Let’s just jump right into them…

1. I know this has been keeping you up at night. I know it sure has me staying awake at night. No, it’s not the economy, it’s what does Jupiter sound like?
2. Homeless men help recycle books, stock shelves. I remember some years ago reading about a homeless man who had a business designing websites. He could work on them at the computers at the library. Or was it the local computer network? Perhaps the latter, as that was a story circulated around in the community networking circles. In fact, I think I originally heard about the story through the Seattle Community Network. I wonder what ever happened to the guy?
3. Live and travel rent free. This one made me think of Deborah, whose been sparse around these parts lately. Of course, I’ve been sparse around her blog too, but I don’t travel much at all.
4. I like old ads. Old books too. And old furniture. Old machines. Lots of old stuff. I want a time machine! Anyway, you’ll notice I’ve had an Antiques category here for, like, forever. Oops, no you won’t notice it, as it’s empty. I see it all the time though. Someday. Someday, I’m telling you! By the way, the Library of Congress is now uploading photos to flickr, and they’re hoping you’ll tag them for them. So, we pay tons and tons of taxes each year to support the government, and they still want us to do their jobs for them too, which begs the perennial question, would taxation without representation have been cheaper?
5. Joanne lives in denial.
6. BeatBearing. Make a beat with a bearing ball! Jon might like this one. By the way, you did know that Jon is moving all his photos to a special blog where he’ll have bigger pictures? I think Jon may already be addicted to “Spore,” and it hasn’t even been released yet!
7. Turn a regular lighter into a Zippo. Just don’t try to take it on a plane with you.
8. The design police are out there, and you can apparently join them. I think Pete’s been itching to sign up. You’ll note his probable distaste of Comic Sans here.
9. Cowboy Tacos. Haven’t tried them, but they look kind of good. Of course, if you’ve been eating your tacos at Taco Bell every day, you might want to learn how to blast fat fast.
10. Amanda likes efficiency and schedules. I like free-form blogging. Actually, I prefer whichever method gets me $25,000+ per month blogging. I wonder what John Chow prefers?
11. Actually, yes, you can buy happiness.
12. Mike has a question for creators (those of you that write or make stuff up). I suppose I should have linked last week, but I saved the URL (but didn’t bookmark it!) and forgot about it. Until. Now.
13. Aggression can kill you. So can anxiety. It’s a good thing we’re not at war and that the economy isn’t going down the toilet, or we’d all be so screwed right now. On the plus side, there is now a fast acting cyanide antidote!
14. This is just so wrong on so many levels.
15. The planet Vulcan was discovered back in 1860… NOT! By the way, did you know there’s a new Star Trek movie coming out late this year? Yeah, but apparently it’s a reboot/reimagining/Hollywood-is-creatively-bankrupt thing, so not worth linking to at all. And William Shatner’s not in it either! The inhumanity! That’s not utterly fabulous at all! No link for you it!

    Have I mentioned they’re redoing Knight Rider too? Hollywood is taking this recycling thing too far. Kudos for using an American made car though, but why did they have to pick something so hideously uncool, if not downright ugly, as the Ford Shelby Mustang or whatever that uninspired box on wheels is called?

    Okay, the new Knight Rider link was link #16, but since the car selection is such an embarrassment to much better looking cars everywhere, I’ve decided it’s not an utterly fabulous link, so I’m grouping it with the also unfabulous non-link to the Star Trek movie mention under link #15.

16. Microsoft support returns a call… ten years later. Maybe. From the description (”0″ close to the “9″), it sounds plausible, but did it really happen? Decide for yourself.
17. Dust off your record player, because vinyl records are making a comeback! Could you imagine vinyl records one day outselling CDs! That would be a retro headline, wouldn’t it?

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