Friday the Holiday

Hello, and welcome. This will be the last post before the holiday. At 5 o'clock tonight I will be a free man for the rest of the year. A long needed vacation- See you all in the new year!!


An incredibly long list of Bush administration scandals. This is painfully enraging. (netrootsmass.net)

The List of Bush Scandals--60 Ft. Long and Growing (firedoglake.com)

"George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group" according to WSJ [politics] (globalresearch.ca)

Top 10 Most Curious Stories of 2007: quirky stories, some that might not have made the headlines, but deserve attention (timesonline.co.uk)

Map of the new U.S.A., with a hole in the middle. [politics] (users.dma.ucla.edu)

Cheney, is an oil man with a direct, personal interest in the tens of billions in profits to be reaped from the oil fields of the Middle East [politics] (pww.org)

White House Headed to Court over CIA Tapes, Faces Hearing Over their Destruction [politics] (rawstory.com)

"Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" To Return In January — Without Writers (huffingtonpost.com)

The most meaningful 404 page *ever* [politics] (un-america.com)

1 in 75 chance of Asteroid hitting Mars on January 30, 2008 [science] (examiner.com)

Flying car? Terrafugia's "personal air vehicle." can take to the sky as easily as the road. It is about the size of a large SUV and features innovative folding wings [science] (blog.wired.com)

Plantic: Plastic you can eat [science] (triplepundit.com)

Red Planet Still Packs Surprises: an Active Glacier and Unusual Greenhouse Effect [science] (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

The Complexity of Credit Card Fees: How we're all being ripped off. (braintreefinancial.com)

Whole Foods computers weren't working. What'd they do? Gave away their groceries for free. (courant.com)

There is an Inexplicable Shortage of Sex [science] (overcomingbias.com)

In Islam, it is a grave SIN for a woman to be alone with a male colleague in the same room... Unless she BREASTFEEDS HIM? (islam-watch.org)

Thursday is a Fire

It's time to get out of work and celebrate the holidays~~!


Fire at Old Executive Office Building at White House (npr.org)

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America" - Native American state of 72,000 people declares independence from the US - 'claim legal under treaties with Government' (afp.google.com)

The best indicator of how seriously this White House is involved in a political scandal may be how emphatically it refuses to comment. [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

Lets call the destruction of CIA tapes what it is: an attempt to cover-up the truth and keep damning information out of the hands of the press. [politics] (whitehouser.com)

CNN Has Joined With Fox News In Disseminating Propaganda And Betraying America [politics] (opednews.com)

The American Empire might be one of the worst kinds, because its citizens tend to view themselves as free and, hence, its coercive actions as benevolent [politics] (strike-the-root.com)

Iraqis take back the streets: Shias join Sunnis in Neighbourhood Patrols to Tackle Militants & Reunite Communities in Baghdad [politics] (guardian.co.uk)

Food prices soaring in America (money.cnn.com)

Blackwater: a summary of what Americans are paying for with their tax dollars [politics] (chycho.com)

Engineers Develop Technology To See Through Walls [science] (sciencedaily.com)

2-D Invisibility Cloak For Visible Light Created [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Goldman Sachs Shorted subprime Paper it Was Selling (nytimes.com)

Virgin or Slut: Pick One (alternet.org)

NASA - Christmas Eve is the brightest, highest-riding full moon until the year 2023. [science] (science.nasa.gov)

Mars had large oceans. [science] (msnbc.msn.com)

It's Time to Legalize Drugs: Rhetoric Should Not be Driving Drug Policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue. [politics] (alternet.org)

Moon is younger and more Earth-like than thought [science] (space.newscientist.com)

Missing Link to Sea Mammals Found [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Man's Skin Turns Dark Blue (spluch.blogspot.com)

Li-ion battery capacity increased 10x by Stanford researchers with nano-wire based anode: Paves way for electric cars & 20-hour laptop batteries (sciencedaily.com)

Wednesday is back to normal

You heard it here first folks, no more lyrics. Back to the regular boring greeting, or long winded verbal assult on a certain topic. As for today, a simple greeting will do just fine. It's good to be back in the saddle again. (I really wish that quote didn't relate to Steven Tyler...)



White House confirms the following records destroyed in the 3rd floor fire: [politics] (dailykos.com)

Is Bush Sr. Admitting That His Son Screwed-Up America? [politics] (opednews.com)

Ron Paul slams Huckabee's use of the cross in TV ad: 'When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross'... [politics] (newsandpolicy.com)

How Internet Activism Stopped Telecom Immunity - Including a "Thank You" from Chris Dodd [politics] (salon.com)

Life the universe and everything - Take the time to read this amazing article. (cosmosmagazine.com)

Monsanto wants to own the DNA of the food you eat, making the seeds you buy sterile. They have taken steps in court and law to give them ownership through the twisted ideas of privatization [politics] (opednews.com)

The Filibuster Is Over…And Dodd Won! [politics] (theseminal.com)

No Primate Left Behind: Monkeys Perform Arithmetic As Well As College Students (scientificblogging.com)

American Psychiatric Association unanimously backs medical marijuana (frostfirecube.com)

Modern Uses For The Cannabis Plant (torontohemp.com)

A handful of companies control most of what we see, hear and read every day. They own our TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, cable channels, movie studios, music labels [politics] (stopbigmedia.com)

Let's not forget that Giuliani was officially blamed for 7 WTC collapse on 9/11 [politics] (presscue.com)

The size of China's economy is overestimated by some 40 percent based on most current measures, but is the world's second largest, the World Bank said Monday. [business] (news.yahoo.com)

Green tea may halve prostate cancer risk: Japanese study (news.yahoo.com)

Of Mice And Men: New Male Contraceptives Successful In Rodents And Humans (erectile.wordpress.com)

Micro spy planes on long missions will recharge by clinging to power lines (technology.newscientist.com)

Police Brutality Cases on Rise since 9/11 [politics] (truthnews.us)

Nanosolar Shipping Inexpensive Panels: Solar Now Cheaper than Coal [politics] (nytimes.com)

Chicago police ask you to report people using maps or taking notes in public [politics] (boingboing.net)

Dennis Kucinich's brother found dead. [politics] (newsnet5.com)

Mammoth tusks found with micrometeorite holes burned into them; Mammoths were blasted by a meteor that exploded above them (dsc.discovery.com)

Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research and Behavioral Modification--joint hearing before the U S Senate, 1977 transcript [politics] (scribd.com)

China passes US as world's biggest CO2 emitter (guardian.co.uk)

Mastering Your Own Mind (psychologytoday.com)

Did the laws of physics create the Universe? Or was it the other way around? (nytimes.com)

Is a New Solar Cycle Beginning? (science.nasa.gov)

Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as the current list of a dozen Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets swells to hundreds of earth-sized planets, almost identical twins of Earth (dailygalaxy.com)

Brazil Makes World’s Biggest Oil Discovery in 30 Years [reddit.com] (nextenergynews.com)

Monday is a Mountain

Climbing over your mountain baby, stuck in the alpine. Focusing on the transition, of relating to me. I've been carrying some weight now honey, over time. I'm ready to drop the baggage, but its stuck on my mind. The peak is in view, with no direct path. I'm avoiding your crevasse in fear of getting stuck. I'm edging around your lifestyle without a belay. I'm looking up your headwall, the climb is full of scree. For now all I can do is traverse your walls, hoping not to glissade. I don't want to fail you baby but your weather’s rough. I'm climbing but I feel as though I'm stuck. I just want to please you, hope I’ve got enough, love.



YOU Did It! (Over) 50,000 Signatures Calling for Immediate Cheney Impeachment Hearings Collected in 1 Day! [politics] (opednews.com)

The U.S. has become precisely the kind of surveillance state that we were always told was the hallmark of tyrannical societies (salon.com)

“What he saw, was decisive evidence that within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.” [politics] (nytimes.com)

Underwater Urban Archeology: 7 Submerged Wonders of the World [PICS] [science] (yourscienceblog.blogspot.com)

Ron Paul Tea Party $$$ Now More Than The Nov 5 Money Bomb. Eight Hours Left. [politics] (ronpaulgraphs.com)

Uhh....just to let you know....Bolivia is falling apart. Literally. (cnn.com)

Some Tips for Americans Living or Visiting in London (iconocla.st)

101 things to do before you leave London - Features - London - Time Out London (timeout.com)

London's "Booze Bus" (a.k.a. "The Vomit Comet") (news.bbc.co.uk)

Inside the CIA's Notorious "Black Sites" [politics] (salon.com)

Only 6 states opposing ID cards. Welcome to 1984 America. [politics] (usatoday.com)

Electrical current can now be delivered through optical fiber [science] (spectrum.ieee.org)

'Oldest human being' dies at 116 [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

"I'm a black man turning white on television and people can see it," (usatoday.com)

Sheehan: Impeach Pelosi for collaboration with Bush administration on torture [politics] (opednews.com)

Huckabee's son did WHAT? [politics] (dailykos.com)

The Fact of Evolution (For those of you who don't know much about evolution, educate yourselves) [science] (freethoughtpedia.com)

Northern Lights energy source discovered. [science] (cnn.com)

Superseded scientific theories: just a reminder that we don't know everything yet. [science] (answers.com)

Researchers at Berlin's Humboldt University may have discovered something new in ancient amber: the oldest known carnivorous fungus [science] (spiegel.de)

The Giant Magellan Telescope - the first of a new generation of ground based telescopes that will produce images up to 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope [science] (ponderabout.com)

Superfluid helium defies gravity and passes through glass [science] (geeksaresexy.net)

Japan and US crack clone-free stem-cell technique [science] (euronews.net)

The Neurochemistry of Psychdelic Experiences [science] (sci-con.org)

Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms [science] (washingtonpost.com)

Don’t call the aliens,they might not be friendly [science] (timesonline.co.uk)

1500 (!) Sexy Album Covers (rateyourmusic.com)

Just as he hit the ground they lowered a tow that stuck in his neck to the gills. Fragments of sobiquets riddle me, this three half eaten corneas who hit the area stalk the ground. You should have seen the curse that flew right by you. Page of concrete stained walks crutch in hobbled sway. Autodafe a capulary hint of red, only this manupod crescent in shape has escaped the house. Half the way fell empty with teeth that split both his lips. Mark these words, one day this chalk outline will circle this city. Was he robbed of the asphalt that cushioned his face? A room colored charlatan hid in a safe. Stalk the ground, Stalk the ground.

Yesterday U.S. House of Representatives passed a ban on torture. But Bush will veto that ban [politics] (americablog.com)

THE PROPAGANDA MODEL: argues that there are 5 classes of 'filters' in society which determine what is 'news' (medialens.org)

There is a powerful argument resonating in America today. It says that America is strong if we follow our laws and at its best when we follow the Constitution, the bedrock of our government. [politics] (theseminal.com)

It's an epithet that has been used -- and certainly misused -- but what is fascism exactly? Simply put: it's government that favors the corporation and not the individual [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

US salt deaths = 1 jumbo jet crashing, killing all on board every day of the year [science] (chron.com)

Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste [science] (sciam.com)

Where Americans have seen defensive behavior, the rest of the world has looked on and seen the most powerful nation in human history acting like a caged animal (newsweek.com)

CIA Torture Jet wrecks with 4 Tons of COCAINE (dailykos.com)

Apes stoned on drugs became modern man [science] (unexplained-mysteries.com)

The Sun Can Power The Entire US [science] (neutralexistence.com)

Before the end of the last ice age, a hunter-gatherer left a bag of tools near the wall of a roundhouse residence, where archaeologists have now found the collection 14,000 years later. [science] (dsc.discovery.com)

What was it like when sea creatures ruled the earth? [science] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

Today's Girls Prefer To Look Sexy Rather Than Be Clever (.in a Anti-Feminist Landscape where Girls Compete for Attention on the Basis of how much they are Sexually Willing to do for the boys..) (observer.guardian.co.uk)

Studio art girls PUT. OUT. (ivygateblog.com)

The US government is actively manipulating new media sites including Wikipedia, Digg and others. [politics] (wikileaks.org)

Another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: Underground Magma [science] (researchnews.osu.edu)

UPS manages to save millions of dollars by doing like Minos does: not turning left (nytimes.com)

The Adult brain cells stop growing myth (zmescience.com)

How Bush became a government unto himself: Since taking office, he's expanded his power on laws 1,100 times [politics] (rawstory.com)

Incredible New Military Robot [science] (livescience.com)

The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself. [science] (newsweek.com)

Exoplanet haze reported for the first time. We're really starting to learn a lot about exoplanets now. [science] (spacetelescope.org)

How our brains work to form beliefs about the world -- reason and emotion may be closer than we think. [science] (newswise.com)

No Solution to Drought in Sight Says Atlanta Water Czar [science] (thedailygreen.com)

Robots: Smarter Honda ASIMO Can Self-Charge, Avoid People, Work In Groups [science] (gizmodo.com)

NIST Creates Perpetual Motion ... But Only for 10 Seconds [science] (dailytech.com)

Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace [science] (thedailygreen.com)

Trout Stage Daring Breakout at Fish Farm [crazy trout escape pic] [politics] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make (lifehack.org)

Kucinich: "On the way over here, I was reading a 50-page document that relates to Articles of Impeachment for [Bush]. You give me your vote, I'll give you back your country." [politics] (newsandcurrents.com)

38 Reasons to Hate Money and Everything It Requires On Moneymaking (duggmirror.com)

Dennis Kucinich is The Original. While the "frontrunners" scramble to find a position or justify positions previously taken, Kucinich gets things right the first time. [politics] (theseminal.com)

Weird Martian Landscapes [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Get Lost in Space - Interactive 1 Giga-Pixel Supernova [science] (skyfactory.org)

A snowflake's shape depends on the temperature at which it forms [photos] [science] (photography.nationalgeographic.com)

50 things you are not supposed to know (a goldmine for conspiracy theorists!) (static.scribd.com)

Human Evolution Speeding Up [science] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

Huge glacial lake bursting into the Atlantic 8000 years ago did halt the Gulf Stream and cause abrupt climate change [science] (environment.newscientist.com)

Nanotechnology: What Will It Mean? [science] (spectrum.ieee.org)

Thesixtyone: Music discovery game connects indies and fans - Boing Boing (boingboing.net)

Tuesday is a Messy Life

Fire is motion. Work is repetition. This is my document. We are all all we've done. We are all all we've done. We are all all defenses. Fire is motion. Is motion growth? And you are colder than oldness could ever be. And you are bolder than buzzing bugs. My mama said my cousin bucky's so boldly bald cuz he never took his hat off. He kept that cap on even when swimming. I know there's a lesson in there somewhere something nothing special 'bout boys who smell like salami and boys who've never apologized. And you are colder than oldness could ever be. And you are bolder than buzzing bugs.


The Green Philosophy of Dennis Kucinich [politics] (salon.com)

PBS: The Ron Paul Phenomenon - Documentary [politics] (pbs.org)

Why is Marijuana Illegal? (A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis) (marijuana.drugwarrant.com)

Republicans were counting on Iranian Nuclear Threat to Scare the Americans & Turn Attention Away From Iraq, Economy & Republican Scandals. But the Republican Right has Just Been Disarmed. [politics] (salon.com)

Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert (telegraph.co.uk)

Chief Guantanamo Prosecutor Resigned When Placed Under Command Of Torture Advocate [politics] (thinkprogress.org)

Mars rover finds signs of microbial life [science] (telegraph.co.uk)

CIA coverups and American injustice: The war on terror is coming back to haunt us [politics] (salon.com)

71% believe if US ignored 9/11 attacks, things would be better [politics] (pollsb.com)

"82 of America’s largest companies paid no tax at all in at least one of the first three years of the Bush administration" [politics] (wakeupfromyourslumber.com)

Aquaponics - The Urban Food Revolution [science] (treehugger.com)

Smog Eating Cement [science] (nytimes.com)

The American Dream is Alive and Well ... in Finland! [politics] (alternet.org)

The New NIE shows that the Intelligence Community is Sick of Being Scapegoated by Bush. They Wouldn't have Released it Otherwise. [politics] (theseminal.com)

Voyager 2 discovers solar system is bent [science] (rawstory.com)

The Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2007. [science] (time.com)

Online social networks manifest our tribal instincts. [science] (nytimes.com)

Large Scale Structure in the Local Universe [science] (antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Culture Speeds up Human Evolution [science] (sciam.com)

Spider Socks - coming soon (in packs of 8) [science] (timesonline.co.uk)

You Wish You lived Here--Goon Tower [Pic] (goontower.com)

RIAA now claims music ripped from a purchased CD is copyright infringement (recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com)

20 Most Important Organic And Fat Burning Foods For Weight Loss [science] (healthwatchcenter.com)

Monday Was

I've got to rearrange my life, I've got to rearrange my world. I miss you, I need you. I've got to keep my memories aside, I've got to try to live again. Time was when there were things around to be afraid of. I've got cause, I've even changed my mind to turn the tables. Time was when there was no need to stop and rearrange it. Now I've got a memory and I don't want to change it. And there's a time for waking up and feeling down, It's when you have to pick your feet up from the ground. Time was when I had you around, I was a strong man. I need you to help make the change and be a new man. Takes more than a day and a night for giving. It's not so easy just to change your way of living. Time was when there were things around to bother me. The crime was, I couldn't start to change my history.


As 2007 draws to a close, we are a tired people, fatigued by the strain of trying to ignore an administration bent on self-destruction as it pursues brain-dead policies [politics] (smirkingchimp.com)

Yesterday Iran stops selling Oil for US Dollars. Today Iran and China Sign a Two-Billion Oil Contract (news.yahoo.com)

Bush Administration's preferred mercenary company has launched a major rebranding campaign, changing its name to Blackwater Worldwide and softening its logo [politics] (thenaton.com)

The men and women calling themselves Democrats and sitting in Congress are the biggest bunch of liars this country has ever seen [politics] (opednews.com)

NYPD Brownshirts deploy primarily to instill fear into the public mind [politics] (popularmechanics.com)

10 Reasons Not to Vote for Ron Paul [politics] (wwjv4.com)

"Genderblind" Gene Helps Researchers Turn Fruit Flies Homosexual Behavior On And Off [science] (scientificblogging.com)

Scientific Proof that Dogs are smarter than cats --I t seems dogs can place photographs into categories the same way humans do, an ability previously identified only in birds and primates. [science] (newscientist.com)

Sleep Anchors Memory [science] (pubs.acs.org)

Corporate race to privatize resources, Now they want the world's water [science] (worldwide-sawdust.com)

Who’s afraid of Red, Green and Blue? [science] (dexia-towers.com)

Hydrogen Car Is Here, a Bit Ahead of Its Time [science] (nytimes.com)

Huge "ocean" discovered in deep mantle beneath Asia [science] (livescience.com)

Stress makes us depressed, fat, sick - and we do it to ourselves [science] (sfgate.com)

German battery could jump-start electric car production [science] (news.yahoo.com)

Students for an Orwellian Society [politics] (studentsfororwell.org)

98 percent of American women have done it. 37 million Americans are currently doing it. Most of the GOP candidates oppose it. What is it? [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Incredibly Detailed List of Easter Eggs in Pixar Movies (jimhillmedia.com)

Ireland has become the first country in the world to ban the traditional lightbulb. (independent.ie)

Magnetic waves power solar wind [science] (theglobeandmail.com)

What could be the best meteor display of the year will reach its peak on the night of Dec.13-14. [science] (news.yahoo.com)

Friday, Everyone Is My Friend

I know what I have to do and do it. I know what I have to do and do it. But don't know what it is until I’m done. I know it must be rough, you're so much smarter than your friends. Come clean in jokes. Integrity in tennis shoes. Waiting thinking how'd I like to be kept waiting. Territory mutinies horizon. Disease teaches immunity. A promise implied can't be broken. And even now in the sunlight with grapefruit juice and coffee bound and bounded to winter without end would you two like each other or are you too alike? I know what I have to do and do it. I know what I have to do and do it. But don't know what it is until it's done. I’ve been inventing you and continue inventing you. May we all make it home safely. I know it must be rough, you're so much smarter than your friends. Rehearsing disasters and forecasting all your needs. I dance early then got shy and had to go home early. The mirage will fade as it unfolded. The plot's defamed it's own voltage. A promise at the time can't be beat. And even now as the snow is opening it's whole in pieces and wets each grieving hold of last year's trash it's not impossible to think of you thinking of me. Way we all make it home safely.


$5.2b missing from Iraq Fund Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq was unable to provide "reasonable assurance" that money was not wasted (news.bbc.co.uk)

What is it with Bush and bald guys? [pics] [politics] (rense.com)

Japan does not tell death row prisoners that they are to be hanged until the last possible minute. [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

"The destruction of these (CIA) tapes appears to be a part of an extensive, long-term pattern of misusing executive authority to insulate individuals from criminal prosecution for torture and abuse" [politics] (newsvote.bbc.co.uk)

C.I.A. Admits Destroying Tapes of Harsh Interrogations (nytimes.com)

Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement: Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics? [science] (sciam.com)

When Will Virtual Surgery Make the Cut? [science] (sciam.com)

The Octarine argument - are there colors that we can't see? [science] (consciousentities.com)

Overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves kids vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges and unwilling to remedy their shortcomings. [science] (sciam.com)

Failing to learn from mistakes is genetic [science] (telegraph.co.uk)

An indication of how significant a super power China really is. (news.bbc.co.uk)

George W. Bush: "We will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms." - September 12, 2001 [politics] (cdt.org)

Teen Secretly Records Interrogation & Gets Detective for Perjury (hosted.ap.org)

"As an atheist and a father of three young children, the speech Mitt Romney delivered today...shocked me to my core." [politics] (democratdad.com)

Democrats Drift Toward Kucinich - Dennis Kucinich's views have gone from fringe to mainstream. [politics] (npr.org)

Americans should ask why the US locks up so many more of its citizens than do China, Libya and Iran (presscue.com)

Worst thing since the PATRIOT act: wi-fi providers now have a legal obligation to spy on you (podcastingnews.com)

Wonder why Obesity is a problem? - Energy-dense munchies cost on average $1.76 per 1,000 kcal, compared with $18.16 per 1,000 kcal for low-energy but nutritious foods. (well.blogs.nytimes.com)

Are Humans Evolving Faster? Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up - and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought [science] (physorg.com)

Animal Migration is Decreasing Around the World [science] (npr.org)

Insanity: House votes to criminalize the Internet, 409 to 2 [politics] (news.com)

Pentagon's Education Pitch is a Scam. Today's GI Bill is a Hollow Recruiting Tool, Not a Ticket to College. [politics] (alternet.org)

The Straight Dope: Does Doctors' Illegible Handwriting Kill More than 7,000 Patients Annually? (straightdope.com)

Mike Gravel, an anti-war crusader for two generations [politics] (mcclatchydc.com)

Corporations are psychopathic (commondreams.org)

H.R. 4137: Download A Song, Lose Your Loan - noncompliant schools would lose all their federal funding, for ALL their students. [politics] (thenation.com)

You light some impeachment fire and watch the flames surge across this country. Get hundreds of thousands--millions?--of furious people marching. Then see how the votes start add up then. [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Bush Admins New Gov. Agency will Rely Heavily on Private Security Contractors to Conduct Surveillance Inside the US. [politics] (alternet.org)

Scientists may have discovered why we tend to slow down mentally as we age. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

The Real Story at Bali: The Youth are Back and Badder than Ever [science] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

Physicists have made a major advance in the understanding of what appears to be a new state of matter [science] (physorg.com)

"The Clinton people are extremely lucky “The Daily Show” writers are on strike." [politics] (nytimes.com)

Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich excluded from new CBS series on the candidates [politics] (cbsnews.com)

Woman, 29, Grandma (qctimes.com)

The Pedophile's Secret Code. Hence the FBI's January 2007 "intelligence bulletin" on "symbols and logos used by pedophiles to identify sexual preferences." (slate.com)

A new invention makes trawling for fish much less harmful to coral, sponges, seaweed and other denizens of the seabed [science] (economist.com)

Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (redditalien.com)

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now? [science] (healthbolt.net)

Amazing *NEW* Sidewalk Paintings [pics] (moillusions.com)

One espresso, please (PIC) (bp1.blogger.com)

BLACK Reddit! We have Black Google, why not a Black Reddit to conserve energy?? (reddit.com)

Wednesday is Vismund Cygnus

The ocean floor is hidden from your viewing lens. A depth perception languished in the night. All my life I’ve been sewing the wounds but the seeds sprout a lachrymal cloud. My nails peel back when the taxidermist ruined goose stepped the freckling impatience. All the brittle tombs, five hundred little q’s. I’m splitting hairs to match the faces. All night long I’ll hunt for you, let me show you what I mean. Now this train don’t lie, an abortion that survived. A lineage of bastard mastication, all the severed proof talons scratch my suite. These are the feathers that replace them. All night I’ll hunt for you, let me show you what I mean. Who do you trust? Will they feed us the womb? Chrome the fetal mirage. Will they feed us the womb? I found the remnants of a crescent fang, it cleaned my wing down to the bone. Umbilical syllables left to decode, there was no cradle. I can taste it, bring me this plague. She took a drink, those nicotine stains on his every word. My scavenger quilt will only hide the truth. Bring me, bring me this plague! I count the days to find what was left behind. Only these names I clutch will lead me to my home. Somehow this river marks a wrinkle hand in mine and everyday that parts the water into two mothers and feathers start to drown the living proof. I can’t remember these lakes of blood wrapped in a blanket. There sweats a cut, who do you trust? Will they feed us the womb? Chrome the fetal mirage. Will they feed us the womb?


Every time a genocide occurs, the world says, “Never again.” And yet, they happen again. And again. And again. Why is mustering an effective international response to genocide so hard? [politics] (theseminal.com)

Did I see that right? Did our president really wink at the end of his press conference? It couldn't be. He was discussing a massive failure by our intelligence agencies [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Merrill Lynch Predicts Recession [business] (alleyinsider.com)

Seattle grocery chain bans high-fructose corn syrup (seattlepi.nwsource.com)

CREW releases new report exposing massive failures and billions wasted at Dept. of Homeland Security - Joe Lieberman responsible for the (total lack of) oversight! [politics] (citizensforethics.com)

Bush still in denial -- urges Iran to "come clean". [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

California Cops Will Not be Enforcing Federal Drug Laws [politics] (reason.com)

VIDEO: San Fran Republican Party cancels straw poll -- too many Ron Paul supporters show up! [politics] (youtube.com)

Corporations now are so powerful they threaten democracy and capitalism itself [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Everyone asks for it. Few actually need it — as a TIME reporter found out after an hour-and-a-half telephone ordeal (time.com)

'Burnt foods' (french fries, chips) linked to cancers [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Antarctica's New Discovery Under Siege? Russia close to penetrating sub-glacial Lake Vostok [science] (abcnews.go.com)

Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers as it depicts details of South American coast and an ocean west of America [science] (news.yahoo.com)

Study Shows Why the Flu Likes Winter [science] (nytimes.com)

I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle-man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism [politics] (opednews.com)

Is there enough evidence now, Ms. Pelosi, to proceed with impeachment against the president and vice president? [politics] (smirkingchimp.com)

How "Stairway to Heaven" Ruined Led Zeppelin (slate.com)

Democrats Drift Toward Kucinich (npr.org)

Why the Government is Terrified of LSD (hypnosiscontrol.com)

Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn't [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

“A young male in his 30s today has an income, adjusted for inflation, that is 12 percent less than what his father was making 30 years ago.” [politics] (vanityfair.com)

From Celery to Bacon - What does 200 Calories Look Like? [science] (wisegeek.com)

Fever can temporarily unlock autism's grip on children [science] (reuters.com)

Facebook tracks users even when they're logged out, and without telling them (correntewire.com)

Why the world hates The United States (en.wikipedia.org)

Clinton uses Obama's KINDERGARTEN writings against him! (blogs.usatoday.com)

German Official knows what Scientology really is... a "Commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people." [politics] (sfgate.com)

The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran is released. Short version: they stopped their nuclear program in 2003. No wonder Cheney worked like hell to stop the report from coming out. [politics] (odni.gov)

police officer forced to resign because he protected and served instead of bullying and tasering (freedominourtime.blogspot.com)

The US Imprisons 1.5 million citizens. Each prison cell costs $100,000 to build and $22,000 per prisoner per year to operate. (answers.google.com)

Skin and muscle preserved in amazing dinosaur specimen [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

The Prehistoric Stone Balls [Pics] [science] (naturalhistorymag.com)

Monday is a Requiem

When I met you I was just a kid, hadn’t built up my defenses. So I gave my heart completely, vaseline over the lenses. Memories don’t go away, I remember every day. I never ever stop wondering, wondering if you still think of us. I don’t need a photograph cause you’ve never left my mind, no you’ve never left my mind! I remember feeling like a ship whose captain was too drunk to steer and you watched as I was sinking, waving sadly from the pier. It’s such a burden to carry ’round the vestiges of dead dreams and I don’t want to make a wake out of my life. I just had to let you go.


$9,136,438,140,145.40 [politics] (brillig.com)

One of the two biggest open secrets in American politics is that no bill is needed to end the legal funding of the occupation of Iraq. [politics] (smirkingchimp.com)

When CNN airs fluffy videos, they tell America that we shouldn’t turn to the Internet for our real news, we should turn to the “experts” on CNN, reinforcing the idea that the Internet only entertains. [politics] (theseminal.com)

President Bush is doing everything possible to delay, obfuscate and obstruct a congressional investigation of his possible role in exposing an undercover CIA agent [politics] (rawstory.com)

Nazi archives finally opened to the public (cnn.com)

This time, market players seem truly horrified — because they’ve suddenly realized that they don’t understand the complex financial system they created. (nytimes.com)

George Bush is Not Your Commander in Chief [politics] (antiwar.com)

Iraq War Stats - 120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week! (2solitudes.com)

You should educate yourself about this road, this not-so-Super Highway. After all, you are helping to pay for it. [politics] (smirkingchimp.com)

When it is launched early next year in Britain and the US it will probably be known simply as the “mind-reading helmet”, capable, supposedly, of knowing what users are thinking [science] (technology.timesonline.co.uk)

The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind [science] (washingtonpost.com)

The Peace Drug - MDMA Injects Love into Horror, Healing PTSD [science] (washingtonpost.com)

Who’s Afraid of Barack Obama? - New York Times [politics] (nytimes.com)

77.8% of college students think of the Internet as a convenience, 17.8% a source of amusement, 5% reported negative perceptions (frustrating or a waste of time). (cjlt.ca)

91% of Americans surveyed thought that they would have a better quality of life if they lived in Canada (macleans.ca)

Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. (codinghorror.com)

Too many students attend college (detnews.com)

French Teen's Rape Case Exposes Dubai's Dark Side (abcnews.go.com)

Mitt Romney was Pro-Choice before he was Pro-Life. He was for Gun-Control before he Against it. And he was Anti-Reagan before he was Pro-Reagan. The Man has No Convictions. [politics] (theseminal.com)

Huckabee is a lying crook, who ordered the hard drives in 83 computers and 4 servers be destroyed in his final days in office [politics] (dailykos.com)

The rape epidemic (observer.guardian.co.uk)

Every cent the dollar drops against the euro costs Airbus €100 million (spiegel.de)

The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa [science] (geology.com)

Venus was probably much more Earth-like and contained large quantities of water. [science] (spaceref.com)

Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics [science] (abstractatom.com)

Corn: 18 gallons/acre year. Algae: 3,500 gallons/acre year. [science] (msnbc.msn.com)

Ethanol is finally starting to be seen as a huge scam. [science] (online.wsj.com)

Colour X-ray machine sees so much more [science] (technology.newscientist.com)

Informed Comment: McCain blames Rise of Hitler on Ron Paul Not Invading and Occupying other Countries Branded 'Isolationism' [politics] (juancole.com)

Bush's Next Preemptive Strike: Trying to force us to stay in Iraq after he leaves office [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

Researchers Discover Personal Trainer For Your Memory [science] (bloodindex.org)

The White Continent: Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of Antarctica. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Naomi Wolf: America's Fascist Coup Owes Legacy To Bush's Nazi Grandfather [politics] (prisonplanet.com)

Google Introduces Mobile Phone Locator (reddit.com)

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids (sciam.com)

Watch out U.S.! China becoming less and less happy with you. [politics] (nytimes.com)

Michael Moore cut this scene from Sicko because no one would believe it (bravenewfilms.org)

Giuliani billed obscure city agencies $618,000 to finance trips to the Hamptons to cheat on his wife with Judith Nathan (and other fun adventures) [politics] (politico.com)

Robots fight for championship title in Tokyo (link.brightcove.com)

Every fear you have, named in one place [science] (phobialist.com)

Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean? (zephoria.org)

Wednesday is Lopsided

This is the accent of the halfhearted land. Does it all make sense now? And if the ship was built in bottled sand does it all make sense now? The anchor's kiss was scrawled in dyslexic crayon, yes it all makes sense now. Is this just a life preserver or a bivouac tenure? The tropic of cancer answered, "drink the quicksand". A mirror was splintered on the deck floor, does it all make sense now? A stowaway that lived beneath this hull, does it all make sense now? The anchor's kiss was scrawled in dyslexic crayon, yes it all makes sense now. Is this just a life preserver or a bivouac tenure? The tropic of cancer answered, "drink the quicksand". It's gills will swim faster after a breath from the shore, breathe the taste of salt water, dry heave up and overboard. Ponce de leon wrinkles, let's make it young again. Boat drinks for captains, row our boat stowaway. It all makes sense now. If our map was torn, navigate. Navigate if your compass broke, navigate, navigate.


President Signs Document Effectively Making Iraq a Colony of the U.S. [politics] (lataan.blogspot.com)

The Real Reason why Stocks are Plunging (money.cnn.com)

Libertarianism And Non-Interventionism [politics] (thelibertypapers.org)

Could hyperinflation happen in the U.S.? [politics] (lewrockwell.com)

Covering up the trail of dead Iraqis: How the Pentagon has used "tactical perception management" to obscure the killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S. forces. [politics] (salon.com)

Environmental Impact of Paving and Road-building [politics] (politicalaffairs.net)

Meet the Only Two Candidates Worse Than Bush and Cheney: Rudy or Hillary: Pick Your Poison [politics] (counterpunch.org)

America's Armageddonites: Utopian fantasies have long transfixed the human race. Yet today a much rarer fantasy has become popular in the United States. Millions of Americans have a death wish [politics] (speroforum.com)

You know you have slipped into a fascist dictatorship when those who dissent are treated like traitors, terrorists, and enemies of the state. [politics] (opednews.com)

Oceans are the Heart and Blood of the Earth — But are They Healthy? [science] (stephenleahy.wordpress.com)

The Ron Paul Revolution Is Well Underway. It Will Not Be Televised. [politics] (nationalledger.com)

Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates [politics] (npr.org)

Readiness Exercise 1984, was a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency. [politics] (en.wikipedia.org)

Verizon announced today that it will open access to all of its spectrum in 2008. Any device will be able to run any application with no bandwidth caps... (arstechnica.com)

Step Behind the Scenes [Pics] (chemistryland.com)

Tuesday is Borrowed

When I was younger, living confusion and deep despair. When I was younger, ah hah, living illusion of freedom and power. When I was younger, full of ideas and broken dreams (my friend). When I was younger, ah hah, everything simple but not so clear. Living on borrowed time, without a thought for tomorrow. Now I am older the more that I see the less that I know for sure. Now I am older, ah hah, the future is brighter and now is the hour. Living on borrowed time, without a thought for tomorrow. Good to be older, would not exchange a single day or a year. Good to be older, ah hah, less complications everything clear. Living on borrowed time, without a thought for tomorrow.

AP Photo of the President and some fucking asshole that bankrupted our country and killed 1,000,000+ people. (ap.google.com)

Dennis Kucinich, you are officially awesome. [pic] (flickr.com)

What Makes Us Moral [science] (time.com)

Quantum Mechanics/Computing, explained coherently [science] (scottaaronson.com)

The next giant step toward world government will be integration of the U.S., Canada and Mexico in European Union-style merger in the next few years (worldnetdaily.com)

U.S. Concentration Camps: Halliburton Confirms Concentration Camps Already Constructed [politics] (libertyforlife.com)

Anyone notice what's not being debated--our economic collapse, the subprime meltdown, the crimes of Wall Street, the inflation that is squeezing our lives, the threat of new wars [politics] (smirkingchimp.com)

Dozens injured in Paris rampage on second night of heavy rioting, worse than in 2005. [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

"NO DANCING," reads the sign behind the bar. It’s not some kitschy 19th-century relic. It’s the law in New York City, as revived by Rudy Giuliani. [politics] (tenant.net)

America's back is about to break: bracing for the coming crisis (agonist.org)

The American working class, once the most prosperous on Earth, has been politically disempowered, impoverished and abandoned. [politics] (truthdig.com)

If You Support Either Paul *OR* Kucinich, Support Them Both [politics] (dmiessler.com)

The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail [politics] (alternet.org)

The Big Sleep: Until the Industrial Revolution, a form of near-hibernation was the norm for humans [science] (nytimes.com)

Stephen King: It's time for somebody to discuss the difference between real news and fake news (time.com)

The height difference between North and South Koreans is already four inches. [science] (tdaxp.com)

Former German chancellor Schmidt: "Russia poses far less of a threat to world peace today than, for example, the United States." [politics] (spiegel.de)

Credit Card Processing Fess Up 117% in Last 5 Years (braintreefinancial.com)

Don't look now: Here comes the US recession [business] (money.cnn.com)

How to develop a mindset for math [programming] (betterexplained.com)

Obama: He drank. He inhaled. He even snorted. He doesn’t lie about it [politics] (rollingstone.com)

The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. (kdka.com)

Chris Dodd Calls on Mukasey to Investigate McClellan Charges of White House Cover Up (here we go!) [politics] (chrisdodd.com)

Giving drug addicts a safe product and a safe place to use it dramatically cuts crime. (news.independent.co.uk)

We've been lied to by this White House. Who says? Scott McClellan, the guy who was paid to lie for the guys who lied in the first place. [politics] (opednews.com)

Decriminalizing Pot Will Reduce Prison Population, Have No Adverse Impact On Public Safety, Study Says (norml.org)

Craig Venter, the scientist who unsuccessfully attempted to map the human genome for profit, has applied for the first ever patent on a human-made life form. [science] (newstarget.com)

Shaolin - unbelievable [pics] (myinterestingfiles.com)

The Most Insane Medical Practices in History (cracked.com)

Sleep overclocks the brain, makes memory processing up to six or seven times faster. [science] (sciencedaily.com)

While you slept last night, regions of your brain may well have been going over the events of the previous day in a process that could be related to consolidating memories. [science] (sciam.com)

My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA [science] (nytimes.com)

Biofuels - a solution that will make the problem worse [politics] (onlineopinion.com.au)

Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists (news.yahoo.com)

Why do people — gay or straight — need the state’s permission to marry? [politics] (nytimes.com)

Scientists in Japan, US Report Stem Cell Breakthrough From Human Skin; No Embryos Needed [science] (abcnews.go.com)

Things Men Do in the Absence of Women [science] (portfolio.com)

Algorithm identifies top 100 blogs for news [science] (scienceblog.com)

Why Human Rights are More Important than National Security [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

First Woman, First Black, First Latino, or First Honest President? (opednews.com)

Kucinich signed agreement with SmartPower promising that if elected president, he will make the White House "100% energy efficient" [politics] (motherjones.com)

Where Have Burma's Monks Gone? (newsweek.com)

Imagine a President Like This: Kucinich's Remarkable Global Warming Speech [politics] (crooksandliars.com)

The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to the taxpayer, researchers say. [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

US leads world in jailing children for life: 2387 total. Israel, the only other country that imprisons juveniles for life, has seven. [politics] (theage.com.au)

Alphabetical list of Band Name Origins, or "How they got that name." (digitaldreamdoor.com)

What the leaders are depending on for the continuation of the current misrule of the world is centralized power and dumbed-down, apathetic and poverty-stricken masses [politics] (smirkingchimp.com)

Credit crisis reveals widespread accounting manipulation by top US banks (inteldaily.com)

Victoria's dirty secret (presscue.com)

Phew! How to De-Stress in 3 Minutes or Less (ririanproject.com)

The fake October news conference held by the FEMA was not first time a Homeland Security public affairs official acted like a reporter asking questions during briefing. [politics] (news.yahoo.com)

Astronomers may have hastened the demise of the universe - just by looking at it, according to a new theory [science] (dailymail.co.uk)