del.icio.us links for 2006-01-27

• Scammer pays FedEx to send him a box of Rottweiler excrement: A guy was selling his used video camera on Amazon, and some small-time sleazeball sent the seller a bogus sale confirmation email that appeared to originate from amazon.com. Instead of receiving a valuable video camera, the scammer ended up paying shippin (boingboing crime dog funny shit)
• CNN.com - Federal appeals court upholds airport identification policy - Jan 27, 2006: An appeals court on Thursday dismissed a legal challenge to federal airport regulations requiring passengers to show identification before they board planes. The review was done in private for security reasons. (airline law liberty politics privacy security us)
• C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby : a first impression: Side-by-side comparison of some object-oriented programming in C++, Java, Python, and Ruby. Perl and PHP not included because they suck. (c++ java object programming python ruby)
• Sploid: Cops bust hog-dog fight ring: Police in Florida have broken up a massive hog dogging ring operating in Seminole. The barbaric "sport" pits a de-husked boar against one or more dogs in a 25-foot by 25-foot pen until one is triumphant. (crime dog evil florida news pig sploid us weird)
• Sploid: Homeland Security addicted to porn: The terror bureaucracy’s internal computer network logged a staggering 65 million security alerts in just 90 days, but it can't tell the difference between "oral sex" and "behavioral". What is known for sure is that porn alarms are going off at an explo (dhs funny network news politics security surveillance terrorism us)
• Sploid: Nation of witches: Unlike skeptics of the paranormal, fundamentalist Christians literally believe in witchcraft, demonology, magic, possession and monsters. The result is that even "born again" kids are studying pagan mysticism. Blame Harry Potter, Buffy, Underworld, Doom.. (funny irony news religion sploid us weird)
• Sploid: Congressman changes (his) history!: In July of last year the staff of U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan of Massachusetts literally re-wrote history for their boss on Wikipedia. In fact abuse of editing privileges got so bad on the Hill last fall that Wikipedia blocked some House IPs from posting. (censorship congress history news politics sploid us weird)
• Report: Lab Monkeys 96 Percent More Likely To Use Cocaine Than Those In Wild: (humor news psychology science theonion)
• YouTube - Proper Breast Touching Technique: The japanese equivalent of Fonzie demonstrates the proper way to fondle a lady's boobies. [LEVEL 69] (boobs funny howto japan nsfw video weird)