This is the archived copy covering Jun 2006

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NEW: Faked rss feed via Wytheville Comm'ty College (or another via xmlhub)
Were World Wars I and II as fraudulent as Iraq? [view]

Headlines:


Intel's $400 hoaxtop-wannabe (1pg w/pix via eZ)
Babyfaced Nilsson sings the whalefall song in 1970 (bDazz-QT via Steve)
Obscure jellyfish may be significant carbon sink (SpaceRef)
CanterburyTales outtakes (Chaucerblog-shortish)
CourtneyCox rendered PG13 by baby (eTastic-pic) [more]
Exhaustive analysis/critique of D&D mythos/design (1pg-looong via pboy)
Pretty galaxy-collision (AstroPic)
Simple account of one Gitmo disgrace (UkG)
Spidery comparison-maps of world subway-systems (1pg via InfoJunk)
'Desert varnish' on Martian rocks should have trapped any DNA-etc (Euk)
Mideast chaos successful in diminishing ObL/aQ? (aAard)
Air conditioner $105 shipped (Az-DN)
Animation software reverse-engineers hidden bones and muscles (NewSci w/pix)
Refurb'd Casio 5Mp $175 shipped (uBid-DN)
Words that are their own antonym (list via McGrath)
Jane Siberry's new-chosen name is 'Issa' (Sheeba)
MySQL rents MS's friendship (RegUk-short)
ClicheWatch: Snapshots titled 'breakfast of champions' (flickr-1200pix)
Millennium Challenge Corp allocates US aid via formula (WSJ)
World's ills blamed on 1913 Federal Reserve Act (Znet-loong)


Thursday:

Mega-rave for CirqueDuSoleil's Vegas Beatles show (UkTel)
OneLook's a whiz at acrostics/acronyms (pattern)
Cool view of Andromeda's star-forming regions (900*500 jpeg) [info]
Categories banned by GgCheckout incl occult, offensive (list via Blgscpd)
Perle sputters over new Iran diplomacy (CSM-Schorr)
Weirdly compelling Reagan/Cassavetes/AngieD brawl (WFMU w/yTube-1min)
Polarised electron beam reveals quarks within protons (Euk-arcane)
Taliban winning Afghan hearts based on US anti-poppy heavyhandedness (CSM)
New low PS2 $111 shipped (oStock-DN)
Alexa reveals 'red site' flight (Sam-stats)
There may be flecks of lead in your water (Euk)
7 hip new horror flicks (Montreal w/pix) {Chomsky}
Hydrogen peroxide from dustdevils keeps Mars sterile? (Mars2-short)
GgCheckout threatens Amazon, not Paypal (iGreed-short)
Top five iPod wannabes (pix-no-prices via Gz)
Uzbek cafe 'dedicated to Britney Spears' (flickr)
Israeli Jews attack Christian tourists (Haaretz-short via dDuke)
$6-per MySpace screenscraper for parents (Cnet)
WSJ seeks negative spin on Buffett's charity (CJR via Morn)
Eye-opening survey of pregnant women's sexuality (SusieB-longish)
Apparent confirmation of PS3 programmability headaches (jStiq-short) [denial]
Fun awkward robot cuts servo-count from 16 to 3 (rDreams w/yTube-80sec)


Wednesday:

"What is America?" she said. "A hole in the water." (Poems-3short)
Tracing haiku is new Jp fad (UkTms)
BH90210 where-are-they-now (Vh1-friv w/pix)
Long rave for Linklater's 'Scanner' (Nation-Klawans)
Jp violinist coaxes out cello-notes (PhysOrg w/pic)
Snarky Britney-vs-Christina update (Vh1 w/pix)
Conference on activist games (Reuters-Cnet-short) [more]
New low Canon 7Mp $252 shipped (Dell-DN)

Tuesday:

2Gb SD card $49 shipped (nEgg via digg)
S.African 'train surfers' attempt death-defying railroad stunts (BBC via ty)
Gilliam gossip (Cinem)
Kafka etexts in English (multipage via OlB)
Worldwide glacial ice-cores confirm 5000yr temperature spike (SciDaily)
1Gb Sansa mp3 w/fm $60 shipped (Az via Cnsmrst)
Buchanan thoroughly disgusted with W's foreign policies (AmCon-shortish)
Bitter expose of sham Iraq-army training programs (AmCon-long)
V.readable Mideast tour illustrates Israel's malignity (AmCon-long)

Monday:


This is a ring of large stones (Poems-short-arcane)
Yoko update (UkTms)
Iraq GIs kludge own ISPs for freer access (Localist via digg)
DVD commentary pre-released via iTunes for 1st run (Sippey-vshort)
DDR teen can really dance (yTube-2min via Ktku)
V.rich PaulGraham on innovative outsiders (loooong via EdV)
PhilG's online-community package is showing its age (arcane via Wllson)
NyT liveblogging WorldCup Italy-Australia (NyT)
An old flag for the new threat (Sam w/pic) [Froogle]
Jaco Pastorius has a dynasty (Miami)

Sunday:


ScarlettJ and WoodyA click in real life (NyMag-short)
FON wifi bootstrapping via $5-router giveaway (Cnet)
Springsteen on Conan doing new antiwar anthem (C&L-QT/wmv)
Sweet CatPower concert rave (UkInd-short)
Surprising rave for allstar ?remake of last year's 'Capote' (UkInd-DThmpsn)
"...our spot to stand to scam wireless..." (flickr-friv)
Saturday:

Thomas Hart Benton's 'Persephone' (flickr)
Indian children exploited to make hair extensions (UkG)
Tut's anachronistic glass scarab (UkTms-no-pic) [pic]
IEDs no longer just improvised (UkTel w/pic)
1916 battle-footage authenticated (UkInd) [cf yTube-3min]
He's so zazen (flickr-set-11pix)
All the RSS feeds have vanished from GoogleNews!? (eg) they're back
the left column should have atom and rss links
NPR funnybusiness with minimum wage etc (dBaker-blog)
Fine candid Tokyo observations (flickr-stream)
Top 10 MP3 players for under $100 (Cnet-11pg via digg)
Some Google search-results are spyware executables (GgOS)
Vcolorful Malaysian indoor dance spectacular (flickr-Flash-36pix)

Friday:
Posthumous PeterRedgrove (UkG-bkrevs-arcane)
SimCity inspires pro urban-planning sim (BBC)
DThomson profiles NicoleKidman (UkInd)
Blisspop's picks for Cancer (mp3s-30days)
Knitted 'moss' slippers (flickr)
How privatization saps quality of gov't (iSteve-short)


Thursday:





Top-rated brands (eg Reynolds Wrap) (table via Cnsmrst)
LAPD's spydrone annoys FAA (Engdgt w/pic)
Nakedest. Ballerina. Evar. (flickr-Xrated)
Simple painting wins big prize (BBC w/pic)
Ask.com blocks even research queries on pedophilia (GgOS)
New NYRB (toc)
Vcolorful group photo of bodypaint cyclists (flickr)
Better sim for training power-grid operators (PhysOrg-arcane)
Statistics show hurricanes half-due to gWarming (UCAR via Euk)
Iraqi trainees fragging GI trainers (cPunch-shortish)
The marriage-debate from an anthropological pov (Sam-shortish)
Biometrics still not ready for primetime (Cnet)
Lefty blogger Kos has shady connections? (Wkbnch)
Vpessimistic tally of Iraq's losses from 'liberation' (cPunch-list+)
Awesome FranzFerdinand testimonial (flickr-vshort)
'move-over law' = allow extra room passing stopped copcars (dTongue)
Roger Waters defaces Israel's wall (BBC w/pic)
5min yTube plus 60min RealVid of Chomsky at WestPoint (blog via B&T)
whose eyes were / clear as marbles shot from his grubby / fingers (vDaily-wow)
Wednesday:





'club theory' = more members means less benefits (dTongue)
How Google's implementing free wifi for MtnView (Cnet)
Mumbai voted rudest city (table via BBC)
RedCross lets Israel use diamond-shaped RedCrystal (UkTms w/pic)
Google's page counts got corrupted (Blgscpd)
More new Saturn pix/vids (Nasa)
most of the links dated 6/21 include small QTs
An Iraqi's bitter anti-US rant (WatchAm-shortish)
2ndLife activists create dystopian 'mall' (nwNotes w/pix)
Scary stats on patent-office's surrender to patent-spam (3.D)
Search-engine tech for 3D shapes (3.D-arcane)
Flickr lags way behind other photosharing sites (iGreed-table)
Short gallery of goriest videogame screenshots (1pg via jStiq)
Composting takes patience and experiment (CSM-anecdote)
Awesome real-but-fake-looking short Saturn-w/moon movie (QT-oversized)
Nasa has an institutional compulsion to format media vv.inconveniently
Amaranth and quinoa as wheat/rice alternatives (AP-PhysOrg)
A fave photog suffers midlife crisis (flickr-rant)
WorldCup exacerbates measles outbreak (NewSci-short)
Cheetahs are fatal klutzes (NatGeo-2pg)
Fun no-nudity ?frat pudding-wrestling party (flickr-Flash-174pix)
Academic ego slowing US robotics? (RegUk)
Nearby* black hole gives up secrets (Euk-arcane) [*8000 light-yrs]
Personal carbon-neutrality on a budget (eZ-fun)
'five-nines reliability' = 99.999% (dTongue)
500 clips from UK's TopOfThePops (yTube-searchpattern via UkG)
'Bodypaint bike-ride was best experience ever' (flickr-G-rated)
Incredible list of (potential) 'Pirates' tie-in merchandise (Cinem-list)
it reminds me of some of Joyce's or Pynchon's lists
Don't-miss tale of fish-oil-deficiency and overfishing (Znet-Monbiot)
Vasectomy reversals reveal new gene mutations (Euk-short)
19 Repub senators approve amnesty for GI-killers (Nation-short)
New lows for Canons from Dell (6Mp $199) [5Mp $140]
Vestigial Turkish community of Sabbatai Zevi's followers? (iSteve-long)
Decoding HDTV causes 01sec delay (BBC-short)
Az's MechanicalTurk enables semantic markup on $75 budget (ESV via jm)
a swarm of bees, all forge and fury (vDaily)
Windows/DirectX adding physics API (xTech-arcane via digg)
Awesome 1964 French pop choreography (yTube-2min-friv via $!art)
PuertoRico got down (flickr)
Tuesday:
84 out of 231 think WWI was fraudulent as Iraq (MrPoll-so-far)

Top Shuttle experts voted 'no go', overridden (NasaW-blog)
NYRB preview on gWarming (NYRB-long)
MS robotics embrace-and-extend? (RegUk w/link)
Critique of recent uncritical biblical archeology (long-arcane via Ralph)
DC presscorps' homoerotic attraction to W? (Wolcott-short)
Niche porn features female ejaculation (SusieB-no-pix)
New low 160Gb internal $36 shipped (nEgg-DN)
Top-100 living songwriters list (annoying textbox)
21stC soap (oDinny-vshort)
Vsimple kite built of drinkingstraws (1pg via Make)
Office2007 fixes hierarchical-menu problem? (Anil w/links via Wllson)
The cutest little lipstick thief (flickr-short)
Monday:
New full EdwardTufte comments feed (xml)
Nice anomalous pseudo-supernova (NewSci-no-pic via lf)
Full Britney interview, just in case (yTube-2pg via Vh1)
Decent new batch of NYer toons (cBank)
Baby chick suicide bomber? (flickr-random-UAE)
More backstage NC17 bodypainting (flickr-Flash-100pix)
Retrospective rave for 1970 Ebert-Meyer BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls (long via Wlctt)
China faces down Rupert Murdoch (B&T)
Kudos to Britney for being herself (NyPost)
15min Krugman on classwar (Amy-multiformat via Crsr)
43yo woman who silently knowingly spread AIDS (UkTms w/pic)
$40 800pg Dylan Encyclopedia (VV-bkrev)
GgTranslate's statistical approach for Arabic alarms Iraqi blogger (blog)
$30 mini drum synth (UK via Gz)
Progress-bar as general timer-metaphor (GgModules)
Superbugs spread by fastfood superflies? (short via Cnsmrst)
Apple as incorrigible file-format villain (diMark-rant via jm)
Dance performance integrates invalids (flickr-arcane)
Vicious critique of Gates' hoaxtop alternative (eZ)
Good run of econ tidbits from dBaker (blog)
Schjeldahl on Dada (NYer-longish)
Sunday:
Our girls, good girls, have shaken off their trances (Poems-2short)
Tonedeaf new WhiteHouse press secretary (Steve w/QT)
New claims about USA successes against alQaeda (UkTel)
War on drugs "a front for ridding the country of liberals"? (TN-passim)
Another IsraelLobby postmortem (AmCon-long)
Proud Jew appalled by AIPAC (jJourn-shortish via Amcon)
1964 Beatles do Shakespeare's Pyramus and Thisbe (yTube-7min via eAard)
New poll: Were World Wars I and II as fraudulent as Iraq? (MrPoll-short)
Ambassador's secret cable spells out real Iraq crisis (E&P)
'Health tourists' find best deals in Indian hospitals (aJ)
Exuberant R-rated bodypainting (flickr-stream)
Yay... their hands are shackled (flickr)
Their hands are bloody (UkTms via sGuer)
Saturday:
Anecdotes of Groucho's dinner w/Eliot (Poems-not-poem)
Christisons' history of the IsraelLobby (cPunch-looong)
Hollywood's top 2005 moneymakers (Forbes-list via Cinem)
Neat 9-11 conspiracy twist (RigInt2-short)
160Gb internal $50 shipped (Frys-DN)
NyT liveblogging WorldCup Ghana-Czech (NyT)
10min Colbert guesting on Letterman (1gm-QT)
?179 Wikipedia articles now 'semiprotected' against vandalism (Wiki-list) [via]
'dipmom' = dad in prison, mom on meth (dTongue)
Friday:
Why are Democrats burying 2004 election fraud? (HfPo-oeNews-loong via sGuer)
In this way, we received / more darkness than light (Poems-arcane)
One tween's lesbian awakening (flickr-G-rated-memoir)
ForeignPolicy experts-poll dumps on W (fPol via Sam)
Icelandic author of thrillers (UkG-long)
CavemanRobot performance poetry (yTube-3min-friv-arcane via ai)
SUV-limo bested by SF hill (pic via Cnsmrst)
4yo's dance improv in the park (yTube-3min via flickr) [more]
New low Kodak 5Mp $156 shipped (JR-DN)
SpaceInvaders retold from aliens' antiwar pov (yTube-4min via Ktku)
Flickr's fulltext search isn't rss-able but it bookmarks well (eg 'dancing')
Lackluster GetYrWarOn update (mnftiu)
Thursday:
She nodded seriously and then went back to Pirate Dancing (aAard-vshort)
1pg view of any flickr account's most-interesting (form)
New low $190 shipped for Canon 5Mp (Buy-DN)
List of 100s of wild species in yr area (ajax-slow via Steve)
SusieB on young-men-who-need-Viagra (part1) [part2]
Minolta DiMage 2Mp digicam design praised (lfHere)
Housing-costs sneak back onto inflation-metric (dBaker-short-arcane)
1912 book on 'nature mysticism' (pGut-400k)
Anti-griefing strategies in virtual worlds (UkG via jStiq)
Wednesday:
Lucid DanceDanceRevolution demo by vgifted 5yo (yTube-2min via Ktku)
12yo w/tape measure stops trains, survives 25kV shock (UkTel-vshort)
300Gb internal $70 shipped (Frys via DN)
Lovin' Altman's 1980 'Popeye' (Cinem w/links)
Semifun experiment approaching UncannyValley from other side (yTube-6min via jStiq)
Nationalism as a natural pendulum (iMomus-longish)
Temp site-change for Rigorous Intuition (blog via am) [more]
15yo Dubai girl's vpainful videoblog after boyfriend's suicide (Flash-3min via flickr)
ReneeZ sees ominous parallel in NicoleK's workaholic-country-singer fiance (Fem1st)
Iraq Marine singing racist lyrics (yTube-4min via Reg)
Patterns of Jewish logic (iSteve-long)
Nudes w/Unix (flickr-PG13)
World stocks lost $2T in last month (Reuters via lf)
500BC Mexican wore ceremonial wolf-fang dentures? (UkTel-no-pic)
Another Nasa snafu blamed on Powerpoint? (U2day-short)
Google's flickr-alike now invite-only (GgOff) [more]
Tuesday:
New animated gif of meteorite hitting Moon (Nasa via /.)
120Myo spider found in amber (BBC w/pic)
Onsite coverage of Gitmo suicide response (KtR via E&P)
gentiles, satan is your master now
Miraculous scratch performance by Birdy Nam Nam (yTube-6min) [more]
"I got fired..." (flickr-arcane)
Scents too hip for perfume (NyMag-short via wStair)
Lovely ToriAmos-piano-like origami-vid from Regina Spektor (QT/wmv) [Flash]
Algorithm reconstructs 3D from photos? (Euk-no-pix) [2000*1300] [mp4]
Leg tattooed with 'hidden' robot mech (we-pic)
Backstory for McDonald's game-team defection-hoax (MTV-longish via jStiq)
Monday:
A really angsty tagcloud (flickr)
WiMax transmitter blamed for health ills (Oz via Engdgt)
$20 refurb'd 60min-prepaid cellphone (Tracfone-DN)
Simulation takes over where microscopy ends (Euk-longish-arcane)
New stats on health costs from 9-11 cleanup (NyPost-short via digg)
Recent-historical price-comparisons for 2ndhand items (iGreed w/link)
Prescient HunterThompson on GHWB (sGuer-short)
Future Google semantic search-results visualised (Blgscpd)
Galaxy-sized 'comet' racing thru distant cluster (ESA-2pg-arcane w/pic)
GgW now offers time-by-timezone (Blgscpd-vshort)
Goosebumpy DavidLynch on TwinPeaks' uncanny 'Bob' (QT-3min via Morn)
Potential hurricane in Gulf (info) [anim via dl]
Succinct readable WorldCup-so-far impressions (tBray)
Sunday:
Lucid analysis of MS's latest WinXP privacy-invasion (Groklaw-long via /.)
Now seen: when the Virgin Queen was a teen (UkTel w/pic)
New anatomical theory of clitoris (BBC w/pic)
Added armor makes Rummy's Iraq Hummers roll over (AP-E&P)
Awesome Juliette Lewis update (UkTel w/pix)
Stats/context on people killed by Chgo commuter trains (Chgo via lf)
Using GgBlogs to find sympatico flickrbloggers (searchpattern)
Romy&Michelle's (sweet) DanceToSpring (flickr-Flash-47pix)
Free diy Flash mashups with jpgs/mp3s/etc (site via GgOS)
7th-grade-dream realised: both bride and pediatrician (flickr-arcane)
Testing how poorly 75*75pixels captures art classics (500*500 gif)
Russians flew Confederate flag on ISS for eBay resale (NasaW)
Ann Coulter was once 'Pudenda Shenanigans' (friv via wSmirch)
Moth recognises tiles' camouflage potential? (flickr)
Fisk on Canadian terror bust (Ind-aJinfo)
Wordprocessing snafu leaves obscenity in legal doc (iGreed-short)
Saturday:
For some reason my Sage RSS reader has stopped detecting most updates (crapcrapcrap)
i reset them all via opml re-import
More-upbeat-than-usual weekly PostSecret (1pg-phat)
Angelina's new tattoos (below) on GoogleMaps (Cambodia) [Ethiopia]
96% of UK students ignored $200M stay-in-school incentives (UkTel)
PortableAppsSuite (Windows freeware) fits on 256Mb thumb (download via pHead)
Compensation stats suggest 8000 Iraqi civilians killed in 2005 (E&P) [Boston]
World Naked Bikeride slideshow (flickr-Flash-400pix)
Gorgeous new v.hi-res Mars orbiter pix (ESA)
Okay UK trailerpark rap from Lily Allen (Real/wmv)
Apt alarmism about Internet wiretapping (sGuer-short w/link)
'Wired' okays exploiting the poor-- they can't afford to sue (passim)
eBay launches flickr-alike for your collectibles/collections (Cnet-short)
Friday:
Short cynical Riverbend on Zarqawi (bBurning)
New low 1Gb miniSD $29 shipped (nEgg via DN)
80yo widower dies from shopping-cart joyride (UkTel)
Michelle Wie update (UkTms)
Peter Greenaway update (UkTel-diary-arcane)
Tour of unmanned Predator assassination-plane (CNN w/pic via digg)
GirlsGoneWild/ReeferMadness party last wknd in OrangeCnty (flickr-Flash-200pix-PG13)
15-course molecular-gastronomy blogged (pg1 w/pix) [pg2 w/pix]
John Cusack's Iraq indie (AP-E&P)
MemeWatch: "a [x] apart" (GgW pattern)
Giant meteorite hits Norwegian tundra (local via digg)
Gnarls Barkley performing in StarWars drag (iFilm-Vh1)
Upgrading passenger train service as fuel-efficient (Seattle via Sam)
New low $199 shipped for Canon 7Mp (Dell-DN)
Angelina's new lat/long tattoo (Us w/pic via Vh1)
A budding romantic (flickr)
Thursday:
More Shiloh Pitt-Jolie pix (vFair-dList via wSmirch)
One-man dating site earns $6M/yr from GoogleAds??? (poFish via iGreed)
'uaser' = ultrasonic laser (Euk-arcane)
UN smart to call Bolton's bluff (eZ)
6-6-06 blood wrestling in Atlanta (flickr-Flash-23pix-PG13)
The pines invite you in (flickr-Zsaj)
Surprisingly gorgeous photoessay on Bolivian kids' malnourishment (BBC-7pg)
Great consistent lefty cartoonist/blogger (StephMcM w/feed)
Brangelina gossip, baby pic (Vh1 w/pic)
$40 shipped namebrand microwave oven (Az via DN)
Fisk on Zarqawi's death (Amy-mp3/Real)
$200 off-the-shelf 'machine shop' components (short-arcane w/pix via Make)
USA backs wrong horse in Somalia (PBS-transcript via Morn)
Random 2min of self-organising traffic-chaos in India (yTube via Morn)
Dilbert's drug test (3pg)
Context of 25th-anniv Israel bombing Iraq's nukeplant (aJ)
Virtual-world facial expressions as bottleneck (Parc w/pix via Cnet)
Geo-mystery of Titan's missing craters (NewSci)
Lindsay Lohan's cocaine problem (NyPost-vshort via Yeeeah)
Coral-bleaching in gWarming context (Sprol w/pix)
Charming Ohio back-to-the-land-ers' pix (flickr-stream)
AynRand on the basketball court (iSteve-arcane)
Learn Python concepts via text-processing examples (dy-bkrev-arcane)
USA still bombing Afghans 20+ times/day (AP-Fox via dy)
Anecdotal evidence of hospital price-gouging (Norton)
Updike's terrorist doesn't convince (blog w/links)
Technorati + microformats = semantic search? (tBray-short w/link)
Wednesday:
Midnight quickie: Documented emotion on the Tree of Life (RWx-longish)
SOP miniaturization-tech integrates more than transistors (IEEE-long-arcane via /.)
Iraqi women losing freedoms (UkInd)
First 2D storm cross-sections from new satellite (Cnet-3pg)
Splendid Bollywood clip w/charming Wii-parody subtitles (yTube-5min via Ktku)
Verity Stob's neologism watch (RegUk-friv-arcane)
Anthropologist uses Flickr as teaching-dataset (2005-blog)
New Tufte "Beautiful Evidence" $52 shipped (ET)
GPS receiver $103 shipped (Semsons via Make)
Emacs-Firefox mashup (short w/link)
Lorraine Bracco dishes on ex Harvey Keitel (NyPost via Vh1)
Friv new upstairs-neighbors list (McSwnys-vshort)
Top FOIA search strings (CIA-list via SEW)
Full Colbert commencement address (transcript via eAard)
Tuesday:
Documenting KBR's 'war for cheese' (filmrev via sGuer)
Constitutional scholar critiques W's proposed amendment (cOp via pedNut)
New UK bill will incl parallel plain-English text (UkTms)
Suppressed 1943 black-SnowWhite WB-cartoon (yTube-8min via lf)
Improved Amazon feed generator (form)
Israel's criminal path set by 1975 (cPunch-aCock)
Stats on professional shoplifting are hard to believe (Cnet)
2ndLife currently needs 1 server per 3 users (Cnet)
7min Colbert/StonePhillips gravitas-rematch (1gm-QT)
Sting's next album all 16thC lute (UkG-short)
Emailable GgMaps annotations (ajax via Reg)
Simple how-to's for 20 conventional skills (UkInd-odd)
1st-draft ontology of forum-posts (Euk-arcane)
Abbott and Costello meet the Antichrist (3min mp3) (WFMU)
Monday:
W must be executed under Nuremberg statutes (Cnsrtium)
McD's game division defects over gWarming!?!? (pr via Ktku) [hoax, duh]
"Naked tango is a passion of mine" (flickr-R-rated)
Siberry blogs compositional difficulties (MySpace-arcane)
Ominous new current-pattern off Australia (Oz via /.)
"hope is a thing with feathers" (desperate new bBurning)
Rose, pull your top down. And, of course, she did. (flickr-PG13)
this stream is a superadventurous ongoing erotic diary
Eyeopening parallels between Iraq and KenLoach film (UkG-Monbiot)
15yo UK boy accepted by Bolshoi (UkTel)
Fascinating 6min overview of 'The Movies' upgrade (yTube via Ktku)
5 octogenarian brothers never ate vegetables (UkG)
UK educational publisher dumbs 'Romeo' waaaaay down (UkTms)
Picasso-125th blowout in Madrid (UkTms-no-pix)
Boffins trying to decode horse-speech (UPI-PhysOrg-vshort)
Xbox-simulated World Cup results (1pg via jStiq)
Under-$10 picnic wines (VV)
$43 dvd-burner does well in comparative survey (xTech-1pg via /.)
Looong profile of Sean Penn as activist (UkG-2pg)
GgW: "web blog" (sigh)
3 nice stills from expanding-universe sim (Euk-4pg)
Survey of US game magazines (GSW-1pg-long via /.)
Chocolate crop threatened by black pod, frosty pod, and witches' broom (Euk-short)
Robot attends school for hospitalised NY boy (AP w/pic via PhysOrg)
Ongoing iTunes-vs-everybody pricewars (Reuters-Cnet)
starry night (flickr-random)
Short sharp anecdote of Iraq braindrain (UkG-blog)
8hrs of pianoless live Satie in NYC Sunday (WFMU-local)
Imaginative Flash rebellion-of-content toon (phat via digg)
New low $60 for 1Gb Zen mp3 (Az via DN)
Theater-fad for actors wired to street-recorded speech (UkTel)
Soccer-goal robot-dance catching on (yTube-30sec) [story]
Hardcore porn sidling into mainstream moviemaking? (UkG-longish)
"There's going to be anarchy in the bankruptcy courts for years" (itTms-longish)
Why oil companies aren't building new refineries (NYer-JsS-shortish)
Inconsequential Robert Stone memoir-ette (NYer-short) [fan]
Sunday:
Carl Hiaasen on Florida's culture of corruption (CBS via C&L)
What we don't know about Somalia now (eZ)
"LittleMissSunshine" trailer sounds banal, but hints magic? (QT via Fim)
(Joyce boasted his prose captured Dublin's scent, and I get a parallel whiff)
Net-enabled jukeboxes offer 100k+ songs (WSJ)
How science journals game cite-rankings (WSJ)
Christian anarchists meet (UK)
Midday rant: Search-engines on the Tree of Life (RWx-arcane)
Colbert: "The world is waiting for you people with a club" (IL via E&P)
Saturday:
TomStoppard update incl new play (UkG-loong)
Freaky toy-looking overhead shot of backyard bbq (flickr-random)
New 'Who' single/album/rockopera (UkInd)
LA real-estate agents stage fake domestic bliss (UkTel)
Good pix of Africans at work (BBC-11pix)
New MilkyWay map claims asymmetry of tentacles (Dscv-2pg via digg)
Repost of Mar2006 accounts contradicting Ishaqi whitewash (E&P)
Hazy origins of V-sign popularity in Jp snapshots (Wiki#) [more]
$129 hobo-tech video digicam (PcMag via Gz)
UXB-robot vs voodoo-zombie offering (FL w/pic via rGossip)
Iraqi makers' barrel-economy (WatchAm-short)
Exxon CEO name-n-shame (UkInd-cArk via eAard)
Artful plus-sized female nude (flickr-arcane)
Morning quickie: How Joyce shaped "A Portrait of the Artist" (RWx-vshort)
Tasty-looking vegetable-themed NYC fashion show (15pg via eAard)
David Lodge diminished (UkG-blog)
"I have never seen a number like that since I've been polling" (Zogby-MI via sGuer)
Recent project: Heraldic barcodes for flickrpix (RWx-short w/pic)
5 phat avant-garde-noise obscurities (WFMU-mp3s)
NyT views Rivette's 12hr 'Out 1' (NyT-2step) [fan]
Friday:
Monk plays percussively, stabbing at the keys (Poems.com-arcane)
Evening quickie: Hoaxtop update (RWx-short)
Fisk on Haditha (Seattle)
Vwatchable 5min hoaxtop demo (Flash via digg)
Summerhill school defends teacher-pupil cuddling (UkTel)
Oxford coeds showing too much skin at breakfast (UkTms-no-pix)
Four faint at Globe's gory 'Titus' (UkInd) [pic]
Easy-ish cheesecake cupcakes... for engineers (1pg w/pix)
Lucid account of solar energy from quantum dots (SciNews-longish)
Pic of new gay Batwoman (pic via Obl)
New lows from Dell for 7Mp cams: (Canon $209) [Olympus $224]
I like 'Howling Bells' (lush smeary girlpop) (awkward-Flash)
Nanotubes squeeze 2Mp projector-display into 0.7" diagonal (Y!-no-pic via Engdgt)
3D plot-graph of 'Fight Club' (infosthetics w/pix, link)
Audio archive of NYer articles (mp3/Real via EdV)
Thursday:
Iraqis killed remotely from Nevada via Predator planes (UkTel)
Long MiaFarrow update (UkInd)
NasaTV spacewalk coverage is ongoing (RealVid/wmv)
they sound dangerously under-rehearsed to me
Giant Antarctic crater may explain PT extinctions (2pg via Euk)
EthanZ addresses the hard hoaxtop questions (eZ-long w/pix)
Web2.0 predates Web1.0 (tBray-short)
Ajax crashes blamed on programming globals (shortish via Wllson)
GoogleMaps (et al) has keyboard shortcuts (table via GgOS)
New RFKJr expose on 2004 election fraud (rStone-looong via sGuer) [summary]
As-predicted: hoaxtop price creep, feature/date slip (zdNet via digg)
Top-ten most sustainable US cities list (UPI-PhysOrg-vvshort)
GoogleBase data-items gradually being indexed beyond GgW (GgBOfficial)
Survey of hobo-special cellphones (Gz)
Hobo-special mp3 player $21 shipped (Surplus via DN)
Many goodies among 27 'synth noir' mp3s (WFMU)
New NYRB incl Dyson on Dennett (toc)
Anomalously tiny-brained humans w/normal IQs (long via digg)
25 decent mp3s illustrating genres of metal (WFMU)
Contract fine-print = 'bubble under linoleum' (dTongue)
The bubble-maddog VC hypothesis (iGreed-short)
Lo-tech rice Chladni patterns (yTube-2min vis FMU)
1Gb SD card $30 shipped (Monarch-DN)
Decent v-late batch of NYer toons (cBank)
Update on ISS 'indoor robot satellites' (Nasa via /.)
Varied emotional pix of day (BBC-6pix)
Mega-rave for Argentinian/Brazilian thriller (B&T-bkrev-short)
Sega taps Jp-girl cash-cow via collectible cards (Ktku) [dull pic]
"The radio in my dream..." (oDchgo-short-arcane)
Neat new example of Saudi press censorship (aAard)
Interesting still from sim of galaxies colliding (SciDaily)
Feds on warpath against wind-farms (UPI-PhysOrg-short)
Ahmadinejad and Holocaust skepticism (dDuke-long)
Surreal paparazzi pix of Mariah Carey walking dog (Yeeeah-vfriv)
Top-ten living male sex-legends (Zap2-list via wSmirch)
Outsourcing outsourcing (today's-Dilbert)
Interesting "The Graduate" gossip sequel update (Cinem-short)
Pay-by-mile insurance as incentive to reduce driving? (dBaker-Harpers)
WoW eating MMOG-sphere entire (jStiq-graphs)
Wolfowitz applying makeup to corpse of Washington Consensus (Znet-shortish)
Profile of hip historical novelist Sarah Waters (UkG)
Vmodern top-ten novels inspired by Shakespeare (UkG-list)
In 1716 one 9yo leapt at the chance to be kidnapped by pirates (LaTms via Morn)
More on tonight's spacewalk (NewSci via Morn)
Vvbeautiful lesbian wedding in Seattle last month (flickr-Flash-200pix)
the slideshow is backwards, happily showing the best bits first
Pat Buchanan on insane US strategy towards Hamas (AmCon-short via iSteve)

RWWL archives: 2006: May Apr Mar Feb Jan
2005: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Feb
2003: Sep Jul May Apr Mar Feb Jan
2002: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb
2001: Nov 15Oct Aug Mar 2000: Dec Oct Aug [older]

Timely:

the Violation: Oz : Arab : Dwn : Leb : Jrd : Glf : Aw : CS : UkG : Gg

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


Periodicals by date: [more]

Continuous: DJIA : AIC
Daily: nude : nude : SGun : CPnch : celebs
Weblogs: Obl : PhilG : yti : CT : Cyn : JWk : Rv : Semiweekly: Gm : Tufte : Mem
Weekly: NYmg : Risks : XML : Hell
Semimonthly: NYRB : mnftiu : NTK : Cnsrtm : Cstk : Prtg
Monthly: HrpIdx : 1Mon : Mtrpls : MrP

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