BEHEAD THE TRAITORS
W, you're washed up
Headlines:
Longish Jon Stewart profile (UkG)
Of 122 who saw it, only 6 don't recommend Dylan doc (MrPoll results)
Crime novelist Michael Connelly debuts new protagonist (NyT-IHT-bkrev)
Pentagon shakes finger at Iraq GI-bloggers (eStripes)
Good issue of Risks Digest (smart analysis of tech snafus) (1pg)
USPS wants you to start a countywide weekly (E&P)
Towards sweeter virgin olive oils (SciNews)
Lots of free PG Wodehouse from Gutenberg (index-page via OlB)
FEMA overpaying roofers by 900% (KRT-CD)
PrankWatch: Vengeful millionaire faces 1yr for slashing SUV tire (FL-no-pix)
Unprecedented Dec2001 FoxNews series on Israeli spying (4pg w/QTs via Sam)
PrankWatch: 20yo faces 20yrs for gum-wrapper bombthreat left on plane (AP-TX-no-pic)
Update on neocon 'ecoterror' prosecutions (Alter via Cursor)
Radio guest claims religious peoples are less ethical (9am-1 Sat, RealAud) [bkgd]
Freakonomist distances self from Bennett's black-babies blooper (Frk-blog)
Another blog to watch (Steve's NDH)
Daltrey approves Mike Myers for Keith Moon biopic (via MovBlog)
Dr Wank says schizophrenia may be STD (UkTms)
26yo has helped fake 20k VanGoghs for $30 each? (KR-IHT-passim)
Short rave for new Monk-Coltrane release (Toronto)
ParisHilton-oid Tara Reid collapsing under bad pr (NyPost-MyWay-no-pix via HuffPo)
Stevens wrote in good, easily-checkable English (useless Wired editors, par7) [GgW] "translated"!
First(?) hands-on education-oriented robotics store in NYC (Raw w/links)
Lennon Biography Accidentally Reviewed In Capitalize Mode (UkInd-TwoCol)
Top-rated budget mp3-players (Cnet w/pix)
Iraq must become three countries (HuffPo-Uygur)
Arianna finds Judy Miller's new cover-story laughable (HuffPo w/links) [more]
Many women have the opposite of color-blindness (CogD via eAard)
Coalition of the Willing loses Uzbekistan (WaPo)
Japan not getting its money's worth from UN (UkTms via Ag)
Idiots Alert: the $100 laptop (RWx-quickie)
Suspicions that Iraq's oil-production will never recover (Agonist-short)
In-house shared knowledge-management strategies (esp. wikis) (/. thread)
Thursday:
Sidney Blumenthal savages Karen Hughes (UkG)
Bio of pregnant suicidal country star McCready (Toronto w/pic)
50 most cited texts in the humanities (list via Steve)
Yahoo Site Explorer (sample via SEW)
Wild gorilla using walkingstick (pic) [story]
First two chapters of Pete Townshend's novella are up (blog-ch1) [ch2]
Bush2005 songtitles (site requires cookies)
Jowitt on Danes as Wyeth's Christina (VVoice)
Backgrounder on convicted Spanish aQ-suspect-reporter (NwsWk-prntr)
Flu epidemics' 1st footholds are preschools and daycare (Eureka)
Vending machine cooks fresh french fries (Spain via lf)
Afghan poppy-farmers repay failed loans w/daughters (Boston via HuffPo)
W makes desaparecidos of Natl Guard (VVoice)
GoogleVideo may host free BBC content (Unofficial)
Superb photoshopped flower-mandalas (1pg via TimBray)
Lo-tech office-supplies-fetishism update (1pg via mshook)
When Wie turns pro (vsoon) (USA2)
New NYRB incl F.Dyson on Feynman (toc via GgN)
Stats on used-books market (AP-Boston via Morn)
MemeWatch: No [not child] left behind (GgW pattern)
Bobby baseball-cards introduce kids to local cops (BBC-short w/pic)
"Local Hero" voted best for UK locations (BBC-top10)
New fashion-show galleries (UkTel-jscript)
Getting-Wikipedia-entry now rates UkTms headline (UkTms)
Using Wikipedia to bootstrap semantic web (Wikimedia)
Poker chips w/Christian slogans (XianEx) [pix]
Flann O'Brien gets plug on "Lost" teevee-hit (Chgo-IN)
Penguin boils nonfiction classics down to pricey 100pp (USA2-short)
Ex-Marine sees reporting for alJazeera as patriotic (USA2 w/pic)
Only NYC let Joanie's cussing air (AP-Nola-short)
Muppets postage-stamp set (pic) [bigger]
MS KPL = Kid's Programming Language (Windows, free) (TechWeb)
Forces you to accept .Net-- not sure if this is wise
"League of Gentlemen" review/update (BBC black comedy) (UkInd-2col-longish)
New Guinea language-history mapped (NyT-pix via lf) [story]
Courtney Love swears off flashing (Fem1st)
Nola mayor forced police chief's resignation (Nola#)
Wednesday:
Turkish women finally give Karen Hughes an earful (WaPo-shortish via HuffPo)
Britney's "Toxic" 2nd-most-popular song in world (BBC-top-five) [more]
Longish list of domainnames registered by Google (SEW)
IMDb experiments with keyword-tagging (sample)
One-man 'nest' hidden behind multiplex screen (UkTimes)
Painter Hockney a pro-smoking activist (UkInd-2col)
I missed Zarqawi's declaration of civil war (UkTms-15Sep)
31 vacuous songs Van Morrison improvised in an hour in 1967 (WFMU-mp3s)
Scott Ritter on how Saddam outfoxed everyone in 1996 (CD-UkG-extract)
Delightful wide-ranging Warren Beatty political speech (CalNurse-long via HuffPo)
I've never seen Sam so aggrieved (ProRev-vshort)
Yahoo ranks my Nora page 118th on my site, for 'Nora' (Rollyo subsearch)
Google puts it first, duh-- does Yahoo ignore titles???
Bush2005-single downloadable at iTunes, Yahoo, Sony, Walmart, Rhapsody, Napster, MSN [cite]
Rollyo lets you filter Yahoo search by any list of sites (example search)
Apparently a blank line in the list means 'search whole web'
How audiobooks are recorded (AP-FL)
Eloquent found poem (Overheard-vvshort)
Handy Flash metronome (via lf)
Shattering public Abu-Ghraib-sanity plea from Army Captain (WaPo via HuffPo)
Another fun blog that deserves more traffic (ExplodingAardvark)
Followup on outrageous Nola cruise-ships deal (WaPo via Sam)
25 critical questions about Nola fiasco (Znet-Tom-list)
Closeups of spongey Saturn moon Hyperion (1pg gallery) [spongey]
Super-catty obit for M Scott Peck (blog-vshort)
Nostalgic punchcard web-app (html-form via mshook)
New poll: Did you watch/like Scorsese's Dylan? (MrPoll-vshort)
MemeWatch-don't-miss: 'inoculation' = persuasion strategy (HuffPo-Reardon-short)
The "Day in pictures" link here needs a stable url of its own (BBC-worth-it)
A rich link-source I cite a lot but never linked (Ursi's blog)
PrankWatch: 40yo left drunk in Oz dumpster half-crushed (BBC)
Indie-game activist takes the plunge (Costik)
Short comparison of many mobile gaming platforms (Beattie)
Do-not-call list not being enforced (WSJ)
Glossary of chat-acronyms (1pg via lf)
Intermediate Dylan theory (RWx)
Tuesday:
daVinci's anatomy notes suggest new surgical approach (UkTms)
PrankWatch: 'Columbine' graffiti-threat traced by handwriting (AL-short-no-pix)
Rave for updated London "Hair" (IHT)
Congress abandons WikiConstitution (new Onion)
PrankWatch: Nursing-home workers face 10+ years for laxative prank (AP-KY-no-pix)
Only 15 of 115 consider bad-timing is ESP (MrPoll results)
Satpic of giant luminous microbe-bloom off Somalia (BBC) [story]
14yo French goths leap together from 17th floor (BBC) [pic]
FCC's seven-sneaky-words grant FBI software-veto? (Cnet-DecMc)
Basketball star gives best speech at antiwar rally (CD-transcript) [Amy]
J-Lo's "Live" scent inspired by baby-heads (Fem1st)
Robertson Davies trilogy to be filmed as miniseries (Toronto)
Indie bands eager to sell out on "The OC" (refill-list)
Loooong detailed chronology of W shortchanging Nola since 2001 (ITT via HuffPo)
George Monbiot on peak-oil mysteries (Znet)
John Pilger on Basra-jailbreak mysteries (Znet)
Excellent new batch of NYer toons (Cartoonbank)
Courtney Love's mother writes childhood tell-all (Fem1st)
Famous writers' embarrassing early titles (VVoice w/popup)
Could debris from nearby supernova have killed mammoths? (SpaceRef)
What we don't know about hurricane formation (SpaceRef-arcane)
Sun's 26-day cycle projects magnetic zebra-stripes in space (PhysOrg-no-pix)
Chewie and the Princess share a moment (jpeg via ThatsHow)
Promising page'o'mp3s (KittyMagik) [nother]
Three free iTunes for talking to Natl Guard recruiter (WFMU)
Nice arty videogame-sketch trance-video from Grizzly Bear (QT via stereogum)
Excellent synopsis of the Abu Ghraib evidence (HuffPo-Uygur)
Morning quickie: Dylan theory (RWx)
Monday:
Mushrooms as a home business (MI)
Wikipedia passes Esquire magazine's interactive acid-test (Signpost)
Synopsis w/spoilers of stupid new Jodie Foster flick (MovieSpoilers)
Unflattering Kerry2004 campaign documentary (NyNews via Sam)
Many examples of foreign words w/no English equivalent (BBC-bkrev)
No data-entry clerk left behind (Overheard-vshort)
Brangelina bikers biking (1pg-gallery via VH1)
MacOSX critic (below) took a savage e-beating (Beattie)
8min-QT of A.Broussard nailing T.Russert's black heart (1gm)
"Showgirls" restaged w/sock puppets (NyMag-vshort-no-pix)
Completely pointless hi-tech Begin-the-Beguine dada (Flash via mshook)
Gigantic profits in defaulting on pension plans (NyT via DeanB)
Germany, IMF, Katrina, Fed, inflation, gas prices (DeanBaker)
Refurbished 2Gb mp3-player w/fm $60 delivered (DealNews-Philips)
ClicheWatch: What part of [whatever] don't you understand? (GgW)
ClicheWatch: Why do you think they call it [not dope]? (GgW-weird)
Scorsese's Dylan on PBS tonight, tomorrow (snuck up)
Chapter 1 of schoolboy-Tony-Blair parody (UkG-etext)
Graphs discredit Katrina-warming link (BBC via Morn)
Semi-articulate Dylan memoir of New Orleans (IHT-extract-short)
Claim that Hollywood's depiction of game-play has improved (Wired)
Tepid concert review of juke-pick Laura Veirs (UkInd)
Long investigative debunking of Nola horror stories (Nola#)
LocalColorWatch: Editorial bemoans govt corruption (Ghana-longish)
PrankWatch: Troopers' press-release gets sexy p.s. (PA-short)
Brilliant don't-miss pan of Polanski's Oliver (NYer-Lane-longish)
Iraq-conditions driving doctors away (Reuters-Iq)
Don Hopkins is blogging again (Will Wright's uif guy) (blog)
Respectful 1pg gallery of women soldiers worldwide (Iran-vphat via lf)
Subtle food for thought
Vista sounds like MS's Katrina (RegUk-AO via dy)
Los Angeles explained (Staircase-shortish)
Sunday:
Painful pedestrian-nightmare video from Unkle (cliptip-QT-slow)
FEMA repeats Katrina mistakes w/Rita (E&P-short)
1pg etext of 1st Dorothy-Sayers Lord-Peter-Wimsey novel (UPenn via OlB)
Censored sculpture of torn holy books (UkObs) [pix]
UK prisoners healed by playing Javanese gamelan (UkInd)
New half-asleep dream-vision (fauxtoon 7)
Gold's record high suggests inflation-figures falsified (AP-CBC)
Posthumous exhibit of Cuban nude-nature artist (FL) [GgI pix]
Lowcost fastfood approach to healthcare (IN via Sam)
If Bergman made nautical-themed metal-videos... on acid! (antville-QT)
21 free mp3 versions of 1966 novelty hit by Napoleon XIV (WFMU)
Location-specific RSSable GgN-feeds for: [Iran] [China] [Cuba] [Jamaica] [France]
[Venezuela] [Japan] [Nepal] [India] [Afghanistan] [Russia] [Haiti] [Palestine]
[Finland] [Sweden] [Switzerland] [Turkey] [Hawaii] [Alaska]
Refurbished ThinkPads $400 shipped, one week only (CompUsa via DealNews)
RSSable GgN feed of all Iraq news-sources (location:iraq)
Only four? [Almendhar] [Kurdistan] [Azzaman] [Sooni]
Puppy swallows 13inch knife (WaPo-xray) [pup w/popup]
PA proposes oil-pipeline to Gaza, not Haifa (Iraq)
Is Ramsey Clark a progressive spoiler? (RigInt-short)
Pizza-wine tips (TN)
Cooking-blog 'Julie/Julia' turns into book (NwsWk-short) [blog]
100 best US cities for kids (NwsWk-list-prntr) [story]
Blistering critique of Iraq-planning from Schwarzkopf's replacement (blog w/link)
Personal movie-music anecdotes from Cameron Crowe (LaTms-long)
Wikipedia articles that have had to be "protected from editing" (GgW pattern)
Saturday:
W's 'paypal strategy' nets $600 for Iraq (UkObs)
I guess the Pentagon will have to start holding bakesales
Pet prairiedog (flickr-slideshow)
Subtly unique catpic (flickr)
Hunter Davies on new Beatles-biography leftovers (UkTms-bkrev)
MemeWatch: They [not shoot] [not horses], don't they? (GgW pattern)
Alphabetical list of Star Wars curses (blog via lf)
Doherty's post-Kate self-destruction (UkTms-no-pix)
Eighteen miscellaneous conjectures (science, history) (RWx-list)
UnprankWatch: Happyspikers slip drugs into random drinkers' glasses (Oz)
NeologismWatch: Ostensible Markup Language = fake markup-tags (via delicious)
Naomi Klein analyses the economics of Nola gentrification (CD)
Molly Ivins lists W's many worst-imaginable appointee-choices (CD-yikes)
The tail that wags the Democrats (Gorilla)
Which side are you on...?
Muslim cellphone includes Koran-etext, Mecca-compass (Raw w/pix)
Shark-attack increase blamed on 'shark dive' profiteers (WSJ via HuffPo)
Emotional new ad from Cindy Sheehan's group (QT via HuffPo)
NM monastery welcomes worldweary shortterm guests (TX w/pic)
Saddest-ever 3-word headline: "One-rupee suicide" (BBC) (band name?)
How Communism works in Nepal village (blog via lf)
Morning quickie 1: "del.icio.us vs Google Groups" (RWx-short)
Morning quickie 2: Structured search-results (RWx-short)
Caste-based gang-rape in India (BBC w/map)
PrankWatch: 14yo blinded via candy-necklace slingshot (UK w/pic)
Long transcript of Phil Donahue emasculating Bill O'Reilly (CPunch) [video]
Short realist's-guide to blog-anonymity (TimYang)
Paranoid landlord must pay $2.5M to Egyptian tenant (AP-UkG)
Geeks vs exotic produce (African Horned Melons) (Ck4Eng w/pix)
The Ajax-Office 7dwarfs: Writely, Bindows, Gliffy, Numsum, Meebo, and Zimbra (iGreed-short) [more]
My xml-joke re-applied to Katrina (Joho via mshook)
Free hitcounter as popup-ad trojan (CynC-blog)
The way your sharp cries rend / The air's thin silk (Poems.com-vshort)
Friday:
Lurid account of Kate Moss on ketamine (UkMirror)
Russian population, lifespan still plummeting (UkTms)
1936 children's "Little History of World" finally translated (NyT-IHT)
Looooooooong Robert Fisk memoirs of ObL (UkInd-extract)
Roses have been mysteriously losing their scent (SciNews)
Rave review of Sigur Ros concert (AvClub)
PhilG thinks-out-loud about making your phone your main pc (long-unconvincing)
One more very nice lost Rembrandt (BBC-pic)
Short uneventful account of touring Iran w/small kids (UkTms w/pix)
Monkees-inspired alt-rock video from Giant Drag (QT via antville)
Riverbend continues constitution close-reading (new BaghdadBurning)
Cheap Yahoo domain-registration too good to be true (Days-blog)
Earphones-only guitar amplifier $25 shipped (MegaMacs via DealNews)
Titan crawling with acetylene-based lifeforms? (SpaceRef-interview)
Hyper-arcane experiment on nanotech and van der Waals force (PhysOrg w/doodle)
Short history of charity supergroup-songs, w/audio samples (WFMU)
Peter Lawford's son on Marilyn, and on Jackie (NwsWk-interview)
RSS-able GgN feed for Village Voice (GgN pattern)
A much better MarthaStewart reality-show idea (Urban-short)
Uma at the beach (apropos of nothing)
Weekend poll: Bad timing and ESP (MrPoll-short)
PrankWatch: Silent alarm catches tweens' midnight museum-creep (WA-no-pic)
Dead Can Dance touring (LA-shortish) [more]
"Lady Sasquatch" exhibit explores bodyhair (Toronto-no-pix) [pix]
Arabic-superhero comix (aJ w/tiny pic) [GgI]
Comix as a legitimate investment (WSJ)
Birth of a subgenre: Katrina gothic? (CBS-Flash-video via lf)
Thursday:
DHS harrasses pro-veganism demonstrators (Atlanta w/pic)
Courtroom software turns accident descriptions into movies (NewSci-AI-frag)
Weatherpersons less articulate than weatherbots (NewSci-AI)
Cajun chef Prudhomme serving 400 meals/day to Natl Guard (AP-Nola)
Difficult zombie-trivia quiz (UkG)
JG Ballard appreciates David Cronenberg (UkG)
Long list of MacOSX gripes (Beattie)
Donovan's memoir of early Dylan (UkInd-2col-extract)
Clearance on violins, $55 shipped (Amazon via DealNews)
A couple of newly-attributed Rembrandts (AP-Can w/pic) [NyT]
Interesting longish Neil Young profile (UkInd-2col)
Ominous genetic insights into flesh-eating superbugs (Eureka-arcane)
It's time for demonstrations to target media co-conspirators... (Schechter via Cursor)
...like how 'bout NPR's Cory Flintoff for one? (FAIR via Cursor)
Iraq braces for 04Oct start of Ramadan? (StratPg via lf)
Digicam-binoculars $36 shipped (DealNews-Buy)
Novak betrays Aspen code to report W's lost cred (Townhall w/popup via Ag)
Gizmos-that-play-Doom blog hits its stride (ItPlaysDoom via Kotaku)
Google mounting titanic server-farm in NYC? (SEW-rumor)
Flu vaccines are mostly hoax (Forbes via Morn)
MemeWatch-origins: "the grim meathook future" (jwz-blog via jm)
Five user-made QT-promos for 2ndLife online virtual world (NewWorld-slow-phat)
Try #3 first, then #5, then the others
'Proactive' Scientologists reach out to help Kate Moss (Msn-short via Yeeeah)
Speculation on TiVo-inspired "GoogleTV" (SEW w/links)
Speculative 'Able Danger' (Pentagon data-mining) update (RigInt)
Gmail design-choices deemed arrogant (iGreed w/WSJ-link)
These dogtags even help if you're abducted by aliens (via Cartoonist)
And we're lost out here in the stars...
Okay update on p2p's legal shakeout (RegUk)
Okay analysis of Google vs MsAolYahoo (RegUk)
Super-lucid intro to Net anonymity (RegUk-1pg)
Vminimal official site for Bush2005 (Flash-optional)
art by Bertie
Dems always promise to fight the next battle (HuffPo-Uygur-shortish)
Nice rant about the new War on Porn (HuffPo-Arianna)
Ubu's vphat-experimental-films download page (Ubu via Bibi)
GwynethP the next Linda McCartney? (Fem1st)
Gretna cops say they'd block bridge again (Nola#)
Don't-miss 1stperson of random London-tube terrorism suspect (long via Obl)
human rights are so last-millennium
Alarming notes to the household staff (McSwnys-longish)
Shine on, harvest moon (AstroPic)
Blur-gazers' closeup of purported Titan seashore (AstroPic)
NeologismWatch: neoconiacs = neocon maniacs (Agonist-passim)
Morning quickie: Accessing the long tail of Google News (RWx-longish)
Beautiful: The two of us were just a little drunk (Poems.com-short)
PrankWatch: First, get some friends... (Dinosaur Comics)
Wednesday:
Snarky Lifehacker bashing (delicious-vvshort)
Don't-miss older Nick Park animated zoo stories (Bibi w/links, QT)
Detailed update on mercenaries (esp Blackwater) in Nola (Nation-Scahill-longish)
Iceland's 40-storey "chocolate skyscraper" melts in heatwave (WWN)
Paean/profile of photographer R.Avedon (NyT-IHT-no-pix) [GgI pix]
1200 sheep vanish overnight, w/o a trace (Toronto)
Reputed Bush2005 lyrics (lj-blog)
Italian prisoners learn fashion-design (CSM w/pic)
Suggested smooth-moves for pharmco salesmen (Harper's)
PrankWatch: Squirrels stash 1000 walnuts in new car (MN w/Flash video)
Before Lolita came... Shirley Temple?! (NyP-Knipfel)
Alarming GoogleNews searchpattern: "stabbed" (GgN) [cf 'shot'] [shot+killed]
Arcane analysis of Doherty-et-al's influence on men's fashion (IHT-no-pix)
LocalColorWatch: Upbeat rhyming editorial (Jamaica)
Well-researched rant about unhealthy public-school lunches (Boston-shortish)
Japan's "otaku bubble" could be inflated more by girl geeks (Jp via Kotaku) [def]
Hurricane Rita shaping up as Katrina's twin (live IR satpic)
This image updates every three hours around the clock
Bitter new slogan: "Blood for no oil" (Znet)
Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth 2 (BBC-pic)
Several good batches of one-liners (OverheardInNY-4pg)
In RSS you don't have to open each subpage, sorry
Foresight of "Jetsons" cartoon semi-seriously praised (vonMises-longish via lf)
Spielberg pissed at Cruise re Scientology rants? (NyPost via HuffPo)
HarpersIndex-style stats on Nola-Katrina (table via HuffPo)
2min RealVid clip of Wallace&Gromit action sequence (BBC)
Deneuve on Bjork-vs-vonTrier: "no point expecting logical behaviour from her" (UkG-extract)
Seven new statistical measures in baseball (serious) (USA2 w/popup)
Bible boiled down to '100min' read (UkTms-2pg w/extract)
Okay longish QT trailer for Domino Harvey flick (Apple via MovBlog)
PrankWatch: 250pound fiberglass beavers attract vandals (AP-OH) [pic]
Nice Iraq-quotes from ex UK foreign minister (AP-Nola)
Here's a more-direct link to the new Kate Bush song (BBC-Real w/jscript)
With javascript on, skip ahead 15, 15, and 5, then wait thru 3mins
Harmless-sounding genetic trick doubles corn's protein, oil (UCR via SciDaily)
Nola scratches become gangrene (Nola#)
The freezing-problem w/the QT7 beta for Windows seems fixed (Apple)
Cheap approach to multiplying ac outlets (Make w/pix)
"Producers" movie trailer w/Uma (Flash via AIC)
Funny typos on Asian pirate-DVD boxes (Blogoscoped-1pg)
Nola anecdote of FEMA bus-logistics cluelessness (LA via Steve)
Neologism: "slasholes" = Slashdot a-holes (Zawodny via Norton)
Best-teevee-ever nominee: "Homicide" (ONW-blog)
Clutter-tossing week "Discardia" starts tomorrow (via Vacuum)
Under 'Ken Bruce' click 'WED' (up now) for Real stream of Bush2005/KotM (BBC)
Starts 38mins in at 18:38:03, lasts 4:45, sounds busy and RedShoes-y, not angry/political
Chatty short critique of recent techno-utopian orgy (Lemon)
Closeted PortiaDeRossi hated Ally-Ling gay-kiss subplot (Fem1st w/popup)
Tuesday:
Boffins make fluorescent green hamster sperm (BBC w/pic)
Interview with 2005 Loebner-winning chatbot (UkG)
Spain's hydroponic vegetable basket (UkG-no-pix) [GgM]
Creepy Flash animated-skeletons toy (Corpdump via lf)
Bolton connection in Plame leak (HuffPo-Arianna)
Suicide via handcuffs successful (BBC w/pic)
"Hamlet" implemented as free online text-adventure (ajax via Kotaku)
Dorky gif-animations of v-slow terrain-changes on Mars (1pg-phat)
US personal-debt-crisis coming to a head this winter (Kunstler via 3red)
Morrissey thinks UK press trivialising Doherty's drug problem (Contact-vshort)
NicoleK will play Hedda Gabler in London next year (UK)
Baptist university censors Starbucks cups w/A.Maupin gay-quote (AP-Nola)
Cute Cheney-underground parody (Nwswk-short)
Pulling plug on Shuttle officially mooted (NasaW-vvshort)
Mrs Quoad's disgusting retroconfectionery drill (UkInd) [TRP]
256Mb mp3 player w/fm, voice, files for $33 shipped (PcMicro via DealNews)
Zmag and Amnesty give Nic Cage flick thumbs up (Zmag)
MP3-illustrated history of New Orleans music (Aurgasm-shortish)
NYC backseat-directs Oliver Stone's 9-11 flick (Cinem via MovBlog)
Working Firefox search-plugin for GgBlogsearch (scroll down to #20)
I also heavily use: GgN, GgI, GgG, IMDb, delicious, Amazon, etc
Morning quickie: vBay = vSkype + eBay? (RWx-short)
More KateMoss&coke pix, rumors (Yeeeah w/popups)
Were those UK agents-provocateurs in Basra? (RigInt)
France repents Freudianism (Glasgow via 1gm)
Alarming visitor-privacy invasion atop GoogleMaps (via Blogoscoped)
Rove's new New Orleans (HuffPo-Gumbel)
Monday:
MacArthur genius grants announced (USA2-list)
Righteous Katrina rap-video from The Legendary K.O. (WFMU-QT)
On the tantrums of children and dogs (dYeti-vshort)
Fine 60s memoir: Remember your girlfriend's blue Grand Prix... (Poems.com)
Readable profile of ethical-philosopher Mary Midgley (UkG)
Replica of Columbus's ship sailing up Ohio River (KY w/pic)
Father and son die in mystery-fall from Yellowstone bridge (AZ-vshort w/pic)
US wild-peyote crop dwindling (Seattle)
Buddhist historical sites draw tourists (Time-no-pix)
Bush2005 debuts Wed morn on BBC2 (info) [stream]
Ken Bruce will archive it there for a week, it appears
Int'l poll-results about Muslims-Christians-Jews (Pew-tables via lf)
Ancient gnostic Mandeans threatened in Iraq (BBC)
$400M UN plan unlikely to save amphibians (BBC)
Neologism: BRIC = Brazil-Russia-India-China investment opportunities (BBC)
PrankWatch: Charity bakesale includes Alice B Toklas cupcakes (BBC w/pix)
Tropical 'porcupine fish' reaches UK shore (BBC w/pic)
New infrared details from da Vinci's "Adoration" (UkG-longish-no-pix) [GgI-pix]
Bosnian "Hamlet" set in Ottoman empire (UkG)
Anti-Blair nursery rhyme wins competition (UkG w/etext)
Highly-insured celeb bodyparts survey (India-12pg w/pix)
Arcane/insane 7-bit amateur text-animation for Grandaddy song (QT via antville)
Ten best 'ethical' cookbooks (UkInd-list)
Basra slips away despite comparative delicacy of UK tactics (UkInd-PCock)
Baghdad preps warrant in $1B defense-graft (UkInd-PCock)
PrankWatch: Deactivated cellphones perfect for 911 hoax calls (TN)
Big govt, Katrina, jobs, Germany, patents, World Bank, UN, inflation (DeanBaker)
Close look at Nokia's Linux handheld (phat-1pg via Engadget)
Free 1952 etext: 125 ways to make money w/typewriter (5pg via OlB)
MemeWatch: X for the rest of us (GgW pattern)
Kate Moss is a bonobo (Fem1st w/popup)
Disney regretfully abandons hand-drawn animation (NyT-IHT-longish)
Hurricane Rita looks very bad to me (live IR satpic)
Tired: pirates; Wired: zombies (blog-vshort)
Word-of-the-day: cat's paw (Answers.com-vshort via CPunch)
Cursor is especially good today (weekdays noonish)
Glorious 10min silent NASA pr-video of proposed Moon mission (vphat-QT) [more]
My kind of travel tip (works w/books too) (TradeTricks-vshort)
Too-real authentic 50s beatnik bongo-poetry (WFMU-mp3s)
On Jeb Bush, out of left field (RigInt)
Neocreationism with style (NYer-humor)
Quaintly lurid sex-gossip about Sartre and Beauvoir (NYer-Menand-long)
New feature: Idiots Alert (Dave and Raina) (RWx w/link)
Smart security cam creates text summary, encrypts faces (RawF-vshort)
Bill Clinton steps back to the plate, clobbers W (AFP?-NZ via Ag) [skep]
Fresh dream (fauxtoon #6 jpeg)
Pretty German lovesong w/charmingly minimalist video from Tom Albrecht (PutFile-QT via antville)
250Gb USB external for $96 shipped after rebate (DealNews-newegg)
"Thin, golden, spicy Indian omelettes" (UkTms-recipe)
100 UK stars on new London Walk-of-Fame/Avenue-of-Stars (BBC-list via MovBlog)
Two QTs (incl vphat PG13 Barbarella trib) of decent girlpop from Jem (antville)
Longish profile of Nola's General Honore (#Nola)
Sunday:
What flash-memory is all about (non-tech) (USA2-short)
Decent cyberpunky melodrama from The Prodigy (QT via Fim)
Decent trailer for Johnny Cash biopic (QT via Fim)
Him and the Stones loom minuscule in my legend
Droll Arianna bashing Russert's Meet the Press (HuffPo)
Plausible dish on Zellweger marriage annulment (Fem1st)
Putin's new KGB tolerates/embraces Christianity (UkTms-short)
Exemplary checking-back-in post from EFF's Danny O'Brien (Obl-blog-short)
Thoughtful meditation sort-of on architectural fashion (iMomus w/pix)
14 novelists co-write fictional global Odyssey (IHT)
80% of Iraq's $1.3B weapons-budget vanishes via Poland (UkInd)
Short poetic doctor's account of coping with corpses (NyMag)
Chuck E Cheeses screening free Pentagon promos (NyMag-vshort)
Nintendo motion-sensor hailed as savior of gaming (blog via Alice)
Middleclass white communities still paradoxically waiting for FEMA (HuffPo-Shearer-short)
Simple effective photoshopped surrealism (flickr-pic)
Curmudgeonly anti-Disney-et-al's kids'-toons rant (UkTms)
Pre-WW2 pregnancy tests blamed for ongoing amphibian die-off (BBC via we)
All-semi-nude leaked(?) version of Britney's "Toxic" video (Kontraband-QT w/popups)
Bland farewell video from jailbound Lil' Kim (Msn-Flash) [story]
FEMA rents cruise ships for $192M (5k rooms for 6mos = $40k/person?) (AP-Nola)
Stars blast W at Lincoln Center Nola-benefit (AP-Nola)
Candymakers battle for #1 slot (AP-WaPo)
Afghanistan finds voters apathetic (cynical, hopeless?) (BBC)
PG13 Nicole-Kidman b&d still from "Birthday Girl" (jpeg)
Paris-Hilton-philia drives nauseated emigre back home (UkG-CD)
Lite calculations of personal global-warming-efforts payback (LaTms-CD)
16 'loonies' brave Katrina aftermath (AP-Wired-short)
Superb long chronological analysis of strategic errors in Iraq (Time via HuffPo)
Contrarian stockpick algorithm wows market (SfGate via iGreed)
I'd like to see a Flickr pool of glamor-stamps to rival Garbo (stampframe utility) [unglam]
Scotland has more non-murder violence than USA? (BBC-short via lf)
Sellout Dem leadership unable to capitalise on Katrina (HuffPo-Naftali)
Another good-morning-Sam (18Sep-ProRev)
20 terrified neighbors petition max sentence for 57yo bully (MO w/pic)
21yo Oz pilgrim lost to 'Rishikesh syndrome' (Oz w/pic)
$300B 'Islamic financial system' prohibits interest/usury (apropos of nothing)
Southeastern Idaho Belly Dance Festival today (short-no-pix)
If that's all there is to global satanic coup d'etat, then let's keep dancing...
Traditional Nola-graft already kicking in (LA-local)
Full transcript of Chavez's address to UN (Znet-etext)
16yo girl in cemetery at midnight fends off attacker w/cellphone (BBC w/pic)
Nola images inspire cities to self-reflection (BBC-example)
Despairing Gitmo prisoners gain traction by hunger strike (NyT-IHT)
Readable analysis of Sony's new CEO's new strategy (NyT-IHT)
"The religions of the children of Abraham are inherently flawed
in respect of intolerance, discrimination, violence and hatred" (Znet-Fisk)
Very slow-loading but worth-it 15min Japanese-horror parody (cliptip-QT)
Cynthia claims George spiked hers-and-John's 1st LSD trip (Contact-vshort)
M.Winterbottom pulls off "Tristram Shandy" flick (ScreenDly-no-pix)
Virtual world gets real electronic notary for binding contracts (2ndLife-vshort)
Lovably upbeat older Morcheeba triphop video (cliptip-QT)
Garbo postage stamp makes the rest look sick (Bibi-vshort w/pic, link)
garbo postage garbo postage garbo postage
Newsweek posts 75 articles at midnight Saturday (GgN-pattern-fyi)
Saturday:
Even mantras and asanas not exempt from ip-madness (UkTel)
Prince Harry's glamor-pose w/dirt, bike (BBC-friv)
Looong Gillian Anderson update (BBC's Bleak House) (UkTms-no-pix)
From a commune where I lived once (NyT-pic)
Readable Iraq-reconstruction non-progress report (NyT via HuffPo)
Embedded RealVideo of soccer-messiah Robinho (Spanish via ThisIsHell)
First download 4hr mp3 of today's ThisIsHell and jump to the last 2mins
Mixed review of new Mike Leigh (ThisIsLondon)
Zinn's US-history sequel is all document-quotes (InTheseTimes-bkrev-shortish)
GgBlog alternate blog-RSS-feed sample (GgB pattern)
Antiwar Danes poster Baghdad (aJ w/pix)
MemeWatch: "Sally Field moment" (GgW-pattern via Workbench)
Hawt fugitive drove $3M-1993-casino-heist getaway (AP-CA w/pic)
More RSS-able GgN feeds: ZNet, Time, Newsweek, alJazeera, Toronto, Rolling Stone
Mother Jones, ArtNews, Nation, New Republic, Natl Review, CJR, Amer.Heritage, Spin
InTheseTimes, Science News, CHE, Consumer Reports, WWN, SciAm
Online database collects fire-dept 'near-miss' stories (AP-Wired w/link)
Part one of Riverbend's critique of the proposed constitution(s) (BaghdadBurning)
Two short machinimations: floating Elvises, game suicides ($!art w/QTs)
Friday:
Evening quickie: Crystal tags as p2p-del.icio.us, or Napster for URLs (RWx)
Gourmet organic 'bespoke' icecream van (UkTel w/pix via UkTms)
India's working moms like packaged 'curry in a hurry' (UkTms)
$10M Titian found under $5k 'Tobias' (BBC w/pix) [more]
ClicheWatch: X, thy name is Y (GgW pattern)
Lawschools barred from grants for barring Pentagon recruiters (IHE via HuffPo)
Handcrank AM-FM radio $16 delivered (DealNews-Overstock)
Galloway/Ehrenreich/Finkelstein on This Is Hell tomorrow (9am-1CDT RealAudio)
Best lefty talker ever Exquisite Italian animated Terry-Gilliam tribute/ripoff (antville-QT)
Folding shopping handcart $20 shipped (DealNews-Meritline)
PrankWatch: "I eat babies to stay young" on church sign (FL-no-pix)
'Rational' trigonometry w/o standard trig functions (PhysOrg-opaque) [GgW more]
PrankWatch: Missing Beatle-cherub returned after 30yrs (Liverpool w/pic)
New Mike Leigh "2000 Years" scrutinizes Judaism (UkInd) [pix]
Tiny Quicktime-I-missed of DeepImpact hitting Tempel-1 (Nasa via SpaceRef)
PrankWatch: Republican faces 30yrs for pointing laser near airport (NJ)
Interesting pov-census of US moral collapse (HuffPo-Woods)
Onsite summary of Hitchens-Galloway mudfight (HuffPo-Blumenthal) [mp3/RealVid]
Thursday:
QM-level sim handles spin-paradox in hemoglobin (Purdue-arcane via Eureka)
12yo dies imitating Depp hanging-scene (BBC w/pic)
Nepal lets menstruators come in from cow-sheds (BBC)
Uninsured Katrina-victims see 1st doctors in years (AP-Nola)
RDF for 'creator' in Dublin Core is complex beyond agreement (Alchemy-arcane via franklin)
Kate Moss snorting coke on frontpage of UK Mirror (Gawker w/pic via VH1)
Halliburton protestor gets Gitmo-esque handling in Oz (CSM)
Piecing together the Nola-Convention-Center fiasco (WaPo via Morn)
11 stills from new Wallace and Gromit toon (MovOnline)
Whale-lice genes provide clues to whale evolution (SciDaily)
Popular kids initiate smoking, for cred? (Eureka-shortish)
Update w/pix on Japanese asteroid-mission (SpaceRef via NasaW)
First pic of Britney Spears' newborn (funny-stupid jpeg via VH1)
Looong lucid analysis of pharmco IP and university research (Fortune via dy)
Wednesday:
First EPA results on toxic Nola soup (AP-Nola)
PrankWatch: Unpatriotic deity irradiates 9/11-memorial audience (AP-Wired)
Govt-funded Chinese games use historical heroes (UkInd-2col)
Wells Fargo building 2ndLife island-world (Clickable via Waxy)
Genghis Khan's genes set human success-record (NatGeo-2003-2pg via lf)
My 2002 xml-joke is making the rounds (via T'rati)
Rare videos of Syd's Pink Floyd and Willner's Sun Ra (WFMU-QTs)
Titan's blur-gazers 'see' water-ice islands (U2day w/pic)
UK surrealist community getting organised (AbsArts)
New Harper's Index (fun stats) (Harper's)
Possible all-dark-matter galaxy (Hubble w/pix via Eureka)
Bait-n-switch Katrina volunteers treated like slaves (AP-Nola)
Boycott gas-station mini-marts? (VA via Sam)
Five "March of the Penguins" followups that neo-creationists will shun (Loom-short)
Hands-on details on Motorola iTunes phone (Engadget-1pg-phat)
$1B (Canadian) hydro-upgrade at Niagara Falls (CBC-vshort)
Smart software lets phonecams scan textpages (NewSci)
PrankWatch: Profane word mowed into lawn is protected speech (NE w/wmv)
Firefox-spinoff 'Flock' built for blogging (Tang via Wired)
New musical about Upton Sinclair's 1934 run for gov (E&P w/popup)
Old-boys-club includes WaPo-NyT nightly scoop-swap (E&P)
Scott Ritter on neocons' disastrous Iran strategy (aJ-long via Gorilla)
Mindbogglingly tiny rc 'silicon inchworm' (Dartmouth w/QT via Eureka)
Detailed rave for iPod Nano (UkReg w/pix)
New poll: Does your OS implement scrolling and menus well? (MrPoll-short)
Five of 75 RWWL readers have two mommies, 17 have the bomb (MrPoll-watchoogot-results)
Kinks' Ray Davies' 20-20 mugged-in-Nola hindsight (UkTms via Morn)
Regulations show Chertoff more negligent than Brown (KR via Morn)
Launch your own nano-satellie, just $80k (Cnet)
Mr Madonna (Guy Ritchie) blames film flop on kabbalah (Fem1st)
Kate Moss edits, sings for French Vogue (BrandRep)
Strange scratchy image of Saturn's moon Pandora (1000^2 jpeg) [cf]
PrankWatch: Drunk stripped, smeared w/frosting to attract dogs (WA-no-pix)
Hidden "ui=blg" Blogspot-interface to GgBlogsearch (via GgB-rss)
Nice turnaround-time for that EdB!
Google blogsearch debuts (GgB pattern via RegUk) [more]
18 state-of-the-art ajax web-apps/demos (V4th w/links via Bisset)
Don't-miss new GetYourKatrinaFloodingOn toons (mnftiu-1pg)
Historical archive of experimental multimedia (Ubu-multi via Momus)
USA plans 1500mile wall at Pak-Afghan border! (UkG via Ag)
Israel's is 450 miles at ~$1M/mile, Berlin was 100 miles long
Tuesday:
Apted's "7 Up" comes "49 Up" (UkG)
PrankWatch: Deflating SUV-tires non-destructively not a crime in Paris (UkTms-short)
Galloway-Hitchens live streaming debate Wed. evening (dIreland w/links)
Danny Elfman hates Sam Raimi now (moviehole via movieblog)
Weave a wifi detector into your wardrobe (1pg-phat Engadget)
Planned Parenthood solicits pledges based on protests-volume (official via we)
Finally found where TPic hides their flood news (via HuffPo)
Amazing Iraq-fiasco quote from "American Conservative" (Antiwar-short via Cursor)
Utility crews assigned to oil pipelines before hospitals (MS via ms)
Depressed RWWL readers get half-assed support (MrPoll results)
Dan Brown's parents were math prof and sacred musician (NH-passim)
I found all but his (moronic crypto) first to be enjoyable escapism
Freakonomics diet = oil between meals? (NyT) [more]
Inspiring 5th-graders' Devo cover-video (QT via Waxy)
A pretty batch of pix today at flickr (flickr-24hr-5pg)
128Mb mp3 player for $29 shipped (Amazon-DealNews)
128Mb USB pen drive $11 shipped, 2/$19 (Surplus-DealNews)
Chinese cosmetics firm harvests skin from executed convicts (UkG via dy)
Distant gamma-ray burst nicely mapped here via constellations (NewSci w/pix)
L'Oreal-prizewinning physicist's eyeshadow uses butterfly-coloring (Wired w/pix)
16-month-old Apple Paltrow-Martin's 1st word was 'agua' (Fem1st-no-pic)
Fossil bone contains 'amplifiable' DNA (PhysOrg-short)
Preschoolers decent at 'intuitive' addition (PhysOrg-short)
Colin Powell still misdirecting Iraq-intel blame (Consortium-looong-passim)
A children's boardgame even nerdier than Wff'n'Proof (Cjump via Make)
Publishers hoping to dumb-down Tolstoy, Pynchon, Hawking (UkG)
"Casino Royale" villain based on Aleister Crowley? (Fleming-bio via lf)
Alongside ground beef!!! (VerseDaily-short-awesome)
Monday:
Katrina, energy, subsidies, budget, efficiency, employment (DeanBaker)
The dollar will have to fall by ~30% to bring the trade deficit down to a sustainable level
Long Quicktime clip (not trailer) from TBurton's "Corpse Bride" (AOL via Drawn)
Healthier supermarkets deserve govt support? (AP-Nola)
ObL a great Arabic prose stylist (recent NYer via Cursor)
Helen Mirren plays post-Di-and-Dodi Queen Eliz 2 (UkTms w/pic)
Paltrow/Plath and Craig/Hughes share a PG13 moment (1400*750 jpeg)
Pentagon want to wirelessly monitor GIs' blood chemistry (PSU-no-pix via SciDaily)
eBay plans opt-in telemarketing via Skype (RegUk)
26 alphabetical tidbits about Shakespeare (Glasgow-1pg)
Rat-plague in Nicaragua worse than usual (BBC)
Long update on Barings Bank's rogue trader, Nick Leeson (UkTms-interview)
'FEMA syndrome' infects every comparable agency under W (NyT-IHT-Krugman)
Hong Kong auteurs find Hollywood stifling (USA2 via MovBlog)
Hollywood b-list stinking up London stage (Contact-vshort w/popup via MovBlog)
Brosnan disses Bond franchise (Fem1st-short)
Fuji 4Mp cam $93 shipped (Dell-DealNews) [Kodak]
Nola doctors' triage included euthanasia (UkMail via Morning)
Trent Lott's porch has a posse (CafePress via Morning)
Synopses of 100s of ongoing int'l border disputes (CIA-table via Morning)
Familiar-sounding analysis of Japan's neoliberalization campaign (iMomus-longish)
250Gb external USB for $130 shipped, no rebate needed (Buy via DealNews)
Kevin Bacon's response to 6Degrees game is a shrug (UkG-extract-short) [web app]
Scorsese casts LeoDiC as young Teddy Roosevelt (UkG)
Bermuda Triangle dumps empty cruiser on Martha's Vineyard (Boston w/wmv)
Hubble preps Google Pluto map? (baffling map) [BBC-info]
Intriguing GoogleNews searchterm: sacred [not heart] (GgN pattern)
How phishing works (must-read if you don't already know) (AP-USA2)
Lots of other US levees need maintenance (USA2 w/popup)
Falling stagelights draw blood in DvF catwalk show (NyNews w/pix)
Lucid RNA-for-beginners update (Stanford via lf)
Meet the black Sigourney Weaver (Overheard-vshort)
Surfable waves can be generated in small pools (A1 w/pic, links)
Nice doubletake over ad-firm's plan to launch hiphop act (WFMU)
Accurate early reports of levee-breaks just didn't propagate (WSJ-longish)
Compare the billions spent minutely protecting Shuttle astronauts
Nora Ephron's Nola dog-that-didn't-bark is Cheney (HuffPo)
Russert attacks Nagin with Rove talkingpoints (HuffPo-Arianna)
Sunday:
UnprankWatch: Biker hits triple wire strung by 14yos (VA-no-pix)
Suspected war criminal slips Palestinians' London noose (UkG)
Life imitates IrisMurdoch's "Nuns&Soldiers" (sewer plunge) (UkG-vshort)
Check all that apply (MrPoll-short)
Righteous 9-11 memorial from Riverbend (BaghdadBurning)
Botswana's bushmen forcibly resettled in camps (UkTms-no-pix)
Karaoke 'sung' by audio-dictionary voices (eg in juke) (1pg-mp3s via pednut)
Here's the Veirs original of jukebox-cover "Rapture" (Nonesuch-Flash)
Obit for founder of Jesus Seminar, Robert Funk (UPI-M&C-short) [more]
1948 kidnap of NJ 12yo inspired "Lolita"? (UkTms)
N's earlier story The Enchanter was written in 1939, but minimized the cartrip
Anniversary of spy-murder via poison umbrella-prick (BBC-1978)
Experts choose top-ten UK pop songs (#10 added to juke) (BBC-list)
"Wicker Man" remake loses cred (MovieBlog)
Under US attack, Tal Afar begs world for mercy (Kavkaz via Ag)
PrankWatch: Country-club ladies-room demolished by bomb (MI-no-pix)
Sunday's weekly batch of submitted secrets-on-postcards (PostSecret)
Use leaky-monitor-RF to broadcast AM music (1pg via jm)
Keyboard clicksounds betray typed text, incl passwords (Felten-short via jm)
Preliminary critical narrative of Katrina response-errors (NyT-long via greg)
Year-by-year contrast of Yahoo/Google homepages (wide jpeg via WholeLotta)
6min QT of Nola mayor's post-mortem w/ABC (1gm)
The Who's Pete Townshend announces free serialised novella (via BlogHerald)
Boring animation incredibly NOT pre-rendered, just realtime Java (via Waxy)
Richest/poorest US cities/counties (CNN-tables via lf)
Loooooooong deep don't-miss perspective on 9/11+4 (NyTmag via HuffPo)
Zarqawi asked ObL: "When the Americans disappear. . .what will become of our situation?"
"The sun is setting on American dreams in Iraq"
Awesome shortish plague-on-both-Dems-and-Repubs rant (HuffPo-Uygur)
Robot Wisdom auxiliary-blog now 1000% more readable (css-template partially dismembered)
Saturday:
Fave albums of contemporary rockers (UkObs)
Short D.Thomson paean to Donald Sutherland (UkInd-2col)
D.Thomson on Scorsese's use of music (UkInd-2col)
Tropical plants now thrive in warming Scotland (UkInd)
She's finally back (Riverbend)
Shaggy-dog Dylanological pilgrimage to Hwy 61, Minnesota (NyT-long w/pix via Steve)
Morning project: crystal tags via graph theory (RWx-shortish-arcane)
G-rated animated-gif of Kate Moss stripping in taxi (UkSun-ultrafriv)
11yo son's ashes compressed into diamond (UkTms-no-pic)
Do not loan to Laura Petrie under ANY circumstances
A dozen short blurbs for books that changed blurbers' lives (UkInd)
Hot literary-etc (esp Walker Percy) blog (Bix via iforget)
Well-reviewed Flash print-yr-own-pocket-notepad app (rt.clr w/links)
Great flashlight design should cost 99c, not $13 (Gz w/pix)
Good/busy morning/stuff for/from Sam/ProRev (ProRev-10Sep)
PrankWatch: Sheep traumatized by spraypaint, brassiere (Boston-no-pix)
PrankWatch: Rescuers called out for boys 'trapped' in stormdrain (GA-no-pix)
PrankWatch: 12yo boy waits for afterschool pickup that never comes (CA-no-pic)
Okay MTV-cliche collage from the Cardigans (embedded-RealVid via antville)
Short glimpse of successful hierarchy-less org-structure (Blogoscoped)
Insider's-view slideshow of very gradual Katrina-breakdown (Kodak-ajax-200pg)
You can skim the repetitive first half, all pre-flooding
Trigger-happy Iraq contractors alienating allies (WaPo via Clpngs)
The Iran-Iraq-Syria axis-of-oil (Asia-long via Ag)
Friday:
Very impressive algorithmic music generator from Wolfram (Flash via plasticboy)
Weekend poll: Your depression support system (MrPoll-short)
Non-profit environmental porn site raises $100k (UkInd)
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" spawns mini-industry (VVoice-short w/popup)
6min minimalist Sigur Ros video w/nice payoff (antville-nonstreaming-RealVid)
UN claims 500 richest outearn 416 million poorest (China via Cursor)
UK forensic soil-database imitates Jeffery Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme) (NewSci-vshort)
Iraq-reconstruction money runs out (CSM)
Short recommendations for 50 novels about rock (Bookslut via lf)
I'll vouch for the Madison Smartt Bell
MemeWatch: air [not guitar] (McSwenys-list-vshort)
Searchengine that retrieves only 'unsafe' results (SEW)
Unexpected FT feature on Joyce in Trieste (apropos of nothing)
LloydWebber favors ScarlettJ for "Sound of Music" revival (Fem1st)
RobotWisdom Jukebox updated, now with pseudo-RSS (jukebox.html)
Longish backgrounder on genderbending Antony and the Johnsons (NzInd) [mp3 samples]
My old homeys' theater festival starts this weekend (Chicago-local)
2min montage of NBC's David Gregory vs Scott McClellan (1gm-QT)
10min Jon Stewart Nola-chat w/NBC's Brian Williams (1gm-QT)
'Stop' buttons in browsers are non-trivial to implement (Lambda-superarcane)
Gawker-blogs alienate fans w/intrusive cross-promotion (TimYang)
Battelle likes Skype for eBay, not Reuters for Google (various links)
Two vignettes of gamers ageing (Barefoot-short)
NEOCONS TO POOR: "GET OVER IT... GET USED TO IT" (no link)
BBC graphic of cell indistinguishable from 1970-era equivalents (3-parent embryo)
The billion breakthrus since 1970 haven't included anything fundamental???
A summersworth of weekly GetYourWarOns (mnftiu-1pg)
Thursday:
PrankWatch: 15yo girl in stolen car sends 66 to hospital w/spray (Japan-no-pix)
Some agency spent $10M on satellite phones in Katrina aftermath (TechWeb-short)
Lost Matisse found (Reuters w/pic)
Rehash/update by Tufte blaming PowerPoint for Shuttle disaster (ET-page-images)
FEMA's Katrina camps aspiring to Gitmo quality? (forum via CynC)
Amusing Paul-McCartney bashing (UkInd-2col)
Frisbee golf as a lo-tech alternative sport (CSM)
Short rundown of how righty pundits are spinning Katrina (E&P w/popup)
Gallery of 8 iPod-families already discontinued (Engadget-1pg)
Telephone shortcuts to reaching a human at various companies (Intuit via vulgarB)
Claim Google hopes to stream hd-video for 2c/hr (Silicon via kasei)
New Zogby poll shows only slight dip for W (poll via HuffPo)
Artfully crawly animated video from Subtle (QT via Stereogum)
Baghdad has gotten much more dangerous in last month? (HuffPo-Smith-vshort)
Short sweet Nancy-Pelosi-vs-W clip (1gm-QT)
New doomsday scenario: wheat crops fail worldwide (PhysOrg)
Polymorphously perverse bonobos in most-endangered category (PhysOrg-no-pix)
AskJeeves structures first results for 'hurricane' (pattern via SEW)
Roz Chast cartoon: All my hopes and dreams... (new NYer)
Generator-in-backpack powered by normal walking bounce (Eureka-no-pix)
State Dept backs off Bolton's 'Cuba has bioweapons' con (CSM-short)
Hunter Thompson's pre-suicide note (AP-Breitbart-short via lf)
Gush of rage at media's hate-agenda (Kim-vshort via mshook)
Righteous interface for 3D pingpong (Flash via GoodExp)
First batch of free BBC video downloads (via Alice)
Rich white Nola-tourist guilt (HuffPo-Carrigan)
Website closely studies W's appointed bureaucracy (HuffPo-LaMagna)
Cheap-stuff clearance sale at SurplusComputers (via DealNews)
Older Gamers Club fights age-based online griefing (Boston via Kotaku)
Good stuff at Progressive Review (Sam-08Sep)
Nola's elite set gentrification-plans in motion (WSJ-CD)
Some hows-and-whys about the neoconning of FEMA (IPS-CD-shortish)
'Movie-plot-driven' security only works if we guess right (Wired-Schneier)
Michael Moore weighs Katrina documentary (MsNbc via Movie)
Die Hard sequel must rewrite Nola-terrorism sequence (Latino via Movie)
Mrs Elvis Costello (Diana Krall) covers Joni's "Case of You" (annoying m3u format)
Key question: Why wasn't the levee-breach detected sooner? (E&P)
Six celeb recipes using 'ethical' ingredients (UkG)
Snarky Jon Stewart on Chertoff, Brown, and celeb Nola-opportunism (1gm-10min-QT)
The QT7-beta for Windows seems buggy-- big audio gaps
Topnotch jazz generated from weather data, in annoying QT audio format (multi via infosthetics)
Funny-scary celeb-stalking-atop-GgM case-study (blog via LinkMG)
Authentic 18thC knee-slapper (Spike-shortish)
Sony's new mp3-player looks fine (Engadget w/pix)
Decent shortish Harper's-Index wannabe (Prospect via SmallValues)
Virtual community jumps in to help displaced Nola subscribers (NewWorld w/pix)
Some new Ajax-etc webpage-technologies entering the radar (AnilDash via kasei)
Great-sounding documentary teaches editing via film-history (NyT via greg)
New serial-release game-paradigm: one-level-at-a-time granularity (Edge via Alice)
Clearer copy of Rowling portrait (UkG)
More-lucid summary of latest Tempel-1 data (UkReg-no-pix)
No such thing as unrhymed (blank) rap? (GgW pattern)
Game studio offers Pentagon cut-rate tank-sim (Seattle via Kotaku)
Wednesday:
Poetic video of beautiful alt-female tune from Laura Veirs (slow-QT via antville) [mp3s]
Parody themesong for silly political sitcom, Kooks of Hazzard (Flash via CynC)
MemeWatch: None dare call it [not treason conspiracy stolen] (GgW pattern)
Adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost" plays in Kabul (AP-USA2)
Brandnames chosen over generics when strangers watching (Eureka-short)
Top-ten censored stories of past year (SfBG via Cursor) [15 more]
New poll: What were W-Chertoff-Brown-et-al thinking? (MrPoll-long)
Timeline of self-contradictory FEMA-et-al statements (UkTms-shortish)
Ritzy hotels lend guests GPS city-guides (Chatter via Gz)
Light defense of 'mojo bag' lucky charms (CA-short)
Google-hire Lee spills beans on MS arrogance, incompetence re China (AP-Wired)
Infinitely pessimistic reading of chances for post-Nola change (CPunch-Floyd)
Overdesigned microscopic-animal anatomy explorer (ajax via InfoJunk)
Decent Deep-Impact Tempel-1 update (NewSci w/pix, popup)
PranklikeActivityWatch: Fake narks shake down students (KS-no-pix)
PrankWatch: Inscrutable giant cone-landmark painted boob-pink (UK w/pic)
Evenly mixed poll-views on Nola rebuilding (MrPoll Nola results)
FEMA photo-ops edited into Potemkin slideshow (gov-12pg via Frknmcs)
Barely-started clearinghouse for debunking Nola rumors (Snopes via Morning)
9min QT of Jon Stewart reviewing Katrina (1gm)
Roger Daltrey's vinyl nostalgia (UkG-short)
Elephant grass may be ideal biomass for energy (BBC w/pic)
PrankWatch: Orange tossed from schoolbus smashes fueltanker windshield (Oz)
JK Rowling portrait added to National Portrait Gallery (BBC pic)
Happy laughing baby chimp goodnews (UkInd-vshort)
Bengladesh hosts enormous Islamist stealth-network (CSM)
Offroad vehicles ravaging US parks (CSM)
Nola-delay-as-Fed-power-grab conspiracy-theory emerging (Trenches via lf)
Tuesday:
Space Station about to be neoconned (Japan via NasaW)
Most-interesting Burning Man pix (flickr-set via Anarchogeek)
RSS-able GoogleNews Smoking-Gun feed (GgN pattern) [theory, again]
Navy's intrusive 1943 psychological profile of Kerouac (SmokingGun-18pg)
Five more plausible disasters we're not ready for (HuffPo-Pilecki)
I notice Onion's man-in-the-street feature is daily now (new Onion)
I liked it a lot better before
New Onion hits New Orleans dead on (new Onion)
"Second Life" trial memberships now free (Clickable via ffwd)
Japanese game "Chulip" replaces killing with kissing (RpgFan w/pix via ffwd)
Long 1pg summary of Penny Arcade games-expo-for-everybody (GamerDad via ffwd)
Simple summer vacation nostalgia: Not spooked and not moving (Poems.com)
Watch for Disney to make an offer for the French Quarter (RigInt-supra-passim)
Axis of Evil overflowing with Katrina aid-offers (HuffPo-Majd-short)
W's administration responsible for 1000s of Nola deaths (CPunch-short)
More than ObL, clearly
Neocon spin-machine falls strangely silent (AmReporter via Cursor)
Hour-by-hour account of plugging Nola levee-hole (WSJ-long)
Serious attempt to clone Tasmanian tiger extinct 69yrs (UkG w/pic)
NYT Magazine adding Chris Ware comic, Elmore Leonard serial (E&P)
Burning Man coverage (SfGate-multipage)
Internal dvd-burner $22 shipped after rebate (DealNews-eCost)
Greenspan, deflation, mileage, immigrants, Germany, SocSec (DeanBaker)
Artist-made trading cards (cf stamps, below a week or so) (1pg-gallery via pednut)
Some insights on W and his mother (incl long AlFranken story-mp3) (Workbench)
3pg gallery w/24 faked iTunes phones (Gz-3pg)
Wicked Chavez's worst crime: raising min.wage for servants (Abq via Sam)
Colorful, nonviolent UK conman sentenced to life (UkTms w/pic) [more]
World of Warcraft's success strangling competing online games (NyT-DE via Kotaku)
Lots of tiny RealVids from MTV-India (via Y!)
Free Lasse Hallstrom DVD w/Saturday Independent (UkInd-vshort)
Stupid funny pomo dance-music video from Vitalic (Cliptip-QT)
EuphemismWatch: rightsizing = downsizing = layoffs (NasaW-vshort)
Word-to-the-wise about rabies, for tourists (SciDaily-short via dy)
Effective "Sin City" vidcap (900*500 jpeg)
Slightly-more-enriched white flour would significantly cut birth defects (Eureka)
MemeWatch: bastard [not operator] from hell (GgW pattern) [not-neighbours from-hell]
Formalisation of Katrina-appropriate tags (eg 'rebuilding') (You'reIt-table)
John Turturro's blue-color 'bathtime musical' (Reuters)
New Orleans was the most (blissfully) unAmerican city (iMomus)
Iraq's 'political levees' breaking, too (AP-UkG)
Boy-loses-dog-Snowball iconic Nola story (AP-Nola-no-pic)
Zombie Mardis-Gras next February in Nola? (AP-Wired)
Hand-sanitizer gels reduce disease (supposedly) (Eureka)
50-50 this study was secretly funded by a gel maker
More on jukebox-pick Asylum Street Spankers (MusicForRobots mp3-blog)
Flat-rate analysis of Walmart's Katrina-donation (short via Steve)
Short comparison of six blog-search engines (BlogHerald)
Monday:
Enlightening background on Nola racism and graft (NyNews via Sam)
Inspired don't-miss psychoanalysis of W-in-Nola (HuffPo-Zengotita-vshort)
Stallion born in 1700 became racing's 'mitochondrial Adam' (UkTimes)
"Make levees not war" (CD-LauraFlanders)
Chinese online WW2 game features Japan as enemy (China-no-pix via Kotaku)
Lexis-Nexis offers plagiarism-detection service (NyT-Cnet)
Mars dust-devil viewed from orbit (1000*1500 gif) [info]
Sculptor's breads resemble chainsaw massacre (AP w/pic via CynC)
Times-Picayune open letter calling for mass FEMA firing (Seattle-etext)
Funky animated melodic punk video from High Speed Scene (QT via cliptip)
"Time Out" calendar-mag gradually expands worldwide (UkInd-2col-table)
Shy pygmy deer ravaging UK forests (UkInd-no-pix) [pix]
Stuff with handcranks (or solar) (catalog via netlynx)
Tim Russert grills Mr DHS (Chertoff) on Meet the Press (transcript-Raw via kasei)
Annie Leibovitz illustrates Alice w/designers as models (Vogue-10pg via lf)
Leveraging the neocons' Nola-spin slip (RWx)
Sunday:
Nazis' chocolate handgrenades (etc) were duds (UkInd-2col)
Village of Dingle dislikes new Gaelic name (IHT)
MS's XML for Office is deeply flawed (ORA-1pg via mshook)
Halliburton/KBR only guaranteed $500M (so far) for Nola cleanup (AP-Nola)
Heartbreaking 2min MeetThePress quicktime (onegoodmove)
Simple uncompromising new Fiona Apple video "Parting Gifts" (cliptip-QT)
New record watermelon: 269 pounds (AR-no-pic) [pic]
5min QT of Nola senator steaming against W (onegoodmove)
Quiet announcement that USA will never leave Iraq (Toronto-Margolis-CD)
Nola-failure is rich vs poor, not white vs black (HuffPo-HarryShearer-vshort)
Islamic activist group may be banned in UK (BBC)
Optimised artificial dirt for asthma immunization? (Eureka-short)
Random mutations accumulate as stem-cell-lines age (Eureka-longish)
Bootleg preprints of Iraq constitution selling for 70c on street (AP-Nola-vshort)
Nola mayor fears neocon retribution (WND via lf)
Newsweek's long narrative of the fiasco (Newsweek-prntr via HuffPo)
Excellent analysis of DHS incompetence (99% for terror) (WaPo-long via dIre)
EbertClicheWatch: "X is one of those Y" (GgW-150-hits)
Stephen Hawking reduced to blinking (BBC)
Nobody wants to publish their cellphone numbers (IHT)
UV disco lights entrap Oz's cane-toad plague (AP-Nola)
Soderbergh inverts reality-teevee formula (AP-Nola)
Appeal for work-at-home Nola-data-entry volunteers (EthanZ)
FEMA website falsifies Katrina notification-dates (RigInt)
160Mb internal $35 shipped after rebates (DealNews-CompUSA)
80Mb external USB $55 shipped after rebate (DealNews-CompUSA)
Sounding like Bastille Day (ProRev-Nola-newsbits)
Semi-arcane proposal for new blog-protocol (RWx-quixotic)
The delays in Nola are proof there's no grownups in the White House (no link)
PayPal intros micropayments for about 10c on the dollar (pr via Make)
Joni Mitchell retrospective album, "Prairie Girl" (Malaysia)
Saturday:
Luscious list of healthiest foods (1pg via lf)
Musical "Hair" gets umpteenth reworking (UkG)
Transmission from the size-minus-one dimension (Overheard-vvshort)
Try cabernet with TacoBell, pinot noir w/KFC (WaPo via lf)
Very short Taoist perspective (HuffPo-Lear )
An Astrodome volunteer's stories (forum via random)
$20k Maine solar house built from 200 straw-bales (AP-Nola)
Nola evacuation officials refused to help foreigners (UkObs)
Phone-email-files-web-mp3-cam-games-gps-voice-fm-crank (MrPoll essential-functions)
Blair to be parodied as UK schoolboy (UkInd-2col)
Video excerpt of 7/7/5 bomber's message (BBC w/RealVid)
Still looking for the full thing
First dysentery outbreak in Biloxi (AP-Nola)
Charming Congo street-dancing video (Flash-Calabash)
Ominous shape forming in N.Atlantic (live IR satpic) [Maria]
Lo-res impressionism w/beautiful colors in techno video from The Faint (phat-QT via antville)
Crashed my Firefox when it was done
Unprecedented Saturday edition of Cursor (weekday newsblog)
Claim that oil prices will go, stay higher (FTW via root)
Jennifer Tilly's poker-prowess not a fluke (AP-Nola-vshort)
Nice defense of state-of-the-game-industry (Costik#)
Cambodian hunter gets 7yrs for tiger-slaughter (BBC w/pic)
Nice Nola poster (jpeg via Steve)
All that Baghdad-West (Nola) needs now is a Green Zone (HuffPo-NvH)
Mr FEMA had negative-infinity track-record (Boston via Ag)
Could alQaeda also have devastated Nola with negligible effort? (Frknmcs-vshort)
RSS-able NY Review of Books (GgN pattern) [Consortium!] [CPunch!!] [NYer!!!] [NyP] [Fem1st] [CD]
Oops, looks like they dropped CounterPunch a couple weeks ago!?
Awesome $2 scifi music-video from Fatal Tourist (cliptip-QT)
Peculiar claims about Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock (UkG-short)
26 noxious advertising cliches (BBC-list)
Official rationalisation of 'looting/finding' racism-flap (AP-E&P w/popup)
The photogs claim their words reflected what happened
$2 video of excellent Warsaw Village Band (folk/world) (Flash via Global) [more]
Technorati knows of 125 mp3 blogs (searchpattern) [plural-mp3s]
Google adds Katrina satpix to Maps, Earth (Google blog)
Gallup won't poll on impeachment until Dems move (Arctic via lf)
Bill Clinton inexplicably casts lot with W (HuffPo-Arianna)
The deepest loyalties of Clinton and Blair are to lying itself
Republican meltdown in progress (Crooks&Liars-QTs)
Friday:
Tom Wolfe and the start of New Journalism (UkG-extract-long)
The odyssey of Brian Wilson/Smile (NYRB-loong)
Back from vacation (new NYRB)
The French 'Dillinger' gets out of jail (UkTimes)
Full lyrics plus murky mp3-bit of RollingStones' 'Neocon' song (scroll down)
Funnish tidbits about adapting lit for films (UkTimes)
Long backgrounder on David Lynch and meditation (UkTimes)
The Nola water-situation is really going to stink (Polizeros-blog)
PrankWatch: Arms, legs cut off of football uniforms (PA w/popup)
1Gb mp3 player with fm, files, voice for $116 shipped (DealNews)
Wristwatch w/USB-drive $13 shipped after rebate (DealNews)
User-contributed Nola-info atop GoogleMaps (Wired w/link)
Nifty Hubble collage-movie of Neptune (QT via SpaceRef)
Residents' LA quake-prep, NYC nuke-prep no better (Beattie)
Rich hotel guests get evacuation priority (AP-SF w/popup via Wrkbnch)
2.5Gb Rio mp3 player $106 shipped (JR via DealNews)
Tourguide to Dublin, for no particular reason (LaTms-Newsday)
Rare Iranian cheetahs caught on remote cam (NatGeo-pic)
New poll: Should we pay for New Orleans rebuilding? (MrPoll)
RWWL readers think they'd restrain their looting (MrPoll results)
Ted Koppel grills Mr FEMA, Michael Brown (8min embedded-QT)
First peek at Bjork/Barney artflick (BBC-short)
Clean water for Nola is an enormous problem (Reuters-ENN via Polizeros)
Nola.com needs work-from-home volunteers (E&P)
None dare call it (Katrina) 'gentrification' (CPunch-Ford-shortish)
Venomous 'pet' giant centipede returned to neighbor (BBC w/pic)
Bio/pic of General Honore, praised by Nola mayor (below/juke) (VetsDay)
Transcript of (juke-mp3 of) Nola mayor blowing top (CNN via lf)
Federal inaction for poor is policy-as-usual (HuffPo-Stone)
More nightmare-glimpses from TPic forums (E&P-short)
$880 to 'print' a lucite/metal guitarbody (eg) (Wired via mshook)
SecondLife pinup not of this world (2ndLife-PG13)
Four places you might find Jesus (McSweenys-blasph)
The 'gotchas' lurking in various DRM schemes (EFF-1pg via netlynx)
Diagrams of levee-repair efforts (LaTms via infosthetics)
Is there a catch with $2 domainnames from Yahoo? (Y! via TimYang)
"Order doesn't hate chaos, because chaos nourishes it" (RigInt-passim)
Nola newsbits-blog done right (WSJ-few-links-though)
Sorry 1st-person vignette of Nola official priorities (Interdictor via /.)
Burnt-out Anderson Cooper blows top at bureaucratic happytalker (QT via Crooks)
Katrina victims suckerpunched by neocons' bankruptcy scam (HuffPo-Cesco)
Thursday:
Backgrounder on jukebox-pick Sean Paul (UkInd-2col)
Decent Bush2005 backgrounder (UkMirror w/popup)
Masonic symbols buried under Temple Mount? (Haaretz w/popup)
Observations on Bush 2005 (Aerial) (RWx-vshort)
Backgrounder on adorably geeky dancers, Clor (UkInd-2col-no-pix)
Linked list of various systems for generating ideas (multi via we)
AlJazeera broadcasts 7/7/5 bomber's message to West (BBC-transcript)
Economist's jaundiced view of Chavez's socialism (Economist)
Posada blackmailing CIA to avoid extradition? (Cuba)
Longshot origin of madcow: feed contaminated w/Ganges corpses (AP-Nola)
Post-Katrina zoomable satellite view of Nola (Flash via Nola)
Painful truth: It makes no sense to rebuild New Orleans (AP-Nola)
It's certain to be hit again and again and again
Mouse genome reveals puzzling new patterns (PhysOrg)
Timeline of FEMA/NewOrleans (WashMnthly via HuffPo)
I've got a new blog (RWx)
Posts there will be infrequent, and will always be linked from here
W feels oil-companies' pain (latest statement, no link yet)
Charming short animations about gay animals (QT via lf)
Remarkable 16Mb QT from rover, panning around Mars (slow via NasaW)
"Rape and murder absolutely rampant" (Interdictor-blog)
Condoleezza confronted in NYC shoe store (Gawker-short via greg)
Ontario chemical plant causes 86-46 imbalance in newborn gender (NewSci-short)
Early BurningMan2005 gallery (Wired-18pg)
CIA's Tenet fighting his 9-11 scapegoating (WashTimes via Cursor)
Did the 1000 Baghdad-stampede fatalities really happen? (VoA via Cursor)
Engineering challenges of Nola recovery (WaPo via Cursor)
In a nutshell (tech support) (Overheard-vshort)
VT rest-stop toilets demo waste-recycling via greenhouse (NyT-Cnet)
TPic forums full of horror-stories (E&P-extracts)
Pondering the ultracheap-cellphone business-model (Gizmodo)
5Mp digicam for $127 shipped (Geeks via DealNews)
Satellite maps of China (et al) air pollution (ESA via Eureka)
MIT boffins think 2020 Mars landing just possible (NewSci-no-pix)
NOAA predicts four more major hurricanes in 2005 (IPS-CD)
Short sweet summary of "Getting Things Done" productivity self-help (GameDev via Alice)
Superdome horror stories (LaTms via HuffPo)
Unlearned lessons about emergency-radio interoperability (HuffPo-Ornstein-short)
Katrina deals Shuttle-schedule a big indirect blow (Orlando via NasaW)
Design-solutions to spacedust (PhysOrg-shortish)
Arcane new results on galaxy/star-formation (PhysOrg)
Information Junk's sixth anniversary (useful blog)
Dvorak on DVD-formats, etc (PCmag)
Dvorak on IP#s and privacy (PcMag)
Uber-wacky xeroxed fractals (phat-1pg via dataisnature)
This looks amazing but the link crashed my Firefox again (A1-rock-balancing)
Try turning off Javascript, is my first guess
PSP a big success-- even its movie-format (Tom's via Waxy)
Sam Smith asks historic questions about Katrina spinframing (ProRev-don't-miss)
Political documentary on Nixon vs John Lennon (Hollywood-vshort via AIC)
Laser traces fingertip writing, leaves lightpath (Raw w/gif-animation)
Neocons squelching Iraqi socialism (dIreland-don't-miss)
Exemplary rave for Japanese photoblogger (iMomus-blog w/pix, links)
AlJazeera adding children's and sports programming (Forbes via aJFriends)
Don't-miss glimpse of e-ink future (Engadget-short w/pic)
Arcane rave for Ruby workability (TimBray-blog)
Poignant vignette of programming frustration (w/profanity) (GgG via SmallValues)
Rushdie challenges Galloway on free speech (UkG)
Pope grants private audience to Muslim-hating OrianaF (UkG)
Rock supergroup formed for Harry Potter cameo (Wizard via VH1)
Hilarious but cpu-hogging Flash toy (Changar via lf)
Righteous zombie-mob approach to making politics fun (TX via lf)
New poll: If you were in Nola would you be looting? (MrPoll)
Modulated rave for Showtime pot-sitcom, Weeds (NYer-NancyFranklin)
Nola tragedy in eloquent water-level graphs (USGS graphs again)
Cool neologism: kick velocity (NewSci-short)
RobotWisdom claims 1st-ever authentic mp3-blog (jukebox.html)
Nifty Katrina-Nola-Iraq spin/frame (HuffPo-Ellis-short)
Background on the jukebox's awesome Palestinian rap (EthanZ-belated)
Little poem of sheer genius: toppled over flocking / flopping (VerseDaily)
Zippy's pre-Friday catblogging (24hr)
Wicked cool artist-convention trading stamps (flickr-set via Drawn)
Over half think Limbaugh in top-100 worst (MrPoll results)
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