Untitled (because I haven't figured out how to title from my phone yet)

Testing blogging from my cell phone. Now to figure out how to fix my t9 word list.

Today's Shared Google Reader Items, 11/14

We'll see if I can get through this on craptastic hotel internet here in New Windsor, New York (I'm going to a wedding at West Point tomorrow). Can anyone tell me why hotel wifi always seems like they're piping it through a dial-up modem?? Anyhoo, here are the shared items:

• I love the idea of powerline broadband (using existing powerlines to carry high-speed internet, as I understand essentially by using the "noise" in the powerlines). I hope this plan to resurrect it pans out.
• Ok, it looks like the Palin Africa thing was BS. Phew. That's what I get for trusting Fox News commenting talking about comments from an anonymous McCain staffer.
• I love, love, love this story that's kinda sorta almost about the Monty Python parrot joke being 1600 years old.
• Huh, the NY Times has picked up the HIV cure story. I'm still not holding my breath, but this might not be BS.
• I still think there are worse things Bush could do to secure his place in history as all-time worst US President, but this is a good start.
• Flying cars are coming! Flying cars are coming!
• I want to love RFK, Jr (it seems like the right thing to do as a left-wing nutjob), but his anti-vax stuff means I can't support him for anything related to science, and head of the EPA falls squarely in that category. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, has more (or at least links to more).

Oh, btw, with this post I pass my one-month post record for this blog (set in October, when I figured out this "post what I shared so people can comment" trick). Woohoo!

And yes, I shared a ton during the "driving way too far" phase of my trip, and am now blogging from the hotel. That's because, duh, I forgot to get text message blogging set up here; on the drive back, I should be able to blog from the road. Woohoo again!

Today's Shared Google Reader Items, 11/12

Not much time today... and it's very likely I'm going to miss the whole weekend! Here are today's shared items:

• Keith Olberman on that pile of hateful crap from California, Prop 8:
  
  Exactly.
  
• This beautiful APOD photo pisses me off. If we were within 1500 light years of that, it'd fill 1/6 of the sky. That makes the stuff we have seem so boring.
• Hmm, I haven't noticed if my spam has dropped, but apparently the company that was responsible for 75% of it is offline.
• CA stops 'em, CT starts 'em. It's going to happen, conservative assholes. Stop resisting.
• For anyone looking (or being forced) to switch careers, Lifehacker has the 10 most recession-proof careers.
• A site has been set up to organize priorities for Obama's national CTO. I hope, once named, said national CTO takes this idea and runs with it.

That's it for today (and probably for a while). Comment below. I'm hoping to come back to more comments than I've ever had on a post!

Today's Shared Google Reader Items, 11/11

Happy Veteran's Day! Now on to the shared items:

• I love this recipe for a coffee-cup chocolate cake. Yum!
• Ok, most of you might use one browser on one machine, but for me (Google Chrome by preference, Firefox for some work stuff, IE for other work stuff that doesn't play with Firefox) this is awesome.
• Is anyone surprised to learn yet another way Barack and Michelle are awesome?
• I'm always interested to learn new, better ways to kill wasps. The gasoline we poured into their nests on the golf course when I was working the greens probably was neither safe nor environmentally friendly.
• Phew. The new Obama voters didn't pass Prop 8 in CA. As expected, it was hateful old people. Note: I'm pretty sure at this point Nate Silver could claim something like, "If you analyze the exit polls properly, you can see that 97% of Kentucky residents have alien parasites eating their brains," and I'd believe him. Especially if it's about Kentucky and brain parasites.

That's it for today. I may have to subscribe to a new feed or two now that my politics feeds are relatively quiet....

Today's Shared Google Reader Items, 11/10

I didn't have a "shared items" update yesterday, so there's probably going to be a ton today:

• This photo is awesome, but you need to read the explanation to appreciate why.
• I hope David at Ironic Sans posts the rest of this story.
• What brown and sticky? An inductee into the Toy Hall of Fame.
• Hook em, Obama!
• This particular story isn't super awesome, but I was happy to find Change.gov's RSS feed.
• The Wall Street Journal and Slashdot claim that a German doctor has cured AIDS. And nobody else does. My skepti-sense is tingling!
• According to a study, Daylight Savings Time increased energy use in Indiana. Except I've seen about equal numbers of studies pointing in each direction now. Tell me what's true, science!
• Dinsmore has a nice summary of a cool article about Obama. I'd summarize his summary here, but that just seems wrong.
• 538.com has begun covering the 2010 Senate races. Will my addiction ever get a rest?
• Woohoo, I completely forgot that the stem cell nonsense was an executive order. Obama's getting ready to try to catch us up with Europe, and that first step only requires him to repeal that order. Good stuff.
• I definitely want to do this. I just need to figure out what I'm going to do it with...
• If any of you use AVG Anti-Virus Free (and, really, why wouldn't you, if you use a PC?), it's probably a good idea to read this before running your next scan.

As always, comment below.