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)

Tuesday forgot how to live.

Today is just like yesterday, except I'm living here rather then there.



|politics|

Al Gore Endorses Obama! (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)

McCain Sets a New Record: 10 Flip-Flops in Two Weeks (crooksandliars.com)

Obama's selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the eventual vice presidential nominee is the "biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics." (huffingtonpost.com)

Great Britian, Fuel Crisis: Petrol hits £2 a Litre. 3.785 Liters * £2 * $1.96($ to the £) = $14.84 per Gallon of Gas. (autocar.co.uk)

Egypt achieves truce between Israel and Hamas leaders, will go into effect within three days (edition.cnn.com)

New York Poised to OK Marijuana for Medicinal Use (dailygazette.com)

Jon Stewart Mocks Media For Peddling Insane Obama Rumors (huffingtonpost.com)

Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority? (alternet.org)

Iran's President Says Market Full of Oil and Price Trends Are "Fake" (reuters.com)

The ACLU says you "should not be required to display mastectomies, colostomies, penile implants, and the size of breasts or genitals as a pre-requisite to boarding a plane.” But you do. (news.theage.com.au)


|science|

Lesbians have brains like straight men, Gay men have brains like straight women. (theregister.co.uk)

Life artifically created in a lab. (Lab creates living cells from organic material) As if we need more proof that life can be created without a god. (reuters.com)

solid evidence that artificial food additives can cause ADHD-like symptoms (thelancet.com)

So say scientists at the frontiers of research on the eternal question of what women find erotic, the latest answer to which seems to be: not naked guys, or at least not simply naked guys. (nytimes.com)

Time for rethink on the clitoris (news.bbc.co.uk)

|environment|

"It's fascinating to see how all the things we have ranted about for years become mainstream not because people want to save the planet, but because they need to save money" (treehugger.com)

Intel Invests in Solar Power, Forms New Company (treehugger.com)

Know your back yard: EPA data for pollutants by zip code (epa.gov)

A multi-million pound fund to save one of the world's biggest rainforests from destruction has been launched in London (telegraph.co.uk)

|fun|

Why Has Modern Music Lost So Much Impact? (kingsofar.com)

12 Most Amazing Bionic Buildings (environmentalgraffiti.com)

10 Highest Waterfalls on Earth (environmentalgraffiti.com)

My first cavity search (img527.imageshack.us)

Formal apology form (loscuatroojos.com)

Google Street View car gets a ticket. (flickr.com)

Monday and back

Hello, after a short hiatus I am back and on duty.



|politics|

Obama's Policies – The issues of the day, and how Obama plans to solve them, in his own words. (barackobama.com)

Tim Russert Has Died (nytimes.com)

Law School To Organize Bush War Crimes Trial (opednews.com)

Protesters chant "George Bush terrorist" and "Arrest George Bush" as Bush dines with rupert Murdoch (guardian.co.uk)

Exposing Bush Administration Corruption: the systematic looting of the treasury to enrich contractors and high-level officials at Pentagon, CIA and others well-placed in government. (populistamerica.com)

Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news? (newyorker.com)

The landmark 5-4 Supreme Court decision recognizing the habeas corpus rights of detainees is a reminder that one more right-wing justice could make Bush’s imperial presidency “constitutional.” (consortiumnews.com)

End of unlimited internet? Time Warner, ATT, Comcast--Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic (nytimes.com)

Dennis Kucinich Says He's Not Giving Up on Impeachment: Morality and the Law Require It. (buzzflash.com)

Americans enter new cycle as tough times alter spending habits (marketwatch.com)



|science|

Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait. (newscientist.com)

A trio of super-Earths discovered (labspaces.net)

This would make cavities a thing of the past, and put no small number of dentists out of business (damninteresting.com)

5 Superpowers Science Will Give Us in Our Lifetime (cracked.com)

Major evolution observed in a lab. (dailykos.com)

European and US scientists have proved for the first time that two bits of genetic coding, called nucleobases, contained in the meteor fragment, are truly extraterrestrial. (news.yahoo.com)

Coffee's aroma kick-starts genes in the brain (labspaces.net)




|environment|

How to Run a Car on Water (i-r-squared.blogspot.com)

How to run a car on air: Air-Powered Car Coming to U.S. in 2009 to 2010 (popularmechanics.com)

Seven Ways to Save Energy by Saving Water (cleantechnica.com)

China has stepped into first place as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, edging ahead of the United States. (treehugger.com)

Deep drilling. A form of renewable geothermal energy (thinksolarenergy.net)

Roofing Company Develops Peel-and-Stick Solar Panels (blog.wired.com)

Solar Power's New Style (time.com)

World's Biggest Solar Farm Is About to Open—Is the End of Oil Near? (guardian.co.uk)

Durable, Inexpensive, Bamboo Houses Can Be Assembled Quickly For Earthquake Victims (sciencedaily.com)


|fun|

Time Lapse Video of a Brush Fire (blog.wired.com)

10 Completely Time-Wasting Websites That Will Enrage Your Boss (purpleslinky.com)

Time Lapse of Ants Eating A Gecko (break.com)