Ever wondered what it would be like to eat some moderately priced, cheese-based entrees with a bunch of white supremacists? Well, wonder no longer! (respec: fake wonkette)

Sample excerpt:

"I'm glad that he referred you to us," hater Kevin says, then asks how long I've been a "race activist."

I tilt my head back and reflect, "I started to dislike Canadians, then moved on from there." Under my breath, I mutter, "Fucking Canadians."

Hilarious and depressing go together like booze and Nyquil: the experience is a bit unsettling, and probably not something you should try very often. But MAN does it ever work well.

i was browsing around unfogged today, a site i haven't really read (though i think i'll start) that i came across because kriston links to it often. looking through their blogroll, i noticed that they had heather havrilesky linked. huzzah!, i thought. then i hovered my mouse over the link, and noticed that the URL pointed to www.tinylittlepenis.com. after much apprehension and glancing over my shoulder to make sure tommy wouldn't notice if the computer suddenly loaded a page full of penises, i clicked through, and realized it redirects to www.rabbitblog.com. for some reason, i am thinking this is the best thing ever.

on a totally unrelated note, i saw today that matt yglesias has added several female-authored sites to his blogroll, which i think is great. over the past months i'd always thought he'd been better than most male political bloggers in linking to female sites, and it always seemed to be a very unconscious thing (though i'm not sure if it was) - he was never like, look at meeee, i'm linking to girls, and am therefore a superior male human! but as much as he linked to females (what would phoebe do, julie saltman, etc) he never added them to his blogroll. for a long time there, the only girls on his blogroll were laura rozen and, um, me. which is totally laughable if you think about it. laura rozen and i - we're like totally blog sisters. so his blogroll had 1.5 girls, really, and i know he only linked to zunta because a) he stole a picture of mine for his headshot w/o asking b) tommy writes non-idiotic stuff (and NEVER writes about his clothing choices) and c) we threatened to take away his access to Karaoke Revolution if he didn't link us (and if you haven't seen yglesias singing sixpence none the richer's "kiss me," YOU HAVE NOT YET LIVED).

anyway, tommy and i have cooked some artichokes so i'm off to indulge in the leafy goodness. then the wilco show, and hopefully by the time we walk home, it'll be snowing soft white death and DC will have gone into shut down.

Turns out I misspoke yesterday when I wrote about Paris Hilton's Sidekick getting hacked. Although all T-Mobile user accounts were hacked a while ago, that isn't what happened to Paris. Engadget reports that the crafty thieves just managed to guess the answer to Hilton's lost password question -- "what's your favorite pet's name?"

So I suppose it's kind of a punishment for her television show... I guess. I was sort of hoping for something involving skewers.

Hackaday has a great little article on getting started with BASIC STAMP microcontrollers. These are little programmable chips that help bridge the gap between the world of software nerdery and less-accessible hardware geekdom.

But browsing through the comments on that post confuses the issue. Everyone seems to agree that BASIC STAMPs, while something of a standard, are a huge ripoff. Proposed alternatives include the PICAXE and Atmel AVRs. Both are much cheaper, but probably not as well supported (in terms of tutorials, software and the like).

So, to any fellow nerds out there: do you have any recommendations? How hard is it to switch platforms once you've learned the basics? I know both the stamp and the PICAXE support basic, while the AVR claims to support C (and definitely supports assembly). Less money spent on the chip means better quality components for the robotic flamethrower it'll be controlling.

apologies for the lack of blogging today. (how pretentious is it that i apologize for the lack of something that enhances nobody's lives and provides only occasional minor entertainment? oh well. i still like to think there is somebody out there feeling empty on the inside because an unrequited narcissism post hasn't jumped into their rss reader in the past 24 hours.) tommy had to go into the office for an 8:30 am conference call, poor boy, to be followed by approximately 32 other conference calls. his office is on a conference call high, lately. and i - well, i have the work. just this once, though.

anyway, hopefully there'll be blogging material aplenty tomorrow, because tommy and i are going to the wilco show tonight! wahey! and i am going to wear the totally awesome scary go round tshirt that he bought me, that came in the mail all the way from the UK. came in the post, i should say. it says "bears will eat you." i don't know why exactly it says that, or what man-eating bears have to do with the comic strip, but it's still pretty great. why i'm telling you this, i don't know. between my concert-attending tshirt attire and my dress dilemma, this is apparently the all-fashion-all-the-time blog. for real, serious, knock-you-on-your-ass blogging, check out susan's post today. she's sending dispatches from tajikistan (i didn't even know that was a country before she went there!) where's she spreading democracy like butter on toast, but still witnessing some of the most atrocious and depressing conditions imaginable.