Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Wednesday is poisonous

Today is lurking around, cautiously predicting when to strike next.



|politics|

President Bush and his allies are once again trying to scare Congress into expanding the president’s powers to spy on Americans without a court order. (nytimes.com)

CONFIRMED: U.S. Hid Detainees From The Red Cross (huffingtonpost.com)

Obama sets up internet 'war room' to fight slurs (timesonline.co.uk)

'Disposable Heroes': Government Using Vets To Test Suicide-Linked Drugs With Violent Side Effects... (abcnews.go.com)

How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus and make the population love it (wikileaks.org)

The Swedish school system. A happy medium between socialist and free market education. (economist.com)


|science|

U.S. Army sending a platoon of "Future Combat's Flying Robots" to Iraq immediately. (blog.wired.com)

Nanotechnology, Biomolecules And Light Unite To 'Cook' Cancer Cell (sciencedaily.com)

Synthetic diamonds are now practically indistinguishable from mined diamonds. (smithsonianmag.com)

Is It Ice Or Salt? (news.yahoo.com)

The Darwinian Evolution Model For Homosexuality (scientificblogging.com)

"Groundbreaking" Revelations Are Reshaping Himalayan Geological History (dailygalaxy.com)

Conclusive evidence that apes have fore thought and advance planning. (news.yahoo.com)



|environment|

Obama Campaign Organizes Flood Relief (dailykos.com)

The Weather Patern is Changing : The Jet Stream Shifting (sciencentral.com)

New fluorescent bulbs that last 13,000 hrs by Panasonic, gets to full brightness 50% faster (treehugger.com)

If biofuels are so bad, why aren't we campaigning against cotton? (newscientist.com)

Is a "Nucleargate" pending? ACDP quizzes Govt � Why no public participation? (energynews.co.za)



|fun/geek|

See a Huge Moon Illusion Wednesday (news.yahoo.com)

what is money anyway? (video.google.com)

Firefox 3 download counter (downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com)

We've open sourced reddit! (blog.reddit.com)

What We'll Miss About Bill Gates (wired.com)

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