Successful day, party van, JD online, and lots of good links

Work was productive all day, which was nice--makes one feel accomplished by day's end. (Mounted and/or hooked up some equipment, completed a couple expense reports.) The ride home was in a taxi van that appeared normal from the outside, but inside--party van! Party light ball, blacklight, rope lights, Christmas lights, the works. Woo!

And -then-, when I got home, Jen Durdall was online! AIM tells me when she signs on and off, but it's always been "off" before I got back to the computer. (Apparently AIM signs on whenever she checks her email, which it shouldn't be doing, but her computer does a lot of strange things, and is still crash-y after a Windows reinstall last weekend.)

Shortly, I shall go grocery shopping.

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But first, some links.

Humorous!

From yournailbunny: The 2003 Stella Awards for frivolous lawsuits.

From michaelduff: Rob Schneider gets in on the bare-breast-with-metal-star action.

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Practical!


From idoru: Public Service Announcement regarding a repair program for faulty logic boards in many iBooks manufactured between May '02 and April '03.

From lj_nifty: New features on your editinfo page, including image placeholders (links to images) on your friends page instead of the images themselves, useful for slow connections. (Customizable for minimum images sizes!)

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Controversial!


From michaelduff: Not that I'm much of a Bush supporter, but in fairness, apparently the "AWOL from the Air National Guard" bit that his detractors bandy about is, in fact, the natural by-product of a bull's digestive system.

From whatthefuck: Hell yeah, Mass. high court backs gay marriage.

From the SF Gate via lanikei: Kiss My Split Tongue: Are radical, underground body mods really mutilation? Or just beauty in a blender?
Penis extensions and butt implants and pec implants and calf implants and chin implants and cheek implants and eyelid slicings and nose smashings and chemical peels and enough silicone pumped into enough pneumatic boobs to fill Lake Michigan, and tongue splitting might be considered what, mutilation? Hmm.

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Beautiful.


jude offers a beautiful poem by Taylor Mali, entitled Switching Sides.
So I finally taught someone something,
namely, how to change their mind.
And I learned in the process that if I ever change the world
It will be one eighth grader at a time.

More pictures!

+8 Sightseeing (Telstra Tower and view therefrom--6 pieces of 2 panoramas)
+2 Panoramas (Full-size versions of above)
+13 Questacon (New album--National Science and Technology Centre)
+3 Latebra (Box port, and Lauren)