Headlines:
Nice diagram of Shuttle debris-impacts (NyT via lf)
Founder of Grizzly People eaten by grizzlies (AP-ESPN via lf)
Shrinking-US-wilderness map (NyT via pednut) [world] [story]
Baseball-card market exploited (almost) to death (CSM)
PrankWatch: S.Korean punks strip on live teevee (NZ-vvshort) [pic]
Beaches contaminated with undetermined quantities of feces (NatGeo via lf)
Assorted Judy-Miller gossip (HuffPo-Arianna)
Mumbai monsoon far short of record (iGreed-vshort)
Rave for PSP's new web-browser (Beattie)
Diana conspiracy theories to be debunked (OzTel)
Rock'n'roll archeologist tracks down historic guitars (AP-OR)
Illustrated 1pg guide to robotics contests (Forbes via Engadget)
Readable translation of draft Iraq constitution (ModelIraq blog)
Wolfenstein 3D ported to TI calculator (screenshots via Raw)
Slashdot converting to CSS (Taco via ffwd)
100k Africans live polygamously in France (Germany)
Giddy 8bit electronica video by Yacht (Flash via antville)
Readable Irish-IRA history/update (Boston via Obl)
Under-15s' production of "Into the Woods" (SanDiego-no-pix) [Alice]
Backgrounder on PBS's 'Celtic Woman' juggernaut (Boston-KC)
PrankWatch: Witless LaTimes 'Phlange Welder' tradition (OR)
Neocons prep for Cuba-grab (BBC via Sam)
Saturday:
Bookcrossing's members' random acts of book-sharing (UkG)
Bland psychedelic video from West Indian Girl (antville-RealVideo)
Interesting Dorothy Parker profile (UkG)
Raed's brother's 1sthand tale of Iraq incarceration (Secrets blog)
Beaten as a terrorist for surfing Raed's blog at an Internet cafe
US recruiters scour impoverished Pacific islands (NyT via nmazca)
US nukes deepsixed in 1991 may be in Iran (CPunch)
Niger's quela-quela birds devour Nigeria's millet (BBC w/pix)
The Buster (pre-Jimi) Hendrix experience (Seattle-bkrev)
Flash mobs not quite dead? (ioerror w/pic)
PrankWatch: How to hack in-house hotel cable-tv (Wired)
Will 7/7 suspect suffer Gitmo rendition? (Iran)
Krugman on French family values (NyT-CT)
Leap-seconds cause Y2K-style headaches (WSJ-Ptsbg via /.)
Don't mess around with Kia Kenard's computer (WaPo-no-pix)
Weekend poll: Did you like these eight movies? (MrPoll)
Superb video-quality for spacewalk (suits w/tools) (NasaTV)
Short illustrated rave for PSP's Tetris-contender, Lumines (vgTruth)
Disturbing kiddie-porn-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder experiment (8min Flash) [info]
R-rated site, cute PG13-rated kitten-pic (24hrs only)
Flash color-illusions (#3 is new) (eChalk via Plc)
Top-down vs bottom-up semantics (Stefano via Plc)
Careful economic analysis of world inequality-trends (Toronto-bkrev)
Middle-class has shrunk to 7% of total
Loooong articulate defense of jihad and Islamic pride (Prospect-2pg-interview via Obl)
Short sharp Gitmo rant (HuffPo-Majd)
Quiet wildness poem: scraps are few now, I think (VerseDaily)
Zippy's postmodern stargazing (24hrs only)
Pakistan ups pressure on madrassas (Pak w/pic)
Benign bacteria turn deadly when threatened (SciDaily-arcane)
Uzbekistan gives US base eviction notice (WaPo via lf)
Benedict XVI bitch-slaps Israel (UkG via dy)
Friday:
Some observations about phishers/identity-theft (TechWeb-shortish)
Cheap globes repainted with world-stats (Wired-9pg)
Anecdotal study of online-game addiction (1up-4pg via ffwd)
Supernova 'before' star-image discovered (U2day w/pic)
Whimsical playground-violence game (Flash via ffwd)
Details on Russian grenade assassination attempt (Moscow via lf)
Colorful Baltic plankton bloom (tif via Eureka) [info w/jpeg]
Yet another new planetlike object beyond Neptune (NewSci w/animated gif)
No-brainer solution to urinary-catheter infections (Eureka)
Exhaustive musicology of the Beatles (Pollack via CynC)
Consumer credits in the energy bill (WSJ)
MemeWatch: Our new [was 'insect'] overlords (GgW pattern)
Digging up dirt on Judy Miller (HuffPo-Arianna)
Iraq intelligence-failures/rationalizations in historical context (HuffPo-Naftali-longish)
Japan uses online game to explain budget deficit (iCredit-vshort-w/pic via ffwd)
How CAFTA is like Paris Hilton (CD-shortish via Ag)
Thursday:
Subdued claymation Quicktime rap video (Quannum via antville)
Iran's new president openly recruits suicide bombers!? (Memri via Ag)
Deeply studly Lego-hacker (SeriousLego via Bibi)
Rave for free 800Mb interactive-fiction demo, Facade (Gamasutra)
Iraq-reconstruction gigabucks aren't trickling down to locals (HuffPo-LaMagna)
Fun graffiti-font generators w/novel controls (Flash via Ursi)
First female riot police force in China (China-pix)
Vicious anti-Christian poem: lost Egyptian tongues of starlings of Ra (VerseDaily)
Wired hiring a Tufte-alike (infosthetics-job-ad)
Case study of gross Homeland Security mismanagement (WaPo via HuffPo)
The Judy-Miller-did-it solution to Plamegate (HuffPo-Arianna)
Wednesday:
Closeups of unexploded London bombs (ABC-10pg via HuffPo)
Any music seems to make driving worse (MTV via ffwd)
MemeWatch: The Database of Intentions = collective search-history (Battelle-2003)
Shuttle/ISS locations atop GoogleMaps (Mangan-sort-of-pointless via lf)
3Mp Kodak for $92 shipped (Deal-Dell)
Some simple design-tips for Detroit (PhilG-short)
Yellow dots in printouts encode color-laser serial-numbers (PCworld via /.)
Shuttle self-scan reveals serious unexpected flaking (Fla-vshort via NasaW)
Kiss on bellybutton gets dad 6mos jail (AP-SC)
UniverseToday has a really snazzy RSS-feed design (astronomy blog)
Cheap LED flashlights w/free shipping (DealNews-Surplus)
RWWL-readers' philosophies dream small (MrPoll results)
Neon-anomaly in Sun resolved (Harvard-arcane via Eureka)
Fun pix/gossip at Yeeeah (Yeeeah)
Semi-pointless Krassner on Mailer on circumcision (NyP-short)
1Mp digicam w/lcd-preview $18 shipped (Surplus via DealNews)
A dad's perspective on casual-vs-mature game-priorities (eToy-long via Kotaku)
Contrasting Grokster ruling with Smith&Wesson defense (Kos via vulgarB)
Electricity-use breaks records in NE USA (AP-AOL via HuffPo)
512Mb USB Flash drive $29 delivered (newegg via DealNews)
Last chance to cash out of housing bubble (CPunch)
Garry Trudeau on 'Turd Blossom' flap (E&P via Cursor)
Novel honeysuckle maggots from blueberry/snowberry cross-species hybrid (NewSci)
Antineutrino 'tomography' of Earth's core foreseen (NewSci-cool)
Shuttle Atlantis standing by for emergency rescue (PhysOrg-shortish)
Steven Johnson: Football more corrupting than GrandTheftAuto (LaTms via /.)
Eclectic 50-best-ever handheld electronic games (1pg via Gz)
Unthinkable attack on Iran still being thought about (CPunch-Leupp)
Microsoft should make it easier to turn off 'helpfulness' (McGrath-shortish)
Neo-acoustic covers of Aphex Twin (Splendid w/RealAudio via Franklin)
Droll Quicktime perfume-commercial parody (AlanCumming via VH1)
MemeWatch: Hi-tech golf-tech only amplifies duffers' duffing (iGreed w/link)
More on bicycles as London-tube alternative (BBC via lf)
Throwaway speakers $5 shipped (DealNews-Buy)
3Mp Kodak digicam $74 shipped (DealNews-Dell)
256Mb mp3 player w/fm $46 shipped after rebate (DealNews-Amazon)
Lots of goodies (as usual) at Progressive Review (Sam-27Jul)
350 remaining N.Atlantic right whales probably doomed (Cornell via Eureka)
Home air-conditioners not designed for global-warming dewpoints (Cornell via Eureka)
'Suitcase' unfolds into cheap space-telescope (ESA w/pix via Eureka)
Firefox-use in Europe by country (AssembleMe-map)
Use Napster to buy songs heard on XM satellite radio (Reuters-Cnet)
Press corps snickers at W's Mars-promises (NasaW-vshort)
$250 software orchestra-synthesizer (ORA-4pg w/mp3s via Brainlog) [SJoplin eg]
When Google isn't enough, other approaches can do better (SEW)
Refurbished 17" eMac $529 delivered (Apple via DealNews)
Iraq as scorpions-in-a-bottle (synopsis of NYRB piece below) (Billmon via dy)
Tips for non-fiction book (self-)publishing (Godin-short via splinters)
Wireless headphones enable stealth danceparties (NyObs via Morning)
Video clips of John Lennon co-hosting Mike Douglas (WFMU via Morning)
Detectives use Vermeer to hone observation skills (WSJ via Morning)
Measuring physical exercise (eg Tour de France) in watts (Wired via lf)
NasaTV has been showing them checking the Shuttle for dings (NasaTV)
Dan Clowes on "Ice Haven" (UkG-interview)
Tuesday:
3M-3G-3T-3P computer evolution (mega-giga-tera-peta) (ZDnetUk)
War On String May Be Unwinnable, Says Cat General (new Onion)
Also: Bush To London Bombers: 'Bring It On'
Walmart hosts singles night (ABC via lf)
19" LCD for $213 delivered, one day only (DealNews-Dell)
If the Cocteau Twins were a Japanese photographer... (multi via Bibi)
Details on (surprisingly underreported) stagedive fatality (Leeds)
MemeWatch: You can have my [not gun] when you pry it from my cold dead [whatever] (GgW pattern)
200AD marble wallmap of Rome being partially reassembled (BBC w/pix)
Reduced price for new Netflix subscribers (DealNews)
Short subjective history of cellphone design-fads (Beattie)
Useful Patk Cockburn update on life in Baghdad (CPunch-shortish-but-doubled)
'War on terror' recast as 'Struggle against extremism' (NyT-IHT via Ag)
Breakthru on re-targetting immune-response (Eureka-arcane)
Shuttle mission timeline incl spacewalks Sat-Mon-Wed (Nasa) [live video]
I hope lots of indies are honing their editing skills on all this free video...
Especially juicy issue: housing bubble, SocSec, Medicare, China, CAFTA (DeanBaker)
Walmart drops local paper after too-honest report (Fla via Sam)
Stolen license-plates accurately read on-the-fly (Wired-June via A1)
I missed this 1st time round because their headline is perfectly undescriptive.
J-Lo's hits boosted by Sony payola (Fox via Sam)
Monday:
Shuttle countdown to 10:39edt Tuesday (Nasa)
Jihadi's guide to sneaking into Iraq (Speigel via lf)
Don't-miss poverty-conscious Sarah-McLaghlin music video (WorldOnFire-QT via antville)
Fall of Taliban spreads AIDS via cheap-heroin needles (AP-Fla)
Turbulence model suggests approach to calming hurricanes (PhysOrg)
Awesome wav of spooky Saturn sounds (Iowa via Eureka) [info]
Fundamentalists in Israel power-grab (CPunch-Avnery)
Tim Robbins' Iraq DVD $15 at Amazon (Ca-CD w/links, QTs)
Walmart planning lots of new stores in China (Forbes via HuffPo)
Refurbished 27" teevee w/dvd&vcr for $186 shipped (Philips via DealNews)
Neologism: "dusting" = huffing aerosol dust-off (IBS-Fla)
2400yo Thracian treasure-trove unearthed (AP-CTV w/pic)
$200 Sega home planetarium projects 10k stars (i4u-April w/pic)
Motorcycle runs on hydrogen fuelcell (Cnet w/pix)
Bigfoot submits to DNA test (CBC w/pic)
Stage-dive kills 'Bad Beat Revue' singer (BBC-no-pix)
28kyo 8" German dildo (BBC w/pic)
Business-plan sketch for Chinese-made RVs/motorhomes (PhilG-new)
1904 panorama of Baltimore fire (LoC via CynC) [more]
What goes thru their tiny brains, that the page itself has no caption???
Comparison w/mp3s of software synthesizers (O'Reilly via BrainLog)
PrankWatch: 15yo egger fatally shot (Indpls)
Mouse-gangs devour Atlantic-island chicks (UkG-no-pix via cl) [pix]
US military caught recycling Iraq propaganda (CNN w/popup via lf)
Miss a payment, and your car's remotely disabled (Fla via Engadget)
Trigger-happy Americans earn Iraqis' hatred (LaTimes)
Pakistan's split-personality reaching boilingpoint (Asia via Ag)
Egyptian bombers probably Bedouins (Canada-2pg)
New documentary about outsider-artist Henry Darger (UkG)
Queen shifting Windsor Castle to 'green' energy (UPI-PhysOrg-vshort)
Daryl Hannah covering eco-news for Good Morning America (NYmag-vshort)
How cats lost their sweet-tooth (SciDaily)
Sort-of-gross fractal-hand zoom (Flash via Ursi)
NicoleK on loneliness (Fem1st-short)
How to learn from your mistakes (Berkun-long via NextBest)
Elegant anti-iPod graffiti (Flickr via Engadget)
Iraq paper claims Saddam death-sentence assured (China-vshort w/pic)
Shuttle as rattletrap (NyT via NasaW)
Post-Shuttle stopgap proposal (SpaceRef via NasaW)
Global-warming model achieves much better fit (PhysOrg)
How Grover Norquist pushes DC's buttons (NYer-interview)
Bochco's new no-win Iraq-War series (NYer-longish)
Strange false-color hydrogen filaments in Perseus Cluster (AstroPic)
Okay Japanese still-life: Beside the copper bell and hammer... (Poems.com-short)
DVD player $25 shipped after rebate (DealNews-CircuitCity)
Sunday:
Leaky GM creates "virtually impossible" superweed (UkG)
Louis XIV set France on path of estheticism? (CSM-short)
Hard-to-watch music-video of masturbators' faces (QT-no-nudity via antville)
Epson 'rebate' has debit-card attached (Gripe blog)
Compaq desktop $200 shipped after rebates, w/o monitor (DealNews-CompUSA)
Artist starts Chinese farm for tattooed pigs (Reuters-3pg w/popup pic)
Severe typo alert (Pakistan-vshort)
Wild fox polarizes community (CapeCod-longish)
USA's crumbling infrastructure scores a 'D' (IN-shortish)
Crawfish die-off in Poland (Poland-vshort)
Polanski-trial post-mortems (pro-Polanski-2pg) [anti]
Casual-gamer rave for Nintendo, PSP-browser (Beattie blog)
To hear the tsunami-earthquake mp3, you need good subwoofers (same mp3, via /.)
Labor convention in Chicago w/alternatives (Anarchogeek w/links)
Way-cool wiki-editable GoogleMaps (eg: Yellow Springs, Ohio)
Review of Mr-Collateral-Damage developments (Barista w/links)
"1337 h4x0r h4ndb00k" ToC sounds pretty un-1337 (Sams via ffwd)
If you can read this title you don't need this book.
Saturday:
UN's "Road to Peace" boardgame for Afghan tweens (AP-CBC-no-pix)
Toy guns making lots of news (GgN pattern)
Greg Palast explains China's strength as anti-globalist (CD-shortish)
Schoolbus driver gets 5yrs for abetting sex-assault (AP-SC-vshort)
Gothic Japanese dolls (multimulti via Bibi) [more]
Don't-miss survey-results on UK Muslim opinion (UkTel-stats via lf)
Man drowns family for $3000 insurance (India) [convert]
London's Mr Collateral-Damage identified (CBC w/pix) [more]
Instant-classic Unix-wizard's rewrite of the War on Terror (SunRay via TimBray)
How far you have to go to find a snarky HarryPotter putdown (Hindustan Times!)
Raed's brother released in Baghdad (Raed)
Don't-miss European geography test (I got 78%) (Flash via lf) [more]
I got 78% on Asia, too (Flash)
Articulate rant against frivolous coverage of women celebs in prison (HuffPo-Stillman)
If Wm Faulkner were portraying W's White House (Hemispheres) [info]
Wikipedia article on trip-hop (Wikipedia)
Large gallery of interactive Flash bug-demos, mostly (Adrian via !Mark)
Graph of Google's stock-price vs others' (Economist via /.)
Fine hiphop video by Lady Sovereign (Quicktime via ffwd)
Children's heroine 'Heidi' comes full circle (UkTel-no-pix)
DIY 'computer on a stick' for under $25 (Geek-short via Make)
Oops: Executed London suspect was innocent (BBC via lf)
USA maps showing 100-degree temps in July (NyT via HuffPo)
Google's language/translation/localization tools (Google.com)
"Low-tech is the new black" (Engadget-short w/pic, link)
Basic 1pg comparison of Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby (Novell via Plc)
Plain old ORs work better than custom-GgN approach below (GgN pattern) [more] [more]
They've put a pretty small limit on the number of ORs in a row.
Scabrous Elias Canetti kiss-n-tell on Iris Murdoch (UkTimes)
Experimental approach for scanning GgN feed for infrequent patterns (GgN custom)
It makes no sense that GgN sorts each by relevance instead of date.
Pigs eat dogs in Sierra Leone (AFP-PhysOrg-short w/pic)
If Gloria Gaynor was an alien cyclops... (Quicktime via Ursi)
Philip Glass remixed with rappers (free mp3s) (GlassBreaks via lf)
Wicked-Good-Militia founder Carolyn Chute injured in auto accident (AP-ME)
Current draft of my Firefox double bookmarks-toolbar (980*51 gif)
Most are custom substitutions, many just use favicon experiments I had lying around.
Longshot possibility of methane-producing microbes on Titan (NewSci-short)
Arcane analysis of asteroid Eros w/cool pic (Cornell via Spaceref)
Friday:
China's new industrial espionage (BBC via HuffPo)
Civilization IV links religions to technologies (Gamespot-short)
Animal Planet hires a bug-advocate (AP-Fla)
Milwaukee's secret shill-blogger (USA2 w/popup via BlogHerald)
Some ugly opinions of John Roberts' (HuffPo-Pope-short)
Lively weekend for Guardian book review (UkG)
Hot blog (The Raw Feed)
ClicheWatch: The [not artist] formerly known as [not prince] (GgW pattern)
100 oldest (pre-1987) surviving dotcoms (list via Plc)
Nanorobot infiltrates cockroach den (Cnet w/pic)
GoogleMaps adds 'hybrid' mode (mixes satellite w/map) (via GoogleBlog)
More London updates (CBC w/pix)
Cheney's Iran-plan includes 1st-strike nukes? (TPM via RigInt)
Unknown personal background of Matisse (NYRB-loong) [N&S pic] [Cnvrs]
Spielberg, Matisse, ObL, Frank Lloyd Wright, Terri Schiavo (full new NYRB)
UK genes mostly go back to Ice Age hunters (NatGeo via Sam)
Concise perspective on short- vs longterm agri-policies (Alaska via Eureka)
Weekend poll on occult phenomena (MrPoll)
That 'Troubletown' comic that Molly Ivins recommended below (via vulgarB)
Sat-pic of nasty Wisconsin tire fire (PhysOrg-vshort)
200 US schools build links to local farms (AP-CD)
Anti-Chavez propaganda campaign moving from covert to overt budget (IPS-CD)
London bombings update (UkG w/pix via HuffPo)
Sony 4Mp camera $139 shipped (DealNews)
Taliban make common cause wth Iraq insurgents? (A'stan via Ag)
Nice day to visit Ed Cook's blog (Ralph the Sacred River)
ClicheWatch: How headline-writers handled 'Hot Coffee' scandal (neatly executed)
Mildly 2001-ish Saturn's-rings pic (1000^2 jpeg) [info]
Xbox2 update (RegUk)
StarOffice CD $6 delivered (Surplus via DealNews)
200Gb external drive for $100 shipped today only (Staples-DealNews)
Recap of Polanski's pyrrhic libel-victory (UkG via VH1)
Medical-radioisotope patients set off security scanners (PhysOrg-vshort)
Bargain-basement $13M to launch satellite via Russian ICBM (PhysOrg-vshort)
Ten pragmatic strategies for dealing professionally with *ssh*l*s (ArtsyFartsy via Longboard)
Pattern-recognition software supposedly predicts robbery (NY via Raw)
The robbers must have done it several times on the same day of the week?
Short angry rehearsal of CIA extravagance on Italy-job (Tom's-CD)
Some topical clerihews (That'sHow-short)
Fascinating frustrating Java version of handwritten-equation solver (via Gimbo)
This looks like a good Iraqi news-source (via WatchAm)
USA agrees to Sadr-City-policing handover? (via WatchAm)
Longish: Like drizzled lemon drops, like lozenges / Of candied yellow light (Poems.com)
Voyage to Mars would be dominated by recycling human waste (PhysOrg-shortish)
George III's madness exacerbated by arsenic in meds (AFP-PhysOrg)
Accidental NASA poetry: "polygon-cracked plain" (Mars pic)
Stella getting-her-groove-back ends in trainwreck (UkG)
'Beauty&Geek' reality show leaves voicemail solicitation (mp3 via Barefoot)
8Mb abstract Quicktime directly visualizes soundwaves (via $!art) [info]
DVD recommendation: my fave Robert Altman, "McCabe & Mrs Miller" (Amazon)
Thursday:
Ani DiFranco losing a year to tendonitis (Billboard-msn-vshort)
Well-researched short history of soda pop (OhMy via ffwd)
PrankWatch: Hacker unplugs "MAN HESTER I ED" tubes, leaving 4 letters (BBC w/pic)
David Lynch a lifelong transcendental meditator (UkG-short)
5yo girl fatally dragged 40 miles by escaped balloon (UkG-2003-update)
PrankWatch: Artist wastes $20k water as eco-protest (AP-UkG)
ABC star suspiciously wins ABC dance-contest (Radar)
How Webster's sifts neologisms (Ohio-longish)
Beautiful Molly-Ivins reflection on the economy (CD)
Brazilians buy pot and X on Orkut (Reuters-Cnet via SEW)
Purported mp3 of December tsunami-quake (Columbia via Eureka) [wav?]
I can't hear anything.
Pix of Canada-US drug-smuggling tunnel (OR via Barefoot)
Hollywood wants DRM on drives, too (Tom's via PhysOrg)
Google registers solar-system domain-variants (SEW-vshort)
Analysing Hitchens' Iraq-lies (RedSon via Clpngs)
Firefox extension for 2nd bookmarks toolbar (w/32 favicons each, see below) (via TEM)
Together they cover all my regular non-RSS stops w/o needing the bookmarks sidebar
40 AAA batteries for $7 shipped (Buy.com-DealNews)
Nano-chisel's shavings are one-atom-thick (UK-arcane-no-pix via Eureka)
Eclectic list of 50 best kids' films (UkMail)
Nice-ish Bjork interview (UkTel w/pic)
World's water ravaged by race-to-the-bottom (CD)
$200 rc UFO of novel design (Firebox via Gz)
Ireland surrenders autonomy to US demands (Examiner via Clippings)
May Pang pans preview of JohnLennon musical (Fox)
Report on homeschoolers convention (BostonHerald)
Pic of new Iwo-Jima commemorative silver dollar (AP-Seattle)
USA looks for extradition-leverage (Israel excepted) (Reuters-Wired)
Unconvincing Flash movie of gait of hominid Lucy (via NewSci) [info] [vid2]
Autonomous model planes for $10k (Micropilot via That'sHow)
Morocco vs al Jazeera (FriendsOfAJ-short)
Belgium declares Scientology is sect not religion (Iran-vshort)
Very nice rant about erosion of 'justice' (HuffPo-Uygur)
Google searchpatterns that crackers can use (Googledorks via Plc)
Firefox extension allows toolbar-favicons to be customized (lifehacker via Plc) [icons]
I was hoping someone would do this (which keeps happening and happening!)
Porn sites hope Google will implement micropayments (Wired)
Okay backgrounder on Baghdad's cellphone networks (WSJ-longish)
Random ATM fee-discounts implemented as 'slot machine' (BBC via $!art)
Post-mortem on BBC Beethoven downloads (UkG w/stats via HuffPo)
So where are the inevitable Beethoven mashups?
Intriguing Flash point-n-click adventure (Samorost via ffwd)
Wednesday:
Customized teddy bears are children's-privacy trojan-horse (SfGate via Cnet)
The ethics of making Terri Schiavo a surrogate mother (passim via GgW)
UnprankWatch: Serial soda-bottle bomber in Savannah (Georgia-vshort)
Placebo now available in time-release patch (Denver)
The GrandTheftAuto easter-egg scandal (newest first) (Kotaku-blog-archive)
Pollsters find USA wants more investment in securing USA-sites (HuffPo-Pope)
256Mb USB pen drive $15 shipped after rebates (DealNews)
Lo-tech disaster-scenario: hurricane hitting NYC? (new NyPress-longish)
Innocuous Blur music-video (Coffee and TV) (slow QT via antville)
RFID tag on newborn alerts hospital of parental babynap (InfoWk via Engadget)
Shadow of Charon transits Chile (Eureka-arcane w/QT)
Eminent-domain decision already being abused, appealed (WND via Sam)
Catapult-the-propaganda ringtone (and other W-isms) (WFMU-multiformat)
'Elephant graveyard' for seals discovered (NZ via lf)
PrankWatch: Teens prolong holiday via ferry bombthreat (Nantucket)
Broadband pricewars kicking in (Cnet)
Daryl Hannah forsakes Hollywood for activism (AHN-short via VH1)
Amazon toy sale $5.29 (12pg via DealNews)
Odd claim that 'al Qaeda' means 'the database' (recent UkG via lf) [2002]
Low-cost wireless powered by bicycle (InfoWorld w/pic via Engadget)
Morning-after pill causing fatal infections (SfGate via Morning)
Best of the photobloggers (BBC-12pg-gallery)
Iraq Body Count data: key points (BBC-tables)
Al Pacino dating Rose McGowan (Fem1st-friv)
Jesus poll results: perfect 60, deluded/insane/evil 42 (full MrPoll results)
PrankWatch: 19yo owes $2700 for supergluing 166 locks (Fla)
Short French trailer for Polanski's "Oliver Twist" (Quicktime via AIC)
Invention of quipus rolled back 4500 years? (Reuters-Oz)
London's mayor calls a spade a spade (Iran) [BBC]
Tomato tart wins Alabama's first 'state dish' title (AL w/recipe)
PrankWatch: Manchester woman streaks against terror (UK w/pic, popup)
Goofy Flash text-to-music experiment (Sweden via Ursi)
That 'forget' is from KB's Cloudbusting.
Frozen water pool in Martian crater (AstroPic)
If Google Moon isn't a joke, why doesn't it look more like the Moon?
(I guess they just kludged the projection at the poles.)
Longish investigation of GoogleNews policies (Gelf via TimYang)
SecondLife virtual-world griefer-club history (2ndLife-short w/links)
Lucid worldmap of abortion restrictiveness (crlp via Galbraith)
Discount grocers force policy changes for grocery chains (WSJ)
Tuesday:
FDA approves 'brain pacemaker' without good evidence (PC-CD-short)
Others' personal cellphone records, just $110 (WaPo-Mnpls-short via Raw)
W's new SCOTUS nominee (profile via lf) [Wkpd] [law]
Lurid history of Mr Li'l Kim, gangster (AP-NY-short)
Picasso original sells for $40k... at Costco website (WSJ) [$130k]
Employment, AIDS/cancer drugs, oil, Medicaid, Africa, healthcare, trade gap, CAFTA (DeanBaker)
Bush Awaits Orders From Rove On Handling Of Rove Scandal (new Onion)
Pirated treeware Harry Potter $6 in India (BBC)
Neologism: "wartuning" = wifi eavesdropping on iTunes archives (pBugs via Alice)
Awesome pic of Saturn w/rings-shadows (1000*900 jpeg) [info]
Globe Theatre reconstructs Elizabethan pronunciation (BBC w/RealAudio)
Brainstorming on long-tail movie-theaters (M2M-longish)
PrankWatch: Cellphone lands 21yo w/18months for bomb threat (Houston-vshort)
Bobby-Fischer chess-variant dispenses w/opening book (Wired-Poulsen) [more]
Don't-miss gallery of robot camel-jockey pix (Cnet-4pg)
Virtual businesses attract real criminal hackers (2ndLife)
Weirdly compelling Coldplay/baudot colorcode generator (wysz via VH1) [info]
1970s-era Russian surface-images of Venus (1pg via CynC)
Over-the-top rave for iPodding (UkMirror via lf)
Saddam's 1st trial targets safe-for-USA sub-issue (CPunch-vshort)
Unemployment-measures ignore economic dropouts (NyT-IHT-Krugman)
Photoshop-ify a photo/jpeg into a vector-drawing (1pg via WhatDoIKnow)
Enceladus pix baffle space-boffins (NewSci-no-pix) [pix]
Writing down your passwords better than alternatives? (RegUk-short)
Refurbished Sony camcorders, $150 today only (Woot via DealNews)
Locusts, drought bring Niger famine (BBC-short via Ag)
Promising proposal for leveraging semantic-AI with Wikipedia (Wikimania2005) [more]
Long analysis of Iran's role in Iraq's future (new NYRB)
NicoleK gossip (Scientology, Cruise, dating) (Fem1st-short)
Students build semi-autonomous blimp (JHU w/pix via Eureka)
Amateurs convert Beethoven obscurities to free MIDIs (Cnet w/links)
Why Islam hates 'democracy'? (Kuwait-WatchAm-short)
Grown-up beanbag-style action-figures (UK via SmallValues)
Yahoo still making deals w/Hollywood devils (WSJ-dullish)
Another nice Flash mini-golf game (MiniPutt3 via Ursi)
Mouse-over the little green M's for melodic fun (Flash via Ursi)
Do known traffic-cams distract drivers? (RegUk-short)
Third world buying lots more cheap PCs (RegUk-vshort)
PVC 'harmonica'-holder for no-hands watching Sony-handheld porn (flickr via Make)
Ebonics attempts a comeback (CA via lf)
Six(?) hi-tech Disneyland-style fake fireflies for $60 (via lf)
Neologism: sociogenomics = genetic experiments w/primitive social animals (NyT-good via HuffPo)
June report by UK terror-experts blamed Iraq but missed plotters (NyT via HuffPo)
UN peacekeepers unprepared for AIDS risks (BBC-short via HuffPo)
Interesting post-mortem on Tempel-1/DeepImpact (NewSci-no-pix)
Monday:
Why Rove will never go (HuffPo-Moore)
Gorgeously-written ballet review (NYer-Acocella)
Anomalous dust-disk lasts 25My w/o forming planets (SpaceRef)
FBI illegally used OnStar to eavesdrop on Hummer chat (Vegas via Obl)
Cool-looking compressed-air hybrid car (AirCar via Sam)
Midwifery unit delivers waterbabies in birthing pool (UK w/pic)
54 suicides in 3months linked to Japanese websites (CSM)
Wikipedia article for Russian girl-band 't.A.T.u.' (Wikipedia)
Cheapest GPS unit that Froogle can find is $70 (Froogle)
Quirky edge-on pic of Saturn's rings (1000*500 jpeg) [info]
London bombers had more explosives ready? (UkMail)
Mother suspected of injecting 2yo with feces (DE-long w/pic via we)
Comparative pix of the nanny Jude Law seduced, and the fiancee he lost (VH1)
Excellent rant on the London-Iraq connection (CPunch-shortish)
Feature-comparison for blogging software apps (OJR-table via Zawodny)
Banality-of-genocide quotes from Rwanda (DailyBrowse-bkrev-short)
New poll: What do you think of Jesus? (MrPoll)
24 out of 146 RWWL readers have seen UFOs (MrPoll results)
Firefox users have to re-update (I expected this even quicker) (Cnet)
Wolves, bears, etc rebound in east Europe (Oz via Barista)
512Mb mp3-player w/fm for $50 at Walmart (DealNews)
Lurid update on Iraq reality/confessions tv-show (NyT-IHT)
Automakers use driving-sims to test designs (NyT-IHT)
DVD player $25 shipped (newegg via Froogle)
The biker Sandra Bullock just married (MonsterGarage)
UK finally makes magic mushrooms illegal (BBC via InfoJunk)
Jesus with gun (pic via InfoJunk)
Pic of suspected Russian grenade W-assassination failure (Pravda w/pic)
London peace-groups protest BBC's Iraq-whitewashing (Iran)
Wikipedia quickly absorbs new Harry Potter (Signpost)
Wikipedians vote not to delete 'folksonomy' or g*y n*gg*rs (Signpost)
PrankWatch: Parade-crasher handcuffed for "Impeach Bush" sign (SyracuseNY-CD)
Long investigative piece on medical-helicopter crashes (USA2 w/popup)
Loooooong NyT-Magazine article on Lakoff and framing (NyTmag-GgG)
China investing in sustainable-growth architecture (Mtrpls-interview via Plc)
iTunes music videos to be priced at $1.99 (Engadget)
More on the robot racecar, w/pix (Cnet w/6pg gallery)
Gossipy Kurt-Andersen on Aspen pundit-orgy (incl WJC update) (NYmag-2pg)
"Noah Feldman seemed more like a character on The West Wing than a real person"
Mel Gibson leads Jewish rapper '50 Shekel' to Jesus (NYmag-vshort)
Synopses of first five Harry Potters (BetterHomesGardens) [multipage]
Neologism-to-me: "jam skating" = 4-wheel, non-inline rollerskates (Fla-Detroit)
Promising new design for wind generators (UkG w/pic)
NYC's fancy-chocolate boom (Newsday)
Neologism-to-me: pet-hoarding (eg 100s of cats) (WaPo-longish)
Relaxed Roger Ebert interview (Chgo-longish)
Mr Jennifer Tilly barely beats poker robot (LaTms)
Long lucid Seymour Hersh on US manipulation of Iraq's election (new NYer) [summary]
Angelina's orphanette's grandmother's a phony (Fem1st)
Sunday:
Unclear if Raed's brother was jailed for his blog (Raed)
GoogleMaps pins down the (unexpected) root of all evil (GgM pattern)
Satellite navigation system offers John-Cleese voice (Autoblog via ffwd)
How pharmcos choose drug-names (SDBJ)
Grownups' $7-12 action figures incl Beethoven, Poe (Froogle via Blogcritics)
Guantanamo prisoners wrote poetry to stay sane (SfGate)
Chain-reaction triple-suicide (Wales)
Girl gangs wilding men in Vancouver (Canada-no-pix)
The French love to blog (HuffPo-Arianna w/links)
1700 in UK strip for Spencer Tunick (BBC w/PG-rated RealVideo)
His photos don't impress me but the participants all love it.
Ebook torrents already for new Harry Potter (TorrentSpy pattern)
PrankWatch: Drunken boys steal plane for joyride (AP-CT)
Toshiba laptop for $550 after rebates (DealNews)
Gaza withdrawal may be clearing field for ethnic cleansing (CPunch-short)
Don't-miss interactive Flash dreamworld (flyguy via iMomus)
Outsourcing problems addressed by 'inshoring' (IDD via iGreed)
512Mb RAM for $17 after rebates (DealNews)
New poll: Do you believe in UFOs? (MrPoll)
Awesome Flash map-index to world-newspaper frontpage-images (Newseum via many)
Use Photoshop brush to spoof realistic beard (4pg via Plc)
2.8GHz HP desktop w/15" lcd only $199 after rebates??? (DealNews)
I can't find it by following those links
Bjork at 40 (Scotsman w/pic)
PrankWatch: Father blames 2yo for $245k eBay bid (Philly)
Agencies held responsible for models' anorexia? (Taipei)
This url is their special 'Wikipedia mode' with autogenerated hotlinks.
Nigerian church plans Christian disneyland in Texas (GgN-Dallas-2step w/pix)
Unconvincing but cool animation of three-sun sunset (small-QT via lf) [story]
How long before fetal IQs can be genetically boosted? (HHMI via SciDaily)
Imagine accelerated schools for a generation of genius-babies
Rave review of 1st porn disk for Sony handheld (R-rated via Waxy)
Adjusted for inflation, 'American Graffiti' beats 'LoTR'... (table via lf)
...until you subtract adjusted production costs (resorted table)
A look at a modern NY nunnery (NY)
Update on Bengladesh's arsenic-poisoned wells (NyT-Seattle)
15yo Michelle Wie a threat to women's golf? (GgN-NyT-2step)
NY clam-bed restoration efforts unsuccessful (Newsday-great-title)
Intro to socially-responsible investing (Mnpls-short)
Pakistan as ObL's boot camp (UkTel)
PrankWatch: Bollywood outdoing West at staging publicity stunts (India)
Movie theaters' attempts to lure back customers (Boston)
New highlevel Downing Street leaker (UkG via HuffPo)
Followup on USA possibly abetting London bombers (HuffPo-Pilecki w/links)
1969 bootlegs of Dylan w/Johnny Cash (mp3s via dbb)
Saturday:
Dylan finally did 45mins, but they never managed a closeup (Amazon)
Beautiful finale duet w/Norah on 'I Shall Be Released'
This may become my fave way to browse GoogleNews raw feed (GgN pattern)
I can skip the thousand me-too dupes and focus on one-offs.
Surveillance pic of London bombers (BBC) [story]
Toronto subway/cellphone hide-n-seek (culturehole via /.)
Reconstructed 5000yo boots win raves (UkTel)
Streaming Dylan reminder (Amazon homepage)
Norah's 'Come Away with Me' had nothing on the studio version.
Woman drowns in cherries (MI)
New closeup of Saturn's moon Enceladus (1000^2 jpeg)
Herbal remedies opened strong but faded (MrPoll results)
PrankWatch: Pic of 11yo water-balloon felonette (BBC)
"I'm Not In Love" (10cc) trivia (BBC w/RealAudio)
Pacific die-offs blamed on over-warm plankton (KnightRidder-NRDC via Sam)
Iran claims al Qaeda targets Iran, too (Iran)
Firefox extension opens dragged links in new tab (down=bkgd, up=fore) (via root.cellar)
Diverse archetypal small sculptures by Bella Feldman (multipage via Ursi)
How to choose cookware (techy) (CookingForEngineers)
Biography of sexploitation director Russ Meyer (UkG-bkrev)
Slightly mysterious message in metal-detectored medieval ring (UK-no-pic)
PrankWatch: Teens caught phone-threatening Bollywood actress (Mumbai w/pic)
Scientology invaded Clearwater FL in 1975 (KnightRidder-KY)
PrankWatch: Hacker codes joke into electronic traffic-sign (SLC w/pic)
Synopsis-with-spoilers of new Harry Potter (GgN-Dallas-2step)
Pseudo-'free trade' tilted towards the rich (IHT)
A technoskeptic's plea to unplug (BBC via WholeLotta)
Yahoo hires experts to run health-blogs (BlogHerald)
Africa's problem is its dictators (NyT-IHT)
Taliban assassinating USA's Afghan allies (Reuters-Wired)
'Audit insurance' as leverage in accounting scandals (NyT-IHT)
Cute Darth-Vader photo (jeansnow via ffwd)
Savvy scifi-parody of virtual-world cybersex (Mythical via ffwd)
Arcane new Edward-Tufte theory of info-dilution (page-images w/thread)
Friday:
Angelina's orphanette's grandma's guilttrip (Fem1st)
How to make your own ringtone (fun4 via lf)
'Taliban' rapper fired as baggage screener (Reuters)
T-ball coach pays player to attack disabled boy (AP-CNN via lf)
Pic of Egyptian-chemist bomb suspect (UkG)
iMomus gossips about Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed (15Jul blog)
Warren Ellis giggles at comic-convention/'nerd prom' (1pg gallery)
Why in the world doesn't Flickr allow 1pg gallery links?
Feynman and von Neumann on postage stamps (USPS-May)
PrankWatch: 12yo killed in traffic after bottlerocket prank (WA)
Indian billionaire's hi-tech road to riches (India)
PrankWatch: Jailtime for 18yo flagburner (AP-UkG)
PrankWatch: Water-balloons lead to 11yo girl jailed for felony (AP-CA-no-pix)
Skinny-dipping Rainbows attempt emergency rescue (AP-Nola)
Synthetic sharkskin could keep barnacles off hulls (PhysOrg-vshort)
Iraq's blood black-market (ElecIraq via Sam)
First new (inconclusive) Kennewick-Man results (Seattle via Wired)
$20 urinal soccer game (Gizmodo w/pic)
Krugman on Rove's new world order (NyT-IHT)
Fans donate GI Joe diorama to Pentagon (PentaGram)
Clever Flash sliding logic-puzzle (BoxUp via GoodExp)
eBay-filter shows under-$1 one-hour-left auctions (LastMinute-sloow via Gz)
Fallujah insurgency rebounds (NyT-CD-long)
Shuttle reschedule slips further (Orlando via NasaW)
One-page comparison of Atom and RSS2 (TimBray)
New details on hunt for ObL (Jstn via Ag)
Live streaming Dylan (and Norah Jones) Saturday night (Az via HuffPo)
Refurbished Palm PDA w/kb, $45 shipped (Surplus via DealNews)
Europe's asymmetrical response to London attack (AP-TKB via Ag)
Unfilmed sequels to 'Dances with Wolves' (McSweeney's-list)
Tourist telescope shows antique cityviews (Germany via $!art)
Theory: The Grand Metasynthesis (comp.ai 2004)
Berkeley company makes European-style chocolate (CA)
Raed's brother abducted (Riverbend)
Heh (flickr)
London explosives based on acetone peroxide (CBC)
PrankWatch: 14yo's tossed sparklers do $60k damage (AP-MN)
10yo Pakistani girl angles for MS-job (Seattle w/pic via /.)
Lancet study shows no health-effect from prayer (AFP-PhysOrg-short)
Genuine free-credit-reports site lost among scams (Cnet)
Tree-devastating beetles threaten West Coast (UPI-PhysOrg-vshort)
Currency-conversion syntax using GoogleWeb (GgHelp via Unofficial)
Terror sims reveal US unpreparedness (WSJ)
NIH was rotten with pharmco graft (NyT-short via HuffPo)
Patk Cockburn on inflated claims of Iraqization success (UkInd-2col via Ag)
China would use nukes against USA to defend Taiwan (Reuters-Alert via Ag)
Thursday:
Football Hooligans United Against Islam (UkG)
Mohawk woman scalps mohawk teen (USA2 w/pic, popup)
Longhorn DRM will even be in your monitor (Engadget)
Fun free point-and-click multiplayer zombie adventure (UrbanDead via Negatendo)
Hint: just explore and collect items with 1st 50 actions.
Real-estate bubble driven by foreign buyers (CSM-stats)
Clinton's press secretary makes excuses for his counterpart (HuffPo)
Hauntingly sophisticated 2pg G8 comic (page1) (page2)
Java portability fails on mobile devices (Cnet)
Neologism-to-me: 'smallwares' = small kitchenwares (Cincinnati)
GoogleNews adds Common Dreams (lefty aggregator) (GgN pattern)
Headset (eg for Skype) $13 shipped (DealNews-Buy.com)
8yo drives truck to fetch help for pinned father (CBC-no-pix)
Forgotten history of political protest in US sports (CD-Zirin)
Provocative claim liberalism needs to be reframed as spiritual (Baltimore-CD)
New investigative history of Halliburton (CPunch-loong)
New poll: Do you believe in herbal remedies? (MrPoll)
RWWL readers immune to reality-teevee hype (MrPoll results)
Don't-miss virtual-world experiment hosts only 1000 autonomous characters (NewSci w/popup)
287 industrial chemicals found in newborn babies' blood (EWG via Ag)
SemanticWeb search engine aggregates 160k concepts (Swoogle via Wilbur)
USA's free-trade hypocrisy re China-Unocal (HK via WatchAm)
Iran accuses USA of promoting drugs to oppress poor (Tehran-WatchAm)
Londoners choose bicycles to avoid bombthreat (Reuters-Alternet via InfoJunk)
UK annual drug-deaths, by drug (Sam-vshort)
Free Frontline documentaries in RealVid-et-al (PBS via McSweeney's)
The audio alone would provide 95% of the content.
Dell 2.4GHz w/15" lcd $299 shipped, after rebate (DealNews)
Concise London-bombings FAQ (BBC)
Roger Waters finishes opera on French Revolution (BBC)
Gossip about new Gervais-Merchant sitcom (BBC)
More London-bombing detectivework (Scotsman)
Airlines still haven't fixed TWA800 tank-problem (Reuters)
Pope said Harry Potter threatens "subtle seductions" (Reuters)
Bomb-blast projections atop GoogleMaps (HYDESim via Plc)
Short comparative critique of 'link aggregators' (bubblegen)
PrankWatch: 53yo cop dies chasing bolt-cutter prankster (Illinois)
Patent-reform proposals include Net-based peer-review (Wired)
Top ten ageless movie stars (Fem1st-list)
PrankWatch: Blatant impostor interviewed on Mississippi teevee (Chortle via lf)
Fave-philosopher poll-results (Marx wins) (BBC)
Low entry-costs lead to digital-filmmaker glut (Wired)
Technorati blog-stats update (Sifry-short)
Semi-arcane virtual-world comic strip (multi via NewWorld)
Beautiful unexpected Toronto cityscape (dailydose via kasei)
Albert Brooks explores Muslim sense of humor? (AIC-no-spoilers)
What-if scenarios for 9-11 casualty counts (WSJ)
How to recycle your cellphone (NyT-short via Make)
Broadband price-wars (AP-Seattle via HuffPo)
Page-images of sample RNC talking points on Rove (Raw-1pg via HuffPo) [sample replies]
Wednesday:
Pacific coast seabird die-off (AP-Fla)
Free download of 9-11 prequel "Power of Nightmares" (archive.org via Plc)
'Hello World' programs in 196 computer languages (phat page via Plc)
Mysterious die-off of pelican chicks (UPI-SciDaily-short)
Legalizing opium in Afghanistan might solve problems (NyT-IHT)
PrankWatch: 15 GoogleVideos of pranks (GgV pattern)
GoogleVideo adds 'playable-only' flag (GgV pattern)
Refurbished Kodak 3Mp cam for $70+ (Geeks via DealNews)
Deceptive product placement during Allstar game (RegUk)
Even MS Word 'doc' files can spread malware (TechWeb)
Long witty Jon-Stewart on Rove, in two vid-formats (Crooks via rootcellar)
Domestic details of London bombers (BBC via lf)
India's leading portal, Rediff (Cnet-interview)
HalfLife engine used to animate movie courtroom scene (40Mb QT via Waxy)
PrankWatch: Croatian bear impersonates candygram deliveryman (UK via Sam)
"Fatal Attraction" re-staged as Greek tragicomedy (VVoice-short w/popup)
Supercomputer hardwired for gravitational cosmology (Universe2day)
Shuttle launch scrubbed (RedNova-vshort)
Fascinating result: noses prefer distant, eyes near relatives (NewSci w/popup)
Using Wikipedia for PR is semi-legitimate (ZDnet via TimYang)
China's energy policy driven by loss of Iraq-sources (WaPo via Ag)
Iceland takes its elves seriously (NyT-GgN via Ag)
Scotland acquires Picasso etching (CBC w/pix)
Bleak details on Israel's apartheid-wall (CPunch-loong)
Environmental Protection Agency sleeping on the job (LaTimes-CD)
Xbox2 will flop in Japan (survey) (GamesIndustry via /.)
Acer laptop $450 after rebate (DealNews)
Loong disturbing overview/update on GI-recruitment (Tom-Asia via Ag)
New poll: How much reality-tv have you watched since 2000? (1hr/wk is 250) (MrPoll)
Nice equation of religious vs economic fundamentalists (ProRev-longish)
Unfortunate pic of 80yo wheelchair-bound Robert Altman with 19yo Lindsay Lohan (jpeg)
Upbeat update on new-style cold fusion (Purdue via Eureka)
Hedge funds showing diminishing returns (NyT-IHT-shortish)
Dismal summation of US jobs-situation (CPunch-shortish)
Problematic reconstruction of Aramaic 'original' of New Testament (Ralph-arcane)
Ebert wonders at Chinese cultural-relativity/creepiness (HappyTimes-2002)
MemeWatch-origins: Elvis has left the building (Wikipedia) [GgW] [GgN-oldest]
J.Depp convinces Keith Richards to co-star in 'Pirates' sequel (Fem1st)
Dept. of Homeland Sec. surveillance truck (1pg-gallery via Clpngs)
Oz tourboat abandons family overnight in crocodile park (Ireland)
Asphyxiation game claims two pre-teens in Idaho (AP-Wired)
Animated instrumental-music video by Joy Comes in the Morning (QT-longish via Antville)
Profile/update on Mr Milla Jovovich, Luc Besson (UkG)
Ten directors name their ten fave films (UkInd-lists via lf)
Incompatible proposals for UN Security Council reform (Expatica via Ag)
Tuesday:
Stats on spam-suckerability (TechWeb via Zawodny)
World Series of Poker Robots (InfoWk)
Beautifully done museum of ancient inventions (Smith via ritilan)
97% of DVR-users skip commercials (Reuters-RedNova via lf)
Gearing up US schools to teach Chinese (Reuters)
Nationwide plague of tent caterpillars (GgN pattern)
Giant panda dies at 36 (108 in panda-yrs) (China w/pix)
Coke sues artist for water-protest billboard (India w/pic via lf)
Life imitates escaped-maniac-terrorizing-schoolgirls cliche (BBC)
Succinct analysis of Rove quandaries (HuffPo-Arianna)
Ill-omened start to Shuttle mission (pieces falling off) (AP-Yahoo via HuffPo)
NasaTV arranges 24/7 hi-bandwidth coverage of Shuttle mission (NASA)
$50 bounty on strays leads to dognapping (CBC)
PrankWatch: 4yo hides in family garbage, nearly compacted (AP-Wired)
Stats on engineering training/jobs/teaching in India (CSM)
Peru promotes home-ownership via US remittance-workers (CSM)
Robot car drives 131 laps at 28mph (Eureka-short)
World's largest mobile phone companies (lists) (Wikipedia via Beattie)
Poignant Israel-wall art-graffiti (AP-Wooster via Eyebeam)
The Band gets a boxed set (Billboard-Reuters)
Ethical challenge of monkeys with human brain-tissue (Oz-short via lf)
Review/update of MS spyware-reclassification scandal (eWeek via Wired)
Lively account of G8 protests (CPunch-longish)
Shuttle mission includes three challenging spacewalks (NewSci-short)
'Free Coke' bottlecaps near impossible to redeem (greg.org)
London bombers already traced? (AP-UkG)
What ObL and aQ really want (ElecIraq via Sam)
ClicheWatch: [X] fiddles while [Y] burns (GgW pattern)
The Enron of cheese (AP-Ohio)
PrankWatch: Two teens die in separate car-surfing stunts (AP-UkG-no-pix)
Billion-dollar US weather-disasters since 1980 (w/PDF map) (NOAA via InfoJunk)
Gorillas catch fatal flu from eco-tourists (NewSci-short w/popup)
Mounting evidence Europeans beat Asians to N.America (CSFA-shortish via lf)
BitTorrent sites block GrandTheftAuto search (TorrentSpy via Nik)
MemeWatch: "thought it was a prank" (GgW pattern)
Hollywood trend remaking Japanese horror (NyNews-Kansas)
Iraq casualties atop USA GoogleMap (belated discovery)
Amateur pas-de-deux with backhoe (Quicktime via VH1)
Lego turing-machine (500*1000 jpeg) [info]
Weirdly compelling movie-frame mosaic-abstracts (Salavon via CynC)
Buffett resists optimism about stronger dollar (WSJ-long)
London explosives were military-grade? (UkTimes via HuffPo)
NBC's "West Wing" awakens teen's political interest (HuffPo-Arianna)
Judge okays GPS-bugging by cops, w/o warrant (Cnet via Eyebeam)
Monday:
Set of six fabulously beautiful Java applets (Grappa via FutureFeeder)
Saturn's spongey moon, Hyperion (animated gif or QT)
Jared Diamond on PBS tonight (Monday) (reminder)
Press secretary Scott McClellan squirms about Rove (E&P-long via HuffPo)
Kyoto, deficit, Africa, China, Germany, pharmcos, tax revenues (DeanBaker)
Sperm-free sex fools hens into fidelity (NewSci w/popup)
Inkjet pix may fade despite promises (PCworld via Engadget)
$45 digital cameras (
Pure oxygen for patients is harmful w/o added CO2 (Eureka)
Wholly undistinguished music video by Mr Kate Moss (Antville-multiformat)
More-detailed critique of Fuji romance 'hoax' (purported below) (iMomus)
128Mb FM/mp3 player $37 shipped after rebates (DealNews)
Intel-Mac switch attributed to Intel-video-iPod plans (ArsTechnica-1pg via Plc)
French promote Patti Smith to 'Commander' (BBC w/pic)
NicoleK gets $435k for 25min address to CEOs (Fem1st)
Kabbalah center accused of ghostwriting Madonna's kidsbooks (Fem1st)
Volcano-looking Kilimanjaro-cloudtops pic (AstroPic)
Tempel-1 like a big ball of talcum powder (PhysOrg)
Creepy Flash 3D animated faces (Arse via A1)
Sunday:
Fine fevered Sylvia-Plath tribute: molten gold streams / of leaves (Poems.com)
Would Sandra Day O'Connor un-retire if offered Chief Justice? (NyT-HuffPo)
News stories from all over with phrase "worst drought" (GgN pattern)
Celebrity hand-decorated Hello-Kitty dogbowls (eBay-multipage)
Fatal midair biplane crash at Canada airshow (CTV w/pix)
Copper-thieves get $1.60/lb (Dallas-GgN-2step)
Lurid 1936 murderess became Japanese icon (Japan-bkrev-longish)
Terrorism as nuisance (HuffPo-Shearer)
Short smart Stephen Sondheim interview (Time)
Buy an original Frank Lloyd Wright house for $375k-$3M (multipage via lf)
MemeWatch: You got your [X] in my [Y] (GgW pattern)
Secessionist rumblings in Philippine provinces (AFP via Ag)
UK ISPs freeze accounts for terror search (RegUk-short)
Virtual $3k buys sexy-lady 'skin' (2ndLife w/PG13-pix)
Free service for handhelds boils any page down to minimum (IYHY via lf)
Morbid shortlist of worldwide space-program fatalities (Reuters-short)
Dizzying Rove-foresaw-it-all scenario (re Plame) (HuffPo-Crawford-vshort)
Samsung laser printer $40 after rebates (DealNews)
$80 Japanese violin-trainer (Hawanja via ffwd)
Are games less fun if there's nothing keeping score? (Qto3-thread via ffwd)
Fuji perpetrates net-romance hoax in Japan? (neomarx via ffwd)
Economics of telenovelas (IHT-longish)
Origins of female desire (excerpt and interview) (SusieBright-shortish)
Dream-supergroup poll re-constitutes Led Zep (IrishExaminer w/lists)
What artists are similar to [Kate Bush] (Audioscrobbler)
I wonder why Tori Amos didn't make the cut?
Useful one-page Unix tipsheet (USF-2003 via Plc)
160Gb for $40 after rebates (BestBuy) (DealNews)
Call-centers outsourced to Jerusalem (Israel)
A bunch of sophisticated Flash-programming demos (PekkaSandborg via /.)
PrankWatch: Fake ad offers free monkeys, targets real phone (MiddletownNY)
$100 bribe fixes urine tests (NyNews)
Still no leads in May bombing of NYC UK-consulate (AP-Wired-short)
Shuttle safety-issues, both addressed and punted (UkTel-2pg via NasaW)
Al Qaeda successfully recruiting at UK universities? (UkTimes via HuffPo)
Saturday:
Most respect-winning Roger-Ebert review I've read (High Art)
Rave for horror-flick, "The Descent" (UkG)
Firesign Theatre quicktimes (laugh.com via lf)
Unflattering Madonna-the-singer painting auctioned (Scotland-no-pic) [pic]
Italy sweeps up 142 on threat of terror (BBC via Ag)
Someone is killing the drunken holy men (?) of Lahore (Pakistan) [malangs]
PrankWatch: UCLA art grad fakes gunshot suicide (AP-Ca-no-pix)
Progressive politics plus alcohol (DrinkingLiberally via lf)
More tidbits on Spielberg's Munich-Mossad flick (UkTimes)
PrankWatch: Rochester teens peed in holy water (AP-Ptsbrg via lf)
Teacher-student lesbian French kiss ruled felonious (AP-Kansas-no-pic)
Pilecki update on global-warming hypocrisies (HuffPo w/links)
A half-dozen Hollywood-egomania anecdotes (UkTimes via lf)
Blair placed London on the front line (UkG-CD)
Canadian aboriginal leader fined for neo-nazi speech (CBC w/pic)
X-rated easter-eggs in GrandTheftAuto likely publicity stunt (Costik-shortish)
PrankWatch: Followup w/pic on bottlerocket in tanker-cab (Atlanta via lf)
Concise London-bombing update (bus was suicide bomber) (UkTimes via HuffPo)
Short Tempel-1 science update (Mnpls-AP)
Willie Nelson founds biodiesel company (ENS-CD-short) [more]
Tom Cruise's antics drive mega-traffic to www.scientology.org (Alexa-graph via lf)
Making light of 7-7-5 mournography (we-profanity)
Elegant Flash game based on graph theory (Planarity via lf)
Suspected mastermind of Madrid and London bombings (Nik-Oz w/pic)
UnprankWatch: Man gets 6months for $120k bomb threat (BBC-no-pix)
Four cellphones that play mp3s (Cnet-4pg)
DNA identifies 1977 Argentinian activist-desaparecidos (AP-USA2 w/popup)
Dershowitz vs Norman Finkelstein ("Misuse of Anti-Semitism") (Boston-shortish)
Friday:
Virtual IPO for virtual real-estate company (2ndLife)
Quietly professional poem: Was it those unexpected / words of thanks (Poems.com)
Virtual cross-burner gets 13-day ban (2ndLife-no-pix)
Michelle Pilecki is HuffPo's greatest discovery (HuffPo-NellieB)
EthanZ's subdued response to G8/Africa hoohah (AccraBlog w/links)
GetYourWarOn gets serious (mnftiu-no-links?!?)
Junk DNA promotes empathy?!?! (Cnet-short)
(Or does it just promote intelligence?)
Reflective Robert Fisk on London attacks (Seattle-CD)
Pakistan's Net-connection laid low by fishingboat anchor (Iran)
New trojan-spam disguised as bombing-video (RegUk)
Poisoned-chocolate extortion forces burial of 3M candybars (Oz)
Pakistan's power to protect ObL (HuffPo-Scher)
Apple-refurbished iPods from $79 (DealNews)
MS rewards Sasser-virus snitches w/$250k (RegUk)
Dna-swapping 'vines' on tree of life (Loom-shortish) [1100*900 jpeg]
Bombing rumors debunked (cellphones, uxb's) (AP-UkG)
Fun photorealistic Japanese fashion-paperdoll (Flash via JWalk)
Best price on new Harry Potter? (DealNews)
Companies will modify cellphones to allow remote eavesdropping (RawFeed-vshort)
Doesn't the battery drain conspicuously quickly?
Cruise's on-set Scientologizing may bring lawsuits (Radar via Yeeeah)
Ridiculously tiny, icon-sized Pong game (Flash via A1)
Welsh corn-maze in shape of Tom Jones (BBC w/pic)
An Iranian cleric's views on al Qaeda (Iran-shortish)
Robot playground-monitor needs rfid-tags on the kids (Cnet)
Scary graph of sea-level rise (PhysOrg-short)
11yo girl dies huffing deodorant (BBC w/pic)
ClicheWatch: Headline-writers mostly resist Dennis/menace cheapshot (GgN pattern)
US national sport voted off Olympics lineup (UkG-short)
Aspergers teen detained 5days for rapist joke (AP-Seattle) [pic]
Tim Burton on Willie Wonka (ComingSoon-interview)
Jared Diamond on PBS next three Mondays (PBS via Wired)
Mariah Carey's sister an active, HIV-positive prostitute (Fem1st-no-pic)
Shuttle launch menaced by Hurricane Dennis (NasaW w/map&links)
MemeWatch: [weirdly/strangely/oddly] compelling (GgW pattern) [rest]
Weirdly compelling screencaps of crates/barrels in many games (2 phat pages)
Live 8 converted (freelance) to Quicktime (dodgy-ip via Waxy)
Free download of Ed Wood's "Plan 9" (archive.org via $!art)
Robotic guitar-plucker (1pg gallery via Make)
Thursday:
Asia Argento profile/update (Dario's daughter) (UkG-longish)
Nigerian scamsters con woman for $18k (NC-local)
New issue of ineffable Cabinet Magazine (multipage)
Cellphone-triggers suspected in London bombings (Cnet-vshort)
London's surveillance cams not expected to reveal much (WSJ-long)
Venezuela makes common cause with Iran (Asia via Ag)
Nice film about jazz, w/okay afterschool twist (Tourette's) ("Tic Code" IMDb)
Did White House showboating make 7-7-5 possible? (HuffPo-Pilecki w/links)
29yo paying support on 5 kids by 5 different moms (Omaha-short w/pic)
Transportation Dept releases figures on pet-deaths in flight (AP-Indiana-short)
Unexploded London bombs recovered (ABC w/popup via HuffPo)
Prolegomena to any future 7-7-5 conspiracy theory (Rigorous Intuition)
The world's ugliest dog, in a walk (Snopes-pic via Negatendo)
15yo Michelle Wie 1st female since 1945 to make PGA cut? (AP w/pic)
Air filters offer matrix for organ regeneration (Mnpls-BayArea)
No-nonsense French health-advice for prostitutes (1pg-no-pix via lf)
Awesome Java chessgame displays its lookahead as wispy traces (ThinkingMachine via Kotaku)
Cut global warming-- become a vegetarian (PhysOrg-vshort)
Convenient RSS-feed on web sales/deals (DealNews via iGreed)
Critical look at AdSense-et-al (OJR via Battelle)
Live graphs of LiveJournal emotion-word use (Amsterdam via Waxy)
Google bets on IPoAC (powerline broadband) (WSJ-SEW)
Silly-season praise of ballpark-junkfood health-benefits (Eureka)
Eastern imperial eagles proved strictly monogamous (Purdue via Eureka)
Shot driver hits pole, pole falls on, kills bystander (WABC-short)
Freddie Mercury's boyhood in Zanzibar (NC-arcane)
Flickr images of London bombings (via Longboard)
WikiNews keeping on top of London-bombings news (via bubblegen)
Drive your Roomba vacuum via webpage? (Cnet-interview)
Alarming decline in Seattle-area salmon (UPI-DC-vvshort)
Raw GoogleNews feed for London bombings (GgW-UK pattern)
Witty Quicktime music-video/windows-gui mashup (Chalets via Waxy)
Nice stars-and-wildfire time-exposure (AstroPic)
Shivery-good Exodus-metaphor (Poems.com-vshort) I'm saying that death is a little girl
Looong examination of US unaccountability re Iraq funds (LRB via Ag)
Costco beats Walmart ethically and financially (Labor via Sam)
Wednesday:
Bush-twin volunteering in S.African kids' hospital?!? (Boston)
Overcomplicated (and poorly formatted) MrPoll about temp-bookmarks (MrPoll-read-carefully)
Firefox extension renders error messages in haiku (TEM)
New dolphin species (Oz w/pic via lf)
Sure seems like Robert Novak must be CIA (HuffPo-TomHayden)
GoogleVideo search tips (SEW-short w/links)
Physicists analyse digeridoo expertise (Oz w/mp3, pic)
Over-the-top rave for NYC ballerina (Wolcott) [pix]
Grand Canyon getting glass skywalk (Vegas-no-pix via lf)
PrankWatch: Professionals charge $12 for a week of phone harrassment (China-vvshort)
That-70s-Show's Laura Prepon playing Karla Homolka?! (IMDb) [pix, QT]
The science behind siting two Starbucks on same block (etc) (BizWk w/popup via Wired)
Extremely silly mashup of philosophers and Pokemonsters (multipage via Plc)
Progress toward lab-grown pseudo-meat (aka Animal 57) (Universe2day)
Democratic defectors got CAFTA passed in Senate (Madison-CD-short)
The grapevine says Rove will be indicted (CPunch-short)
15yo girl sleepwalks to top of 130ft crane (BBC via JWalk)
JWalk isn't drinking the podcast kool-aid, either (JWalk-vshort)
Well-researched look at virtual-world 'sweatshops' (paid drudges) (1up-2pg via /.)
A few features Google ought to add (Unofficial-short)
Open-marketplace in Moscow for stolen identities (Toronto-shortish via Clpngs)
Flat-screen glut will make prices plummet (Taipei via Gz)
Maybe Negroponte will get lucky on his $100-laptop hoax.
Appalling stats for California windfarm bird-deaths (AP-UkG)
G8 protestors camp at 'eco-village' (BBC)
$25k police-bill cancels Welsh reggae fest (BBC)
Shocking x-ray of miraculously recoverable broken spine (BBC w/pix)
UnprankWatch: Cat survives crossbow bolt (BBC w/pic)
San Diego mayoral reform candidate is surfer chyk (AP-USA2 w/pic and popup)
A highclass courtesan tells all (except names) (UkTimes-2pg via Plc)
Live Seattle bus-info atop GoogleMaps (Unofficial w/link)
Light at end of Iraq tunnel is... Iran (HuffPo-Majd)
Iraqis cashing-in bogus old-currency (Kurdish)
UnprankWatch: Alberta-hospital nurses being dosed w/tranquillizers (Toronto)
Negativland profile/update (SFBG)
Israel thinks gentiles should pay for Gaza pullout (AP-UkG)
CAFTA, China, India, Japan, Polish plumbers, Germany, Grokster, Medicaid, Africa (DeanBaker)
June Harper's Index (fun stats) (Harper's)
Specialised $45 clock has virtual-world alarms (pic&links via Kotaku)
AngelinaJ adopts Ethiopian orphanette (Fem1st)
7oz methanol fuelcell powers phone for 8hrs (PhysOrg-vshort w/pix)
Iran plotting thermonuclear omelet (Iran-vshort)
Adding fiber to circuit-boards by 2010, for speed (AFP-PhysOrg-short)
Hints that prions have a role in memory (Loom-shortish)
$100 US = 57 pounds UK = 84 euros = 11,000 yen (apropos of nothing)
Belated he-said-she-said from Mr Karla Homolka (CBC w/pic)
Data from Europe confirms agri-antibiotics promote superbugs (PLos-SciDaily-short)
Readable short update on Big Bang and black holes (IoP-no-pix via SciDaily)
Okay new research on El Niño and plankton (Nasa w/QTs via SciDaily)
Well-written explanation of robotic surgical assistance (UNC-no-pix via SciDaily)
Debunking the missile-not-plane-hit-Pentagon 911-conspiracy theory (1pg-gallery via lf)
WSJ-reporter's leaked email about Iraq conditions (don't miss) (Poynter-2004 via HuffPo)
"a foreign policy failure bound to haunt the United States for decades to come"
Bay Area collectives inspired by Basque priest (Alternet via Sam)
Tuesday:
Dahr Jamail finds scant evidence Zarqawi exists (MotherJones-long)
China and Russia join forces to urge USA out of 'stans (CSM via Ag)
New Chomsky on universals (linguistic and ethical) (Zmag-long)
Only 3 out of 380 regretted bi-curiosity (super MrPoll results)
Neil Armstrong told a dirty joke on the Moon (MeTeen via lf) [hoax, alas]
PrankWatch: Bottlerocket in cab of fuel tanker is fireball-near-miss (AP-Wired-vshort)
Christian Led Down Path To Iniquity By Yahoo! Search For Bush-Trimming Tips (new Onion)
ObL and rightwing talkers both seek polarization (BillMon-long via Cursor)
Baghdad Sunnis being ethnic-cleansed? (KR-DC via Cursor)
Beautiful film about poetry w/okay afterschool-special twist: "Blue Car" (IMDb-main)
GoogleMaps hack to calc distances for custom paths (Barefoot w/links)
Neat lo-tech lo-acid coffemaking trick (Health via lf)
Short fun Martha Stewart update (AP-UkG)
Thoughtful analysis of Horowitz's war on academia (CPunch-interview)
The globalism fox 'helping' the African henhouse (UkG-CD-Monbiot)
Expect an mp3-player price-drop/price-war (Engadget-short)
USA map with Iraq-casualties-by-hometown popups (Fla via CynC)
YahooNews atop YahooMaps (Yahoo via Waxy)
Katherine Harris officially promotes kabbalah quackery (Fla via HuffPo)
Academic press finds GooglePrint increases sales (Stoa-short)
MS reaping karma for recruitment-arrogance (Cnet)
Nobel-winner Penzias's provocative views on energy crisis (Cnet-interview)
Malware looking more like the mob (Cnet)
PrankWatch: Pickup truck driven thru shopping mall (CBC-short-no-pix)
Thorium can substitute for uranium power (Wired)
Practical hypochondria advice, easily accessible (MyBodyLanguage via lf)
Don't-miss use of tech to raise legal-defense for activism (RegUk)
Google knows (GgW via Yeeeah)
Tempel-1 science update (NewSci w/pix)
Digital carpet woven with color satellite view (Gizmag via Engadget)
GoogleMaps streetsview atop satellite view, translucently (Kokogiak via iGreed)
PrankWatch: S.African vj loses hair to own chlorine-bomb (S.Africa)
PrankWatch: Bottle rocket thru cat-door starts fatal fire (UK)
Remarkable 2-step Flash optical illusion (Artype via Ursi)
Ewan McG blames directors for indulging his alcoholism (Fem1st)
15yo gets life for raping teacher (UkG)
Possible 40kyo human footprints in Mexico (UkG) [pic]
Michael Chabon writing kung-fu Snow White for Disney (UkG)
Polynesian DNA traced back to Taiwan (Eureka-short)
How galleries game the art market (Art-Forbes-dry)
Overview w/satpix of NKorea's nuke facilities (Sprol)
Vshort Quicktime of DeepImpact impact (SpaceRef) [Nasa]
DisneyWorld exploits college interns (AP-MsNbc via HuffPo)
Monday:
Decl. of Independence repurposed to impeach W (TruthOut via lf)
Short illustrated comparison of GoogleEarth and MS Flight Sim (Newrecruit)
Nifty CSS trick to 'stack' a gallery compactly (Nicholls via Plc)
9yo badly burned in Yellowstone hot spring (Wyoming)
Incognito Beatle busks in London subway (Fem1st)
Sex-murderess Karla Homolka released (CBC w/new pic)
Veilless women face acid-attacks in Baghdad (IRIN-Uruk)
The mostly-female pre-computer occupation, 'computer' (CSM-bkrev)
Google's math-aptitude recruitment puzzle-game (Wolfram-2004 via lf)
Animated-gif Tempel 1 collage (RawFeed)
Update on Venter's biotech plans/dreams (BBC-longish)
PrankWatch: Bozos put gasoline in water-guns, light it... and live (CBC-vshort)
Backstage gossip from London Live8 (London via lf)
13 cities where eager developers are trying eminent domain (ij via lf)
Queen's UK-album-chart-record passes Beatles' (BBC-top-ten)
Simulating astrophysical plasma jets (NewSci w/cool pic)
Hubble's view of Tempel hit (1280*768 jpeg) [QT] [info]
Send a thankyou to wifi-hotspot hosts (via TimYang)
Quicktime of comet-impact from 'bullet's pov (Nasa via /.)
London traffic cams atop GoogleMaps (gmaptrack via Plc)
Pizza-making tips (1pg via Plc)
My lame-ass Tempel 1 gif-animation (because noone else did)
Kidnap-murder suspect kept a blog (Oz via BlogHerald) [blog]
Sunday:
$200 shaggy-camouflage suit (surplus via lf)
New Yorker's eloquent July 4 cover (Cartoonbank via HuffPo)
Eight spooked horses crowded off Calgary bridge (Macleans-short-no-pix)
Los Alamos contract turns to pork (HuffPo-Sherwin)
The most racist ideology in human history? (AP-UkG)
Putin may nationalise vodka biz (UkTimes)
Great Lakes water temperature mysteriously high (Detroit via PhysOrg)
26yo boxer dies morning after KO (Vegas)
Appleby's salad fingertip not a hoax (AP-Forbes)
Simple graph of per-capita energy-use in several countries (Flickr via iGreed)
The iTunes phone, finally (Engadget)
Products with int'l-double-entendre names (London via lf)
New poll: Have you experimented with bisexuality? (MrPoll)
Ticket price, movie mediocrity the worst turnoffs (boring MrPoll results)
Semantic AI for medical data-mining (Boston via HuffPo)
Fans model Princess Leia's metal bikini (4pg-gallery via that'sHow)
Oxford children's dictionary cites children's lit (AHN-short)
PrankWatch: Malicious nail-spills damage 100 vehicles since 2003 (NZ)
Arlington Cemetery preps for 26k more dead GIs (AP-Pa)
"Beer with Extra" = alcohol and caffeine (BBC)
DVD sales softening (BizWk w/popup via iGreed)
15yo captures collapse of 200ft natural tower (Oz w/pic)
Lots of simple Flash games (Tea via lf)
Near-realtime images from DeepImpact (Nasa via NasaW)
India launches project to save ancient texts (SFgate via Xplr)
Dredging Hudson for PCBs turns up relics (Albany via Xplr)
Sophisticated toolmaking 2My ago in Kenya (Discovery-Oz via Xplr)
AOL covered Live8 better than MTV (AP-myway via Longboard)
Why so few GIs are available for combat (Slate via Longboard)
Picturesque underwater volcano off Japan (pic) [AP-story]
50yo Napoleon's English-in-exile lessons discovered (BBC w/quotes)
Okay long meditation on Tom Cruise's career (Dallas)
Saturday:
Bewitched hepatitis-joke stirs protests (UPI-Monsters)
Iraq-negotiations favored bogus insurgents? (UkTimes)
Eric Idle's f***-the-neocons song (MP3 via Plc)
"Our whole problem is to make mistakes as fast as possible." (GgW pattern)
Why designers feel compelled to push the boundaries (DesignObsrvr via lf)
Click 'free' button (etc) to see new Fiona Apple video (20M nonstreaming QT via Antville)
Bush 2005 (CDtimes via vboat)
Amazon's bookstats add capitalised phrases (Az via YoureIt)
Synopses of every Mars-movie ever (Astrobio-Rednova w/obnoxious Flash ad)
World's 50 worst beers (list) (RateBeer via linkfilter)
Beautifully-designed flower-drawing Flash app (ZeFrank via Plc)
How to sneak-peek under contest bottlecaps (CalTech via Plc)
Extended contemporary reincarnation anecdote (ABC-2004 via linkfilter)
Salon's expose on Tom Cruise and Scientology (Salon-Spiegel via WatchAm)
Don't-miss Udell screencast of small-town-tour map-hack (Flash via Wired)
MemeWatch: Pimp my [not ride] (GgW pattern)
Witty history/update/review of Palm/Treo (NyT-Pogue-Cnet)
Don't-miss creepy half-man-half-sea-worm Flash demo (clinger via Plc)
Giant (1200*1800) giant-catfish jpeg (NatGeo via Plc)
Mute pianist points at Oslo on map (BBC-short)
Bjork opens Live8 in butterfly dress before 10k in Japan (CBC w/pic)
PrankWatch: Plastic wrap breaks biker's rib (GrandRapids, MI)
WiFi-hotspots atop GoogleMaps (gWifi via Blogoscoped)
Tribute to assassinated Iraqi KnightRidder journo (Barista-long)
Spielberg's Munich-Mossad movie an ethical minefield (NyT-AIC)
Sweet 6yo's-birthday-card-for-USA anecdote (HuffPo-Corn)
Baffling Eden/Eve poem: the serpent rising from her cup (VerseDaily)
New poll: What would tempt you back to movie theaters more? (MrPoll)
Friday:
'Twas Rove outed Plame (E&P via Galbraith)
OJ still playing 18 holes a day (Fla-long)
Delightful Playmate poem: Soon all Hef's dreaming / Will be ash (Poems.com)
Unmanned drones clogging Iraq skies (AFA via lemonodor)
Weather info (and webcams?) atop GoogleMaps (myjava via freshfruit)
Tomlinson's PBS-analyst was a wacko (WaPo via HuffPo)
Big Money auditions Supremes replacement (HuffPo-Sirota)
Final score: man 0.5, machine 5.5 (HydraChess via Cnet)
Endangered blue butterfly getting neoconned (Fla w/pic via Ag)
Free education made Ireland rich (NyT-Friedman via Longboard)
Masterful food-art (1pg gallery via JWalk)
Fire ant has three almost-sexless genders (NewSci-vshort)
Crosslinks in microbial-evolution 'tree' mapped (EMBL w/pic via Eureka)
Domestic pix of Angelina, Brad, and baby Maddox (Yeeeah)
PrankWatch: Ice
$7k rc trucks deployed for Iraq IEDs (no-pic via PhysOrg)
Hurricanes cause small earthquakes (NewSci-vshort w/popup)
California prison-hospitals kill one patient per week? (LaTms via Ag)
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