del.icio.us links for 2006-01-25

• Supreme Ethics Problem?: At the historic swearing-in of John Roberts as the 17th chief justice of the United States last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance. Scalia was playing tennis during a trip to a legal seminar sponsored by (law politics scotus us)
• Defense Tech: These Cameras Don't Forget a Face: Surveillance companies, using networks of cheap Web-connected cameras and powerful new video-analysis software, are starting to turn the Hollywood model into reality. Faces and license plates can now be spotted, in almost real time... (news sploid surveillance us video web)
• IMPEACHING FEDERAL JUDGES: A COVENANTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE TO JUDICIAL TYRANNY: Supreme Court Justices "shall hold their offices during good Behaviour," which means they can be impeached. In 1804, Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Chase was impeached but acquitted. Only three fed judges in recent history (Reagan era), for crimin (crime history impeachment law politics scotus us)
• How to wrapping Shimojima,.co.ltd.: Diagonal wrapping technique from Japan. Uses one piece of tape at the end, and even that looks optional. (art howto japan weird)
• Sploid: Jacko living life as a lady Muslim!: Now Jacko has been spotted walking around Bahrain covered from head to toe in the traditional dress of conservative Bahraini women. (bahrain news sploid transvestite weird)
• Sploid: Public speaking stressing you out? Get laid!: Having sex is good way to calm nerves before giving a speech or presentation, but it has to be full sexual intercourse to get the best results. Masturbation and oral not as good, and abstainence resulted in highest blood pressure response to stress. (biology news presentation psychology science sex sploid weird)
• Sploid: Pork soup starving France's Muslims: Soup Nazis: The unrest in France's Muslim population exploded across the country last fall. Now, in what can only be read as the ultimate act of passive aggression, small groups aligned with France's extreme right are serving pork soup to the homeless. (france news pig politics religion sploid weird)
• Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: The protest was largely peaceful, disrupted only by a disturbing incident in which one distraught snowman hurled himself into the reflecting pool of the National Mall. He was rushed to a local meat locker where he was pronounced melted on arrival. (environment humor news politics protest theonion us)
• Second-Graders Wow Audience With School Production Of Equus | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "Once they stopped screaming about horses getting their eyes gouged out and realized that it was just a launching point for more complex ideas about alienation from the modern world, they rolled up their sleeves and dug right in." (horse humor news theonion us)
• I Enjoy The Occasional Tranq Dart | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "I'm a regular lowland gorilla like anybody else. And sometimes, at the end of a particularly frantic and rampaging day, I need a little something to take the edge off." (gorilla humor rant theonion)
• Contempt for Congress: If ever there was a perfect illustration of the Bush administration's attitude toward Congress, it came precisely one hour, six minutes and 20 seconds into Monday's Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on mine safety. (bush congress politics rant us)