what kind of people could treat the world this way?
whose dark materials?
judaism worships fraud
patrick fitzgerald: drain the whole dc swamp!
Headlines:
Winterbottom shooting Gitmo pic in Iran (UkInd-2col)
Exercise no longer effective for W's depression? (HuffPo-Ephron)
Testimony about 2002 trebuchet fatality (UkG)
Nationalist manga sells 360k in Japan (UkTms-short-no-pix)
PrankWatch: 27yo gets 8yrs for jamming police freqs (AP-MN)
Online game will simulate Israel-Palestine conflict (CMU w/link via Kotaku)
Hubble images 3 moons of Pluto (U2day w/pix)
More on animated "Boondocks" (VV)
Scooter Libby's kinky sexual imagination (RigInt-short)
Decent poly-media rap video from Pocket Dwellers (antville-QT-phat)
Tantalising preview of BBC free-video library (blog via Willison)
Good batch-o-toons (new NYer)
Hierarchical stream of consciousness (Ellen-giant-gif)
GoogleVideo adds tons of content (Gg-list)
BoingBoing don't care about black people (EthanZ)
Subtle product-placements in Chinese Clinton-autobio (Harpers-extracts)
Random JodieFoster interview (tFilm)
3 $500 laptops compared (PcWrld-1pg via Engd)
What RubyOnRails is (Cnet)
Google hiring people to fix OpenOffice (Cnet-short via Battelle)
Latest stats on fubar Iraq reconstruction (WSJ-shortish)
Ricky Gervais's theory of comedy (UkG-longish)
Travolta rewards charitable Scientologists w/spontaneous dance (BBC)
Goldfrapp was a huffer (Belfast-long)
Short Chris Ware profile (UkG-no-pix)
Publisher stuck w/2M excess HarryPotters (UPI-vshort)
Eggplant w/mozzarella and tomatoes (UkTms-recipe)
Minimal TheFarm update (70s commune) (AP-TN-short)
No clues in NYC maplesyrupsmell mystery (NYer-shortish)
Best. Halloween legend. Ever. (McSwnys-JackHandey)
UK teens' writing-skills actually much improved (UkTms-short)
PrankWatch: AlQaeda makes $1M free calls on stolen satphone (BBC-vshort)
Gangsta quarterly "Don Diva" hits 165k circ (UkTel w/pic)
AOL-chat worm downloads rootkit (Cnet-short via lf)
Pre-planning music-creativity (iMomus)
9 pix of the week's disasters (BBC)
Autumn metapoem: a pure Vermeer / yellow (VerseDaily-short)
Sixties trash/sex magazine covers (PG13-multipage via $!art)
Eminently sensible Iraq-withdrawal compromise proposal (HuffPo-Kleiman-vshort)
Madonna's kabbalah guru arrested for extortion (UkInd-2col-short-no-pix)
"Gothic Nightmares" exhibit at Tate in Feb (UkInd-2col-no-pix)
Lie detectors should attach to stomach (Eureka-short)
US defense-tech advantage dwindling (France-WatchAm-arcane)
Conscientious inquiry into Baghdad's mood (Egypt-loong via WatchAm)
Excellent short critique of Saddam-trial (Tunisia-WatchAm)
Virtual-world financial-planning becomes a drag? (2ndLife-arcane)
Reebok mimics fashion-cue from India (Time w/pic)
Slight backgrounder on Valerie Plame (E&P)
Sunday:
63% of RWWL readers need a healing visit to a nude beach (MrPoll results)
Jack Nicholson on Antonioni (LaTms-Chgo)
Purple carrots puzzle experts (CBC w/pic)
Lyrics for jukepick Joanna Newsom (etext)
Creative Londoner's self-portraits (flickr-Flash-36)
Chicago's Millennium Park a $500M success story (Boston-no-pix)
Outsourced call-centers studied (UkObs-longish)
Freakonomists like Fed nominee; also obesity-hysteria (blog-2)
New poll: Which jukebox picks did you already know? (MrPoll-longish)
NyT scrounges for flaws in Chavez's socialism (NyT-IHT)
Euro teevee's babble of dubbing (BBC)
1pg list of UK-local slang (Wk via Wllsn)
Iran's taunts reinforce ObL's entrapment strategy? (UkTms-passim)
Wilde's tomb stained by lipstick loving (UkTms-no-pix)
Audiobooks of classic poets launched (UkTms)
Frans de Waal extract on bonobos (UkTms-shortish)
India holds Walmart at arm's length (UkTel) [Japan]
UK postoffice revitalised by eBay volume (UkTel)
Tiara etiquette tips (UkTel-friv)
PrankWatch: 16yo's classic 'flaming bag' does $120k damage (Canada-no-pix)
Capote in highschool (CT-arcane)
Saturday:
New Swedenborg biography (UkInd-bkrev-2col-short)
Aerial "the most female album in the world, ever" (UkObs)
Fun AnthonyBurgess biographical-mysteries update (UkInd-bkrev-2col)
Ten surprising facts about current Iranian culture (UkInd-2col)
W hears protester's "War is terror" (VA-CD w/pic)
Mr Valerie Plame's perspective (LaTms-CD-short)
Web-based zombie-mmporpg automated via Greasemonkey (HSP w/links)
Has Fitz already sold us out? (HuffPo-Drobny) [more]
JsWolcott on a frothing neocon bitter-ender (blog-shortish)
New debates over def of 'organic' (AP-UkG)
Systemic coverup alleged by 2002 friendly-fire pilot (Toronto)
China's university boom (Toronto)
McMartin non-victim explains fraud 25yrs later (LaTms-loong)
1stperson 1st experience w/sensory-deprivation tank (AK-long)
1937 "Guernica" inspired by 1894 Henri Rousseau (UkG w/pic)
Wikipedia list of 11 free 1stperson shooters (unencyclike via lf)
Top 20 kids' films (UkTel-list)
Simple fun oldstyle French tune from Camille (QT-slow via antville)
30sec animated Aerial-cover w/new music (KTnews-multiformat)
W's vs previous WhiteHouse implosions (HuffPo-Lampley-shortish)
Prospect, Colorado illustrates 'new urbanism' (CO w/pix)
Horn w/bronze may be 3kyo clarinet (Iran w/bad pic)
Enzymes/genes that make mice act more anxious (Eureka-arcane)
Judy Miller still extorting NyT (HuffPo-Arianna-short)
Disgraceful BobWoodward damage-control spin-performance (HuffPo-Eskow-longish)
She got a cute way of walking (SpaceMtn) (QT-slow via antville)
Noncliched list of Halloween-themed music videos (antville-linklist)
NeologismWatch: godgame = using people as tokens (Ralph-shortish)
Delicious adds righteous liteweight Flash mp3 preview-player (delicious blog)
doesn't show up in rss, and can't handle lofi yet
Byron the Bulb found (tHug w/pic via kasei) [def]
Friday:
How to bake a potato (UkTms) if you have a potato
Cynical modern Pooh fantasy (SAfrica)
Muted rave for imminent Bush2005 (BBC)
W-scandals vs Clinton-scandals, by Clinton aide (HuffPo-Begala)
Splendid baffling animated Asian-hiphop video from Hifana (slow-QT via antville)
Kuwait teevee has a shock-comic (BBC-short w/pic)
PrankWatch: 13yo's post-it causes evacuation (NJ-no-pix)
Recent urls tagged 'Sixties' (delicious tagfeed)
NatGeo-quality Africa pix (flickr-Flash-17pix)
New data on how species differentiate (UCB-arcane via Eureka)
Quakemap speed-drawn from satpix (1600*1100 jpeg) [info]
Pix from Mandela biocomix (BBC-9pix)
Grim outlook for Rwandan girls (Africa)
Race-greyhound loses tail to wrangler's 'joke' (AP-Boston-no-pic)
McD's tests organic fairtrade coffee (AP-Boston)
56pound mushroom found (MO w/pic)
Okay Chloe Sevigny update (UkG-longish)
PrankWatch: 10yos face foster-care for cellphone bombthreat (NE-no-pix)
Spammers recover moral compasses (McSwnys-shortish)
Humane vvvlo-tech mousetrap (vshort w/pic via t'sHow)
Line-by-line comparison of three Koran translations (3Mb via pGut)
Trapped GI phones home to say goodbye (blog-shortish via HuffPo)
Thursday:
Satellite radio tests thirdworld waters (AP-USA2 w/popup)
1stperson adventurer has himself buried alive (OR-long)
Well-written transistor-radio nostalgia (WFMU-looong w/pix, links)
Smart pic (flickr-random)
Nice preview of 16pg KateBush interview (UkG)
Darth spills guts to Luke (GgV-Flash-short via ngtndo)
$150 Calvin&Hobbes selling wellish (E&P-arcane w/link)
Robotwisdomysounding nonviolence training-game (Wired w/pic via Kotaku)
Top-13 earning dead-celebs (Forbes-list w/links via HuffPo) did tolkien get points?
New poll: How exhibitionistic are you? (MrPoll-short)
16% still favor analog surfing-music (MrPoll results)
MemeWatch: X is the antichrist (GgW pattern)
Birdflu hits EuroDisney (sightgag-Alice)
"Punk Side Story" musical parody (pMatt-cdrev w/lyrics)
1000yo ceramics-etc recovered from Indonesia shipwreck (AFP-aJ w/pix)
LocalColor: 15yo lusts for 34yo neighbor (Malaysia)
Mike Newell risks maturing Harry Potter (ThisIsLondon)
'Photo' tour of World of Warcraft (40pg via Kotaku)
Witty logo about Net.anonymity (lj-jpeg via jm)
Susie analyses the Iraq-GI-gore-porn website, NTFU (SusieBright)
MS still trying to monopolise via mediaplayer (RegUk-short)
i think refusing to use it at all is wisest
Wednesday:
9issue free Mandela bio-comicbook (UkInd-2col) [pic] [pic]
USA Today over-retouches Condi pic (Malkin via E&P)
NYC zombie social notes (VV w/pic, popup)
Beautifully-done MrSchwarzenegger'sNeighborhood parody (Flash via Cursor)
GoogleBase threatens classified-ad industry (E&P-short) [GgBase]
Carbon nanotubes still 5X pricier than gold (via Froogle ad)
Zimmer on prehuman language evolution (Forbes-shortish via Loom)
Biometric-stalker alert (flickr-friv via VH1)
PrankWatch: 19yo faces 10yrs for phlegming in cop's food (sGun-5pg w/pic)
Details on new quantum-dot white-LEDs (longish via TED)
'quantum' sounds like they're atom-sized but really they're much larger dots that still show qm effects
Inside the head of a hair-obsessive (McSwnys-shortish)
Portable dvd-player plays games via special controller (Kotaku w/pix)
Soapy NicoleK gossip (TomKat's preg) (Fem1st w/cool pic)
Morning quickie: Love and hate on the Tree of Life (RWx-short)
Okay slowpaced platform game, Bill the Demon (Flash via Ursi)
Geezer "Cream" reunion review (RollingStone)
Village Voice semicentennial issue (toc-multi)
'Raunch' as false feminism (iMomus)
Tuesday:
Rap video with an esthetic of its own from Roots Manuva (QT via antville)
Instant-classic critique of MS 'Visual' programming (wellwritten-looong via Willison)
Elephants honor elephant bones (NewSci)
AlJazeera voted 5th most influential global brand (UkInd-2col-loong)
Photo-surrealist icicle (flickr)
1000pg historian's view of Beatles (NyT-IHT-bkrev)
Stats on one backyard windmill (BBC w/pic)
Eukaryotes reclassified (Eureka-short-arcane)
Ag subsidies, inflation, US budget, China, immigration (DeanBaker)
List of 'usually-offscreen' characters in various media (Wiki-long via CynC)
Judy Miller in context (CPunch-Sugg-long)
A dose of realism about Syria war-drums (CPunch-Roberts-shortish)
Zombie cosmetics base (NyMag-vshort)
Truffle prices spur snuffler-wars (UkTel-vshort)
Daily ginseng significantly cuts colds-risk (UkTel)
UFOs mooted in mysterious horse-kills (CO)
French-erotica top-ten (UkG)
Fancy computer-generated art-smoke (QTs via Ursi)
Annie Sprinkle update (sex activist) (OH w/pic)
Nice semi-nonsense: that elusive, Rastafarian / canoodle (VerseDaily-vshort)
Jon Stewart's DC standup w/quotes (mBistro)
PrankWatch: No one laughs at jack'o'lantern 'bomb' (Boston w/pic)
Live video/audio of African wateringhole (NatGeo-embedded-RealVid via VV)
Underexploited meme: digital socialism (GgW-800hits)
Experts give Wiki articles C-average for accuracy (UkG via SEW)
Addiction to particular games ends sharply, unpredictably (Wired via ffwd)
Surprising average-audience-ages for pop teevee series (EW-Fim-list)
If Chaucer wrote blaxploitation themesongs (short via jm)
Monday:
Johnny Rotten gives Dick Clark anarchy-lessons (WFMU-QT-slow)
Vivid P.Cockburn on Iraqi chaos before Saddam's trial (CPunch-shortish)
90sec clip of Karen Carpenter w/Ella Fitzgerald (Flash-RealVid via 3red)
direct link didn't work-- it's 'Masquerade' under 'Carpenters'
Monday cat cartoon (by Booth) (new NYer)
"I am a guacamole of knowledge..." (Overheard-vvshort) [ping]
We have I-word! (F.Rich-Gorilla)
Yups innovate gourmet sugar (Time)
Playboy names top ten party schools (OH)
Nude-photos day at Beijing flower garden (China-vshort w/pic)
New one from primatologist Frans de Waal (Seattle-bkrev)
Alec Baldwin checks choicely in (HuffPo-short)
Calc-error in Castronova's Everquest GDP (blog via Kotaku)
You're never too old for ballet lessons (UkTel)
15year timelapse of stars orbiting galactic core (fast-QT via lf)
New poll: What do you listen to most as you websurf? (MrPoll-short)
FAQ on identity theft (Cnet-DeclanM-xxwide)
MissRunAmok defends herself articulately (E&P-etext)
Morning quickie: Lazyweb product-tracking site? (RWx-vshort)
Lo-tech $120 "creAtiles" win best-toy prize (UkTel) [pix]
Antiterror Make-project w/pvc-pipe, cam, and live wasps (UkTel-short)
Journal-publisher Reed-Elsevier's online ambitions (UkTel-arcane)
Syria is nw of Iraq, but their capitals are level (MrPoll results) [map]
Tent-design optimised for deserts (makes no sense to me) (SpaceRef w/pic)
the fan magically blows cold when the air is hot, and vice versa???
Survey of confession webites, eg PostSecret (Canada w/popup)
LocalColor: Beautiful anecdote of regret (Nepal)
PrankWatch: Exemplary review of newsworthy office pranks (IA)
dude can write!
Outstanding Lithuanian-mom's gallery of kidpix (flickr-Flash-30)
Jurassic trees auctioned for $3k each (AFP-PhysOrg w/pic)
New GGMarquez boiled down to 400words w/spoilers (UkG-snarky)
Appalling recent pol-quotes in annoying quiz-format (NYer)
Hemingway's Spanish Civil War (NYer-long w/popup)
Transcript of decent diverse A-list digerati gab (Time-lastwk via iGreed)
Speed runs of Katamari Damacy (Archive-DivXs via Waxy)
Jazz-piano fans diss rollup keyboards (forum via lf)
Local singer-songwriter talent-search (PA-short)
Calling for Fitzgerald to drain more swamp (HuffPo-KvdH-short)
Speculation on Ari Fleischer's role in Plamegate (fdl)
Tarantino's B-movie-fest's sexploitation nite (7of9 via ffwd)
Daniel Day-Lewis researched 1992 role in Irish gaol (Fem1st-short)
Square-inch closeup of puzzling Martian sand (AstroPic)
Background interview on Scowcroft on GWB vs GHWB (NYer-longish) [excerpts]
Sunday:
Mexico loves ramen noodles (LaTms-Vnzla)
Garlic so organic they call it 'sacred' (OR-no-pix)
LocalColor: The last smalltown church supper (IA-no-pix)
Del.icio.us spinoffs incl groanworthy domainname puns (blog via mshook)
AP buries 1%-Iraq-poll-results in 22nd paragraph (AP-UkG)
What Amazon.com's been up to (UkG)
Net word-of-mouth launches band 'Arctic Monkeys' (UkTms) [Flash]
Inflation-adjusted graphs of seafood prices since 1860 (UkTms)
Mideast recipes incl peppery bulgur salad (UkTel-extract)
Googlefight: blog vs linux (Flash w/popup)
Stats on Iraq GI amputees (Reuters-CD)
40 new Time Magazine articles today (GgN pattern)
Nice fan video for Weird Al's "Hardware Store" (Archive-QT-slow via antville)
38 Google employees have blogs (Blgscpd w/links)
Upbeat story of India's garment manufacturers (CSM)
Beautifully told story of Virginia's growing disenchantment w/W (aPrspct via Ag)
Winona Ryder's parents speak at Sacred Elixirs conference (SusieBright-great)
Pseudo-origami chessmen from free pdf (fun blog, via basimo)
Racing-game fed corrupted car-model data (phat-QT via ffwd) [info]
Raw-veg diet kills 6-month-old (CourtTV w/pic)
Georgia's kids' "Miguel's Shakespearean Adventure" (AP-UkG)
If you've nothing else, they'll tax your view (Boston)
Purported Iranian co-origin of N.Korean counterfeiting ability (IHT)
Italian pirate teevee at 0.3 watts? (IHT)
Charming JoanMiro-animated Bach short (fast-QT via lf)
i don't recommend the videos there for jukepick RealTuesdayWeld
Short backgrounder on Nigeria's 'Nollywood' (Toronto)
Dakota Fanning's the most powerful woman in Hollywood (Toronto-no-pix)
New appreciation of Bucky Fuller (Boston-bkrev)
Boston-area pirate-radio scene (lastweek via thisweek)
Profile of MIT's anti-star-wars watchdog (Boston)
SlangWatch: workplace spouse (Boston)
Qatar breaks ranks to allow 1st Christian church (aJ)
Goofy 8bit action figures incl Barbarella (multimulti via Blgscpd)
Morning quickie: Stories on the Tree of Life (RWx-short)
Censored Iraq-GI-blogger captions retraction with 1984-wink (blog via sGuerr)
Women's-rights blasphemy gets Afghan editor 2yrs (BBC)
Forgotten 'Hanoi Jane' Fonda backstory (GreenLeft)
Rant on lefty-blog-ad-aggregator 'Advertise Liberally' (Watchers)
Lou Reed and gay lib (Punk-short)
Anomalous deflection of heatflow by magnetic field (PhysOrg-short-varcane)
Four Halliburton contractors killed near Baghdad (underreported) (WaPo-Boston via aJ)
Shortish history of Red Cross mismanagement scandals (Znet)
"Boondocks" black political satire jumps to Cartoon Network (NwsWk-shortish)
Unenlightening closeup of MilkyWay's core (AstroPic)
UK playground games undiminished in richness (UkTms-May2005-long via Alice)
Dismal calculations of food-prices' sensitivity to gas prices (FTW-long via Ag)
Saturday:
Calvin&Hobbes non-update (AP-Nola via ffwd)
Looong Diane Keaton profile (NyTmag)
50 wines under $10 (Boston-2pg)
Update on Turner's subscription GameTap (Boston-H.Bray)
Innovative 20thC history for tweens (UkTms-vshort-no-pix)
Good teacher gets thru to class of unteachables (UkTms)
Coalition mercenaries guard the Baghdad airport road (UkTms-long)
Ratatouille recipe (UkTms-no-pic)
Long humorless Ricky Gervais profile/update (UkInd-2col)
Lost "2001" prologue interviewed 21 scientists about ETs (UkInd-2col)
Top ten historical cellphone designs (UkInd-2col-no-pix)
Dire 1sthand report from quakestruck Pakistan (UkTel)
Less than 1% of Iraqis think coalition is making things better (UkTel) [more]
Frustrated UK commander of Basra battalion resigns (UkTel)
Babies in womb swim w/dolphins for brains' sake (UkTel-no-pix)
Thoughtful portraits of mostly kids (flickr-Flash-31pix)
New batch of Cassini pix (Saturn2-multipage)
Syria framed in too-too-convenient Hariri assassination? (Consortium)
Long interview with Hunter Thompson's widow (UkG)
India's ethical mega-conglomerate, Tata Group (NwsWk)
Publisher (Canongate) takes on Myth (Scotland) [UkG rave] [Byng]
Real-estate king cashing-out at perceived top (Fortune-CNN via Ag)
Interesting electronica jukepick, Murcof (UkG-bkgd) [mp3s]
Veronica Guerin's anti-druglord campaign fizzled (UkG)
1sthand of journo being kidnapped in Baghdad (UkG)
Drought in midwest raises aflatoxin risk (UPI)
Gaiman's "Coraline" to be voiced by DakotaF, too (UPI-vshort)
Miami cops like Segways (UPI-vshort)
Cellphones add wireless credit-card readers (NyT-IHT)
"Little Nemo in Slumberland" centennial (NyT-IHT-no-pix) [GgI] [Az]
2003 a good year for French red wines (NyT-IHT-short)
Short statistical critique of Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte S" (Sippey)
Schadenfreude over NyT mudfights, etc (CPunch-A.Cock)
Most-disturbing movie death-scene contenders (MovBlog-short)
8yo died in 40ft negligent-elevator fall (BBC-2001 w/pic)
Mohammed-cartoons spark protest (Denmark w/pic)
Eno performance baffles Beijing's dawn taichi-ers (UkTms-no-pix)
Japanese chess-variant bans computer-usurpers (UkTms) [more]
Earthy appreciation of garden snakes (UkTms-no-pix)
Pencil-sharpener used in 12yo girls' face-slashing (UkTms w/pic)
Paris curates the depression exhibition (UkTms-no-pix)
Loooong Karlheinz Stockhausen profile (UkInd-2col)
Olive-oil price-spike from Spanish drought (UkInd-2col)
The thrill of piping iPodVideo to a teevee (Beattie)
8bit Mario sculpted from RubiksCubes (jpeg via Alice)
Five oldish Destiny's Child videos (UkSun-RealVid)
Horrifying $150 robotic chimp-head (1pg w/wmv-link via Gz)
Dakota Fanning voices animated Darger film (FL-no-pix) [GgI]
22yo dance-provocateuse Ann Liv Young (VA-no-pix) [GgI]
Ten best-actress wins involved nude scenes (faq-no-pix)
Churches win church-state testcases (Alternet)
Classics updated w/celeb-appropriate rewrites (Toronto-quickies)
eg: Angelina Jolie in The Scarlet Letter gets an A+ on her chest
Sony may adopt MS's music-dma (Stuff)
Prodigious 168kb 8bit silent Star Wars (gif-anim via Blgscpd)
White rice has feelings too, ya know (iMomus)
79% assume I-word linked to PlameGate (MrPoll results)
Morning quickie: How to tell Scandinavians apart (800*600 gif-map)
List of Dogme95 films (Wikipedia)
Balanced overview of Lars von Trier (UkTel)
Veggies from seeds-mutated-in-space touted as better in China (UkTel-no-pix)
Speed-seduction tell-all (UkG-techy-bkrev)
PrankWatch: 2nd-place 17yo expelled after speedo-streak (NC-long w/pic)
PrankWatch: 23yo busboy's Alfredo-sauce bioterror (Newsday-no-pix)
Subtly compelling Tempel-1 temperature map (SpaceRef-short-arcane)
SnobWatch: (And they call bloggers narcissistic) (FT via helminth)
Simple animated jigsaw puzzle (Flash via Jay)
Chapter'n'verse for Tim Russert's pre-invasion WMD-lies (HuffPo-Fiderer-longish)
Friday:
A bare hope (Overheard-vshort)
Depressing Bill Murray profile (UkG-long)
Overdesigned new ESA-satpix site (Flash via Eureka)
Human sense-perception continues to evolve rapidly (passim via Eureka)
Spoilers(?) for new Nintendo arcade/dating game (Kotaku-no-pix)
PrankWatch: 14yo suspended 3days for Halloween penis-costume (WA-no-pix) [more]
Scarily good Nigerian 419 celebratory music video (antville-QT)
Iraq's toll on the US National Guard (CPunch-shortish)
ANWR oil-map conveniently/mysteriouly had to be redrawn (NyT-shortish via HuffPo)
Wild gallery of catshow cats (Paper-1pg via dRefill)
Gallows humor haunts White House insiders (chBlue)
Well-written backgrounder on animal shelter (w/euthanasia) (AK-long)
1700's Dalai Lama was sexy rebel poet (Korea via WFMU)
14 add-on special-effects digicam-lenses for $8 each (Gz w/pix)
Devo-funny choreography on shrill Le Tigre $2 video (fast-QT via antville)
Fascinating glimpse of Nigerian end of 419 scams (LaTms via Morn)
Lucid explanation of how winning robot-SUV worked (SJMerc via Raw) [pix-1pg-phat]
Conservative mashnote to Fleming's original Bond (NatRev-longish)
Three sweet full Monk-Coltrane tunes plus meta-video (Flash via lf)
Pricey 45min LiffeyRiver boat tour (Dublin-arcane)
Tajik students "spending too much time in mosques" (AP-aJ-vshort)
Psyops GIs blaspheme to provoke Taliban attacks (6min RealVid witness) [transcript]
PrankWatch: Bribing Star Jones to compete in paella-eating (Radar-transcript)
India's Verity Stob? (localColor)
OpenOffice2 "a steaming pile of crap"? (helminth-short)
Archived thread on how-to-study-programming-languages-theory (Lambda-Jan2005)
Superb synopsis of JerryLewis-DeanMartin duo (UkG-longish)
Banville joins pseudonymous thriller-artists category (UkG-gossipy)
Stalk your stalkers by ip-number (slick, via Ursi)
Recent surge of 'JS-Wonka' javascript exploit (TechWeb)
Slashdotter debunks nano-car-with-wheels hype (info/pix) [/. skep]
How to create a custom shutdown command in Windows (PropHead-simple)
Cobalt nanoparticles make arty patterns (Eureka w/pic)
'Quintillion's in the news (GgN pattern, 3 stories) [brazillions too]
Speculation on properties of "buckypaper" (Eureka-longish)
Gruesome details of senile-driver killing pedestrian (FL-no-pix)
Titan blur-gazers speculate on unearthly weather (Sat2-big-grain-salt)
Semi-clever LeonardCohen parody (McSwnys-list)
Updated stats on costs of Wars on Terrors (CDI-short via Ag)
Morning quickie: How Cnet's ontology-browser works/doesn't (RWx-semiarcane)
SnobWatch: Sniffy survey of US airport restaurants (WSJ w/table)
'Honor roll' of journalists who got the WMDs-story right (HuffPo-Arianna)
Wal-Mart CEO talks sustainability (HuffPo-Makower-longish)
Thursday:
Short typology of creative people (FastCo via Vacuum)
Vshort leCarre2006 preview (UkInd)
Okay Bush2005 preview (UkInd-2col-longish)
GetYourWarOn catchup (mnftiu-1pg)
Jerusalem Post plans massive extension of hoax on Christians (UkG via Revealer)
Economics explains counterintuitive sentence-extension (Frknmcs)
Rave for Video iPod (Beattie-shortish)
Bloggers, if you let these guys intimidate you you're no better than Judy Miller (scroll down)
if you think you see judaism rejoicing in fraud, you have to start speaking out about it
and read the story of jacob and esau in genesis, for doctrine
EthanZ is on a roll lately (Accra blog)
Don't drink airline coffee or tea (NewSci-ewww)
Openoffice2 is out (via McGrath)
Quick mideast geography quiz (don't cheat) (MrPoll-vshort) [map]
Imaginative nature pix (BBC-5pg)
Possible deals on personal media players (eBay via Gz)
Surpassingly geeky mope-video from Suburban Kids with Biblical Names (antville-RealVid)
Mixed Iraqi-on-the-street responses to Saddam trial (aJ)
Watchdog ranks best/worst teevee shows (lists via VH1)
Bland game-theory gossip (Freakonomics)
GwynethP watches little Apple via backpack satcam? (Fem1st-unclear)
PG13 backgrounder on sexy-agitprop teeshirts (LaWk w/popup)
UnprankWatch: Possum Hollow volunteers must clean streets twice (VA)
Don't-miss 4D-Ralph-Steadmanlike video from Gravenhurst (antville-multiformat)
Overfishing makes sharks eat people (Oz via PhysOrg)
Beautiful physics, stupid "Gravity" game (Flash via jay)
Squirmfully funny Colbert interview w/goodsport Georgia pol (1gm-QT-5min)
Where P.Fitzgerald came from (WaPo-long via vBoat)
Director's cartoons bite Hollywood's hands (UkG-gossipy)
"Bush is just lucky this isn't a real democracy" (Onion-daily)
Cool screenshots from baffling "Yogurting" mmporg (phat via ffwd) [more]
Wednesday:
Jelly Roll Morton boxset (LaCity-cdrev) [mp3s] [RealAud]
Lovely HarryShearer tidbit on foxes and henhouses (HuffPo)
Some cute pix of the day (BBC-7pix)
Evening quickie: TreeOfLife part two (RWx-vshort)
44% think the Sixties will be back within 15yrs (MrPoll results)
Nice review of NyT's missed opportunities still omits the I-word (HuffPo-Arianna)
WallSt whispers have Powell implicating Cheney (Ag)
Iran still in shock'n'awe crosshairs (UkG via Sam)
Some tough challenges to Karen Hughes (CD-Brown)
PrankWatch: Mysterious public decoupage using porn (SD w/pic)
Smarmy Buffett-Gates double-interview (Fortune via iGreed)
Drug warlords won Afghan elections (short via Cursor)
Well-written journo's experiment with poverty (NJ-long via Cursor)
Sensitive congressional cellphone infrastructure subcontracted to Israel (WaPo via HuffPo)
Optional 'www' subdomain hurts your site's PageRank (Workbench)
Iraq's CPA likely most-corrupt-govt-ever (CSM)
GooglePrint to get some AI eventually (TX-arcane via Unofficial)
PrankWatch: Branagh's star ducknapped (UK-short-no-pix) [bkgd]
Nigeria may finally ban spam (Reuters-aJ)
STUPENDOUS new Nasa video of all 21 hurricanes (long-fast-QT)
Longish update on 60s' radical Weathermen (CPunch-Healy)
256Mb mp3 w/many extra functions $50 shipped (Az via DN)
Ten hot design trends (BizWk-frames via TED)
Old Hollywood starpix semi-artistically photoshopped (flickr-Flash-15pix)
Implausible report of 2002 art-riot (Detroit-short)
DHS funding 2ndLife research of Mr 'Satchmo Prototype' (NewWorld)
Annoying alarmism about (genuine) evils of corn sweetener (Sprol-4pg)
Nice interface for maze-game (Flash via Ursi)
2ndLife virtual-world would be hipper if it was community-owned (EthanZ w/link)
Some useful RSS tricks (blog via SEW)
Indicting everybody still won't make things clean (RigInt-downer)
Oldest GoogleGroups example of trendy solecism "on the Internets" (1996-triv)
Obit for JaneGoodall's 46yo last 1st chimp, Fifi (HuffPo-R.Shaw w/link)
Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher discovered Quentin Tarantino? (Az via fdl)
Cunning detectivework on Libby-letters leak (fdl)
Compact design for dvd-player w/screen (Egd w/pic)
Gossipy critique of CIA chief's 1st year (WaPo via Ag)
Morning quickie: Visualising the Tree of Life (RWx-short)
I wish NASA would rotate these kind (1000^2 jpeg) [and resize this]
Then the unthorned got thorns (VerseDaily-repeat)
Tuesday:
New Orleans Struck By Meteorite (new Onion)
Creative animated Halloween video from NAHPI (antville-QT)
Wilma's predicted stormtrack (NOAA-gif via NasaW)
Witty Nora Ephron on Newsweek, Women, and Leadership (HuffPo-longish)
19thC landscape visionary Samuel Palmer (CSM w/pic) [GgI]
Touring Russia these days takes moxie (CSM)
Catering to the new fussy-eaters fad (UkTms)
10ft boa-in-sewers caught (UkTms w/pic)
If ya like boobsalot (mostly pg13) (1700pg)
4min contest of keeping straight face delivering silly news (1gm-Colbert-QT)
New key to PlameGate: John Hannah (rStory via fdl)
Replay your parties live via TiVo-delay (blog# via jm)
Passionate rant against Dems' complicity in fake US elections (Ohio-CD-long)
Oxytocin implicated in interesting behaviors (UPI-SciDaily-short via Wired)
GIs' unscripted answers to W's tele-questions (HuffPo-Rieckhoff)
Revived rumors the USA is propping up the stock market (Asia-short via Ag) [graph]
Gummi-boobs look and feel more natural than saline (SciDaily-no-pix)
Portable solar/wind shack generates 150kW (CSM w/pic)
Decent TomTomorrow toon (kidsbook) (VV w/popup)
Morale crisis for UK Iraq-troops (UkInd-CD)
Carole King's early-60s BrillBuilding milieu (CSM-bkrev)
Firefighters' 9-11 accounts still redacted (VVoice-shortish)
Merle Haggard's new song opposes Iraq war (no audio) (CPunch-short)
P.Cockburn looks at imminent Saddam-trial (CPunch-short)
Don't-miss animated global-warming song parody (Flash via sGuerr)
Even HuffPo bloggers fail to connect Miller-Times-Israel dots (searchpattern results)
USA seen as 17th-least-corrupt country (new table) [info] [simpler]
Worth-it BBC nature-timelapse w/annoying music (antville-QT-fast)
Free wireless gaming at McD's sounds underwhelming (Gz-snarky)
Nokia 7380 tiny phonecam-fm-mp3 (no price) (Gz w/pic) [$650]
GoogleNews has been indexing noisy Cnet comments for weeks now (GgN pattern)
Pimp my maresnest of cables ($!art w/links)
Short backgrounder on $nine-figure poetry angel (Barista)
I think they should use it to liberate great-poems' ip
Firefox poweruser tips (MacW via sValues)
Ex-Seattle police chief's case for legalising all drugs (LaTms via Morn)
Laser pointers $4 shipped (DN-Surplus)
Impulse-suicide attempts blamed by half of survivors (Eureka)
CIA blamed for 2002 assassination of Chavez-defender (Vnzla-WatchAm)
Outraged-patriot analysis of outing CIA spies (Stratfor vis sGuerr)
Don't-miss jpeg design-advice for comic artists (1200*900 via lmg)
Long smart rave for TristramShandy movie (UkG)
Pentagon's asymmetrical response to IEDs (Prospect)
flickering in this hungry hour (VerseDaily-short)
On Bill Cosby's May2004 oreo-racist rant (InTheseTimes)
UK firm tests keyring password-generator for customers (RegUk) [pic]
New poll: How far is the Judy-Miller mess due to the NyTimes's pro-Israel bias? (MrPoll-short)
48% think next year's birdflu toll will be under 1000 (MrPoll results)
Monday:
Christian critique of magazines for teen girls (Agape)
Testosterone-macho in wild chimps (Eureka-no-pix)
Iraq is now US-funded welfare state (HuffPo-R.Smith-short)
Secret color-printer watermark spycodes cracked (EFF-1pg w/pix via Engdgt)
Play realworld Katamari w/buffet food (flickr-semiarcane via Kotaku)
New issue of Mother Jones (toc)
Kirsten Dunst to play Iraq-NGO-fatality Marla Ruzicka (via MovBlog)
Juan Cole argues JudyM is a dupe, not a neocon (Salon-Truthout)
1964 cosmetics-palette revolution, Biba (UkTms-arcane-no-pix)
Top 40 magazine covers since 1965 (1pg w/pix)
Brisk synopsis of key PlameGate evidence (CPunch-Whitney-shortish)
New treeware tech-zine, "Robot" (site via Raw)
JoniM's 1968 in Laurel Canyon (UkG-extract) [Hockney]
"What was that? Did we hallucinate it?"
Elliott Smith obscurities (free mp3s via stereogum)
Wisdom from 1907 saved community from Xmas tsunami (Eureka)
Gorgeous closeups of nearby-galaxy's core (PhysOrg)
PrankWatch: 'Physics-disruptor' enables $40 scam in virtual bowling alley (2ndLife)
Amish culture-news update (Time w/popup)
Well-reviewed 400-piece toykit $23 shipped (Az via DN)
VanGogh show in NYC (NyMag w/pic)
Constitutional referendum run by JebBush-style rules? (Iraq-blog)
LocalColor: South African local news (Za)
Yet another poll: Will we ever see 1967's like again? (MrPoll-short)
55% think Gates deserves a heavy fine or worse (MrPoll results)
Public CatPower meltdown (alt-female jukepick) (blog via stereogum)
Useful-failure Web2.0 idea-generator (ajax-Blogoscoped)
Brazenly brainless new Bush2005 video (EMI-QT-slow) [lyrics]
One hopes she's playing to the groundlings here
JamesBond-rejects leaked-reasoning (Fem1st)
Short mixed rave for wristwatch-pda gaming (Kotaku)
Updated graph of blogging-rates vs news-events (gif) [more]
Kermit the Frog turns 50 (AP-IN-no-pix via VH1)
Okay update of lit-vs-pulp debate (UkG-shortish)
TwilightZone-dose-of-the-day (ufos) (RigInt-shortish)
Worth-it 12min WingsOfDesire-deejay short (Flash via Ursi)
Five-day spread in posting-date for (random) new item (GgN-semiarcane)
Overlong don't-miss Sarah Silverman profile (NYer)
"He doesn't have the balls to sue."
Giddy pro-gibberish agitprop (QT-short via WFMU)
Backstreet Boys get numa-numa'd (Flash via antville)
Pseudo-live Mars flyover (ajax via PhysOrg) [info]
Poor hospitals 3X riskier than rich (Eureka-arcane)
A KarenHughes for virtual worlds? (NewWorld)
Starts-lucid intro-to-bioinformatics (Loom-longish)
Four specific attempts to balance history texts (Time-vshort)
Repainting model-railroad scenery to look slummier (1pg via Make)
This Firefox extension browses galleries like the above using just alt-arrow (Mozdev)
2003-era details on Miss Runamok in Iraq (E&P-confusing-format)
Acidic critique of Flatley's Ireland (and ethnic inauthenticity) (NYer-Acocella)
Miers has flawless anti-consumer record (HuffPo-Sirota)
Crafty insomnia poem: Hollowing, crash cart, Please (VerseDaily)
Sunday:
Yuppie becomes terror-suspect for walking on bikepath (UkTms)
Pagans in UK prisons get rites (UkTms)
JaneH rips Floyd Abrams a new one (fdl-yow)
New-but-predictable 100-best-novels list (Time-1pg)
Lovely Frank Rich analysis of the Miller-Iraq connection (NyT-Truthout-long via HuffPo)
Cloud, Mountain, Lake (flickr-Chile)
Evidence W has thrown in the towel (Nation-Nichols)
Excellent chimpanzee-politics editorial (Bflo via 3Red)
Alt-religious fish-plaques now include Spaghetti Monster (1pg via Steve)
Amateur's mosaic of varying Mars-to-scale (jpeg) [info]
Fastfood potatoburgers a hit in Mumbai (AP-Shanghai)
LocalPrankNeologismColorWatch: Muck-up day (Oz)
Recent TempleMount archeology (Haaretz via Xplr)
Lukewarm Mary Beard on Robin Lane Fox (UkInd-bkrev via Xplr)
Sustainable farm retrains local cooks (WA)
Links-by-country to free online teevee channels (1pg via iGreed)
Artful sweet trannie video from Antony and the Johnsons (antville-RealVid)
New poll: How many humans will die of birdflu next year? (MrPoll-short) [faq]
Best-yet closereading of Miller-NyT (Kos-long via 1gm)
Elegant art-smoke (flickr)
$1M lottery-ticket finders-keepers (Boston-short)
Freemasons holding openhouses (Boston)
Iraq constitution compared to Confederacy winning US Civil War (UkTms)
1999 NPR salute to 1964 political satire, TW3 (8min-RealAud)
Touchy-feely approach to prank-punishment (PA)
P.Pullman denounces Lewis's Narnia (UkG via lf)
Lots of splogs (spam blogs) on Blogspot (T'rat pattern)
The random numbers in the blognames is one giveaway
Arianna's 1st-round critique of NyT-Miller limited-hangout (HuffPo) [fdl]
Enlightening Cspan clip of Democrats showing backbone (tProg w/QT via Ag)
Saturday:
Madonna pays well for Abba sample (UkTel)
Witty cat pic (stripes) (flickr)
Longer rave for TristramShandy film (UkG)
Baffling xrated gay
12 wines under $10 (Morn via lf)
Wondering how accurate GooglePrint's OCR is (GgP pattern)
Fighting for control of Baghdad airport road (UPI)
Luscious colors-of-Thailand slideshow (flickr-Flash)
One of the teleconferenced 'GIs' was a pr flack (VV w/popup via HuffPo)
Short Eminem iTunes promo (QT via Raw)
I thought boas crawling out of toilets was folklore (UkTel-short)
Colorful Jacko gossip (costumes, foodfight) (eWise-short)
Harvard shorts the market (PhilG-short)
Riverbend sees no hope from constitution (BaghdadBurning)
Students choose Oz schools over USA (HuffPo-Bradley-short w/link)
LocalColor: False drug-arrest in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
LocalColor: MS13 gang in Vegas (Vegas)
LocalColor: Anti-porn movement in Uganda (Uganda w/pic)
PrankWatch: Painter profits from parodying plagiarist Vettriano (UK-no-pix)
Unfamiliar 3rd daVinci "Virgin" (pic) [story]
Local coverage of "Girls Gone Wild" visit (NJ)
Lurid rant against morality of "Nip/Tuck" cable series (righty site)
NeologismProposal: happyflasher (OH-vshort)
Eloquent 44sec BushCheney parody-ad from Maher (1gm-QT)
Smart square-fractal images (multimulti via Bibi)
PrankWatch: 16yo pilot buzzes football game (AP-WI-no-pix)
Morning quickie: RobotWisdom = 21stC marxism (RWx-short)
A spiral made of flipflops (BBC#pic5)
Hot political blog (sGuerr)
Curry powder inhibits breast cancer (Eureka)
Could we finesse global warming by tweaking the water cycle? (NewSci-short)
Found poetry: yellow dragon disease, from huanglongbing germs (UPI-PhysOrg)
Inept trannie video for pretty Spoon song (blip-QT-js via antville)
Stunning animatronic midi-display-interface video (antville-QT-heh)
Full etext of purported Zawahiri-Zarqawi letter (CentCom.mil)
Mutatis mutandis, it reads like advice from Jesse Jackson to W
Long detailed critique of Iraq constitution-process (Znet-Bennis)
Strangely compelling iPaq phone (Raw w/pic)
ClicheWatch: Joni Mitchell's inspired a cliche (GgN pattern)
Unrecognizable new pic of Laurie Anderson, w/music gossip (HuffPo)
Mike Leigh doublefeature on Sundance tonight (Sundance)
Priceless interview with 'Big Lebowski's original Dude (AP-ND via ffwd) [more]
Morning quickie: George and Harriet (RWx-vshort)
Baghdad now too dangerous even for Fisk (UK via dy)
Friday:
Free GPS on your Nextel phone (I think) (Make w/pix)
19yrs in thicket earns hobo $3M squatter's rights (UkInd-2col-no-pix)
Spindly-looking Andromeda in infrared (jpeg) [info]
Interplay between neurophysiology and psychological fiction (UkG-long)
$1.78 doesn't tempt Mumbai's nude models (India) [Rs 80]
Massive spyware violation from World of Warcraft (rootkit via Kotaku)
Saturn's Hyperion's tumble's uniquely chaotic (SciNews)
Nice Hentoff on torture-McCain-Fishback-W-veto (VV)
Xbox2 game hands-on (Jystq via Egdgt)
25 free Tom Swift ebooks (multiformat via Olb)
Update on eDonkey/Grokster/p2p (BizWk via Wired)
47yo Prince needs hip replacement from high heels? (Fem1st)
Digital-recorders roundup (Engadget w/pix)
Amazing 1968 clip of Lennon w/Jagger, Clapton, etc (WFMU-QT)
Past quotes where W claimed divine guidance (WaPo via Revealer)
8000*800 NYC-panorama jpeg (Wiki via newrecruit)
40+ officials demoted or driven off for ethics disagreements (MoJo w/popup)
MP3s of worst videogame voice-actors (multi via negatendo)
The officer who hands $2500 to kin of Iraqis killed by GIs (SfGate w/popup via Crsr)
Joni Mitchell art for Paste Magazine (small pic) [story] [GgN feed]
Pinter's official site, w/poems (via tn)
Short anti-USA Pinter-poems (GgN-UPI-2step) (retry) [backup]
Sweet BillClinton anecdote(s) (blog via sGuerr)
Awesome RobertNovak parody (WH-long via Ag)
Great JohnLandis BluesBros interview (longish)
tATu voices death threat to Charlotte Church (Gig)
'Hobbit' brainshape dogfight (Loom w/scans)
Dylan Thomas rehumanised (BBC)
Dali tidbits (OR-short-no-pix)
New Bond, in character (AIC-jpeg)
RickMoranis JohnnyCash RealAudio parodyclip chuckleworthy (USA2 w/popup via CynC)
Daniel Schorr's I-was-there rave for Clooney's Murrow (CSM-short)
Your pillow's (gross) micro-ecology (Eureka-no-pix)
Weekend poll: Justice towards Bill Gates would be...? (MrPoll-short)
Iraq constitution in a nutshell (UkTel-short) [faq]
TGAsh on Iran; GIs' Iraq-torture; Buffalo Bill; etc (new NYRB)
Nude danceclub fad in London (UK-no-pix)
Painful 20min MsNbc disembowelling of W's Iraq teleconference (1gm-3QTs)
Samy's 1stperson tech explanation of MySpace worm (2pg via Willison)
Timelines of Pinter's plays, movies (UkTms)
Sean Lennon on John (Fem1st-short)
Short theater-review of Icelandic "Woyzeck" (UkInd-2col-no-pix)
Looooong familiar-looking P.Cockburn on state-of-Iraq (UkInd-2col)
SlangWatch: toast soldiers (UkTel w/pic)
Snarky Madonna-on-parenting interview (UkTel)
Curmudgeon ODs on MardiGras beads (IA)
FIXED#1 is rockin 76min dancemix (juke-pick) (VV w/more mp3s)
I haven't explored this genre before, but I'm way impressed
Rave for Euripides done in original Greek (Stothard-short)
Video-iPod cartoon (JoyTech)
Semantic Web joke (500*600 gif)
Useful-but-smug Indian-outsourcing personal-experiment (Esq-3pg-looong)
Speculation on Apple's video-iPod strategy (Engadget-longish)
Cassini's Saturn-pix reformatted for flickr (flickr via Obl)
Online matchmaker's questionnaire guesses your brain-chemistry (BizWk-short via /.)
Thursday:
Weird lifecycle of new ocean microbe (Reuters-MsNbc w/pic via lf)
Okay surreal new MartinDeThurah video for Royksopp (antville-multiformat)
Another simple egg game (Flash via goodexp)
How pot might make you smarter (NewSci)
Oklahoma suicide bomb rumors and facts (WSJ)
Parade magazine libels Chavez (E&P-short)
Excellent Letterman shows W hammers 'like little girl' (1gm-3min-QT)
KRT-journo embedded with appalling Iraqi army unit (KC-long via E&P)
"DaVinci Code" author has gotten death threats (NH-passim)
MP3s of old teevee themes (dir via lf)
Witty fake FinnegansWake movie review (Avant-arcane)
Timeline of terror-alerts-vs-pr-crises (MsNbc-Olbrmn via sGuerr)
Esquire's 2005 mostly-USA best-restaurant picks (Esquire.com)
Fun plug for WC Fields DVD set (WFMU w/pix)
Rushdie-Affleck-A.Sullivan-Maher on torture anti-veto (1gm-5min-QT)
Odd egg-physics game starts easy (Flash via goodexp)
Goodcop psychology works against soccer hooliganism (Eureka-semiarcane)
Is video iPod a threat to PSP? (PSPwrld via bisset)
Updated opinion on celebs that look bad/good on HDTV (toptens via Yeeeah)
Limited-time best-price on Kodak 5Mp (DealNews-Dell)
Excellent new Cassini images (Saturn2day-multi) [fave]
Smoothest hard-drive surfaces must be diamond-coated? (PhysOrg)
Saudi Arabia bans entry to all al-Jazeera journos (aJfriends)
Daniel Pipes spouts off for al Jazeera (aJfriends)
VR magazine's gee-whizzy QTVR interface experiment (QTVR-Flash via Raw)
Dogme95's descent towards reality-teevee (greg.org)
Short familiar hi-impact list of post-Katrina laws-waived (USA2 w/popup via Morn)
Astronomy-fad in Iran (Reuters-aJ)
4yo, cat transfixed by teevee stocks-pundit (iGreed-vshort)
Don't-miss burgoo of tech speculation (Beattie-long)
Curmudgeonly wide-ranging SamSmith think-piece (long)
I vehemently disagree that the arts are in decline
The Armenian genocide has a posse (HuffPo-SystemOfADown)
Escalating medical Katrina-incompetence (LaCity via HuffPo)
Harvey-Pekar movie-prequel ad-comic (large-jpeg via ffwd) [info]
If the Batmobile were a motorbike (Engadget-pic)
old goddess / of rain, wash us with your silent tongue (long, difficult)
Wednesday:
Lawrence of Arabia's better-idea for 1918 mideast (map) [story]
Mama baboon licks baby's head bald (BBC w/pic)
4kyo millet-noodles found in China (Cnet-vshort) [pic]
PrankWatch: Student-cabinet meeting adjourned prematurely (CA-friv)
Shiny doodad incl handcrank, pocket-monkey (flickr via HSP)
NewGuinea mask passed down thru 100 generations (Eureka-no-pix)
Good pix of new velociraptor ancestor (Eureka)
Funny-weird pic of two Saturn moons (Sat2day)
State-of-the-art earthquake-prediction-tech still flops (AFP-aJ)
Page-images of Harriet's mash-notes to W (sGun-18pg)
Moving Dylan memoir by obscure early peer (JewJ-shortish)
Chocolate-like molecules permeate universe (semiarcane via U2day)
Stats contradict Tom Frank's 'Kansas' hypotheses (Nation-CD)
N.Korea has been forging $100s for 16yrs (WashTimes via lf)
Katie Holmes's parents suspect Rosemary's-Baby scenario (MsNbc via HuffPo)
The indistinguishably smooth pop sounds of the 70s (WFMU w/mp3s)
How Argentina called the IMF's bluff (CPunch-Weisbrot-shortish)
Fighting off intruder not at all like teevee (CO)
Pederasty the norm in Afghanistan? (PhilG-short)
Yahoo fixes b0rken blog-search rss (SEW-short)
Wild-looking retro Sony digital recorder (pic via Gz)
PrankWatch: Teens keep 10yo for 5hrs w/bag over head (MI-no-pix)
RagDollKungFu game uses new physics interface (Jay w/pix)
Mexico1985-parallel suggests Katrina may promote new politics (HSPblog w/link)
Critique of recent relativistic rejection of dark matter (/. via sValues)
Stirling solar system claims 30% efficiency (Sprol w/pix)
My makes-me-feel-like-an-idiot CSS question (RWx-idiotday-short)
Self-conscious bloggers retreating to LiveJournal? (blog via Yang)
Hollywood prefers Gore to Hillary in 2008? (HuffPo-Arianna)
Saturn's Tethys a 600mile sphere of water-ice (AstroPic)
Tuesday:
Hamas's 22yo girl bomb expert (AP-USA2 w/pic, popup)
Velociraptors' claws not useful for disembowelling (BBC w/pix)
John Milton's Paradise Lost gets Hollywood greenlight (UkTel-short)
Harriet Miers standup jokes (incl Aristocrats-xxx) (W&V)
Short summary of Iraqis' calls for US exit (Nation-Hayden)
512Mb iPod shuffles just $60 at Aldi? (DealNews)
Ten butcher's reasons to become vegetarian (Smart$-2pg)
Peekable mp3 of new SineadO'C reggae (AVC via stereogum)
On-the-ground Nola update (HuffPo-Shearer-email)
Fed, debt, autos, budget, Harvard, Turkey, immigrants, construction (DeanBaker)
512Mb mp3 w/fm, voice, files for $50 shipped (DealNews-Shop4)
Twelve more 'hot' toys (Newhouse-TX-no-pix via Gz)
Short history/meditation on horror/gore on stage (UkG)
Economics of including free DVDs w/UK papers (BBC)
Short indecisive peek at ElvisC's new opera (UkInd-2col)
Cute Barsotti/Magritte toon (new NYer)
Followup on McD's stripsearches (below) (KY w/pic)
LocalColor: Swazi religion compared to Christianity (Swaziland)
New bones support hobbit-species claims (Loom)
Google adds tagging to Search History (BNC via Blgscpd)
LocalColor: Experimental 'butoh' dancer (Indonesia-no-pix)
If you liked Eraserhead, try this bizarre BlackDice video (cliptip-slow-phat-QT)
Crimewave in NYC schools despite NYPD (VVoice)
J.Wales admits Wikipedia has serious quality problems (Signpost)
Afghanistan votes in Islamists (NyT-IHT)
UN's Bolton aligns w/China, Russia, Algeria on Darfur (Reuters-aJ)
Popular blogger's son diagnosed w/autistic inclinations (dYeti-long)
How shaped-charge bombs work (esp. in Iraq) (BBC via Yang)
The parable of the ulcer-Nobel (IHT via Yang)
Monday:
1984 KateBush musicianship anecdote (UkG-shortish)
Lovely animated alt-female video from Viva Voce (QT via antville)
Sixties flashback Oct30 at GGate Park (Jam-annc)
Annoying html version of Bucky Fuller's Synergetics (frames via fFeeder)
Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease threat (Oz-no-pix) [yuk-pix]
Dark-matter explained away, relativistically (abstract via /.)
Ton'o'cheddar vanishes in deepsea ripening experiment (Toronto-friv)
PrankWatch: PETA pies Anna Wintour (Jossip w/pix)
LP-turntable atop oldstyle pc case (sightgag via $!art)
Ice machines rank with E.coli (UkTms-longish)
PrankWatch: MrBlobby-fans add yellow polkadots to man's pink house (UkSun w/pic)
Well-meaning 76pg slideshow-faq on semantic web (w3c via delish)
First postmodern parfumeur (CNN via VH1)
Backstory on classy prefab houses (NYer w/popup) [pix] [more]
Sniffy fine-art dismissal of graphic novels (NYer-pSchj-loooong)
Irish reporter's account of confronting W in Jun2004 (UkTms-extract-long via eA) [12min RealVid]
Updike on dust-jackets history (NYer-bkrev-long) [U1934]
"I've tasted it," he says. "It's obscure for a reason." (long-NYer-story)
Fine art as a (risky) investment (NYer-jSur-shortish)
the empty groves began to grow / from some dark energy (VerseDaily-shortish)
Sunday:
MIT recreates Archimedes' mirror-based ship-igniter (1pg-phat via lf)
LocalColor: Jamaican-African dance styles (Jamaica-longish)
Centennial of 1st NYC pizzeria (CBS)
New PostSecret (weekly-pix)
Vermont has lots of rabid bats (AP-Boston)
DJ John Peel's posthumous memoirs of school sex abuse (UkTel) [more]
UK commissions B-list authors for starter 'Quick Reads' (UkTel-short)
Amazing early "Dennis the Menace" tidbits (Seattle-bkrev-longish)
Fun Quicktime-VR shot from inside a waterbottle (via Pepys)
Gitmo chaplain detained 2months as spy (Egypt-extract-long) [Amy]
Charlotte Rampling at 21yo (GeorgieGirl) at 58yo (SwimmingPool-PG13)
"Suspiria" voted 3rd scariest movie ever (BBC-top-ten)
Great Tilda Swinton profile (UkG)
"I ask Swinton what were considered virtues in her family..."
BKS Iyengar and history of yoga in USA (CO-long w/pix)
PrankWatch: McD's employees tricked into making strip-searches (KY-long)
Saturday:
Previously uncollected Patricia Highsmith stories (UkInd-2col-bkrev)
Nice longish Carly Simon profile/update (UkInd-2col)
RDF-for-semantic-web explained in haiku (longish via delish)
Elmore Leonard's Bulwer-Lytton contender (RWx-vshort)
News to me: Pop-classical millionaire Karl Jenkins (site w/RealAud)
Switch to ethanol cars drives up sugar prices (CSM via Ag)
Ten provocative Arundhati Roy quotes (India-short)
Sinead threatens to shave vain actress's hair (Fem1st-short)
Levee wall should have been 15ft deeper? (Nola#)
Okay HunterDavies JohnLennon-65th-birthday tribute (UkInd-2col)
Okay account of Jon Stewart's recent Canada standup (Toronto)
Lucid long Plamegate chronology nails Rove (HuffPo-Leopold)
Friday:
Supermarket shelves from above (flickr-pic)
Okay Ethan Hawke update/profile (UkG-long)
Gallant RobbieWilliams defense of Kate Moss (UkInd-2col)
"...a woman who has never harmed anyone or hurt anyone [nor] pretended to be anyone she isn't"
C.Logue keeps pushing envelope of Iliad-translation (UkG-bkrev)
Okay critique of new Tolstoy translation (W&P) (UkG-longish)
Graffiti-cleaning fluid is date-rape drug in concentrated form (BBC)
Israel's soccer team led by Arab stars (UkTms)
ElvisC debuts HCAndersen bio-opera (UkTms-vshort-no-pix) [more]
Fighting poverty by leveraging its 'brands' (EthanZ-bkrev)
Gerber's new jalapeno flavor (sightgag via lf)
Short upbeat Jesse Jackson tribute (HuffPo-Cobble)
Nice meditation on Narnia, Hollywood, etc (UkG) [Tilda's dreads]
Beautiful shortish critique of media noncoverage of Frist scandal (E&P)
Roll-up piano keyboards from $30 (Froogle via RegUk)
One AP-outlet found perfect title for Ginsberg anniversary (Can) [cf]
Readable update on CB radio for drivers (Freep via Gz)
Refurbied Palm PDA for $20 shipped (Surplus via DealNews)
Climate change and complexity (Sam w/link)
$13 security-checkpoint playset (Amazon via VH1)
Iraq's constitution-process is criminal (Znet-Jamail)
Wish I'd said that (The Bobster) (Overheard-vshort)
Fascinating thesis: Miers and 'thin pink line' (HuffPo-Reardon)
Very promising free-trial of music-discovery site (Pandora-Flash via Morn) [bkgd]
'Deer Stop' works great, 'Hit Em Up Style (Oops)' good, 'Waltz #2 (XO)' and 'Dancing Barefoot' way lame
PrankWatch: College standup act incl prank calls to parents (PA)
Reading group based on past Booker Prize winners (MA-short)
Contrarian perspective on e-archives vs treeware (blog-short)
Way-cool 8bit-text needlepoint (jpeg) [info]
I-think-full text of gay-cowboy story "Brokeback Mountain" (etext via greg)
Short synopsis of known cases of Israel spying on USA (CPunch-2004 via aJ)
Way-out-of-left-field ancient-Egyptian-gods conspiracy theory (RigInt-long)
Capote's original 1965 magazine version of "In Cold Blood" (NYer-long-part1)
Thursday:
Short vivid Allen Ginsberg memoir (CA)
"Action Philosophers" comic books teach philosophy (1pg w/pix)
Cool eclipse pic (flickr)
Page-images of 1829 cookbook (1pg-index via OlB)
Who's behind uniformed Iraq assassination squads? (Iraq-bad-English)
Hideous animation of proposed nano-motor (small-QT) [info]
VanGogh-looking b&w closeup of sunspot (600^2 jpeg) [info]
I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I analysis of W's latest (HuffPo-Cesca)
'Organic funerals' double as fertiliser? (UkObs)
PrankWatch: Cop goes ballistic over chair-sponge before 150 kids (CA-no-pix)
Dictionary-hack reveals Google subdomains like ratings.google.com (Blogoscoped-2pg)
Juke-pick Laura Veirs profile (UkTel)
Kronos Quartet's Bollywood tribute (UkTel-cdrev)
Your weekly consumption-level makes a nice annual RWWL contribution-level (MrPoll results)
The 'rocksausage' button above leads to PayPal
Many pre-1963 Beatles obscurities (mp3s via Morn)
Dramatic redesign for US nickel (BBC w/pic)
Enchanting IronGiant-tribute video from Birdengine (antville-QT/RealVid)
Fun UK punk video from The Rakes (slow-QT via antville)
Mattel's "Bling Bling Barbie" (Amazon-pix)
"Local Hero" protagonist's checkered career-path (UkInd)
PrankWatch: 17yo dies trying to jump onto moving car (OzTel w/pic)
Virtual avatars glimpse streaming realworld video (2ndLife)
Robbie Robertson on new Band boxset (Canoe)
Short alarming Quicktime reel of W's new jaw-twitch (HuffPo-Shearer)
Could he have one of those new 'tooth radios'?
W picked Miers anticipating impeachment? (HuffPo-JFrank-short)
Lack of progressive values puts USA behind Turkey (HuffPo-Uygur)
You are my first yard, the one I have dreamt of (VerseDaily-shortish)
Wednesday:
Gmail now autosaves drafts after 50chars (Unofficial-short)
Self-portrait blonde (flickr-Paredes)
Antibody selectively clumps sperm cells by gender (Toronto)
Flu-virus outruns vaccines by rapid mutation (Eureka)
New King Kong image (800*600 jpeg)
Vivienne Westwood still kickin a (IHT-pic) [more]
PrankWatch: Bloggers fall for MS-DVD-DRM hoax (BetaNews)
800 Asian troops desert US training, taking weapons (Asia via Ag)
Liverpool gran handing out 30 fivers a day (UkTel w/pic)
DHS alienates local authorities (UPI via Ag)
Two LED flashlights $8 shipped (DealNews-Surplus)
If Martha Stewart was vegan, her kids' lunchboxes (blog w/pix via lf)
Police brutality breaking up legal Utah rave (IndyBay-short) from August
Student researches moonshine whiskey (Cornell)
$3k vandalism to hardware store blamed on "eco-terror" (MT)
PrankWatch: "Iowa sucks" burnt into playingfield w/herbicide (IA w/pic)
Mary Beard debunks 'hot' new Ithaka theory (TLS-bkrev)
Brilliant Mario-pixel-art doodling (gif via Kotaku)
Rappers unanimously reject McD's product-placement payola (UkG via HuffPo)
New RadioShack modular robotics kits (Gz w/pricing)
Hidden IMDb powersearch (SEW-short w/link)
More on Flatley's all-dancing history of Ireland (Canada-no-pix) [pix]
Morning quickie: The semantics of person-person relationships (RWx-semiarcane)
Tuesday:
Google-Sun-Java deal boils down to Toolbar-as-critical-territory (Battelle-shortish)
Imminent Cameroon dam-collapse may release deadly gas (Africa-no-pix via Ag)
Inspector Rebus's Ian Rankin's house profiled (UkInd w/popup pic)
UK 'operation teams' evoke Lawrence-of-Afghanistan (UkTel-no-pix)
GoogleNews quietly renamed their EurekAlert newsfeed (new pattern)
$20k fine breaks up Kathy Kelly's V.i.t.W. (InTheseTimes)
Pic of 1978 graphpaper originals from "Space Invaders" game (Edge via ffwd)
Excellent Sinead O'Connor interview (Exclaim-longish)
What is your vital daily ritual? Marijuana, I'm afraid.
Epidemic of bomb threats? (GgN pattern)
Hollywood-box slump mostly notional (graphs via RegUk)
Readable summary of what we do/don't know about Miers (HuffPo-Shapiro w/links)
Emotional obit for Iraqi journalist killed by GIs (HuffPo-Elliott)
Cosmo's 40yr compendium: 812,683 Ways To Please Your Man (new Onion)
Fossil Abacus wrist-pda $30 shipped (DealNews-Amazon) [Make]
LocalColor: Fractured-English editorial on Katrina karma (Chechen)
Catholic Mass disrupted by zealots, altar smashed (AL-no-pix) [pix]
Sinead scheduled for Leno tonight (RollingStone-vshort)
5yo w/9 sibs forgotten after folk fest (FL-no-pix via VH1)
Backroom maneuvre locks Sunnis out of constitution (CSM)
W's ignored Aug2001 ObL-briefing came from Miers (E&P-short-no-pic)
Welsh is 29th custom-language for Scrabble (BBC w/tidbits)
Sisyphusian 1st-try at human-relationship formal-semantics (1pg-long via delicious)
Hands-on GameBoyMicro closeup (1pg via Gz)
Lowest-pricey deluxe Calvin&Hobbes $78 delivered (Amzn $95) (DealNews-Overstock)
Kids pick top ten new toys (USA2-no-pix w/popup)
$9k homemade film gets Hollywood premiere (BBC)
Readable short intro to geocaching (GPS game) (UkTel w/pix)
Experiments with 'empty' Google search-strings (Unofficial)
The Christian nub of the (unfinished) CS Lewis movie (Time-shortish)
Best-ever, longish Woody Allen interview (ScdGrls via Morn)
Chomsky 4th-most-desirable world leader (BBC-poll via Morn)
Fatal E.coli outbreak among Welsh children (UkTel-short) [more]
Long update on Macca's 1st bird, Jane Asher (UkTel w/pix)
Where to buy those fake VanGoghs-etc-etc-etc-etc-etc (multi via Ursi)
Embedded filmmakers capture real GI-disillusionment (WSWS-filmrev)
Schizo carved rant in floor = art? ($!art w/pic)
Gallery of silly videogame-related costumes (Kotaku-1pg)
PrankWatch: Parent faces 6yrs for punching distracting football-streaker (WI-no-pic)
Hilarious short pomo ballad from Slowreader (QT via antville)
Beautiful minimalist Erik Satie animation (QT via antville)
Morning quickie: The effect of heat on nanogears (RWx-semiarcane)
Borderline-insufferable glam-tribute/parody video from Living Things (cliptip-QT)
Stats on a publisher's fiction-slushpile experiment (UkG-shortish)
Notation schemes for gameplay paths (IC-1pg-arcane via ffwd)
Monday:
China, debt relief, oil, housing bubble, Greenspan, IMF, Italy (DeanBaker)
Four American narratives Democrats must reclaim (Mar2005 NewRep via HuffPo)
PrankWatch: Gay priest accused of giving dog Communion (righty site)
Don't Look In The (Post-Katrina) Refrigerator! (AP-UkG-ripe)
DIY beer kit $27 shipped (After5 via DealNews) [$69]
Cute koala-toon from new toonist (new NYer)
SCOTUS-pick probably saves Roe-v-Wade (NwsWk)
'Secure' Iraq province actually abandoned to insurgents (Billmon via Cursor)
Condi Rice is "greatest fool ever" in State Dept (CPunch-Roberts)
Short slideshow of photoshopped logos-on-bugs (flickr via lf)
Short sad GI-email about Iraq resource-shortfalls (HuffPo-Rieckhoff)
Righty pundits dismayed by SCOTUS pick (ThinkP-CD-blurbs)
Part-time 'energy guy' saves schools millions (ME w/popup via Sam)
PrankWatch: ID-thief runs up $500k eBay tab but takes no deliveries (UkReg)
7% of Israelis are ultra-Orthodox welfare bums (Reuters-Boston)
68yo tigress spends $3k to be Quebec mayoral frontrunner (Toronto) [pic]
SlangWatch: tramp juice = hi-alcohol lager (UkG-short)
Trappist tramp juice too, then? (below)
WholeEarthSized radiotelescope will image galactic core (PhysOrg-arcane)
Let Saudis guard Iraq's Sunnis, Iran its Shiites (HuffPo-Majd-longish)
Scroll past ElliottSmithTribute for HarryPotterWeirdSistersBandname fight (Pitchfork)
Burgoo = mystery-meat stew (IL)
China making online Confucius-flick for $37k (Taipei)
Native American school shaped like sacred turtle (Pueblo w/pic)
RSSable GgN-feeds from Vietnam (GgN pattern)
Kinko's Copies backstory (USA2-bkrev-short)
The monks who make the world's best beer (USA2)
Sunday:
Enya's got stalkers (Gig-short)
Long new meditation on constitution (Riverbend)
Viciously funny political blog, FireDogLake (blog via Wolcott)
Journo joins activists' nude marathon (UkInd-2col)
Don't-miss Flash funny/ies (Hopkins-1pg)
Too-long but interesting argument that anonymity is good for chat (Beattie)
Sony-Italy's blasphemous PlayStation ad (X365 w/pic)
Long new Courtney Love interview (Spin-Vibe)
Cnet 'augments' stories w/Flash ontology-browser (confusing sample) [/. help]
Website facilitates semi-local barter-economy (NJ-CA)
Emo Philips on religion-jokes (UkG via 1gm)
New poll: Your individual weekly consumption (MrPoll-short)
Longterm Nola-Katrina-Fema-etc speculation (incl P.Hawken) (AP-TX)
Product-placements in US network teevee (NyT-IHT)
European regulators taking junk-food ads seriously (IHT)
J.Alter buries T.Delay... deep (NwsWk via HuffPo)
Okay suburban-tween-angst video from New Order (cliptip-RealVid)
FEMA squanders billions on unworkable housing strategies (WaPo via HuffPo)
NYC lets Orthodox Jews suck circumcision wounds (MedNews)
Sensual budget Alpine hiking vacation (AP-WA w/pix)
MemeWatch: prank [goes] horribly wrong (GgW pattern)
A new harrowing PostSecret (1pg-confessions)
Authors recall the books they read too early (BkStnd)
IMDb's top movies portray sex/drugs irresponsibly (RoyalSoc-abstract) [more]
GoogleNews profanity search (GgN pattern) [oopsie]
Oopsie headline now fixed-- restored missing f to shift
Verb-conjugation helper for many languages (Verbix via Plc)
Organic blueberries sorted by bike-power (ME w/pic)
Iran has most opium addicts (WaPo-Boston)
Feng shui not peecee in Nanjing (LaTms-IN-short)
Crane control-panel uses image as map (flickr-1pg via Tufte)
LocalColor: Teen terrorist comes in from cold, starts restaurants (Arabia-no-pix) [Ulfa]
Unexploited meme: "reframing socialism" (GgW-1hit)
Saturday:
Fun memoirs from Beyond-the-Fringe's Bennett (UkTms-bkrev)
Planet Xena has moon Gabrielle (AP-Nola)
Long gossipy/philosophical Sinead O'Connor update (UkInd-2col)
"The Emperor Constantine was a vampire, she says. George W Bush is another."
Thorough Kate Bush update (UkInd-2col) [more]
Newish computer-chess champion (Zappa)
Julie Taymor making Beatles-music comedy film (Chortle via lf)
Background/update on Palestinian rap (incl juke-pick) (CPunch)
Excellent account of TheSims-hacking (Jan2005 SecFoc)
Excellent postmortem on accidental WorldOfWarcraft plague (SecFoc via iGreed)
PrankWatch: 14yo on stolen bike w/girl gets 2yrs for hitting cop, dog (UK-no-pix)
PrankWatch: 18yo gets 2yrs for setting sleeping 14yo on fire (WI-no-pix)
Hurricane Otis looks elliptical (west of Mexico) (live IR satpic)
Hurricane-glut causes major Amazon drought (UkG)
Profile of Serenity starlet, Summer Glau (UkTel w/pix)
Double-helix sculpture explodes during installation-welding (UkTel-no-pix)
Game graphics have peaked, it's time to get physics/AI right (gDad via ffwd)
Venezuela pulls assets out of corrupt USA (AP-UkG)
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Israel: 9/11, overview, Tikkun; fundamentalism, more Shahak, Chomsky; Stone's Damascus Gate
Projects: knowledge representation, Linux, Flaubert, Greeks, poems, eyelids
James Joyce: news/portal, intro, gossip, Finnegans Wake
Press: Y10, Sam, Reg, WPost, Wired, IrishTimes, WSJ, Philly, Danish, Norwegian
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