Hahaha… To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Amazon.com are offering a free MP3 download of “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye. Nice.

Edited to add: Bastards. It’s US-only. Of course, they don’t tell you that until you’ve already logged in and installed their stupid Downloader app. Grrr.

Pride & Prejudice as a Facebook News Feed. THAT IS MY FAVORITE THING ON THE INTERNET, EVER. “Fitzwilliam Darcy became a fan of Fine Eyes.” It’s just perfect in every way. (Link courtesy of Lara.)

Hey, I know we’ve just had a heartbreaking national tragedy and all, but what I think we all really need is for Germaine Greer and Miranda bloody Devine to start pointing accusatory fingers at everyone they don’t like. Doesn’t that just make everyone feel better? Thought so.

Wow! Snookums just pointed out that I’m on cracked.com today, albeit indirectly. See that Valentine at #15 there? Whoever Photoshopped it took it directly from mine! I don’t mind though; it’s worth a chuckle. And a lot of people in the comments seem to think that one was the best of the lot.

Amish Hackers. Fascinating article about the complex relationship between Amish and technology. I’ll admit that I always thought they were a bit hypocritical – riding in cars but not owning them – but this article has made me rethink that a little bit. They’re slow geeks.

For the Snook: Whiskey vs. whisky. He takes such things seriously.

President Obama speaking in Elkhart this week:

“Now, with respect to Sean Hannity, I didn’t know that he had invited me for a beer. But I will take that under advisement. Generally, his opinion of me does not seem to be very high. But, uh, but I’m always good for a beer.”

I sent that to the Snook today. His response: “I hope he found time to stop in at the Mishawaka Brewing Company for a pint of Four Horsemen on his way back to the airport.” Indeed.

The Big Picture covers the Victorian bush fires. Devastating… but beautiful, too. It was #23 that shocked me, seeing rivulets of metal on the ground that had melted out of someone’s wheels. Oh, and the “graphic” one that you have to click on is of a dead horse (not especially graphic, I’d say).

And while it’s really great that this tragedy is getting international coverage and motivating people to think about what happens outside their own tiny bubble… SYDNEY IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR MELBOURNE. I’ve had a couple people ask if we were near them. And while it’s sweet that they were concerned, there’s also an annoyance factor there. Australia is as big as the continental US. Sydney and Melbourne are 500 miles apart. That’s about as far as my hometown in Indiana is from New York City. I don’t expect people to be experts in world geography, but I thought it was fairly common knowledge that Australia is BIG.

It’s over! It really happened! And WHOA, Obama is suddenly AHEAD IN INDIANA. I’m starting to get teary.

Three hours later: Good grief. Still waiting on final results from Indiana. But with more than 99% reported… we’ve so got it. I’m so proud. I have to call my Grandma.

Five hours later: Well, CNN may not have called it, but 538.com did. INDIANA GOES DEMOCRAFT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 44 YEARS! I wouldn’t have guessed it at all. I was telling people all day that I considered it a moral victory just that it wasn’t a blowout. (After all, Bush did carry the state by 20 points in 2004.) I’m so happy to be wrong, and I’m so, so proud to have been part of this. It would’ve been easy not to bother this year. It was tempting to say, “My vote won’t count anyway.” The cynical voice in my head told me that absentee ballots are rarely matter. But you know what? 23,000 of us Hoosiers made the difference. We did it. Way to go, everybody! Somewhere my great-grandpa Tony is smiling.