| Clearing the Browser Tabs – So, You Survived the Week Sunday Edition Posted: 25 Sep 2011 03:10 AM PDT If you are reading this, then you survived Rick Perry’s abysmal debate performance, another self-serving Presidential campaign speech, the launch of Netflix’ unfortunately-named Qwikster service, and a satellite that fell from the heavens and landed God alone knows where. You should relax this weekend and feats upon this bounty of links drawn from two days of surfing around my RSS reader. Yep, this is two day’s worth. I’m working on something off-line that has eaten into the time I have to write posts. I hope very much to have it finished and roll it out Monday morning. It will, I think, delight you and make The Shack a far more friendly and useful place for you. My time management skills still leave quite a bit to be desired, which is why a couple things I’ve mentioned (such as the Conservative Cubicle Art Project) are still sitting on the starting line waiting for me to turn them loose, but I plan to release at least one of those things on Monday morning as well. It all depends on how much I get done this evening and all day Sunday. Keep me in your prayers and, if you have any really good pointers to time management stuff that you think will be useful, please let me know. Oh, and the occasional tip jar hit would not go amiss, though I will say a fundraiser of sorts is on the way in the very near future as well. And now, links! - Did you know you’re paying government employees to work against your best interests? You certainly are, thanks to state and federal rules that allow employees to get “release time” to work for their public sector unions. I bet no government employee gets a similar privilege to work for the Heritage Foundation or American Enterprise Institute.
- Speaking of how government employees steal your money hand over fist, you will not believe how well state legislators make out when they retire. Heck, some of them have gamed the rules so that they pull down pension money even before they retire.
- Okay, so the whole crowd didn’t boo a gay solider at the last Republican candidates’ debate, but that doesn’t mean they’re not a bunch of h8ers! H8! H8! H8!!!111one!!
- I found this sortable chart of state sales tax rates very interesting, especially given Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan.
- Ed Driscoll had a very smart post on how the most powerful person in media may be the television producer.
- National Geographic magazine had a fascinating article about the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a roughly 150,000 year period when the Earth warmed so much that you could have walked from Asia to North America across Europe and Greenland without ever touching ice. The quest to find out what caused such a large release of CO2 (since Haliburton and the Tea Parties weren’t around to fire up the dirty coal plants back then) makes for an interesting (via Neatorama)
- How about a photo of five of Saturn’s moons with the planet’s rings? I bet you could find room for that in your desktop wallpaper folder. While you’re at it, enjoy this breathtaking shot of the Milky Way there, too. Alas, it will cost you to download the second one, but it’s still something to behold.
- I really don’t know how Troglopundit finds these stories, but I’m glad he does. I don’t care how badly your day has gone, you still didn’t find a jar full of fingers buried in your back yard.
- If you are considering a career as a comic book character, you should take care to choose the right colors for your costume.
- Okay, I’m pretty sure if I can find the meat on sale this week, I’m going to have this pot roast for dinner. How can I not? Just look at it!
         
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