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Here’s a mini linkdump of the stuff that has caught my eye today… Change.gov drops the “all rights reserved” tag and adopts a creative commons license. Theresa Honeywell is tougher than you. A full and complete watch-gasm How to bilk people on Facebook Christmas is coming! Sins or black metal band names?

Here’s a brief smattering of election and Halloween related links. Boo! GOTV! People in the Middle for Obama by Errol Morris My Halloween costume? Tim O’Reilly on why an Obama presidency is good news for tech nerds Yes We Carve… pumpkins for Obama Glasses + your mom’s red suit/skirt ? Halloween Costume. Jesus of Nazareth: [...]

Links are better than patties… Nathan Fillion nails your wife. The NYTimes on the food industry in Hardwick. Wicked cool 3D animated short — The Ark. Steve Fossett’s super secret flying, diving, space-bound submersible. This must be the single coolest private library in existence — and it’s in New England!

I’m pretty busy this week and there’s precious little time for blogging, but here are a few items I’ve stumbled across in recent days… Punch ‘em in the Dick may be my new favorite song. Jessamyn from MeFi sent me a Twitter direct message asking if I knew anyone who wanted to make a video. [...]

One of the things that Steve and I talk about on our weekly radio show is how the presidential race isn’t so much a race between Sentator Obama and Senator McCain, but rather it’s a race between Obama and not-Obama.  McCain’s entire strategy appears to be about telling us that Obama would be bad for [...]

Odum and I have been going at it in the comments thread of my Dark Knight post.  I’m mentioning it here because that post has slipped behind the front page of Candleblog and it’s an interesting disagreement we’re having.  Any Candleblog readers who are into comics should check it out. I’m posting the two most [...]

I made Candleblog a fancy favicon (or “favorites icon” if you’re not into the whole brevity thing).  See the little green “C” in your address bar and/or browser tab?  That’s it.  It’s not as cool as the guy who put a whole Defender game in his favicon, but it’s still pretty cool to me, having [...]

You know that Candleblog reader collage I do every year? I got the idea from Warren Ellis, who is presently in the midst of his own annual “world wide week.” He writes… Someone asked me yesterday, “why do you do the thing with the self portraits?” And it’s like this: because people forget that there [...]

Here are a few of the wonderous things I’ve stumbled upon in the last few hectic days… Lego Stephen Hawking Rubik’s Cube-solving robot Long Awkward Pose – the greatest blog idea I’ve seen this week Think before you ink. Geeking out with books (this link is mostly for Emily’s benefit) Peanut butter and jelly by [...]