{"id":916,"date":"2004-06-18T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/18\/link-o-rama\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T17:02:04","slug":"link-o-rama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Link-o-rama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0001772\/2004\/06\/14.html\">I Wrote Some Stuff and Now I Have a Shop-Vac<\/a>. Definitely the best blog post I&#8217;ve read this week, over at Real Live Preacher.\n<li>I&#8217;ve been intending to link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\">Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 <\/a>for a while. It&#8217;s just bad luck that when I finally <i>do <\/i>link to it, it&#8217;s the first day in which the most current polls give Bush the lead. (This may reflect the <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?ReportID=216\">boost Bush got from Reagan&#8217;s death<\/a>, in which case I doubt it&#8217;ll last).\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/electoratemap.php\">Larry Sabato&#8217;s Crystal Ball <\/a>says things currenlty lean for Kerry. Both maps agree that the race is close enough to go either way.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0424\/lerner.php\">Interesting article in the <i>Voice <\/i><\/a>about how Karry and Bush are appealing &#8211; or, more accurately, failing to appeal &#8211; to single female voters. There are a lot of ways Kerry <i>could <\/i>try to appeal to these voters &#8211; for instance, promising to raise the minimum wage. But he won&#8217;t, because he&#8217;s focused on appealing to &#8220;Reagan democrats&#8221; (i.e., men). There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0424\/hong.php\">a companion article<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/000196.html\">Feministing<\/a>.\n<li>I keep on forgetting to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakybob.com\/stumptown2004.html\">Freaky Bob&#8217;s report on the Stumptown Comics Fest<\/a>, a local comics convention I helped organize. There&#8217;s a bit about <a href=\"http:\/\/incontemptcomics.com\/blog\/\">Kevin Moore <\/a>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakybob.com\/stumptown5.html\">page 5<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakybob.com\/stumptown6.html\">a bit about me <\/a>(including a photo &#8211; Bob held up a camera and said &#8220;pretend you feel sick&#8221;) on page 6.\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/vaults\/2004\/06\/14\/a_cavalcade_of_comics_coverage\">Kip has a report <\/a>on the Fest as well, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectkooky.com\/erika\/photos\/stumptown2004\/\">so does Erika<\/a>. Erika has lots of photos, but none of me, dammit! (Actually, there are two of the back of my head &#8211; just after the photo of Erika&#8217;s underwear riding higher than her pants.)<\/p>\n<p>In addition, someone wrote into a local paper calling everyone at the Fest &#8220;scenester fucks.&#8221; I&#8217;ve never been called a scenester before, so I think that&#8217;s pretty cool.  <a href=\"http:\/\/mercurystudio.blogspot.com\/2004_06_13_mercurystudio_archive.html#108745526667589866\">Mercury Studios has all the info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/000194.html\">Vanessa at Feministing discusses an interesting\/appalling Title IX case<\/a>, in which a coach was fired for complaining about the lesser funding given to girl&#8217;s teams.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positiveliberty.com\/2004\/06\/our-kiltic-heritage.html\">Positive Liberty <\/a>is looking forward to the day when all people, male or female, will be running around in skirts.\n<li>If you&#8217;re a <i>Simpsons <\/i>fan, you&#8217;ve gotta check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csupomona.edu\/~jelerma\/springfield\/map\/index.html\">amazing map of Springfield<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/06\/index.html#003157\">Where does Bush stand on abortion?<\/a> Tapped points out that Bush, in his public statements, hasn&#8217;t been totally forthright. Noentheless, it&#8217;s clear that Bush (like Kerry) is out of synch with his church&#8217;s position on abortion &#8211; a fact that doesn&#8217;t often make the papers.\n<li>If you&#8217;ve got a fast connection and don&#8217;t mind downloading a big .mov file, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/elementary\/media\/lmnt_km.mov\">stunning performance by beatboxer Kenny Muhammad<\/a>. Some of the stuff he does doesn&#8217;t even seem possible. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/\">Kip <\/a>for the tip.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=prix-viagra-5-pharmacie\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Wrote Some Stuff and Now I Have a Shop-Vac. Definitely the best blog post I&#8217;ve read this week, over at Real Live Preacher. I&#8217;ve been intending to link to the Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 for a while. 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