I can’t decide whether it’s funnier to imagine these folks are segregating drinking fountains or peeing in them. Take your best shot.

The Senate hasn’t voted yet, but let’s hear it for the House for voting to allow library and bookstore patrons to read what they wish to read without risk of a warrantless search recording their habits.

I think I’ll need to study Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship more thoroughly before trying to become a UK citizen: I scored only 9 of 15 on the BBC’s sample test. The 150-page book does not appear to be available on the web.

This morning on the way out to the garage, I saw two brown rabbits on the lawn. Cute!

YaGoohoo!gle is now Twingine. Both Yahoo and Google got on the guy’s ass, so he changed the name. jaguhugel is also available. Check out this blog post and marvel at the heavy East Asian traffic his site is getting.
Our traffic is mostly search engine spiders. Which is just as well, as I don’t much fancy the effect being slashdotted would have on my finances.

I enjoy the roundup of reviews of House in today’s Magazine Monitor on the BBC News site, especially the Paper Monitor’s final comment.

Artist and knitter Hildur Bjarnad

The blood bank called today to get me to schedule an appointment, and I told the woman that I wasn’t going to be giving blood for at least a while. She was disappointed, what with me being one donation short of my three-gallon pin (though somewhere in there I got credit for a donation that didn’t happen for reasons I no longer recall), but I was surprised at how sympathetic she sounded to my reasoning: the pointless discrimination against gay men, highlighted by the recent rule change for sperm donors, does not allow me in good conscience to continue to support the system. She said something to the effect of “They’ll just ignore you; it’s like with stem cells.” And I said, “Well, they can ignore me without my blood, then.” She was perhaps the kindest blood center person I’ve dealt with, though they have by and large been caring and competent.
I’m not even really advocating that people stop giving blood, since we need it; but after you’ve given a gallon or two, why not let them know what you think.

I wish my workplace had slang as cool as this.

I got sick of seeing the 404s for favicon.ico in the web server logs, so I’ve thrown an icon up. Anybody who cares to do better is welcome to provide an alternative.