baitcon and random links.

[rmd]

baitcon was way cool, but either something at baitcon or something from a coworkers from the previous week finally caught up with me and i spent most of monday afternoon and evening with a fever and most of tuesday asleep. (stupiddumbsick is when you can't manage to follow all of the plot of a young adult book you're reading.)

so, yay baitcon. hooray for seeing folks. the site is outstandingly excellent. hooray for folks who came up with fabulous and peculiar ice cream flavors. hooray for folks sharing their talents.

in the absence of more cogent analysis, i provide, instead, a random link collection:

awesome drag performance youtube link of the day:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWEbL133hP8
(tandi iman dupreee and friend doing "holding out for a hero")

awesome foriegn advertisement youtube link of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZZknJWtGg
(encouraging young engineers)

excellent essay about airline security from a pilot.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/16/a-pilot-on-airline-security/

nifty del.icio.us tag display thingie.
http://kevan.org/extispicious

just the thing for gamer households with chore-based issues
http://www.chorewars.com/
(see also http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/20)

yar! piracy report.
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php

oops. container ships fall down go boom.
http://www.containershipping.nl/casualties.html