Xplr : NYer-tns : Oni : NyO-NyP : PBS : UkG
Above links mostly sorted by day-of-weekly-update, Sunday to Saturday.
dy : lfs : Amy : NYr : Crs : Nas :
Above links mostly sorted by time-of-daily-update, noonish to latenight.
Ag : /. : Plc : Eu : Jw : we : wx : Rg : Gz : Gg : wld : us : sc : tch : ent : BBC : NSc
Above links update continually.
NEW: Faked rss feed via Wytheville Community College
Headlines:
History via beer-wine-spirits-coffee-tea-Coke-water (NyT-IHT)
Screenshots from Google Earth map-app (NewRecruit via Obl)
Nicely-written update on the neocons vs Iran (Wolcott)
UV telescope reveals unexpected activity (Space-MsNbc)
Recycling group takes bloodmoney from Waste Management (Grist-MsNbc)
Disappointing results from $100 NatGeo genetic history (HeyNorton)
Epilepsy-inducing slideshows from GoogleImages searchpatterns (Flash via iforget)
Another Earth+Moon photo (cf above) (512^2 jpeg) [info]
Short time-lapse of virtual-world barnraising (Flash via NewWorld) [info]
Precipitous decline in SimsOnline subscriptions (900*600 gif) (mmogchart via Barefoot)
Free-WSJ-content page (incl RSS feed) (WSJ via Battelle)
32 deep questions to classify your worldview (QuizFarm via SmallValues)
Gorgeous new abstract-graphic algorithm(?) (Barista-multipage gallery)
Mark Felt confirms 1999-speculation he was 'Deep Throat' (VanityFair-PDF w/pic via HuffPo)
Details on McD's media-kiosk experiment (tunes, pics) (Chgo-Seattle via Engadget)
New electric meter can raise rates during peak hours (recent WSJ)
The JimmyBuffett/WarrenBuffett connection (recent WSJ)
Children's classics with your choice of name-substitutions ($34 via JWalk)
Hacking Google-AdSense keywords (Blogoscoped-technical)
Hipster's online OED? (2tongued sortofvia HuffPo-Maher)
Fun phonetic shorthand system (HandyWrite via JWalk)
Edward Tufte hiring parttime AV person (Tufte.com)
Mysterious gamma-ray sources in galactic plane (Durham w/pix via SciDaily)
Ultra-orthodox Jews make horror film (Reuters-ABC)
Somewhat-improved index for online NYer articles (greg.org, multipage alas)
Romantic love caught on MRI (NyT-Seattle via HuffPo)
PETA mole comes in from cold (AP-ABC)
Does Basra police-chief have the world's worst job? (UkG-amazing)
USA trying to trace insurgents' Barettas (WatchingAmerica)
McNamara did more harm at WorldBank than at DoD (LAtms-CD)
Local details on 'Operation Lightning' (another new BaghdadBurning)
Periodic Table of Perl Operators (poster) (150k PDF via McGrath)
The pro-anorexia underground (AP-ABC)
Adding AI to computer models of human bodies (FutureFeeder)
High praise for Chavez's Venezuela (UkG-CD)
The view from Kabul (Mnpls-CD)
Europe's tradition of romantic socialism (BBC via we)
Confessional approach to LCD-tv market-analysis (Kedrosky-short)
$40 tan applied w/airbrush (BayArea-no-pix)
Secret German crop of Lindbergh Babies (Reuters.ca)
'Marshmallow' shoes can be washed in dishwasher (LovelandCO w/pic)
Chinese 'Hamlet' substitutes acrobatics, martial arts (AP-SC-short)
Fuel prices worsen airlines' bottom lines (FT-MsNbc)
Special paper with foil layer shields RFIDs (Engadget)
Stupid spam-filter tricks: "hidden campaign" matches 'hidden cam' (ProRev-vshort)
Coin-collections re-graded hoping to boost value (Toledo-long)
Dooced 'Phantom Professor' blogger offered movie deal (Houston via /.)
Iranian women reach top of Everest (Iran-vvshort)
Exemplary one-page intro to language 'Eiffel' (via Plc)
Summaries of NyT and WaPo on Oxyrhynchus hype (Xplr)
Skeptics' Annotated Koran (multimultipage via Eyebeam)
Lucian Freud's nude portrait of 20yo daughter (JPost w/pic via GgN)
(This two-step-link trick bypasses registration, I hope.)
Mixed editorial reactions to W on Palestine (UkG-survey)
Powerful aboriginal opinion-piece: "One day in the dreamtime..." (IndigenousTimes)
Seriocomic open-source cola recipe (sbih via ritilan)
Slice-of-life domestic crime drama imitates Hollywood cliche (Fla-short w/pix)
Fighting Bengali maoists with literacy-training and yoga (Qatar-short)
Yuppie cocktail fad (Newsday)
"Corporate Fallout Detector" clicks if barcode indicates evil company (Patten via Make)
XHTML2 tweaks the semantics (W3C via Willison)
Interesting Bono interview about meetings w/the powerful (UkTms-3pg via watchAm)
Keane-eyed 1973 doll-flop revived for Japanese market (Japan via ffwd)
Thumbnails of USA scenes w/Iraq details photoshopped in (Moody via Eyebeam)
Pic of reconstructed Neanderthal chyk (AFP-Yahoo via Xplr)
New W classic: "you got to... catapult the propaganda" (HuffPo-Corn)
Magical name for games-blog (red key red door)
Unexploited band-name: "Stab Girl" (GgW pattern-- safe on)
Rose-water harvest-time in Iran (Iran-vshort)
MemeWatch: Osama bin [not Laden] (GgW pattern)
New Riverbend dismembering Tom Friedman (BaghdadBurning)
KateMoss nude-photo raises $500k for charity (no pic) (ContactMusic)
Nearing 600 links this month (please spread the word/ make a donation above) (May archive)
News stories about pranks (GgN pattern) (Topical-blog opportunity?)
Not-necessarily-representative ranking of RSS-readers (RSSblog)
Unwind at Tokyo Water Park (Ursi pic)
FedEx (but not UPS) joins Homeland Security (WSJ-Ptsbrg via Sam)
Macaulay made India speak English (India via dy)
Thoughtful blog, Infectious Greed (via Technorati)
Doonesbury's Memorial Day (Sunday, 29May)
20th-year BurningMan retrospective/update (SFGate-long)
Tentative ID of mute pianist
#1 UK single is a ringtone (Flash) [info-BBC]
Outsourced call-centers' workers take a whole lot of crap (UkG)
Iris Murdoch and some men with swelled heads (w/pic) (UkTel)
Museum-prank art acknowledged for museum collection (UkInd)
Hydroponic homegrown boom in England (UkG)
$20B (aka 40%) of foreign aid enriches consultants (UkG)
For the many poll-respondents who don't understand RSS (pm quickie)
(or who haven't tried Sage, or who didn't like it.)
Awesome table of public web-services (xMethods via Blogoscoped)
Simple Flash demo of hurricane-path determination (UCar-Flash)
Bush-ians consistently wink at Clinton-ians' crimes (ProRev)
RobotWisdom poll on RSS-use (MrPoll)
Where GoogleMaps is probably headed (Windy via Blogoscoped)
Update on UK nuke-leak (Cumbria)
W mouths a surprisingly righteous line on Israel/Palestine (Ha'aretz via WatchAm)
Decoding a 4yo's 1st phonetic writings (FrtNse via WholeLotta)
Koran, Quran, or what, and why? (Ralph-short)
Full trivia-list of European nations that have had New World colonies (HuffPo-Volokh)
Buzzword-saturated national-ID 'solution' (HP press release)
Warren Ellis lets all his readers submit a pic (phat, mature)
IBM's semantic screen-scraper, WebFountain (Battelle via /. comment)
Most-faked-artists poll-results (ArtNews)
Intel sneaking DRM into new chipsets (Digit via Gizmodo)
EU constitution not socialist enough for some (UkInd via Sam)
Looong editor's-eye view of Pynchon creating GR (temp url?) (Bookforum via Sippey)
(Alt titles for V: Blood's a Rover, Down Paradise Street, And His Ass Falls Off,
Footsteps of the Gone, Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails, The Republican Party is a Machine)
Musical view of MorseCode rhythms (Flash via InfoJunk)
Cyc's Guha offers 2Gb of screen-scraper semantics (Slashdot)
Nokia Linux-tablet is optimised for hackers (hackaday)
Making marshmallows from scratch (good pix) (recent CookingForEngineers)
Is NASA facing 'Space 2.0' renaissance? (SciDaily via NasaW)
Which containers are microwave-safe (CookingForEngineers via Morning)
W-as-Groucho poster censored (LAWeekly w/pic)
Music-store scamster sells Alzheimer's mark 11 organs for $25k (Fla-vshort)
Mongolian nomads face land-privatisation (IHT via Ag)
Geek-a-rific library of regex patterns (regxlib via Plc)
UK artist obsessed with beauty of roller-coaster (BBC-short) [pix]
Gang of Blondes scams $150k (BBC w/pic)
Banner ads undermine nearby text ads (AVC-vshort)
Better followup on Titan's mystery-spot (AstroPic)
George Galloway starts cashing in? (UkG)
Top 50 Internet advertisers in April (ClickZ via Fimoculous)
Shortage of doctors and nurses in 3rd world (UkInd via HuffPo)
Recent DC terror-alert betrays ongoing class war (Lind-shortish via Ag)
Discouraging words about inefficient international aid (UkG via dy)
Running Yoda-speak into the ground, academically/amusingly (Pheevr via dy)
GooglePrint searchpage available (again?) (SEW)
Pretoria is now 'Tshwane' (BBC via we)
Online culture of 'designer' psychedelics (UkG via Wired)
US military doesn't have to honor enlistment contracts (CPunch)
Divorce-judge forbids parents to teach 9yo son Wicca (Indpls via iforget)
Poli-sci course teaches blog-writing (HuffPo-Sifry)
Don't-miss FM Lappe on re-framing Lakoff's progressives (GNN-CD long)
(The homophobia-factor is also fundamental here.)
Matrix Online writers assassinate Morpheus (in-game) as pr-stunt (MTV via Kotaku)
Windows utilities that emulate Mac functionality (vorwaller via Longboard)
Antitank missiles cost $100k each? (Mil&Aero via Ag)
1919 Canadian labor-strike inspires new musical (CBC for Sam)
Same-old whitewash for Marine lieutenant (AP-USA2 via Ag)
Pix of Titan's mystery-spot (Saturn2day)
Is USA funding Iraqi militias? (Asia via watchingAm)
ClearChannel's elaborate astroturfing (StayFree via Eyebeam)
Nintendo cartridge w/motion sensor inspires novel twists (Wired)
Beautiful mysterious poem (VerseDaily) "Here I go and Yes into the red leaves"
Nice rave for Sellars' Wagner's "Tristan" (NYer)
Guerrilla Girls split by success (NYer-shortish)
Finding good blogs is hard (short) (Barefoot)
Good morning to browse HuffPo (autism, etc) (HuffPo-multi)
Handwriting recognition on Nokia's Linux tablet (MobileBurn-2pg via Engadget)
Pianoroll encodes 8*8pixel animations w/o electricity (long Quicktime via $!art)
Exxon flips on peak-oil (long, lucid) (Bulletin w/popup via Ag)
The Bulldozer of David (EI via dy)
Claim that Afghan situation is critical again (Scotsman via Supkis)
Latest tactic to force GM crops on USA (NC via Sam)
Overdesigned historical graph of game-console sales (WSJ-Flash via Eyebeam)
Pain molecule is also used in hearing (Eureka)
ClicheWatch: Is that a [not gun] in your pocket...? (GgW searchpattern)
Old nanotech neologism: "atomically flat" (GgG-1990 searchpattern)
Hacking Amazon book-cover urls (Aaugh via daveXtreme)
$350 Linux tablet from Nokia (w/pix) (Engadget plus MobileBurn)
Low-cost, high-tech ground-antennas for science satellites (Georgia via Eureka)
Science vs budget at NASA (NewSci-shortish w/popup)
Ancient gamma-ray bursts would have devastated DNA, ozone (abstract) (SpaceRef-vshort)
Beautiful false-color of Saturn's rings (AstroPic)
Krassner memoir on childhood racism and Dick Gregory (HuffPo-shortish)
Short how-to/intro to BitTorrent (CommonBits via Make)
US ports secured by wishful thinking? (NyT-Fla via Ag)
Star Wars game-experience added depth to Episode III (Laundry via ffwd)
Readable backgrounder on new Caspian oil-pipeline (UkInd via Ag) [map]
Mr 'Freedom Fries' recants (UkG)
Alan Moore vs Hollywood (ComicBkRsrcs via /.)
Rockstars' kids on being rockstars' kids (March RollingStone via InfoJunk)
2004 pirate-attacks maps (monitor-site via CynC)
World's largest catfish caught (StL w/pic)
Cheap portable word-processor suggestions (Slashdot thread)
Skype (VoIP) update (CNet-interview)
Levitt on Amartya Sen's 100M missing Asian women (Slate via 3rdredeye)
Nifty layout of folding-chair evolution (Designboom via Longboard)
Short debunking of Javascript myths (Crockford via Trndlcs)
Web-based favicon tools (via Trendalicious)
More claims that Americans are behind some Iraq carbombs (UrukNet)
Voyager I's last hurrah (Nasa w/pix via NasaW)
Okay behind-scenes promo for Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds' (June Wired long)
Buffett likes the British pound (Bloomberg w/popup)
Sixties non-survivor, Christopher 'Wild in the Streets' Jones (IMDb-long-bio)
Betting-leak reveals Harry-Potter spoiler (UkG-spoiler)
Sponge protein grows silicon nanoskeletons (Eureka-techy)
Stallone directs own 'Poe' script (w/Downey?) (UkG) ("Yo, Annabelle! It's me, Edgar!")
New AI slang: 'dab' = disambiguation (Wikipedia)
Tim Robbins blogs (HuffPo-self-promo)
Bering-Strait trekkers (14ky ago) pop-size estimated at 200 (SciDaily via Eyebeam)
Nice Donovan update (UkG-no-pix)
Microlending successes in Kenya (Reuters-Alertnet)
Yokohamans sort recyclables into ten categories (NyT-Indpls via kasei)
Mecca Cola big in Brazil and Mexico (Oz-short)
Robot-vacuum inspires kids to clean (recent LongTail via Engadget)
Well-illustrated rant about game-design-in-a-rut (PWoT via Plc)
Death-hamster acts at a distance (AP-MsNbc)
Retro-modern Ellen (lfs.nl-Flash)
Richard Dawkins blogs (HuffPo-predictable)
'Spam' vs 'Blog' (you'll never guess which wins) (GoogleFight-Flash)
Long well-written article studying elephant seismology (PhysOrg)
Levitt praises Crooked Timber critiques (Freakonomics)
Simplified classic novels for kids selling well (WSJ via Morning)
Escalating controversy over Google Print (BizWk) [GgP]
Usenet still a pirate's paradise (Wired)
List of 100 must-see movies (omits David Lynch) (Time)
Botticelli 'Portrait of a Youth' called forgery (Scotsman w/pic)
Well-worth renting: "Veronica Guerin" (heroic journalist) (box-office flop)
Nubian beer contained tetracycline 1500yrs ago (NatGeo via Xplr)
Terry Gilliam update (UkG via ffwd) (GoogleNews missed this one?)
Microlending in the USA (AP-ABC)
Hopeful fantasia on Google's translation research (Blogoscoped)
Browse your local fonts online, via Flash (via bisset)
Google moves exact name-match down to 13th place ("Danny Yee's Book Reviews")
Some games are worse in 3D (Costik)
Farmworkers take on fastfood giants (AP-S.Chgo)
Space Station oxygen problems (Oberg-MsNbc via PhysOrg)
Turks suspicious of American missionaries in Iraq (Turkey-short)
Shortlist of newspapers w/RSS feeds (MediaDrop via MediaPace)
Red-flag 9-11 poli-sci class (NCWesleyan) [article]
Iraqis can sell a kidney for $1400 (UkTel via HuffPo)
Iraqi translators targeted by insurgency (AP-USA2-longish)
Aging supermodels where-are-they-now (Scotsman)
14 fans egg 25 paparazzi stalking starlet with cancer (Oz-no-pix)
Mercury-does-too-cause-autism thread (HuffPo-3pg)
Scotching the rumors of Star Wars VII-IX (Newhouse-Houston)
Freakonomics blog (via NyT)
Hamid Karzai denied first-pitch pr-stunt for Red Sox (AP-Boston)
Opinion piece on Arab-LatAm 'Brasilia Declaration' (Ahram via WatchingAm)
Nifty Windows app analyses your system and software (Belarc via JWalk)
Loooooong lucid Joan Didion on the Terri Schiavo mess (new NYRB)
Xeni's and Cory's overweening self-regard drives me to unsubscribe from bOING bOING again (gag)
OJR analyses GoogleNews 'bias' (SEW summary)
Official website declines to post Galloway's testimony (senate.gov via Cursor)
Their-side view of foreign Iraq jihadis (Asia via Ag)
Japanese pencil-carving (multipage via Plc)
Krugman reviews basics of China-debt problem (NyT-IHT)
40inch teevee is wafer-thin (Engadget pix)
12yo does $8M vandalism damage (Duluth via Morning)
Some tidbits about Iraqi teevee (USA2)
$10M Portuguese wave-farm should generate 2Mwatts next year (Reuters-no-pix)
'Little Mermaid' play tours Irish swimming pools (BBC w/pix)
Google-tidbits from their pr-fest yesterday (PCworld)
Wet CA winter births billions of butterflies (UCDavis via sciDaily)
Worth turning on Java for: Escher Web Sketch (via dataisnature)
Saudis have W over (oil) barrel? (Debka via WatchingAmerica)
Hacker porting GrandTheftAuto to 6502 (GrandThefTendo via bOING)
Brazil's King of Soybeans is also king of deforestation (UkInd via Ag)
11yo girl pitches perfect game against boys (AP-Fox w/pic via HuffPo)
Add weather, news, etc to Google 'home' page (kinda useless, imho) [info]
Thoughtful argument that Xbox2 has the winning strategy (Clicker-Engadget)
250Angstrom fluorescent glass bubbles (Cornell via Eureka)
China pledges greater support for Palestinians (Supkis via Wolcott)
Malcolm X's gay side (UkG via Sam)
More on the newly-readable papyri discoveries (ChgoTrib-Fla via Ag)
New 3D geological map of Britain (BBC-pix) [info]
Pic of new Tanzanian monkey species (NewSci w/popup)
Marketers test ordinary-looking models (WSJ-Pttsbrgh) [annoying Flash site]
Pepsi prez tells Columbia MBAs that USA gives world the finger? (India via HuffPo)
Cannes criticizes Israel (Reuters-ABC)
Reallife case of FBI making demands on library (USA2 via CD)
Cute costumes for cats (Japan via AdmitOne)
Decent George-Gilder update (Knight-Ridder-ME)
Krassner argues Sinatra jumped the shark in 1960 (recent NyPress)
Amazon's used Koran arrives desecrated (AP-UkG)
Google sometimes substitutes ODP description for page-title (via SearchEngineWatch)
US Senate's approved 98.5% of W's nominees (Galbraith-short)
Charming short metaphorical exploration of level-ness (VerseDaily)
Scientific visualizations of the Tree of Life (UBerk via FutureFeeder)
Doctors train on $52k robot babydoll (AP-ABC no-pic) [pic]
'Skunk' impresses British drug-law-makers (UkG)
Two nice short Horace updates (Poems.com)
Short preview of Xbox2 'Godfather' game (Kotaku-small-pic)
If you turned on Google's MySearchHistory, visit this link (GoogleBlogoscoped)
News to me: evolutionary jumps correlated w/genome-doubling (PhysOrg-short)
Friday the 13th, 2029 = asteroid near-miss (PhysOrg w/map)
Hollywood scream recycled in oodles of movies (via we)
Find the Citgo station (see below) nearest you (via Sam)
Corn subsidies, corn sweeteners, and corn satellite-pix (Sprol w/GoogleSatMaps)
Making fun of MS's Xbox2 hype (Eurogamer via TechDigest)
NYRB analyses the smoking-gun Iraq-memo (NYRB-advance-peek)
1997 table of web-genres (via delicious) [cf pragmatics]
Shortish okay Pinker on 'gay genes' (NyT-IHT via Morning)
Absence of Dylan Thomas footage inspires digital-sim effort (BBC)
If you dig around there's even a cartoon guide to Ruby here (I think) (WhyTheLuckyStiff via Willison)
SlangWatch: asbo = antisocial behavior order (UK) (GoogleNews searchpattern)
Interesting unsuccessful-imho mosaic experiments (frames via dataisnature)
Teaser for Ron Howard's year-off 'DaVinci Code' (Quicktime via AIC)
Scans of all Asterix comix in English (.tk = Tokelau, via Ursi)
Ancient gladiator-fans bought fastfood and souvenirs (UkTel via Xplr)
W letting more sewage into Great Lakes (AP-ABC)
Saudis discover coffee-culture (ArabNews via HuffPo)
Foreign investments in US securities cut in half (Toronto via Sam)
Susie Bright analyses romance-novel psych (longish)
Awesome long clip of Galloway facing down US Senate (Quicktime via thirdredeye)
Nice little Flash piece (Ellen)
Riverbend: a policy of humiliation, a war against Islam (BaghdadBurning)
How Geekcorps was pressured into paying volunteers more (EthanZ)
Christians-against-Bush website (YrXianPrez via CynC)
GIs use toy cars to test for IEDs (via HuffPo via DefTech via Gizmodo)
Swapping-lifestyles reality show by SupersizeMe director (Reuters-ABC)
Rapunzel in the morning (new NYer toon)
GoogleMaps trick finds cheap US gas prices (CheapGas via ResearchBuzz)
Milking the 'Christian market' (BizWk w/popup)
1280*720 jpeg screenshot from PS3 debut-demo (Gizmodo) [Quicktime]
African chimp-poachers picking up scary new viruses (BBC)
Bolton clears path for June Iran-bombing (Wolcott)
Yet another Elmore-Leonard profile (NyT-IHT)
USA imposes insane seed-IP on Iraq??? (stwr via daHiFi)
Yale fires anarchist prof (via Ag)
Bonobos get $10M dream home in Des Moines (recent LiveScience via RawFeed)
Worldwide atmospheric methane mapped by satellite (SciDev, link-to-tiny-map)
I just noticed my SJMerc links require signin-- sorry [mostly fixed below]
Overlay reduces tv-resolution to 6*5 color pixels (Quicktime-popup via Eyebeam)
Shirky's talk on overrated ontology, now in HTML (via You'reIt)
iTunes makes music-sharers image-conscious (NewSci)
Stegosaur plates/spikes ornamental, not functional (Eureka-no-pix)
Allstar cast, Altman for movie version of Prairie Home Companion (not SJMerc)
Google sat-maps should soon cover globe at 15m (Dirson via Battelle)
"My epiglottis is full of bees" (loooong tiny QT of $30k go-cart)
Buying gas at Citgo supports Venezuela against W (CD)
Harrowing brandnew autobiographical comic (Lemonodor-8pg)
Hollywood outsourcing props to Bollywood (Reuters)
DSM-IV brought into Dave-Winer flamewar (lies via KeepingAnEye)
Bipolar traffic stats for robotwisdom.com (Alexa)
New 'Weblog Watch' feature (BBC)
Table of Homeland Security accounting-etc failures (FCW)
$300 *cordless* phone has 30mile range (Samsung via Bisset)
Alice in a great mood today (Wonderland)
Audio-toy-hacking as a painless intro to electronics (antitheory via hackaday)
Kevin Poulsen on MS's handling of Halo2 'glitchers' (Wired)
Odd brave birdpoem (VerseDaily) "There you go again..."
German spamflood sent by Sober.q worm (PcWorld)
Oct2004 man-vs-machine chess match results (ChessBase-catchup)
14yo indigenous/aboriginal fashion model (Oz w/pic)
Korans in toilets looks like s.o.p. (MoonOfAL via dy)
Survey compares attitudes of journalists, non-journalists (E&P)
2008 Republican nominee may be... Dick Cheney (E&P)
Brits warn USA that Iraq rules-of-engagement are self-defeating (UkTel-CD)
China's Lenovo seeks to build pc-brand visibility (IHT)
Fellini (et al) fanclub in New Delhi (India)
Offsite discussion-group for Huffington Post (Google Groups)
Pizzas cooked in expensively-outfitted delivery vans (AP-not-SJMerc)
Diana Rigg (and daughter) update (UkG no pix)
Mammoth backscratching may have polished rocks? (AP-not-SJMerc-no-pix)
Very simple real-Italian recipes (UkG-bkrev)
Swedish Royal Ballet does Pippi Longstocking (Sweden) [pix]
Further Parry thoughts on reclaiming the media (Consortium)
Partial index to 1st week of Huffington Post (/sites/huffpo.html)
It'd be cool if GoogleMaps knew where local webcams are (partial success)
Bloodsugar monitor runs on blood sugar (AFP-Za via $!art)
$5k for semi-authentic Dallas grassy-knoll fence (AP-UkG)
Lucid original exposition of the pension/SocSec scam (Harper's-don't-miss)
Trove of early Pollock drip-paintings found (Reuters-no-pix)
Oodles of commercial software claiming to help you plot stories (WritersStore via Trendalicious)
Bouncing laser off window really does allow distant eavesdropping (UIUC-1996 via Plc)
Allstar staged radio plays in London by Charlie Kaufman and the Coens (AIC)
Lessons learned painfully investing in China (IHT bkrev)
Berlin supermarkets and subcultures (w/a few pix) (iMomus)
Titan has a very intriguing atmosphere (UniverseToday)
Mark end of tape-roll with small coin (HuffPo-short)
Okay update on PayPal (BizWk w/popup via Wired)
100 hottest US real-estate markets (CNN-Money)
Shaving is life-or-death matter in Iraq again: PCockburn (UkInd-CD)
Ultra-soothing psychedelic sitar (StephanMikes via Indy.tv)
Name-brand USA-made PCs on the wane (USA2)
UK hospital quickly spots undercover journo (BBC)
Nice spacey-wild guitarist, Robert Eldridge (via Indy.tv)
These guys do a charming lounge-version of 'Psycho Killer' (Shacks via Indy.tv)
Any Ajax-fan want to try turning my GoogleNews url-hacks into a simple form? (qv)
Some Xbox2 rumors that proved false (Gizmodo)
Potentials for learning foreign languages in virtual worlds? (Alice)
Cringely thinks Google Accelerator is potentially transformative (PBS)
Pranksters hide graffiti-art in hotels, etc (SecretWallTattoos via Plc)
DNA suggests early humans followed coasts from from Africa to Australia (NewSci)
Scamming the threat-level for Wall-St profits? (HuffPo)
GoogleMaps sat-view catches UFO over Fla? (via Plc) [nope]
Erotic blogs = erogs (Japan via warrenEllis)
"Little did Bush know when he boasted, 'Bring 'em on,' that they would bring so many." (Wolcott)
US imperialism imitates Josiah imitating Assyria? (ServingTheWord)
Bill Gates' new comb-over? (pic only) (MobileMag via Gizmodo)
Daily dose of cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute (DailyKitten via Eyebeam)
Weblog analyses sat-pix of urban sprawl (Sprol via FutureFeeder)
$400 wood puzzle nests five platonic solids (NyT-via-GoogleNews-no-reg-req via FutureFeeder)
28 courses of post-nouvelle cuisine costs $175 (w/scary pix) (Chgo-phat via JWalk)
Defense contractors embarrassed by gigabucks excess (NyT-IHT)
Carefully researched 20thC-costume-and-car photos (multimultipage via JWalk)
Arabs and LatAms join in anti-poverty 'Declaration of Brasilia' (AP-TBO via Sam)
New biodiversity map (Eureka w/lo-res pic)
Bee-radar experiment confirms von Frisch's 'waggle dance' theory (BBSRC w/pic via Eureka)
USA diverts Palestinian aid to Israel (Dawn-WatchingAmerica)
Small gallery of hi-tech art projects (Engadget)
Commercial art sorted by color and mood, not artist (BBC) [Lowry]
2004 documentary 'Power of Nightmares' analyses lead-up to 9/11 (UkG-new to me)
Inflatable plastic grocery bag protects laptop from shocks, theft ($!art)
Tofu-based substitute for diet of human flesh?! (Dartmouth)
Daniel Ellsberg suggests Vanunu for Nobel Peace Prize (AP-not-SJMerc)
Watch out for maggot-nests in candy bars!? (SJMerc-letter)
Princeton UP's "On Bullshit" sells 175k copies (UkG)
Blogging catching on in India (MoneyPlans)
Overview of bloggers in military (USA2)
Tom Wolfe's next non-fiction theme (AP-NM)
Consumer Reports rates diet-programs (CNN w/popup)
Drawing of new Laotian rodent (MongaBay)
Heidi Klum marries Seal (AP-MsNbc w/pic)
Chimp paintings expected to fetch $1500 at auction (ABC w/pic and popup)
Tracing tree of life to triple-root? (wustl via Eureka)
Inelegant Quicktime of tower with live human eyes (Germany via $!art via Make)
$30 Michael Moore doll (via JWalk)
50k Iraq mercenaries making $1k/day? (AFP-IHT)
MemeWatch: Look what they done to my [not song] (searchpattern)
Centrifugal machinegun in development (NewSci)
Examples from dedicated cell-automata language (messy/frames via Lambda)
Photoset zooms out using GoogleMaps sat-view (Flickr via Make)
Looong, overwrought meditation on Angelina Jolie (NyObs-7days)
Nice midlength boomer requiem (Poems.com)
Fancy quick index to Wikipedia (WikiWax via hypergenes)
Jordan's king to pardon Ahmed Chalabi (UkInd-PCockburn via Ag)
Anarchists trap Greek politicians at university (Reuters-Alertnet) [more]
GetYourWarOn's David Rees too hip for HuffPo (HuffingtonPost)
Free fingerless Frosty desserts at Wendy's Fri-Sat-Sun (AP-DFW, no purch nec)
iPod Shuffle inspires new radio format (MacWorld via freshfruit)
Afghans worldwide fight at concerts? (Macleans)
I'm considering dumping all my past blog-items into del.icio.us, if there's an easy way...?
(Then I'd add tags by hand.)
Tabletop (is) map of Baghdad (NyT no-reg via Galbraith)
Massive Net intrusion slowly being resolved (NyT no-reg via NasaW)
Sidewalk chewinggum turned into art (Flickr via bOING)
Pseudo-Christian phone-slammers (Wonkette via Sam)
Good batch of NYer cartoons this week (NYer-7days)
Tag-index to Yahoo News (Herrens via Waxy)
(All it needs is a thesaurus/ontology.)
Flickr replacing Flash with Ajax (via Bissett)
Elaborate web-service converts any page to RSS (WotzWot via Bissett)
Using Bittorrent-plus-RSS instead of Tivo (via Plc)
Lots of credible tips for detecting lies (Blifaloo via JWalk)
How Canada's 'Humble Space Telescope' detects extrasolar planets (UPI-WashTimes)
Free PDFs for printing graph paper (Incompetech via Trendalicious)
Top ten books about France (UkG)
Brilliant Tom Tomorrow (noir Liberty) (VVoice w/popup)
Cutting corners for lowest price PCs ($250 w/monitor) (Cnet)
Hans Christian Andersen's dark side (UkG)
One pic per mile crossing USA (Kodak-Flash via JWalk)
Latin translations of pop songs (via Xplr)
Number of Beast still 666 (not 616) (Ralph)
Jakob Dylan breaks silence on Bob (NyT-IHT)
Streaking revival in Mass.? (AP-Mnpls)
Lucid discussion of new study of human evolution (CoranteLoom via dy)
FAQ on Google's web-accelerator (Cnet)
Orthodox Jews call for 'removal' of Israel (IslamOnline)
Python screen-scraper, 'Beautiful Soup' (via Gimbo)
Life imitates 'Smiley's People' (BBC-LeCarre fans only)
Tennessee carny on trial for fatal ride-accident (AP-USA2)
$140 DIY hologram kit (MsNbc-2pg via Make)
Can an all-porn, no-ads Flickr possibly work? (AdultFlicker via Plc)
Improved version of Populicious (Aquino via Plc)
Asteroid-paths may test Pioneer-anomaly hypotheses (NewSci-short w/popup)
China's neosocialist model-city (UkG-long via Ag)
UK nuke-leak gets zero US coverage (GoogleNews pattern)
Ominous sign of Gulf Stream reversal (UkTimes via /.)
US-funded Afghan teevee station proves commercial success (CSM)
Stats on posting-frequency for some online news sources (2nd draft from yesterday)
Iran making animated Islamic cartoons (BBC w/pix)
Topps slips Pope card into baseball pack (AP-SI w/pic via JWalk)
James Brown bronzed in Georgia (Canoe w/pic via VH1)
Celebrity blog glut (Huffington Post) (I don't think they get it yet.)
Che's best friend reminisces (BBC via Ag)
50mi^2 of Idaho may be exempt from all laws (BBC)
Tourism to USA down 40% since 9/11 (FT via Ag)
Could buckyballs be poisonous? (Eureka)
$15 20-questions toy performs amazingly well (Gizmodo)
Homeland Security blew gigabucks on snakeoil (NyT-Ag)
Lessons learned by US journalist in Iraq (Ky via Ag)
Airport bookstores profit from halfprice-buyback offer (AP-USA2)
Jerry Lewis on percodan and pain (AP-Fla-short)
Postage stamps of mathematicians (via dataisnature)
(The Firefox 'Browse Images' extension makes this page browsable.)
Badly-formatted survey of wait-times for various call-centers (UkMirror)
Hilarious minimalist motherboard-cooling system (oildunk) (hackaday-2pg)
UK poll of favorite memories (BBC)
Pre-9/11 informant clammed up after clumsy handling (KnightRidder-Seattle)
Fast one-word-at-a-time display for mobiles (SJMerc)
(Michael Stutz demoed this online a million years ago.)
Lowest online airfares take research (USA2)
Gas prices around the world (CnnMoney via BigPicture)
Clouds that look like things (gallery) (CloudApprecSoc via Ursi)
Online translator offers more-obscure languages (WorldLingo via Plc)
Seattle grabbing big chunk of movie-scoring biz (Seattle-MsNbc)
New $3B Vegas casino/hotel can be shut down by WinXP (PCmag via Engadget) [pix]
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Steven Johnson (new NYer)
Women account for only 4% of music downloads? (UkG via Wired)
100k US customer-service phonepeople work from home (AP-Seattle)
US highschools aren't very challenging (USA2-stats)
First draft of new page on GoogleNews url-hacking (/web/gnhacking.html)
Fun neologism: gravoturbulent (SpaceRef-opaque)
Small class-sizes also make kids smarter (BBC)
Spy sats will check shuttle for damage after takeoff (AvWeek via NasaW)
20 tons of uranium and plutonium leak from UK reactor (BBC)
Babies have favorite colors (BBC)
SUV-bubble is over (SFChron-CD)
Flash clock screensavers w/clever designs (nl via CynC)
Speculation on MS-less Google-PC (Squirrel via Blogoscope)
New-jobs jump was statistical fiction (Agonist-short)
Gigantic Quicktime of dancing avatars in Starwars Galaxies virtual world (via Alice)
PhilG posts a loveletter to Google (#Harvard)
Recent tech news from selected sources only, via GoogleNews (searchpattern)
(I'm going to do a 'url-hacking' page about these tricks.)
Top-gun hotdogs screwing the pooch (AP-UkG)
Subconscious racism shows up in MRI scans (NewSci w/popup)
Next domain for Indian outsourcing: teevee ads (AP-ABC, no pix)
Creepy-great animated-gif promoting alife DIY (FutureFeeder)
Secret Korea negotiations in Moscow? (Agonist-vshort)
Sneaky way to scan all new tech stories on GoogleNews (searchpattern)
(Ditto for entertainment, biz, health, sports, world, USA)
Bremer addresses new Domino's-Pizza Catholic U (AP-UkG)
Update on automatic student-paper graders (AP-USA2)
I think I like straight GoogleNews-by-date better than any RSS feeds (example searchpattern)
Too-good-to-last RSS window to Google News (Scrappygoo via iforget)
(Example searchpattern: "blog OR blogs OR blogger OR bloggers" html)
Susie Bright explains why designers like flat chests (blog-passim)
Iraq cabinet-selection process a very bad joke (BBC)
$80 junior-DNA-analysis kit (Discovery via Make)
Parents 'libel' corporation-run school (Fla via /.)
Gauguin's slashed woodcut reassembled after 100y (no pic) (UkTms via Xplr)
Madagascar colonised by Borneo 1500y ago (Reuters-MsNbc via Xplr) [map]
7 pix of lovely new 2300yo Egyptian mummy-case (BBC via Xplr)
Short sweet domestic pastoral (VerseDaily)
Busiest RSS-feed ever (what people are bittorrenting) (TorrentSpy via Yang)
Purported real-true pic of Xbox2 (Engadget)
GoogleBowling = tricking Google into downrating an enemy's page (Wolfhowl via fantom)
Google-cache 100k-max limit finally abandoned? (thread via fantom) [yep]
2Mb Quicktime of eerie robot-cat toy (jp via Destiny)
15 things you can do with RSS (Yang via Plc)
Easy circuits for hacking RFID tags (techy via hackaday)
Awesome, very simple Flash intro to sounds from space (SpaceSounds via Ursi)
Photoshopped retro-tech (phat via bOING)
Looooong profile of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now (Nation-CD via Cursor)
600+ free children's books online (ICDL via Plc)
Starbucks as a music retailer (eOnline)
Slashdot debate about Google Accelerator and privacy, etc (nothing special yet)
Breakdancing Transformer (cartoon robot) (Flash via Alice)
Cool (true-color!?!) satellite pic of plankton-bloom (UniverseToday)
3-gigapixel telescope for animating whole-sky starmap (LSST via Battelle)
Short explanation of buffer-overflow exploits (CollegeBums via Plc)
Forgotten tidbit of sixties-abilia (NyPress)
Interview about site that solicits secrets on postcards (Vulgarizm via Plc)
Highly recommended movie: "Melvin Goes to Dinner" (FilmThreat review)
Very fine Naomi Klein on Iraq (InTheseTimes-CD)
Hybrid geranium lasts two weeks in vase (PhysOrg w/pic)
Oceans could have supported life just after Earth formed (Spaceref)
Blogosphere-overall worse than mass media at reporting 3rd world (EthanZ)
Coolest Hubble/Spitzer composite ever (yet) (1024*768 jpeg) [info]
Magnetic implant useful enough to imitate? (PubRing via bOING)
New(?) hi-res worldmap (2000*1000 jpeg) [info]
A post that SEOInc (SearchEngineOptimizers) don't want you to read (Google cache)
Students use IR-remotes to give profs immediate feedback (ABC)
All-star sixties multimedia art-magazine, Aspen (multipage via dataisnature)
How Samsung reinvented themselves (Wired-long)
What if GoogleImages included a 'find-similar' link? (GoogleBlogoscoped)
(I'm aporetic about that Slashdot claim...)
Password-cracking (or -creating) tips (GeodSoft via Plc)
Ad-hype lowers final real-estate selling price (Wired-longish)
Google's accelerator cuts my Sage rss-feeds checktime by 70% (Windows only)
VR city-maps can be built in hours (NewSci)
Dems make belated stand against CAFTA (FT via Ag)
Islam okays short-term 'pleasure marriages' (USA2)
Cassini begins 5month close study of Saturn's rings (SpaceRef-no new pix)
Rube-Goldberg-sounding telescope for identifying gamma-ray sources (UniverseToday)
Amazing list of logical fallacies (scroll down)
Pot as a fake-out in the war on civil liberties (ProRev)
Witness subverts Lynndie's guilty plea (AP-ABC)
Postal kiosks at airports for confiscable items (Piquepaille via Engadet)
Impressive stats on selling t-shirts online (WSJ via kottke)
Surprising new factor-analysis on making kids smarter (USA2 via Sam)
Getting the most out of Google/Amazon booktext search (SearchEngineWatch)
Stromotion and ghost-competitions in sport and games (ColDetect via Eyebeam)
157 NYer cartoons about the Internet (Cartoonbank)
Add date-range to Google's websearch (gMacker via Plc)
Austin (TX) has theatrical "Get Your War On" (via mnftiu)
12 NYer cartoons about Alan Greenspan (Cartoonbank via BigPicture)
Great title for NyT article on Christian videogames (PlayStations of the Cross)
Iraq police targeting reporters? (KnightRidder via Cursor)
Proposed replacement for Shuttle (PopMech via NasaW)
Sam's amazing stats on Amtrak (ProRev)
Boyscout merit badge for Intellectual Property (News.com via bOING)
(I'd like to see an all-ages, lefty Net Scout program, with merit badges.)
Elegant distinction between meta keywords and folksonomy tags (Hey Norton via jdz)
New infrared pix of whole Earth (ESA via Eureka)
Paper models of many starships (via Wonderland)
New online-game concept: 'mirror worlds' (not Gelernter's) (Kotaku)
Queen-of-Quake pic (Kotaku via Wonderland)
Flamewar bleeds into CafePress (WarrenEllis-vshort w/pic)
China seizes opportunities in Latin America (LaT via Ag)
Printable geodesic worldmaps (via Ursi)
Cream reunion (Clapton-Baker-Bruce) (BBC w/pix) [CNN w/popup]
German Wikipedia coming out as paperback serial (Signpost)
New Jack-the-Ripper theory (UkG)
Cute short retelling of Genesis (Poems.com)
Most thorough guide yet to optimizing Firefox (TweakGuides via Plc)
She's survived, cleaning 'woolly blogs' (BaghdadBurning)
Staggering estimates of Iraq-reconstruction corruption (Oz-CD)
US wind-energy map (via Eyebeam) [more]
Iraq occupation more or less on track, alas (RigorousIntuition)
Simple recipe for training moss on walls (MossGraffiti via Eyebeam)
Quicktime karaoke demonstrator (i12 via Ursi)
Cool Java art-animator, Yellowtail (Flong via JWalk)
Hilarious RealVideo of 'manakin' bird moonwalking (PBS via JWalk) [info]
17yo Pakistani girl fights rape-injustice (NewInd via Ag) [more w/pic]
Marketers disguise fruits and veggies as convenience food (AP-ABC)
Mars rover (barely) visualised from orbiting Surveyor (Space.com-blurry w/popup)
Did Vannevar Bush invent 'tagsonomy', too? (YoureIt-short)
Highschooler catches Army recruiters promoting fraud (Denver via Cursor)
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins explains his 2yr 'sabbatical' (1961 NYer)
'The bridge offers certain advantages that can’t be duplicated indoors.'
Photorealism has aged better than Pop Art (NYer-Schjeldahl) [pix]
History/overview of USB port (IBM via Engadget)
Wide-ranging Buffett comments on the economy (CNN-Money)
Original 1954 Japanese 'Godzilla' was antiwar, antinuke (NyT-CD)
Canada approves 'Sativex' oral marijuana spray (CNN-Money)
Brainscans support effectiveness of acupuncture (UkG)
EarthCam updates at 8am, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm CDT (Space.com)
Update on Iraq's devastated electricity infrastructure (WaPo-MsNbc)
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