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NEW: Faked rss feed via Wytheville Community College
Headlines:
Informed explanation of misnamed 'Eye of Sauron' (AstroPic)
Economic forecasters have little to be proud of (WSJ-shortish)
Lincoln Memorial pr-video being neoconned (AP-UkG via Clpns)
100 questions for science to solve (Science via lf) [25 more]
GI converts to Islam in Fallujah mosque (WatchingAm)
Rwandan prison saves $44k by using sewage as cook-fuel (BBC)
PrankWatch: UK realtor poses dummies as suicides (BBC w/pic)
Microwave plates double as containers (CookingForEngineers)
Riverbend reality-checks W's Iraq-speech (BaghdadBurning)
del.icio.us links tagged 'lakoff' (del.icio.us)
Lakoff tries to out-reframe Rove (29Jun-HuffPo)
Costumes-on-animals called culturally-insensitive (Malaysia-no-pix)
Addicts abusing multiple opioid-patches (Eureka)
Mystery-Cessnas surveil California town (Lodi via JWalk)
Purported screenshot from Grand Theft Auto 4 (Kotaku-jpg)
Exhausted blogger parodies flurry of search-engine new-product announcements (SEW)
Semantic Web 100-Years' War? (Workbench, again)
Virtual earthworks drawn with GPS (gallery via Make)
42% favor impeachment if W lied about Iraq (Zogby-CD)
Don't breathe the shower steam (manganese) (Eureka)
US military trumpets meeting (lowered) recruitment goals (Workbench-vshort w/links)
Jail Judith Miller! (HuffPo-JimMoore)
Well-written Timothy Garton Ash on US political climate-change (UkG-shortish via Ag)
Enlightening critique of iTunes' new rss-semantics (Useful via Negatendo)
Laptoppers kibbitz presentations via chat (Flicker via iGreed)
Explaining why the troops didn't cheer W (NyT via Cursor)
Lots of good stuff at Prog Rev (Sam-30Jun)
Incomprehensible argument about DNA-retrotransposition in human evolution (LSU via Eureka)
Five pix of celeb skins for Unreal FPS (Wired)
Oprah tried madcow warning in 1996 (CD-Stauber)
Cool pix of planes breaking sound-barrier (PhysOrg-5pg)
Levitt praises 700 Club's professionalism (Freakonomics-short)
Bootleg 2hr "Matrix Revolutions" sneaks onto GoogleVideo (GgV via Battelle)
Longer bio of supermodel-bounty-hunter (UkTel)
Pseudo-scientist impersonates NASA consultants (NasaW-vshort w/link)
Bram Cohen loses cool over BitTorrent liability (Wired via Workbench)
Flashback 1984 review of $2500 Mac128 (Byte-Poland via /.)
Ocean's pH might drop to 6.5 by 2100 (Eureka-short)
CNN offers podcasts (CNN via WhatDoIKnow)
GoogleEarth is only pseudo-3D (Unofficial-vshort)
Also it's a resource hog and has a cluttered interface.
Negroponte's new spyworld (BBC-shortish via Ag)
MemeWatch: "ban the bible" (GgW pattern)
Prescient 1980 Pauline-Kael rant predicting boxoffice decline (via Thomson, below)
UnprankWatch: X-Acto blades glued to cause harm (Texas)
Thoughtful David-Thomson interview on Hollywood (CityPgs-long via NextBest)
"I would love to think that someone has got a movie set in Guantánamo..."
Whole-wheat Wonder Bread offensively inoffensive (USA2)
Wednesday:
Nicely-done principle-driven defense of Tom Cruise (HuffPo-RobLong)
Nutritious dyes make rainbow-colored rice (AP-Fla w/pic)
Thai catfish weighs 646 lbs (amazing pic) [Reuters]
Tom Cruise for Xbox (sight gag) (Banterist via ffwd)
Al Jazeera drops plan to report leaky US borders (Arizona)
Cobblestone walking-paths delay aging (Eureka)
Four Chinese brand-names to remember (CSM)
Autobiography via bookmarks, w/thumbnails (Wists via Galbraith)
Mexican postage stamp depicts black stereotype (CNN w/pic via linkfilter)
Nintendo eschews PS/Xbox battle to target casual gamers (GamingAge via Kotaku)
Lucid attack on Ignatieff's NyT 'malarkey' (HuffPo-Rees)
Labor-intensive environmental restoration (PortlandOR via linkfilter)
Field-of-Dreams' Moonlight-Graham centennial (MLB)
City-by-city Live8 lineups (Stereogum via Barefoot)
Solar-powered plane flies for 48hrs, easy (DefTech w/pix via Gz)
Jennifer Tilly wins Vegas poker tournament (UkG)
Release dates for Scorsese's Dylan-biopic (Hollywood-Reuters)
US propane CEO makes $10M off smuggled antiquities? (aJ w/pix via Ag)
Zulus doubt Oprah's DNA-relatedness claim (Fem1st)
Oil-wars loom in Bolivia (AFX-Forbes via Ag)
BitTorrent creator incriminated self re piracy (Workbench)
Teevee-remote with built-in mini-teevee (Mike via Raw)
Iran's new president led 1979 embassy-grab (IranFocus via Ag)
Wikipedia an effective place to promote overlooked memes (spanish via Technorati)
Soothe eyes by decreasing screen/background contrast (Infosthetics w/pic, link)
Size matters: 573,000; Size doesn't matter: 75,400 (GoogleFight-Flash)
"Land of the Dead" as political satire (OnionAV-review via ChaCo)
Tuesday:
Untimely death of supermodel-bounty-hunter forces biopic reshoot (UkTimes)
Ten-headlines-about-Google parody (Blogoscoped)
Illustrated dinosaur-research update (Newswk-4pg via Wired)
Arianna's Iraq-address drinking game (HuffPo) [score]
Informative Q&A about Google Video (SEW)
700*700 animated gif of clouds on Titan (via Eureka) [info]
7-day alarm clock for $35 (via Gz)
Israel symbolizes conflict as orange vs blue (AP-UkG)
Waving cellphone 'paints' text message in air (Korea via RawFeed) [more]
Crick discovered double helix while tripping on acid? (2004 UkMail via Eyebeam)
Brazil challenges pharmcos on aids-IP (RedHerring via Wired)
Two 1963 JFK-quotes on Vietnam (cf W on Iraq) (CPunch-short)
Librarian experiments with lending Playstation games (via Kotaku)
PrankWatch: 70 bids for towel used by Tom Cruise after squirting (eBay via VH1)
Climate of fear returns to NASA (WashTimes via NasaW)
Whimsical 1pg gallery of "skills found only in China" (via InfoJunk)
Manmade Peruvian islands continuously occupied since Incan times (BBC via InfoJunk)
Google keeps kickin' Yahoo's ass (SEW w/graph)
Pointless but mindboggling Flash mosaic stunt (Andrea via JWalk)
What W charges for ambassadorships (Spiegel via Ag)
Iranian court takes "eye for eye" literally (UkInd)
1962 Dylan performance avail only at Starbucks (NyT-IHT)
USA is texturally impoverished? (iMomus)
I wonder if Chicago wouldn't strike him differently.
$35 lo-tech gizmo adds engine-roar to bike (Flash via Engadget)
Ongoing evolution of resealable packaging (WaPo via iforget)
More interesting algorithmically-generated paintings (gallery via dataisnature)
Fun database of conservative mendacity (APAF via Morning)
The Lady Halliburton wristwatch? (Gz w/pic and links)
Israeli navy joining NATO exercises (Iran)
Is Angelina carrying Brad's baby? (Fem1st)
Arcane table of US cities' housing-affordability (Engebreth via WholeLotta)
German arms dealers blamed for Viking invasions? (undated via Xplr)
Five Canadian suicides blamed on video lottery terminals (CBC)
Underwhelming pic of new Mexican catfish-species (SciDaily)
Danny Yee's blog's RSS is b0rken (just noticed)
Exuberant 8-bit Michael-Jackson Flash fanimation (phat-slow-Japan via Waxy)
Intel finally hit with anti-trust suit (RegUk-short)
Virtual go-carts a $100M biz in Korea (BizWk-no-pix w/popup via ffwd)
Don't-miss tiny Quicktime of giant walking thing (Rossignol via ffwd)
2ndLife live 'cam' attracts griefers (Clickable via ffwd)
Monday:
Ambitious swansong of a dying gull (Poems.com-longish)
Google registers googleporn.com (WhoIs via TimYang)
King Kong trailer (promising) (Quicktime via linkfilter)
58yo Walmart heir dies in ultralight crash (ABC w/popup)
Summary of wonderful Halliburton hearing today (HuffPo-Cray)
Concise 2004 game-industry stats (Shrapnel via /.)
CIA hallucinated aQ-steganography in aJ news-crawl (MsNbc-2pg via linkfilter)
Charitable project revives 'Lost Musicals' (UkG)
Nickelodeon Hotel reviewed (AP-USA2)
Pic of Picasso model with portrait (NZ)
Brilliant, hilarious combo war-critique/wargame-critique (PWoT w/pix via Kotaku)
Striking poses in virtual worlds less than spontaneous (2ndLife w/pix)
Teen witch got start from movie "The Craft" (Barbados via Chip)
Original Disney animation art for $200-500 (phat page via Drawn)
Iraqis stay home and (what they) read (NyT-IHT)
Example of using Flash for animated photo-art (Ellen-wide)
Philly highway ends in midair (Sprol-satpix)
Leaked Charlotte-Church topless pic (Kontraband via GgW)
Gory pic of Leo DiCaprio's stabbing-wound (Yeeeah)
Iran uses pirated US filtering/censoring software (NewSci w/popup)
Readable FAQ on today's Grokster ruling (Cnet)
Don't-miss expose on helpless US war-on-meth (LaTms via Ag)
SocSec, G8, CAFTA, euro, Medicaid, UN, and China (DeanBaker)
Poignant Kathy-Kelly on hunger in Iraq (CPunch-shortish)
USA to resume plutonium production (NyT-CD)
Javascript is Lisp with different syntax? (Ajaxian w/links)
Cod populations may be doomed (Maine w/popup via Sam)
Biggest readers are India, China, Philippines (BBC)
Endangered 'noble chafer' beetle (BBC w/pix)
Hubble catches pre-Impact comet-plume (Eureka w/pix)
Rosie O'Donnell on Oprah, Hermes, and Brooke Shields (blog via VH1)
Institutional Jewish racism on trial in Russia (Ha'aretz-IHT)
Operation Respect: Don't Laugh At Me (new NYer-shortish)
Quantum computers' data volatile as Schroedinger's cat? (NewSci w/popup)
Unconvincing demo of handwritten-equation solver (Quicktime) [NewSci]
Slender evidence Polynesians reached N.Amer. c600AD (SFgate via Xplr)
Stonehenge solstice-celebrations were probably in winter (UkTel via Xplr)
Systematic looting of Iraq's archeological sites (BBC via Xplr)
Artillery shells w/GPS navigation (PhysOrg-no-pix)
Sunday:
Collapsible public one-man hidingplace (CoolHunting via !Mark)
GoogleVideo player to debut tomorrow (Battelle) [GgV]
Princess Di almost married JFK Jr? (Oz-short)
Impressive wiki devoted to teevee-writers' cliches (tvwiki via linkfilter)
Bitter deconstruction of W's digging-in on Iraq (Consortium)
Al Gore's tv-network has some starter-content (current.tv via linkfilter)
Pedophilia in Pakistan's madrassas? (Marianne-Ag)
BBC updates Shakespeare, Dickens (UkTimes-no-pix)
Jared Diamond on agriculture-as-a-curse (1987-long via Plc)
Spunky 12yo rams copcars, dodges bullets (Tampa-short)
Conceptual artist Chris Burden's 28ft ghost ship (UkG)
RSS feed for McSweeney's (Interglacial)
Solar power 'stored' as metallic zinc (PhysOrg-short)
Could batteries someday be recharged by heating them?
Israel eyes Jordan Valley (Monsters)
Spielberg's next treats Mossad and Munich Olympics (Reuters-aJ)
PrankWatch: Hamster-in-envelope survives 4hrs in mailbox (BBC w/pic)
Longish Annie Lennox update (UkG-no-pix)
Passionate daily foreign-policy analysis (Culture of Life)
Another reading of Iran election (Barista)
Fox's "King of the Hill" is politically nuanced (NyT via PedNut)
Animated map of Coalition fatalities in Iraq (Flash via WhatDoIKnow) (needs faces)
Public trance-art success post-mortem (iMomus)
US press ignores 60th anniversary of UN charter (GgN pattern)
Al Franken nails HillaryC-biographer for lying (MediaMatters-transcript via WholeLotta)
'Google command line' unifies all Google services via keywords (1pg via Blogoscoped)
'Electronic ink' makes virtual gameboards practical (Dave5 via Make)
Dna used to guess appearance of criminals (Toronto via linkfilter)
$275 to learn baby's sex at 5weeks, by email (USnews via HuffPo)
Fallujah in hi-res satpix (but pre- or post- ?) (GgM via /.)
Saturday:
Update on crucified nun (AP-Taiwan w/pic)
Venezuela plans 30k plastic homes next year (AP-BizWk w/popup)
Wild-mushroom fad (AP-RedNova w/pic)
Lurid tale of rape and revenge in Spain (UkTel)
In-dash display simulates car-from-above (JapCar w/pic via Raw)
Stats on unarmored Hummers in Iraq (NyT-Ag)
Two super-lo-tech DIY spectroscopes (SciToys-1pg via hackaday)
Deconstructing the AlQaeda-LatAm-coke 'connection' (HuffPo-Hayden)
Eco-tourists flock to watch endangered leatherbacks lay eggs (AP-Fla w/pic)
Shutting eyes to mad cow in the USA (CD-short)
Reading the Iranian election-results (HuffPo-Majd)
Watergate phonetap was to assure 'safe' McGovern nomination? (Consortium-looong)
Nightmare oil-shortage scenarios explored (KnightRidder via linkfilter)
Fastfood chain 'Handi Ghandi' fixes offensive logo (Oz-official site)
Slideshow of this weekend's UK woodstock (Glastonbury) (Flickr-Flash via linkfilter)
Incomplete history of "Who's your daddy?" catchphrase (Jan WaPo) [more] [GgG] [GgP] [1957?]
I thought southerners used to ask it routinely...?
Oprah puts Yoknapatawpha back on map (Alabama-short)
Putting the serendipity back into GoogleNews (raw GgN feed)
It takes sharp eyes and patience, though.
Summary of 'secret' CEO rulebook (ccgmedia via Galbraith)
Friday:
Simple enjoyable Flash miniature golf (Flash via linkfilter)
Mordant Patricia-Highsmith dog-fable (UkG-long)
Google VCs got 34,000% ROI (Norton-short)
Mr Pants had a baby (MrPants)
Hero Joy Nightingale's sort-of-secret autobiography (cripcrap-8pg w/frames) [hojoy]
(more of a rant about low-quality support, apparently from 2000?)
Futurama panoramas (stitched screengrabs) (5pg gallery via Drawn)
32 short stories by decent authors (UkG)
Google gaining on eBay and PayPal? (RegUk-AO-interview)
Abortion-bomber Eric Rudolph's memoir of hiding-out (ArmyOfGod via AP)
Philip K Dick is (now) a replicant (HansonRobotics via Plc)
Edison-Hate-Future archives (cynical minimalist toon) (WarrenEllis)
Teen-fiction Babylon? (WSJ via linkfilter)
Iraq, EU, Billie Holiday, Norbert Weiner (new NYRB)
False-color Istanbul-not-Constantinople radar-satpic (1024*768 jpeg) [info]
Prehistory of disco (NyBlade-bkrev)
Belgian Trappist beer costs $150/case (Philly)
Xerox chatbot tested on ISS (Spaceref)
Wacky nanomechanical nonvolatile memory (NewSci w/popup)
50 more greatest-gadgets-ever w/pix (1pg via Wired)
Gmail accounts deleted after 9months inactivity (Google via McGrath)
NeologismWatch: warspying = finding live wireless cams (Systm via linkfilter)
Only Poland and India still like USA better than China (AP-UkG via Sam)
Toy-addiction seen as gateway drug (Ananova-short via 3rdred)
Lord-of-the-Dance plans all-dancing history of Ireland (Ireland-vshort)
Catholic Sharks vs Protestant Jets?
64-processor Hydra crushing UK chess grandmaster (Cnet w/links)
Magic bookmarklet upgrades del.icio.us interface (Vey via Ajaxian)
Interactive daily London pollution map (ajax via FutureFeeder)
Painless slideshow on CSS vs tables (36pg via BrainLog)
Madonna sets $10k limit on 8yo daughter's credit card (Contact via VH1)
Search engines still mediocre at Trivial Pursuit (AP-Seattle via SEW)
6" $10 USB lava lamp (ThinkGeek via Gz)
US-colonel-suicide theory based partly on search-strings (Italy)
Richard Pryor's daughter does stand-up (SanDiego w/pic)
Could Adobe use Flash as a vector for Skype? (Cringely)
Thursday:
'Rhetoraoke' imagined (yeti)
Predatory music-IP saps "Mad Hot Ballroom" (StayFree via many)
Jon Udell tries to squeeze custom url-recommendations out of delicious (Infoworld-vshort via Plc)
MemeWatch: Bad [X], no cookie! (GgW pattern)
Courtney cleans up to regain custody of Francis Bean (Fem1st)
Applying New Testament exegesis to ballplayer misquotation (Ralph)
Turkey hosts alt.tribunal on Iraq (HuffPo-JodieEvans)
Oldskool platformer 'Psychonauts' crammed with creativity (Eurogamer-review via ffwd)
Staggeringly brilliant UK-id-card parody (Flash via Obl)
Where the tech-jobs are (Cnet)
Most AdWord-friendly author-names (list via Blogoscoped)
$6 plush pathogen-toys (multi via Cnet)
Chicago posts pix of prostitute-soliciting johns (slow phat page)
PrankWatch: Clown-ministry scammed for $2300 (SelfSEO)
Original AltaVista-genius leaves eBay for Google (Battelle-interview)
Conservative pharmacists confiscating offending scrips (MedPage via HuffPo)
Illustrated history of e-meters (Scientology lie-detector) (Gizmodo-1pg)
Fun Deep-Impact animation (comet bomber) (NASA Quicktime via Spaceref)
Free-Katie-Holmes movement gains cred (Fox via Waxy)
Energy bill targets NIMBY activism (Maine via Sam)
Confusing experiments adding radio to cellphones (BizWk w/pre-ad via Wired)
Hot meme: boomer dementia epidemic (Eureka)
'Straight edge' punks who fell off the wagon (1pg-list via linkfilter)
Supremes extend eminent domain to developers (AP-UkG)
Kids say the darnedest things, r-rated example (lj-vshort via we)
MS leveraging proprietary anti-spam tech via Hotmail (Cnet via /.)
Historical faces projected on chatbot mannequin (AFP-Yahoo w/pic via we)
Fine interview-update w/imprisoned SUV-torcher (SFgate via linkfilter)
Swiss army knife w/1Gb storage (Trusted w/pix via Gz)
ABC guts RFKJr's autism-mercury expose (HuffPo)
Short guide for Ecuador oil-workers about Indian tribe (1994 Harper's)
Don't-miss Flash Google song-tribute-parody (pcxee via SEW)
Dinosaur genealogy misrepresented by teeth w/o bones (Eureka-long)
Patti Smith hosts all-goddess lineup (UkTel-no-pix)
Free version of best-software-essays book (Brevity via Plc)
Excellent giant-table sculpture (BBC w/pic via Plc)
Longer yellow would cut stoplight accidents (AmChron via PhysOrg)
Treeware zine: OK Commuter (CT-interview)
ClicheWatch: This is your brain on [not drugs] (GgW pattern)
Bruce Willis buys one-night-stand gifts in bulk? (India)
New flower discovered (Ark w/pic)
Wednesday:
Awesome optimistic poem: the air after, rinsed, the leaves ticking (Poems.com)
UK stars give kids wacky names (PA-Scotsman)
Korean Baseball Assoc bans frozen cabbage-leaves under caps (CBC)
Nice summary of military-recruiter desperation (Nation-CD-shortish)
Flash 'painting generators' (multi via dataisnature)
Hofstadter's 'grandmother neurons' are real (NewSci w/popup)
Pulsar/blue-giant binary emulates particle accelerator (Universe2day)
Don't-miss details on massive Iraq graft (Yuba via Ag)
Excellent L.Menand on Herman Kahn and RAND (NYer-bkrev-looong)
Shaming young Repubs into enlisting (YellowElephant via Morning)
$99 Dell laser printer with cheap toner, too (Cnet via Gz)
Sophisticated trailer for game "Alan Wake" (phat slow Quicktime via WhatDoIKnow)
Cellphone griefers of various tactics, various ages (Cnet)
Someone's phreaking BayArea stoplights (SFgate via Zawodny)
Who benefits/suffers from Greasemonkey clickfraud prank? (HubLog-thread via Zawodny)
Iconic design-element cliches (1pg-gallery via Plc)
Favorite-philosopher poll (BBC-5pg via Xplr)
Remembering past celebrity pranks (USA2)
Google hits beyond 1st 1000 are inaccessible? (Sifry)
Interesting speculation on origins of photosynthesis (Loom)
Depressing poem about life-choices (VerseDaily-longish) "All right, fine, I'll get in your boat"
Madonna on kabbalah and kids books (UkG-interview)
Painting photographs w/colored light, open shutter (Ursi w/link)
20 edible Disney tortilla decals just $1.85 (RegUk)
Basic GoogleMaps url-hacking (MediaLab via Make)
Tuesday:
Sound-sculpture eavesdrops on city noises (UkG)
Soyburgers may be contraceptive (UkG)
Alaska state fair sticks neck out for Steve Earle (E&P)
WaPo cartoonist skewers WaPo DSM-dishonesty (E&P)
Signs of split in Iraq insurgency (NyT-IHT)
Neopets' stealth penetration (iGreed-short)
Overdesigned "Onion 2056" issue (Flash, sound?)
Shortish rave for Springsteen in Paris (HuffPo-Kornbluth)
Braille PDAs $2k-$6k (PulseData via Gz)
New Sibel Edmonds on ignored 9-11 warnings (baou via Ag)
MrPoll so far: 30 like Cory, 13 don't (scifi irrelevant) (Cory's latest)
Even Iraq's oilfields are in chaos (UkTel via linkfilter)
Liveblogging an archeological dig (AncientWorlds w/popup via Xplr)
'Waste Land' composition-sequence reconstructed w/micrometer (UkG-short)
US streamflow map shows wetter/drier regions (USGS via SciDaily) [story]
GoogleNews indexes Thug Life Army (GgN pattern)
Purple Haze lollipops flavored w/hemp oil (ThugLife via linkfilter)
Five-point plan to shift MSM left (Consortium)
SEC lacks manpower to stop scamsters (NYer-longish)
Odd arcane simulation of atomic hydrogen on space-dust (PhysOrg)
"Welcome to L.A." trivia (IMDb-vshort)
Odd list of grown-ups' fiction about kids (UkG-top-ten)
This Flash mindreader totally baffles me (Albino via linkfilter) [solution]
$8k one-off art-urinals (1pg via linkfilter)
Monday:
Alaska's Glory Hole can't serve bear-burgers to homeless (AP-Ky)
Solar sail will be visible this weekend (SpaceRef)
Caterpillar explosion in Rhode Island strips trees (AP-Ky)
Big full moon reminder (same link)
Gallery of small pix of Antarctic ice caves (1pg via linkfilter)
New poll: Is Cory Doctorow worth reading? (MrPoll)
PrankWatch: $11k hazmat bill for dead squirrel (PA)
Funny Quicktime of lo-tech weightlessness simulator (Derks via Engadget)
Green Zone fiddles while Baghdad sweats (BaghadBurning)
Comparative counts of network news story-priorities (HuffPo-AH)
"Wicker Man"s horror was Foucaultian? (Metaphilm)
Working online sliderule(s) (Antiquark via Ritilan)
List of items' shelf-lifes (Simple via Waxy)
Artist gets $18k for soap made from Berlusconi's fat (BBC w/pic via HuffPo)
Chimp-art fetches $26k (UkTel w/pic)
Birds avoid wind-turbines (NewSci-vshort via Sam)
Useful perspective on Hamas (CPunch-Avnery)
Saddam [hearts] Cheetos (AP-UkG)
MST3K-ing blogs with Photoshop (multi via Longboard)
Arcane suggestion that cytoplasm is glassy (Harvard-shortish via Eureka)
BitTorrent creator bashes MS vaporware version (BramCohen)
Wikipedian view of LaTimes 'wikitorial' experiment (Signpost)
Hackaday thinks lying to get free replacements is 'cool' (hackaday)
Basic sketch of email 'phishing' scams (WSJ via /.)
Revived Taliban's Afghanistan tactics (UkG via Ag)
Hot teflon causes polymer fume fever (SFgate via NextBig)
polymer fume fever polymer fume fever polymer fume fever
Elegant Flash hackysack (Kickball via A1)
Comparison of TiVo and competing DVRs (PCworld via Engadget)
Al Jazeera pisses off both Rumsfeld AND Zarqawi (Friends of aJ)
Boffins building firefly lie-detector (Eureka)
Sunday:
CNN video now free (RealVideo via Fimoculous)
Bolton's venality could unify the UN (HuffPo-Shapiro)
Post-9-11 chaos at Saudi FBI office (Time via HuffPo)
ClicheWatch: We don't need no stinking [not badges] (GgW pattern)
How Jon Udell makes his Flash 'screencasts' (O'Reilly via bisset)
A beer named 'Mosque' (Spain)
Nothin' but blue skies (live IR satpic)
Jack Nicholson inexplicably appealing (unappealingness MrPoll results)
Children of anonymous sperm donors seek fathers (Chgo-Fla)
This week's full moon should look huge (Nasa via linkfilter)
Saturday:
Nice writeup on Braque and cubism (UkG-bkrev)
Candymakers target fitness buffs (CNN w/popup via Linkfilter)
23yo Romanian Orthodox nun crucified in fatal 'exorcism' (BBC via Linkfilter)
W joked about missing WMDs in March 2004 (E&P)
Deafening Iran-drumbeat in the NyT (HuffPo-Majd)
ScarlettJ scared off by Cruise's Scientological come-on (Radar via !Mark)
Proposed educational dollar-bill design (Va via CD) [Nader]
Conyers dresses down WaPo for propaganda (CD-letter)
Google Maps now covers the world (in lo-res) (GgM via /.) (Click 'Satellite'!)
7*5 pixel Breakout game hardware (Germany-1pg via hackaday)
Geek jewelry catalog (diodes n stuff) (Zelle via ffwd)
MS using schools as foothold for Xbox in Japan (Engadget)
Pimp My Barbie, movie-star edition (multi via Ursi)
PrankWatch: Bound teen 'escapes' from trunk at mini-mart (PA-short)
Fauxtoon four (another dream)
DoD hides 7000 more Iraq GI-fatalities??? (HuffPo-Lampley)
1800*600 generic James Bond flowchart (gif via linkfilter)
Friday:
US pot-use by locale (Columbus Ohio is anomalous) (map via Sam)
Big brains are smarter (Va via SciDaily)
'Falling Artist' inspired by 9-11 (Ch3000 w/16 pix)
Re-style Gmail with your own CSS (Persistent via Plc)
PrankWatch: $50k water-damage to hs library (Marin-no-pix)
Music industry votes Courtney Love the 13th-punkest human (Fem1st w/list)
Worldwide housing bubble is biggest bubbble ever (Economist via Plc)
'DaVinci Code' character tracks down lost DaVinci fresco? (PhysOrg w/pic)
New BBC video codec will use wavelets (NewSci w/popup)
Good news for people with fast PCs on slow connections.
Zimbabwean slum leveled in 3wks (before/after pic) (BBC-jpeg via we) [story]
'Bok globules' offer peek at star-formation (Universe2day w/pic)
ClicheWatch: All your [not base] are belong to us (GgW pattern)
Neal Stephenson's 2-culture (geek/veg) theory of Star Wars (NyT via CynC)
US class-immobility explains declining interest in news? (HuffPo-Meserole)
New poll: Least charismatic actor (MrPoll)
Queen-Elizabeth's-iPod sightgag (Engadget pic)
Mindboggling stats on rape in South Africa (Za)
Tom Hanks jumps on DeepThroat autobiopic (andPop)
Rainbow Gathering 2005, vs Forest Service again (AP-Wired)
Shock, awe, and napalm in April 2003 (UkInd-CD)
Rumored Eurasian cyberattack on Oceania (Slashdot thread)
Useful neologism: googlemilking = reverse-lookup serendipity (Workbench)
Possibly-useful multisearch dispatcher, Yubnub (SEW)
Gilligan's "sexed up" vs DowningStMemo's "fixed" (HuffPo-Shearer)
11% of seniors tie as class valedictorian (Seattle via Morning)
Poetry contests exposed as cons (Newsday via Morning)
8 pix of Goodyear blimp crashing (Fla via Ag)
Sortable-by-wealth-or-fame list of rich celebrities (Forbes via VH1)
Short underannotated list of blog 'networks' (BlogHerald)
Thursday:
Laptop-spyware report (below) was a hoax (Engadget)
Low profitability of pirating Harry Potter (BookStandard-short)
Laurel and Hardy as Dublin junkies (IHT-film-review)
The James-Agee-Charlie-Chaplin connection (NyT-IHT-shortish-bkrev)
Who gets Unabomber's autobiography-etc? (AP-NC)
Puzzling mutations-leap during great-ape era of human evolution (MedNews2day)
Baby-orangutan trade threatens species extinction (NewSci w/popup)
Alarming recent CA earthquake-activity (USGS-map via Zawodny)
1st-person of Secret-Service visit over Flickr Bush/gun collages (lj via Obl)
Fragging claims re 07June Tikrit deaths (WorkersWorld-UrukNet) [more]
ABC kills RFKJr autism-interviews (HuffPo)
Osborne-myth debunking plus murky Mactel followups (Cringely-PBS)
Impressive stats on BBC's free Beethoven downloads (BBC via Willison)
Bomb-Iran drumbeat escalating (Gorilla-short)
Bulimia-correction to Didion on Schiavo (Majik via Wolcott)
Arcane new data on N.Atlantic salinity variations (WoodsHole w/map via Eureka)
Malware spread with executables via BitTorrent (eWeek via Wired)
Poignant example of GIs killing Iraqi civilian (KnightRidder-CD w/pic)
How the junkfood mafia blocks progressive initiatives (CD)
RFKJr on mercury, autism, and anti-terror payola (Salon-CD-looong)
Laying Iran-elections terror at USA's door (Tehran via HuffPo)
Apple office-suite adding 'Numbers' to 'Pages'? (ApInsider via Cnet)
Five pix of office pranks (5pg via Gz)
2nd solar sail being mis-touted as first (NasaW-vshort)
Jn Schell argues USA unintentionally training insurgents (Asia via Ag)
Custom indy-mp3 'radio' seems much improved (Indy.tv)
PrankWatch: Fake letters regret seniors won't graduate (Ridgefield, CT)
50 Joycean conjectures (rec.arts.books)
Spooky claim of spy-hardware in Dell laptop (??? via Plc) [gone?]
Angry hornet trapped in 10yo's ear (UK-ouch)
Yoko update (karaoke, Chapman doc) (Fem1st)
Bloomsday newsbits (GgN pattern)
Ancient Chinese chess-variant has advantages (Chessbase)
PrankWatch: Waterballooners' truck rolls after chase (Utah)
60pound solar roboplane to glide for months at 60k feet (Inquirer w/pic via Engadget)
James Wood on artful endings in books/movies/music (UkG-shortish)
Mona Lisa interactive mugging/gorming (France via Ursi)
Wednesday:
Mencken's HuckFinnified Declaration of Independence (Bartleby via Recycled)
46 non-combat Russian-soldier deaths in one week (UkInd)
Short perspective on China's blogs (Barefoot)
Lane, Judd judged lame (trustworthiness MrPoll results)
NYers thinking the unthinkable about nuke-terror (NyPress)
1st pic of Bewitched statue (Newscom)
Which appliances use most residential electricity (CSM w/table)
HuffPo's Raimondo (Mr AntiWar) calls HuffPo's Crittenden (Mrs David Frum) 'depraved' (HuffPo)
Lisp-beauty vs Perl-utility (short) (PerlMonks via lemonodor)
Iraq-to-Israel pipeline scam still on table (Ha'aretz w/popup via Cursor)
New analysis of Google PageRank (Buzzle via Yang)
Best fingernail paintjob ever (WarrenEllis pic)
TVLand adding Bewitched to public sitcom-tribute statues (TVland-multi w/Quicktimes)
Jacko, Shanley, and reasonable doubt (CPunch-shortish)
Dave Winer still has fans (Workbench)
Followup details on DisneyWorld ride-death (AP-Wired)
ClearChannel reaps karma of predatory approach (BizWk-long via Cnet)
Pimp My Barbie, d&d edition (multimulti via Ursi)
Tuesday:
Quickie reviews of indie/free adventure games (DIY via ffwd)
New trailer for Gilliam's "Brothers Grimm" (AOL-Quicktime via AIC)
Strong marriage metaphor (poems.com) "deep among buckeyes / and bloodroot"
New slang (incl city of origin!?) (Filters via Sam)
Indie music scene getting organised (Cnet-interview)
4yo dies in DisneyWorld centrifuge-ride (Orlando via NasaW)
Nanotubes fabricated from silicon (sounds huge) (PhysOrg-short)
9-11 conspiracy tidbit (short, new to me) (Xymphora via GorillaInTheRoom)
Flash demo of Nintendogs (via BrainLog)
New poll: most genuine-seeming actress (MrPoll)
Icon-style pixel-patterns (click random to reload) (k10k via TimYang)
Literary-prizes and women-dissembling-ambition (UkG)
Civil-War-photography re-enactor walks the walk (Wired w/16 pix)
Fauxtoon trois (720*340 jpeg)
Preview of Bjork/husband film-collaboration (iMomus)
Monday:
Martian sunset (800*600 jpeg)
Vets pursuing DoD inquiry into 1967 USS Liberty bombing (Jordan via WatchAm)
Dylan's neverending tour (NyT-IHT-Wyman)
Cafe wi-fi as a business decision (NyT-IHT)
Madsen, Hopper hopping mad (macho MrPoll results)
Scholarly review of Google Scholar (Peter via SEW)
Long review of Nintendogs virtual pets (LostGarden-no-pix via Kotaku)
Clearish explan of 'Z Machine' super-railgun (NewSci no-pic w/popup)
Very short random surrealism (LuckyStiff)
Angelina/BillyBob marriage-chaos inspires screenplay (Female1st via VH1)
Extensive comparison of Yahoo vs Google adwords (SEW)
Pocahontas's earrings (MsNbc w/pic via Xplr)
Roman mosaic "worthy of Botticelli"? (UkTimes w/pic via Xplr)
Don't-miss update on Grameen Bank's microcredit cellphone experiment (EthanZ)
Danish art-hotel (gallery via JWalk)
Schools have 48hrs to submit 8*11 art for empty-spacesuit orbit (ARRL via /.)
FBI cleared Felt of Throat-suspicions (VVoice w/popup)
Royal Shakespeare Co approaches lad-mag Viz for cred (UkG-short) [Viz]
Flash mob pitches tents overnight in Times Square (Flickr via Morning)
Sunday:
3ton telescope launched by balloon (CBC)
Survey of price-trends for PCs, etc (WSJ)
David Lynch update (new film, digital video) (Variety via Fimoculous)
Unrest in Mexico a greater threat than Iraq? (HuffPo-Gardels)
If Soros buys the Washington Nats (HuffPo-Shapiro)
2000yo Masada date-palm sprouted (NyT-IHT)
Tsunami accelerates geomagnetic pole's wandering? (Canada via /.)
Balfour draft expected to fetch $500k (Lb-IHT-long)
Fighting canola-pirates with grain-fetti (CBC)
Imitative comic #2 (a dream)
New DowningSt memo is Stoppard-esque (HuffPo-Kaplan)
Saturday:
Nice neologism: information esthetics (nasty portmanteau: Infosthetics)
Chinese MSN-blogs tag 'freedom', 'democracy' as forbidden speech (FT-MSN via RawFeed)
$700 for a kidney in Nepal? (Nepal) [rate]
The illustrious Financial Times stoops to linkspam (LinkingMatters via Zawodny)
Undercover investigator of Cambodian child-sex industry (BBC via we)
Fab documentary on first-best LA-cable art-movies 'Z Channel' (3pg)
I don't think Spielberg or Lucas or Coppola or any of the usual 70s suspects gets a single mention!
Okay Quicktime trailer for new Terrence Malick (AOL via AIC)
New "imaginative biography" of Philip K Dick (UkG-review)
Games on cellphones need access to phone-strengths (Costik-11Jun)
What methamphetamine does to your teeth (NyT-Az)
Fun-sounding George Lucas tribute at AFI (AIC)
Tyson circus dishonors sports journalism (HuffPo-Lampley)
Russian malware-site offers 6cent/host bounty (InfoWk via /.)
Philippine emergency number gets 98% prank calls (Baguio)
Google syntax cheatsheet (GgGuide via /.)
New poll: Quien es mas macho? (MrPoll)
Euro-blogs wiki built in 24hrs (Corante-vshort)
Useful biographical background on Pirsig/ZAMM (timeline via JWalk)
The global outsourcing of laptop components (WSJ w/diagrams via Plc)
Purported lexicon of UK teenspeak (BBC via Plc)
Bugs don't grow on McD's junkfood (StayFree w/pix via Plc)
Don't-miss Beirut rave for Ridley Scott's Crusades-flick (CPunch-Fisk)
Lucid debate on galaxies and BigBang turbulence (NewSci-short w/popup)
Ten tips for digital-photo newbies (Cnet-Pogue)
Inspiring weekly contemplative photo-comic (SofterWorld via Barista) [1st try]
Debate on value of $3000 video-whiteboards in education (Slashdot thread)
"Dancing in your underwear in public places is all the rage" (Alice w/pic)
Roald-Dahl-Museum opportunism (UkG)
Collating the dots on pre-9-11 intelligence blindspots (RigorousIntuition)
Alternate-reality movie-gossip (Japan)
Iraq insurgents try new tactics (CBC-short)
The evolving quest for exotic potables (lj-iMomus)
Skillful downer: That woman that dog... (VerseDaily)
Phenomenology of rented virtual-world avatars (Alice-short)
Odd nonlinear pseudo-interactive 13Mb Quicktime (PlayWithMe via Ursi)
Friday:
Elaborate farm communities in 4700BC Austria (UkInd via Ag)
12 insights about crafts/crafting (HobbyPrincess via Make)
Vaginal plastic surgery specialist (Tyee-BC-profile)
Product placements in recent network teevee (MediaPost-short via Cursor)
(Mad magazine parodied this memorably c1960?)
Basic update/overview of carbon-cycle research (ESA via Eureka)
Cute knitted Yoda (lj-pic via Alice)
Bloggers Without Borders logo (Galbraith)
Physics-sim math offloaded to graphics chip (NewSci w/popup)
Printed out, the whole Web would stack 1000 miles high (JWalk-vshort)
$13 self-contained lava-lamp ant-farm (ThinkGeek via Gz)
Mea culpa from author of Anarchist Cookbook (Amazon via !mark)
Iran will build bike-factories in Venezuela (Iran-vshort)
Short Arundhati Roy on India's growth-pollution (Reuters-CD w/pic)
Lucid Krugman summary of the US wealth-inequality problem (NyT-IHT-shortish)
GoddessPost un-updated all week? (R-rated daily gallery) (Movement...)
Guest-clichewatch: Anne Bancroft obit-headlines (CJR via Morning)
One donated illustration per Bible-verse (multimulti via Drawn)
Silliest Flash-game ever (potato) (Germany via Ursi)
Prairie-dog vocabulary is 20+ words (Wired-cool)
How to talk dirty in Japanese (glossary) (CobaltJade via Plc)
1000 Penguin Classics for $8k (Amazon via Longboard)
Minor-league baseball courts rich fans (WSJ)
Thursday:
Jargony summary of human Mars-mission dangers (Mars2day)
Textures imagebase (cz-multimulti via 3rdred)
Gorgeous false-color Cassiopeia A (900*700 jpeg) [info]
Meet the Wiggles (NZ)
Gaza-pullout designed to fail? (UkG)
Cosmic Saturn rings/moons detail (1000*1200 jpeg) [info]
Speculation CSM may drop treeware, go Web-only (E&P)
Tropical storm Arlene's predicted track (map via NasaW)
Long 1977 StarWars-bkgd interview w/George Lucas (RollingStone via daveX)
Simple fix for the Freakonomic real-estate commission problem (recent PhilG)
Nice Gore Vidal on CSPAN and election fraud, etc (CD-Nation)
Don't-miss Cringely on Mac/Intel (PBS)
Where GoogleMaps may be headed (full effect needs VRML player) (UCBerk via UnofficialGg)
Lacey Underall's Caddyshack memories (Retrocrush-interview via VH1)
Videogame sprite-captures (multi-multipage via Waxy)
Follow tropical-storm Arlene (sw of Cuba) (infrared whole-Earth sat-pic)
Boffins propose gene-therapy using HIV-plus-Ebola delivery (NewSci w/popup)
Wednesday:
13 ways of looking at an ivory-billed woodpecker (Arkansas-long)
Google pulls plug on some maps-hacking (Slashdot)
Scary trick for Googling creditcard numbers (iHacked via Eyebeam)
Comparative gallery of recent logo-design trends (GDusa-5pg via Waxy)
The more you watch teevee, the less you know what's good for you (Eureka)
AOL frees content, bets on ads (BizWk w/popup, news-to-me)
Choosing the best species to genome-sequence next (Eureka-arcane)
One-week-only 30-50Mb mp3s of Beethoven's 1st 5 symphonies (BBC via many)
Live(?!) whale-singing from Hawaii (RealAudio via Ursi)
Rushdie assassination-plot revealed (UkTimes via HuffPo)
Deep Throat was a team? (Albany via HuffPo)
Tuesday:
DeepThroat's book goes for $5900 (eBay)
ClicheWatch: Dances with [not Wolves] (GgW pattern)
Simultaneous ajax magnetic poetry (Notebook via Ajaxian)
CNN adds real-international-news segment (CJR via Cursor)
China's unlikely sex-toy industry (Finland)
The world's(?) most popular goals (43things)
150 goals matching "f***" (you may have to turn the filter off) (43things)
Performance-demigod Karen Finley blogs (on Jacko) (HuffPo-dull)
Monday:
Detailed update on computer-reconstructed piano performances (NyT-IHT)
FBI entrapment of US 'jihadists' (CPunch)
Nice Parry review of WMD-lies (Consortium)
Dolphins teach young to use sponges (NewSci w/popup)
Goals tagged 'politics' (43things) [political]
ObL collectibles in Asian markets (NZ via Eyebeam)
I'm so glad to have found Dean Baker again (ERR-cepr)
Surreal 'Bazooka Joe comix from around the world' (old McSweeny's via Drawn)
Newsweek's departing Baghdad chief tells it like it is (don't-miss via Cursor)
Texas, La, 'subsiding' into Gulf (Houston via Sam)
Mac Mathematica ported to Intel in two hours!?! (MacObserver via Waxy)
Mr BenedictXVI.com grabs quick deal on DeepThroat ad-word (Cadenhead via Blogoscoped)
Experimental rabies treatment successful (AP-Wired)
TeenScreen suicide-program front for pharmcos (CPunch)
Loser loser wanna be the man, Ain't got the look so talk to the hand (phat QT taunt via smallValues)
Gmail keyboard shortcuts (Google via Zawodny)
Follow the Apple-Intel announcement semi-live (now) (ajax via Ajaxian) (totally sux, sorry)
Fun illustrated history of Dylan's guitars (1pg via JWalk)
Underrated gangster Lear: "My Kingdom" (violent) (IMDb-boxoffice)
Elaborate tutorial on reading old handwriting (gov.uk multipage)
Savvy parody of 'xxx' net.domain (G-rated) (Templeton via Obl)
AngelinaJ had live-in lover at 14yo (Female1st via VH1)
Iranian women want to attend soccer games (UkG)
UK may match USA's 95yr copyright insanity (Scotsman via Obl)
Simple origami CD-envelope (Athens via CynC)
Canadian jogger killed by grizzly (CBC-no-pic)
No detectable core left by supernova 1987A (PhysOrg w/pic)
1962 memos show JFK's doubts about Vietnam escalation (Boston via HuffPo)
MSN Search one-ups Google with equation-solver (JWalk example fails?)
One of 55 6ft Charlie-Brown statues stolen (SFGate)
Bollywood's themes finally branching out (India)
Post-Punk'd paranoia (Aspen-silly)
Small publisher finds gems in others' slush (ReutersUk via Morning)
Westinghouse bidding to build nuke-plants in China (AP-UkG short via Ag)
Medieval hairsplitting: quiddity vs haecceity (Recycled vshort) [pronun]
Details on Incan child-sacrifice (Oz w/pic via Xplr)
Further claims Napoleon was fed rat poison (AFP-Yahoo via Xplr)
Another daily astropic (Astronomy.com via Xplr) [1st]
Way cool multi-exposure analemmas (astronomical figure 8s) (Greece via Xplr)
Newly identified Georges de la Tour (AP-Canoe w/pic)
Fine Marianne Moore poem (The Fish) (Recycled) [a Frost too]
10am starttime would be better for highschools? (Eureka)
Lookingglass mounts "Hillbilly Antigone" (w/o MaryZ) (Chgo)
Lovely Sy Hersh on his view of Watergate (NYer-shortish)
Beautifully-written (if ego-poisoned) update on Web2.0's VCs (NyT-looong via iGreed)
Online Flash music-sequencer looks educational (BBC via Barefoot)
Shuffle-inspired FM-format spreading like wildfire (Wired)
IP-issues cramp virtual-world musicians' improv (Wired)
WSJ chooses unflattering Rummy stipple-pic? (WSJ)
Ironic streetsign for Barcelona's George Orwell Plaza ($!art)
Fascinating algorithmic electronic streaming mp3 net.radio station (r4nd via Make)
(algorithm changes every ten mins or so, so don't judge too quickly)
Alternate EU-future scenarios (UkG via dy)
El Tiempo offers free blogs for Bogota candidates (AP-UkG-short)
Details on $170M FBI software-fiasco (WaPo via HuffPo)
Cute stewardess action figures (Japan via ffwd)
Sunday:
Long list of singers' real names (1pg via 3rdredeye)
Sixteen-so-far GIs convicted or charged with killing Iraqis (AP-UkG)
Rise and fall of Krispy Kreme (CFO-loong)
delicious/tag/robotwisdom (64 found) (i'm still craving top-down views of delicious)
Awesome neologism: information laundering (pharmcos and med mags) (PLoS via dy)
False-color(?) volcano image (564^2 jpeg) [info]
Interesting background on HuffPo's tech director, Jonah Peretti (Gothamist-interview)
Graph-visualisation site offers 'theory' tab (GraphViz via McGrath) (Every site should have one!)
Like Bucky Fuller marooned with only paper plates (origami gallery via Barista)
Many good bits from Sam today (ProRev-05Jun)
Saturday:
Cute baby story w/pun: Homeland Security Blanket (NyT via GgN)
Mars rover creeps free (MsNbc w/pic via /.)
Airline prize-valuation tax-sticker shock (McCall via JWalk)
Rummy claims alJazeera promotes terrorism (Reuters-UkG-short) [reply]
Lucid explanation of genetic damage without actual mutations (Seattle)
Short sharp analogy of W as SocSec stalker (HuffPo-Feig)
Turn GgM satpix easily into desktop wallpaper jpeg (ajax via bisset)
Ecstatic Alex Cockburn on France's non (plus Egypt potemkin) (CPunch-don't-miss)
Nice display of top ten skyscrapers (wide via Plc)
New poll (but RSS-readers may not care how long the HTML page is) (MrPoll)
Defunct Webby-award-winners update (Disobey via Blogoscoped)
Two monkeynomics videos (Freak-multiformat)
Three pairs of 30yr-apart satpix from new eco-atlas (UkTimes-javascript via Ag) [info]
Friday:
Kate Moss engaged to crackhead? (UkMirror)
Freakonomists seek poker-history database (Freakonomics)
Rumors of Apple switch to Intel to be confirmed Monday? (Cnet)
Stuck rover has crept 1yd, spun wheels 200yds (MarsToday-no-pic)
ClicheWatch: [not lions tigers bears] oh my! (GgW pattern via bj)
Saturn's silhouette seen thru its rings (1000*1000 b&w jpeg) [info]
Living a week on Guinness and milk (blogspot via kasei)
Long Houellebecq profile of HP Lovecraft (UkG)
$40k grant to study Beyonce's hip-swaying (CBC w/pic)
Nextgen Navy killer-drone pic (DefenseTech via Gizmodo)
Where Dean Baker has been hiding (econ critiques) (cepr via 3rdredeye)
30Mb mp3 of Jimmy Page's KennethAnger soundtrack (BigO via we)
Custom police badges, $50 (Flash via JWalk)
Czech filmmakers stage elaborate anti-consumerist hoax (UkTel)
Political unrest makes for real-estate bargains (IHT)
Digital camera can also ocr text (Mike w/pic via Raw)
Short insight on gaming people's sense of debt (Econlog via Obl)
Don't-miss photoshopped Escher images (vphat via Ursi)
Nixon tapes tapped Felt as leaker (CNN w/popup)
Readable lowdown on upcoming Iranian elections (HuffPo-Majd)
John Dean tallies unanswered DeepThroat puzzles (FindLaw)
Thursday:
College girl has half a brain (NBC)
Statistically significant powerline/leukemia link (NewSci w/popup)
RFIDs in new $20s burn in microwave (PrisonPlanet via hackaday)
East Timor as tourist destination (NyT-IHT)
GlobalBloggerOrgy June 14 (Chronicled)
Way-incomplete table of documented celeb drug-use (Erowid via Plc)
Short-hard gamma-ray burst caught in act (Universe2day w/pic)
DeepThroat's autographed autobiog at $1900 w/5days left (eBay via many)
No hits for 'dinosaur sexing' on the Web (one on GoogleNews) (GgW searchpattern)
Half-hearted GetYourWarOn update (mnftiu)
Mild tech-critique of Ajax (Bosworth via Ajaxian)
Sort-of-gross drooling over Xbox2-peripheral pix (TeamXbov via Kotaku)
Dvorak on Sweden as tech innovator (PCmag-shortish)
Silly stereo ad w/stuffed-animal sex (Quicktime via VH1)
Venn diagram demystifies Britain/England-et-al subtleties (Sam-vshort via Barefoot)
Convenience all-in-one herb-growing bags ($10 via Gizmodo)
HomelandSecurity missed-you sticker-parody ($2.50 each via vulgarboatman)
How spacepix are cosmetically tweaked (Slate-shortish via JWalk)
Incomprehensible-to-me breakthru in visible-light microscopy (PhysOrg w/pix)
New poll: What do you like least about RW weblog? (MrPoll)
Convenient top-100 free fonts (DaFont via JWalk)
RobotWisdom Wiki experiment (pbWiki)
MemeWatch/neologism: "faux digital" (Engadget) [400 hits]
Rumsfeld's legacy: a military in ruins (CounterPunch)
Cicero's defense of blogging (rico via Xplr)
Pakistan senate unanimously condemns US Koran-abuse (Iran)
What's next for the EU constitution (BBC faq via Longboard)
Efficient comparative gallery of Hitchcock images (via Ursi)
Woodward's DeepThroat memoirs (WaPo via HuffPo)
FBI wanted to identify every member of every hippie commune in LA area
Postage-stamp-sized mp3 player (2"*1", $200+) (DAP via Engadget)
Scottish club drops lager-logo from shirts for Muslim fans (Iran)
Naked Zorro terrorizes Philadelphia (Philly)
Decent new Harper's Index (fun stats) (Harper's)
Short masterpiece from Wm Gass (VerseDaily) "smutch like an itch / you can't quite reach"
Airbags do more harm than good? (Georgia via SciDaily)
Higher-ed decreases insomnia for women, increases it for men? (SciDaily)
Leetspeak neologism: gg thx nn (Alice-vshort)
Semidaily clever strategies (best via RSS) (Tricks of the Trade)
Nice del.icio.us tweak assists tagging (Firefox extension) (Scrumptious via TEM)
Outsmarting fires instead of brute-forcing them (June Wired-longish)
Update on avante-artistes Gilbert & George (UkG)
Logarithmic mapping of universe (x-axis is zodiac?) (1200*8000 gif via dataisnature) [info]
Subverting virtual-Disneyland's limited player-vocabulary (Clickable via Alice)
Tiny working rockets, easy to build (1pg via Make)
The recent rise of 'Jesus news' (InTheseTimes via Cursor)
Insurgents strike with poison watermelon (SAfrica via Cursor)
Flash 'animated-shape organ' (ZeFrank via JWalk)
Cuban news site lacks RSS (Ahora.cu)
MemeWatch: My new [*] technique is unstoppable (GgW pattern)
Firefox 1.1 extension will generate png-image of html-page (roc via Obl)
Binary white dwarfs just 1600 lightyears away (NewSci w/popup)
Bazaar list of 25 most-beautiful (Asia w/pic)
Depression in 5yo's more nature than nurture? (Eureka)
Conservative scholars rank worst books ever (HumanEvents via CynC)
Ordinary products made with nanotech (USA2-Maney)
Could Bill Clinton replace Kofi Annan? (WaPo via Morning)
Steely Dan obscurities (mp3s via Morning)
Dead prankster traumatised by anti-terror law (Seattle) [obit]
Prank too beautiful to punish (Vermont)
India's milkmen, paperboys to distribute condoms (India)
Numbers from giant simulation of early universe (eGov) [pix]
Pharmcos exploiting FDA's 'accelerated approval' (HuffPo-Markey)
'OutFoxed' director documenting Walmart's abuse of Medicare (HuffPo-Greenwald)
India bans smoking onsceen (Iran)
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