So how do I deal with those links that won‘t die? In a word: bullet lists.

• Going across the country on a Segway. That probably won’t be a four-day trip.
• Evidence for the value of the Long Tail and personal publishing, from Dave Sifry of Technorati. He promises a look at corporate blogging tomorrow; can’t wait.
• Courtesy the O’Reilly sexual harassment scandal: Falafel fetish neologism of the week: hummulingus. Much better than falaphilia. Thanks, Xeni. Won’t be able to get that one out of my head.
• Vintage 1950s Peanuts pins. Aw, man. I wonder if my sister or mom still has our vintage 60s Snoopy stuffed animal… Interestingly, the blog entry says that the second volume of the complete Peanuts has been released. I guess I should call Fantagraphics and make sure they have the correct address for me…
• Josh Marshall: the biggest difference between the candidates, as illustrated by the debates, is about how to knock out terrorism. Bush thinks you’re done if you go after state sponsors. Kerry understands that sovereignty is breaking down in the post-Cold War era, which means that increasingly terrorist organizations are operating totally independently. Fantastic excerpt from Atlantic Monthly on the topic. I think this is the area where John Robb is way out ahead of everyone else.
• Teresa expanded Senator Kerry’s horizons after marriage. —In the kitchen, you dirty-minded punks.
• Farmhouse ales: they’re what’s for dinner.

My workflow for blogging has changed with NetNewsWire. With 264 subscriptions, I can’t read everything in detail. I scan headlines, pick out the ones I want to pay attention to, and open them in browser tab windows in NetNewsWire. Then I’ll read the tabs that are open, and close the ones that I’m done thinking about. There will always be one or two that I want to blog immediately; I’ll switch to MarsEdit and write about those (though since my style is to combine two or three different links in a post, I don’t generally take as much advantage of the MarsEdit integration with NNW as I might).

But there are always tabs left over after that. I like that NNW saves my open browser tabs. If I find one or two that persist across sessions, I’ll come back and blog those later.

So what makes me blog something? Generally, these days, I don’t point to things unless I have something to say about them. They could make me mad; make me laugh (not as often as I’d like); make me say “This is really cool”; or tickle a connection with something else I’ve read, said, or thought. The last is my favorite category of blogging material—it’s where I can actually add value as a blogger.

Just not on my desktop. Interesting that Google Desktop Search is Windows only considering the constitution of its back end—you’d think that Linux and Mac OS X users would be home free.

Lots of coverage today: Metafilter; Battelle; Scripting News; Doc.

William Gibson’s blog, silent since the end of the author’s tour for Pattern Recognition, crackled back to life yesterday. The natural question, “Why?”, is the first word of the posting. I excerpt the rest of the post in its entirety here, because it’s short, sweet, and right on point:

Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.

And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, “At times, to be silent is to lie.”

Nice.

Special off-topic bonus: Pattern Recognition is one of Gibson’s works or concepts to inspire a Sonic Youth song. The other, of course, was the Neuromancer trilogy, which is linkable directly to “The Sprawl” on Daydream Nation. So which Yoot is a Gibson fan?

Very long time readers of this site (and you two know who you are) will remember it used to live at another domain, on Userland’s free servers. When I switched over, even though all the content migrated, the Google index didn’t pick things up right away so I left everything in place, put a note at the top of each page with the new site address, and forgot about it.

Until this morning, when I woke up and found two pieces of comment spam on the site. I promptly deleted them and blocked the member who left the comments, but now I’m wondering if it’s time to take more drastic action on that site.

Manila gurus: is it possible to do page-level redirects on a Manila site such that someone coming to http://jarretthousenorth.editthispage.com/faq ends up at http://discuss.jarretthousenorth.com/faq instead?

Or should I just blow the content away? I hate that it’s attracting comment spam.