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ODonnellWeb regular JJ wrote a guest post at Parenting Beyond Belief. The subject, not surprisingly, is secular homeschoolers. ODonnellWeb gets a shout out, as does many of the other usual suspects.

• Tom’s Essay - Measure for Measure Blog - NYTimes.com - Interesting story of how Suzanne Vega was involved in the creation of both the remix culture and the MP3 algorithm.
• The decline of the Republican Party | Ship of fools | The Economist -
• Techdirt: Yet Another Study Shows That Social Networks Are Good For Kids -

• YouTube - MontyPython’s Channel -
• Libertarianism « Stuff Geeks Love - It#039;s funny because it#039;s mostly true
• Top 20 Great US Civil War Photographs - The List Universe -

• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google -
• A smaller, more efficient Wienermobile - Pop Candy - USATODAY.com - The Mini - Weinermobile

• The Faithful Penguin: Focus in the Family — Doing the Slow Crash… - Should I feel bad about not feeling bad about Focus on the family employees getting laid off?

GM has a web site up making their pitch on why they need the bailout. I have not spent any time researching to decide how I feel about this issue. My gut reaction is that Chapter 11 is a bailout, put in place specifically to allow corporations to restructure when their business is no longer sustainable. Giving money to a business whose cost structure is unsustainable seems like it is just delaying the inevitable. Of course, that does ignore the human side of the equation, all the lost jobs etc. But if those job losses are inevitable maybe getting it over with in one swoop with Chapter 11 is the best way to go.

• Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room? -
• useless-0850845c572c9ef6f5d376c02047d821.jpg - (37signals) - Tide detergent is now more useless. Heh. Packaging design fail?

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• FARK.com: (4020464) China to outlaw miming. And it’s about farking time, too. Mimes suck - I'm moving to China. I hate fracking mimes.

Breck had a fencing competition in Richmond today. 59 fencers in a rating limited bout, all rated E or under. My expectation of what would be a good day for Breck is win 3 pool bouts, win his first elimination bout, and hang tough in losing his 2nd elimination bout. I forgot to check that with Breck. He did in fact go 3-2 in his pool bout, which was good for the 23rd seed going into the elimination bouts. He fenced the 44th seed in his first DE, and won easily. He fenced #10 in his 2nd DE, and won that one 15-13. He fenced #7 in his 3rd DE bout, and won that 13-8. In DE bout 4 he fenced the eventually champion, a 6′ 3″ college lefty that carved him up 15-4. In a show of exempliary sportsmanship, the college kid spent a few minutes with Breck after the bout explaing to him what he did to win so easily, and what Breck could work on to make it more difficult for future opponents. The video is a pool bout he won 5-0.

• OOTP 9 released for Linux! - OOTP Developments Forums - Holy crap. There goes many many of my evening hours.

• Ian’s Shoelace Site - Introduction - There is in fact, a web site for everything.

This is fascinating. It’s a talk by the founder of a network of 50 un-highschools where the kids work at paid internships 2 days a week and then follow very personalized curriculums built around their interests 3 days a week. If you want to cut to the chase of what they are doing jump ahead to the 15 minute mark.

• Linux-Unix Cheat Sheets - The Ultimate Collection -
• The End of Wall Street’s Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com - For the first time, I have some sense of how the current financial crisis came to be. This is a must read.

This post, the comments, particularly this one and this one. And Daryl’s final word.

The summary, if you aren’t inclined to click over is that we are only weeks away from the government forcibly removing our children from our homes to enslave them in labor camps working on projects to promote the liberal utopia, all while drinking Kool-aid supplied by Jim Jones. Or something like that.