Fast Knowledge

1. Unexpected consequence of using Google Reader+people's Shared Items: by the time things hit Techmeme you've already read them. (!) [Update:] Frightening: Digg, too. [Update:] Nigh unbelievable: Slashdot, too.


2. At some point when your child hits 3+ years old, the purpose of those child-proofing barriers you erect when they're learning to walk shifts from safety to crowd management.

Ulp!

@Marty: not your iPhone?? Hopefully it was/will be safely there upon your return.

Calling All Geek Moms!

Ross Mayfield has made an offer you may not be able to refuse: the chance to guest-guest blog (that would be when a guest-blogger allows you to crash his or her guest privileges) at the phenomenal Geek Dad. (Megan, you listening?)

Indications Of Things To Come

The Fox: "I'm not sure if this is an indication of things to come for me in open court in the future." Via Chris Johnston's shared items/link blog.

O what a ginormous fan I am becoming of people's shared items!!!! Here are mine. And please don't feel bad if you find you're more likely to read what I link to than what I write; it's probably reciprocal. ;)

Entertaining Politics?

Hey, it's better than the somnambulent sort we've grown accumstomed to. In The Hilarious Road to 2008, blawger-from-way-back, now Wired blogger Sarah Lai Stirland writes: "[T]he election of 2008, which promises to be one of the most pivotal in both US and world history, may also end up as one of the funniest, and most entertaining ever." (In case you're interested, I'm posting this mostly so my Dad will see it.)