• Top Left Pixel
  Excellent photographic work
  (categories: photography via:kam weblog)
• Panini and Sanskrit
  Brief history of sanskrit and language theory/formal logic
  (categories: logic sanskrit via:kamt)

David Weinberger writes viz the idea that instead of spending $40M to celebrate the inauguration of an incumbent president, our country organize to donate said monies to to disaster relief:

What a powerful symbol that would be.

Indeed. A symbol indeed, albeit an unlikely one. Stopping a train of self congratulation, be it from any political party, is a sisyphean task at best.

• Locative Technology
  crschmidt pulls out some Python on Nokia experiementation - in this case a cellspotter with a back end for logging. Keen.
  (categories: mobile mobitopia nokia python)
• NewsForge | Backing up your MySQL data
  Quick HOWTO on mysql backups
  (categories: archiving backup mysql sql)
• ShadowPlan and OmniOutliner interaction
  CodeJedi mirrors James Sorensons' announcement of his OO3 and Shadow integration
  (categories: macosx omnioutliner outliners palmos shadowplan)

• Rockwell\'s Neighborhood Grill
  Our local eatery, american food done nicely with a little tex-mex flair
  (categories: dining greaterRockwell lincolnSquare restaurant)

• NanoBlogger
  NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep and sed.
  (categories: atom bash rss software weblog)
• FlightView
  Flight Tracking - in time for holidays and holiday delays
  (categories: airline flightTracker mapping schedules)
• Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Gervais to write for The Simpsons
  "Ricky Gervais, aka David Brent of The Office, [...] said yesterday he had become the first British writer to be asked to work on the American series."
  (categories: mattGroening rickyGervais theOffice theSimpson)

I've been posting link-action more than thought-action here of late - though each link is a retroactive or predictive thought, I maintain.

Today's NYT contains not one, not two, but three pieces on the immigrant experience as it relates and interacts with the festive season here in the US. All are recommended.

• Luis Urrea on the direct immigrant experience of the holiday, between privation and hope.
• Ruben Martinez on the ongoing changes in US interactions with our immigrant experience, and the troubled nature of hospitality.
• Jennifer Medina on La Posada, the ritualized search for the manger reenacted

As long as one avoids the pieces about the US Exchange Rates and Deficits, and the potential crash in housing value.... The times makes for a nice eve read.

• Noisy Furnace, Ducts, Pipes
  Possible solutions for noisy furnace issues, including the use of an s-path to lengthen the airflow used
  (categories: ductwork hvac noise repairs)
• Snow Day in Bton
  KJBloomington in the snow. 8 inches and a kittycat!
  (categories: bloomington izabella snow)

Concerning news from the cathouse of Danny Ayers:

FeLV, cat disease:

Caro just got back from a visit to the vet with Orlando, the ginger ex-tom who adopted us. Turns out to be what we suspected - he’s got feline leukemia virus (FeLV).

Here at KittyJoyce Productions, we've Orlando (and his housemates) in our thoughts. And Kitty and Molly keep their paws crossed.

• dj BC presents The Beastles
  Mashup of Beastie Boys, Beatles, and some found bits and pieces
  (categories: beastieBoys beatles mashup music)
• The Graphing Calculator Story
  Story of a skunkworks (2 people, then more) inside Apple to build the graphing calculator on the early PPC boxen. Includes tales of HR madness, overwork, and developer community
  (categories: PPC apple development hr)
• Dance if you Want To
  Rewriting song lyrics, one decision tree at a time.
  (categories: code flickr music mwoh)

• Wired News: Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble
  More excitement surrounding voting in Ohio, affadavits, etc
• Robot on Rush video
  From boingboing.... a robot painting, a rush documentary... Wackiness
  (categories: art music robotics video)

• CHI 2005 Workshop - Beyond Threaded Conversation
  CHI Workshop focusing on collaborative tools and design beyond a threaded model. Looks cool.
  (categories: CHI chat collaboration threading)
• The Booty Ye Deserve! YAAAAARRRRRRR!
  Litigious Pirate vs Ninja battles
  (categories: flash humor pirates)
• CoolTools : Modest Needs
  microcap assistance on an ad hoc basis. Bridge loans, random acts of help.
  (categories: assistance generosity microloans)
• BBC NEWS | Health | MS damage repair mechanism found
  Early indications on ways to aid in the repair of demyelised nerve sheaths.
  (categories: demyelisation multipleSclerosis science treatment)
• Open Access - Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? By Amanda Schaffer
  Slate piece on Open Access Journals (the author is in favor of them)
  (categories: openAccess opinion research science)

emv on the value of specific mailing lists:

a great deal of expertise in something small enough to measure

• BIOS.net - Biological Innovation for Open Society
  Web site for the BIOS group.
  (categories: biology freeInformation oss science)
• OnTheCommons.org | A New Movement for Open Source Biology Is Launched
  Essay covering the startup of Biological Innovation for Open Society; a small ($1M) ish grant at first from the Rockefeller Foundation (who may be recalled as seed money for the Kinsey Institute back in the day)
  (categories: biology freeInformation oss)

• Indiana University will use $53 million Lilly Endowment grant to boost life sciences in Indiana
  People I know done good. Or at least raised money with which to do good.
  (categories: METACyt computing research)
• Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma, or Tintin goes to the neurologist -- Cyr et al. 171 (12): 1433 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal
  Tintin in research paper.... Truth? Fiction? Farce
  (categories: research tintin)
• Farmer wants jury to decide in Pigsville saga
  Farm rights and humor, in a british style. And escaped pigs and geese, but not the terrier.
  (categories: UK farming pigs property)

• The Evolution Control Committee & Evolution Controlled Creations
  Site of ECC - first into the mashup. Includes radio shows, music in mp3, videos and tour information.
  (categories: ecc mashup mp3 music radio video)
• EPIC Postal Privacy Page
  FOIA req reveals that the very helpful postal service kiosks are photo-retaining. Swell.
  (categories: EPIC Photos Privacy USPS kiosks)

• Lest We Forget tape
  Archival MP3 of Aaron Cometbus compilation of berkeley punk from the early 80s.
  (categories: cometbus mp3 music punk)

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Britons growing 'digitally obese'
  So given this, I'm a whole bunch heavier than I thought I was, between laptop, S60 phone, iPod, PDA, etc etc
  (categories: bbc infoglut information obesity overload)
• GbV @ Siren Festival, Coney Island
  Boy am I gonna miss GbV.
  (categories: GBV GuidedByVoices Live TractorRapeChain Video via:monkeyfilter)

• The politics of Nutella
  Left? Right? Creamy and delicious, it isn't left behind in our home!
  (categories: nutella nutellologist politics)

Mr. Rumsfeld seemed taken aback by the question and a murmur began spreading through the ranks before he silenced it. "Now, settle down, settle down," he said. "Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here." (source: nyt, confirmed at DOD)

Now, I may be mistaken - and some googling hasn't sourced a confirmation of this... But isn't President Bush a "Morning Person"?

• Draplindustries Design Co.:
  need color printer, cardstock, nerve.
  (categories: cell coudal draplin mobile shh)

• NOAA - National Weather Service - National Digital Forecast Database XML/SOAP Service
  Weather XML from the US National Weather Service. '
  (categories: dev weather xml)

• GOCC - Welcome to the Government Open Code Collaborative Repository
  States working together for Open Code.
  (categories: gocc governmentOSS oss)

• Smash-Up Derby - world\'s only mash-up rock band
  Of course there's a mashup band. But they're pretty decent. And they have downloadable MP3s.
  (categories: mashup mp3 music)