Random Link o’ the Day:

http://www.firstgenetics.com/

Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal or website along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

Mine:

“but this was different”

Seems kind of silly, but then again, I don’t expect much from the Livejournal guy from whom I found this excercise.

Also, here are two of the columns I wrote for the Wake before I became a Daily columnist:

http://wakenews.org/Voices/April14/tech.html [Top Ten Technology Takebacks (One of my all time favorites)]

http://wakenews.org/Voices/may5/rights.html [Abortion with counterpoint]

Check this post for my more recent columns or go to the Daily’s archive

Most recently in the Wake I made this article about being a red student in a blue state:

http://www.wakenews.org/content/2005/02/23/stories/58

More silly Blogthings crap:

Your Inner European is Italian!

Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is.

Who’s Your Inner European?

Some weekend reading:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will041405.asp

Sue Jeffers Chimes In

Sue, owner of campus hangout Stub and Herbs, sounds off in this Minnesota Sentinel column about the first week of the smoking ban:

http://www.mnsentinel.org/Articles/others/Smokingbanfirstweek.html

Some pathetic bar owners are happy to be down only 10 or 20%. The apathy and laziness of many bar owners is especially frustrating. As food sales remain the same or increase, liquor sales are down which of course, reflects in the bottom line.

Many bar owners increased prices to attempt to make up for the lost sales. This will also help the smoke haters support the usual lie they tell saying revenues were not affected. The customers pay in more ways than dollars when local governments abuse their authority by passing unneeded regulations. A local Minneapolis developer took out a classified ad yesterday, the ad read: Money no object for best candidate. Design media and community campaign for city council elections. He is willing to spend $1 million dollars to elect a new city council. I’m in!

I kind of wish the Sentinel had better editors, as they allowed some bad grammar. Despite that, Sue has been fighting this ban on every inch, you have to admire her energy.