Archive for January, 2009
Carnival of the Liberals #84 and the Obacalypse
What can I say about this edition? It’s perhaps the suckiest edition in the whole of Carnival of the Liberals. This is what happens when you let a conservative do a liberal’s work. Honestly, I don’t know why Dr. Biobrain keeps Dr. Snedley on. I can only assume it’s because the incompetent Dr. Snedley can [...]
The blogging President
Barack Obama’s campaign was the first Presidential campaign to truly embrace the internet. Now comes word that The Whitehouse has its own blog, complete with RSS feed. I’m sure the blog will be written by PR flacks, but at least this is a sign that the Obama administration is serious about taking the Presidency to [...]
An Alternative (Humanist) Invocation
A few weeks ago, after it was learned that Barack Obama had chosen mega-church pastor, schlocky self-help guru and homophobic bigot Rick Warren to give the Inaugural Invocation, many of us liberal types were shocked and outraged. Obama had run a campaign based on hope. Hope for change, hope for a better world. Yet he [...]
Carnival of the Liberals #82: New Year Edition
Submissions were really light for this edition, but Ruchira Paul and all the bloggers over at Accidental Blogger still managed to find eight great blog posts out of those we received for Carnival of the Liberals #82. There’s no confirmed host for the next edition on January 28th. If I don’t get any volunteers for [...]
New tr.im URLs extension for Firefox
The URL shortening service tr.im has a new Firefox extension that allows you to create the shortest URLs (e.g. http://tr.im/2t4f) ever with just a mouse click. There are even options for automatically posting to Twitter. If you sign up for a unique tr.im account you get clickthrough statistics on all your shortened URLs too! I [...]
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