We haven’t explicity plugged Overheard in New York (featured in Stuff We Like), but it’s frequently treatful, and I found one of today’s quotes terribly sweet.

Sometimes, when you look at information on being prepared for emergencies, you notice a certain, shall we say, Utah flavor to some of the information. So if you want to go to the source, check out Provident Living. I think some of the tips may be based more on scripture than practicality, but I really can’t argue with the family home evening.

From the description of a propane space heater:
“30K BTU Blue Flame Prpane Space Heater makes supplemental heating fast and easy. Built in Oxygen Depletion Sensor for unparalleled safety. Can easily be operated during power failure. Cool touch cabinet keeps you far away from burnt concerns.”

Wow, I hate it when I burn my concerns.

Wow, this is a cool idea: assassination by socks. Though continuing your dead target’s knitting might be intimidating (or liberating, depending how far along they are).

I’m amazed at the amount of unvarnished anti-Muslim bigotry that’s being thrown around. I suppose it’s likely enough that these nutcases would say (or are saying) the same thing about the openly gay members of Congress, and it’s just not getting as much play, but I can’t help thinking there’s a new bottom rung on the ladder.

Since we live in an area with a minimum of grisly murders and appalling scandals, local news has to make due with storms to whip themselves into a frenzy. I have yet to tune in to find out what this storm has been named.

Consumer Corner:
The recommended products for your several days without power are:
1. small radio with speaker and headphone jack, runs on AA batteries
2. small flashlights, run on AA batteries
3. novelty battery-operated white LED Xmas lights, run on AA batteries
4. Light Wedge white LED book illuminator, runs on AA batteries
5. a whole bunch of AA batteries

Your optional purchases:
iPod
Nintendo DS

Craft Corner!
You can make a hot water bottle out of an empty 2 liter soda container and some hot water! You can also make a tasteful and warm non-itchy hat from a pair of tights!

Recipe Corner!
It turns out you can fry Pilsbury Toaster Strudel when only your stove is working.

Another garbage house, but with rats instead of cats.

As hesitant as I would normally be to buy something from a “Mr. McGroovy,” his box rivets have riveted me. Now I want to build huge structures out of cardboard liberated from the recycle dumpster at work.

Wikipedia finally got an updated page about Forced Perspective. It’s still not exhaustive, omitting at least still photography, but it at least acknowledges the architectural uses. If I were a better person, I would update it instead of whining; but if I were that person, I would have updated it a couple years ago.

A while ago I upgraded my Portable Firefox (now called FirefoxPortable) and due to the name change and a significant brain fart, lost my bookmarks. (Annoyed Grunt).

So until I get over the psychic scarring, I’ll be posting a lot of links here. Feh.

Really useful free software for Windows.

Simple index of useful templates for Word.