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Kick-ass tutorial for getting your WordPress blog up and running. You’ll have to resize the display window to get rid of the distortion in the Flash video, but it’s fairly comprehensive, if a bit quick.
WordPress Quickstart Screencast Tutorial (1)

How to Deal with a Crazy Spouse

As the anniversary of Katrina rolls over us, everyone is scrambling to do something “meaningful” to commemorate the event.

Like TalkLeft. Their brilliant idea?

Help water the bushes for the anniversary of Katrina.

Please send a bottle of water to:

President George Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Put your return address as:

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70130

Har Har! Get it? Water the bushes? Yes, send your bottle of water to Washington, that’ll really help the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for work to begin on their homes in New Orleans. Send your bottle of water and wallow in your sense of self satisfaction and wittiness. Send your bottle of water and then go back to concentrating on mid-term election analysis.

Someone else will pick up your slack. Do-nothing, feel-good, blogging; yeah!

I’m thoroughly disappointed. My Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard, for which, I might add, I paid over $50 for, just crapped out on me in under 8 months of use. I’ve had nothing but love for Microsoft keyboards in the past, pounding Ergonomic Pros into the ground for over 6 years.

But I’ve never had a keyboard flat out die on me after less than a year. At first I thought had some driver corruption or a, god forbid, a virus. Hitting “x” resulted in nothing, pressing “s” 3 times opened the help for the application I was working in, hitting “\” printed out some machine code. After installing the Intellitype software and the keyboard on J–‘s computer, however, and seeing the same thing, we knew the keyboard was toast.

I have a spare POS keyboard that came with J–‘s computer, but it’s straight and small, so I’ll be running to get a new keyboard when I get some time. But the frustration of having only a few hours of our own over the weekend was compounded by the frustration of not being able to even type. Thank god the weather was bookmarked.

Maybe it’s time to get a Logitech keyboard.

Classic.

Sort of NSFW URL.

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Workers in some California chocolate factory spotted a clump of waste chocolate that, kid you not, looked like the Virgin Mary. You know, the same Virgin that seems to pop up beneath overpasses, in burned houses, and slices of 10-year-old toast.

You’d think the Virgin Mother would have better things to do.

Or, maybe, it’s delusional people.

…but [Cruz] Jacinto said she froze when she noticed the unusual shape of this cast-off: It looked just like the Virgin Mary on the prayer card she always carries in her right pocket.

Uh, yeah… it’s called pareidolia people. Look it up. Nevermind.

I am a Tabasco head. I have bottles everywhere; kitchen, den, work. If they made bottles for the Jeep I’d keep one there.

Which makes my discovery of Tabasco Food Service all the more surprising. How did I miss this site for years? How have I lived with my simple dashes of Tabasco on virtually every food I eat without making stuff like this?

[via this guy’s LJ] 

A sketch created on a 1998 television show, when compared to a photo of the current suspect in the JonBenet case, has a “remarkable resemblance”, according to the Denver Channel.

Take a look.. it’s not just some “here’s an vaguely familiar man” sketch; the “psychic” put a great deal of shading and features into the sketch, which correspond to the face of John Karr very well. I’m not postulating that she actually was psychic, but anyone know what the connection is here? Did she know the Ramsey’s well? Would she have been privy to information not released publicly?

Because if she wasn’t, that’s one hell of a coincidence.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Cats that Look Like Hitler.

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Check out this plugin for Firefox for blogging: Performancing.

[via Gen Kanai weblog: Performancing]

Update: After only a couple posts, I’m not impressed. The Blog This function is buggy, there’s no spell check (essential for some of us), and there’s just to many tabs, buttons, and sections. It’s a nice tool, but I’m still liking Windows Live Writer or the stock WordPress editor.