Friday is a Compost Heap

Hello. Here for your amusement, I have compiled a bunch of mishmosh links for your enjoyment. Friday is the day for unorganization, so have fun!



A powerful group of neo cons working to undermine Obama with "a series of carefully planted character assassinations and deliberately misleading innuendo" [politics] (thenation.com)

Exxon makes the same amount of money IN TWO WEEKS that is spent by the federal government on renewable energy research IN ONE YEAR [environment] (thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com)

Ant world filled with dishonesty and the exploiting of altruism-like behaviour [science] (biologynews.net)

Stem Cells Discovered in Human Breast Milk. Is There Anything Those Things *Can't* Fix? [science] (naturalnews.com)

'10-minute walk can better quality of life' [science] (telegraph.co.uk)

Monster bug camera brings about vast improvement for surveillance [science] (scienceblog.com)

Two-Dimensional High-Temperature Superconductor Discovered [science] (sciencedaily.com)

'Pre-Inca' temple found in Peru [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Antarctica's unique space rocks: A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica are in a class all of their own. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

What if I told you that 10 months before 9/11, Saddam Hussein did something very big, and pissed off the US Administration? [politics] (dontfearthetruth.com)

Who Owns All The Organic Companies? [Chart] (awesome.goodmagazine.com)

Anonymous finally hits the jackpot: leaked emails show the "Church" of Scientology illegally encourages political candidates, in violation of its tax exempt status. (forums.enturbulation.org)

"Let’s give each millionaire in America a $20 bill, and every poor child $287,000" [politics] (robbrian.squarespace.com)

Ten things you don't know about the Milky Way Galaxy (badastronomy.com)

Screw Paying to Learn a Foreign Language, These Edu Sites Offer Then for Free (degreedirectory.org)

A US military study officially acknowledged for the first time yesterday that Saddam Hussein had no direct ties to al-Qaida, undercutting the Bush administration's central case for war with Iraq. [politics] (guardian.co.uk)

Bush Tied to Child Prostitution - Resignation or Impeachment Expected! [politics] (democrats.com)

US Denies UN Torture Chief Access To American-Run Iraq Prisons [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Collapse of the U.S. dollar: Oil rallies above $110 per barrel, gold soars to $1,000 an ounce, euro trades above... US$1.55 [politics] (marketwatch.com)

If We Yell "War Criminal!" at Every Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rummie, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle and other Neocon Appearance - The MSM Won't Be Able to Hide It - It Will End Up On the News [politics] (michaelmoore.com)

Will American War Crimes Be Revealed? (Like Vietnam vets did decades ago, a group of soldiers are poised to speak out about atrocities US committed in Iraq & Afghanistan.) [politics] (salon.com)

The External Tank of a Space Shuttle [Pics] [science] (lockheedmartin.com)

20 Things You Didn't Know About Relativity (Who invented relativity? Bzzzt—wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639 ) [science] (discovermagazine.com)

Breast cancer 'master gene' breakthrough [science] (telegraph.co.uk)

Fighting A Bug Invasion With ... Bugs [science] (thedailygreen.com)

Quantum-Dot Leap: Tapping tiny crystals' inexplicable light-harvesting talent (for those interested in learning about nano-photovaltics) [science] (sciencenews.org)

Brain scientist recalls every moment of a massive stroke she suffered as her brain functions slowly slipped away. [science] (ted.com)

Artificial Event Horizon Generates Hawking Radiation- an effect Stephen Hawking predicted more than 30 years ag [science] (eurekalert.org)

How does the U.S.A today compare to Czechoslovakia in 1975? (guardian.co.uk)

#1 Cash Crop in the US? Not wheat, not soy, not corn....CANNABIS (drugscience.org)

Affluenza - American Obsession With Getting Rich And Buying Stuff (badcyclopedia.com)

Citing judgment and ability to lead, US Army, Navy, Air Force leaders who served under last nine presidents endorse Obama [politics] (epicos.com)

Here's an obvious solution to the health care crisis: why not cut the Pentagon's massive budget to fund health care for all? [politics] (alternet.org)

Massive FBI Spying Abuses Reported (nytimes.com)

The Fox and the Hound: Why Fallon's resignation should be the front page news--but the public prefers the Eliot Spitzer gossip story [politics] (politicalinquirer.com)

China has accused the US of double standards over human rights. [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop (news.com)

ACLU "Surveillance Clock" 1 min closer to midnight: "... NSA has effectively revived the Orwellian "Total Information Awareness" domestic-spying program that was banned by Congress in 2003." [politics] (aclu.org)

"Total Information Awareness" secretly revived by NSA, in defiance of Congress. [politics] (news.com)

Olbermann Slams Clinton in Special Comment: "You Are Campaigning As If Barack Obama Were The Democrat And You Were The Republican" [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Bound to offend almost everyone... [SFW] (politicalhumor.about.com)

Since the NSA slurps all email traffic, would they have all of the missing White House emails? [politics] (self.politics)

John Kerry: "Congress needs to determine immediately whether Admiral Fallon's resignation is another example of truth tellers being forced to the sidelines in the Bush administration" [politics] (bloomberg.com)

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich (cnbc.com)

Google closes $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal (sfgate.com)

The iStraw Cleans Water As You Drink It [environment] (technologybb.com)

Major Advance In Biofuel Technology: Trash Today, Ethanol Tomorrow [environment] (technologybb.com)

Pollution may make you dumber. And it certainly affects how your brain process information. [environment] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Dark Days at the Environmental Protection Agency [environment] (celsias.com)

The world's most eco-friendly museum [science] (popsci.com)

From gunk to drink, the lifesaving water bottle [environment] (guardian.co.uk)

The Ugly Side of Solar Panels: Inspecting the Carbon Tradeoff [environment] (lowtechmagazine.com)