Happy Whelpdays

Happy Whelpdays to foxwolfie_galen and stitchwolf!

Factchecking leading into 1929 history

( Politics, leading into history )

Costume hooves

elionwyr, are you still looking for hoof-feet?

Cheap LED candle

I know somebody on my friends list was looking for an LED candle a while back; all the commercial ones run $30 or more.

Here is a project that the author says costs $6 in materials.

Political email goof

Not behind a cut because it's the sort of thing that can happen in either party (or at any office), and the information involved has already been officially released.

The regional spokesman for John McCain in Colorado [Tom Kise] accidentally sent the campaign’s internal talking points on the candidate’s plans to suspend his campaign to its entire Colorado media list, instead of a list of key volunteers ...

Told by a reporter that the e-mail had been sent to him and others in the media, Kise said, "F*ck, tell me I didn’t send it to the wrong list."

Classic response.

Full article is here.