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Things ripped from Gaiman’s blog:

Bingo the Clown, an excellent CGI short from a few years ago, is online in QuickTime format. (With a little prologue that shows its beginnings as a live act.) Warning: can’t sleep, clowns will eat you.

Excellent NYT Op-Ed in response to that shocking incident in California where a student’s writing a graphic story about a serial killer got himself expelled and his teacher fired.

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Jon Stewart on Al Franken’s new radio show. Ohhh, that’s some tasty chicken-chicken , that is. (~60MB Zipfile of MP3 files. Link from BoingBoing.)

Buh!OTD

My boss sent me a link to Dating Design Patterns.

Neato Mac Trick OTD

You can drag email attachments (icons or images) directly from a Mail window to a Terminal window, and it’ll turn into a correct pathname of that file, where it lay deep in your personal mail cache. I just used this trick to quickly scp some images I was mailed.

All my axes live in taxes

Finally filed, last night. After talking with several 1099-filing friends, I concluded that I was mistaken in my notion that they all dodged the self-employment tax somehow (this notion was installed, I think, by other friends and family who had never filed a 1099 before and agreed that the idea seemed ridiculous), and decided to be 100 percent honest about it. I will take the hit, and try to keep deductions in mind for this current year. Good-bye, pretty money. It was nice of you to visit. Thanks for your interest, yuk yuk.

I know... aww, poor baby, you can keep only most of the thousands you grossed from sitting on your butt and watching your books sell themselves last year. Still, it’s awful hard to part with it, once you have it, eh?

I also opened a Roth IRA, and socked the legal-annual-maximum of $3,000 into it. So I have two IRAs now, doy... I think the Roth is better for me, and don’t know why I opened a traditional one last year, instead of a Roth. Shrug.