del.icio.us links for 2006-05-31

• Boing Boing: Legal implications of the word "fuck": The Ohio State University's Christopher M Fairman has published a scholarly paper called "Fuck". (boingboing culture law ohio sex social us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-26

• Opinion: Why NSA spying puts the U.S. in danger: Best quote: We have snakes in our midst, yet we are chasing a mythical beast with completely unreliable evidence. (bush congress evil fisa liberty nsa privacy security surveillance terrorism)
• EZTrip.com: discount hotels, motels, hotel reservations, car rentals, airline tickets and vacation packages (airline tool travel)
• FeralChildren.com | Feral children: isolated, confined, wild and wolf children: Feral children, also known as wild children or wolf children, are children who've grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all. They may have been raised by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own. (anthropology culture history reference social weird wolf)
• Sneak Out of Work Right Now - Forbes.com: In order to contemplate and enjoy life as art, people need time to be lazy. (funny productivity rant)
• Sploid: Treasury dept. ends Spanish-American War!: In 1898, under pressure following the sinking of the S.S. Maine, the United States Congress declared war on Spain. Today that war was ended by the Treasury Department, just 108 years later, with the decision that we can finally stop paying for it. (history lawsuit news politics spain tax telephony us war weird)
• Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact specimens of "skeleton people"—skinless, organless humans who populated the Nile delta region an estimated 6,000 years ago. (archeology funny history news science theonion)
• Great Indy 500 Moments | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: 1935: The Borg-Warner Trophy is unveiled; from this year on, souls of the winners are trapped on the sides of the obscenely malevolent chalice for all eternity. (car funny image indiana indianapolis sport theonion us)
• The Smoking Gun: The Lascivious 'Louie Louie': What are the real lyrics to "Louie Louie"? Inquiring assholes want to know. (fbi history music politics rock)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-25

• Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle: Constraint-based Sudoku puzzle solver written in 100 lines of Python. (python sudoku)
• AdSense Expensive Keyword Alert at FreeAlerts.org: There's a big difference between "expensive" and "profitable" keywords. "selling structured settlements" is most expensive, but earns basically nothing (no clicks), while "insurance" is relatively cheap but gets lots of clicks. (google)
• New Scientist Breaking News - Rhythm method criticised as a killer of embryos: “Even a policy of practising condom usage and having an abortion in case of failure would cause less embryonic deaths than the rhythm method,” writes Luc Bovens, of the London School of Economics, in the Journal of Medical Ethics. (abortion biology irony news science sex)
• New Scientist Breaking News - Artificial penis allows rabbits to mate normally: In a “landmark development” researchers have created an “artificial penis” that has allowed rabbits with damaged penises to successfully mate. The urologists say that the procedure might one day help treat men with severe erectile dysfunction. (biology health news penis rabbit science sex weird)
• Japanese Sound effects and what they mean: (boingboing comic japan manga reference writing)
• Sploid: All dressed up and he's got no prom to go to: After years of struggling with his sexual identity, Kevin Logan, 18, finally started going to school in drag. He attended school every day of his senior year dressed like a girl, but was not allowed into the prom wearing a dress. (education gary gay indiana liberty news sploid us)
• Tabblo.beta: Meet the next generation of photosharing online (cool design django photography python social web web2.0)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-24

• The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: LISTENING IN: “What the companies are doing is worse than turning over records. They’re providing [to the NSA] total access to all the data.” (bush evil law liberty news nsa politics privacy security surveillance telephony terrorism us)
• Passengers Bravely Take Down Plane Showing Big Momma's House 2 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: United Airlines Flight 43, which crashed outside Parkersburg, WV last Thursday, was in fact brought down by passengers who voluntarily sacrificed their lives in order to prevent the screening of the in-flight movie selection, Big Momma's House 2. (9/11 airline humor movie news terrorism theonion us westvirginia)
• TMBG ringtone: "Call connected through the NSA": "Call connected through the NSA/Complete transmission through the NSA/Suspending your rights through the duration of the permanent war" (boingboing mp3 music nsa politics tmbg war)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-23

• President Bush Invokes Presidential Super Powers: (audio bush humor mp3 news politics theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-22

• Sushi Otaku: Sushi Tips – How to Eat Sushi (or Expected Etiquette): While there really are no absolute requirements, other than general politeness, there are certain behaviours that may make your dining experience more pleasant, and the staff more attentive and interested in you. (culture food japan sushi)
• YouTube - 10 Things I Hate About Commandments: 10 Commandments vs. teen comedies in general (humor mashup movie religion video)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-11

• FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home: FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. (appliance cifs freebsd ftp nas network nfs php raid samba software)
• New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Pro-life advocates celebrated approval of the new anti-abortion drug UR-86 by the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday, calling it a "safe and effective method" for terminating pregnant women while leaving their unborn children unharmed. (abortion humor news politics theonion us)
• USATODAY.com - NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls: The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. Qwest refused to without a court order. (bush crime database evil fisa impeachment law liberty media nsa politics privacy security surveillance)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-10

• CNN.com - Dobbs to President: Do you take us for fools? - May 10, 2006: Lou Dobbs tears W a new one. (bush evil immigration politics rant us)
• Sploid: Grandpa Bush violated Geronimo's skull: One of the Bush family's most macabre crimes is squirming in the light again, thanks to an 88-year-old letter discovered in the bowels of Yale University. In 1918, Prescott Bush reportedly raided the actual grave of Apache warrior Geronimo. (bush evil history news politics sex sploid us weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-09

• Airline Pilot Central - FedEx arrivals during Thunderstorms: Watch the radar image of over a hunderd FedEx jets landing in Memphis with the approach of a big thunderstorm. They scatter around like roaches. A couple of them look like they have to divert to other airports. (airline funny video)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-05

• YouTube - They are made out of meat: Based on Terry Bisson's short story. (alien humor meat scifi video)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-04

• Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers: What happens when you build a two billion page web site and let search engines crawl it? Surprisingly little. (google science search spam web)
• Wig-Wearing Mike Tyson Retires From Foxy-Boxing | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Mike Tyson, his bikini straps slipping from his shoulders, his makeup running, and his long blonde wig in disarray following a fourth-round knockout, announced Tuesday night that he is retiring from foxy-boxing with a career WFBA record of 1-6. (boxing humor news sports theonion)
• Wired News: Everyone Wants to 'Own' Your PC: Do you own your computer, or does it own you? Perils of DRM and malicious software vendors. (boingboing business drm evil microsoft schneier security web)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-03

• NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Officials at the Kennedy Space Center announced Tuesday that they have set Aug. 6 as the date for launching $700 million from the Denarius IV spacecraft, the largest and most expensive mission to date in NASA's unmanned monetary-ejection program. (humor nasa news space theonion us)
• Illegal Immigrants Returning To Mexico For American Jobs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: As major corporations continue to move their manufacturing operations to Mexico, waves of job-seeking Mexican immigrants to the U.S. have begun making the journey back across the border in search of better-paying Mexican-based American jobs. (humor immigration mexico news theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-02

• Sploid: Happy Birthday, Illuminati!: On May 1, 1776, a Bavarian professor named Johann Adam Weishaupt started an anti-government and anti-religious secret group called the Illuminati. The goal? Wipe out the popes, kings and nations. (evil history illuminati sploid war weird)
• Sploid: Our national anthem: In Spanish since 1919: Senator Lamar Alexander's press release stated "at least 389 different versions of our anthem have been produced over the years ... never before has it been rendered in another language." Except the U.S. Bureau of Education already did it, in 1919. (history immigration mexico news sploid us)
• New Bill Will Send Illegal Immigrants To Iraq: (audio humor immigration iraq mexico mp3 news politics theonion us war)

del.icio.us links for 2006-05-01

• Sploid: Foreclosure nightmare: Rising interest rates, outrageous energy costs and a sputtering housing market are all blamed on a massive 72% increase in home foreclosures compared to the same period last year. (california colorado economics florida georgia indiana nevada news sploid texas us)