Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
One of my blog buddies down in Houston is still trying to decide whether to wait or to evacuate. Traffic’s a mess down there, so he might end up waiting the storm out in town, taking out the looters after the storm, and getting some corporate computer networks back up and running after the thing hits.
Be safe, Dren, no matter what you do.
Nothing like a little Flying Monkey Space Game (with a really poorly placed skyscraper ad) and a simple (but addicting) jumping block puzzle game to kill off a work day (there are actually a lot of great quick little games at that latter site).
Until somebody had to chime in and ruin it all by saying that the bird wasn’t actually trying to help the dying bird, but was trying to have sex with it.
If you want to get your kids learning C++ by the time they’re in the first grade, better start ’em young.
It’s one thing if you’re stupid enough to risk your own life when a hurricane’s coming, but don’t get your little kid involved.
This is an incredible piece of investigative journalism that’s been well-packaged online. It documents how FEMA has just been wasting tax-payer’s dollars for years.
The paper has investigated how $9 million in FEMA tornado recovery money went to people in Miami-Dade County, even though the storm hit up to 37 miles away. More than $5 million in “free money” went to people in the Los Angeles area, even though wildfires burned up to 30 miles away. And $168.5 million went to people in Detroit to help recover from a storm that people have trouble even remembering.
It’s just scary to see how much money went to places with little or no damage.
Apparently so, as Rob at AboutItAll started blogging again last week. Guess I need to add him — again — back to my RSS reader (you’re keeping me on my toes, Rob, that’s for sure).
The only reason I knew? ORBlogs weekly e-mail had a mention of it in there.
It’s national Talk Like A Pirate Day, matey.
But since he’s the President of the United States, when he needs to go to the bathroom, a photographer is right there. Thanks Barn for the link.