Monday Linky Stuff

Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment:

What are some signs that John Kerry is out of touch with the average American?

Is due by 8pm Wednesday, July 28th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

Best of Me Symphony #34 has been postponed due to the scheduled host having serious connectivity issues. New submission info will be posted here Friday.

Carnival of the Cats #19 is up at This Blog is Full of Crap. The Carnival of the Cats will now be a travelling show, and Laurence is currently in search of future hosts. Drop him a line if you're interested - laurence-at-isfullofcrap.com

Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Business Opportunities Weblog.

Christian Carnival is coming to Fringe. Entries due by Tuesday at 11pm. See this post for details. Submission guidelines are as follows:

To enter, your post should be of a Christian nature, but this does not exclude
ones that are political (or otherwise) in nature from a Christian point of view.
Please send only one post dated since the last Christian Carnival. (7-22 or
after) Then, do the following:

email: jeremiah.lewis-at-gmail.com

Please put "Christian Carnival" in the subject line and provide the following:

Title of your Blog
URL of your Blog
Title of your post
URL linking to that post
Short description of the post

Carnival of the Consumers is coming to Jeff Doolittle dot com. Wednesday night deadline with a Thursday posting. Click the link above for guidelines and submission info.

James of Outside the Beltway hosts a more-or-less daily linkfest called the Beltway Traffic Jam. Go to the main page, scroll down until you find the last Traffic Jam, link your favorite post to it, and send a trackback to get entered in the next edition. If you're ping-impaired, you can use the standalone trackback form, a link to which is conveniently located at the bottom of the Traffic Jam post.

Memeblog - a collection of link-fest information and things to blog about. If you're looking for good reading, a chance to host a fest, or submission info for an upcoming fest, this is a good place to start. Even if you missed entering this week's edition of some round-up, the submission info for the following week can usually be found at the bottom of the current round-up post.

Showcase - a chance for new bloggers to get some exposure. If your blog is 3 months old or less, you can submit a link to your best post to simon-at-showcase.mu.nu at any time, and it'll get a free week's worth of exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Blogosphere Political Compass Project - Sandor of The Zoo is graphing the political positions of all the bloggers who are willing to take a short quiz and send him the results. Details on how you can get a link out of this can be found at the BPCP home page.