I love this contest. The puns were excellent this year.

Yeah, I’ve been neglecting this place more than a little bit. I’ve also been building up literally thousands of interesting tweets, articles, and links I want to read/share with all y’all. Worse, some of them actually made it into the blog here and I never actually posted them. So here’s a start at a fix.

How to find the IP address of something attached to the Airport Extreme. It wasn’t available at all for years, and now it’s there, even if it’s not obvious.

Bacon bourbon brownie recipe I want to try – anyone gutsy enough to try it with me? (Nighthawk already said no.)

And while we’re on the subject of neat recipes, here’s one for lavender cupcakes that I want to try.

If you don’t speak bar, you probably need this article on booze jargon.

A great short story about why privacy matters.

How to build an upside-down fire because someday I will have a fireplace again.

Where do bad moods come from? They come from wearing yourself out.

Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for understanding | Video on TED.com.

Via @cwodtke and @gryphoness

• How not to kill a cyclist
• Lea Hernandez kicked off a Kickstarter for a new graphic novel called Pandora Orange, Fail Vampire, which you should check out.

Amen. pitchers, catchers and the hope of spring | American McCarver. Your Sports Blog..

Like the idea of the Launchpad app in Lion, but hate the way it was populated with 5 years of apps, shortcuts, and the accumulated crap in your Applications folder? Clean out Launchpad completely fixed that – allowing me to start with a blank slate so I could set it up the way I wanted. Ahh, peaceful dock.

No, nobody’s stealing your incandescents. The Truth About the New Light Bulb Law.