Politics and stuff

Quite a bit has happened that I haven't commented on, so I think I will do some catch up.

First, some updates.

Domestic Politics and Agendas
1) Wow, Howard Dean as head of the DNC. Interesting for a bunch of reasons, but mostly I want to know if he will be able to remind the DNC who they are. They do seem to have picked up a bit of a spine again, considering the fight against Bolton and a couple of judicial nominations, but they are still pretty weak overall.

2) Looks like they are finally starting to show some cracks in their united front. I'm waiting for more.

6) So, when was the last time that a Senator held a political rally in a church? The Daily Show had a great take on it. Of course, the actual issue, the use of filibuster to prevent a tyranny of the majority has been used by every major political party, specifically including most of the people arguing so vehemently against it. Hypocritical bastards.

7) Pictures, vanishing glaicers, extra heat and ocean levels


More later, when my hand hurts less.

RSS

I decided to play around with RSS feeds today. I like the general idea quite a bit, but there seems to be something lacking in the implementation. I really don't like the browser bookmark implementations, such as the one in Firefox and Safari. The interface just isn't all that useful for me, as I want to subscribe to >100 feeds so things just get too cramped. The three pane newsreader style aggregators could be nice, but the one I was using (SharpReader) was fairly buggy and lacked a bunch of features I would want. Net News Wire might be nice. Of course, there are still a bunch of sites I read that don't have RSS feeds, so I'm not certain that an RSS reader would be all that much use. I'll probably just stick to my current method of opening bookmark folders in tabs and angering the murlock.