Here is an IRS listing of free taxfiling software (including free e-filing). Just make sure you click through from the IRS site.

I saw this on Geof’s blog, and wanted to do it.

Open iTunes to answer the following:

Total number of tracks: just songs-3430, everything (including songs, audiobooks, lectures, sermons, banter, etc.)-5772
I’ll just just songs for the rest…

Sort by song title:
* First Song: “-Vienna Teng 1 song-”, Over the Rhine, 2004-06-26 - The Dame
* Last Song: “Zooropa”, U2, Zooropa

Sort by time:
* Shortest Song: “One Last ‘Whoo-hoo!’ For The Pullman”, 0:06, Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
* Longest Song: “The Tain, parts I-V”, 18:35, The Decemberists, The Tain[1]

Sort by album:
* First Song: “Untitled #8″, Sigur Ros, ( )
* Last Song: “Numb”, U2, Zooropa

Top 10 Most Played Songs:
1. “Save Ginny Weasley”, 36 plays, Harry and the Potters, Harry and the Potters
2. “One Evening”, 29 plays, Feist, One Evening - Single
3. “The Godfather”, 25 plays, Harry and the Potters, Harry and the Potters
4. “The Human Hosepipe”, 22 plays, Harry and the Potters, Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock
5. “Wizard Chess”, 20 plays, Harry and the Potters, Harry and the Potters
6. “The Godfather, Part 2″, 20 plays, Harry and the Potters, Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock
7. “Of Minor Prophets And Their Prostitute Wives”, 20 plays, Pedro the Lion, It’s Hard To Find A Friend
8. “Telescope Eyes”, 18 plays, Eisley, Room Noises
9. “Always Returning”, 16 plays, Glen Phillips, Always Returning - Single
10. “Stick it to Dolores”, 16 plays, Harry and the Potters, Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle:
1. “The Bartender Song”, Dave Matthews Band, downloaded somewhere-don’t know what it’s from
2. “Mayonaise”, Smashing Pumpkings, Siamese Dream
3. “Motel Rooms”, Don Chaffer and Waterdeep, Whole ‘Nother Deal
4. “Peace On Earth”, U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind
5. “Believe”, Grammatrain, Lonely House

Search for:
“sex”, how many songs come up?: 5 (1 being “Wessex Carol”)
“love”, how many songs come up?: 184
“you”, how many songs come up?: 359 (a bunch are from “your”, some from “young” (including several with a note about Cliff Young), and probably other permutations)
“death”, how many songs come up?: 3
“hate”, how many songs come up?: 16 (2 from “whatever”)
“wish” how many songs come up?: 24

[1]If that is cheating, then the next longest is “I Dream A Highway”, 14:39, Gillian Welch, Time (The Revelator)

Here’s the first review I’ve come across actually bothered to read of Don Miller’s Blue Like Jazz that comes from a theologically respectable perspective.

I confess to hesitating in tagging folks with the 4Things meme. But, I went throug with it, considering it an opportunity to learn more about some folks.

But Matt’s reply to my tagging him, I have to say, is even better than the actual meme.

I was tagged.

I suppose it is my duty to answer. I even created a new category for this type of post: Memes.

Four jobs I’ve had:

• Day School ‘counselor’
• painted houses one summer
• OfficeMax register clerk
• Allstate Insurance Company Customer Service Representative

Four movies I could watch over and over:

• Primer
• Star Wars
• Monsters, Inc.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark

Four books I could read over and over:

• Leave It To Psmith
• To A Thousand Generations
• Pride & Prejudice
• The Chronicles of Narnia

Four places I have lived:

• Fort Huachuca (Sierra Vista), AZ
• Camp Zama, Tokyo, Japan
• Yongsan Army Garrison, Seoul, Korea
• Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Four TV shows I watch: I have to confess on this… I really don’t watch much television… so the notes below are important.

• Lost, when it airs
• House, download when new episodes show up
• The Greatest American Hero, downloaded episodes 1-6 of season 1
• The A-Team, downloaded episodes 1-3 from season 1

Four places I have been on vacation:

• Kyoto, Japan - deer bit my behind
• The Phillipines - got the worst sunburn of my life
• Cape Cod, MA - it was cold and rainy and dreary
• San Diego, CA - went to Sea World and the Zoo. Loved it.

Four websites I visit daily other than email:

• http://board.derekwebb.com/
• http://rocksmyfaceoff.net/forum/index.php
• http://www.bloglines.com
• http://homestarrunner.com/ - okay, it isn’t every day. but it should be!

Four favorite foods:

• Soda Pop
• San Fran Chops
• Cranberry Chicken
• Ice Cream

Four places I’d like to be right now:

• Home
• On the Way Home
• Paris, but only if Megan were with me
• Some place in Tokyo, also with Megan, and the girls, too

Four bloggers I’m tagging:

• Jason
• Raekwon
• Travis
• Matt

Once again, we discover that it is a very hard time for the satirist…

I can’t believe this.

What exactly are they attempting to accomoplish? Do they not want people to read that,

There is one God, who created the whole universe.
This one God exists in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God has revealed Himself in the Bible, which is His perfect Word.
Man’s main duty in life is to know, love and glorify God.
Everyone is guilty of sin and deserves to be punished in hell for ever.
In His mercy God has provided one Saviour, Jesus Christ, who is both God and man.
Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead to save His people.
Only those who trust in Christ will be saved and go to heaven.
Only the Holy Spirit can bring people to faith.
Jesus will return at the Day of Judgment.

I don’t know, maybe I’m just a liberal, antinomian that is just kicking against the goads, but it seems like it’d be a good thing to think about those things on the Sabbath.
And what exactly is supposed to be resting in their taking the website offline, and just displaying their ‘Sabbath message’? Their servers?

I think Doug Jones needs to incorporate this into his Pettiness article.

HT: Banty Rooster

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

bonus quote!: Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
ibid.

Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

I think I’ve found a new favorite phrase. I am going to work it into my every day speech. I credit Mr. Mark Traphagen for the phrase. Of course, I am certain it did not originate with him, but it was today that he introduced me to this phrase, and may he be well remembered for many generations for it.

“Forgive me for being pedantic here, but…”

For all of you bloggers using WordPress… It would please me greatly if you were to install the Subscribe-to-Comments plugin on your blog.

It allows individuals to subscribe via email to comments on your blog. I post a comment, and if I enable this, I will receive an email whenever a new comment is posted. It’s really nice in this synidcated internet. I read most all the blogs I read via bloglines. Which means I don’t see comments unless I click through to the actual post. Which I typically only do if there’s a comment I want to leave, myself (or if the blog author doesn’t put full posts in their feed). And then, when I leave a comment, I’ll often forget I left it… since I won’t visit the blog and see the post from yesterday, with a change in comment number. So, when I forget, it’d be nice to get an email about new comments.

Or, a feed for comments would be nice. That’s another option.