I'm going to actually start studying PHP today. The initial program I want to write will be something of a blogroll manager because I want to do a couple of specific things specific ways. Okay, I want to assign each site a category and generate include files for each one that I can use as a blogroll. The files will be unordered lists of hyperlinks so the appropriate CSS will turn it into amount any kind of menu or rollover you'd like. And I want to be able to rate each one, pluses for great articles, minuses for sucky statements, because I want to sort on their aggregate score as well.
When I get this done, I'm sure you'll see John Cole's Balloon-Juice up near the top of the Righties on a fairly consistent basis. Sebastian linked to this post, an eloquent visual response to Rod Paige's incredibly stupid "teachers are terrorists" comment. But then I found this post and this one and I'm pretty much convinced I need to keep him in site with the rest of the guys in the Conservatives box. I need all them as constant reminders that one can be Conservative, intelligent and sane at the same time. Wrong, too.
Until I get my little program done I'll just stick the link in the appropriate template module.