I've been having trouble getting Fedora to work with my microphone. I can shout into it until I'm blue in the face and hear myself through the speakers, but recording and using Skype / Ekiga gave me no love. Fortunately, there is a solution:

ALSA and your microphone

The gist of …

A mashup of Superfriends and Mallrats

NSFW, and all that jazz.

Thanks to Stephen's Ramblings for the link

Hope you have a very Happy Birthday, Aunt Sally!

Hail to thee, O WTF University

Simply Brillant.