It was a dark and stormy night

The Bulwer-Lytton awards have been announced, and there are some good ones.

Patricia wrote out the phrase 'It was a dark and stormy night' exactly seventy-two times, which was the same number of times she stabbed her now quickly-rotting husband, and the same number of pages she ripped out of 'He's Just Not That Into You' by Greg Behrendt to scatter around the room -- not because she was obsessive compulsive, or had any sentimental attachment to the number seventy-two, but because she'd always wanted to give those quacks at CSI a hard time.

The Flickr interestingness page is pretty sweet. Some very cool photos that you might not find on your lonesome. Plus, they've figured out a way to tell the difference between photos tagged with cat noses, and photos with dog noses. Which reminds me, I really should get that pro account...

And HOLY SHIT. Hackett, the Ohio Democratic challenger in a district that went for Bush something like 72% is winning. I expected a moral victory at best—the netroots forced the GOP to spend millions of dollars on what should have been a slam-dunk. Granted, these are still early results, but this is fairly impressive. Wow.

(19:54 PDT) Update:
All sorts of weird voting shenanigans in Ohio, with ballots being stuck together "because of humidity." It's close—within 800 votes—but not quite automatic recall territory yet.

Ohio is the new Florida.

(20:20 PDT) Update:
Very interesting. All of a sudden, Hackett is down 3,000 votes and Schmidt is declared the winner after "humidity" stuck some cards. In an area with 44% relative humidity.

Interesting. But stupid. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket, I am sick of this shit.