babysitting a problematic backup job. (This is just a test run - the main event is 00:47 Monday morning - but there’ll be major office drama if that one fails and keeps the CFO out of his e-mail for more than 5 minutes.) So while the tape drive churns, I’m sitting at my desk, listening to Radiohead (”OK Computer”, specifically - maybe I figured that being at work at 1 am is just too exciting for my own good and that I need to counter the euphoria with the crushing depressive mania of Exit Music (For a Film)), eating ice cream, and clicking linkage on other sites.

• So the owners of my local ABC affiliate decided not to air tonight’s Nightline, claiming its content (reading the names and showing the pictures of those U.S. servicemen and women who have died in Iraq) was politically motivated. Gosh. Guess that means that donating all that money to the GOP, editorializing in favor of the war, and making a big stink about a program that wants to honor the fallen isn’t politically motivated at all…

  Of note in this story are how well ABC was able to find alternate, non-Sinclair broadcast stations in six of the eight affected markets to air the program, how John McCain is ripping Sinclair a new set of ones, and how Sinclair’s broadcast licenses are likely to face challenges as a result (links forthcoming; www.mediareform.net appears to be down).
  

• (Switched to Björk “Homogenic” - now I’m insistent and determined with latent fury. Gosh, this is fun.)
  
• A number of soldiers in Iraq have been posting their own photos on the Web - here is one ‘gallery’. Please note - many of those photos are graphic, and rather gruesome - but, uh, they’re pictures of war.
  
• Here are some useful quotes for all occasions.
  
• A nice caption on this photo, of protests in Boston on the same-sex marriage amendment. I want cookies!! (The rest of that collection is good too.)
  
• Of course, it’s always nice to know the gay agenda. Note beefcake with nice obliques.
  
• So President Fuckchop wants to serve both the Gospel and the Constitution. Too bad he sucks at both.
  
• Next time you hear anybody assailing John Kerry’s war record, please have them read Wes Clark’s elegant defense thereof.

Woo-hoo, it’s done, and it worked! Going home now, to sleep.

(that word always makes me think of Animaniacs.)

• A recent study in London found that 71% of office workers would share their passwords for chocolate. Knowing the office workers I deal with, I’m only surprised that the percentage is that low.
• Mikel.org pointed me to this thought-provoking yet depressing piece in the Globe and Mail, about the utter failures of the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy, and how there’s really no longer any good solution to the problems there. (You’ll note that the G&M is a Canadian paper. Funny how you likely won’t see that piece anywhere in the American “liberal” media.)
  
• In keeping with my semi-running theme of Queer Eye knock-offs, the excellent gay sports site Outsports.com has come up with Queer Sports Eye for the Hopeless Homo. My beloved hetero readers will find it amusing (especially the bit about “Rock and Roll Part 2″), and my beloved gay readers will likely find it outright hilarious (especially the part about the Pickup Line That Never Failed).
  
• Blender mag has compiled its list of the 50 Worst Songs. Topping the list is “We Built This City” by Starship - which is quite possibly the nastiest earworm EVER. (It even out-does more recent earworms “Hey Ya” and “Milkshake”, and that’s really saying something.)
  
• Happily, though, a group of DJs have created a full CD mashup of the Clash’s “London Calling”, entitled “London Booted“. will have to give it a listen later on, as i do not have a sound card here at work.
  
• Got me a new cell phone! Right now I’m trying to think of ways to be obnoxious - silly ringtones, flashy covers, etc. - and am seriously considering making wry comments about individual persons with the tones I assign to their phone calls.
  
• Have been tinkering with an RSS aggregator to keep up with various bloggage. So far, BlogLines seems to be doing the trick - it’s Web-based, so I can read from anywhere, and it’s free-so-far. I’m not tied irrevocably to it, though.