In lieu of original thought, here are a few links.
My Heritage, you can upload a photo of yourself and it will attempt to match you up to the celebrity you resemble. I purportedly resemble Ernest Borgnine & Willie Nelson. Seriously, my self esteem may never recover from this. [Link courtesy of Amy & DailyCandy]
Immigration has been in the news lately. While reading an article about a congressman from my home state in the NY Times, I came across this great quote.
“Sensenbrenner is a pit bull,” says Representative Ric Keller, a Florida Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “And the Senate negotiators he’s up against are wearing Milk-Bone underwear.”
‘Pit Bull’ of the House Latches On to Immigration, by Mark Leibovich
I love that quote. I wish I could naturally talk like this. It reminds me of when Dan Rather saying "He beat him like a rented mule." on election night a few years ago.
Check out this field of 180,000 clay figurines. This is the kind of art that moves me.
If you like flickr, and I know you do, you might be interested in Preloadr, which has a helpful image processing and uploading toolkit for flickr. It's not going to replace Gimp anytime soon, but if you're on the road it might come in handy.
If you want to sample some free music you might want to check out CC Hits, a neat little mash-up app from ning.com. BTW, Tim O'Reilly did a really nice write up about ning.com recently. Mix the idea of ning.com with this nugget from Microsoft, "Being a developer "on someone's platform" may ultimately mean running your app in their data center, not just using their APIs." (Operations: The New Secret Sauce) and you may be able to understand the new web.
