del.icio.us links for 2006-01-26

• Davos Dispatches: Brin defends Google's China move - Jan. 25, 2006: Interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and his explanation of why Google has elected to implement Chinese censorship rules. (censorship china google liberty news)
• What Google censors in China | CNET News.com: Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes. (beer censorship china declan evil gay google humor liberty politics religion)
• Quick Online Tips: Complete Digg Tools Collection: an attempt to combine all Digg related tools in one place. (digg firefox howto mozilla reference tool)
• Georgia coach Richt gets $16 million deal: Georgia coach Mark Richt received a new eight-year, $16 million contract Wednesday that gives the two-time Southeastern Conference champion a $500,000 a year raise. Richt can also earn up to $400,000 in bonuses if he meets various incentives. (athensga football georgia news sports uga us)
• Daily Kos: Administration flipflop on domestic surveillance: Four years ago, top Bush administration lawyers told Congress they opposed lowering the legal standard for intercepting the phone calls of foreigners who were in the United States, even while the administration secretly adopted a lower standard on its own (bush congress crime liberty nsa politics privacy security surveillance terrorism us)
• Tax Holiday: How the nonsensically named American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 allowed Ford to slash jobs while reaping huge job-creation tax benefits. (bush news politics sploid tax us)
• Voters support Hamas: "A political party, in order to be viable, is one that professes peace, in my judgment, in order that it will keep the peace," Bush said yesterday. Oh well, so much for the GOP then, and it's war on (terrorism|drugs|civil liberties|.*)+ (bush politics us)
• Sploid: British doubt Darwin: Over 2,000 were asked their view of the origin of life. Only 48% rallied behind Darwin. 22% named creationism and 17% opted for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Nearly one in six had not been sober long enough to give the question sufficient consideration. (creationism evolution fsm funny news religion science sploid uk)
• Sploid: Fox News is leftist!: From Bill O'Reilly's pinko lies about global warming to Shepard Smith's lovefest with poor blacks in New Orleans, hardcore conservatives see growing evidence that their beloved Fox News has become just another America-bashing part of the mainstream media. (media news sploid us)
• Sploid: Cross-dressing killer is a lady wrestler!: The cross-dressing murderer who terrorized Mexico City’s old ladies for three long years is actually a female wrestling star. Only a week ago, police were still convinced that Mataviejitas was a man in drag. (crime mexico murder news sploid weird)
• Analysis: White House Tries to Spin Spying: I know what I'd be doing if I were a known al Qaeda agent in Pakistan: Making lots of cryptic prank phone calls to random people in the U.S. When I ran an anonymous remailer, we all assumed the NSA was intercepting everything, legal or not. Unless they ar (bush crime liberty politics security surveillance terrorism us)