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Blue Dot Blues alerts us of a MoveOn.org stunt to deliver a "petition" to Congressman Michael McCaul's office today at noon opposing off-shore drilling. Liberals are watching what's happening with the Don't Go revolt and they're getting worried. Not only are conservatives beginning to embrace and make effective use of social networking technologies once the exclusive domain of the left, domestic drilling has real traction with voters.

Update: Voice in the Wilderness is on it.

TacoQuest has a cool Twitter badge hack to turn URLs in tweets into links. I modified his hack slightly to just show the URL instead of "link". Logic being that the URL had to fit in the tweet in the first place, so they usually look OK on my badge.

Here is my modified hack (read the TacoQuest post first):

If you use the HTML/Javascript Twitter badge, you've probably noticed that it has issues under Internet Explorer. It will generally work the first time a user hits the page, but if the next time, the badge will not show a tweet list. Here is a work-around you can use if you have access to your blog's code.