We’re not sure what part of town YouTuber “birdyland” lives in — we’re by the airport — but unlike us, birdyland has a surveillance camera.

What you see here may be amplified a tad by the camera optics (as well as the cam being mounted on a pole), but it’s certainly what it felt like.

[via Left Coast Rebel, who lives up the road from us]

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More once it stops rocking…

USGS Report:

A strong earthquake occurred at 3:40:39 PM (PDT) on Sunday, April 4, 2010.

The magnitude 6.9 event occurred 26 km (16 miles) SSW of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.

The hypocentral depth is 32 km (20 miles).

(It’s now been upgraded to 7.2; depth 6.2 miles.)

Updates after the break.

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Title: “Sh*t My Dad Says”

Author: Justin Halpern

Rank: 63

Blurb: Nothing worth mentioning, so just head straight for the Twitter feed. Unlike the book, it doesn’t hide behind an asterisk.

Review: None yet — the book’s not published until May 4. And while we wish Sandy Eggo’s Justin only the best, he’ll understand if we withhold judgment on the CBS pilot starring William Shatner. Especially since Danny DeVito’s been nailing that part for years.

Customers Also Bought: “Lodge Logic 12-Inch Pre-Seasoned Skillet”

Footnote: “Your mom just ordered 35 copies of your book. I’m not paying for One. Fucking. Copy. Mine’s free.”

Sh*t My Dad Says [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

An open letter to the people of the world [Fake Steve Jobs]

ESTRAGON: You’re sure it was this evening?

VLADIMIR: What?

ESTRAGON: That we were to wait.

VLADIMIR: He said Saturday. I think.

ESTRAGON: You think.

VLADIMIR: I must have made a note of it.

ESTRAGON: But what Saturday? And is it Saturday? Is it not rather Sunday? Or Monday? Or Friday?

VLADIMIR: It’s not possible!

Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) [Boing Boing]

So, how does our new CNN contributor feel about the Census long form, the “American Community Survey”?

Erick Erickson, yesterday:

What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property. They can’t do that. They don’t have the legal right, and yet they’re trying.

Erick Erickson, today:

Naturally the left is out today saying I was on the air advocating killing census workers.

Nothing of the sort, of course. Erick’s only advocating threatening to kill Census workers.

[via ThinkProgress]

Today’s report from the New York Times:

A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church — which have included reports about Pope Benedict XVI’s oversight role in two cases — to the persecution of the Jews, sharply raising the volume in the Vatican’s counterattack.

Today’s retort from Rome:

Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this week that the recent defamatory reporting on Pope Benedict XVI, especially by the New York Times, was “prompted by the devil.”

Now that Tiger dropped Ari Fleischer, did the Vatican hire him?

At Vatican Service, Persecution of Jews Is Invoked [NYT]

Satan behind media attacks on the Pope, asserts Italian exorcist [Catholic News Agency]