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)