Gallimaufry

Today's Web Trawl

Someday the Web may not be quite so text dominant.  It's hard to imagine how they'd send smells though...

A leg up on the tricky science of earthquake prediction.  If the earthquake is going to occur near a shoreline anyway. 

Tristero has further dispatches from the War on Fucking. 

And he has something to add about the shamelessness of the current administration.  Remember kids, this is the Secretary of HUD talking, in public, for quotation.

From Firedoglake, your daily quota of schadenfreude.

Posts of this sort are why I've asked (twice) Michael Berube to marry me.  And I'll keep asking until he says yes.  I'm such a sucker for a man who makes me laugh.

Wow.  Just, wow.

Dominic and Loki have never sent me any of these for Mother's Day.  Sob.  But one year they did give me a dead fish wrapped in newspaper.  The little sweethearts!

Good Stuff I've Read Recently

The National Review said today that the CIA is full of lefties and it's a shame they got rid of Goss so soon because he'd only just started to root them out.  No, really.  My question is:  who's living in Bizarro world?  Me or National Review? (via Digby)

Bush approval rating hits new low! (via everybody)

It's all about the black lesbians.

It's Jets vs Sharks!

It's not just the US that's into white supremacy.  Gosh, I feel all better now.

It's all over the blogosphere rumor mill that Rove may be indicted.  I'm linking to Echidne's post because I like the photo she included.  Boy do I like that photo.

Friday Cat Blogging

That's about as cute as they get together.  They're not really what you'd call best friends.

Just an Old-Fashioned Log Post

They started out as lists of cool things seen on the web so you could share them with folks, ya know.  So interesting/cool stuff I've seen.  No politics today.

For some people, anticipating pain is as bad as actually feeling it.  Research on the dread phenomenon.

Cherry harvest expected to be especially big this year.  Yay!  (My fellow Seattlites can find out about local farmers' markets here.)

They're redoing the old 60s TV show, The Prisoner.

Wow.  Look at all the colors, man.

Reviews of chocolate stores.

Where the well dressed hippie teenager shops.  They've even got plus sizes!  (Courtesy of my niece.)

999 foods highest in calcium (per 200 calories).  We're gettting there ladies.

Quotes from the Founding Fathers on Christianity and religion.

A really cool bookstore in San Diego.  They carry F&SF and mysteries.