I’m not doing an especially good job of taking time off on the weekends around here. So far, I’ve taken only one of the three weekends this year off from writing.
I guess my excuse this weekend is that I had some writing I needed to do. I also need to finish putting together the invitations for my party two weeks from now and send them out. I’m planning to email them today, so if you don’t get an email inviting you to the party by Monday, and think you should have been invited, drop me a note. It’s almost certainly some sort of mistake on my part.
- I finally “finished” my essay On Social Security. Or rather, got tired of trying to fill in more details and gave up and made it public. I’m not especially proud of the writing, but it does point out some of my biggest problems with the system. You could probably just go to Thomas Sowell’s The Quest for Cosmic Justice for a better look at things.
- Beginning today, there’s Fish house art, not drawn to scale out on Medicine Lake. Art-ice-shanties. It’s a Minnesota thing. [strib]
- NASA’s Cassini-Huygens: Close Encounter with Saturn page seems to be the best place (that hasn’t gotten slashdotted) to get pictures of Titan. [fark!]
- A Texas College student accused of being one of the world’s largest spammers, fourth largest, actually. He’s being sued by the Texas Attorney General using the CAN-SPAM act. [strib]
- Here’s the story of a St. Paul businessman who is stuck on ’the list’ and is trying to get the TSA to take him off it. A new law may offer some hope. [press-patch]
- Hmm. If you decide you need to cross the US’ northern border covertly, it seems that’s really not much of a problem: Feds Find Millions Wasted On Border Camera System, including payments made for cameras that don’t exist, repairs made on those non-existent cameras, and all kinds of fraudy goodness. Of course the northern border has temperatures down by where it doesn’t matter if you’re using Celsius or Fahrenheit at the moment, which might be a bit of a deterrent. [claire]