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Wed. Aug 10, 2005

Mid Week Miscellany

August is a traditionally slow time. Too little news, too much heat. The Shuttle is safely back, the President’s vacationing at the ranch, and when the runaway bride mows the lawn, it’s news. It’s slow. So let’s poke around the blogs in these Digital Dog Days and see what we find.

Hmm. Appears kinda slow there as well. Even Instapundit’s on vacation (you can tell by the sudden intrusion of lengthy posts plus the lack of “heh”). And some people are simply gone.

JimFormation claims to be back up and running complete with permalinks, archives, and comments. It won’t last. So enjoy it while it does.

While filling in for the vacationing Instapundit, Michael Totten uses his own site to show us some interesting shots taken at Crater lake.

Harvey’s had a (potential) hurricane named after him. Favorite comment so far: “Harvey Blows.”

Adland takes a look at the history of painting cows to sell a product. They also point to a new advertising related blog cleverly named Big Shiny Thing.

Jon Hicks explains why the office is closed on Fridays.

Ben Weasel tells us A True Story From the Path of Enlightenment.

Ah, but there’s always cool photos: Fiona gets a bath. Pool tiles. Zombies invade the Apple Store. Guggenheim. Red wall and stockings. Sox Park. Window shopping in Amsterdam.

In less picturesque news, Baghdad continues to be a unique place where the mayor appointed by the central government can be ousted in a coup, yet a select few can still get Chinese take out.

Meanwhile, Terrell Owens didn’t make it two weeks into training camp before he got suspended. That article is filled with quotes from T.O. that amplify the thrust of my last article about him.

New Scientist did a poll to name the tenth planet, and here’s the Top Ten names. I vote for #6, Bob. Or maybe name it Tarkenton, after ol’ #10.

And while most of us have a blast on this Innernut Web Thang, there are those who use The Web as Weapon: “By this summer, Internet trackers such as the SITE Institute have recorded an average of nine online statements from the Iraq branch of al Qaeda every day, 180 statements in the first three weeks of July. Zarqawi has gone “from zero to 60” in his use of the Internet…”

Finally, I’ve added a new plug-in for Textpattern that provides something called “Live Archives” (using some of that trendy AJAX goodness). It makes browsing through nearly 2,500 articles quite simple. It appears to me to work in IE 6.0 (but not older versions) and all the current modern browsers. But try it out and let me know if you have problems with it, as I’m thinking of making it the primary archives page linked in the right column.