"good silence takes bytes" --jane siberry
Headlines:
French choose US cigarettes over Gauloises (IHT)
Amazing Russian page'o'mp3s (caveat surfor)
John Zorn update (NyP)
Short bit on modeling Easter-Island pop collapse (RIT via Eureka)
Uncanny security video of 10yo girl saved from drowning (BBC w/RealVid via lf)
$10 poseable pirate toy (ThinkGeek)
Flood pix incl before/after satpic (NatGeo-10pg)
Meditation more effective if it cites 'God'? (NewSci-truncated)
Most essential (see below): email, web, phone, files, mp3, cam (MrPoll early responders)
Comparing chimp DNA to human (Loom-longish)
Insiders selling out of homebuilding biz (MktWtch via Sam)
New poll: What functions would your ideal gadget have? (MrPoll-longish)
Heavily-annotated Flash maps of hurricane damage (NyT via Longboard)
Local details on levee flooding (TPic)
NoLa looters start with Walmart's guns (Times-Picayune)
Teens dissemble, delaying aid after 18yo's 100ft fall (WI)
Times-Picayune accuses W of diverting hurricane prep to Iraq (E&P w/popup via HuffPo)
I can't find the actual article anywhere yet
New Orleans Times-Picayune RSS feed (GgN pattern)
Link to French embedded-RealVid of mind-parasite steering grasshopper towards water (NewSci w/popup)
$90 tv-tuner for Nintendo DS handheld (Japan via Engadget)
MSN Search adds RSS-targeting keywords (Master via Unofficial)
Desert wildflowers (A1-pic)
Bush 2005 = Aerial double-album, King of the Mountain single (PR-vshort)
Local New Orleans breaking news (Nola via dy)
"Imagine your worst nightmare and quadruple that times 100"
New Onion misses New Orleans at last minute (new design)
Tuesday:
New Orleans' little-dutch-boy had other business (HuffPo-Shearer) [denial]
UK bans US prof for PETA-style terror-talk (UkG)
Readable update on Iraq-constitution gotchas (HuffPo-Levine)
HuffPo still crashes my Firefox sometimes, unless I turn javascript off
W effectively admits Casey died for oil (AP-UkG via Ag)
Bioinformatics revolutionised by 1990 BLAST algorithm (Scientist via Wired)
Pizza vending machine holds 100 @ $5 each (Wonder via Gz)
No mention of how long they stay fresh
Iran's "Love Fund" taking oil money to people (BBC)
Nice framing-spin: "taxcuts for Paris Hilton" (WaPo via Steve)
High gas prices really help cut global warming (IHT)
NYer update back on schedule (food-themed comix) (Cartoonbank) [best]
More on buckydiamonds (NewSci-short)
Saturn's moon Enceladus offers fascinating mysteries (NewSci w/pic)
Cool green southern aurora (800*500 jpeg)
Homeland Security dismantled FEMA (WaPo via Cursor)
Supposedly you can preview the Dylan soundtrack here (AOL via stereogum)
...but AOL Player ain't doin' me no good nohow Update on NASA, PowerPoint, and Tufte (WaPo via NasaW)
ClicheWatch: When bad things happen to good [not people] (GgW pattern)
Don't-miss-ish movie of Earth from Messenger flyby (5Mb-QT via CynC) [info]
I miss Triana!
Where Wyle E Coyote buys his terrorism supplies (Acme-1pg via Bibi)
Asking $1M for 5storey house 5ft wide (BBC w/pic)
Europeans switch from BitTorrent to eDonkey? (BBC-short) [links]
Blues Brothers hit 25th anniversary (USA2-2pg w/popup)
PrankWatch: Stolen manhole cover escalates into tragedy (Utah)
Lite fans-interview with Juliette Lewis (UkInd-2col)
Herbals work fine for tummy troubles (SciDaily-short)
Very nice John le Carre update (incl Curveball vs Tailor) (KnightRidder-TX)
Well-intentioned GoldStar quilting project bogs down (WSJ-longish via Morning)
All scientific studies should be taken w/giant grain of salt (NewSci w/popup)
Surprising stats on quantum-chemistry calc-difficulty (PhysOrg-UPI-vshort)
Plentiful red dwarves could host live planets (PhysOrg-fun-interview)
Denmark bans CIA rendition-flyovers (WatchAm)
Compressed nanotubes 'harder' than diamond? (RegUk)
Lego charges $130 for custom kit designed by [you] (Lego via Waxy)
Utter-crap explanation of how hurricanes start (BBC via lf)
Hot air rising causes low pressure which makes cold air fall... all at the same point!
VR-guru Jaron Lanier at HuffPo on neo-Creationism (HuffPo-longish)
Timely passionate call for Abu Ghraib vigil in NYC today (Tues) (HuffPo-Alexandrovna)
New poll: How evil is Rush Limbaugh? (MrPoll)
What's his personal responsibility for the 'ozone hole' in our ethical climate?
Monday:
Lots of assorted music videos (Boards)
Weird brilliant dancing-kids video from Carpark North (slow-QT via antville) [mirror] [same director]
Playful animated pop video from Marbles (QT via antville)
Boring Goldfrapp disco video (QT via boards)
Bladerunner-y ballad video from Caroline Henderson (slow-QT via Duckling)
Arty alt-rock video from Mew (slow-QT via Duckling)
Cool French YellowSubmarine-y animated music video by M(?) (QT via antville)
Chanel #5 uses endangered rosewood scent (NyT-IHT)
New neocon spin: Blame the Iraqis (HuffPo-Zengotita-short)
Pleasant Sims-inspired nc-17 techno video by Shakedown (Flash via antville)
Creative cgi electropop video from Jori Hulkkonen (slow-QT via antville)
Simple javascript art-toy (Ellen)
Mass-producing antibodies in chicken eggs (SciAm-short via Wired)
Fun table of inflation-adjusted antique game-system prices (Joystiq via /.)
Top-ten most expensive music videos (4pg-no-vids via lf)
Finland as socialist utopia (ProJo-CD)
Saving, unions, Korea, immigration, Greenspan, Germany, Japan, productivity, CAFTA (DeanBaker)
Heartsounds track sleep-depth more cheaply than brainwaves (Eureka)
W's secret plan to trash national parks? (LaTimes via Sam)
Backgrounder on Facebook college portal (SJMerc-RealCities)
Researchers track abandoned potential dirty-bomb components (AP-USA2-short w/popup)
Wikipedia formalizes topical portals (Signpost-vshort)
Organised Wikipedia vandalism inspires rules-changes (Signpost)
Antipodes-calculator atop GoogleMaps (cjb w/popup via danec)
Sitcom cliches in PDF-boardgame format (PDF via VH1)
50th anniversary of Lolita's publication (Boston via lf)
250Gb LaCie USB external for $112 shipped after rebate (DealNews-Buy)
Yahoo up to old ID-tricks with Flickr users (Wired)
I swore off Yahoo back when they did this with eGroups mailinglists
US-funded Afghan teevee-station getting an 'Oprah' (MET-no-pix)
School rations teens to 5 f-words per class (BBC)
A blog-search alternative (Clusty via SEW)
New Orleans flood gauges (USGS-graphs via dy)
A zillion music-video links (antville-ResFest)
LA schools mandate realtime online attendance-taking (#Risks)
Nintendo GameCube recommendation (Beattie)
Wikipedia on Katrina (via CynC)
Sunday:
Highly collectable Art-Deco-pottery eccentric Clarice Cliff (UkG-no-pix) [pix]
Odd Werner Herzog update from D.Thomson (UkInd-2col-short)
"Super Girl" contest draws 400M Chinese viewers (CSM w/pic)
Scariest weather-bulletin ever (kiss New Orleans goodbye) (NOAA via CynC)
Katrina-tracking satpix and maps (NOAA via NasaW)
Tufte asks hard questions about IP numbers and anonymity (ET.com)
100 themesong mp3s from Sat-morning cartoons (1pg via lf)
Okay 8min RealVideo on Turkey's 9kyo Catal Hoyuk (ArchChannel via Xplr)
PrankWatch: Alfred Hitchcock's elevator story (shortish via CynC)
Graphs of US inequality (1pg via lf)
Bloggers also flee Katrina (Workbench)
The stealth penetration of MySpace.com (NyT via iGreed)
Iraq teevee tries ThisBombedHouse DIY show (E&P)
Not just Starbucks mixing hi-tech w/retail (WaPo via HuffPo)
Cute little prefab houses for $15-40k (Tumbleweed via pednut)
160Gb USB external for $100 after rebates (DealNews-BestBuy)
Worst-case scenario for Katrina and New Orleans (NOLA-5pg via Sam)
I hope their National Guard aren't in Baghdad
Bhutan replaces GNP with GNHappiness (Sojourners via Sam)
Miss Moneypenny gets her own book (Bond.net)
19yo Scot fatally skateboards off top of carpark (BBC-no-pic)
Documentary on legacy of utopian UK shoe-factory (BBC)
Online tutoring also outsourced to India (AFP-PhysOrg)
A dozen awful pix of Iraq casualties (Salon-12pg via Barista)
Katrina and the waves (Agonist-animated-gif)
Genius makes geometrical models from scotchtape (flickr-set via Make)
Amazing Giger-looking glass speakers (flickr via Make)
Very cool (slightly tricky) telnet ascii-art Star Wars movie (#Blogoscoped)
Fun-looking virtual environment (2ndLife-1pg)
Revolutionary notion: MMOGs with pre-set expiration dates (Alice-short)
Swedish skyscraper built with corkscrew twist (AP-CNN w/pic)
Rapper Jay-Z studies how to run record company (NyT via HuffPo)
Stately Frank Rich review of the Iraq mess (NyT via HuffPo)
Vatican may ban gay priests (UkG via HuffPo)
Ten super-diverse unanswered questions (HuffPo-Shaw)
Egypt draws line regarding Israeli nukes (AP-UkG via Ag)
CIA (under George I) framed Libya for Lockerbie (Scotsman via Ag)
Saturday:
Philip Seymour Hoffman impersonates Truman Capote (QT via AIC)
Over-the-top best-game-ever rave (DubQ via ffwd)
Live mp3s from another FatCat band, Icelandic ambient "Múm" (France) [more]
The accent in the bandname breaks the FatCat player's 'more tracks' function
Okay Bill Maher remote interview w/Cindy Sheehan (long-embedded-QT)
Modern grammar/problems (Overheard-vvshort)
Nico biopic to star Tilda Swinton (UkMail-short)
Long tiny hypnotic electronica QT by Noriko Tujiko (also below) (Austria-slow) [more]
New gravity-defying Clay-Shirky performance on metadata (You'reIt-long)
Top 100 most-covered jazz standards (list via lf)
Interesting Japanese trip-hop (?) (Flash mp3 player) [info]
Lots of good sounds to explore from this label
Cool-looking Java applet traces code three ways at once (Lambda)
India's guerrillas raise money via porn (BBC w/pix)
Japan's new yakuza-godfather installed semi-publicly (Japan-no-pic)
54 out of 529 can't get enough Net porn (MrPoll porn results)
There's a beta for Windows QT7 (new to me)
Disposable digicam in a model rocket (5Mb avi via Make) [more]
Occasional world-press review (Gelf)
Semi-arcane graphs of open-source programmer productivity (lemonodor)
NAFTA lumber-war w/Canada still heating up (Toronto via WatchAm)
Balanced perspective on autism and chelation therapy (HuffPo-Kirby)
Poorer countries w/bird flu denied access to cure (JPS via Ag)
Long, colorful analysis of Robertson vs Chavez (billmon via dy)
Friday:
Surprising cultural history of 'Indian' cuisine (UkG-bkrev)
Loooong profile of sociobiologist Robert Trivers (UkG)
New NewYorker cartoons finally appear (usually Tues)
Ten full free pc games (Cnet via DealNews)
Turkmenistan's president's book's in orbit (PhysOrg)
Widowed 26yo chimp smoking half-pack a day (CBC-no-pix)
Saudis brag terror is winning the war on terror (Lb-IHT)
Variant spellings of Arabic names are data-mining challenge (Cnet)
Scary sequel on W's psychosis (CapHill via Sam)
Warm backgrounder on Venezuela's Hugo Chavez (UkG via Sam)
Absurdist Calvin-Trillin on recycling quandaries (blog-NyT via Sam)
Bots taking the play out of online poker (Wired via Steve)
Lara Croft sequel for mobile phones (sightgag)
Frame-by-frame Quicktime of fleeing ivory-billed woodpecker (Science)
PrankWatch: Handcuffed 18yo requests hacksaw at Walmart (NH-no-pic)
Authorised Tori Amos bootlegs (MySpace via Top40)
Last night I dreamt I was loudly singing "Happy Phantom" backstage to actors
Cute early pix of Madonna (multimulti via VH1)
Pix: Natalie Portman w/mohawk, Tom Cruise in drag (blog via VH1)
Baghdad cops have it tough (WSJ-longish via Morning)
Extraordinary Jon Stewart vs Christopher Hitchens (long-embedded-QT via CynC)
Amusing paranoid cyberpunk fantasia (UkG-Haines)
Cigarettes popular again with Baghdad GIs (HuffPo-Smith)
Semi-fancy speakers for $20 shipped (DealNews-Philips)
Greyhound trims 1000 bus stops (CSM via dy)
Readable rave for Polanski's Oliver (AIC-Moriarty)
New 'portable satellite radio' isn't (Days)
Implausible-but-fun history of t-shirt slogans (VVoice w/popup via mshook)
Rockin' indescribable rap video by Futureshock (QT via cliptip)
Paraguay volunteers to narc out LatAm to USA (WatchingAm)
Mild Python-centric critique of XML overuse (XML.com via SmallValues)
Slow charming RealVideo promos for Utah State Fair by Napoleon Dynamite (via Destiny)
They're in the annoying submenu under 'Napoleon's Sweet Ads'
Alice having a good day (Wonderland blog)
You can now change your Gmail 'From' address (GgH via BlogHerald)
Flickr's interestingness-measure also calcs un-interestingness (Barefoot w/pix, links)
Blind beer-testers can't tell cans from bottles (WSJ w/table)
Bolton begins dismantling UN (UkInd-2col via Ag)
Two short childhood memoirs (VerseDaily)
Thursday:
Rave for soundtrack CDs from Scorsese's Dylan (UkInd-2col)
Camp Casey tearjerker w/Joan Baez, etc (HuffPo-Evans)
Internal DVD-burner $44 delivered (newegg via DealNews)
One gram of soil holds 1M bacterial species (NewSci w/popup)
US/Iraq/2005 = UK/Boer War/1902 (T.G.Ash) (UkG-CD)
US Mint confiscates $75M in gold coins submitted for authentication (AP-USA2 w/pic)
Refurbished 1.5Gb Rio mp3 player $81 shipped (Overstock via DealNews)
3second burst of bear repellant sends 51 to hospital (AP-USA2-no-pix)
Cellphones make a broad difference in Africa (Cnet)
Arcane movies of nanowires spontaneously thinning (2pg w/QTs via Eureka)
Adorable $2 geeky-dancing video from Clor (QT via antville)
PrankWatch: Europeans promote shoplifting as activism (Wired)
Vivid new model of UV effects on DNA (UPI-PhysOrg-arcane)
PrankWatch: Mme Tussaud's Susan-Sarandon comes to life (Contact)
Soothing spoken-word trip-hop video by AGF/Delay (antville-QT)
Wednesday:
Bizarre music video by Animal Collective (antville-QT-slow)
Creative exploration of Lego Mindstorms (1pg via mshook)
London Harrod's getting tacky Dodi/Diana statue (Newsday w/pix)
USA-bully thumbs nose at NAFTA vows (Toronto via Ag)
First fish ate water fleas? (BBC w/pic)
Jamaica loves Venezuela's cheap-oil deal (CBC)
Wireless spycam kit $34 shipped (DealNews-Geeks)
100 different atomic mushroom clouds (10pg via CynC)
A saner alternative to XML (YAML via plasticboy)
Wm S Burroughs' serious graphic collage-art (UkG w/pic)
Google-dilute just cashing in on overvalued stock (WSJ)
250Gb for $86 shipped after rebate (DealNews-Tiger)
Over-the-top downer R-rated Prodigy music-video (Cliptip-QT)
40oz methanol fuelcell prototype (GkZn via Engadget)
Pragmatic official steps towards gradual Iraq withdrawal (JuanCole via Morning)
PrankWatch: Toy guns in public lead to family DNA tests (UkTimes-vshort)
New details on how Maher Arar got renditioned to Syria (CBC)
Ten movie flops worth revisiting (OnionAV-3pg)
France tries creditcard-based community bicycle-sharing (Wired via Engadget)
Download Google's VoIP app (Windows only) (GgT via Waxy)
Natalee-brouhaha takes toll on Aruba locals (Fla via HuffPo)
Cuba, Venezuela reach out to US poor w/cheap gas, health (Reuters-CNN)
Tuesday:
Broadcast digital-radio update (USA2 w/table, popup)
90 base-jumping fatalities since 1981 (AOL-1pg via lf)
Profile/paean to director Mike Leigh (UkInd-2col)
100-year graph of US housing prices (NyT via danec)
RC drones flex wings to spy closer (UFl w/QT via Eureka)
57yo UK millionaire joining Masai tribe (UkTimes-no-pix)
Background on Polanski's Oliver Twist (NyT-IHT)
Detailed rave for PSP as media player (DAP-1pg via Gz)
'Governor' throttles game-addicts' longterm performance (China via Raw)
Adams'
Canon camcorder $234 shipped after rebate (DealNews-Dell)
Sea-anemone battles fought by organised armies (UC-short w/pic via Eureka)
Madman tries to stab Amma the hugging saint (AP-UkG-no-pix)
Laura Prepon's performance praised as Karla Homolka (CBC)
Random newsbit on jukebox-addition Goldfrapp (UkG)
Ubiquitous 40Gb appliances? (PcMag-Dvorak)
Headmounted lcd VR $125 shipped (DealNews-Geeks)
Karla Homolka sighted in Montreal (Toronto-no-pix)
Hang-glider w/40 lbs heroin shot down at Afghan border (UkTimes-no-pix)
New 2ndLife comic, Plywood (multi via NewWorld)
Barbra Streisand's bland new antiwar video (Az-Flash via VH1)
Which cities are the worst housing-bubble risks (WSJ w/tables)
iTunes re-invigorates 'Bowie bonds' moneyraising model (WSJ)
Utah music fest terminated w/extreme prejudice (ProRev-long)
Longterm Iraq costs may pass $1T (NyT via Sam)
Monday:
Latest draft of Iraq constitution (AP-USA2 w/popup)
Imaginary-magazine covers (flickr via Bibi)
Iranian rockers seek permission to publish (UkG)
NyT revives Ahmad Chalabi as reliable source? (HuffPo-Arianna)
Somaliland's homegrown khat (UkInd-2col)
Wikipedia debates pr-spam articles (Signpost)
Underreported developments from Camp Casey (Sheehan) (CPunch-Moses)
Budget, gas, Russia, SocSec, movies, airlines, Brazil, El Salvador, France (DeanBaker)
Post-Humument art-blog (logolalia via negatendo)
Fun 1985 gadgets flashback (Engadget)
Kensington keyboard $12 delivered (Buy via DealNews)
4Mp HP digicam $106 shipped after rebate (DealNews-Tiger)
Taliban okayed US assassination of ObL in 1998 (Pak via Ag)
Clones have kittens (PhysOrg w/pic)
Sunday:
Elvis's granddaughter and other celeb spinoffs (USA2 w/pix)
Mute pianoman just a hoaxster (UkMirror w/popup)
Educational software market dries up (Cnet)
PrankWatch: Bullfrogs released in 1968 now rule southern France (UkInd via lf)
Amazon commissioning 49cent etexts (AP-USA2-vshort) [Az]
Pleasant ramble about software, community, etc (EthanZ)
880 murders last month in Baghdad (Time via HuffPo)
The HuffPo item linking this crashed me again
Eco-conscious consumerism doing well (HuffPo-Makower)
HuffPo seems to have fixed whatever was crashing me
Which two consonants can be spelled without using themselves? (short via danec)
Googling suggests unexpected best-stories-ever (NZ) [Asimov]
poohpoohs 200; poopoos 2500; poo-poos 7000; pooh-poohs 42000
Freakonomist pooh-poohs peak-oil panic (Frknmcs)
What movies people have walked out on (OnionAV-thread)
Palm-oil plantations threaten orangutans (HK w/pic)
New PG13 tATu music video (QT via ffwd)
300Gb for $127 shipped after rebates (DealNews-Fry's)
Good intro to machinima, as realworld interview (long-QT via zeFrank)
Penthouse letters, GrandTheftAuto racism, and St Louis poverty (SusieBright)
The public-wifi wars (Seattle-CD)
Critique of media coverage of Islamist legal victory in Iraq (dIreland)
Mystical Sufis also targeted in Iraq (NyT-IHT)
Theatrical update on Riverbend/BaghdadBurning (Newsday via dy)
Havana med-school graduation political comments (AP-UkG)
PrankWatch: Mailed ABC gum not felonious hazmat (AHN-vshort)
Hunter S Thompson's starstudded pyrotechnic wake (AP-E&P) [pic]
A something-completely-different pop video by Nedelle (Quicktime via antville)
Ebert debates 'evil' filmmakers ("Chaos") (Chgo via Metaphilm) [more]
Debunking Japanese-videogamer stereotypes (Qt3-8pg via ffwd)
Saturday:
Arcane Alejandro "El Topo" Jodorowski interview (a-lab via nmazca)
Cold Arctic hydrothermal vents support rich biota (SciDaily w/pic)
Colorado tree-rings identify 8 big droughts in 800 years (SciDaily)
Eloquent rant by Cindy Sheehan (CD)
Turn any flickr pic into a fake magazine cover (form via Make)
W on brink of psychotic break? (CapHill via Sam)
Sex-n-violence parody RPG (Costik-34pg PDF)
Weekend poll: Where do you stand on Net pornography? (MrPoll)
Friday:
LA starts preparing for future water shortages (LaNews via Polizeros)
Grassroots initiative to test vets for DU (Zembla-short via Cursor)
Awesomely-bitter CindySheehan cartoon (Harper's via Clpngs)
ISS may end up being shut down (Reuters-Cnet)
Neat graph of Google-vs-others' market cap (WSJ-flickr via iGreed)
Filthy trainwreck Courtney Love roasting Pam Anderson (long QT via VH1)
Embracing the breakup of Iraq? (CPunch-Leupp-shortish)
Hilarious 13Mb quicktime of robot rocking itself up (QT-Japan) [NewSci]
Sorry-ass 1966 careers-for-girls boardgame (Bradley via Morning)
5Mp Konica-Minolta digicam for $204 shipped (DealNews-Dell)
200 replies: 60 trippers, 2 bandmembers (MrPoll Deadhead results)
Supernova 1987A leaves expanding xray donut (NewSci w/QTs)
Dry-cleaner poisons Indiana town's water supply (Sprol w/pix)
Clearinghouse for US swimming holes (clunky via lf)
Neologism: SLAPP suits = corp's intimidating activists (Alter-Ivins via Sam)
USA begins testing microwave weapon on Iraqi targets (USA2 via Sam)
Short best-of Overheard-in-NY eavesdropping site (Slate via TimYang)
Too bad their editorial comments are so often witless
Gun manufacturers' new stealth get-out-of-jail-free card (dIreland)
Susie Bright's surreal tomato-sauce recipe (blogs.com)
Supersilly waterfountain-heights mirror exchange-rates (1pg via infosthetics)
Supercool $239 rc paper airplane (1pg via Engadget)
Nanotube-forests peeled into long strips (MsNbc-2pg w/pix via /.)
Yahoo beats Google crawling Sheeba (YhW pattern) [GgW pattern]
Decent Walmart rant (HuffPo-Dicker)
WARNING: This page still crashes my Win2000 Firefox
Ongoing US double-standard towards Int'l Criminal Court (NyT via Ag)
Judge Roberts and the death of democracy (July CPunch via Sam)
Twilight idyll: the tips of their cigarettes / blaze like small roses (Poems.com)
Thursday:
Margot Kidder becomes US citizen to protest Iraq war (CBC w/pic)
Quietest-ever wing design (BBC w/pic via PhysOrg)
ForeignPolicy map of unstable states incl Iraq, A'stan (map) [EthanZ]
ISS spacewalk this afternoon (PhysOrg) [NasaTV]
Okay anti-Greenspan housing-bubble rant (CPunch-Whitney)
Florida panthers rebound w/genetic boost from Texans (Eureka-no-pix)
Mugger-bots in Lineage lead to student's arrest (NewSci-no-pix via Raw)
Update on Tennessee commune, The Farm (TN)
Wednesday:
MS tool for cleaning up new Windows virus (MS via Cnet)
God knows how many updates to this one will be needed
Evening quickie: How to build a smart OS (lifetrace semantics)
WSJ falsifies deficit forecasts (Nyhan via Steve)
Appeals court reverses anti-Wicca judgment (AP-UkG)
9yo's monster chosen for Dr Who cameo (BBC w/pic)
The unsettling experience of near-perfect silence (UkG via Wired)
Zimmer on simulating E. coli (NyT-IHT)
Righteous alternatives to Pledge of Allegiance (CSM)
Cindy Sheehan addresses smears (HuffPo)
Table of gas-prices worldwide (CNN via lf)
Redesign for Huffington Post tomorrow (HuffPo-Peretti)
Toe-length change dates shoes to 30ky ago (wustl w/pic via Eureka)
50yr-plan to reintroduce elephants and lions in N.America (NewSci)
Power Ranger gets murder-assist from Crip John F Kennedy (UkTimes-weird)
Over last 8yrs, 80% of US feminist bookstores closed (Alter via Sam)
Ruggedized specs for champion battlebot platform (1pg via Gz)
Mac laptop $900 after rebate (Amazon-DealNews) (#1 in gadget-lust poll)
Sam Adams increases alcohol content 500% (UkTel-vshort via HuffPo)
How neo-liberalism bypasses democracy (ForeignAffairs-dIreland)
Computerised stats take over baseball management (USA2)
Whitehat phishers teach valuable lesson (WSJ via /.)
Islamic game-designers turn tables of jihad (UkInd-2col w/links)
95yo Maharishi Mahesh Yogi blasts 'scorpion nation' UK (UkInd-2col)
Madwoman slits throat of 90yo monk before crowd of 2500 (AP-IHT) [pic]
Visa-holdups hit crypto conference (NyT-IHT-Markoff)
PrankWatch: Actor leaps out 2nd-storey window, leaps back in (Fem1st)
Excellent update on face-animation challenges (UkReg-pic-no-vid) [wmvs]
An invisible friend for your GPS-car to follow (NewSci-1of3 w/popup)
Well-done Flash audio-slideshow analysing evangelist Billy Graham (NYer-10min)
Showy anatomical meditation: the hooded heart / stirs in its basket (VerseDaily)
Update on mistaken London police-assassination (Londonist via dy)
Tuesday:
Kansas teen dies in passing-out game (AP-KC w/pic)
PrankWatch: Avril Lavigne punk'd unto weepingness (Contact w/popup)
Mozart/hiphop mashup headed for stage (CBC)
Brewers test fruit-beers (CBC)
Unprecedented profile of a fave writer, occultist Colin Wilson (IHT)
Salon (15k subscribers) selling WELL (4k) (Cnet)
Map of drought-stricken Midwest cornbelt (CSM)
Grain silos repurposed as housing (CSM w/pic)
A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man (plus Aristocrats) (Gelf-bkrev)
Effective philosophy-poem: the physics of the TV screen / Plays out plots and previews (Poems.com)
Pope begs W for sex-case immunity (AP-UkG)
Wild-looking abstract golf game (22Mb download/torrent via lf)
Pleasant cover versions of SuperMario music (Archive via Kotaku)
Nice triphop video by Citizens Here and Abroad (sloooow-QT via antville)
Useful analysis of Xbox2's dim prospects in Japan (1up-4pg via /.)
Flash interface to GoogleMaps adds dizzying rotate (via mshook)
New Python manual (Grimoire via mshook)
Borges on Yahoog!e splogs (RegUk-AO-short)
Kids' guitars $30 shipped (MusFriend via DealNews)
Fun thoughts on limits of outsourcing (EthanZ)
Download DivX player and watch 41 early Simpsons shorts (Crazy via VH1)
One of the best resources on the Net!
Blue States pen Dear-John letter of secession (HuffPo-repost)
Cindy Sheehan hosting Woodstock 2005? (HuffPo-Goodrich-short)
Witty 1pg illustrated 'forecast' about online gaming (PWoT via Eyebeam)
New poll: How big a Deadhead are/were you? (MrPoll)
Many sympathetic editorial cartoons on Cindy Sheehan (MsNbc-6pg via E&P)
Dramatically revised visualisation of Milky Way (WI via Eureka)
New dvd of old Dick Cavett interviews w/rockstars (Chgo)
Short review of new Harold Bloom on Jesus, etc (BkStandard)
Wild chimps prefer left hand for termite-fishing (AP-USA2-no-pix)
Octopus strangles unsuspecting shark (embedded RealVid via Morning)
3000 complete Dead shows at Internet Archive (multiformat)
Monday:
44sec audio of ivorybilled woodpecker (multiformat via SciDaily)
Spectacularly creative animated music video by Mad Action (QT via antville)
Newborns with studio headphones (NatGeo-cute)
SC town of 2k owes $65k for citing Jesus in council prayers (AP-Wired)
PrankWatch: 18yo gets 6mos for smashing woman's face w/turkey-toss (AP-Wired-vshort)
Mexican druglords now outrank Colombians (CSM)
Why hasn't Riverbend posted in four (six) weeks? (BaghdadBurning) [url fixed]
6% of pro-soccer injuries occur during score-celebration dance (AOSSM-abstract via Eureka)
FCC indecency-complaints plummet in 2005 (FMQB via WFMU)
Pharmcos, productivity, Fed, Germany, EU, China, pork (DeanBaker)
Robert Fisk thinks Iraq constitution is a farce (Znet-CD)
Oil-price rises due to corporate profiteering? (HuffPo-Court)
Google quietly buys up enough unused fiber to secede from Net? (Biz2 via Waxy)
Y-shaped nanotubes shrink transistor-role 100x (NewSci w/popup)
Do cellphones attract lightning? (China via Engadget)
Shortlist of hi-res cities in GoogleMaps (Unofficial)
Drought grounds riverboat casinos (NyT via HuffPo)
Okay Sheryl Crow video in (native?) Flash (resource-hog via antville)
Nonlethal riot-control tech keeps biting back (Sky-short via Engadget)
Reintroduced wolves rebalance Yellowstone ecosystems (Orion via kasei)
Excellent looong narrative of Iraq security contractor (NYTmag via Clpngs)
The jukebox can be dragged a bit if you grab the left end (jukebox.html)
Pix of wristwatch-PDA jumping thru e-hoops (Make-vvphat)
Internet Archive's audio drowning in shovelware? (searchpattern)
Apemen descended from trees to eat tubers? (Loom-longish)
Sunday:
Italy innovates nouvelle flavored icecreams (UkG)
TLAwatch: Childhood Gender Nonconformity = CGN (Boston-long via lf)
Hot PG13 arty striptease music video by Etienne Charry (QT via antville)
$2 pop antiwar video by the Metrics (Cliptip-Quicktime)
Run! Run! Banana fungus!!! (UPI-PhysOrg-vshort)
Impressive menu of world-music mp3s (Japan)
African soccer team named "Mysterious Dwarfs" (Ghana-passim)
(Twin-Peaks enthusiasists, I expect)
Dolphins by the thousand attend Welsh 'rave' (BBC)
Sold out:
Useful Google keyword: "define:" (new to me)
Terry Gilliam interview w/good bits (Dreams via splinters)
Sympathetic review for reworked "Lennon" musical (BBC)
No baseball no-hitters yet in 2005 (w/history) (DE-longish)
Bluetooth-enabled cars vulnerable to 2way eavesdropping (NyT via HuffPo)
Saturday:
Cindy Sheehan nearing sainthood? (HuffPo-Evans)
China learns about emotional depression (HK via Ag)
Monty Python update via Terry Jones (UkTimes)
UK Sunday papers come online Sat eve (RSSable Times) [RSSable Independent]
Film argues Brian Jones was murdered (in 1969) (UkInd)
North American Indian tribes map (map via lf)
Print Flickr sets as posters or books, soon (poster via Make) [books]
Silly vertiginous girl-pop video from Shampoo (slow-QT)
Cute cgi-animals in butter commercial (tiny-Quicktime via lf)
Promising $100 programmable robot w/ghastly site (Engadget w/link)
Jane Siberry's almost-all-Siberry 39-sample mp3-jukebox (Sheeba-Flash) [site]
#36 is a crowd-pleaser (Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog)
Search-engine experiment, PreviewSeek (ajax via Days)
Arabic press horrified at call for Shia province in Iraq (BBC-quotes)
RSS-able GgN feed for The Onion/ AV Club (GgN pattern) [more]
PrankWatch: Feces-mail violates terrorism statute (Cinci)
Video dance-lessons w/extra-creative chromakey (Flash via Ursi) [more]
Kerouac's 1958 writing-advice-list drug-gush (etext via ak)
Iran keeps playing its hand perfectly (HuffPo-Majd)
Self/nonself distinction tracked via pulsing rhythms? (PSU-short via SciDaily)
Legal-I-guess bittorrents of 15 anti-W documentaries (FreeDocs via NikC)
Friday:
A meme is born! (last line only) (randomfoo)
Terminal 50yo wanted to "take out a copper" on way (UkTimes)
Novelist blames plagiarism on photographic memory (UkInd w/quotes)
5 ways to use color to unpack nested parentheses (Lemonodor w/pix)
Tracking the new smear campaign against Cindy Sheehan (HuffPo-Arianna)
TLAwatch: Emotional Freedom Technique = acupuncture-y psychotherapy (UkTimes)
Wilderness adventure-courses as alQaeda recruiting centers? (UkTimes-short)
Baghdad's Green Zone rich in creature comforts (NyT-IHT)
"World of Warcraft" uses spyware for DRM-checking (Cnet)
Dozens of Shakespeare reworkings for Edinburgh Fringe (CSM)
Small-press success stories thanks to Amazon (AP-USA2 w/popup)
Grant Wood's "American Gothic"'s backstory (UkTimes-bkrev) [GgI-hilarious]
Why brainiac Kai Fu Lee chose Google over MS (ZdNet via Battelle)
A classic iPod moment (Overheard-vvshort)
Cindy Sheehan's taped message to W (Quicktime via HuffPo)
Calvin&Hobbes update (reruns, book) (E&P-vshort)
Adding new imagery to old crockery (18pg Flash via $!art)
Hippie costumes for women (3wishes via Bibi)
Winterbottom mixes live concerts with raw sex (AP-Bay-moviereview)
800k animated gif of new Martian dust-devils (1000*250 via NasaW) [source]
News item about street gospeller newly added to jukebox (Reuters)
Device that generated newly added jukebox mp3 (via Engadget)
Door-blinds' sensors open WyleECoyote-shaped hole ($!art w/fun RealVideo)
Okay one-woman Juliet Richardson dance-music video (RealVideo)
Three simple Flash toys w/PG-rated Jessica Simpson (Surreal via VH1)
12yo twins sing mother's neo-nazi songs (anti-blog via lf)
See my jukebox for mp3 sample (if it doesn't refresh, try restarting)
Disaster counseling does more harm than good (NEJM-shortish via lf)
John Cleese on wine (USA2-dvdreview)
Basic almanac-facts about Gaza (UkTimes)
Cook's last text: "Weather foul. Wish you were here." (UkTimes)
Infrared satpic of tropical-storm Irene updates every 3hrs (same link as header, above) [vis light]
Literate meditation on "the potatiness of potatoes" (IHT)
New one by a favorite author, Jim Harrison (NyT-IHT-bkrev)
His "Sundog" is well worth tracking down
Top-ten-selling ringtones (Billboard via Cnet)
The 'GO' buttons eventually lead to Amazon RealAudio clips of the songs
PrankWatch: Toilet-roll taped to firetruck causes $10k bombscare (Fla)
If Mad Magazine parodied Sun Tzu's 'Art of War'... (McSweeneys-list)
Don't-miss instant-classic music video by Ye-Ye (Quicktime via antville)
UnprankWatch: Deliverance-reenactment ends in multiple felonies (AR w/pix via VH1)
Kids given $98k they found in field (Denver-2pg w/pix via VH1)
Graceful interactive Flash demo(s) (Levitated via Ursi) [more]
Nifty NewKindOfScience-numbered snakeskins
Best Quicktime-VR panorama ever (MainStreet via Ursi) [more]
Versatile, throwable two-limbed mini-robot inspired by T1 (Discovery via $!art)
Foreign-exchange students recognised as sexually vulnerable (WaPo via HuffPo)
New terror-alert neatly timed to W's discomfiture (HuffPo-short)
Scary Robert-Johnson tribute, maybe? "So is the morning wail: so, so" (VerseDaily)
Thursday:
Heineken wins blind beer taste-test (WSJ)
Movie-review of Dylan's "Eat the Document" (UkInd)
Everyone at Huffington Post is thrilled by Cindy Sheehan (blog feed)
Galaxies widened by dim outliers (U2day)
Quipu knot-code partly cracked (NewSci w/popup)
Long readable fear-and-loathing behind Congess's closed doors (RollingStone via HuffPo)
Local coverage of GoldStar mother's W-vigil (multi via Cursor)
New way to selectively turn off mouse genes (HHMI-arcane via Eureka)
Ringtone searchengine (via Unofficial)
Philosophical anti-Goth rant (iMomus)
Critique of new cooking-magazines (LaTimes w/recipes via Morning)
Ecological sins of ancient Greece, Rome (MEN-1980 via Xplr)
"Alpha geeks wanted for beta testing" (cute headline)
Harmonica $2 shipped (MusFriend via DealNews)
International law is on Iran's side (IHT via dy)
Hot blog (Your days start here)
Fractal message-tree in Flash (read help, then add message) (Ecotonoha via Days)
Shortish list of websites with Google PageRank of 9 or 10 (Wikipedia via Days)
GoogleChina indexes warez (Days via Blgscpd)
600BC Jerusalem Temple reasonably non-controversial (Ralph-short)
Screenshots of TiVo's imminent video-download feature (Engadget)
Gaza-pullout-timing demographically convenient (Reuters-Wired)
2000 attend Arctic Circle music fest (BBC w/pix)
PrankWatch: Yankee fan stagedives four storeys into net (AP-USA2 w/pic)
New Harper's Index (finally)
Doubleclick your location to sign my new guestmap (GuestMap via SmallV)
Virtual-world-avatar version of am-I-hot-or-not-? (multi via NewWorld)
Sprol on nuclear power plants (Sprol w/pix)
Don't-miss long bleak Flash NC17 everylife video (Lodger via Cartoonist)
Some basic recommendations for registerng domainnames (BlogHerald)
Text-messaging finally catching on in USA (WSJ)
Fourstar general likely fired to preempt tell-all (HuffPo-Uygur)
Goldstar mother reports W has no conscience (HuffPo-Boehlert)
Best price on used PSPs, $200 w/AC adapter (Gamestop via DealNews)
Wednesday:
Siberian thaw may release more greenhouse gas (UkG)
Lots of jobs in computer animation (USA2)
ClicheWatch: "between Iraq and a hard place" 21,400 hits (GgW pattern)
3.7% of UK kids have DNA-mismatch w/father (UkInd-2col)
Short funky Italian electronica Quicktime clip (slow via antville)
Refurbished 2Gb fm/mp3 player $70 shipped (Philips-DealNews)
Game-patch sneaks in adware (and accompanying EULA) (Kotaku)
Praying mantis catches/eats hummingbird (BirdWatchers w/pix via CynC)
New theory substitutes quantum vacuum for Higgs boson (Eureka)
"Meanwhile, Israel grabs the rest of Jerusalem..." (IHT)
Krassner on some Sixties communes (NyPress w/popup)
USB piano-tutor $21 shipped (Merit via DealNews)
PrankWatch: AirForce reservist spraypaints pro-W cars (AP-Wired)
Ocean microbes fix lots of atmospheric nitrogen (Eureka-no-pix)
Only 1000 of 20k nematode genes active in early embryo (Eureka-short-no-pix)
Another Flash-jukebox blog with a fun playlist (Red Chuck)
I'll be collecting these on my jukebox page, see new 'juke' link above
Longish history of Buffalo Springfield (BlogCritics)
Long neopagan's summary of academic research on witch-persecution (COG via lf)
Short analysis of the post-election mood in Iran (HuffPo-Majd)
Analog controls are more fun than digital ones (Gizmodo)
Brilliant Dan Clowes on art-school (interview via Drawn)
IBM abstracts your pc onto a 'SoulPad' keyring (NewSci w/popup)
Short gamma-ray-bursts tracked as 1-3B lightyears distant (NewSci)
Atomic-force microscopes get nano-diamond tips (Eureka-arcane-no-pix)
A peek at my big project (semantics/graphs.html)
Kate Moss goes for guys setting fire to their beds (Fem1st)
Tuesday:
International news review (Gelf)
Brandnew x-ray space-telescope already busted (NewSci via lf)
Monastery deluged after 'best beer' nomination (UkInd-2col)
'Humor In Uniform' Submissions At All-Time Low (new Onion)
A bit of counterintuitive investing-wisdom (iGreed)
Artist grafts fetal head onto bird (UkG-no-pic) [disturbing pic]
'Peanuts' franchise saves Fantagraphics (Seattle via E&P)
5min of Flash video-clips by Iraq insurgents (WaPo via Ag)
Sinead a rasta now? (AP-Oz via VH1)
Update on BBC Beethoven-download coup (UkInd-2col)
Neocons' plan to feed rat-poison to poor foiled by judge (AP-Wired)
Nudity becoming routine in NYC theaters (NyT-IHT)
Juba-the-Baghdad-sniper new GI folklore? (UkG via lf)
Russian sub-rescue post-mortem (UkTimes-no-pix)
Saddam's 1988 anthrax traced back to 1937 UK cow-ear (UkTimes)
PrankWatch: Roman yobs torch 200 cars, motorbikes (UkTimes-no-pix)
Sharon Stone: "I'm heavy in the loafers" (UkSun via HuffPo) [etym]
Two-gallon Brita water filter $25 shipped (DealNews-Drugstore)
Touted new US jobs mostly come with fries (CPunch-Roberts)
Mars rovers both reach geologically-interesting terrain (NewSci w/pix)
Washer's spin-cycle dries better w/additives (UFl via Eureka)
Puppet show can't use Saddam, ObL as villains (BBC-no-pic)
Send these peanuts to Africa! (USA2 see below)
$10M's just waiting for Wie to turn pro (USA2 w/popup)
Intense competition for limited higher-ed teaching slots (USA2)
Teaser-lyrics from Rolling Stones' anti-neocon song (Drudge via Sam)
1.3Mp digicam w/color LCD for $18 shipped (Surplus via DealNews)
Pentagon data-mining spotted four 911 hijackers in 2000 (NyT via HuffPo)
Electronic Arts milking sports-sequels to death (NyT via Kotaku)
Arrest that lede! (RegUk-Haines)
Prokaryotes have microcompartments w/protein shells (Eureka-arcane-no-pix)
Malware includes keylogger (RegUk-short)
Movie version of "His Dark Materials" gearing up (Hollywood via AIC)
Designing state-of-the-art games for 6yo girls (Alice-notes)
Beginner's guide to 'emo' music (multipage via cliptip) [Wiki]
Low-energy home-design success story (Newsweek-2pg via Make)
$2 DIY cellphone booster-antenna (1pg via Make)
Unmanned aerial surveillance coming soon to a demo near you (Engadget w/pic)
RC mini-tank previewed (Ptsbg w/pix via Cnet)
2ndLife virtual-world hosts trailer-trash contest (2ndLifeHerald w/pix)
GoogleNews now supports RSS feeds, so learn how to craft searchpatterns (gnhacking.html)
They shouldn't set fontsize to "-1" though-- there's just no reason for that
Also it gives false 'updated' positives
Brilliant peanutbutter-based treatment for Africa's infant malnutrition (NyT-IHT via Ag)
Ebert in elegiac/confessional mode (Lost and Delirious) (Chgo-2001)
Monday:
IBM releasing semantic-AI module as open source (IBM via /.)
Neocons most satanic (old MrPoll results)
New poll (about jukebox) at bottom of jukebox page (jukebox.html)
US beach-closings rise massively in last ten years (CSM w/graph)
Adorable pix of celebs as kids (6pg-gallery via !mark)
One-pound robot creeps up vertical walls (Discovery w/pix via Engadget)
GDP, energy, Euro, Germany, construction, China, Harvard, Hillary (DeanBaker)
AOL rehabilitating itself? (Beattie)
Banks view illegal immigrants as revenue opportunity (CNN-Money via HuffPo)
Gigantically pregnant Britney Spears in a bikini (pix via VH1)
Expired:
A more-leisurely view of my new mp3-jukebox (annotations pending) (jukebox.html)
Tsunami warning-system being quickly hacked together (NewSci-short-no-pix w/popup)
$100 gizmo anonymizes all outgoing packets? (iPhanton via Engadget)
Gorgeous weightless poem: Hell has a sound like a hive's / moving quiet (VerseDaily)
Cute meditation on doppelgangers (#McSweeneys)
Deep dense feminist critique of blog-popularity metrics (M2M-long)
Dense peek at remaining Gaza-pullout complications (Debka via WatchAm)
NyT-urls include 'session-ID' that screws up sharing (TimYang-short)
Long examination of fans using games to animate movies (NyTmag via many)
Adidas ad visualizes soccer played on 'high iron' (QT via VH1)
S.Koreans love their SimsOnline clone-plus (Wired-unclear)
Paid movie downloads tested in UK (7ukp = $12.44) (RegUk-short)
Sunday:
I went thru WFMU's mp3-archive and added some novelties to the juke (archive)
Godawful Allen-Ginsberg settings of Blake poems (archive.org mp3s-etc)
Wahhabist iconoclasm targets even Mecca, Medina (UkInd via Ag)
How the Democrats lost the unions (HuffPo-Stembottom)
Scary implications of the new Creationism (Wolcott)
Filtered tapwater wins nonblind taste test (LifeLux-short via Plc)
GooglePrint workaround for reading as much as you like (blog via Plc)
No-brainer approach to embedding your own GoogleMaps (BluWeb-1pg via Plc)
A NyYankee's post-steroid happy ending (HuffPo-Bradley-short)
Two pained perspectives on the mood in London (dIreland-long)
Snazzy Flash presentation of Shuttle landing-path (USA2 via newrecruit)
Thousands more potential bombers in UK? (UkInd via Ag)
Useful Firefox tweak (broken-multiline-url paste) (Zmievski via Zawodny)
Moving Hiroshima synopsis (Barista-longish w/pix)
Amazon's long tail considerably shortened on recalc (oops via Waxy)
Solipsistic top-500 del.icio.us taggers's top tags (Oz via lf)
Saturday:
RSS-readers, check out my new mini-jukebox (RWWL) [xml playlist]
I expect to add new finds ongoingly, at the top of the list
Suppressed Hiroshima footage on Sundance Channel tonight (Sat) (E&P via lf)
Can bad vibes jinx computers? (Yes, I say) (Canoe via Raw#*h8%NO CARRIER
Molly O'Poverty's free-music blog (via lf)
Flash mp3-player makes sharing faves easy? (JW-download via lf)
So far no sound comes out for me??? ...Ah, finally!
PrankWatch: Sinister augmented comic book causes PO evacuation (UK)
Six seminal midnight-movies incl "El Topo" (Newsday-Philly)
PrankWatch: Lab supervisor loses job over $35k urine prank (KY)
Recipes for gourmet/exotic popsicles (GgN-SjMerc-multipage)
Sea-creatures stage mystery shallows-parade (Fla-no-pix via lf)
Red-delicious apples bioteched to death? (WaPo-Detroit w/pic)
Hopeful semi-local coverage of Russian sub rescue (Moscow News)
Weekend poll: Which groups are most satanic? (MrPoll)
RWWL readers way out of my gadget-league (MrPoll results)
Okay survey of unfilmable novels being filmed (UkG)
Is W clinically psychopathic? (ProRev)
Full, sensational Monroe transcript (see below) (LaTimes via lf)
JFK "is going to change our country. No child will go hungry... People who can't afford it will get good medical care"
The Rolling Stones sell out still more (HuffPo-Bradley-moto)
Pretty German antiwar rap by Fettes Brot (Fatbread) (phat-QT via antville)
Cool meteor-shower time-exposure (AstroPic)
Neologism: "jumping the couch" = jumping the shark, TomCruise style (Fem1st-short)
USA withholds water to pressure Iraqis? (Pak-WatchAm)
Strange new dream (Fauxtoon 5)
Fun German pop videos by Wir Sind Helden (We Are Heroes) (antville-multiclick)
Overdesigned Flash site w/decent performance, worth exploring
Presbyterians join churches pressuring Israel (NyT-KY via HuffPo)
Transcript reveals Marilyn Monroe's Joycean self-analysis (UkG-short via HuffPo)
Secret Service assaults reporter for asking Rummy wrong question (HuffPo-Norman)
Political styles of Bill Maher and Jon Stewart compared (HuffPo-Ingram-vshort)
Friday:
Low-end laptop price trends (PcWorld via Cnet)
256Mb mp3 player $31 shipped after rebates (DealNews-Buy)
GoogleWeb results add 'Buy' links (etc) (TechDigits-short via Blogoscoped)
Surprisingly articulate W-comments on NASA (SpaceRef via NasaW)
Authentic vs passive hope (RigInt-deep)
Israeli-spies scandal about bombing Iran? (dIreland via Sam)
Church sermons a natural for podcasting (UkTel)
Purported David's palace in E.Jerusalem (NyT-IHT) [pic]
Bike-route-finder atop GoogleMaps minimizes hillclimbing (BadHill via Plc)
Chavez strengthens Venezuela-Iran axis (Iran-short)
Cocaine metabolite measured in Milan's Po river (RegUk-vshort)
Charming Malaysian rap video by Ahli Fiqir (QT via antville)
Sweet maternal appreciation of Star Trek's spiritual virtues (blog via Obl)
Gitmo's Afghans to be rendered back home (AFP-Oz via lf)
Thursday:
Top 20 earthshaking songs/movies/shows (Uncut-Ireland-list)
Low-rent violent psychedelic-punk video by Idiot Pilot (QT via antville)
Lady prof plays undergrad, as research (VVoice w/popup via Clpngs)
Electrifying 'Morningwood' alt-thrash video (QT via antville)
Flash video of Robert Novak swearing and walking off live talker (CNN via HuffPo)
Israel being blacklisted for bad uploading-netiquette (Ynet via Gorilla)
Delicious halloween cake resembles gutted carcass (3pg via freshfruit)
Yoga stirs up Norwegian convicts' demons (AP-CBS via HuffPo)
What ObL's collected speeches show (NC via Clpngs)
Tech details of 7/7 bombs (AP-NyT via Clpngs)
For-real Arnold-Schwarzenegger Y2K workout-mp3s (WFMU)
Coolest typo ever (Flickr via Waxy)
Belated expensive Swiftboat-vets revenge proposal (HuffPo-Cobble)
Why Johnny don't read, 2005 (USA2 w/popup)
Alex Cockburn explains where India is at these days (CPunch-long)
Rotifers' convenient junk-dna makes sex unnecessary (Eureka-arcane-short)
Recent Iraq casualties barely ripple US media (HuffPo-Boehlert-short)
LA museum salutes Sergio Leone (NyT-IHT)
Yahoo results for obscure music faves: [Marta Sebestyen] [Mary Coughlan] [Stewart/Gaskin]
Seven dotcoms that missed their big chance (Galbraith-short)
Benefits of breastfeeding beyond 1st birthday (Eureka-Oz)
Commercializing human breastmilk distribution (BBC via RegUk)
Instant-classic Paul-Graham on liberating work from business (long via /.)
Promising site for comparing app-usefulness (MyProgs via Plc)
How Technorati.com uses tags (Sifry)
How did atmospheric nitrogen reach Moon from Earth? (OzABC via lf)
Stupid 7/7 exploitation game (Flash via HuffPo)
China intensifies cultural censorship (IHT via Ag)
Final Shuttle-repair spacewalk weighed (NewSci w/pic)
UK assisted Israel's nuke program in 1958 (BBC)
DIY endangered-animal paper-sculptures (PDFs via Ursi)
Apple expands Japanese iPod-market (RegUk)
Exhaustively researched critique of recent movie/book blurb-sweetening (Gelf-looong)
Smart funny critique of Shuttle program (IdleWords-long)
DoD throws $50M more at automatic spy-chatter translation (RedHerring via Engadget)
SlangWatch: "deets" = details (Engadget-passim)
PhilG on Hollywood's portrayals of engineers (shortish)
New Hitler juvenilia incl sister's diary (UkG via VH1)
Yahoo audio-search finds pirate mp3s (sample pattern)
Another music-video blog (like antville), w/rss (cliptip via ffwd)
Zippy speaks spam (24hrs-only)
Wednesday:
Children's fantasy series explores racism, suicide-bombing (UkTel-bkrev)
Hacked CVS disposable digicamcorders as a political resource? (Anarchogeek)
$70 low-end digital camcorder (CompUsa via DealNews)
Flash minigolf with fun/rich obstacles (donpixel)
Susan Polgar breaks simultaneous-chess records (Chessbase w/pix via Kotaku)
Afghan hound cloned in S.Korea (NewSci w/pic, popup)
Hacking the Sony $500 e-ink ebook-reader (Make-1pg-phat)
Short profile of guerrilla artist Banksy (Wired w/pix)
Posthumous Brando pirate-novel (UkG-short)
W evicting wild horses to slaughter? (HuffPo-DStillman)
Bizarre top-100-artists formula makes van Gogh 81st (ArtFacts via iMomus) [iMomus]
Nine Inch Nails videos (multiformat via antville)
Soothing random-music generator, Sticks (Flash via dataisnature)
Another spacewalk starting (NasaTV)
Eminent-domain expansion proving a political hot-potato (WSJ)
Preposterous top-100 movie-characters list (Premiere-1pg via Bibi)
At least Frank Booth got in
Tuesday:
(Is 75 links in one day some kind of record?)
Movie and game ratings will specify themes too (Oz)
Beautifully animated generic-alt.music video (Jack's Mannequin) (QT via antville)
Illustrated history of neocon-blowback (JuanCole via Gorilla)
Pepsi taps into the youth-culture thing (new Onion)
The bandname "Olivia Tremor Control" is so wonderful I guess I'll have to start reading this (WFMU via Waxy)
A sampling of religion-themed Google text-ads (Blogoscoped)
US savings-rate has plummeted in 2005 (CSM w/graph)
When/if the real-estate bubble bursts, there's no cushion at all...?
Hungarian-variable-notation ready-reference (1pg via Plc)
Don't-miss paean to good old tapwater (NyT-short via Plc)
Global-warming-apocalypse update (Progress-Sam-sweaty)
Get youself a cold drink before reading this
Original $10 text-adventures for iPod (Malinche via Kotaku)
Female fiddler crab may reject 100 males before finding 'best' (UCSD via Eureka)
Two Amazonian languages that are dramatically anomalous (Eureka-short)
Illustrated hands-on mostly-rave for new Apple mouse (Beattie-1pg-phat)
Nice spooky reminder of bendable-natural-law (RigInt)
My experience is you can get in moods where weird phonecalls-etc just start happening...
Linux-CD-burning kiosk (S.Africa via Engadget)
Impressive $44 humanoid robot (Firebox via Engadget)
40Gb Sony mp3-player for $230 (eCost via DealNews)
Total Information Awareness returns in new disguise (Fox via Sam)
GoogleNewsFight: 21/7: 538 - 7/21: 1020
Oxygen may have triggered first snowball-earth global cooling (PhysOrg)
Satirical western-hemisphere map (jpeg via root.cellar)
Iraq medics face drug-resistant superbug (Forbes via Cursor)
Oppenheimer's 1945 prescience about nuclear non-proliferation (HuffPo)
Russia missed a leftward opportunity in 1996 (Moscow via Ag)
Memoirs of NYC homeless-shelter mental-heath-evaluator (VVoice-bkrev w/popup)
Barbara Lee's prescient objection to post-9/11 rush-to-war (SfGate-2001 via lf)
Detailed analysis of pre-Iraq disinfo campaign (UkG-bkrev via Ag)
Interesting chemists' view of catnip (ACS-longish via Eureka)
Idealistic origins of Muzak (Cnet)
Phishers steal $3B via finessed ATM-card info (Cnet)
Myopic dogs prefer $7/lb bones-and-raw-food (B.A.R.F.) (surreal via InfoJunk)
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le Dead (jpeg via InfoJunk)
Overview/update on Cisco router-hacking flap (RegUk)
PrankWatch: Derby streaker felled by 50kV taser (WY-no-pix via lf)
Detailed comparison of energy-drinks (1pg via lf)
Shuttle hacksaw kludged from Velcro and duct tape (AP-Sierra-no-pix via HuffPo)
New bipartisan "PSA" protests neocon foreign policy (Asia via Ag)
Superhip-but-somewhat-arcane new DNA-code theory (UBath via Eureka)
Neologism: "autonomy support" = positive parenting-style (Eureka)
$35 qwerty handheld from Royal (Engadget w/pic, links)
India squeezes starter-pc system down to $225 w/crt (BBC via Engadget)
Presumably Linux?
Three-Mile-Island nuke-leak update, w/satpix (Sprol)
An incomprehensibly complex new mouse (Apple via Gz)
New poll: What gadgets do you have/lust after? (MrPoll)
Feel free to ignore these if they're boring you
Minimal UPS power-backup for $30 shipped (Buy via DealNews)
Comparative overview of vector-graphics programs (1pg via /.)
AOL's imminent transition to all-free-content (Cnet)
Extremely strange, actually-offered ice-cream flavors (WaPo via Morning)
Excellent analysis of DVD sales trends (NYer-short via Morning)
Superhealthy, superpricey new fruit, the mangosteen (Mnpls via Morning)
Tempel-1 impact may support massive electrostatic-universe rethink (Wired via lf)
Remarkable $100 guidable-underwater-camera system (1pg-phat via Make)
Fine post-mortem on women-bloggers conference, BlogHer (M2M blog)
Burt Reynolds turned down post-Connery Bond plum (IMDb-vshort via MovieBlog)
Mercury-mission launched 1yr ago uses Earth, Venus for gravity-assists (arcane via NasaW)
We don't know enough about space 'weather' for Mars trip (PhysOrg)
Was 'Sims Online' mis-marketed as cyber meatmarket? (blog via Alice)
Flickr implements decent semantic tag-clustering (example via Barefoot)
"Aristocrats" not a hoax (refs/links via Waxy)
Overlong well-researched backgrounder on celeb-gossip blogs (LaTimes via Waxy)
Extremely silly one-eyed-3D effect (w/nudity) (Gasparini via Ursi)
Poignant teen-moronicity vignette (OverheardInNY-vvshort)
Magic mushrooms relieve cluster headaches (UkG via HuffPo)
Neocon family values (HuffPo-Arianna w/links)
USA's never-forget-unconfirmed ambassador to the UN (HuffPo-Uygur-vshort)
WSJ's stipple-artist's gallery (frames/popups via Drawn)
Fish from 1971 nuke-test site finally seem safe (Eureka)
More claymations at Internet Archive than Google Video (via Bibi)
Thoughtful iMomus (blog w/links)
Don't-miss perspective on W's re-framing the war on terror (NYer-Packer)
Arctic Ocean teeming w/life (gorgeous pic) (Toronto via Ag)
Reasons to fear John Roberts (Mnpls via Sam)
Monday:
Flickr retroactively ranks best pix daily since last July (classy via everybody)
Crossing fingers that imported beetles target only salt cedars (USA2 w/popup)
Sort-of-scary Java sea-monster generator (ucla via FutureFeeder)
2ndLife virtual-world gets 1st parasites (aLife via NewWorld)
75-year sentence for Yemeni funding Hamas (IPS via Ag)
Chinese govt to spend $1.8B on game development (Cnet-short)
CAFTA, farm subsidies, Medicare, SocSec, student loans, unions, China, energy bill (DeanBaker)
'Celine', 'High Hopes' are obscurest best-bets (MrPoll results)
Enceladus has mysterious polar heat source (U2day w/pix)
African famine as a permanent crisis (EthanZ)
Iraq-withdrawal as disinfo campaign (CPunch-Solomon)
Harry Shearer's annoyed that Gore killed a decent worldnews channel (HuffPo-vshort)
Gibberella beats Pilobolus at spore-ballistics (Eureka via Eyebeam)
Another story I missed because the headline is undescriptive
Leprosy declined when lepers killed off by more-virulent TB (Eureka)
Noise-cancelling headphones $15 delivered after rebate (DealNews-Buy)
RedHat-founder turns custom-book publisher (Lulu) (BBC)
Global warming increases hurricanes' strength not number (NewSci w/popup)
Overdesigned fashion-Kodak-cameras of the 30s (multipage via Ursi)
Witty produce-based face-caricatures (frames via Ursi)
The Shuttle's 'gap-fillers' problem (NewSci w/pix)
ISS drinking-water costs $40k/gallon (Wired)
MemeWatch: It's the [not economy] stupid (GgW pattern)
Quixotic millionaire buys modern Canadian ghost town (WaPo-India via lf)
Beautifully balanced perspective on Hillary and GrandTheftAuto (HuffPo-Bearman)
Survey of underreported world news stories (Gelf w/links)
Arcane analysis of recycled Shuttle replacements (Spaceref w/pix)
Long lucid arcane analysis of China's effect on world economy (Ecnmst via bGen)
Anjelica Huston banged on door as Polanski raped 13yo (Fem1st)
Decline of wolf causes trophic cascade in other species (Eureka-short)
Great intellectual appreciation of Edmund Wilson (NYer-Menand-long)
Challenging surrealist choreographers (NYC-specific) (NYer-Acocella)
Illustrated history of stripmined Pacific island, Nauru (Sprol)
Leveraged-buyout monkeybiz threatens foreign investment (WSJ-arcane)
Why so many bands haven't reached iTunes-et-al yet (WSJ)
Gun-biz reaching out for new customers (WSJ-longish)
PrankWatch: Is "The Aristocrats" movie a hoax? (short via Waxy)
Even the Gitmo prosecutors think the process is rigged (NyT via HuffPo)
Japanese fad for iq-boosters (UkTimes-shortish via HuffPo)
Teacher-training programs are worse than useless (HuffPo-Piscal-archive)
Mega64 goofballs stage 21stC suburban happening (phat Quicktime via ffwd) [bkgd]
Short analysis of journalism's general decline (Sam)
Another spacewalk starting (NasaTV)
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