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Will Femia is a Weblog enthusiast who, through good fortune and dumb luck, was introduced to the form as his position as chat producer for MSNBC.com careered into obsolescence. On any given day, Will can be found having already spent an unhealthy amount of time squinting at a computer screen.

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The simple life

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:29 PM by Will Femia
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Most of the time my workflow is such that any good links I find can wait until I've got a nice pile of them before I post them to Clicked. Every now and then, however, there's a you-gotta-see-this link than can't wait for me to get my act together to be shared.

This is Van Halen's Running with the Devil with everything stripped away except David Lee Roth's vocal track. In itself it's stellar and a true jewel for da-na-na air guitar Beavis and Buttheads everywhere but as the meat in a remix sandwich it's a true work of art.

Other low hanging fruit:

This is a parody music video by the folks who made that Obama video. They give the same treatment to John McCain but with an anti-war twist.

As Josh Marshall points out here, Huckabee's fate in Washington State is ultimately a nonstarter, but the story of how he was/is being railroaded is pretty amazing.

And Cannon Challenge is a familiar but fun game. I played it with the mute button on.

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You know, for me the oddest part of the Washington State Republican primary is that everyone is treating the caucus vote as if that's all there is.  The Republican party chose to give 50% of the delegates to the caucus, and the other 50% of the delegates are selected via the primary election (a week from tomorrow).  How can anyone be a "winner" yet?

CindyW, Redmond, WA (Sent Monday, February 11, 2008 3:23 PM)

That Cannon Challenge game is good, but the intro is a bit of an insult.  Far from being "the revolutionary gun that represents the future of U.S. Field Artillery,"  it's a bleeding howitzer and has been around since the 15th century.  Fire control systems may well be improved and remote spotter coordination may also be improved but that has been an ongoing process since their invention.

Steve Dolan, Alexandria VA (Sent Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:04 PM)



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