del.icio.us links for 2005-12-30

• Cats in Sinks - for all your cat and bathroom needs: What is Cats in Sinks? It's obvious. It's about cats. And kittens. Who like sinks. And basins. (cat funny photo weird)
• Sploid: SWEDES GO CRAZY FOR ANTI-JESUS JEANS: The few practicing Christians in Sweden are outraged by the latest style on the streets: blue jeans with a vaguely anti-Jesus logo. "Cheap Monday" jeans feature a skull logo -- a skull with an upside-down crucifix on its forehead. (europe fashion funny news religion sploid sweden weird)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-29

• The 50-30-20 Rule: "Lately I’ve been trying a promising new method for managing my time. It’s similar to timeboxing, except that instead of allocating a certain amount of time for a specific activity, I divide my total work time between three different classes of activi (howto productivity)
• Floridian: The big squeeze: Florida Cereal: Made with only the finest fruit, nuts, and flakes. (florida funny news us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-28

• Bush Elected President Of Iraq | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: In a vast outpouring of gratitude to the man they call "Our Great Savior From The West," the people of Iraq flooded the polls during yesterday's first free elections, voting overwhelmingly for President George W. Bush as their first democratically elected (bush humor iraq news theonion war)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-27

• MJ PEAK PERFORMANCE: Snooze, You Win - Improve your mental and physical performance by power napping: According to new studies, nothing tunes up mind and body like a good nap. But there's an art to catching the right kind of z's. (biology cool health howto productivity psychology science)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-23

• American Prospect Online - Death By Dilution: When fakes of a GlaxoSmithKline anti-malarial drug turned up in Africa, authorities assumed the drug giant would want to know. Instead, they learned about a huge, evil trade in fake drugs -- and about an industry that doesn’t want the truth to get out. (africa corporate crime evil news sploid)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-21

• Rising Home-Heating Costs Hitting Reptile Families Hardest | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: With government figures indicating double-digit home-heating cost increases in coming months, America's reptilian citizens are warning that many will face serious metabolic crises this winter. (energy funny news reptile theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-17

• Newsday.com: Patriot Act renewal blocked: The Senate, bowing to pressure from civil libertarians of all political stripes, delivered a staggering blow to President George W. Bush on Friday by blocking reauthorization of the Patriot Act's eavesdropping provisions, which expire on Dec. 31. (bush evil liberty news politics privacy security senate surveillance us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-16

• Dollar coins featuring ex-presidents to roll out in '07 - Dec. 16, 2005: Coin collectors can look forward to a new series of gold-colored dollar coins depicting portraits of former presidents. Keeping with tradition, only dead presidents need apply. Last call for Ford, Carter, GHW Bush, and Clinton! Cleveland gets two coins. (news politics us)
• Freeman Criticizes Black History Month: Morgan Freeman: "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." There is no "white history month," and says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it." Labels "black" and "white" obstacles to beating racism. (black history morganfreeman racism sploid us white)
• WSJ.com - Is Global Warming Killing the Polar Bears?: Polar bears may be our canary in the coal mine for global warning. Lots of them seem to be drowning due to a lack of sea ice, and usually large numbers are showing up on the mainland. West Hudson Bay population down 22% since 1987. (alaska arctic bear canada ecology environment news polarbear predator science us)
• Tired of materialistic holidays? 'Celebrate Festivus: Festivus may be the first holiday spawned by TV. Credit "Seinfeld" character Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller), who in the Dec. 18, 1997 episode introduced "A Festivus for the rest of us!" as an alternative to the distorting materialism of Christmas. (howto humor religion sploid tv weird)
• CNN.com - Report: Bush eased domestic spy rules after 9/11 - Dec 16, 2005: The order allowed the NSA to monitor the international phone calls and e-mails of perhaps thousands of people inside the US. Even some NSA officials thought it was illegal and refused to participate. Hello to my fans in domestic surveillance. (bush evil liberty news nsa politics privacy security surveillance terrorism us)
• Stories About Poop index page | PoopReport.com: All the poop that's fit to print. (blog funny shit weird)
• Reason: Dead Man Tells No Tales: Media docility and another no-cost federal killing: In the old days, Americans were taught that the media would serve as a check and a balance on government powers. That platitude is fading as news professionals show less regard for private citizens than for government officials... (airline liberty media politics security sploid us)
• Torture's last stand: IT TOOK months of congressional and public pressure, shameful revelations about abuse of prisoners by American personnel and widespread ridicule of presidential rationalizations, but the Bush administration finally threw in the towel Thursday... (bush cia congress evil politics senate terrorism torture us)
• Lott sues insurance company over Katrina damage: The issue is whether a storm surge should be considered flooding, in which case thousands of hurricane victims would be left struggling to recover from the losses of their homes without help from their insurance providers. I'm sure it'll be "fantastic". (bush disaster irony katrina mississippi politics senate sploid us)
• President Arrives in Alabama, Briefed on Hurricane Katrina: Bush: "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)" Except Lott's insurance company won't pay. Wonder if he got his trailer. (alabama bush disaster fema irony katrina mississippi politics senate us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-15

• dirtSimple.org: Mysteries of the Ages, Revealed!: Diets and taste-calorie associations, among other things. (biology diet food meat productivity psychology)
• There's no getting off that no-fly list | CNET News.com: Sarah Zapolsky was checking in for a flight to Italy when she discovered that her 9-month-old son's name was on the United States' "no fly" list of suspected terrorists. (airline liberty politics privacy security sploid terrorism travel tsa us)
• Concurring Opinions: What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere?: Suppose the mainstream media, fed up with the buzz bloggers keep getting and with bloggers criticizing their stories, decided to exact revenge. They initiate a vigorous copyright enforcement strategy. What would happen? (boingboing copyright law liberty media politics)
• First Coast News | Strange & Unusual - Andi the Ohio Police Dog Named in Lawsuit: County Prosecutor C. David Warren said to his knowledge, it's the first time the county's dog has ever been singled out as a defendant. Warren has volunteered to handle Andi's defense personally. (crime dog news ohio us weird)
• Sploid: Post office shocker: Santa is God!: Already shaken Christians got another punch in the mouth today, when it was revealed that the United States Postal Service believes Santa Claus is God. (bush funny news politics relgion sploid us weird)
• Sploid: TSA GALS CAUGHT SWIPING WALLET: Here's your holiday Homeland Security: Two federal airport screeners at New York's JFK airport were arrested after they helped themselves to a traveler's wallet. The gals then went on a shopping spree with his credit cards ... while still wearing their TS (airline crime dhs evil liberty news newyork nyc politics security sploid terrorism tsa us)
• Universe Today - Buffy the Kuiper Belt Object: An international team of astronomers have discovered a new large object in the Kuiper Belt; a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune. The object's official designation is 2004 XR 190, but the discoverers are calling it "Buffy" for now. (astronomy funy news space)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-14

• ABC News: House Approves Extension of Patriot Act: The House voted 251-174 to approve a House-Senate compromise that would modify and make permanent most of the Patriot Act's 16 expiring provisions. But a group of Republican and Democratic senators is lobbying for more time to add additional safeguards on (bush congress evil liberty politics surveillance us)
• iPod mini 8GB Upgrade: Replace 4 GB hard drive with 8 GB flash drive. I would expect this to improve the battery life as well. (apple cool hardware howto ipod storage)
• Welcome to the Data Retention Petition Campaign - Drcampaign: The European Parliament has adopted the directive on data retention. (europe evil internet liberty politics privacy security sucks)
• Expatica's Spanish news in English: A Spanish Christmas and New Year: The typical Nativity scene seems perfectly innocuous. But take a closer look and you spot the small, half-hidden figure of a man, squatting, trousers half-down, merrily doing his business, leaving a less-than heavenly deposit on the ground below. (art culture europe funny religion shit spain sploid weird)
• Fuck Christmas: "Oh man, fuck Christmas. Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit?" (culture funny media politics rant religion us)
• POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique: Rummy's new fighting technique is unstoppable! (humor image martial photo politics rumsfeld us)
• E.U. Parliament votes to force "data retention" on telecom, Net firms [Politech]: The European Parliament this morning voted in favour of a backroom deal of mandatory retention of telecommunications data (the outcome is in fact the worst possible, exactly what the UK home affairs minister Clarke wanted). (europe evil liberty politics privacy security sucks)
• President Bush: 'I Only Have One More Year To Go As President' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio bush humor mp3 news politics theonion us)
• Burger King Introduces Trudge-Through Window | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio food humor mp3 news theonion)
• Activist Judge Cancels Christmas | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: In addition to forbidding the celebration of Christmas in any form, Judge Reinhardt has made it illegal to say "Merry Christmas." Instead, he has ruled that Americans must say "Happy Holidays" or "Vacaciones Felices" if they wish to extend good tidings. (humor news politics religion theonion us)
• Weather-Weary Nation Not Surprised By Forecast Of Blood Storms | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: According to NWS spokesperson Joe Colby, the worst blood storm conceivable is a Category 5 on the Saffir-Savini Meteorosanguinity Scale. (disaster humor news theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-13

• The Raw Story | Diebold CEO resigns after reports of fraud litigation, internal woes: O'Dell's resignation comes just days after reports that the company was facing imminent securities fraud litigation surrounding charges of insider trading. (diebold evil fraud politics us)
• AlterNet: The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers: Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to account. (corporate economics evil law politics)
• THE BRAD BLOG: "EXCLUSIVE: SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION FILED AGAINST DIEBOLD, INC!": Class Action Suit Alleges Fraud, Insider Trading, Manipulation of Stock Prices, Concealment of Known Flaws in Voting Machines and Company Structural Problems (diebold evil fraud lawsuit news politics us)
• Diebold shares rally on CEO resignation: Diebold -- heavily criticized for selling voting machines while O'Dell raised money for Republican candidates -- tried to appease Wall Street in June by banning top executives from making political donations. (diebold evil fraud news politics us)
• Graffiti from Pompeii: "Let everyone one in love come and see. I want to break Venus’ ribs with clubs and cripple the goddess’ loins. If she can strike through my soft chest, then why can’t I smash her head with a club?" (archaeology europe funny history italy reference sex via:zenham weird)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-12

• WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Still More Nazi Swing Music (MP3s): Charlie and His Orchestra was led by Karl Schwendler, an English speaking German who broadcast Nazi-themed swing and big-band hits every night on the medium-wave and short-wave bands throughout the 1930s to Canada, the US and Britain. (audio boingboing germany history mp3 music nazi politics propaganda swing weird)
• Cute Overload! ;): At Cute Overload®, we scour the Web for only the finest in Cute Imagery™. Imagery that is Worth Your Internet Browsing Time. We offer an overwhelming amount of cuteness to fill your daily visual allowance. Drink it in! (animal blog funny image photo weird)
• BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Fuel depot blast: Photos from the recent fuel depot explosion in the UK. (disaster news photo uk)
• Click2Houston.com - News - Farmer May Have Caught Legendary 'Chupacabra': What he found in his trap was a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo. (biology chupacabra news science texas us weird)
• National Center for Policy Analysis: PICK UP A RIFLE: More Americans are killed by deer each year than by any other large American mammal, including bears, cougars and wolves. (biology deer economics environment news predator weird wolf)
• WOAI: San Antonio News - Another Texas Chupacabra?: The animal's blue-grey skin is almost hairless and appears to be covered with mange. A closer look at the animal's jaw line reveals a serious overbite and four huge canine teeth, and a long, rat-like tail curls behind the animal's emaciated frame. (biology chupacabra science texas us weird)

GMail Web Clips

A few days ago, Google added "Web Clips" to it's GMail interface. These are random items from various RSS feeds that you can select. I just noticed if you go into your Spam folder, you don't get the usual Web Clips. Instead, you get random SPAM recipes, such as Spam Breakfast Burritos or Spam Fajitas. (funny spam food)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-09

• del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!: Yahoo! has bought del.icio.us. I don't consider this good news. (del.icio.us news sucks)
• :: Nanovirus: The war on Winter Solstice :: Infect Your Mind. ::: For thousands of years humanity had celebrated the beginning of days getting longer in a peaceful and celebratory manner... (history rant religion)
• Whois Data Problem Report: This form allows Internet users to submit reports to ICANN-Accredited Registrars concerning incomplete or inaccurate Whois data. Save the internet; kill a spammer today. (icann internet internic security spam tool)
• Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper': "I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”" (bush evil liberty news politics sploid us)
• dallasobserver.com | News & Features | Schutze | Bus Gestapo | 2005-12-08: This is about a guy who wound up spending 11 days in jail on what started out as a jaywalking charge in downtown Dallas. (dallas evil liberty texas transportation us)
• Damn Interesting » The Phantom Time Hypothesis: The Phantom Time Hypothesis suggests that the early Middle Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened, but were added to the calendar long ago either by accident, by misinterpretation of documents, or by deliberate falsification by calendar conspirators. (calendar europe history religion science weird)
• The Book of Werewolves - MythologyWeb: full length classic werewolf reference book by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 (history reference werewolf)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-08

• StairwayToGilligan.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Stairway to Gilliigan's Island (1978) (audio funny mashup mp3 music rock)
• How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi: They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more ap (biology environment food japan news politics science sushi weird)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-07

• Five Deer Leap to Deaths From W.Va. Garage: Either they misjudged the distance or they couldn't take the traffic. For reasons that mystify authorities, five deer that made their way onto the top of a five-story parking garage suddenly leaped to their deaths Sunday. (deer news sploid suicide us weird westvirginia)
• The Raw Story | Diebold insider alleges company plagued by technical woes, Diebold defends 'sterling' record: a whistleblower from electronic voting heavyweight Diebold Election Systems Inc. raised grave concerns about the company’s electronic voting technology and of electronic voting in general, bemoaning an electoral system the insider feels has been comprom (bush diebold fraud politics us voting)
• My Week with Wilma: Or, Nature's Leaf Blower in the State of Denial (disaster fema florida politics us)
• CNN.com - Eminem: I'm back with ex-wife - Dec 7, 2005: Apparently Slim Shady won't be dumping his missus in the lake, or carving her up in the forest; everything's cool now. (eminem michigan news us weird)
• XXXX GALUMPIA ADULT XXXX: The thumbnails only look like porn... (boingboing humor image photo sex weird)
• Newsday.com: CIA erred in taking prisoner: The United States has admitted that the CIA mistakenly imprisoned a German national for five months on suspicion of terrorism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference yesterday. (cia evil germany news politics torture us)
• Sploid: Scottish can't stop stabbing: The United Nations branded Scotland the world's most violent country, a place so blood-crazed that even a Sunday morning walk around the village is likely to end with knife blades flashing and blood on the streets. (drunk murder news scotland sploid violence)
• Faith-Based TV-Repair Shop Severely Backed Up | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio humor mp3 news religion theonion us)
• Despite Lack Of Natural Disaster, Thousands Flee Des Moines, Iowa | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio desmoines disaster humor iowa mp3 theonion us)
• Bush Proposes Trickle-Down Electronics Plan For School Computers | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio bush education humor mp3 news politics theonion us)
• Wired News: Secret ID Law to Get Hearing: On Thursday, Gilmore and his lawyers will get 20 minutes in front of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to make their argument against identification requirements and government secrecy, in a case that time and shifting public opinion has transformed f (9/11 anonymity bush liberty politics privacy security us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-06

• ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: Sources Tell ABC News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons: Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania. (bush cia evil iraq news politics terrorism torture war)
• Sploid: PROOF THAT DOGS LAUGH: Scientists in Washington state say they've actually identified the dog laugh. It's that excited panting along with a big smile you see when a dog greets its people, has a thrilling rabbit chase, takes an invigorating swim in a river or sees its buddies at (biology dog news psychology sploid)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-02

• How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." (culture funny psychology reality religion science scifi weird)
• Turn left in 500 feet... fool! - Dec. 1, 2005: NavTones has contracted with Mr. T and the actors Burt Reynolds and Dennis Hopper to record voices that can be loaded into navigation systems. "There are only so many times I want to hear Mr. T threaten to come out of my navigation device and beat me." (car funny gps news transportation)
• How To: The Al-Qaida Guide to Kidnapping - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: Kidnapping is okay -- so long as it serves political or financial goals for a terrorist organization. It's also fine if it draws attention to a political issue like, say, Chechnya.These are just a few of the parting tips offered by a top al-Qaida strategi (howto terrorism)
• Ted's Mozilla page - Tab Preview: Tab Preview is an extension for Firefox 1.5 that shows a preview of tab contents when you move your mouse over a background tab. It's simple to use, but surprisingly useful. (boingboing cool extension firefox mozilla)
• Jurors' Handbook: Citizens Guide to Jury Duty: That is the power of the jury at work; the power to decide the issues of law under which the defendant is charged, as well as the facts. In our system of checks and balances, the jury is our final check, the people's last safegard against unjust law and t (history law liberty reference)
• American Jury Institute/Fully Informed Jury Association: Home: Our mission is to inform all Americans about their rights, powers, and responsibilities when serving as trial jurors. Jurors must know that they have the option and the responsibility to render a verdict based on their conscience and on their sense of jus (law liberty politics reference)
• RollingStone.com: Scott Stapp : Scott Stapp and 311 Brawl : News: "So knowing we got along earlier, I kindly asked him not to disrespect anybody and reminded him that we're all friends. That's when he sucker-punched me -- hit me right in the face." (311 baltimore creed drunk maryland news rock sploid sucks us)
• Sploid: Hooray! No black people!: A suburban development in Utah is in hot water for making the lack of black people a selling point. (black evil mormon racism religion sploid us utah)
• Universe Today - Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula: The Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing picture of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant. The star at the heart of the nebula exploded as a supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, and was recorded by Chinese astronomers as being bright enough to be visible dur (astronomy cool photo space)

del.icio.us links for 2005-12-01

• CulturePulp 041: The Not-So-Secret History of 'Aeon Flux': (art cartoon comic culture history humor movie scifi)
• BBC NEWS | Europe | Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog': Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park. Passers-by were reportedly too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels, which reportedly lasted about a minute."They literally gutted the dog." (dog murder news russia squirrel weird)
• ClickOnDetroit.com - Food - Garlic Triggers Airport Alarm: For the record, garlic, like everything else, IS made of chemicals. Chemistry covers everything which is made of normal matter (atoms). Anyway, we now know it's possible to carry out denial-of-service attacks against airports with garlic... (airline food garlic news pennsylvania philadelphia security sploid terrorism us weird)
• eastbayexpress.com | News & Features | Bottom Feeder | Doggy Style | 2005-11-30: State contract worker comes under investigation as alleged actress in beast-porn ring; "I have experience being bred with four different dogs." [via ObscureStore] (california dog news sex us weird)
• Sploid: Humans are pigs: A startling new scientific study shows that pushy, stressed-out people are exactly like pushy, stressed-out pigs. It seems hogs and humans both have a pathetic habit of trying to bully their way up the social ladder even when there's no hope of success. (anthropology news pig psychology science sploid weird)
• Wired News: Airline Security a Waste of Cash: "[Secure Flight] has been a complete failure, resulting in exactly zero terrorists caught. And even worse, thousands (or more) have been denied the ability to fly, even though they've done nothing wrong." [B Schneier] (9/11 airline liberty politics schneier security us)
• Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:Viamatic foXpose - All Releases: Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click. Includes a toolbar icon Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + X (extension firefox mozilla)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-30

• Dean Gray Tuesday: At 12:00AM on Dean Gray Tuesday, this page will be replaced by a list of sites that will be providing the American Edit album for download in protest to its banning, reportedly by Warner records. (greenday mashup mp3 music protest riaa)
• Senators target 'graphic' video games | CNET News.com: A new front in the political wars over sex and violence in video games opened Tuesday when Senators Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman called for a new crackdown on the industry by the federal government. (declan gaming liberty politics senate sex us video violence)
• Random Chuck Norris Fact: Top Thirty Facts: Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. (chucknorris humor weird)
• BBspot - Bush Proposes Faith-Based Firewalls for Government Computers: President Bush announced that by 2008 all government computers should be protected from outside attacks by the faith-based firewall called Protection From Above (PFA) from Houston-based software developer Christisoft. (bush humor network politics religion security us)
• Boing Boing: Warners censors mashup album, fight back!: Now a record company has shut down the American Edit site and internet activists are calling for a reprise of Grey Tuesday when websites all over the Internet mirrored DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album mashup, which was censored off the Internet by EMI. (boingboing copyright culture evil music riaa)
• Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » MediaMax Permanently Installs and Runs Unwanted Software, Even If User Declines EULA: The driver sometimes becomes permanently activated if the same protected CD is used more than once, even if the user never agrees to the EULA. (cd drm evil music security software sony)
• New Scientist Breaking News - Secrets of bee flight revealed: Bee flight turns out not to be aerodynamically impossible after all, which is a good thing, since their ability to fly is well-documented. Includes video. (bee biology biomechanical news physics science)
• Salt Lake Tribune - Utah: Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, flubbed Monday and referred to Iraq as Vietnam while commenting on Fox News against an immediate troop withdrawal. (congress iraq politics sploid us war)
• Pentagon Gets Twelve Weapons For A Penny From Columbia Missile And Tank Club | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio dod humor mp3 news theonion us)
• Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: KARUNCHI, SNAKISTAN—Citing crumbling relations due to years of protracted french-onion diplomacy, the president of the Central Asian doritocracy Fritolaysia withdrew the country's ambassadors from Snakistan Monday. (food humor news politics theonion)
• CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters. (cia humor news politics security theonion us)
• Webcomics Nation: Webcomics Nation is meant to do for online comics what services like Blogger have done for personal journals, or Flickr for photo-sharing: enable anybody and everybody to reach a large audience with his/her ideas and creations -- in this case, in comics. (art blog comic culture web writing)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-29

• Fuzzy logic behind Bush's cybercrime treaty | Perspectives | CNET News.com: If the U.S. and Russia ratify it, President Vladimir Putin would be able to invoke the treaty's powers to unmask anonymous critics on U.S.-based Web sites and perhaps even snoop on their e-mail correspondence. [via Politech] (anonymity crime declan evil liberty politics security)
• Sony BMG's Costly Silence: "If [Sony] had woken up and smelled the coffee when we told them there was a problem, they could have avoided this trouble," says Mikko H. Hypponen, F-Secure's director of antivirus research. (cd copyright drm evil music security sony)
• Shitcanned: CNN.com - Vote topples Canadian government - Nov 28, 2005: After months of political instability, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin fell Monday evening when three opposition parties united to topple him with a no-confidence vote in the House of Commons. (canada news politics)
• CNN.com - Ex-Powell aide: Was U.S. fooled? - Nov 29, 2005: "You begin to speculate, you begin to wonder -- Was this intelligence spun? Was it politicized? Was it cherry-picked? Did in fact the American people get fooled? I'm beginning to have my concerns." [Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for Colin Powell] (bush dickcheney evil iraq politics us war)
• United States vs. Deborah Davis :: home: One morning Deb was riding the bus to work, when a security guard demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. She was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand. (evil liberty news politics privacy security sploid terrorism)
• Sploid: Pope bans gay priests: In the first major ruling by the current pope, Josef "Benedict XVI" Ratzinger, men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies will be kept from joining the priesthood, while homosexuals already hiding under the robes won't face expulsion or discipline. (gay news religion sploid)
• Journo fired over rigged Mercedes brake tech test | The Register: A failed test of Mercedes' new radar braking system that resulted in a three-car pile-up last week has been exposed as a sham for the benefit of television that went horribly wrong. Specht conspired to brake manually, faking the effects of the system. (car evil germany mercedes news transportation)
• Vice President's Office Keeps Travel Expenses Under Wraps: Open-government advocates say that Vice President Cheney is to executive branch secrecy what darkness is to the night. (dickcheney evil news politics sploid us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-28

• EU official warns nations on secret CIA prisons - International Terrorism - MSNBC.com: The European Union's justice commissioner Monday warned that any bloc nation found to have operated secret CIA prisons could have their EU voting rights suspended. (cia europe evil politics terrorism us)
• the agony booth forum - Superman V: The Whole Sordid Saga: Who knew Hollywood was so full of megalogmanical super-villians? (evil movie superman weird)
• CNN.com - Rep. Cunningham pleads guilty to tax violations - Nov 28, 2005: Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges and tearfully resigned from office, admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to conspirators. One crook down, 534 to go. (congress crime evil news politics us)
• Dooku.net - I would have thought you'd have learned your lesson.: We don't want to make a mess of things in front of the Chancellor. (humor mashup music starwars video)
• 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body: Including, how to cure that nasty brain freeze. (health howto reference science weird)
• Nuts For Trucks, Bull Balls on Cars, ATV'S with Testicles, Truck Nuts: Does your urban assault vehicle lack a visible scrotum? Fear not, for your prayers have been answered. (humor transportation weird)
• Telegraph | News | 'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers: The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis. (evil iraq news politics security uk us)
• Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity: The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world (9/11 congress dod evil politics security surveillance terrorism us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-26

• Sploid: America's secret weapon: Rap music is one of America's great cultural exports. The genre has also roiled two of our most annoying allies. France and Canada are both, nominally, in the Atlantic Alliance; in practice, they are both critics of American culture and foreign policy. (canada france gun music politics rap sploid us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-24

• CNN.com - Turkey gobbled up in 12 minutes - Nov 23, 2005: A day before millions of Americans sit down to eat traditional Thanksgiving dinners, a Virginia woman grabbed the world turkey-eating title on Wednesday by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes. (food news sport turkey us virginia weird)
• Living photos use bacteria as pixels | Science Blog: Scientists at UC San Francisco have engineered bacteria to create living photographs that weigh in at 100 megapixels per square inch. Their first subject: The Flying Spaghetti Monster! (fsm funny microbiology news photography science sploid)
• Why Does Everybody Hate Me? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: The only way I could get anyone to talk to me was by promising this one guy I'd make his stupid legal thrillers into bestsellers in exchange for his immortal soul. (evil humor rant religion theonion weird)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-23

• First World War.com: A multimedia history of World War One (history image reference wwi)
• Sploid: Apophis, death from above: Forget Osama, Kim, Zarqawi and all the others. The deadliest threat facing America is Apophis, a 1000-foot asteroid whose orbit crosses the Earth's twice a year. (astronomy news science space sploid)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-22

• del.icio.us/help/playtagger: Play Tagger allows you to easily play mp3 files directly on your website or blog. Simply include a tiny javascript, and your mp3 links will automatically become playable right on the page. (audio del.icio.us flash javascript mp3)
• Independent Online Edition > Middle East: Iraqis face the dire prospect of losing up to $200bn (£116bn) of the wealth of their country if an American-inspired plan to hand over development of its oil reserves to US and British multinationals comes into force next year. (evil iraq news oil politics uk us war)
• Breakthrough for quantum measurement (November 2005) - News - PhysicsWeb: Two teams of physicists have measured the capacitance of a Josephson junction for the first time. The methods developed by the two teams could be used to measure the state of quantum bits in a quantum computer without disturbing the state. (news physics science)
• WorldNetDaily: CNN covers Cheney with mysterious 'X': Vice President Dick Cheney had his face covered by a mysterious giant "X" during CNN's live coverage of his speech from the American Enterprise Institute yesterday. (dickcheney media news politics sploid us weird)
• Dean Gray presents American Edit: From the man who brought you "Boulevard of Broken Songs", the entire Green Day "American Idiot" album mashup, "American Edit". (boingboing cool greenday mashup mp3 music)
• CNN.com - 'Ugly dog' Sam dies at 14 - Nov 22, 2005: Sam, the dog whose ugliness earned him TV appearances, limousine rides and even a meeting with millionaire Donald Trump, has died. The pooch with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head died Friday. (dog news sploid us weird)
• 01 - Dean Gray - American Jesus.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Bryan Adams vs. Johnny Cash, etc. (11 MB) (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• 02 - Dean Gray - Dr Who on Holiday.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Dr. Who vs. Gary Glitter, plus George W. Bush vs. the Daleks (bush drwho funny greenday mashup mp3 music scifi)
• 03 - Dean Gray - Boulevard of Broken Songs.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Aerosmith. Not quite the same as the version commonly-heard on the radio. (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• 04 - Dean Gray - The Bad Homecoming (Waiting).mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. U2 (greenday mashup mp3 music u2)
• 05 - Dean Gray - St Jimmy the Prankster.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. The Offspring (greenday mashup mp3 music theoffspring)
• 06 - Dean Gray - Novocaine Rhapsody.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Queen (greenday mashup mp3 music queen)
• 07 - Dean Gray - Impossible Rebel.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Lalo Schifrin vs. Sex Pistols vs. Dire Straits (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• 08 - Dean Gray - Ashanti's Letterbomb.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Ashanti (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• 09 - Dean Gray - Greenday Massacre.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. The Eagles vs. Talking Heads (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• 10 - Dean Gray - Whatsername (Susanna Hoffs).mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. The Bangles (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• 11 - Dean Gray - Boulevard of Broken Songs (Dance Mix 05).mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Aerosmith vs. ... Madonna? Dance remix of the classic mashup (greenday mashup mp3 music)
• How to draw cartoon cars by George Trosley: A dead-tree book and CD-ROM, but some examples are here. (art car cartoon howto)
• Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Thatcher 'threatened to nuke Argentina': Margaret Thatcher forced François Mitterrand to give her the codes to disable Argentina's deadly French-made missiles during the Falklands war by threatening to launch a nuclear warhead against Buenos Aires, according to a book. (argentina france history nuke uk war)
• In The 80s - 99 Luftballons, Side by Side Comparison: The original German vs. the original German directly translated to English vs. the English version (germany history music politics startrek uk us war)
• Iraqi Factions Seek Timetable for U.S. Pullout - New York Times: For the first time, Iraq's political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces, in a moment of consensus that comes as the Bush administration battles pressure at home to commit itself to a pullout schedule. (boingboing bush iraq news war)
• George Bush fined in Queensland court - National - theage.com.au: George Bush has been brought to justice in Queensland. Texas-born Bush, 21, was fined $550 and disqualified from driving for two years. The third cousin of the US leader said later he had never met his famous relative and had "nothing to do with him". (australia bush drunk funny news sploid)
• Cache Of Seized Weapons Donated To Poor | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio california gun humor losangeles mp3 news theonion us)
• Bufferin Sought In Series Of Pain Killings | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio humor mp3 news theonion)
• Kentucky Legislature Bans Gay Pet Weddings | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio gay humor kentucky mp3 news theonion us vermont)
• Catholic Nutritionists Warn Of Transubstantiating Fats | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio food humor mp3 news religion theonion)
• Michael Bay Makes High-Octane Trip To Grocery Store | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio humor mp3 news theonion)
• Love Affair Not Torrid Enough For Area Man | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio humor mp3 news theonion)
• White House Séance Fails To Contact Spirit Of Ronald Reagan | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio bush dickcheney humor mp3 news reagan theonion)