Gentlemen, your task this winter is to see how many of the following beard types you can achieve. Over the summer I hit the mutton chops, friendly mutton chops, fu manchu, klingon, winnfield, soulpatch, zappa, and copstash standard. Today I wear the standard, but-i-just-shaved-last-week-(or-at-least-i-think-it-was-last-week) stubble.

(h/t Dyers Softcore Hobography)

E-Waste Harmful Materials
October 15, 2008 - Take advantage of the Department of Solid Waste’s upcoming Household Chemical and Electronics Collection Day on October 25th from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at 4010 W. Spruce Street, to safely dispose of your old televisions and computers.
Electronic waste accounts for 70 percent of the overall toxic waste currently [...]

Between obsessively following political news and schoolwork it seems I’ve been neglecting this blog. Anything going on out there I should blog about?
Seeing that a lot of other non-political, non-Rays blogs have also slowed to a crawl I get the feeling we’re all a little distracted right now.
If you need to kill a little [...]

Upsidedown Dogs

Creative Commons has just kicked off their 2008 fundraiser. CC is an important organization fighting against complete corporate control over our shared culture. To my mind it’s one of the most important intellectual developments of the 21st century. Below is a video explaining a little more what CC is all about.

“Too often the debate [...]

A hyperlocal blog covering Tampa Heights lets us know that the Tampa Heights Yard Sale is tomorrow, October 18 from 7am to 1pm.
(The following is copied and pasted from the Tampa Heights site. The original posting is by Jay McGee, publisher of New Heights magazine.)
A neighborhood-wide event! Find some hidden jewels and support your community [...]

Mark your calendars. E-waste day is just around the corner.
Here’s the press release -
E-Waste Harmful Materials
October 15, 2008 - Take advantage of the Department of Solid Waste’s upcoming Household Chemical and Electronics Collection Day on October 25th from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at 4010 W. Spruce Street, to safely dispose of your old televisions [...]

Don’t forget that this page is only part of the bloggy goodness at Re/Creating Tampa. The Divine Miss N is currently guest-blogging at Eating Tampa and has made a suggestion for floating hand punch, and located a wonderful Italian restaurant in Carrollwood.
Greening Tampa is thinking about benches.
Reading Tampa is adding library and information science issues [...]

Nick Reynolds is the short one in the middle playing tenor guitar.

This from Rockledge, Florida -
“Surveillance cameras caught a man installing a skimming device on a Rockledge ATM to steal money from innocent customers.”
What, you may ask, is a “skimming device” and how can it be used to steal money? The skimming device mentioned in the article linked above is most likely reading the magnetic [...]