Yesterday, the Washington Post ran an article for the explicit purpose of giving legitimacy to internet rumors about Barack Obama.

Today, one of their editorial cartoonists called them on it. Nice going, Mr. Toles. :-)

See this list of honored teachers in 1992?

Huh, nobody’s highlighted as winning in the Social Studies category. Wonder why that is…

Oh. Yes, this could explain it… (h/t DailyKos)

Jason@DiveAbout decided he would ask Neil Gaiman to help him propose to his girlfriend.

It worked. :-)

(h/t Laura)

Forgive me if this is obvious to all the Foxheads out there, but it’s something that I kind of ignored previously. You don’t have to send a single statement through a SQLEXEC() call.

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It turned out that Sitemeter had “partnered” with another company to put tracking cookies on sites using their counter. Since that wasn’t part of the deal when I signed up with them, I’ll be using something else in the future.

Darn, why is Giuliani running instead of Cuomo?

Mario Cuomo gave a speech on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to 2,000 of the most influential lawyers in NYC. The program didn’t give a title for the speech, but Gov. Cuomo repeatedly invoked, as if she were some kind of Catholic saint, “Our Lady of the Law.”

He called out “power seeking presidents” who engage in “efforts to throw off constitutional restraints” through various means. He decried in particular

“signing statements,” “secret White House task forces,” and the “unprecedented politicization of the Department of Justice.”

But of all the overreaching by presidents, the one that came under Gov. Cuomo’s harshest criticism was

“the seizing by presidents of the power to declare war.”

Cuomo said flat out that the AUMF “violates the Constitution.” He pointed out that under our Constitution the Congress’ power to declare war is non-delegable.

The other day, I mentioned the Levenshtein distance FLL I wrote. At the time, I had forgotten to time it. I downloaded Bob Calco’s Fox implementation from Ed Leafe’s download page, and ran it 10K times: it took about 2.2 seconds each time.

Then I tested the C version. It ran in 0.1 seconds each time. I like this. :-)

As soon as I get a chance to replicate the steps I went through, I’ll post it: I don’t want to just toss the FLL up without commentary.

The Shifted Librarian reports on a teen librarian who keeps DDR set up all the time, and will allow patrons to challenge her in an attempt to get their fines waived. :-)

After what I’ve seen happen to Sesame Street, I don’t know if I trust Sesame Workshop to resurrect The Electric Company. (h/t The Shifted Librarian)

One of the things I was looking forward to when moving webhosts was Apache’s mod_rewrite module, which just allowed me to flip from using URLs with the post number in them to ones with the date and post title in them. Much more convenient. :-)

So far, everything’s been pretty smooth. I’m currently working on switching my main site from FrontPage to Drupal. I found a nice theme for it: I just have to finish moving the content over, and cleaning up non-working code. :-)