Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

The Girl in the Window

This story of a 9-year old girl and her “most outrageous case of neglect” is one of the most gutwrenching things I’ve ever read or heard. I honestly cannot come up with a word to describe it.
There’s a collection of audio and video clips to go along with it, and I highly recommend them.
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Random Album Cover

Discovered via Dan and Kim, a process to make a random album cover, complete with random band name, random title, and random artwork. It goes like this:

Your band needs a name. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and the title of the first article is your band’s name.
Your album needs a title. Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3, scroll [...]

Psystar: Forward Into the Death [Thursday Linkdome]

Psystar Fights Back
I don’t envision any way Psystar can not lose this case Apple has brought against them. Also, is there someone backing Psystar financially in this matter who has some other motive? Hmm.
Hooray for Librarians
I fully appreciate that you, and some of your friends, strongly disagree with its viewpoint. But if the library is [...]

Friday Linkdome

Today in the Linkdome:

Rush take on themselves
Behold as Rush attempt to play their own song “Tom Sawyer” in Rock Band… on expert!
Man Stole Miami-Dade Buses, Drove Them On Routes
“Harris would take the buses from several Miami-Dade Transit bus depots in the county and drive the buses on their routes, picking up and dropping off passengers [...]

Teach the Controversy

Fairly awesome, beautifully designed t-shirts which illustrate other important “controversies” to be taught in school besides creationism. Satire at its finest. [via Boing Boing]
Also, additional shirts from the same creator are available at Amorphia Apparel. Similar artistic style throughout most of it, just not grouped in a 9-part series.

CD Sales Down, LP Sales Up

“I think at this point people are just fucking with the record industry as a whole.”
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The consume®econnection Project

Scott Ballum has begun quite an interesting undertaking. “The Mission: A year-long effort to meet the laborers and craftsmen who build what I buy – and put a human face on consumption.”
Now that is a project. He even went to Loretto, KY to visit the Maker’s Mark distillery.
Unfortunately, the weblog seems to be [...]

Falindrome.com
“The World’s Largest (Only) Source of Fake Palindromes!”
[via Rod Begbie]

All Streets
All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. The pace of progress is seen in the [...]

A nice tale of sports(wo)manship involving softball, a home run, a torn ACL, the Pacific Northwest, and carrying one’s opponent across the field to the in-game detriment of one’s own team.