101 Ways to Heaven
Well, 101 Stairways to Heaven, and no guarantee of safe passage.
Via Respectful Insolence.
Yearly Archives: 2006
Cat Carnival
The Brothers Loup-Garou and Zorro speaking (with the occasional outburst from Bean Sidhe)
present the 131st Carnival of the Cats.
HP Does the Right Thing…Why Doesn’t Congress?
A breach of HP’s culture may have allowed this ill behavior to occur but it looks like the company is getting its culture back on track quickly:
Hewlett-Packard shoved Chairwoman Patricia Dunn off its board Friday, severing its ties to a leader whose efforts to plug a media leak morphed into a spying scandal that has spawned criminal and congressional investigations.
No matter whether it be chairman of the board, chief operating officer or president of the United States when they break the law, violate basic human rights, then they should be quickly removed from their position.
Waiting for the end of a contract or term of office or the next election is not acceptable in cases of such fundamental violations. That congress has not acted implicates at least the majority senators and representatives as accomplices. It is not clear that the minority legislators as indicated by their seeming compacency are any less guilty.
There are times when the people must take the action into their own hands. We may be facing one of those times.
Hosting Problems
Due to severe problems on the server hosting Modulator at Hosting Matters I have been unable to do any updates since yesterday, Friday, at around noon.
Mail is till broken.
I will also post a note in yesterday’s Friday Ark.
Friday Ark #105
We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?
You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page (construction underway).
Problems 9/23 11:49 PST: The server hosting Modulator broke Friday, 9/22, at about noon. I probably have permanently lost any trackbacks sent during the past 24 hours and assume comments did not work. Also, I may have lost any mail sent in the past 24 hours. I have quite a few links that I prepped yesterday but could not post and will put them up in a few minutes…check below the break in each category.
I know there are some regulars that have been missed but I will probably not catch up with anything else until tonight.
Cats
- Blog d’Elisson: Free Parking and Togetherness
- Chris Dolley: The Creature From A Very Small Box
- Solidly Average: Photos: Cats, Snake and Deer Tracks
- Elms in the Yard: Contrast: Her Ladyship calm and alert
- Catymology: Ballad of the pear-shaped cat
- The Poor Mouth: Guest Cat – TC
- Sisu: Gratuitous Cute Kitty Pic #1 & #2: Tiny and Baby
- Beezer Song: I’m back
- Melange: A Body At Rest and Caught In The Act
- The Scratching Post: KTTV
- stillpoint: Sam the Cat Ponders OneWebDay
- Anchored by Grace: Riley and Blossom Get Excited
- Scribblings: Our Kosmo
- Little Cat Feet: Shaggy & Scout
- I was NOT named for a cookie!!! RIGHT?: Goin’to the v-e-t….
- Photos and Pursuits: Two
- The Poor Man: Get Well!! Waffles and Thanks
- Mind of Mog: The Line Up: Krissie, Keefe, Bazel, Izzy, Meowza
- The Cat Blogosphere: Calling All Cats! Mini shows us the 5 paw groomin trick!
- House of the (Mostly) Black Cats: Beeyootiful Sisfurs
- Jelly Pizza: Did Anybody Else Notice…
- The Conservative Cat: Ferdinand T. Cat – Catblogging: A Clever Disguise in an Unfortunate Place
- TacJammer: LA-Z-GIRL
- Two Black Cats: Hermes – a growing kitten
- Texas Oasis: Friday Cat: Jax is a peaceful little jaguar
- pages turned: An Ellie Extravaganza
- Catcall: Friday Catblogging – Rosh Hoshana Edition
- Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Man At Work
- Val’s Bien: Morning in the Window
- It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday Cat Blogging…not Grey Feather, again..?
- Music and Cats: Feline Friday: The nicknaming of cats
- Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging: Too Close!
- Allan Thinks: Aw jeez, would you leave me alone already?
- composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: postcard from the edgy
- this ain’t livin’: Friday Cat Blogging: Loki turned three today
- Take Joy!: Mr. Schmoodge Improves His Mind
- houseofchaos: Caudal appendages Loup-Garou and Bean Sidhe
- Furry Paws: They both love the carrier! Sebastian and Yaffa
- Middle Fork: Lady is Afoot
- Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Starbuck and Nelson
- Meditation Matters: Friday cat blogging! Simon (AKA Kittyboy)
- Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Paz, Phil, Sammy and Frankie
- Stereophilia: Stereophile: But I Like It Rumpled! and Stereophile: You Turned the Amp Off?
- No Capital: Catblogging: Cats In – Gasp! – A Box
- Red Peonies: Elvis Takes a Bath, Then a Nap
- Ragdoll to the core: J’ai un an ! I’m one year old !
- WTF Is IT Now!?!?: Friday cat blogging: SpiceGirl and Jaffa
- Wildrun: One nice shot
- It’s All Good.: Friday Cat Blogging: the Kelly Cat
- Beau & Angelica’s Fur Days: Project Start: Angie was giving a projeck assessment…
- animal family: left to our own devices
- Ocellated: The Kitty In The Window
- The Dees Diversion: Friday cat blogging – now we are 3!
- Echidne Of The Snakes: Friday Cat Blogging: another of Barry’s cats guarding him
- Crazy meezer: Tiger Cub
- Dohiyi Mir: Friday Samblogging
- Delectatio Morosa: Friday Cat Blog: Paws for Reflection
- Collective Sigh: Friday Cat Blogging: Typical Randy & Trouble Pose
- Here, There and Everywhere: Feline Friday: Stinkey
- This Blog is Full of Crap: Friday Catblogging: Just no horseradish, ok?
- Basic Juice: Camo’d Cat
- Merlin’s Meows: Daphne’s in the blogosphere
- IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Nardo, King of Pants
- No Deep Thoughts: Friday Cat Blogging: Guarding the Toy Pile
- Ali Thinks: Asleep
- Manx Mnews: Homecoming
- Memoirs of a Feline Empress…: Care to Suggest a Caption?
- Watermark: Friday Cat Blogging boarded 9/24
- Farmgirl Fare: Hot Dog vs. Parched Pussycat boarded 9/24
- Ali Thinks: Asleep boarded 9/24
- Curiouser and Curiouser: Catblog Friday: Tinker boarded 9/24
- chefsarahjane: WCB 68
- houseofchaos: Carnival of the Cats #131
Other Vertebrates
- Solidly Average: Photos: Cats, Snake and Deer Tracks
- Path to Freedom Journal: Dancing With Goats: Blackberry & Fairlight
- Natural Visions: Wood Bison
- Walking Prescott: Critter Report 2: An Injured Lion & Deer
- Blue Ridge Blog: Wires and Horses
- Bob Harris: Friday Pudublogging: back to Africa edition
- Bad Attitudes: Frogblogging
- Burning Silo: the llama down the road
- The Annotated Budok: Rats
- Facing South: Friday Elk blogging: Cataloochie Elk
- First Draft: Friday Ferret Blogging: Unpacked Edition
- Farmgirl Fare: Morning Calm
- Farmgirl Fare: Clip Clop, Swish and Cary About to Kiss Our New Ram boarded 9/24
Invertebrates
- A DC Birding Blog: Butterfly Lifecycle
- It’s Morning Somewhere: Seeing the butterfly, floating along…
- Mokka mit Schlag: Hummingbird Moth
- The Hawk’s Owl Nest: Back from Belgium: European Peack Butterfly, Eurasian Blackbird and Carrion Crow
- Rurality: Cyrano of butterflies
- Pharyngula: Friday Cephalopod: Cute couple
- bootstrap analysis: it’ws a mad world: Spy…vs Spy
- 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature
- Take Joy!: Right out there in front of God and everybody!
- Far Cartouche: The bee dives right in!
- Ontogeny: Friday Ant Zen: Orectognathus versicolor
- The Urban Pantheist: 365 Urban Species. #261: Oak Apple Gall Wasp, Amphibolips confluenta
- The Annotated Budok: Snails
- Deep-Sea News: Wea Beasties From the Deep
- The force that through…: Katydid
Dogs
- Watermark: Doglets, Dogster| flickr, tabblo
- Meditation Matters: Wednesday life form blogging: Smokey
- Val’s Bien: Dig, Dig, Dig!
- Why Travel to France: Le Moulin Maneyrol: A Walnut Mill and a Beagle in Southwest France
- Cybervassals: poor puppy, and it’s only just begun
- Ironicus Maximus: Friday Hound Blogging: Isabelle is a sweet girl…
- Something So Clever: That look says it allStewie cuteness
- Adventures of a Domestic Engineer: Max
- Cascade Exposures: Puppy Break
- Farmgirl Fare: Hot Dog vs. Parched Pussycat boarded 9/24
- Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog – Dog Nature boarded 9/24
Birds
- A DC Birding Blog: Birds of the Mid-Atlantic #23: Red-eyed Vireo
- 10,000 Birds: Heck of a Hawkwatch
- (sometimes)photoblog: Those Pesky Hummingbirds
- Dharma Bums: Come for the Fish, Stay for the Lizard: Blue Heron
- The Hawk’s Owl Nest: Back from Belgium: European Peack Butterfly, Eurasian Blackbird and Carrion Crow
- bogbumper: What The Cat Dragged In…
- Birder Blog: Gray-cheeked Thrushes and blinking hawks
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Nesting ecology of the Grey-rumped Treeswift
In Memoriam
- What Did You Eat?: Goodbye Atticus
Didn’t Make It
- Sunbeams From Cucumbers: Friday Animal Blogging: The long dead edition
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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)
Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map. (73 shouts as of 08/17)
Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings.
Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 130th edition, 9/17 is up at Justin’s Random Thoughts. The 130th edition will be hosted by House of Chaos on 9/24. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff’s Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants. Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.
Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 32nd edition is up and hosted by Sand Creek Almanac.The 33rd edition will be hosted on 9/28 by Don’t Mess With Taxes.
For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 12th edition is up at Sunbeams From Cucumbers . The 13th edition will be hosted September 30 by Deep Sea News.
For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival
Note for Haloscan Users:
Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted “too rapidly” by the same host. I don’t know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I’m sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh….