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)

Tuesday is Befuddled

Today is just another day. Just as the last and the next.


Iraq's oil is officially up for grabs. Iraqi people will get to "keep" 17 of their over 80 oil fields. (iht.com)

Fidel Castro Resigns as President of Cuba [politics] (rds.yahoo.com)

Kosovo is Officially Independent! Congratulations! (news.bbc.co.uk)

Federal Judge Shuts Down Controversial Whistle-Blower Site "Wikileaks" [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

An attack on Wikileaks should be seen as an attack on the First Amendment itself (enstereo.wordpress.com)

USDA Recalls a Record 143 Million Pounds of Beef (cnn.com)

White House to veto Senate ban on waterboarding [politics] (afp.google.com)

The Protect America Act expired last night. Do you feel less safe? No? Maybe American can finally dismiss what comes out of Bush's mouth as fear mongering and ignore him until January 20th, 2009. [politics] (theseminal.com)

So-called Protect America Act allowed to expire because of citizen action toward Congress--stay involved! (downsizedc.org)

Brilliant strategy? I don’t get it. "U.S. BACKED Sunni militants have challenged the U.S.-BACKED Iraqi government in Baghdad" [politics] (alternet.org)

China has a plan for using industrial espionage to turn their country into the mightiest industrial and military power on the planet. [politics] (strategypage.com)Scientists: Bush Censors, Suppresses and Falsifies Scientific Data [politics] (ipsnews.net)

Obama's words inspire Clinton and McCain so much they copy them in their slogans. [politics] (caribbeanworldnews.com)

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve: "The Federal Reserve is the world's largest and most successful scam." [politics] (amazon.com)

"Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking" (telegraph.co.uk)

Pilot: 'My life was ruined after 9/11' [politics] (guardian.co.uk)

Obama: "I think even my six-year-old would understand it would not be fair for Senator Clinton to be awarded delegates when there was no campaign" [politics] (guardian.co.uk)

Do you like to eat seafood? Well, say your goodbyes. (scienceblogs.com)

Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? - New York Times (nytimes.com)

Lockheed Gets $1 Billion FBI Contract, To Keep Track Of You [politics] (cnn.com)

First telco immunity, now this: Sen. Jeff Sessions sponsors an unusual provision granting the banks immunity against an active patent lawsuit, potentially saving them $ billions [politics] (correntewire.com)

PUTIN RIPS HILLARY: 'At a minimum, a head of state should have a head' [politics] (politico.com)

Democrats Grow A Spine, Will Kill Telecom Immunity Bill In The House: "[We are] not a lap dog of the president or the United States Senate any more than they are of us." [politics] (blog.washingtonpost.com)

Reddit power! White House blaming the internets for Congress' reluctance to pass telco immunity [politics] (politico.com)

Of the leading contenders, so far, only Senator Barack Obama has released his full income-tax returns — a level of disclosure once routine for candidates after the political corruption of Watergate. [politics] (nytimes.com)

US President George W Bush has given his first interview to the BBC in almost seven years. Here is the full transcript of his conversation with BBC World News [politics] (news.bbc.co.uk)

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Spanks Bush for FISA; Concludes Bush Is a Fascist (MSM Uses the F Word) [politics] (afterdowningstreet.org)

"I, for one, do not intend to back down – not to the terrorists and not to anyone, including a President, who wants Americans to cower in fear." [politics] (speaker.gov)

The Age Of Unreason: Unable to grasp the basic principles of scientific method, Americans buy into a host of bogus ideas - religious fundamentalism, junk science, and simplistic politics [politics] (salon.com)

The House of Representative Grows A Pair, Stands Up To Bush's Fearmongering, and Lets FISA Expire! [politics] (theseminal.com)

Bush uses scare tactics to railroad flawed spying act [politics] (news.yahoo.com)

Way too many people claim "If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear." They couldn't be further from the truth. [politics] (populistamerica.com)

How "flat earth" news is killing journalism (mwaw.net)

22,000 People Died As Bayer Reaped Profits, Withheld Key Study From FDA [business] (consumerist.com)

Stevia occurs naturally, is 10-15 times sweeter than table sugar, and requires no patent to produce it. That's why you haven't heard of it, but you've heard of aspartame. (stevia.com)

Stevia caused Rat's Testicals to Shrink and Sperm to Decrease. Still think it's a good sugar replacement? (cspinet.org)

Who could imagine a private citizen would do an aspartame experiment with 108 rats for 2 years and 8 months? [science] (myaspartameexperiment.com)

Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay [politics] (news.com.au)

Mysteries of computer from 65 BC are solved [science] (guardian.co.uk)

Mt Huashan Hiking Trail: For Acrophobics only [Pics] (ssqq.com)

Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory [science] (cosmicvariance.com)

Total Lunar Eclipse on Wed, February 20th - the last one until Dec. 2010 [science] (science.nasa.gov)

Like Ants, Humans Are Easily Led [science] (telegraph.co.uk)

The best hybrid animals [Pics] [science] (hemmy.net)

50 Weird Science Tidbits & Oddities [science] (sciencenewsreview.com)

Who Are the Japanese, by Jared Diamond -- Discover Magazine, Non Linkjacked (discovermagazine.com)

As a reaction to the hops shortage, Sam Adams is selling 20,000 pounds of excess hops to microbrews at cost. (samueladams.com)

Marijuana news: Influential and respected group of doctors urge US goverment to roll back prohibition [science] (scientistlive.com)

This machine KILLS fascists (pic) (en.wikipedia.org)

How Porn Ruined Sex: How About You Don't Ask To Come On My Face On The First Date? [sorta nsfw] (jezebel.com)

Los Alamos says it can manufacture gasoline from CO2 in the air at a price of $4.60 a gallon. [science] (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)

The Golden Gate Suicide Spot Location [Image] (matterr.com)

How To Make A Million Before You Turn 20 (forbes.com)

Thursday is a Telecom featured, Waterboarding event!

Waterboarding has been banned, and Telecom Immunity has been rejected. Two steps in the right direction..................................................although Bush will veto both of them :(

On a simpler note~ Here are 3 youtube videos that have been created by the candidates, the original from Obama, 'Yes We Can', the parody of Mccain, and then Hillary's attempt.



Senate Passes Ban On Waterboarding, Other Techniques. On Collision Course with Whitehouse [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

House Rejects Telecom Immunity as FISA Clock Ticks Down [politics] (ecommercetimes.com)

Bush says US will waterboard whether legal or not [politics] (news.yahoo.com)

John McCain, who was tortured back in 'Nam, just voted NO on banning waterboarding and torture. (nytimes.com)

Bush admits to violating the 4th Amendment of the Constitution, that he swore to defend. [politics] (cbsnews.com)

President Bush pressured the House on Wednesday, saying "terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison." [politics] (foxnews.com)

Great idea - Obama's energy plan to invest $150 billion over 10 years to establish a “green energy sector” to add up to 5 million jobs in the next two decades [politics] (nytimes.com)

Obama launches economic manifesto - to include a "Credit Card Bill of Rights" [politics] (telegraph.co.uk)

I hope you haven't given $$ to Hillary, because if you have, she's sold your info to a direct-mail spammer. [politics] (npr.org)

Maybe We Should Start Tracking Each FBI Agent By Satellite 24 Hours A Day Since They Have Routinely Proven To Be Criminals Who Can't Be Trusted [politics] (9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com)

Department of Homeland Security to use spy satellites to monitor the country [politics] (ap.google.com)

U.S. may shoot down errant spy satellite -- In reality, of course, U.S. just wants to show Russia and China it can shoot down a satellite [science] (cnn.com)

America's Creeping Fascism [politics] (thegoodargument.com)

Sissy Nation: We've become a herd of Holsteins. Soft, lazy, stupid, knee-jerk, head-bobbing, fundamentalist, high-brained, less-than-human humans now. [politics] (salon.com)

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (nicholasgcarr.com)

While bloggers and print journalists lock horns over media hierarchies and journalistic standards, Web 2.0 is making Google a noiseless fortune (signandsight.com)

Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know (health.com)

Why YOU should want to legalize marijuana (classicilliterature.blogspot.com)

World Bank prohibits Mali from subsidizing its farmers, so that heavily subsidized Amercian farmers can wipe them out. (theglobeandmail.com)

Material selectively swallows CO2 [science] (scienceblog.com)

Neuroscientists are probing why some married couples can maintain the spark for years. [science] (online.wsj.com)

Teleportation and Wormholes: The Science of 'Jumper' [science] (livescience.com)

Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth [science] (esa.int)

The Physics of Gridlock [science] (theatlantic.com)

Map of Humanity [Image] (joeydevilla.com)

Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired [cogsci] (scienceblogs.com)

New Solar Collector So Efficient It Works At Night (groovygreen.com)

COLOUR MUSIC IN THE NEW AGE: De-mystifying De Clario (home.vicnet.net.au)

Jaanix (jaanix.com)