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)