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Random Links

I usually like to save up random links for a post such as this. Most of the time others blog on the topics before I get a chance to gather enough to make a full post. Some times I just get bored of the topic. Today, however, was a rare instance where I landed on enough cool random links in a single day that I just couldn’t pass it up. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

The Chris Farley Show — The Chris Farley Show is the official, authorized biography of the late actor and comedian Chris Farley. Fans knew Chris as Saturday Night Live’s sweaty, swaggering, motivational speaker; as the irresistible Chippendales stripper; and as Tommy Callahan, the underdog hero of Tommy Boy. His family knew him as sensitive and passionate, deeply religious, and devoted to bringing laughter into others’ lives.

How I Spent My Stimulus — In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. We hope this website helps shed some light on where the stimulus money is going.

Free Dunkin Donuts Coffee — Dunkin’ Donuts is celebrating Free Iced Coffee Day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. next Thursday, May 15. Customers can walk into any participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant throughout the country and receive a free 16 oz. cup of Dunkin’ Donuts’ premium regular, Berry Berry Iced Coffee, which combines the seasonal tastes of blueberry and raspberry with Dunkin’ Donuts’ award-winning coffee, or many other delicious flavors.

First Look at Oliver Stones ‘W’ — Entertainment Weekly goes inside the director’s dark, comic, and already controversial movie about George W. Bush’s rise to power, starring Josh Brolin.

Britain’s War On Chewing Gum — Every year, 935 million packs of gum are chewed by 28 million Britons, leaving millions of sticky, inconvenient lumps in their wake. The globs can only be removed with high pressure steam hoses, expensive freezing machines, or corrosive, environmentally unfriendly chemicals, costing taxpayers £150 ($300) million per year. The desperate state of affairs has attracted millions of dollars of research into non-stick chewing gum, but the country is desperate for a quicker solution.

Barack Obama Podcast — Barack’s greatest hits and most significant policy speeches on iTunes in both video and audio-only formats.

23-6 — 236.com is a co-production between the gigantic, vaguely Death Star-like IAC, and The Huffington Post, a progressive news hub where outraged people go in order to get more outraged before going to have dinner at Nobu.

Marblehead Blog — Marblehead, a marketing and design company that my buddy works for, created this blog to show off their work, share their opinions, and pass on industry news.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogs, Britain, Chris Farley, Design, Dunkin Donuts, George W. Bush, Government, Gum, Humor, iTunes, Links, News, Oliver Stone, Randomness, Spending

Link Dump

Got a few fun random links backing up over here, as well as some blogs I don’t remember pimping. Please click through all of them because I get paid if you do. Not really, but every single one of these links will help you live your best life now!

RANDOM LINKS:
» Have Yourself A Non-Materialistic Christmas
» Find Free Music On The Web
» Jesus Hearts Darwin
» Saying Goodbye To Debt
» Construct A Killer Resume
» How To Hunt Bats
» Lessons In Not Sucking
» 10 Ways To Defeat Brain Drain
» Is The Creation Museum Worth It?

BLOGS:
» Life. Hope. Faith. Love.
» Salvo Noodle
» The Deloach
» More Fire
» Ordinary Radical
» Overactive Fork
» Billy Burnett
» Chris From Canada
» Driveby Media
» Echoes In Eternity
» Memphis Monster

Filed under: Bats, Blogosphere, Blogs, Brain Drain, Christmas, Creation, Darwin, Debt, Jesus, Lifehacker, Links, Marketing, Materialsim, Money, Music, Resumes, WIRED

Blog Survey

I’ve developed some habits since starting this blog. For the most part they are good habits meant to instill consistency and good aesthetics, but I don’t want to get stuck in a rut. Won’t you help a brother out and take this quick survey?

1. Do you use RSS?

2. Do you like or dislike the (read more) technique on blog posts?

3. What are the percentage of links you follow on a post?

4. Do you prefer links to open in a new window or not?

5. Should there be a limit to the amount of posts per day?

6. Pictures—Too big? Too many?

7. What is this blogs best feature?

8. What does this blog lack?

Any other comments?

Filed under: Blogs, Mud Puppy, Surveys

RSS Dilemma

Ever since I started using an RSS Feed Reader I have found myself reading more blogs, yet commenting less. I also don’t get a chance to see a post in context, or see any fancy features added to a blog. I rarely get to chase new rabbits on someone’s blogroll, and I have a feeling that I don’t show up in everybody’s stats any more.

So this blessing is also a curse, and I’m at a conundrum as to how to fix it. I’ve been making an effort to get out and comment more, but as of right now I have over 80 subscriptions (not including comment subscriptions) and it’s not easy to comment on all of them.

Have you ever found yourself cursing the greatness that is RSS?

(Oh, and if you haven’t done it already, Subscribe To Me!)

Filed under: Blogosphere, Blogs, Disconnected, Feed Readers, RSS

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The Original Mud Puppy is a 36 year old Christ follower. Father of an amazing son. Husband of a woman that makes me a better person every single day. Book, music, and movie junkie. Avid runner. Part-time cook.
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