2008 Fruitcake Offer Part One

Hopefully, I'll manage to post this and Part Two as close to twelve hours apart as I can.

The 2008 Fruitcake Offer is Now Open!

( How to obtain a fruitcake from this fruitcake )

Two encouraging political links; two nifty science cartoons

All of these deserve a lot more comment than I can give them in this moment, not least because I could *write* "encouraging political links", for once, and not be being sarcastic.

http://copperwise.livejournal.com/680972.html
The real identities of 'Joe Sixpack'.

http://kightp.livejournal.com/1030527.html
AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka tackles racism in the presidential campaign head-on, as kightp said (am linking to her post because I can't manage to extract the YouTube link; I'm sure it's very easy and I'm just an idiot, but I should just get this posted already.)

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/xkcd_rss/119110.html
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/xkcd_rss/118502.html

XKCD demonstrates scale. As a fan of Powers of 10 I adore these.

2008 Fruitcake Offer Part Two

Here is the second half of the Fruitcake Offer. As before, first twelve commenters. And, copied from the last post: ( Anweisungen )