Monday Morning Tidbits
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 at 09:21 AM [GMT-6]

• Happy Halloween. Unless you don't acknowledge Halloween, in which case, Happy November Eve.


• We're still a month away from the end of the most active and destructive season of storms since records were kept. Well, the hurricanes have been bad, too, but I'm actually referring to the Supreme Court Nominee Season. <badda-bing>


• The Singaporean blogger over at Pencil Shavings has an account of her longest run to-date, almost 18km. That's great, but what I really enjoyed was her description of stopping on the trail to text-message a vending machine via her cellphone so that she could get something to drink without using any cash. How cool is that?


• Dave over at North Sea Diaries posts about a 20-point manifesto that purports to contain the solutions to "Europe's Problems." Dave expertly dismisses them as fluff and homes in on the real issues. That alone makes the post worth reading (and, as always, Europe's problems should be read as cautionary tales, if not precursors to our own variations of the same ones). But what makes the post particularly special in my mind is his use of the word "autarky," a delightfully angular-looking word which is not to be confused with the word "autarchy." And the former, dear friends, is your word of the day. Use it wisely in your own post, then trackback here or leave a comment to get those valuable bonus points.


• Back to the Pencil Shavings post, when she writes that she "SMSed" a number, that refers to "Short Message Service." For those over the age of fifty, you probably have that capability on your cellphone and have never used it. If you're a CellularOne digital subscriber, you can also send free text messages to any other CellularOne phone via this webpage.


• Be sure to stop by and see Google's salute to Halloween. (I know; referring someone to Google is like reminding them to breathe.)

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