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050908
Political Radar: Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too
Think Progress - Rumsfeld blames the generals for poor pre-war planning ("life goes on" except for the dead people)
RedLasso - John Edwards on who he'll Endorse: "I just voted for him on Tuesday"
Matthew Yglesias - Against Unity - Clinton's "street cred" on national security consists, of course, of being massively wrong on the most important national security issue of her career
Snipers in Iraq | Salon News In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?
Barack Obama - Campaign for Democratic Nomination - Esquire - The Cynic and Senator Obama
Calculated Risk: Severely Underwater Vehicles (SUVs)
Mortgage crisis seeps to prime loans - USATODAY.com
Subject to shill: tech books as corporate marketing - The Jem Report
The woman who can remember everything - Telegraph
Cogent Metal - If You Arent Using Firefox Smart Keywords, You Arent Smart (Or A Keyword)
This bud's for you, and you, and you too - Los Angeles Times
Virtual Reality Could Explain the Fermi Paradox Michael Graham Richard
best of craigslist : I hate all of you
The Daily Campus - My Spring Weekend Nightmare
050808
Clinton makes case for wide appeal - USATODAY.com ("I own the white and stupid vote")
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made - TIME (hiring a bunch of stupid white Republican men who didn't know California apportions proportionately)
Obama plans to declare victory May 20 - David Paul Kuhn - Politico.com
Once-secret memos question Clinton's honesty - The Washington Times (fast and loose with the truth)
M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Clinton's Open Letter To Obama On MI and FL - Off The Bus on The Huffington Post
Exit Polls: Limbaugh Effect Seems To Rear Its Head - Politics on The Huffington Post
TAPPED Archive | From the Arizona Republic: In tight Senate votes, McCain not a maverick
John Hagee: deviant theology, dangerous foreign policy (call CNN)
Think Progress Kirchick gets his facts wrong on the reality-based community (Politico hack w/no memory)
George Washington's Blog: Neocons Admit that "War On Terror" Is a Hoax
Support for Clinton Wanes as Obama Sees Finish Line - New York Times
Amid Talk of the End and Boos From the Crowd, Clinton Carries On - New York Times
British Jews: "We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary" citing the dispossession of 70,000 Palestinians.
Israeli battles rage on Wikipedia - Telegraph
Dissent Magazine - 1968: Lessons Learned
Crooks and Liars FOX News Fred Barnes: Working Class = Lower Class (true colors dept)
Calculated Risk: Weekly Unemployment Claims: Continuing Claims at 3 Million
Stages of Thought (Martha C. Nussbaum on philosophers on Shakespeare)
Astronomers Discover Missing Mass | Popular Science
Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Enigmatic Earth Pattern Pictures, Enigmatic Earth Pattern Photos, Photo Gallery, Picture Gallery, Desktop Wallpaper National Geographic
Amazing pictures: The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano | the Daily Mail
chris woebken - a new relationship to e-money
Hive Five: Best Online File Sharing Services
Filemail.com - Sending large files has never been easier!
Jack Chick: Dark Dungeons | Moving On Up! (classic Jack Chick on D&D and Evolution: mind of a fundamentalist)
Styles for 'http://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=cm#inbox' | userstyles.org
Beyond Rape: A Survivor's Journey from The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Exclusive Lifehacker Download: Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extension for New Gmail
050708
Think Progress Gore: It Is Obscene That Bush Has Dismissed George Washingtons 200-Plus Year Prohibition On Torture
Open Left:: Why End The Great Lie Now?
Primary and Caucus Results - Election Guide 2008 - Percent of Vote - The New York Times
Obama Wins North Carolina, Clinton Scrapes By in Indiana - WSJ.com
Clinton to Fight On Despite Split Result - New York Times ("It's full speed to the White House")
Pundits Declare the Race Over - New York Times
The Mental Masturbator Blog Archive George McGovern Urges Clinton to Drop Out
The Raw Story | Kerry: Limbaugh's 'tampering' gave Clinton Indiana victory
TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters (It's all about white people)
GOP leaders warn of election disaster - John Bresnahan - Politico.com
Fed Seeks Approval to Pay Interest to Banks - WSJ.com
Politics - California may run out of cash by August - sacbee.com
A scary thought: Gasoline at $7.50 a gallon - Top Stocks
Irvine Housing Blog - The Ultimate Post
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Death of the SUV
March pending sales down 20% over year ago | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/07/2008
When Genes Go Retro - Olivia Judson - Evolution - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times
Jewish Currents: Resisting Authority: A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments
Gmail Redesigned (by Globex Designs) | userstyles.org
'Sexy' voice gives fertile women away - being-human - 01 May 2008 - New Scientist
ABC News: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples
Boston.com - Ideas - Globe
050608
FBI Searches Office of Special Counsel Building : NPR: Scott Bloch's home searched
TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Scott Bloch: has been under investigation since 2005 for a variety of infractions (and erasing hard drives)
Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.com Meanwhile, in his spare time... ...Obama seems to have brought peace to the Niger Delta. No joke.
Talking Points Memo | 'Torture memo' author, former attorney general, to testify ("Torture" Yoo)
Democrats Prepare Sell-Out on Telecom Immunity: House Leaders to Give White House a Blank Check to Spy on Americans
Presidential Politics in the YouTube Era | Political Lore .com
CCTV boom has not cut crime, says police chief - Times Online (Billions of Euros, millions of camera, FAIL)
Obama accuses Clinton of using the language of Bush on Iran | World news | The Guardian
Lance Mannion: Sex and the single-minded journalists (the kool kids)
Doubts Raised on Big Backers of Mortgages - New York Times
A Dead Man's Eyes Hold the Key to His Age | Biotechnology | DISCOVER Magazine
The day the music died [dive into mark] (Microsoft screws you again)
Microsoft DRM: An Open Letter | Electronic Frontier Foundation
050508
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Economists Criticize Clinton, McCain Gas-Tax Plans (Hilliary says she doesn't believe in economics)
JAZZ from HELL: Matt Taibbi questions America's sanity The Great Derangement
Matthew Yglesias (May 04, 2008) - Fair and Balanced (NYT does it again)
Matthew Yglesias (May 05, 2008) - Outback Strikes Back (NYT does anthropology in the suburbs)
Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks - Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you
Fiscal Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early (lawn order bankrupting States)
Journalist released from Guantanamo details abuse (torture)
Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option - Politics on The Huffington Post
Clinton Campaign Disses Millions of Democratic Voters - David Corn real people
Think Progress Bolton: Striking Iran Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do
Arianna Huffington: What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen - Politics on The Huffington Post
3quarksdaily - Below the Fold: Deep States and the American Coup (Cheney, Rumsfeld)
Deep State Coup Averted in Turkey - by Christopher Deliso
Hard numbers: The economy is worse than you know - St. Petersburg Times
The Big Picture | Oil > $120
BofA may renegotiate Countrywide deal price: Friedman | Reuters (so surprised)
Credit crisis shows that banks need wise men not wide boys - Telegraph
Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All - New York Times
Blackwell Synergy - Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviour, Parental Reputation and Strategic Transfers
Wastewater Helps American Drought Fight, Anthrax - waterCAMPWS - TiON - Popular Mechanics
Digital Television Transition Funding - Do Americans Have a Right to TV? - Legislation vs. Literacy - Popular Mechanics (more for TV converters than literacy in America)
Dual n-task - dual-n-task.com - IQ boost
Men 'not interested in sex' - Telegraph
Top 10 Myths About the Romans - The List Universe
050408
BREAKING NEWS 8:50 a.m. - Obama wins Guam caucus | guampdn.com | Pacific Daily News
Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead - Politics on The Huffington Post
Why Oprah Winfrey Left Rev. Wright's Church | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com
Sunset in America The end of the age of Reagan
The dictators are back ... and we dont care - Times Online
Seven Oaks Magazine - American fundamentals
How Much Did Rumsfeld Know? - TIME (rendite him)
Review - Moral Value and Human Diversity
Review - Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis by Paula Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove
Review - The Body Has a Mind of Its Own How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
When Language Can Hold the Answer - New York Times
gladwell dot com - big and bad How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety.
Men and their mothers. What's it all about? - Times Online
Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?: Scientific American
China province records 622 new cases of virus - swissinfo
BusterB: Women to Avoid II
Literotica - 100% free sex stories, erotic audio, adult fiction with wifeslut, bdsm, etc!
050308
Air raid hits Baghdad hospital, US says 14 fighters dead - Yahoo! News (back to North Vietnam)
Bush admits he approved torture By HELEN THOMAS
Talking Points Memo | More on the Bucks for McCain's War Presence (Iraq: Republican stealth plan to wreck Social Security)
Dave Lindorff: The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment | BuzzFlash.org (Paraquay!)
Hillary Clinton, fairy princess. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
cab drollery: Ignorance Is No Excuse: David Ignatius, serial idiot
Fred Hiatt on the noble glories of occupation - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (invade ... Somalia!)
Media Matters - The news media are so far in the tank for John McCain
Wright's theology not "new or radical" | Salon Wright's theology not "new or radical" (only to white people)
Flickr Photo Download: niceadd (Hilliary "Annie Oakley" Clinton attacks Obama on guns)
Bush: We've Been "Clear And Candid" On Economy (and it's in great shape!)
YouTube - The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Berkshire net income falls 64 percent because of derivatives - washingtonpost.com
Fact-esque: UAW Strikes When Owner Breaks Promises - If a profitable company refuses to maintain their wages, the workers ask, who will?
Be very afraid: Zoe Williams on the possibility of Boris Johnson as mayor of London | Politics | The Guardian
New Statesman - Disfigured by class - BoJo
Boris is GEIL | MetaFilter
TED | Talks | Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider (video)
IBM: Many Eyes: data visualizations
Blobs Inside Earth Like Peanut Butter | LiveScience
Ape Genius reveals depth of animal intelligence - Telegraph
The unkindest cut | Salon Life | the sad tale of how one foreskin tore a family apart
The World's Dirtiest Cities - Forbes.com
Top 100 Films
Things I have learned in my life so far
Common drugs hasten decline in elderly: study | Industries | Healthcare | Reuters
Why Do Cats Hang Around Us? (Hint: They Can't Open Cans) (humans: domesticated can-openers)
050208
Andrew Cockburn: Secret Bush "Finding" Widens Covert War on Iran Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops
Think Progress: Washington Post Editorial Board Attempts To Erase Its Pre-War Rush To Invasion (Fred Hiatt erases bloody history)
Arrest Bush - Yahoo! News
Clinton May Be Hopeful, but Obama Rolls On - New York Times
Brown Alumni Magazine - The Tax Cut That Neutered Congress
The Big Picture | Inflation Index Bonds Now Paying 0%
China builds its large-scale future - International Herald Tribune (Bush: Mongolian candidate)
Clinton presses congressional Dems on gas-tax holiday - The Carpetbagger Report - "oil companies may end up the biggest beneficiaries, while the aid to families wouldnt be enough to buy a $35 backpack" (she hates "experts")

Linens 'N Things Files For Bankruptcy - New York Times
Baseball star Canseco loses home to foreclosure | Sports | Reuters
Regulators zero in on credit card reform - May. 2, 2008
Bloomberg.com: U.S. Bank of America May Not Guarantee Countrywide's Debt (there's bankruptcy for you, and "bankruptcy" for them)
One Guy Who Has Seen It All Doesn't Like What He Sees Now - WSJ.com
American media | On the brink | Economist.com Venerable newspapers face extinction
Club-drug cures depression (Ketamine)
Cannibalism Normal For Early Humans?
Universities Baffled By Massive Surge In RIAA Copyright Notices | Threat Level from Wired.com
IoP: news: Virtual reality tube ride reveals extent of public paranoia - suspicious or paranoid thoughts are much more common in the general population than was previously thought
Protecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches While Traveling | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 3 FAQ
Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software: Can There be a Viable Free Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab?
Click opera - Lost ways of looking at looking
050108
CNN Political Ticker: Poll: Bush most unpopular in modern history
BBC NEWS | Africa | Air raid kills Somali militants (bomb, bomb Somalia!)
Bloomberg Slams Clinton, McCain Gas Tax Plan - Politics on The Huffington Post ("dumb idea")
Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized - washingtonpost.com (what do you expect from a Republican?)
The State of Our Economic System; Us vs Them American Everyman (Hilliary on Bill-O: she deserves to be rich)
Goldberg's Non Mea Culpa - The Washington Independent - paid for being tragically wrong
McCain Making Promises That Would Cost Taxpayers Billions - Politics on The Huffington Post (no taxes for anybody!)
on Flickr - Helen Thomas gets flowers from the Internets!
Think Progress - OReilly: We Didnt Invade Iraq (o'rly)
Daily Show on GAO Critique of Bush Anti-Terror War: "We Could Have Gotten Here By Doing Nothing." - The Washington Note
Economist's View: "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class" Elizabeth Warren:
Thinking of Trading-in that SUV for a Fuel Efficient Sedan? Good Luck! | Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility
separated by a common language: social classes
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection - washingtonpost.com - "suggestion of some protective effect"
BBC NEWS | Europe | Lesbos islanders dispute gay name
043008
Fast and Loose With the Facts - The Washington Independent - How Two Leading Journalists Played the Public to Help Bush Sell His War (Jeffrey Goldberg and Stephen F Hayes: blood on their hands)
"Goldberg's War" by Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
This Modern World: More Goldbergian Goodness: 2002: "In five years, however, I believe that the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality"
Brian Williams' "response" to the military analyst story - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Brian Williams' "response" to the military analyst story
Video: Mighty Tim Russert Wields His Clout
Facing South: D.C. nonprofit aimed at women voters behind deceptive N.C. robo-calls (how low will she go?)
U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 | The New York Sun
An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails (but always lies)
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (your government has been lying you into war for a long time)
ANALYSIS-Bush drilling plan wouldn't have eased pump prices | Markets | Reuters Analysis - Bush drilling plan wouldn't have eased pump prices (we're so surprised)
Crude jolt for US as Iran scraps oil trade in dollar- Indicators-Economy-News-The Economic Times (take that, Georgie)
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide More Subprime, Alt-A Mortgages May Head `Underwater'
Irvine Housing Blog: Craving: "They put in $15,600 and took out $599,800"
Isuma TV: indigenous filmmakers
Birds: Are you looking at me?
Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy (4/30/2008)
Hey Jude | MetaFilter
China Matters: The F117A Swan Song, the Fall of the Belgrade Embassy...and China Rising
Foodsel - Over 7,500 foods registered
Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (resistance, capacitance, inductance, memresistance)
042908
John McCain gets tax-free disability pension - Los Angeles Times (100% disabled, but we knew that)
West Wing: Obama the Inevitable - Spiegel Online - The issue of race has emerged as the key Democratic divide in this year's primary season
Brian Williams nominates Peggy Noonan for a Pulitzer Prize - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (9 days of silence from NBC on plantgate)
Daily Kos: Nine Days of Silence from the Willing Accomplices - A hundred years of scrubbing will not remove the blood from their hands
Political Radar: Clinton Makes Rocky Balboa Look like a Pansy?
Talking Points Memo | Hook, Line & Sinker: AP has fallen for the McCain campaign's and the RNC's effort to prevent anyone from using McCain's own words against him
Buffett: Economy in a recession, will be worse than feared - USATODAY.com
Fed's Bailout Is Questioned by Ex-Staffer - WSJ.com - "worst policy mistake in a generation"
Bank bail-outs to be kept secret | This is Money
A faster, cheaper way to catch criminals - Science- msnbc.com (antibody barcode)
Charting the Uncanny Valley | MetaFilter
The Uncanny Valley of the Pussycat Dolls | culturekitchen
Security Beat - Science Fiction Mavens Offer Far Out Homeland Security Advice (Larry Niven is insane)
Dartmouth News - Researcher finds symbolic overtones in the names of cancer medicines - 04/25/08
Microsoft releases the long-anticipated Windows XP SP3
042808
Pentagon Suspends Military Media Analysts Program - Media on The Huffington Post
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Howard Kurtz on why media outlets ignore the "military analyst" story (makes them look bad)
Campaign Journal: Bill Vs. Barack: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker - most of all, Bill Clinton talked about Bill Clinton (Mr. Me)
Supreme Court upholds Indiana voter ID law | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star
Wait for the First Lady to Cuss First | MetaFilter
House Democrats Look To Fund War Through 2009 - CommonDreams.org
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide: Wolfensohn `Pessimistic' as Financial Losses Rise (1 Trillion dollars, baby)
The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros - The New York Review of Books
Lee County, Fla., Suffers Foreclosure Glut : NPR
Why Not the Gold Standard?
Skeptico: Whats Ben Stein Smoking?
Josef Fritzl admits abduction and fathering daughter's children | World news | guardian.co.uk
Jesus Made Me Puke : Rolling Stone Matt Taibbi Undercover with the Christian Right
Dinosaurs Probably Lacked Tissue To Generate Heat
Curious Expeditions Blog Archive Living Lights: A Glowing Compendium
Zzz Animals | first Street - These puppies and kittens are so life-like they actually "breathe" (decorate your house with fake sleeping pets)
042708
Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of storm | Reuters
Rearming the world - The Boston Globe - Why nations are suddenly locked in an arms race unseen since the early days of the Cold War
Greenspan, Bush to blame for U.S. crisis: Stiglitz | U.S. | Reuters (doesn't take a Nobel economist ...)
Senate passes bill barring genetic discrimination
Bowling 1, Health Care 0 - New York Times By Elizabeth Edwards
PoliticalCartoons.com - Hillary Is Really Winning
Hillary Strangelove - The Boston Globe (she's an experienced foreign-policy expert)
Talking To Hamas (Instead of Killing People) Makes You a Bigot (Israel: Carter, for talking to Hamas)
Israeli ex-soldiers expose abuse of Palestinians | csmonitor.com
Pam's House Blend:: FL - It's Not Called the Hate Amendment for Nothing (Florida: Gays=slave owners)

The Next Slum?
Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect Did Robert Rubin Jeopardize Financial Stability to Protect Goldman Sachs?

Give me the lesson without the spin - Los Angeles Times - A high school student finds conservative bias in his American government textbook (by the office of faith-based politics)
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody (Two hundred billion hours wasted every year watching TV)
Youre an Author? Me Too! - Essay - Book Review - New York Times (more authors, less readers)
Cognitive-emotional interactions: Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation | MettaFilter | MetaFilter
Genetic Future: The human genome is old news. Next stop: the human proteome
TIPA | Technical Image Press Association | Awards 2008
Hackers Focus Efforts on Firefox, Safari - washingtonpost.com
Liliputing: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
reddit.com: File Sharing Site Offers 250GB Storage Free to Reddit Users (digg, delicious, or just a referrer)

042608
Bill Moyers Journal | PBS - Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Obama Seeks Private Funding - WSJ.com
Party Fears Racial Divide - washingtonpost.com
Annals of Surveillance: State Secrets: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker A government misstep in a wiretapping case.
NSA-Spied-On Lawyers Get Day in Court and New Yorker Profile | Threat Level from Wired.com
Threat Level - Wired Blogs - Which Gov Agency Should Be Your Computer's Firewall?
Media Matters by Jamison Foser: The media render the RNC obsolete
Citizen-journalism's rulebook | Comment is free
Think Progress: Zirkle rails against the great porn dragon and its influence over Jews (wingNUT)
Hillary Clinton Supporters -- The Global Warming Deniers of Democratic Politics? - Yahoo! News
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats - New York Times (onward Christian soldiers)
TPMMuckraker | GOP Still Pushing Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
Media Matters - NewsBusters attacked Pelosi as "more of a shallow politician than a devout Christian" for calling the Dalai Lama "His Holiness" -- as Bush has repeatedly done (in-fucking-sane right wingnuts)
If Clinton Wins, Its Payback Time! | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008

Gas May Finally Cost Too Much
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke | AlterNet
Unpaid utility bills soar as economy sags - USATODAY.com
How long will women shoulder the blame for the pay gap? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
When $100,000 makes you Go Broke: The Invisible Hand Forces Americans Into Debt
Make Your Nut Blog Archive How to Lawfully Reset Your Credit History

Review - On Desire - Philosophy Why We Want What We Want by William B. Irvine
Review - The Meaning of Others
Sacre Bruni! | The New York Observer | Gorgeous, Stylish, Occasionally Nude Does Mrs. Sarkozy Matter?
Experts say US sex abstinence program doesn't work | Reuters
Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?
Pitfalls in paradise: why Palm Jumeirah is struggling to live up to the hype | Travel | The Guardian
BBC NEWS | Technology | Hackers warn high street chains
50 best cult books - Telegraph
Chemotherapy alternative will target only cancer cells - Telegraph
TypeRacer (typing speedracer)

Comments on 14034 | Ask Metafilter My question is what major epiphany have you had most recently and how has it changed your life?
Comments on 13232 | Ask Metafilter Besides the standard answers (births, graduations, weddings, etc.), can you pinpoint a happiest single moment of your life? What was it?
Comments on 14668 | Ask Metafilter Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today?

042508
Joint Chiefs Chairman Says U.S. Preparing Military Options Against Iran - washingtonpost.com (November 3)
Think Progress
Clinton says she leads in popular vote - CNN.com (big fat liar)
Wonder Land - WSJ.com - The Democrats Have a Nominee (and it ain't Hilliary)
Clinton debt larger than (she) reported
Repetitions - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist (Joe Klein)
Firedoglake Peggy Noonan Wonders If Obama Loves America, Has Ever Cried Thinking About Henry Ford
Think Progress: Matthews: Whites are willing to support Obama in the same way they root for black athletes (racist, classist, elitist fuck)
Bad Company | MetaFilter (CIA)
Calculated Risk: Genworth: Hoocoodanode? nobody ever would have predicted the extent of the home price downgrade in those markets
Business - Home builder Reynen files for personal bankruptcy protection - sacbee.com (assets: 50mil debts: 1 bil - Rethug bankruptcy bill hits the superrich)
Many states appear to be in recession as deficits grow: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
charles hugh smith-Want to Know When Housing Has Bottomed? Here's How
Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him - Yahoo! News
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - The Reality of Depending on (1000) True Fans
SurvivingInfidelity.com - Support for those affected by Infidelity
Pulp Shakespeare | MetaFilter (another classic Mefi thread)
Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds - New York Times
"Feathered" Fossil Bolsters Changing Image of Dinosaurs
Exotic Quantum State Of Matter Discovered
Pasta: text pasting service for del.icio.us (or just use to preview/test HTML)
@mateurdart
042408
The Raw Story | CIA admits they will continue rendition program, which allows torture overseas
Crooks and Liars Helen Thomas Confronts Perino On Torture; Perino Denies and Lies
Dan Froomkin - Duped About Torture - washingtonpost.com
Think Progress Thomas Breaks Presss 14 Day Silence On Bushs Torture Approval, Chides Colleagues: Where Is Everybody?
TPMMuckraker | Today's Must Read CIA has replied that it has 7,000 responsive documents that it won't be turning over
The Crypt's Blog - Politico.com House Republicans face tough sell on FISA petition (Repubs concern-trolling bluedog Dems)
Continuing Battle Divides Democrats - washingtonpost.com
For Obama, a Struggle to Win Over Key Blocs - New York Times
Lehman warns that oil boom will deflate - Telegraph
New-Home Sales Plunged 8.5% During March - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com New-Home Sales Tumbled To a 16-Year Low in March
Sam's Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise - Yahoo! News
Brewer must stop using 'Legal Weed' bottle caps
FBI Fears Chinese Hackers Have Back Door Into US Government & Military, page 1
R.O.I. - WSJ.com I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity | Tech news blog - CNET News.com (more wiretaps on you)
It's Just a Plant
nuclear_full.png (nuclear explosions since 1945)
Simple 'superlens' sharpens focusing power - tech - 24 April 2008 - New Scientist Tech
Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Human line 'nearly split in two'
042308
The Raw Story | Siegelman: Rove 'hijacked' the Dept. of Justice to win elections
Media Matters - Michelle Malkin and the warbloggers get everything wrong -- again
Calculated Risk: Credit Suisse Forecast: 6.5 million Foreclosures by 2012 ("could put 12.7 percent of all residential borrowers out of their homes") (the great unraveling unravels some more)
Health insurance: the unraveling continues - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
Bloomberg.com: Bondholders Lucky to Get 10 Cents in Looming Defaults
Commercial Banks Heading for Huge Derivatives Losses- Credit Crisis Turning into Credit Armageddon :: The Market Oracle
How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine (don't wear shoes)
Searchme Visual Search - Beta - rev. 1.3 (try this)
042208
TPM Election Central | In Final Zogby Tracking Poll, Hillary Leads By 10 In Pennsylvania
USATODAY.com Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years
Bitter Patter: Comment: The New Yorker
Matthew Yglesias (April 22, 2008) - The Blind Praising the Blind (Media)
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow joins CNN (barf)
Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned - washingtonpost.com
ABC News: The Pentagon's Propaganda Machine? Increasingly the Pentagon Channel Is Used To Disseminate Official Information Without Press Interferenc
Obama on The Daily Show | Primetime Politics
Biomaterial charges against N.Y. art professor dismissed - New York Times
What Ails the American Economy? Everything, Says Kevin Phillips in Bad Money - New York Times
Calculated Risk: March Existing Home Sales
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/22/2008 | For first time in years, gasoline consumption is dropping
MyProps.org - Wall Street Unspun with Peter Schiff (internet radio show) - April 16, 2008 recording: "You could theoretically run the entire world's economy on one ounce of gold if there was only one ounce" - Housing Bubble and Bear Links
Calculated Risk: DataQuick: California Foreclosure Activity Up Sharply in Q1
Breaking The Silence - Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories
Exposed: the great GM crops myth - Green Living, Environment - The Independent
Cholera Epidemic in New York City in 1832 - New York Times
Strange Things Happen at Full Moon | LiveScience
TOXIC - Garbage Island - Part1of12 - VBS.TV
042108
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Carter: Hamas will accept Israel (call Abe Foxman)
Voices in Her Head: Inside Hillaryland's fatal psychodrama
Talking Points Memo | New Hillary Ad Shows Bin Laden, Asks: "Who Do You Think Has What It Takes?"
Firedoglake The Official FDL Election Season Guide to the Left-Wing Traitorsphere
Attackerman - Commentary of Spencer Ackerman
Whiskey Fire: I Can't Tell You Anything You Don't Already Know
TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | George Will Moves to the Left of the Democrats
Torture victim's records lost at Guantnamo, admits camp general | The Guardian | " mysteriously lost by the US military"
Video: The Fox Is Wrong! (Obama version)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saudi women 'kept in childhood'
Concerns rising that Fannie and Freddie could need bailout - Apr. 21, 2008 - The trillion-dollar mortgage time bomb
Calculated Risk: Grubb & Ellis expects large increase in Office Vacancy Rate
Home Prices Drop Most in Areas with Long Commute : NPR
Citigroup Launches $6 Billion Preferred Share Sale: IFR - New York Times
Google Video Gets a Makeover NewTeeVee
The Raw Story | Ben Stein shows he's no Michael Moore
Superconductor breakthroughs abound: some like it hot
You Can't Travel Back in Time, Scientists Say | LiveScience
The Color of Plants on Other Worlds: Scientific American
Brain tumour causes uncontrollable paedophilia - 21 October 2002 - New Scientist
Scientists: Even Bigger Quake Could Hit Midwest | LiveScience
041908
FT.com / In depth - Clinton finds an ally in McCain
Still with stupid? - Los Angeles Times - Why wouldn't we want an intellectual to be our president?
Urban Perspectives: Why phenomenon Obama just might take Penna. | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/20/2008
Talking to ourselves - Los Angeles Times Americans are increasingly close-minded and unwilling to listen to opposing views (and really, really dumb)
Major revelation: U.S. media deceitfully disseminates government propaganda - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
BBC News Player - BH pays tribute to Rumsfeld (10 years of classic Don Rumsfeld)
Average Joe still can't afford a home - MSN Money
Indian Stock Market: What is keeping commodity prices high in a recessionary economy
Bananas United Fruit | Salon Books Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.
The Green Issue - Climate Change - Environment - Energy Efficiency - Consumption - New York Times
ISPs' Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web, Researcher Discloses | Threat Level from Wired.com (earthlink fucks up the Internet)
BBC Documentary Program Sex In Japan - more than 30% of Japanese high school girls are involved in enjo kosai compensated dating or prostitution
Infected with Insanity: Could Microbes Cause Mental Illness?: Scientific American
Expelled Exposed (this is turning out to be a really good career move for Ben Stein)
Reason Magazine - Flunk This Movie!
041808
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden Hand - New York Times
New Statesman - How the rich starved the world
TPM Election Central | Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats (because, you know, she didn't bother to campaign)
The Pennsylvania Democratic debate in 1 minute - 236 - News
Heart on Your Sleeve? So Over. Try Patriotism on the Lapel. - New York Times
Ken Pollack: Al Qaeda is a great "catch-all" term - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (stupid war-fucks)
Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army - Middle East, World - The Independent
A New Kurnaz Case?: German Held in US Custody in Kabul - International - Spiegel Online (for buying an electric shaver)
WREG-TV Memphis - Law Enforcement Crackdown on Terrorists - 1,292 traffic violations were handed out (we need a war on stupidity)
Hullabaloo: A Mystery Solved, Another Concern, And An Open Letter To Juan Cole (Phillip Bobbitt: todays Islamic terrorist network, which he calls Al Qaeda for short)
YouTube - How Hillary Can Still Win
Oil hits new record $117 a barrel | Markets | Hot Stocks | Reuters
Stern warns that climate change is far worse than 2006 estimate - The Independent
Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary - New York Times One of the sleaziest documentaries to arrive in a very long time, Expelled (Ben Stein!)
EurasiaNet Civil Society - Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development
Interactive: audio tour of Paris 1968 | World news | guardian.co.uk
YouTube - Discovery Channel: I Love the World
glumbert - How to talk to black people
041708
Open Left:: Bush Equals All-Time Disapproval Record (MSM issues nightly calls for his resignation)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com David Brooks' fictitious defense of his industry's behavior
Crooks and Liars Jon Stewart Eviscerates ABCs Hacktacular Debate
Poll: Obama Pulling Away | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | A new Newsweek poll shows Obama pulling away.
ABC gets an earful after debate | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/18/2008 ("ABC was unapologetic")
ABCDenial
EzraKlein: Assignment Desk Meets Chart Of The Day: What'S The Middle Class? (Charlie Gibson!)
Clinton's Odds: Time And Delegate Math Not In Her Favor - Politics on The Huffington Post (swift-boat Hilliary)
Matthew Yglesias - After War "Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan 300,000 in all report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression"
Think Progress After Sparing Aid To Israel, Will McCain Also Make Exceptions For Military Housing? (no)
Calculated Risk: California Unemployment Increases Sharply
Public's View of Economy Takes Fast Turn Downward - washingtonpost.com (90% say it sucks)
Bloomberg.com: Exclusive Newfoundland Gets Off Canada's Dole as Williams Takes on Exxon
MyProps.org - The ratio of the Dow Jones to Gold price is the same now as 1928 (chart) - Housing Bubble and Bear Links
'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed' (Ben Stein monkeys with evolution) -- chicagotribune.com (Ben Stein super-hit)
'Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed' by RichardDawkins.net - RichardDawkins.net (Ben Stein teaches the controversy - stork theory surpressed by liberal "scientists")
Dark matter may have been found on Earth - space - 17 April 2008 - New Scientist Space
YouTube - Scientology Cancels XENU TV's YouTube Account
village voice > news > Scientology's First Celebrity Defector Reveals Church Secrets by Tony Ortega
Prince of Wales's guide to alternative medicine inaccurate - Times Online
The Raw Story | Congressman introduces bill to decriminalize personal marijuana use
Mad Science: Double Your Lifespan with a Drug that Mutates Your Ribosomes
Scientists Find Blueberries Reverse Age Related Memory Deficits
041708
The Raw Story | Stewart: Despite denials, Bush aides actively managed harsh interrogations (send Condi to the Hague)
In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com = The harmony between the Right and the media
Clinton-Obama Debate: ABC Decides Top Issues Facing Americans Are Gaffes, Flag Pins and '60s Radicals
Hannity Spoonfed Left-Field Debate Question To Stephanopoulos - Politics on The Huffington Post
Gibson, Stephanapoulos outrage! | Philadelphia Daily News | 04/16/2008
An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos | Philadelphia Daily News | 04/16/2008
ABC News: Clinton, Obama Find 'Brotherly Love' at Philly Debate (abcnews: comment section: 4,000 negative comments)
The Dems Play Trivial Pursuit - TIME
YouTube - TPMtv: Wall to Wall Ugly
Matthew Yglesias (April 17, 2008) - The School of Thousands Dead (McCain: it's all academic)

1 in 33 Homeowners Projected To Be In Foreclosure Within The Next Two Years
Bloomberg.com: Economy U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rise 17,000 to 372,000
Bloomberg.com: Exclusive Vacant Homes in U.K. Prove Speculator Nightmare as Losses Mount

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | elusis: The whole invisible (something) category
Why does everything suck?: The Stats Are In. YouTube Really Is A Turd
BBC NEWS | Technology | Innocent photographer or terrorist?
Forbidden Fruit, page 1 - News - Phoenix New Times - Phoenix New Times Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
jcoles weblog: Jeremy Coles take on life. Blog Archive Just announced: MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest - Yahoo! News
Neanderthals speak again after 30,000 years - Yahoo! News
Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...: Scientific American
Researchers stumped by drug addiction paradox
Lumiere-Technology - RGB - GIS - Multispectral Digitization of Mona Lisa
Stephen Jay Gould, The Median Is Not The Message (article: cancer survival)
The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?, Inventor Tells 60 Minutes He Hopes To Live Long Enough To See Machine Cure Humans - CBS News
Cancer Therapy Without Side Effects Nearing Trials
9 Great Historically Accurate Medieval Movies - The List Universe
A Guide To Armageddon | MetaFilter
Dr. Dobb's | CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 1 | April 15, 2008
[www@cb.vu]~> | Unix Toolbox
YouTube Video Download Tool
.:shadowfire - Warholizer (upload your photo)
041608
McCain Campaign Finance Violations Go to the FEC - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics
village voice > news > The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere by Roy Edroso
The President, the Pope and the Media - Swampland - TIME
Bitter Voters For Barack Obama
Devastating Clinton Video Hits YouTube
Condoleezza Rice Must GO
Euro hits new all-time high of $1.5968 after soft US economic data | Thomson FX Hub Forex News (dollar tanks)
Big Tax Breaks for Businesses in Housing Bill - New York Times (save the mortgage companies! save the banks! save the airlines! save Detroit! screw the people!)
reportonbusiness.com: In a bid to stem panic, grain exports halted (another great Republican idea)
Texas on the Brink (how Bush and the Republicans fucked up Texas)
Top hedge fund earner took home $3.7B in 2007 - Alpha - Apr. 16, 2008 (paid no taxes)
Mexico Drug War Causes Wild West Blood Bath - New York Times (war on drugz)
A New Reason to Frown | Newsweek Health | Does Botox get into the brain? Troubling research contradicts earlier findings about the treatment
Frontline: sick around the world | PBS (the great American health-care system)
Scientists reconstruct the Pioneer spacecraft anomaly: Scientific American
BBC NEWS | Health | Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk' (Catholic Churh wrong all these centuries)
Why do we focus on the least important causes of cancer? - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine
Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can't publish them - Boing Boing
Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsofts kings of bloat | InfoWorld | Review | 2008-04-14 | By Randall C. Kennedy
World-first discovery could help treat life-threatening tumors
041508
Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House | Philadelphia Daily News | 04/14/2008 (Hilliary?)
ABC News: Bush Beats Truman Record for Boos (worst President ever)
Has Hillary Clinton's Campaign Caused a Feminist Reawakening? -- New York Magazine
Bulging prisons drain Michigan's budget (20% of State budget for prisons - them get-tough Repubs)
For Obama and McCain, the Bitter and the Sweet
In Searching for New Job, Gonzales Sees No Takers - New York Times
How Republicans Quietly Hijacked the Justice Department to Swing Elections | Democracy and Elections | AlterNet
Media Matters - On MSNBC, Brzezinski and Novotny falsely asserted McCain's gas tax plan would eliminate "20 percent of the cost" (actually, 5.4%, stupids)
West Wing: The Madness of Ben Bernanke - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Why the next mortgage crisis may be worse. - By Mark Gimein - Slate Magazine
Foreign Policy: Greenspans Follies
Bloomberg.com: Swaps Tied to Losses Became `Frankenstein's Monster (Greenspan, again)
MyrtleBeachOnline.com | 04/14/2008 | Brazil oil field could be huge find
Neatorama Blog Archive The Stupidest Business Decisions in History
041408
Chris Floyd Online - Too Much of Nothing: Crime Without Punishment, War Without End
The Colored Newseum Unqualified Offerings (Jeff Jarvis, original echo-chamber boy)
Matthew Yglesias (April 14, 2008) - Foreign Legions (Michael O'Hanlon, always wrong)
J Street Rahm Emmanuel: on those lazy Iraqis: no "skin in the game" (dead skin doesn't count for Rahm-bo)
Obama Gets Honest About Small Town America's Decay, Elitists Lash out | Election 2008 | AlterNet (and "Hillary takes the low road" as usual)
Lying Is OK, Truth is Verboten in Presidential Campaign | The Progressive
Political Punch: Gun Control Advocates Call Clinton a Hypocrite (so does everybody else)
Firedoglake DNC Files Lawsuit About Campaign Finance Weasel John McCain
Tim Russert Nails Hillary Clinton Over Bosnia Trip Falsehoods - Politics on The Huffington Post
Bush Security Adviser Stephen Hadley Can't Tell The Difference Between Nepal And Tibet - Politics on The Huffington Post (stupid Bushie)
Media Matters - AP scrubbed Hadley's reportedly mistaken reference to "Nepal" (and look at Stephiepoopolus swallowing)
Behind Air Chaos, an F.A.A. Pendulum Swing - New York Times (Bushies threatened the inspectors)
Responsibility for the last seven years - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Megan McArdle, "dark rooms" "hidden laws" "whipping out the toolbox" and torture)
Chycho.com - The United States is torturing children and then falsifying evidence against them: Update on Omar Khadr and Afghanistan
Pensito Review Its Official: Media Are Ignoring Cheneys Unconstitutional Drafting of Torture Guidelines
AP Chairman Refers to "Obama bin Laden" -- In Posing Question to Barack Obama (they really are stupid)
GOP House Member calls Obama "boy." That's southern for n-gger.
Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis - New York Times (but, but what about our SUVs?)
BBC NEWS | Business | World Bank tackles food emergency
Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe - New York Times
U.S. Economy Hasn't Hit Bottom, Survey Says - WSJ.com
Credit Crunch - Reserves go Negative | Markets and Economy
MyProps.org - April 20, 2007: Treasury Secretary Paulson: "The housing market is at or near the bottom. The U.S. economy is very healthy and robust. Subprime mortgage market won't impose a serious problem." - Housing Bubble and Bear Links
MyProps.org - "Superstar" hedge fund manager David Tepper lost over $1 Billion for his investors in the last quarter - I thought these funds were supposed to "hedge" against a bear market? - Housing Bubble and Bear Links
Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests'| News | This is London
The incredible shrinking city - Apr. 14, 2008 (Youngstown OH - converting cities for farmland)
28 Days Later...more stem cells! | MetaFilter
John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term Black Hole, Is Dead at 96 - New York Times
Forecast: Big Quake Likely in Calif. - The Huffington Post
041308
Tony Judt: What Have We Learned, If Anything? - The New York Review of Books
It's Obama, stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton bid - Scotsman.com News
Millionaires-in-Chief - Obama's money (5) - Money Magazine (poorest of the candidates, Hilliary richest)
Bill Clinton, China linked via his foundation - Los Angeles Times (Mr Sleezy)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
The Impolitic: It's not over for the Winter Soldiers
Think Progress Blog Archive I dont even know who Petraeus and Crocker are (MSM shocked Iraqi's aren't watching American TV)
Bill Clinton Flashback: "All These Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared To Death" - Politics on The Huffington Post
Group of Seven wants to buy time for dollar without intervening - MarketWatch
U.S. lenders freeze home equity credit lines - International Herald Tribune
cryptogon.com Archives U.S. Banks Citigroup and Merrill Lynch Reveal Fresh $15 Billion Loss, Deutsche Bank Holding More Toxic Waste on Balance Sheet than Shares Are Worth
Did appraisers juice Florida real-estate market? -- OrlandoSentinel.com (ya think?)
Super High Me. | MetaFilter
Geotimes - April 2008 - The Wind Over the Waves
How Hunger Could Topple Regimes - TIME
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/13/2008 | Polygamist sect gets millions from U.S. government
Espionage Against Pro-Tibet Groups, Others, Spurred Microsoft Patches
Great Wall 360 degree panorama at Jinshanling
Mysterious Earthquakes Off Oregon - TIME
Men's sex-drive: where has it gone? - Telegraph
041208
ABC News: Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks (I approved this torture)
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. - washingtonpost.com (no steenking Constitution, either)
YouTube - CNN: The Clintons' Millions - Corrupting Ties
Daily Kos: Obama Responds to Charges of Elitism
TPM Election Central | McCain Attacks Soros-Funded Group -- Even Though McCain's Group Took Soros Money, Too
Hullabaloo: "They did this in your name, Americans." ("If God is just, I tremble for America")
Bank-Implode! UBS-Breaking Up
Homeowners who just walk away - MSN Money
Calls against big CEO pay grow louder - Yahoo! News
Anders in the Flesh : Edward Champions Filthy Habits: Lee Siegel
Top NASA Scientist Says Oil Lobby Controls the Government...duh... | EcoGeek
Lenore Skenazy: More From America's Worst Mom: 9-Year-Old On The Subway, Continued - Living on The Huffington Post
Free Range Kids | MetaFilter
What are the world's most useful dead-tree catalogs? | Ask Metafilter
Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
041108
Talking Points Memo | Cheney, others OK'd harsh interrogations (Condisleeza: "This is your baby. Go do it.")
Slate's series on how to repair some of the worst Bush administration screw-ups. - - Slate Magazine (what didn't they screw up?)
A Nation of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations | PEEK | AlterNet
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Fed's Swap-O-Rama Gets Crazier
A Nation of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations | PEEK | AlterNet
Ouch! The Daily Show's Eviscerating "Documentary" About Fox News - Media on The Huffington Post

Britain's Fallen Soldiers | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
The Meter is Running Pt. 1 | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
The Meter is Running Pt. 2 | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman: The Bugle

Remember Me: A multimedia documentary about one family's struggle to deal with the loss of a parent
BBC NEWS | 'Writuals' - scribes reveal daily routines
American Chronicle | Homeschoolers Who Dontttt Learn Science Shouldn't Receive a Diploma
Poll results: look who's doping : Nature News
Boeing Patent Shuts Down AMC-14 Lunar Flyby Salvage Attempt
Feds Charge Porn Producer With Selling Adult Content to Adults | Threat Level from Wired.com
The Raw Story | Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, NRA hired 'black ops' company that targeted environmental groups
Cosmetic chemicals found in breast tumours - 12 January 2004 - New Scientist
Creatures Reunite After Ancient Divorce | LiveScience
Scientists unveil revolutionary 'racetrack' computer memory - Telegraph
Forget the CPU. Buy a Better Graphics Card | Popular Science
Network Solutions: Not Just Thieves and Hijackers, Now Using Tactics That Can Get Your Site Banned From Google | Smackdown!
Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn
Can Improve Reader Comments? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments | We are a Paragon | Metatalk
Stumbling over books - Telegraph Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
041008
Gates Withdraws Iraq Prediction - New York Times (ha ha, fooled you again)
Bush: General Petraeus "Will Have All The Time He Needs" (fooled you once, twice, three, ... times ...)
The Associated Press: AP Poll: Bush Public Approval at New Low (28% think he's a super President)
Harris Interactive | The Harris Poll - Key Indicators of National Mood Fall to New Lows (15% - "right track")
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation' (fucking monsters)
Crooks and Liars: They Knew: Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, John Ashcroft.
Rendition of terrorist suspects to Jordan | Salon "We'll make you see death" - A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan -- smuggled from prison on tiny paper -- exposes U.S. complicity in torture.
TPMMuckraker | Mukasey Refuses to Say Yoo Fourth Amendment Memo Withdrawn
Republicans turn clock back by 60 years - expert | Press Esc (on torture)
U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 - April 10, 2008 - The New York Sun
BBC NEWS | Africa | US shamed by Mandela terror link
Media Matters - CNN's Blitzer asserted Petraeus and Crocker are not "political appointees" -- but Bush appointed both to current positions (Blizter: smartest name in news)
Bush: 140,000 Troops In Iraq Will Be Next President's Problem - Politics on The Huffington Post
A Nation of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations | PEEK | AlterNet
Clinton Firm's Deal Left Pennsylvania Churches In Shambles - Politics on The Huffington Post (Bill is a whore)
John McCain Digs Himself Deeper - Insults Half Of All Muslims - The Seminal (McStupid)
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel to bar UN rights official
For Many, a Boom That Wasnt - New York Times (but the rich got richer!)
A Tax System that Matches Oregon Values - Oregon Center for Public Policy (Intel: 9bn in profits, 10 bucks in state taxes)
Increase in Trade Deficit Raises Concern: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Ezra Klein | The American Prospect| Paging Paglia (Molly Ivins: "What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. The Norman Podhoretz of our gender")
convert color to old-looking b/w photos
whitneyChromatic.swf (chromatic scale)
The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time - Nerve.com
Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed: Scientific American
So Much for the Information Age - Chronicle.com Today's college students have tuned out the world, and it's partly our fault
George Washington's Blog: 14 Structural Engineers Now Publicly Challenge Government's Explanation for Destruction of the World Trade Center
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient serpent shows its leg
Begley: Blame the Bugs | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com
Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat | Threat Level from Wired.com
040908
Iraq Report Redux - washingtonpost.com The facts there have changed; the debate here, less so.
Iraq Hearing Depicts a Nation Divided - New York Times (Senate=Nation sez the NYT)
Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, Petraeus's Ghost
Informed Comment: Petraeus, Iraq and the Lebanon Analogy
Firedoglake How Did Yoo Manage to Leave Out Youngstown Steel?
Occupying Iraq Is Just Like Occupying ... Alabama? | OurFuture.org (for 150 years!)
Mark Penn cashes in on Clinton campaign | Salon News Where do all those little-guy donations go? Ask top strategist Mark Penn, as he exits with millions in consulting fees.
The Mark Penn Factor - Swampland - TIME
Hullabaloo Tears Of A Clown (Matthews may be the most ridiculously transparent of the Village idiots and scribes, but he is far from unique.)
FBI probe: Lieberman campaign to blame for crashing own Web site - The Advocate (media ran with the story on election day)
INSTAPUTZ: Heh. Indeeb. ("If McCain can't spell his name properly, how can we expect him to beat the terrorists?")
The great John McCain story you've probably forgotten. - By Michael Lewis - Slate Magazine
The BRAD BLOG : BREAKING: Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines Subpoenaed in NJ
TPMMuckraker | Julie Myers coverup non-coverup: Republican "humor")
The Tax Mans Gone Belligerent - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics 42 cents of every federal tax dollar goes to military expenditures; more than 10 cents goes to paying off foreign debt. In contrast, education got just 4.4 cents.
Wall of silence broken at state's Muslim public school
Friendly Atheist Update on Atheist-Hating Illinois State Rep. Monique Davis (God, she made Olbermann's WPitW)

IMF says US crisis is 'largest financial shock since Great Depression' | Business | guardian.co.uk (Bush: Mission Accomplished!)

AntarcticaRockSurface.jpg (Antarctica without all the ice: land of seas and atolls)
NORML Blog Blog Archive Cannabis Consumers and Producers Labeled Criminal By The Government; Beer Industry and Consumers Celebrate 75th Anniversary Ending Beer Prohibition
Limited nuclear war would damage ozone layer - earth - 07 April 2008 - New Scientist Environment (nuke Iran!)
Copyriot What the IFPI tries to conceal about its origins in fascist Italy
New U.S. weapon: Hand-held lie detector - Terrorism- msnbc.com (don't need no steenking science)
Closely-watched case may spell trouble for software patents
Blogging For Dollars: Time.com's Top 25 Blogs -- the one-page-version
Flickr: Help: Video
it's all lost and stoof (really the best 404 ever)
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dear Abby Letters (status: true)
Lies I've told my three year old recently. | MetaFilter
040808
Gallup Daily: Obama Moves to 9-point Lead Over Clinton
"A Tale of Three Lawyers" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) "more than 108 detainees died in detention. In a large number of these cases, the deaths have been ruled a homicide and connected to torture" (Bushco: murderers)
Hillary Clinton and Watergate: Corroboration of Stupid, Politically Tone-Deaf Behavior | AfterDowningStreet.org (a pattern?)
Attytood: ABC's big "surprise": The actual troops don't want McCain -- they want to come home
ABC News: In Turnaround, Justice to Answer Iraq Rape Questions
The Big Picture | Yet Another Housing Surprise? (Fed: delay in a rebound of U.S. home sales continues to "surprise.")
Pending Home Sales Fall 1.9% to Record Low - Real Estate * US * News * Story - CNBC.com
Bloomberg.com: Science Clay May Help Fight Drug-Resistant Germs, Researchers Find
Clive Thompson on Why the Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind
The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours - washingtonpost.com
Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'island of stability' (4/8/2008)
Museum of Broken Relationships
040708
Secret US plan for military future in Iraq | World news | The Guardian Document outlines powers but sets no time limit on troop presence
Think Progress Blog Archive McCains Speech On Progress In Iraq Interrupted By News Of Mortars Hitting The Green Zone
McCain's "triumph" over a nonexistent heckler - War Room - Salon.com (CNN is warping your mind)
PBS' Iraq Documentary Sets Online Viewership Record - Media on The Huffington Post
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Cokie Roberts speaks out on the war on behalf of the American people (your lying rightwing media)
Think Progress - Chris Shays: I still havent read pre-war Iraq NIE (neither did Hilliary)
100-Year Occupation = 100 Years of War | OurFuture.org
Report: Iraq goals no closer than a year ago - Army Times
McCain: Democrats' Stance on Iraq Flawed - Huggy Bear on Iraq: "something approaching normal"
Open Left:: Responsible Plan On ABC News
The Cold Hard 911 Truth
BBC NEWS | Africa | US threatens world peace, says Mandela (flashback: Cheney opposed Mandela's release from prison)
Grains Gone Wild - New York Times
Over the Top Fed Actions Feed Conspiracy Thinking | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
RussiaToday : Business : Dollar drowning: boon or bane for Russia?
CBC News In Depth: Energy Peak oil
Wall St banks 'hooked on emergency funds scheme' | Business | The Observer
DW Griffith's Infamous Epic | MetaFilter
Tunnel Milestone, and More to Come - New York Times
Google AdSense Advertising - eeech... - Rick Strahl's Web Log
Bad Science BBC Newsnight mine the Brain Gym comedy mountain
Drug Makers Near Old Goal: A Legal Shield - New York Times
NYU dental professor discovers biological clock
The American Scholar - Getting It All Wrong - By Brian Boyd
Top 10 Wired Reader Night Photos, Decided by You
Earth in crisis, warns NASA's top climate scientist
Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents - Wikinews, the free news source
Are Animals Stuck In Time?
Atolls - Atoll Gallery
Scientists Crack Security System Of Millions Of Cars (from Sunday Herald)
CFI Issues Critique of Civics Textbook | Center for Inquiry (Republican "educa