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)