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)