Here's a meme of my own. A list of links I have on the quick links bar in my browser.

Disaster Preparedness

• Recent Earthquakes – A near-real-time view of seismic activity in my region of meatspace.
• Seattle City Light: Power outages – All the current outages that Seattle City Light knows about. When there's an outage, this page has location of fault, description of work needed to repair, approximate number of customers affected (and the streets bounding the outage!), and the estimated time to repair. Good when you need to rubberneck at the tree on the lines because you don't have any power.
• Metro bus reroutes – Nothing beats missing your math test because you didn't know where your bus's snow route is.
• Real-time 911 Calls – Is there a fire next door? How many fire engines are coming? When was it called in?

Entertainment

• The Daily WTF – Random insanity related to computers.
• User Friendly – Apparently this was one of the first webcomics. It'd be on my friendslist if it offered an RSS feed.

Checked my credit report today. According to all three credit agencies, I don't exist. TransUnion's website was the worst designed, I think. I was required to create an account and password and agree to a fairly innocuous contract. (For example, how many contracts have a sentence such as this?

This Agreement will take effect at the time you click "Accept" below, and shall terminate on the date your Personal Credit Report is no longer available on the TrueCredit web site (which shall be no less than 30 days from the date that report is provided to you on-line).

I don't know what this means in the case that my report fails to exist, which is what happened. It also didn't seem to make any soul-sucking requirements of me. Most notably:

If you do not accept these terms and conditions, TransUnion shall process your request in the same manner it does when it receives requests through the United States mail.

The agreement is optional!) Then they skirted the edge of not selling me things — they suggested that I sign up for their monthly email newsletter. If I choose to be bombarded with a helpful monthly message from your local Illinois credit agency, they'll send me a reminder to get my credit rating again next year. No thanks.

Unlike squeezing blood from a stone, it's always possible to get more toothpaste out of a tube that seems empty.

I bet Jesus could brush a million mouths with only half a tube.

Take a peek at this one.

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This is pretty neat. I'm posting from within GAIM.

Yay for avoiding actually writing an essay for class by doing extensive research about the topic.

Wow... PayPal is getting very vigilant about their security lately. Every twelve hours (almost like clockwork!) I get an email saying that their regular weekly audit revealed that my account was used from a FOREIGN COUNTRY! Oh NO!

Zippy The Pinhead Time!

Your PAYPAL account has been USED and we KNOW it wasn't you!!

This is PayPal calling ... Click here to change your PASSWORD!

Post whatever you truly think about me, anonymously. Hopefully something interesting will come of this. I won't use IPs to figure out who posts what. Promise!

It's always interesting to reply to people on the Latest Posts page.

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