Well, that’s what most people think of today (the green puke from drinking too many homemade Shamrock Shakes, no doubt). Me, I’m pretty sure I’m going to spend a quiet evening at home, perhaps sipping a bit of Powers. Between the lack of buses and some personal stuff going on this week that’s turning me into a complete stress-monkey, I just don’t feel like hanging out in a big crowd of festive drunks.
- Because of the strike, Ramsey County will help poor with transit aid by contracting with Crisis Connections. The Metro Council has also set up a Transit Grant Assistance Program to give some of the money they’re not spending on running the buses to non-profits, but Ramsey County won’t be applying just yet. [press-patch]
- More linkage for events in Iran from Evan today: Regime forces pull back from demonstrators in most Iranian cities, Bye Bye Mullahs, Iranians celebrate fire festival, and Regime anti-riot forces start attacking. The demonstrations that started in the north of Iran seem to have spread, and are coinciding with the Persian New Year (which is this Saturday). The Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran has more, as does Free Iran! [101-280]
- Here’s a different way to do Drop Capitals from what I’m doing. It has the advantage of not crashing Internet Explorer on windows, but the disadvantage of me needing to stick markup into the text of an entry. The biggest problem I have with that is that it makes some search engines not find the text. It also makes it harder for me to grep my archives when I go looking for something. [holy schmoly]
- Wanna add polls to your weblog (or other website)? BlogPolling offers free polls via a bit of JavaScript. Handy? Maybe. [accordionguy]
- Finally, if you think this country is messed up, how about the U.K.? We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That’ll be £80,000 please. Seems if they wrongfully incarcerate you there, they want to charge you over £3000 per year, plus interest. [claire]