I don’t know if anybody’s noticed as it hasn’t seemed to hit the news cycle yet (CNN.com’s front page talks about Facebook making changes), but the Red River Valley (Fargo, Grand Forks) is in big trouble right now.  There is major flooding going on, and it’s 9°F out so the sandbags are freezing before they can be effectively stacked.  The river has surpassed a previous level set in 1897, and while Grand Forks is better prepared since their last major disaster, Fargo is not in good shape.

Here is the developing story, and here is a way to track where it’s at.

I am quite partial to this comic in particular… “I’m an idiot” by XKCD.

Various blogs have noted that they haven’t figured out how to set the volume control via the Mac OS X Terminal command line interface.  Well here is your solution: [..]