The holiday break is over and so is the respite from traffic jams.

• Kathy Kinsley is slightly skeptical of Microsoft car software.
• For those who prefer Golden Globes to Oscars, Kevin Aylward has inaugurated a Weblog Awards show of his own.
• Bryan at Arguing with signposts notes that a “Calvin and Hobbes” is being remembered for the wrong thing.
• Chris Lawrence is in the “panic over the 24# cotton paper” stage of his dissertation. Only six more stages to go!
• Scott Chaffin reports on a fella who changed his name to “Bubba.” Three times.

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