Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Tuesday is a Fool, April!

Happy B-Day Andie!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm back and here are some updates:



How Did April Fools' Day Start? [offbeat] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

10 stories that could be April Fools... but aren't [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Obama wrote the whole thing... Himself?!?! [politics] (dailykos.com)

Obama: "Clinton should keep running." Clinton: "Obama doesn't want people to vote." [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

The real harm Hillary Clinton inflicted on Bosnia. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine [politics] (slate.com)

Superdelegates Hiding from Wrath of Clintons [politics] (alternet.org)

Exposure to brand logos for just milliseconds changes the way people behave, according to research from Duke and the University of Waterloo. [cogsci] (news.com)

Bush Desecrates American Flag - He Must hate America (pic) [pics] (politicalhumor.about.com)

'Can you explain why Holland has lower marijuana user despite access being unrestricted?'. UN Drugs Chief: 'No. I refuse to answer that.' (ukcia.org)

Rep. Harman: Military woman "more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire" [politics] (alternet.org)

"The Japanese government paid for 100% of the development of the battery and hybrid system that went into the Toyota Prius." [business] (msnbc.msn.com)

I used to work for one of the oldest and largest financial services companies in the world. I feel the need to take you much deeper down the rabbit hole. [business] (cryptogon.com)

Iraqi women were actually much better off under Saddam than under US occupation [politics] (alternet.org)

On June 4, 1963 JFK ended the fifty year monopoly of the Fed to issue currency, six months later he was shot and killed. [politics] (financialsense.com)

What's keeping us from Mars? Space rays, say experts [science] (reuters.com)

Sustainable Transport – how addicted to cars are we? [environment] (celsias.com)

New Habitable Planets in Space [science] (dailygalaxy.com)

The sad story of Nim: A chimp raised to think he was human and then shipped away when funds ran out. [science] (salon.com)

A hypercube rotating in 4-dimentional space- really cool (GIF) [science] (upload.wikimedia.org)

TSA piercing policy update: They'll now visually inspect your nipple rings rather than force removal. [worldnews] (theregister.co.uk)

Federal Reserve Granted Sweeping New Powers As 'Market Stability Regulator': Let The Real Looting and Pillaging Begin! [business] (biz.yahoo.com)

They claimed that either we invade Iraq, or Saddam Hussein will use WMDs. Now, they assert that either we stay in Iraq, or the terrorists will come after us here. Both claims are false. [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

Prison rape occupies a fairly odd space in our culture. It is, all at once, a cherished source of humor, a tacitly accepted form of punishment and a broadly understood human rights abuse. (latimes.com)

China Plans Steep Increase in Military Spending (nytimes.com)

Insects become fly-on-the-wall spies with tiny cameras, radio controls and microphones [science] (dailymail.co.uk)

France may have banned genetically modified food, but Mexico just approved rules to begin planting genetically modified corn [science] (reuters.com)

The Fed is just an extension of the Banking establishment; The Bear Stearn bailout proves it [business] (informationclearinghouse.info)

World's best-known protest symbol turns 50 [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: Noam Chomsky. [politics] (chomsky.info)

Extreme Evolution: This slime, a collection of several fungi actually, was more than just surviving in a radioactive environment, it was actually using **gamma radiation** as a food source... [science] (unitedcats.wordpress.com)

Satellite Makes First Ever Observation Of Regionally Elevated Carbon Dioxide From Manmade Emissions [environment] (sciencedaily.com)

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