Well, shoot...

Looks like MS doesn't make trackball mice anymore. Damn; I really liked my trackball optical. Back when it still, y'know, worked and all...

Quote of the Day

It's very important to have faith in a Higher Power. A Universal Law of Good. A Belief that this miraculous world will support all right ideas and endeavors and you.

—Gene Colan, Hall of Fame artist

Mostly here for my own personal use later on...

...but Geoge Will is a disingenuous weasel:

http://www.fair.org/media-beat/010308.html

Nackles, by Donald Westlake

One of the best Christmas stories I've ever read:

http://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/index.php?p=46

(Keeping in mind that I ain't right in the head, of course...)