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Ah, those wacky politicians. The Bush campaign is very excited about their news feeds (original). You can now get a feed of the latest headlines from the Bush campaign site right on your blog! Exciting! You accomplish this by means of a Javascript include. You have the choice of two possible layouts. Enjoy. This is actually about right for a lot of people; just cause you keep a blog doesn’t mean you know an RSS feed from a hole in the ground. If I’m Howard Dean, which I’m not, I take notice and get something quick and dirty like that up on my site. But it also misses everyone who knows how to deal with RSS feeds, all the people who use aggregators, and so on. ...

This entry exists solely for the sake of pinging Flutterby. The automatic Trackback RDF stuff doesn’t work yet, apparently — we’ll see if the discovery works better. (Answer: nope. Trying a manual ping…) Testing again, now that Dan’s tinkered a little. And one more time! (It worked.)

I’m still braindead, despite any appearances to the contrary, but Jonathan Walton writes a mean campaign prospectus (original). I am not sure I’d want to play in it, but the prospectus makes me want to want to play in it, if you see what I mean. Also, it has the best tag line ever, which I won’t ruin for you. Read to the bottom.

Some good news, which seems awfully slim in the wake of today’s Baghdad bombing: Saddam’s vice president was captured. No idea what he was doing in Mosul — is there Iraqi resentment up there because of the Kurdish activities? Saddam’s sons were up there too. I wouldn’t have thought it would be hospitable territory for ex-Ba’athists. Anyhow. He was a bad person, and I’m glad he was captured. There are now two necessary tasks ahead of the United States… no, three. ...

Yeah, I’m pretty brainless today, so I’m just gonna steal something I said over at Mike’s LJ. You pretentious little punk. You Rebels make me sick, and the Imperials do too, so stop trying to involve me in your petty little wars. Listen. Your political arguments are obsolete, and you’re too calcified to realize it. We have achieved happiness, but because you’re running the Force meme, you haven’t noticed. The world is not what you think it is. The real fun — the real world — exists in the interstices between the planets. Starships are merely achingly slow vectors for meme infection. There is a very old AI in a sector you’ve never heard of; we think he’s playing a complex game of chess with himself using Star Destroyers as pieces, but we’re not completely sure. It doesn’t matter enough to find out. ...

I lifted the Tom DeLay quote of the day from Talking Points Memo. You can read the whole transcript here (original), or just marvel at my carefully selected quote: “We’re supposed to, by Constitution, apportion or redistrict every 10 years. The state legislature in Texas couldn’t do it in the last legislature, and three judges did it and they did a very poor job, as evidenced that the fact that we have a minority of Republicans in our congressional delegation.” ...

Via Unqualified Offerings, it’s the first song off Zevon’s next album. In MP3 format, no less. And the whole album “available as a stream” on August 19th, which is tomorrow.

Since my Typepad beta account will vanish sooner or later, I moved my Gen Con photos to a local gallery. If you saw them then, you’ve seen them now — nothing new there.

The first flash mob with purpose probably won’t be political after all. Rather, it’ll be hordes of people handing out free comics (original). At the least, it’ll be a noble attempt, although I have an image in my mind of a bunch of people giving comics to each other rather than to random strangers. Also, the organizer is doing a piss-poor job of keeping it secret, which will minimize impact. Helpful hint to flash mob organizers: the minute you write anything about your mob on a public forum, the media probably knows.

Pyeongchang (original), not Pyongyang (original). Doh!