del.icio.us links for 2006-04-27

• Sploid: Brave new world for U.S. spooks: If the current House version of the 2007 intelligence authorization bill passes, CIA & NSA goons can arrest anybody, anywhere; spies who leak will pay, journalists too (cia evil news nsa politics sploid terrorism us)
• Sploid: Russian Goatsucker: As if life in Russia wasn't already bad enough, villagers are now reporting a hideous blood-sucking predator is feasting on their livestock. The creature appears to be similar to the one known in the Americas as El Chupacabra. (animal chupacabra news russia sploid weird)
• Sploid: The horrifying truth about hyena lovin': Among mammals the spotted hyena is one of the few species where the female is more muscular and aggressive. It's a good thing, too, because there may be nothing harder than giving birth to another hyena. (animal biology hyena science sex sploid weird)
• Wired 14.04: The Culture War: Past and present corruptors of the youth (according to various shitheads throughout the ages): Novels, the indecent Waltz, moving pictures, the home-wrecking telephone, comic books, Rock and/or Roll, video games. What, no Internet? (boingboing censorship comic culture gaming history media music news politics rock tv violence writing)