HOW TO GET A $400 APPLE NETBOOK by installing OS X on a Dell Mini 9.

MICKEY KAUS ON peer pressure and secret ballots.

MY EARLIER BLOGGING ON THE KINDLE 2 led Jody Green to email: “I just checked out the Kindle 2 and it mentions being able access blogs. Can Instapundit be read on the Kindle? If so, I will buy the thing. If not, let us all know when you are there.” Yes, you can get InstaPundit on the Kindle.

THIS MUST BE SOME CRUEL JOKE: Joe Biden in charge of the “stimulus” package?

IT’S NOT JUST STOCKS: The carbon market has collapsed. “Europe’s system to edge up the cost of emissions and boost green energy has backfired.”

TOM MAGUIRE: Obama — feeling the chill?

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Rick Santelli: The Man Who Talked Back. “Which, do you suppose, would be the bigger draw right about now: a) a Barack Obama house party supporting the housing bailout package, or b) a Rick Santelli-inspired ‘Chicago Tea Party’ opposing the bailout package? Well, given that a) more Americans oppose the plan than support it, and b) Obama’s house parties in support of the stimulus package drew mere dozens of Obamaniacs in major cities around the nation, ‘tea time’ it is.”

SOLAR PRICES DROP, deeper discounts expected. Plus, hard times for cellulosic ethanol makers.

THE TOYOTA Hybrid Camry Concept Vehicle.

STIMULUS: An extra $10 a week starting in April.

TEA AND COFFEE cut stroke risk.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria.

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: Not for the curious.

IN THE MAIL: Dmitry Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects.

TIME FOR ANOTHER INSTA-POLL:

HMM: Democrats Resisting Obama on Social Security. It’s easy to get ’em to go along with big spending. The rest, not so much.

MICHAEL SILENCE: AP is a bunch of fish floppin’ on the beach.

AMAZON IS NOW SHIPPING THE KINDLE 2. They say if you order it in the next several hours you can get one tomorrow. I’ve got one on the way, so I’ll report once it comes and I’ve tried it out a bit.

LOST IN THE SMOKIES: I knew Trenny Gibson, who played ‘cello in the elementary school orchestra with me. I still think of this story sometimes.

G.O.P. NETROOTS: Fired Up and Ready to Rumble?

LIBERTARIANS FOR HIGHER TAXES? Don Boudreaux is unpersuaded.

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND, if you were off, you know, having a life:

Chris Dodd’s iffy Irish cottage deal.

Hundreds protest Rep. Dennis Moore’s stimulus vote in Overland Park, Kansas. (Also here).

Foreclosure crisis — the fault of just five states?

Obamas war-on-terror policies — couldn’t he have just made George W. Bush his terror czar? Or maybe he did . . . .

People who pay their bills feel like suckers.

Advances in marshmallow roasting technology.

Advice for “tea party” organizers. More on that here.

OBAMA’S AUTO TEAM drives imports. Well, so do I. “Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department’s special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three.” I’m unsurprised to find that Gene Sperling has an American car.

ANDREW BREITBART: “The movie stars and the powerful creative minds congratulating each other Sunday night wield a greater role in shaping the political landscape than Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid combined.”

DON SURBER: “What is the excuse when this stimulus fails like the last two?”