August 31, 2010

* May post occasionally. Sorry for the sudden change

  August 28, 2010

  August 24, 2010

* Modern food can first used on August 25th, 1810
* N. Carolina crime lab hid evidence in 230 cases
* "Fair and Balanced" Fox News donated $1M to GOP
* Manhattan mosque funded by Fox News stakeholder
* Cat-trashing lady outed by CCTV and Anonymous

  August 21, 2010

* Lincoln wasn't Catholic, Roosevelt not Jewish
* Fire Dept opposes Outreach Center book burning
* Prosecutor facilitates character assassination
* Audio: five versions of the song Strange Fruit
* SpaceX tests capsule parachutes from 14,000 ft

  August 20, 2010

* 29 US states don't require mealtime for employees
* Most isolated man on the planet remains anonymous
* Wikileaks asked Pentagon for help with redactions
* Half a billion eggs recalled for salmonella in US
* Our City Dreams [2008] Five female visual artists

* Earth & Moon from Messenger probe sent to Mercury
* In a social system where everything must be owned
* North Korea's official Facebook and YouTube pages
* Hecho a Mano Book Arts of Latin America [gallery]
* Most string players use steel not gut since WWII

  August 18, 2010

* Portable lavatories harvest methane for refugees
* Post-independence history of Indian caste system
* Opponents of mosque appeal to bigotry, cowardice
* Pictures of area considered unsuitable for mosque
* Arizona sheriff requires prisoners to use English

* Universal grammar of numbers "lies beyond our ken"
* No consensus classifacatory scheme of temperament
* Criticism infringes on martyr's freedom of speech
* Giving psychotic Pamela Atlas serious credibility
* 69% of assholes think everyone else is an asshole

  August 15, 2010

* Obama backs freedom of religion for NYC mosque
* Encrypted "insurance" file posted to Wikileaks
* Website could make FOIA implementation quicker
* Michael Moore reports on GM's return to profit
* Genetically modified beets grown in Willamette

* 76,000,000 US cases of foodborne illness yearly
* Gulf seafood not being tested for oil dispersant
* "When you give people power they act like fools"
* Have-nots necessary for exploitation and charity
* Homo neanderthalensis subspecies of Homo sapiens

* Scott Horton: parallel between Hegel & Beethoven
* Kevin Kelly lists alltime best magazine articles
* 3rd spacewalk to restore ISS cooling capability
* Gibbs full circle regarding "professional left"
* American Imams visit Dachau concentration camp

  August 13, 2010

* Government relying on companies to set standards
* False dilemma: free market or regulatory capture
* Mountaintop removal coal mines "improve the land"
* BP reluctant to permanently seal disastrous well
* Merchants use religion to establish reliability

  August 11, 2010

* Pope rejects resignations of 2 auxiliary Bishops
* Former Mexican President backs drug legalization
* Electronic Frontier Foundation on Google/Verizon
* Replica of Gutenberg hand-powered printing press
* R. Crumb writes about inspiration for characters

  August 9, 2010

* Hawking: humanity has all its eggs in one basket
* First woman to head major US intelligence agency
* GOP would ban Congress from meeting for 2 months
* Dry pet food linked to Human Salmonella outbreak
* Car powered by CNG methane made from human waste

* Trading the power of love for the love of power
* Accounts from the hypocenter of a nuclear blast
* Tea Party members ambivalent about fundraising
* Resigned governor greets protester on film set
* Google/Verizon pact heralds Internet enclosure

  August 8, 2010

* McConnell, Cantor & Paul at Kentucky breakfast
* Fox Network's relentless effort to create news
* Gingrich unfaithful during Clinton impeachment
* GM canola flourishing along N. Dakota highways
* Owner of 1984 Suburban prefered the status quo

* Reported last words of ten well known authors
* Roald Dahl struggled to keep his family alive
* 1995 facsimile from Iggy Pop to Plazm magazine
* Perry v. Schwarzenegger defendants file briefs
* 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic and Paralympic games

  August 7, 2010

  August 4, 2010

* California Proposition 8 ruled unconstitutional
* San Francisco Transbay Terminal demolition soon
* AMA report on role of CIA physicians in torture
* Tea Party Express try to exorcise Mark Williams
* Bamboozled [2000] Spike Lee study of blackface

  August 3, 2010

* Anti-Defamation League opposes mosque project
* Jewish youth taught to view Arabs as inferior
* Music is "not compatible" with Iranian regime
* BP wants you to believe oil spill disappeared
* Sharron Angle would be friends with the press

* Missouri HCR ballot initiative is non-binding
* Wheat flour may now carry E. Coli, Salmonella
* Wikipedia refuses to remove image of FBI seal
* Microsoft quashed efforts to boost IE privacy
* Net Neutrality doesn't violate 5th Amendment

* Henry Rollins talks about Miles Davis [video]
* Delhi: pastoral enclaves, bucolic interstices
* Ragbir Bhathal searches sky for light signals
* Hottest July in Russia in more than 130 years
* Picture of Frieda Lawrence near Taos in 1938

  August 2, 2010

* US to cease Iraq "combat operations" August 31
* Resigned Governor says President lacks cojones
* Top GOP Senators want repeal of 14th Amendment
* Corporations are immortal; don't have families
* Target corporation exercising Citizens United

* Renewing Bush tax cuts would increase deficit
* Pics of Bill & Hillary before Chelsea nuptial
* Man faces jail for videotaping undercover cop
* Tor developer "detained" in Wikileaks inquiry
* Hustwit documentary investigates urban design

* Market adopts 1962 invention of Gorilla Glass
* Int'l Appalachian Trail Maine to Newfoundland
* UniTea Party rally supposed to show diversity
* Virginia AG opines on Arizona immigration law
* Turf dancing on a corner in southeast Oakland

  July 29, 2010

* Arizona governor seeks money to defend new law
* Charges dropped against one black man: pattern
* Shirley Sherrod plans to sue Andrew Breitbart
* I'm off to Crater Lake with friends 'til 8/2
* Obama causing "End Times" like Jimmy Carter

* Craig Venter: we learned nothing from genome
* Sea Shepherd exposes cetacean mass slaughter
* DIY kitty crack: ultra potent catnip extract
* Watercolor painting depicting cell division
* Model of universe with no beginning or end

  July 28, 2010

* Federal judge blocks enforcement of Arizona law
* Republican administrations run bigger deficits
* Tax cuts for the rich, shame on the unemployed
* I got a full time job today. I start next week
* Barack Obama's note to author of "Life of Pi"

  July 27, 2010

* GOP Senators once preferred up or down vote
* Dodd doesn't want to see recess appointment
* MoveOn.org parody edit of Breitbart remarks
* British PM calls Gaza a prison camp: context
* Hypertextual medieval illuminated manuscripts

  July 26, 2010

* Fox audience 1% black; MSNBC & CNN both 20%
* Sherrod distrusts Beck as much as Breitbart
* Corporate mechanical difficulty "act of God"
* Creationism is neither theory nor hypothesis
* Americans with Disabilities Act 20 years old

* Sen. Franken at Netroots Nation Vegas [video]
* Elizabeth Warren could appear before Senators
* EFF wins DRM exemptions from Copyright Office
* Major flaws found in recent BitTorrent study
* Study updates "Why no Aliens?" Fermi Paradox

  July 25, 2010

* Earliest hockey played in the British Isles
* Monogamy and jealousy are social constructs
* Timbuktu oldest library south of the Sahara
* Pakistan spy service aids Afghan insurgency
* Taliban used portable heat-seeking missiles

  July 24, 2010

* Netanyahu: I deceived US to stop Oslo accords
* Palin deletes portmanteau neologism refudiate
* Our Daily Bread [2005] food industry vinettes
* Email between John Young & Emmanuel Goldstein
* History of the graphical user interface icon

  July 22, 2010

* AIDS rate -50% since drug decriminalization
* Credit rating agencies won't rate new bonds
* If Andrew Breitbart edited well known plots
* Former BP staff lobbied for Libyan prisoners
* I can love you if we share the same religion

* Anything you don't think about in the shower
* Fast food "arms race" spirals out of control
* Progressive Netroots Nation gathers in Vegas
* Republicans would block FCC on Net Neutrality
* Books mentioned thus far in Mad Men TV series

  July 21, 2010

* Sherrod case parallels Breitbart ACORN fraud
* Writing headlines no longer considered an art
* Piailug revived wayfinder's art of navigation
* Specialization "only a fancy form of slavery"
* Computer "antibody to extinction of humanity"

  July 20, 2010

* Southern teen Constance McMillen wins her case
* House Republicans joining new Tea Party caucus
* White House panics over Andrew Breitbart video
* Popular Mechanics on the freedom to photograph
* Gene became common after discovery of alcohol

  July 19, 2010

* First picture of another galaxy taken in 1887
* Oosthuizen begins by concentrating on red dot
* "Groundhog Day" for Middle East peace process
* China burned more petroleum than US last year
* Small study on MDMA/Ecstasy and longterm PTSD

* MLK: radical redistribution of economic power
* Information on 1300 immigrants leaked in Utah
* Wild food system replaced with a domestic one
* Increasing raids on private food-supply clubs
* Chatham House rule on anonymous speech [1927]

* Landing on ball of foot stores elastic energy
* Ex-President nervous about daughter's nuptial
* Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary [1938-44]
* Westboro Baptist Church protesting Lady Gaga
* Bisphenol-A free receipt paper costs 5% more

* 2005 study on effectiveness of tin-foil hats

  July 18, 2010

* Wikileaks blog launched during NYC conference
* China Information Office Internet white paper
* David Byrne visits island with active volcano
* Gondi folkart The Nightlife of Trees [images]
* Rove advising 527 group "American Crossroads"

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