A collection of stuff I don’t want to pass up:

I used to have one of the bright yellow Sony Walkmans
used here to house an
iPod.  Used to.  So I spent 30 minutes rummaging through the boxes of
junk we have stored in the attic.  Didn’t find it.  If I can find one,
I’d sure like to give the conversion a try (via). 

Earlier this week, at Bush’s speech in Utah, at least one person in the crowd
donned "Bullshit Protector" ear covers. 

Boing Boing picked it up; there’s a link to a PDF so you can make your own,
good for those times when, you know, it’s possible that what you’re hearing has
some BS mixed in.

The CBA’s Dakota Wizards have

hired former Baylor

scandal-maker Dave Bliss (via). 
Wow.  The coach who "made mistakes," such as doing his best to cover up,
well, a helluva lot of criminal activity in his program is able to find work
again coaching basketball?  Wizardry indeed.  At the same time Cincy

is parting with 16-year head basketball coach

Bob Huggins, whose reputation for being acerbic and even downright rude
(indifferent attitude toward his players’ life-beyond-sport?) is well-known. 

From Kairosnews,
this link to an entry suggesting

"The demise of the geek bloggers."  But the evidence of this vanishing
is somewhat suspect.  We’re seeing a consumerist expansion among weblogs
(more business blogs, more corp stuff), but the "demise" is just as likely a
re-positioning in the power law curve.  The shift of geek bloggers from the
top 50 spots in Technorati doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re vanishing. 
Instead, it means that they’re not as tightly clustered or well-linked as the
blogs that are filling up the head of the curve (extroverts or consumer blogs,
as the article names them). Since we rarely perceive blogspace as a total
structure (I mean that it’s not singularly apprehend able; we can’t see it all
at once), the shift of geek bloggers or any other nested micro-cluster doesn’t
necessarily reflect a drop in

blogging activity.  Yes?

Good chance that we’re heading out to the NY State Fair this afternoon. 
Photos later (yeah, I’ll be the one holding the cotton candy and elephant ears
and camera while my kid goes on all the rides…maybe D. will go on some of the
stuff, too; as for me, no kicks in jamming my knees into a jostling metal bar over
and over again).