Yeah, so I didn’t get this posted in time, but here it is today. It’ll be a busy week, but I’ll see if I can’t get a few things posted.

It’s Friday, December 14th 2007 and here’s a smattering of links that I’ve come across this last week.

Best of 2007 Podcasts¹- At least according to iTunes. The noteables are Ask A Ninja, Brave New Films, MAKE Magazine and This American Life. Congrats guys.

Spectrum Z510 - It’s all I really want for Christmas.

Extreme Business Cards - A DIY Auto-dialing business card. Prove to the world you’re then alpha geek.

Subway Burlesque - A group of women get together and take on a challenge to ‘Dance sexy in a public place’. You’ll need a pole to dance on, and what better place then the subway? And what better subway system then NYC?

It’s Me, Every Girl Ever - A wonderful Craigslist “Best Of”

Pict.Fm - An awesome Last.Fm addon, it creates an animated avatar based on artists you’ve listened to recently. How sweet!

Windows Feedback Program - In exchange for sacrificing your privacy, get yourself a free copy of Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate, Encarta, or Trips and Streets². Sweet, sort of!

Porn for Girls, Written By Girls - It’s a parody, SFW (Maybe)

1. You need iTunes installed to see it, though [↩]
2. Except I read right after that that they stopped offering Vista - but I can’t find it on the web [↩]

And we’re off, it’s the newest feature that I just decided upon, the Friday Link-O-Rama. So sit down, grab a beer, and check out the things I liked this week.

Microsoft Embarrassed about computerized Santa - MS created a neat little Santa-bot that youngsters could send text messages to with what they want. A young girl (I assume mentally challenged) kept asking the virtual Kringle about eating pizza, to which it finally responded “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to talk about something else”¹

10 Geeky Websites Where the Real Geeks Gather - Ok, not entirely sure how true this is. Some of these I go to regularly (Hack-A-Day) while others I’ve never heard of, so this is definitely not a “You’re not a geek unless you go to all of these”

The Treadmill of Poverty - Welfare, as it currently works, actually punishes people attempting to improve their situation. But we don’t want to give people a free ride - how can we balance this?

LOL Creashun - Ur Doing It Wrong

Buy your own flux capacitor - Great Scott! Delorean and 80s power ballad sound track not included.

Octopart - Greatest place ever to find electronics. If you’re looking for it, they’ll tell you where to find it.

IDK, My BFF Jill? - 15 years ago today the very first SMS message was sent. Those bastards.

It’s the 66th anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor.

Tom Jones will be here in March! Zomg!

I have a ton of personal projects I want to work on, but Team Fortress 2 keeps pulling me back in!²

Side Note: Some Microsoft software is damn near impossible to install without a prayer³

Robert Fisher gives me way to many kudos in his most recent blog entry, but I will attempt to be humble and accept it.

Healthy Nutritious food is 15 times more expensive then ‘junk’ food.  - I’m not fat, I’m thrifty?

1. That sounds like the final response to a turing bot - the name of which escapes me right now - any help? [↩]
2. Oh, I’ll be in the top 10 soon. Very soon [↩]
3. I’m talking to you, Operations Manager 2007 [↩]