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)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-21

• Wolves: The first part of this essay focuses on why wolves were eradicated by humans in many parts of North America and Europe. It then presents a case study on how and when they were eradicated from the National parks of Montana and southern Alberta. (culture ecology europe history northamerica science werewolf wolf)
• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Door thwarts quick exit for Bush: After answering just six questions from a group of US reporters, the president strode away heading towards the door. President Bush tugged at both handles on the double doors before admitting: "I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work." (boingboing bush china funny politics video)
• BostonHerald.com - Local / Regional News: A brush with evil: Serial killer’s painting brings bad luck, owner says: A Malden man’s guilty pleasure of investing in murderabilia has come back to haunt him thanks to a “cursed” clown painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, which the collector claims turned his life into a three-ring circus. (clown evil news sploid us weird)
• Free school breakfast menu to offer coffee: Brazil's coffee industry has brewed up a plan to serve up to 1 million schoolchildren a free breakfast -- complete with a cup of java. (brazil coffee education food news weird)
• That's incredibly beautiful...give me a hammer...: If you thought art galleries were quiet havens of contemplation, think again. Looking at great works of art can inspire a strong, sometimes irresistible urge to destroy, Italian researchers have found. (art italy news psychology science weird)
• Discover Music - Pandora: Music discovery service. Tell it what you like, and it'll make suggestions. (music tool)
• Pat Robertson Displays Satanic 'El Diablo' Sign During 700 Club Show: Pat Robertson, the so-called voice of Christian America, has again been caught 'El Diablo red handed' flashing occult and satanic hand signals during his show. [what can i say? jesus is fucking metal] (bush evil religion sploid texas us weird)
• Sploid: Don't anger the Fairies: In the Scottish village of St. Fillans, Perthshire, housing developers have lost out to the local Fairies. New York's Staten Island has its own colony of Fairies who began complaining in 1939 and apparently never stopped. (fairy iceland news newyork scotland sploid weird)
• Cheney Picks a Fight With a Marine: When Dick Cheney was selected in 1989 by former President George H. W. Bush to serve as Secretary of Defense, he had a credibility problem. He turned to House colleague John Murtha: "I don't know a blankety-blank thing about defense." (dickcheney iraq politics us war)
• PDF DRM, Why Ebooks Haven’t “Taken Off” and How I Wasted $150 in Time on a $9 Ebook-- The Glass is Too Big - J Wynia: Wherein J buys a $9 ebook from Amazon, tries to print it, discovers that it is printing too small, realizes he can’t print it again until nearly 2007, learns that he can’t read it on his lunch break on another workstation... (drm publishing rant sucks)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-20

• Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise: The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation. Renewal of the Patriot Act remained in limbo as an unlikely c (congress evil politics us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-18

• Americans pay more to know Turkey before eating: She's a small-breasted beauty from a good family in the American Midwest who enjoys spending time outdoors. She eats only natural foods, is drug- and disease-free and her video can be found on the Internet. (food news shop turkey us web weird)
• New York Daily News - Home - $15M suit for burns from java: The coffee crisis happened Nov. 12 after Shea and a friend pulled out of a Forest Ave. Dunkin' Donuts drive-through. When the pal tried to park, lids on two cups came off, causing 200-degree java to spill and soak through her jeans, her lawyer said. (coffee lawsuit news newyork us weird)
• Tears save sick mother from cremation alive: You Guoying, a 47-year-old migrant worker, was taken for cremation by her husband and children in Taizhou where she worked. Fortunately for You, the undertaker realized she was still alive when he saw her move and tears in her eyes. (china news weird)
• Uche Ogbuji's Amara XML Toolkit: Amara XML toolkit is an open-source collection of Python tools for XML processing, not just tools that happen to be written in Python, but tools built from the ground up to use Python idioms and take advantage of the many advantages of Python. (programming python xml)
• Man or Astro-man?: Aliens have landed in Alabama started their own band. This site will help you stay on top of all the information concerning Man or Astro-man? that you have clearance to know. (alabama alien music rock us)
• CNN.com - Ex-CIA chief: Cheney 'VP for torture' - Nov 18, 2005: "I'm embarrassed the United States has a vice president for torture," former CIA director Stansfield Turner said. "He condones torture, what else is he?" He doesn't believe Bush's statements that the U.S. doesn't use torture. (bush cia dickcheney evil news politics sploid torture us)
• Onion ring emergency: A Houma woman was so angry that cold food was served to her at a Thibodaux restaurant Wednesday night that she called 911. Officers arrived at Malt-N-Burger about 8:30 p.m., where they found Sharita Williams, 30, fuming because her onion rings were cold. (food louisiana news us weird)
• New Scientist Breaking News - Decaffeinated coffee may be harmful to heart: Decaffeinated coffee may have a harmful effect on the heart by increasing the levels of a specific cholesterol in the blood, researchers say. Their explanation is that caffeine-free coffee is often made from a type of bean with a higher fat content. (coffee fat health news science)
• New Scientist Technology - Can Earth's seismic radio help predict quakes?: Price and his colleagues speculated that as underground stresses build up, rocks containing magnetic particles fracture, generating ultra-low-frequency (ULF) radio waves. Detect these radio waves, and you might have the makings of a prediction system. (earthquake news science seismology)
• Sploid: Green devil hunts kids: The horrible devil monster carries a pitchfork and has been terrorizing kids at a school in Namibia. (africa education evil monster news weird)
• AP Wire | 11/18/2005 | Firefighters charged with stealing passes to Auburn-Georgia game: The two were standing a couple of feet from the football field's sideline when officers arrested them. The firefighters told officers the passes were gifts. They also had a digital camera stolen from the same office where the passes are kept. (athensga crime football georgia news uga us)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-17

• Lawmakers Acted on Heels of Abramoff Gifts - Yahoo! News: America has the best goverment money can buy. Thankfully we don't get all the goverment we pay for... (congress evil politics us)
• OfficePoltergeist 1.1: Open Source Windows Computer Prank Software... The Ghost in the Machine: The simplest way to terrorize the people who dwell in the cubes around you. Install the OfficePoltergeist server on a victim's computer and you can take possession of it. (halloween humor remote software weird)
• Fold Paper in half any number of times: Or: How to get into Berkeley by doing the impossible. (education mathematics physics science)
• Woman weds teen, spends honeymoon in jail: A pregnant 37-year-old Georgia woman who eloped with a 15-year-old boy was in jail on charges of child molestation. In Georgia, teenagers over 16 may marry with parental consent, but it is not required when a female applicant is pregnant. (georgia news us weird)
• Radish in intensive care after murder attempt: TOKYO (Reuters) - A giant white radish that won the hearts of a Japanese town by valiantly growing through the urban asphalt was in intensive care at a town hall in western Japan on Thursday after being slashed by an unknown assailant. (japan news weird)
• Web 2.0 Validator : Surfing the Consensual Reality Wave.: Gotta love a piece of software with a version number equal to a fundamental mathematical constant (e). Or perhaps it's only approaching e as a limit... (ajax css funny software tool validator web web2.0)
• An Incomplete Investigation: Why did the 9/11 Commission ignore "Able Danger"?: by Louis "Freedom isn't" Freeh: The Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the most relevant fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry. (9/11 abledanger dod evil fbi politics us)
• NASA ready to check bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity | Science Blog: Time keeps on spinning, spinning, spinning, into the future. [A. Einstein with S. Miller and his orchestra] (news physics science)
• Sploid: War-lovin' Congressman says withdraw from Iraq now: An influential House Democrat who voted for the Iraq war called Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, another sign of growing unease in Congress about the conflict. (bush cia congress iraq news sploid us war)
• Meet the IT Gigolo: Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two. "WILL FIX COMPUTERS FOR SEXUAL FAVORS" (boingboing culture funny sex weird)
• Cat General Says War On String May Be Unwinnable | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio cat humor mp3 news theonion war)
• Everything Proceeding According To Bizarre Right-Wing Plan | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: (audio bush evil humor mp3 news politics theonion)
• Patriot Act 'compromise' makes matters worse | The Register: And you thought the original was un-American (bush evil fbi liberty news politics surveillance us)
• ThinkGeek :: Monty Python Killer Rabbit Plush: Oh it’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it? How could a cute thing like that bite anyone’s head off? (montypython rabbit toy)
• United Press International - NewsTrack - Group wants to see humans extinct: Make no mistake about it, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement isn't anti-child, it's more like anti-human. The VHE is dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth. [so save the planet and kill yourself]] (environment evil sploid weird)
• Senators Threaten to Hold Up Patriot Act: A bipartisan group of senators told congressional leaders Thursday they will try to block reauthorization of the Patriot Act to protest the elimination of protections against "unnecessary and intrusive government surveillance" in a House-Senate compromise (liberty news senate surveillance us)
• Wired News: Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit: It's a tale of extreme hubris. Sony rolled out this incredibly invasive copy-protection scheme without ever publicly discussing its details, confident that its profits were worth modifying its customers' computers. (cd drm evil music schneier security software sony)

Bitch-slapped by Blogger

Apparently the back-filling I did of my del.icio.us links with Atomic Vomit got my blog marked as a spam blog. For reference, if you try to post with the Atom API as published (and not draft), you get a 500 error and this output:

Your post has been saved as a draft instead of published. You must go to Blogger.com to publish your post. To prevent these errors in the future, request a review at: http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog.g?blogID=NNNNNNN

This is a pretty bad choice of error codes, since your post is stored in the system, even if it isn't published, since 500 is more-or-less "Internal Server Error", which implies that whatever you did didn't work. I had a bunch of duplicate posts trying to figure this out before I started looking at the output and checking the stored drafts. I'm not sure if there really is a good code to return in this case, but 500 seems wrong.

I've filed for review, but that seems to be going nowhere slow.

Update: I'm off the hook:

Hello,
Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and whitelisted so that it will no
longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back
in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience,
and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
Blogger Support

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-16

• BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq probes US phosphorus weapons: An Iraqi human rights team has gone to the city of Falluja to investigate the use of white phosphorus as a weapon by US forces, a minister has told the BBC. (evil iraq war)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | White phosphorus: weapon on the edge: The Pentagon's admission - despite earlier denials - that US troops used white phosphorus as a weapon in Falluja last year is more than a public relations issue - it has opened up a debate about the use of this weapon in modern warfare. (evil iraw war)
• iPod porn pains parents, employers | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Now, with new video capability on Apple Computer's iPods, pornography may push the envelope of video content available on digital content players. Of course, this development presents some issues." ["Eric J. Sinrod" sounds like a porn name to me...] (funny ipod politics rant video)
• Clarke County Restaurant Scores by Score: Athens has a lot of restaurants for having a population of about 100,000 and an area of 125 square miles. (athensga dining georgia us)
• AP Wire | 11/15/2005 | Pentagon used white phosphorous in Iraq: Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable mater (evil iraq war)
• Long-Awaited Beer With Bush Really Awkward, Voter Reports | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Although respondents to a Pew poll taken prior to the 2004 presidential election characterized Bush as "the candidate they'd most like to sit down and have a beer with," Chris Reinard lived the hypothetical scenario Sunday afternoon, and characterized it (beer bush funny politics theonion us)
• 133 Dead As Delta Cancels Flight In Midair | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: A 737 traveling from Cincinnati to Salt Lake City was lost with all passengers and crew Monday when cash-strapped Delta Airlines, the aircraft's operator, canceled Flight 1060 en route. (airline humor news theonion)
• Animal Planet Reality Show To Put Bear, Antelope, Hawk, Cheetah In Same House | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Cable network Animal Planet announced its most ambitious foray into reality-TV programming yet Monday with The Zoo, a weekly, hourlong show in which members of an all-animal cast square off in a single 3,200-square-foot home in the San Fernando Valley. (animal funny news reality theonion tv)
• Wired News: The Sex Machines Next Door: Jon Traven does not look like a sex-machine inventor. He looks like a cowboy. But the divorced Christian homesteader from Idaho is one of many makers of garage-built erotic devices featured in Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews... [Xeni Jardin] (sex toy)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-15

• ComBots - Combat Robots, the largest fighting robot show in the world.: BattleBots reborn? (combat funny robot sanfrancisco sports weird)
• Welcome to BattleBots.com: BattleBots lives (sorta) (combat funny robot sports weird)
• Boing Boing: Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line: Since Hallowe'en, we've been posting the details about he revelations relating to Sony's DRM systems, which show jaw-dropping contempt for their customers, for copyright law, for fair trading and for the public interest. [C Doctorow] (boingboing cd drm evil history music news privacy security sony)
• The Worst Record Covers of All Time: Pitchfork Feature: (art funny music)
• Park police bust unlicensed student boxing matches: Somebody forgot the first rule of Fight Club: Do not talk about Fight Club. Do not promote Fight Club. Do not build a Web site with scheduled bouts and videos of Fight Club. And do not — do not! — let Austin park police find out about Fight Club. (funny news texas us weird)

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-14

• Alien Loves Predator: In New York, no one can hear you scream.: Open house spammers (alien comic humor predator spam)
• Personal Rapid Transit, costs, history, illustrations, contact information, related websites, advocacy groups,deployment experiences: This is a collection of links to a variety of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) technologies. These are all small vehicle technologies, designed to carry four or fewer people on an elevated guideway with off-line stations. (environment science transportation)
• Hellboy Animated: The Production Diary of the Hellboy Animated Projects (art blog cartoon comic)
• Gizmodo : Would That Be Internal or External, Technically?: "The picture is of a fixed-head disk, very similar to a Borroughs unit I had the pleasure of disassembling (in 1975) after a catastrophic head crash. It took me 3 days to whittle it down to nuts and bolts, and the platter weighed 18 pounds." (history image storage)
• Illegal alien faces eviction from castle wall (eng, NZZ Online): A sculpture of an alien by famous Swiss artist HR Giger has fallen foul of city by-laws in the tourist town of Gruyères. [via Sploid] (alien art hrgiger news scifi switzerland weird)
• Personal Rapid Transit: Little two-person bubble cars on rails that are externally-powered and available more-or-less on-demand. Reminds me of the transportation system in "Logan's Run". Interesting site design (Flash). (design environment flash science transportation usability)
• ROBOT BASTARD! - A Film By Rob Schrab creator of Scud The Disposable Assassin: Robot Bastard exists in an eight-grade-boy universe of Robots, Rocket ships and cute girls. Escape to the colorful adventure in the first installment of Robot Bastard! (humor movie robot scifi video)
• If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation: Picard: Sigma Indri, that's the star, / So, Data, please, how far? How far? // Data: Our ship can get there very fast / But still the trip will last and last / We'll have two days til we arrive / But can the Indrans there survive? (boingboing drseuss humor mashup scifi startrek)
• Steve Jackson Games: SPANC: Life is good when you're a Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirl. Lovingly illustrated by Phil Foglio, SPANC is a fast-paced card game of space pirates, amazons, ninja, and catgirls. All at once. [how can you resist?] (amazon catgirl funny game ninja pirate space weird)
• Detainees Deserve Court Trials: "As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me. Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Terrorists!" (bush evil news politics senate terrorism us)

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

• CalorieLab Calorie Counter News » Archives » Biofuel promoter to power boat using human fat: Auckland, New Zealand, adventurer Peter Bethune plans to break the round-the-world powerboat speed record in a boat powered by biodiesel fuel partly manufactured from human fat. [via Sploid] (biodiesel boat fat news sploid weird)
• FUSE: SSH Filesystem: This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. [this is fucking awesome] (filesystem fuse linux network remote security ssh)
• SMB for FUSE: With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as were it on your own filesystem. It's basically smbmount with a twist. Instead of mounting one Samba share at a time, you mount all workgroups, hosts and shares at once. [fuck yeah] (filesystem fuse linux network samba)
• Search engines are not unfair (November 2005) - News - PhysicsWeb: Based on an analysis of web traffic, Santo Fortunato and colleagues at Indiana University and the University of Bielefeld claim that search engines actually have an egalitarian effect that increases the traffic to less popular sites. (google news search)
• Boing Boing: Real Doll sex toy maker has an anime doll: Real Doll, makers of life size sex dolls, has a doll named Anna Mae that looks like a Japanese cartoon character with impossibly large eyes. (anime boingboing boobs funny nsfw toy weird)
• Boing Boing: Japanese youth are like chimps in the wild: A Kyoto University primatologist suggests that Japanese young people wielding mobile tech are acting increasingly like chimpanzees. [don't shit where you eat, my friend] (anthropology boingboing culture japan mobile telephony weird)
• Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Drunken elks attack old people's home: A drunken party of elks surrounded an old people's home in Sweden and had to be driven away by armed police, Sweden's media reported yesterday. (drunk elk funny news sweden weird)
• New Scientist Breaking News - Black hole ate my twin, but it can’t catch me: A young star has been caught in the act of speeding out of the galaxy – seemingly on the run from a giant black hole that had already swallowed its twin. (astronomy blackhole news physics science weird)
• Universe Today - Jupiter's Winds Come From Inside: An international team of researchers have developed a new computer model that simulated Jupiter's incredible weather systems. The model suggests three-dimensional convection in Jupiter's deep atmosphere is likely driving the zonal flows. (astronomy jupiter news physics science)
• Universe Today - Lunar Lawn Mower: "Picture a buggy pulled behind a rover that is outfitted with a set of magnetrons. With the right power and microwave frequency, an astronaut could drive along, sintering the soil as he goes, making continuous brick down half a meter deep..." (astronomy moon news physics science)
• WVLT VOLUNTEER TV Knoxville, TN: Local man: Five cities to be destroyed Friday: A Farragut man says he's only the messenger, claiming his personal relationship with god has revealed to him, five cities in the United States that will face economic collapse Friday, November 11, 2005. In other news, God says, "Fuck it." ***LAST POST*** (9/11 atlanta evil lasvegas news nyc religion sanfrancisco tennessee us washingtondc weird)

Atomic Vomit gushes out

I have created a little Python module for regurgitating your del.icio.us links into Blogger's Atom API. So what better name for it than Atomic Vomit?

P.S. Comment spammers fuck off!

del.icio.us links for 2005-11-10

• Blogger: Atom API Documentation: (api atom blogger programming reference web xml)
• Copia: del.icio.us daily links, using Amara: "I added a new feature on Copia: Every day there will be an automated posting with mine and Chime's del.icio.us links from the previous day. You can see, in the previous Copia entry to this one, an example of the results." (blogging del.icio.us howto python)
• Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot - Google Video: Lots of shooting and blowing shit up (bomb gun oklahoma us video)
• Female Anatomy for the Artists: Learn female anatomy from real woman photos and create stunning art [via Sex Drive] (art boobs howto nsfw reference)
• Stupid Comics: From the Golden Age of Stupidity (art boingboing comic funny reference)
• Boffomedia presents: Mulberry Bush by Gwen Stuffunny (Mother Goose Rocks): The animation and characterizations are actually quite good. (flash funny mashup music video)
• New Scientist Breaking News - Light could trigger super-fast synthetic muscles: In the future, robots could run circles around humans, with synthetic muscles 1000 times faster than ours. The artificial muscles could potentially be used in human-like robots or artificial limbs. I for one welcome our new cyborg masters. (biology chemistry cyborg news physics science)
• New Scientist: Lemur named after Monty Python star - News: IT DOES not have a particularly silly walk, but the newly discovered lemur species shares its name with the famous lanky actor who was Monty Python's Minister for Silly Walks. (funny johncleese lemur montypython news science)
• Sploid: Congressman: 9/11 is a 'cover-up': Rep. Weldon says gov't knew 9/11 was coming; demands probe. Republican Congressman Curt Weldon gave a Capitol Hill press conference and went on CNN's Lou Dobbs show on Wednesday in attempts to keep the Able Danger story alive. (9/11 abledanger bush evil news politics sploid terrorism)
• Moebius - The Long Tomorrow 1: Influential comic by Dan O'Bannon and Moebius. The President's brain is missing! As topical today as ever. [via Hack-a-Day] (art comic cool scifi writing)
• Janice Karpinski: Interview with the former General in charge of Abu Gharaib (abughraib audio bush evil iraq news streaming war)