crow would never, ever, practice what she preaches. Anymore than Al Gore will ever cut back on his electricity.

Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

The Fat Guy declines to mount the CFB bandwagon, begun by Instapundit. Scott says they cost a lot more and don’t outlast an 89 center from Dollar General.

UPDATE  We got a 60W CFB for free at HEB, but after a week of it in the laundry room, Mom doesn’t like it. Not just the delay in coming on, which she finds annoying, but “it’s too cold,” she says. Not a warm light like incandescent. I think we’ll wait for LEDs to get cheaper.

New blogger mag

A magazine for bloggers and podcasters? A magazine? At least the computer format is interesting.

Via Instapundit.

Busy mom

Anne, at Just Muttering is a busy blogger. She has no less than seven blogs, including this one devoted to her knitting, which is pretty cool. But where does she find the time? I have trouble with one.

Conspiracy 101

Bill Whittle offers a long post that is nevertheless worthwhile when encountering celebrity Rosie O’Dim, or in my case an old Army friend I hadn’t seen for thirty years when we exchanged email in 2002 and I discovered he thought space aliens were already here and controlling the government and us. Whittle thinks these people are far more commonplace than we know:

"What I am trying to do here is to build a chain of evidence to show a progressively deteriorating epidemic of world-wide insanity, of truly diseased  thinking — not just a misunderstanding or difference of opinion but real, diagnosable mental illness. I want to get to that disease in a minute — and the cause of it too – but first let’s examine what some people claim to believe in and the mountains of sand one has to carry in order to bury one’s head so deep." (Whittle’s emphasis)

Instructive, and entertaining. Via No Left Turns.

Computer insecurity

Scott Chaffin considers changing "my brain," The Fat Guy blog, to the Apple OS:

"Turns out that someone, somewhere got hold of my Amex and charged up $2000 worth of plane tickets this weekend. Which set me off in a panic, thinking that I’ve got a keylogger lurking somewhere on the TFG Mainframe from this latest round of virii. What to do, what to do? Run rootkit detectors, download updates from all over, scan deeply, etc., all with No Results Found. What to do, what to do?"

My advice: Get a new Amex card.

Thinking on the runway

A blogging first? Thinking on the Margin is blogging from the cabin of his delayed takeoff:

"I don’t know if it’s just me, but it seems like this kind of stuff is becoming more common. Does anyone else agree or know of any data on airline delays? I am much more prone to fly direct whenever possible than before."

Via Instapundit. The commenters are good, too.