Friday is Let's put LED signs all over Boston, AGAIN!!

Hello, and welcome to the fateful anniversary of the ATHF LED 'bomb scare' in Boston last year. Montel Williams is losing his job after defending the troops on FOX. Also, Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards have dropped. I smell a McCain vs Obama election...




Artists celebrate 1-31-07 anniversary, put ATHF LED signs all over Boston (blog.makezine.com)

Shell's profit surge - it is now making a staggering $75million (£38million) a day [business] (huffingtonpost.com)

Creeping Fascism: You don't have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep. [politics] (commondreams.org)

Stranded at the airport? Don’t forget Rule 240 - Great info [business] (msnbc.msn.com)

Remember watching Montel Turn the tables on fox 3 days ago? Now "Key Fox-owned stations opted not to renew" Montel for next year and he calls it quits... (variety.com)

Montel Williams Loses Job after Defending Troops on Fox News (dailykos.com)

Obama: Decriminalize pot [politics] (washingtontimes.com)

Fox News Is in for a Very Rough 2008 [politics] (alternet.org)

Question: When Do We, As Paul Supporters, Switch to Obama? [politics] (dmiessler.com)

Rudy Giuliani actually admits it: "Ron Paul won all the debates." [politics] (weblogs.baltimoresun.com)

SUV Owners Must Pay $50 Per Day "Global Warming Tax" to Drive in London [science] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

Simply put, the U.S. banking system has no reserves now (safehaven.com)

Step one: torture foreigners. Step two: torture your own citizens, but only the criminals. Step three: widen the definition of 'criminal' to include "hostile intentions" toward the state. (books.google.com)

Breaking: Huckabee Scandal [politics] (dailykos.com)

Pelosi and Reid are totally unfit for the leadership positions they hold in Congress -- they no longer represent the best interests of America [politics] (onlinejournal.com)

New Study Confirms that 32% of Americans are Mentally Retarded (washingtonpost.com)

The Video the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See [Video] [science] (mafihotz.com)

The Plastic Eating Fungus [science] (bioedonline.org)

Swimmers' Sunscreen Killing Off Coral [science] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

One Pill Makes You Autistic -- And One Pill Changes You Back (io9.com)

New mammal discovered (news.bbc.co.uk)

Top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks [torrents] (lifehacker.com)

Hermit crab in a glamour glass shell (amazing pic) (wallout.com)

Tuesday is a rebate?

Hello and welcome. So many new and interesting topics! I'm just going to jump right in.




"We'll probably end up borrowing this $150 billion from the Chinese, and when we get those rebate checks, most people are going to go out and buy stuff that's been imported from China," [politics] (boston.com)

Sending checks to people in good financial shape does little or nothing to increase overall spending. [politics] (nytimes.com)

REAL ID killed in 17 states. 33 more to go- join us! [politics] (no2realid.org)

Neuroscience Is Confirming What We All Suspect: Multitasking Is Dumbing Us Down And Driving Us Crazy. (theatlantic.com)

Kucinich drops out of race. (blog.cleveland.com)

Dennis Kucinich now faces a fight to keep his job in Congress. [politics] (bostonherald.com)

Corporate media strategy: silence Kucinich, then remove him from office [politics] (afterdowningstreet.org)

Dennis Kucinich campaign was destroyed by the corporate media for trying to represent the public interest [politics] (onlinejournal.com)

Chavez has urged his Latin American allies on Saturday to begin withdrawing billions of dollars in international reserves from U.S. banks, warning of a looming U.S. economic crisis. (biz.yahoo.com)

In 1954 the CIA overthrew the *democratically* elected president of Gautemala, installing a military dictator - all to ensure a US company reaped large profits selling... bananas. [politics] (dontfearthetruth.com)

9/11/1990: George Bush Sr. gives a speech justifying war with Iraq and plans for a "new world order." 9/11/1990 changed everything for Iraq, then 9/11/2001 changed everything again. [politics] (en.wikisource.org)

BBC DOCUMENTARY: al-Qaeda "Organization" is a fiction with no basis in reality. (icomment.org)

We Screwed Up the Environment So Much We Have to Rename Our Geological Era [science] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

Earth Entering New Geologic Epoch? [science] (dsc.discovery.com)

Numbers are Essential: The other maths that won WW2 [science] (familyheritage.ca)

There's something fishy about evolution... [science] (richarddawkins.net)

We are ruled by monsters. [politics] (scienceblogs.com)

9/11/1973: With the help of the CIA, a military dictatorship overthrew the government of Chile. 9/11 changed everything in Chile. [politics] (en.wikipedia.org)

In 1953 the CIA overthrew the *democratically* elected president of Iran, installing the Shah - all to ensure a British company reaped large profits selling... oil. (en.wikipedia.org)

Camera In A Pill Offers Cheaper, Easier Window On Your Insides [science] (sciencedaily.com)

First sail added to a ocean freighter is cutting fuel use 10-15% [science] (ecogeek.org)

US the Biggest Producer of Terror' [politics] (afterdowningstreet.org)

Have you been noticing the cost of groceries going up? You can thank government subsidized ethanol. [politics] (csmonitor.com)

A Violent History of Time [science] (physorg.com)

US quietly demands Iraq give defense contractors, US military immunity from prosecution [politics] (rawstory.com)

Wolfowitz now in charge of US Arms Control and Disarmament Panel. Yep, you read it right. (breitbart.com)

Incredible slashdot comment from an ex-Scientologist (yro.slashdot.org)

Wanna See What Gold Atoms Look Like? (pics) [science] (blog.thesietch.org)

Top 10 bizarre things in space [science] (listverse.com)

The unsung virtues of semen. [science] (members.fortunecity.com)

Jan. 29, 1998: A Warning on Nicotine, Straight From the Horse's Mouth [science] (wired.com)

Why is yawning contagious? [science] (world-science.net)

Reddit is eating your telomeres. [science] (washingtonpost.com)

Risks of 6 Commonly Used Drugs [Chart] [science] (medicalcannabis.com)

Study shows marijuana increases brain cell growth [science] (peety-passion.com)

Big Pharma Has Some New Customers: How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness [politics] (alternet.org)

Psychologists and torture: "Why I'm Leaving the American Psychological Association" [politics] (dailykos.com)

I wore my new ARREST BUSH t-shirt tonight to my local Outback restaurant [politics] (populistamerica.com)

What is svchost.exe in Windows Task Manager - And Why Is It Running? (howtogeek.com)

Bad Ass Video of Freerunners Showing Their Skills (nothingtoxic.com)