Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Wednesday is a Lunar Eclipse!

Nothing to see here. Move along....

Don't forget to go out and watch the lunar eclipse tonight! (sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov)

The new US $5 (FIVE) Dollar Bill. It's got purple! (portfolio.com)

Hillary's experience: 1) Vote for War without reading estimate on WMD. 2) Vote to make Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. 3) Skip the vote to remove TeleCom immunity from FISA. [politics] (self.politics)

Obama Winner of Wisconsin: 9 in a row! [politics] (breitbart.com)

And Now, Hawaii for Obama - His 10th Consecutive Victory [politics] (nytimes.com)

To catch up in delegates, Clinton has to win the next six states by margins of 20% or more. That's a pretty tough climb for someone who has been behind in fundraising and lost eight straight contests. [politics] (theseminal.com)

John McCain is the Only Remaining Presidential Candidate who Doesn't Support Net Neutrality. In Fact, when asked about it, he Refuses to Answer. [politics] (theseminal.com)

Latest Poll: McCain Beats Clinton, Obama Beats McCain [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Pelosi Blocks Bush From Calling Congress Into Session Over FISA [politics] (politico.com)

Cuba pre-Castro: One major industry - corruption, 10,000 pimps, no blacks on beaches, and the main newspaper owner was on Mussolini's council (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)

Amtrak to begin random searches; officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains. Welcome to the police state, now move along. [politics] (msnbc.msn.com)

"Bush regime is paying Sunni insurgents $800,000 a day not to attack U.S. forces." [politics] (informationclearinghouse.info)

Defend Wikileaks! (binaryfreedom.info)

International Telecommunication Union: Cut Cables Were Sabotage (theinquirer.net)

What Europeans think of each other (dailycandor.com)

This is what the United States now stands for: a vicious determination to dominate the world, criminal, genocidal wars of aggression, torture, and an increasingly brutal authoritarian state at home. [politics] (onlinejournal.com)

Serbs in Kosovo Vow to Remain Part of Serbia [worldnews] (nytimes.com)

CNN fired me...The mainstream media doesn't believe that new media can embarrass them, hurt them or generally hold them accountable in any way...I'm suddenly in a position to do all three... (huffingtonpost.com)

A controversial new book argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda and the media simply swallow it wholesale. (alternet.org)

After years of silence, autistic girl of 13 finally speaks through computer. Parents astonished to discover the articulate and intelligent daughter within (abcnews.go.com)

Recent samples of writing by Carly - the 13 year old autistic girl who learned to speak with a computer (ctv.ca)

Top 5 Products Still Built in the USA (popularmechanics.com)

Suburbia--the next slums? (theatlantic.com)

"If we had high speed rail service in the United States, we'd never get on another airplane" (treehugger.com)

Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database. No potential for abuse, carry on… (realitybasedcommunity.net)

What People Owe Fish: A Lot [science] (nytimes.com)

Brain waves pattern themselves after rhythms of nature [cogsci] (biologynews.net)

Exploring Consciousness--with science! [cogsci] (eurekalert.org)

Sarcastic people protect themselves by only letting the world see a superficial part of who they are [cogsci] (psychologytoday.com)

A detailed study on Nano Technology [technology] (allinfodir.com)

Amsterdam Subcity [architectural conjecture] [technology] (bldgblog.blogspot.com)

The problem with search engines is that they remember everything that you ask. [cogsci] (mondovista.com)

America Needs an Agnostic in the White House [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

The new theories that are killing time [science] (telegraph.co.uk)

Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering [science] (physorg.com)

Top 15 misconceptions about evolution [science] (listverse.com)

The Sweet Smell of ... Nothing. Cupids take note: more women are shunning wearing fragrances in favor of their own natural scent. [happy] (nytimes.com)

3 of the Most Bizarre Micronations in the World [pics] (weburbanist.com)

Cool Study Explains How Some Thoughts Do Require Language (scienceblogs.com)

Best Social Music Web 2.0 Sites - Reviewed by TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Khajuraho: sex and the sacred [PIC] [pics] (you.presscue.com)

Holy fucking shit: Browser-based creative suite with Photoshop-like image editor, vector editor, 3D modeller, audio editor, video editor, music generator, word processor, font editor and more (a.viary.com)

Reddit Alternatives: A Detailed List of Other Social News Communities (doshdosh.com)

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