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Using the Social Internet to Facilitate...

Emily Gertz: The US presidential hopefuls are not ignoring the internet…but they’re not...
Aug 31st

Facebook: Brad is missing Vinemeet west...

Aug 31st
bradfarris: Listening to: America - A Horse With No Name http://tinyurl.com/ypsacq (via Twitter /...
Aug 31st

Brad is more dead than alive.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 31st

The White Stripes - You Don't Know What...

The White Stripes - You Don’t Know What Love Ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v…The White...
Aug 30th

Viacom's "bass-ackwards" screw-up:...

What happens when Viacom infringes on someone else’s copyright, and then that clip gets posted...
Aug 30th

Wikirage Shows Wikipedia Entries with...

WikiRage is a site that shows the top 100 pages on Wikipedia that are receiving the most edits per...
Aug 30th
“It’s one thing to say that someone can’t be trusted to vote...”
— Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
Aug 30th

Clowns KKKick KKK ass! - Asheville...

Clowns KKKick KKK ass! - Asheville Indymediahttp://asheville.indymedia.org…Knoxville rejects...
Aug 30th

Last call

Michael Jackson the Beer Hunter (not the other one) passed away this morning. Beer fans remember the...
Aug 30th

Suicide at Burning Man

The SF Gate Culture Blog is reporting that a male participant at Burning Man has been found dead...
Aug 30th
Listening: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash – There Ain’t No...
Aug 30th
bradfarris: Listening to: Les Brown Orchestra - Sentimental Journey http://tinyurl.com/24afb4 (via...
Aug 30th

Featured Windows Download: Automatically...

Windows only: Donationware application DragKing automatically copies selected text in any...
Aug 30th

Thompson To Announce Bid Sept. 6

Republican Fred Thompson, whose entry into the presidential race has been long anticipated, will...
Aug 30th
“For me, the true moral majesty of Christianity—the reason it...”
— Rick Perlstein - Why I love...
Aug 30th

Brad is satisfied.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 30th

GOP Univision Debate Cancelled Over...

Univision planned to air the first presidential debates in Spanish on Sept. 9 and 16, one for...
Aug 30th

Rentometer lets you know if you're...

Filed under: Internet, Web services Every time you look in your neighbor’s window and notice...
Aug 30th

startpropaganda's photos  

startpropaganda’s photos  http://www.flickr.com/photos/s…A collection of propaganda art...
Aug 30th

Tauscher Warns Of Petraeus’ Conflict Of...

Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) added her name to the list of analysts and lawmakers who are raising...
Aug 30th

Allawi: Disclosing My Backers Will Mean...

No wonder Ayad Allawi thinks he can get the Bush administration to propel him back to power in Iraq....
Aug 30th

Viacom: It’s Not Copyright Infringement...

Long story short: Viacom runs a clip on TV without permission. The creator takes his clip from TV...
Aug 30th

Igoogle: Set Reminders on Your Startpage...

Set SMS, email or Twitter reminders from your iGoogle homepage with the iRemind iGoogle gadget....
Aug 30th

Building a green home--part one

Green homes come from factories. It sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t. By building a...
Aug 30th
bradfarris: Watching: YouTube - Afterworld Episode 2 - Detritus http://tinyurl.com/242p94 (via...
Aug 30th

Brad is a baaad maamma jammer.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 30th

Coffee Drinks Illustrated | Lokesh...

Coffee Drinks Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakarhttp://www.lokeshdhakar.com/20…Espresso is prepared...
Aug 30th

More Shame, More Sorrow by Paul Craig...

More Shame, More Sorrow by Paul Craig Robertshttp://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts221.htmlIn...
Aug 30th

Miss S.C. Teen USA's geography pop quiz

People magazine created a geography video quiz starring YouTube sensation Miss South Carolina from...
Aug 30th

Miss S.C. Teen USA's geography pop...

People magazine created a geography video quiz starring YouTube sensation Miss South Carolina from...
Aug 30th

RFID credit card modded into Hello Kitty...

Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories removed the RFID circuit in a MasterCard PayPass...
Aug 30th

RFID credit card modded into Hello Kitty...

Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories removed the RFID circuit in a MasterCard PayPass...
Aug 30th

Republicans blow off Spanish-language...

As if Latinos needed more reason to swing heavily Democratic next year, how about this bit of...
Aug 30th

Active-Duty US Troops Become Outspoken...

Brad Knickerbocker reports for The Christian Science Monitor: “A recent op-ed about the war in...
Aug 30th

Why I love Christianity, but hate...

Scott Lemieux makes some useful observations on why we can’t expect self-described...
Aug 30th

A Pathetic Preemptive Strike (The...

The Weekly Standard - The Washington Post, working hand-in-glove with Democrats in Congress, has...
Aug 30th
Listening: John Fogerty – Vanz Kant Danz (via Bradfarris: Last Played)
Aug 30th

The rot in the White House

You may have heard about the Government Accounting Office’s strikingly negative report about...
Aug 30th

Our Morning Paper Didn't Always Suck

The Entitlements Myth (quoted verbatim in its entirety, w/o comment. — mbs) Monday, December...
Aug 30th

Opera Mini 4 beta 2 released

Filed under: Internet, Windows Mobile, Palm, BlackBerry, BetaOpera has released a new version of...
Aug 30th

Families Pan Giuliani 9/11 Anniversary...

One might think the New York City mayor who led the Big Apple through the worst terrorist attack in...
Aug 30th

S3 Pooper Scooper Makes Excrement...

The S3 “sanitation safety stick” is portable, lightweight, mechanically simple poo...
Aug 30th

Leaked Report on Iraq Reveals Almost No...

A draft of a leaked report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that Iraq has...
Aug 30th

Torture school subjects children to...

Mother Jones has a long, chilling feature on The Judge Rotenberg Education Center, a private radical...
Aug 30th

Torture school subjects children to...

Mother Jones has a long, chilling feature on The Judge Rotenberg Education Center, a private radical...
Aug 30th

Why Can’t Dems Stop A Weakened Bush From...

Dems just going along with what Bush wants. (via Brad’s shared items in Google Reader)
Aug 30th

Joseph Smarr: “High-Performance...

Joseph Smarr gave a talk at Yahoo! with a pretty provocative title: High-Performance JavaScript: Why...
Aug 30th

Hidden touchpad in concept cellphone

A cellphone with a touchpad used to write. The idea is to create a phone without all the bells and...
Aug 30th

Cenk Uygur: A Test of Leadership

President Bush says he wants $50 billion more for the surge this September. That’s on top of...
Aug 30th

DIY upgradeable laptop - bling blang,...

Torquil Harkness decided to build his own upgradeable laptop computer as a protest at the scarcity...
Aug 30th

The Urban Vegan offers 50 ways to stuff...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, On the Blogs Several weeks ago now, I posted my mom’s...
Aug 30th

DHS plan to throw Americans out of work...

Civil and labor rights groups have filed a lawsuit against a new Department of Homeland Security...
Aug 30th

Rhubarb and strawberries for dessert or...

Filed under: Breakfast, Dessert, Grains, Recipes, Fruit, Spices, Sugar Wandering past the...
Aug 30th

Condi's bling thing

The thoughtfulness of our nation’s chief diplomat: “Let’s get one thing straight. You are...
Aug 30th

International Committee of the Red Cross...

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday that there have been around 17,000...
Aug 29th

R.I.P. Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell, falsely implicated in the Atlanta bombing murders, died today. He was 44 and is...
Aug 29th

Photo of the Day: We Waited

Waited for 30 minutes, at least. I particular like the emphasis given by the mustard...
Aug 29th

Dodd Leads Again On Iraq Now

Via e-mail from Matt from Dodd’s campaign: Reporter: “Senator, there were reports this...
Aug 29th

Brad is waiting for the power to come...

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 29th

THE OFFICE S4 Spoilers - Summer Vacation...

OH MY GOD!! NBC just released a new promo for Season 4 of THE OFFICE and it’s beyond dawesome. ...
Aug 29th

Heat Ray Too Scary for Iraq

Many a DT reader will remember the so-called “Active Denial System” – a giant millimeter-wave...
Aug 29th

INTERVIEW: Tauscher Returns From Iraq,...

Shortly after returning from Iraq, Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) conducted an interview with...
Aug 29th

Larry Craig's Bathroom Behavior And The...

The American Right Wing - they’re nothing if not inconsistent and hypocritical. When...
Aug 29th
Warch Watch
I think something like this was probably what Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) was trying to do, but he...
Aug 29th
Brad Farris: Watching: Afterworld Episode 1 - The Big Day http://tinyurl.com/ywkt6m (via Twitter /...
Aug 29th

Bush’s ‘Soft Bigotry Of Low...

To mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush spoke today at the Dr. Martin...
Aug 29th

Take that, Larry Craig

Bill Manny, the managing editor of the Idaho Statesman, took umbrage with Sen. Larry Craig’s...
Aug 29th
2007-08-29 0700
Aug 29th

Romney Didn't Raise Taxes--But Raised...

Mitt Romney likes to claim that he didn’t raise taxes when he was governor of...
Aug 29th

Tube Map for Miss SC: The Iraqs and...

Many BoingBoing readers sent in copies of this lovely Tube Map, composed for Miss South Carolina...
Aug 29th

Katrina: Slavery returns to Mississippi...

The invaluable Center for Southern Studies tell the story of a labor “recruiter” who...
Aug 29th

Condi dresses down minimum wage worker.

In his upcoming biography of Condoleezza Rice, Washington Post correspondent Glenn Kessler shows how...
Aug 29th

A Date Certain For Ending The Iraq...

The Bush Administration will request the Congress exercise its Spending Power and increase the...
Aug 29th

Asian Markets Tumble After Wall Street...

Asian markets dropped Wednesday following a plunge on Wall Street amid simmering concerns over...
Aug 29th

Eric Boehlert: Money Changes Everything...

Why was the press mum when Romney and Giuliani announced they’d rather attend fundraisers than...
Aug 29th

How To: Write a Killer Resume

A strong resume can give you the edge on any upcoming career opportunity. Mahalo, the hand-edited...
Aug 29th

A need for speed: 802.11n router roundup

Have you been on the fence about whether to upgrade to 802.11n? Ars looks at 802.11n Draft-N routers...
Aug 29th

Jordan: I Hate Iraqis Group on Facebook

“When Facebook.com was created, its creators never thought it would one day be a place for racist...
Aug 29th

It All Comes Together: The Top 10...

Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources “Spicing up your computer desktop or...
Aug 29th

Telephones: Get Reverse Phone Lookups...

Web site Sullr provides reverse phone number lookups with an attractive AJAX interface and Google...
Aug 28th
Listening: John Lee Hooker – Father Was a Jockey (via Bradfarris: Last Played)
Aug 28th

Revealed! The secret paymaster for...

Is it Osama? Or Iran? Nope, you’re way off the mark. It turns out that a major source of...
Aug 28th

Why not treat ineffective presidents...

With far more at stake in the political realm than in any corporation, should newly elected...
Aug 28th

Reminders: Schedule PingMe Reminders...

Schedule reminders on previously mentioned SMS reminder service PingMe with a phone call to the...
Aug 28th

Baking cookies in a car

When it is hot outside - a very common occurance here in So. Cal in the summer - my car starts to...
Aug 28th

Why I like Facebook

It sounds stupid, but every day I write a new sentence: “Tyler is [fill in the blank]”...
Aug 28th

cuando los tetris atacan

cuando los tetris atacanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v…When the Tetris attack. (via Brad...
Aug 28th

The Living Room of the Future (Part the...

From Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century (World of the Future), a book I have...
Aug 28th
“The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Bush. It doesn’t get...”
— Steven G. Brant: Gonzales is...
Aug 28th

Water pact for Navajos 'high priority'...

PHOENIX — A settlement between the Navajos and New Mexico for water from a major Colorado River...
Aug 28th
2007-08-28 0530
Aug 28th
Brad Farris: Q: What do you call it when Gonzales and Rove resign to spend more time with their...
Aug 28th

Hack Attack: Maintain a Consistent...

Most likely you use more than one computer in the course of a day—a work computer and a home...
Aug 28th

Dean Kamen previews an extraordinary new...

Inventor Dean Kamen gives a 5-minute talk about the extraordinary prosthetic arm he’s developing at...
Aug 28th

Brad is widening his stance.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 28th

Unions Key To Democracy

The weakening of the labor movement is not just bad news for the workers who lose union jobs. (via...
Aug 28th

Elevating the Discourse

Here’s what the Republican National Committee thinks of you, via their latest email:...
Aug 28th

Worst Civilian Skydiving Accident

Leaping Through the clouds 40 years ago yesterday, 18 experienced recreational skydivers took off in...
Aug 28th

NewsGator launches new Facebook app,...

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Blogging, Web services, Social Software, web...
Aug 28th

Google Maps: Position Your Satellite...

Perfectly aim your satellite dish or antenna using Google maps mashup, Satellite Alignment...
Aug 28th

Japan Launches Carrier...Sorta

The Japanese Navy — officially the Maritime Self-Defense Force — has launched an...
Aug 28th

iPhone unlocking goes ballistic - what...

Whoa, it’s an iPhone unlock fest out there. There are now apparently six ways to free the handset...
Aug 28th

New Digg Home Page Live Today (Daniel...

New Digg Home Page Live Today  — Following up on Kevin’s post from last week, we’ve...
Aug 28th

Cellphone Booth Politely Tells You to...

The picture says it all. This booth is in the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen. A subtle way of...
Aug 28th

Totally Frakked: Choose Your Own...

In one of the more peculiar bits of promotion I’ve seen, BSG fans will have a chance to vote...
Aug 28th

Steven G. Brant: Gonzales Is Gone. But...

At the conclusion of The House Lawyer Departs, its lead editorial on the subject, The New York Times...
Aug 28th

Disorderly Conduct in Minnesota: The...

ABC News has the plea disposition document from the Minnesota Court in Sen. Larry Craig’s...
Aug 28th

Summing Up Alberto Gonzales' Official...

In its Tuesday editorial, the New York Times does a good job of summing up in two paragraphs what...
Aug 28th

Microsoft's UI ambitions not limited to...

Microsoft, in what looks to be a move toward driver safety, filed a patent that could potentially...
Aug 28th

A. Alexander | The Crime? Helping the...

Writing for The Progressive Daily Beacon, A. Alexander says, “It is interesting to observe...
Aug 27th

William Rivers Pitt | Burning the Law in...

Truthout columnist William Rivers Pitt writes: “The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the...
Aug 27th

Sen. Larry Craig arrested, pleads...

Roll Call reports today that Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport for...
Aug 27th
“The clay-formed houses of Shibam city in Hadramout province...”
— Saba Net - Yemen news agency
Aug 27th

Heckuva Job: The Unqualified, the...

Heckuva Job: The Unqualified, the Unscrupulous, and the Bush White...
Aug 27th

Arianna Huffington: War Deadenders Take...

As we all await the Petraeus Report on the state of the surge, we may also need to be anticipating...
Aug 27th

Poll: Young voters disenchanted with...

Poll: Young voters disenchanted with Republican partyhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/… Two...
Aug 27th

Google Phone An Attempt To Take On $100...

Google Phone An Attempt To Take On $100 PC?...
Aug 27th

Poll: Americans Would Get Rid Of...

Many adults in the United States are questioning the way their head of state us elected, according...
Aug 27th
Warch Watch
Hurricane Katrina 2nd Anniversary (via AmericasFuture)
Aug 27th

Iran risks attack over atomic push,...

Iran risks attack over atomic push, French president says - International Herald...
Aug 27th

A Recess Appointment to Replace...

Bush wouldn’t dare, right? Josh Marshall says don’t be surprised if Bush uses a...
Aug 27th

Tattoo band-aids

David Pescovitz: I dig these Tattoo Bandages. Each handsome metal tin contains an assortment of...
Aug 27th

David Lebovitz makes agave-sweetened...

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Chocolate, Hacking Food, Recipes, On the Blogs, Eggs, Comfort Food,...
Aug 27th

Pano Logic Device: The Prettiest Thin...

The thin client. Not the sexiest computing application ever, is it? Nor is it art. Pano...
Aug 27th

Bush and Cornyn react to Gonzales...

President Bush, commenting on Alberto Gonzales’ resignation this morning, said, “It is sad.” Bush...
Aug 27th

Iraqi Children Now Outnumber Foreign...

Child fighters, once a rare presence on Iraq’s battlefields, are playing a significant and...
Aug 27th

Flashback: Chertoff’s Incompetence At...

One of the most repeated criticisms of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s tenure was that he...
Aug 27th

Conyers on Gonzales resignation

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. won’t let a little thing like a resignation deter...
Aug 27th

This Material Could Change Your Life

This press release issued August 22 may not look like much, but it announces a new project that...
Aug 27th

Upcoming Gannon Book Disses Fellow WH...

It’s been more than two years since Jeff Gannon (birth name: James Dale Guckert) resigned from...
Aug 27th
Brad Farris: Gonzales resigned. The search is on for a replacement lickspittle. (via Twitter / Brad...
Aug 27th

Gonzo Gone

Alberto Gonzales is resigning. Pair this with the Karl Rove departure, and I’m growing more...
Aug 27th

Bush's Vietnam Illiteracy

Bush’s use of the Cambodian genocide to justify staying in Iraq ignores key facts. (via...
Aug 27th

Brad is wondering where George Bush will...

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 27th

A Farewell To Assholes Dept.: HEY...

In one final display of hilarious ineptitude, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on a Friday...
Aug 27th

Independent DOJ

I’m so old I remember when the wise old men of Washington spent their days fulminating about...
Aug 27th

Why Are We Eating So Much Shrimp ?

We need your help with a little social experiment. Between 1980 and 2005, the amount of shrimp...
Aug 27th

A High-Tech House On A Pole

When prefabricated houses become small enough, hi-tech enough and weird enough to get into a...
Aug 27th

More "Progress" In Iraq

It was just over eight months ago that George Bush announced his latest strategy for victory in...
Aug 27th

German Critics Mock Rolling Stones,...

Rock stars from the 1960s and 1970s have been hitting Germany’s lucrative concert circuit but...
Aug 27th
2007-08-27 0545
Aug 27th

Sugar found to be more addictive than...

Filed under: Newspapers, On the Blogs, High-fructose corn syrup, Sugar We’ve known for years...
Aug 27th

Who is the US Fighting in Iraq?

Who exactly is the US fighting in Iraq? Graphed by self-confessed identity of captives, it is...
Aug 27th

Senator’s Office Is Burglarized

Burglars broke into Senator Christopher J. Dodd’s office, taking undisclosed items and leaving...
Aug 27th

Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook...

Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker  — This Tuesday, Israel-based Dapper will launch the...
Aug 26th
Brad Farris: Reading: “Ultimate GMail Collection: over 80 Tools and Tips”...
Aug 26th

Algal 'rock snot' now gaining noxious...

STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. — It looks like a clump of soiled sheep’s wool, a cottony green or white mass...
Aug 26th

270 Laid Off As Murray Closes Tower Mine...

Crandall Canyon mine co-owner Robert Murray began telling nearly 300 workers Saturday they will lose...
Aug 26th

Warner To Bush: "I Most Respectfully...

From NBC: Senator John Warner (R-VA) appeared on “Meet The Press” Sunday to discuss...
Aug 26th

Social Networking: Facebook Etiquette

Love it or hate it, there are some simple Facebook etiquette tips that can make your experience a...
Aug 26th

Why We Haven't Found Osama

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas writes a 15 page online article on why we haven’t found Osama...
Aug 26th
2007-08-26 0830
Aug 26th

Webb: Unlike Vietnam, Iraq War’s...

In comparing the Vietnam and Iraq wars in a speech last week to the Veterans of Foreign Wars,...
Aug 26th

The Complete History of Lemmings

Mike Dailly, the creator of Lemmings, describes the story of the game’s creation in “The...
Aug 26th

Iraqi PM Lashes Back After Criticism...

Iraq’s beleaguered prime minister on Sunday lashed out at American critics who have called for...
Aug 26th

NYT Analysis Shows New Congress Far More...

In the New York Times, Brookings Institution congressional scholar Thomas Mann compares the 110th...
Aug 26th

Steve Young: Bush Should Have Used A War...

While David Geffen’s execution of Hollywood power broker, Michael Ovitz, at the end of my and...
Aug 26th

In awe of bologna and doritos

Eric Gorski, “Hispanic congregations adding English services to the mix”, AP, 8/25/2007:...
Aug 26th

This should be helpful

Iraq’s prime minister takes a shot at Senator Clinton. (via Brad’s shared items in...
Aug 26th

Google Lets You Remove People from...

Because of the potential privacy problems, Google decided to change the policy for removing faces...
Aug 26th

Mmm ... Korean pork popsicles

Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Far East, Pork, Food Oddities I hate to be known as the food blogger...
Aug 26th

MSNBC Thought Fake Al Sharpton was Real

Everyone’s a faker these days: in addition to Fake Steve Jobs, the blog parodying the Apple boss,...
Aug 26th

Oregon campers tie peeping Tom suspect...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A group of campers tied a peeping Tom suspect to a tree, keeping him bound until...
Aug 26th

Denied adoption, obese man has gastric...

DALLAS — A man who weighed 558 pounds when a Missouri judge prevented him from adopting a child he...
Aug 26th
Brad Farris: Laughing at: “Opus” (http://tinyurl.com/2jdte9) (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 26th

O'Hanlon Lies Again

Seriously, why does this man still get any ink at all, much less access to the op-ed page of the...
Aug 26th

The Housing Bubble

THE HOUSING BUBBLE….The New York Times reports that the median home price is going to fall...
Aug 26th

Brad is craving fried chicken and...

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 26th

Rep. Baird’s ‘real progress’ in Iraq.

On Friday, Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA), who recently returned from a trip to Iraq, wrote an op-ed in the...
Aug 26th

We've all heard the expression "no good...

We’ve all heard the expression “no good deed goes unpunished,” but this is...
Aug 25th

"Radical Islamist. Hot new fad on the...

The Official Berkeley Breathed Website [warning: ComicSans] announced that the weekly...
Aug 25th
“It’s one thing if China is producing our Barbie dolls,...”
— The Huffington Post
Aug 25th

Obama Names Republicans He'll Work With

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama often says he will be a candidate that will bring...
Aug 25th

Brad is a good friend.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 25th

U.S. Counterinsurgency Manual At Amazon?...

Seems the rightwing can’t whine fast enough when the New York Times points out that the United...
Aug 25th

O'Hanlon: It's The Dishonesty, Stupid

Michael O’Hanlon defends himself again and elides what to me is the fundamental problem with...
Aug 25th

Marjorie Cohn: Turning Iraq Into Vietnam

Desperate to shore up support for continuing his unpopular war on Iraq, George W. Bush drew an...
Aug 25th

Prices For Homes Expected To Drop For...

The median price of American homes is expected to fall this year for the first time since federal...
Aug 25th

Health: Get Smarter with More Exercise

We all know that exercise is good for us, and the New York Times reports that exercise can make your...
Aug 25th

Rush Limbaugh's Unbelievably Racist...

Just when you thought he couldn’t get any lower (or any higher, maybe he was just taking too...
Aug 25th

Brad is aggregating stories.

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)
Aug 25th
Bentley The Big Black Dog
Aug 25th

Dave Reichert: Dems are like serial...

Yeah, we all knew that Dave Reichert was a pandering toady who can’t think for himself and...
Aug 25th

Proto.Menu: Prototype-based Context Menu...

To round off the weekend, here’s a very cool Prototype-based solution for creating context menus: ...
Aug 25th

U.S. soldiers disdainful of WH ‘happy...

Soldiers in Iraq “are increasingly disdainful of the happy talk that they say commanders on the...
Aug 25th

What's in a name? U.S. rebrands Iraq...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces have rebranded one of the main insurgent groups in Iraq and now use...
Aug 25th

‘Spectacular attack’ expected in Iraq in...

Today, the Washington Post reports that despite political pressure, the Bush administration “hopes...
Aug 25th

Picture Exclusive: Palm Centro Leaked...

Picture Exclusive: Palm Centro Leaked Official Shot  — The Palm Centro has been courting much...
Aug 25th
Brad Farris: Rained last night - we’re getting the remnants of Hurricane Dean. (via Twitter /...
Aug 25th

Results of the cold brew coffee...

Filed under: Coffee, How To So I’ve done two days of cold brew coffee now, and I am here to...
Aug 25th

Controversy Flares over Baghdad Deaths

Funeral processions in Baghdad’s Shu’la district touched off public demonstrations...
Aug 25th

Potentially lethal food? It's all part...

Filed under: Fish, Far East, On the Blogs, Food Quest, Health & Medical When I was growing up,...
Aug 25th

Wooden Phone

Spotted on SlashGear, a wooden cell phone. (via Brad’s shared items in Google...
Aug 25th

Troops on Ground tune out "Happy...

Tina Susman of the LAT finds that the privates and specialists among US troops in Iraq are...
Aug 25th

Not good

Riverbend hasn’t posted since April. Her last words:  It’s difficult to decide which is more...
Aug 25th

My President Will Be...

My President Will Be… What qualities do you want to see in our next president? Join the...
Aug 25th

Pentagon launching Iraq ‘war room.’

In advance of the September White House report, the Pentagon is launching “a 24-hour-a-day,...
Aug 25th

The ethics of Philip Zelikow.

Blogger Glenn Greenwald noted that Republican lobbyist Philip Zelikow had been making TV appearances...
Aug 25th

Right-Wing Launches Assault Against...

Yesterday, Sen. John Warner (R-VA), a senior and respected member of the Senate Armed Services...
Aug 24th
Buena Vista Social Club – El Carretero
Aug 24th
Junior Brown – Moan All Night Long
Aug 24th
Thelonious Monk – Solitude
Aug 24th

Warner To White House: ″I'm Not Going To...

Sen. John Warner’s suggestion that some troops leave Iraq by the end of the year has roiled...
Aug 24th
Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
Aug 24th

30+ Mobile Photo Sharing Tools

What do you do with all of those pictures on your camera phone? First you have to get the...
Aug 24th
Brad Farris: Streaming my life (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 24th

Foley likely to face no charges.

Scripps Howard News Service reports that former congressman Mark Foley “is unlikely to face criminal...
Aug 24th

The Lost Year - Dan Froomkin

The Lost Year - Dan Froomkin A new national intelligence estimate concludes that President...
Aug 24th

Concentration Camp Card Deck from...

Xeni Jardin: The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has scanned...
Aug 24th

Could the CW Be Completely Wrong? ...

Take a look at this: Are the modest security gains in Iraq due to perceived inevitability of US...
Aug 24th

Follow Your Instincts

by digby Sometimes you have to see it to believe it: LIMBAUGH: Here’s [caller] in Lake Orion,...
Aug 24th

Behance to Offer Online Artist...

Behance to Offer Online Artist Portfolios & Network Behance is a new portfolio and networking...
Aug 24th

Freedom's Watch - Congresspedia

Freedom’s Watch - Congresspediahttp://www.sourcewatch.org/ind…Freedom’s Watch is a...
Aug 24th

Dr. Michael J. Breus: The Buzz on Energy...

It was only a matter of time. In the past week I’ve read two different articles about...
Aug 24th

Ten amazing body-modded people

David Pescovitz: Deputy Dog posted an intriguing list of ten people who have modified their bodies...
Aug 24th

Sea Rise Outpacing Predictions Due to...

Alister Doyle writes for Reuters: “A thaw of Antarctic ice is outpacing predictions by the UN...
Aug 24th

Fringe Evangelicals Distort US Military...

Writing for Truthout, Thomas D. Williams and JP Briggs II, Ph.D. report: “For decades,...
Aug 24th

Sky Harbor is evacuated in rescreening...

PHOENIX — A passenger was allowed to continue past a security checkpoint in Terminal 2 at Sky Harbor...
Aug 24th

New Challenge to Guantanamo Detention...

The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed what it says is a “groundbreaking brief”...
Aug 24th

Create Top 10 Movie Lists with FilmCrave

Filmcrave is a new website that is all about movie reviews. Here you can rate and review a film...
Aug 24th

Froomkin wants to know what happened to...

Froomkin: A new national intelligence estimate concludes that President Bush’s troop surge...
Aug 24th

Why does Egypt choose to stoop so low?

There is a special sadness to the diminution of giants, to great men and countries that choose to...
Aug 24th

Tacos in America

The history of tacos in America. As reported entirely by the comments to a brief blog post. (via...
Aug 24th

New U.S. armored trucks are symbolic...

ABERDEEN, Maryland (Reuters) - New armored vehicles that give extra protection to U.S. troops in...
Aug 24th

Ex-Klansman gets life for Mississippi...

JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - A former Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to three life terms on...
Aug 24th

Another Resignation at the Justice...

While Alberto Gonzales continues to say that all of his errors were simply...
Aug 24th

Rob Riggle is Alive and Well and Has...

Last night, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart concluded the last of their Operation Silent Thunder...
Aug 24th

The Notion: GOP Attacks John Warner for...

RNC pulls out former Quayle aide William Kristol to claim the party’s most prominent spokesman...
Aug 24th

He will Come, If They Build it

Talking Points Memo’s Muckraker has a stunning post from Laura McGann and Paul Kiel about U.S....
Aug 24th

Properazzi to Re-launch Site: Named...

Properazzi, the European search engine for finding properties for rent or sale, is getting ready...
Aug 24th
Yes – Onward
Aug 24th

White House Moving The Goal Posts On...

When President Bush announced the escalation on January 10, 2007, he claimed the purpose of adding...
Aug 24th

Think Progress » Historian quoted by...

Think Progress » Historian quoted by Bush ‘angrily distances’ himself. They [war supporters]...
Aug 24th

Come visit the HP Garage

Thank you Brian Solis for the wonderful wrap up and photos of our visit to the HP Garage last...
Aug 24th

There is no immigrant crime wave -...

Jeralyn Merritt addresses the rightwing’s recent handwringing about the supposed rampant...
Aug 24th

Dept. Of Because The Cops Don't Need You...

When Bush was in Canada selling America to Mexico earlier this week, Canadian labor unions protested...
Aug 24th

Review: Vinnci Perfect Pod Maker — Mad...

Pod-based coffee makers, like the Philips Senseo, are perfect for time pressed javaheads like us....
Aug 24th

Utah Governor Creates Mine Safety...

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. created a Utah Mine Safety Commission on Thursday, headed by former U.S....
Aug 24th

GOP Rep Davis: "I Assume The White House...

GOP Rep Davis: “I Assume The White House Will Tweak It [The Petraeus Report]” - The...
Aug 24th

Scandal Plagued GOP Rep Renzi To Retire...

Scandal Plagued GOP Rep Renzi To Retire - Politics on The Huffington...
Aug 24th

Google to Create Online Transit Guide...

Google will soon be working with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and new...
Aug 24th
This is a photo of the swimming pool in the backyard of this...
Aug 24th

The allure of eggcorns

It came up a few days ago on the American Dialect Society mailing list, but I had to see it to...
Aug 24th

Her inner Rove?

Hillary Clinton warns that terrorism could still help the GOP. (via Brad’s shared items in...
Aug 24th

U.S. bomb kills 3 British soldiers in...

KABUL (Reuters) - Three British soldiers were killed by a bomb dropped by U.S. aircraft supporting...
Aug 24th

White Chocolate and Cinnamon Babka?

And it has streusel crumbles on top? Hm, Zabar’s doesn’t have that one in stock now—or...
Aug 24th

James Boyce: Go West Young Man: And See...

Raising awareness on the issue of Global Warming is great, but I, and others, have grown...
Aug 24th

Geek To Live: Partition and Image Your...

You’ve just reinstalled Windows from scratch—again—but this time you want to preserve your...
Aug 24th

Could the Google Phone really come to...

Filed under: Business, Google, Search Or is it all just a bunch of gossip that we have been hearing...
Aug 24th

Web Zen: potent potables

Xeni Jardin: * martini * absinthe * i claudius drinking game * beer * bruisin ales *...
Aug 24th

Kristol: Let’s ‘Stretch Our Army And...

On Fox News this morning, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol said that the escalation in Iraq...
Aug 24th

Food: Eat a Lunch That Keeps You...

It’s hard to fight the afternoon daze at work, but UC San Francisco nurse Shelley Pepper...
Aug 24th

Has SOCOM Become Part of the Problem?

The U.S. Special Operations Command was created in the wake of the the failed hostage rescue attempt...
Aug 24th

Watching Freedom's Watch

Watching Freedom’s Watch Perlstein: “When I speculated that Karl Rove’s...
Aug 24th

Today's Must Read

Now that he’s been fired, surge supporter Gen. Peter Pace, outgoing chairman of the Joint...
Aug 24th

Brad is running up a tab.

Aug 24th
Brad Farris: Reading: USA Today Reporter Glows Over Rudy - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime...
Aug 23rd
Brad Farris: Sometimes, rarely, life doesn’t suck. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 23rd
Brad Farris: Heh - Three Words For Harry Reid, indeed. http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/003260.html...
Aug 22nd
Brad Farris: Working (LearnMat) - Damn you, John! (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 22nd
Brad Farris: Listening to: Sublime - (40 Oz. to Freedom) - Rivers of Babylon...
Aug 20th
Brad Farris: I’m not watching Fox News. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 20th
Brad Farris: Reading: Neo-conservative Denial Syndrome at LewRockwell.com...
Aug 20th

The "September Report?" The White House...

Although anyone with a lick of sense has assumed that that report to be made in September would be...
Aug 15th
Brad Farris: Netvibes - not ready for primetime? (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 15th
Brad Farris: Good riddance, Karl Rove. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 13th
Brad Farris: Celebrating my mother’s birthday. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 11th
Brad Farris: Reading: Gen. Petraeus Interviewed by Alan Colmes - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime...
Aug 9th
Brad Farris: Reading: A Solemn Nuclear Anniversary - Opinion by Robert Scheer...
Aug 9th

Brad Farris: Seeking wireless access in...

Brad Farris: Seeking wireless access in a wired world. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 7th

Brad Farris: We can be afraid, or we can...

Brad Farris: We can be afraid, or we can be informed. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 5th

Brad Farris: Listening to: Frank Zappa -...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Frank Zappa - (Overnite Sensation) Dinah-Moe-Hum...
Aug 3rd

Brad Farris: I believe we're all in it...

Brad Farris: I believe we’re all in it together. (via Twitter / Brad Farris)
Aug 3rd

Brad Farris: Listening to: Pink Floyd -...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Pink Floyd - (Meddle) A Pillow Of Winds http://tinyurl.com/2ywr8x (via...
Aug 3rd

Brad Farris: Listening to: Cowboy...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Cowboy Junkies - (The Caution Horses) - Powderfinger (via Twitter / Brad...
Aug 2nd

Brad Farris: Listening to: Pink Floyd -...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Pink Floyd - (Animals) - Pigs (Three Different Ones)...
Aug 2nd

Brad Farris: Listening to: Tito &...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Tito & Tarantula - (Little Bitch) - Dead Person...
Aug 2nd

Brad Farris: I slept so hard last night...

Brad Farris: I slept so hard last night that when I woke up I felt like I was encased in black foam...
Aug 2nd

Brad Farris: Dinner at Peacock tonight -...

Brad Farris: Dinner at Peacock tonight - Pho & Summer Rolls. Great. Place was a little crowded...
Aug 2nd

Brad Farris: Listening to: Buck Owens -...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Buck Owens - What A Liar I Am http://tinyurl.com/yqgh9y (via Twitter /...
Aug 1st

Brad Farris: Listening to: Johnny Cash -...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Johnny Cash - Man In Black http://tinyurl.com/27rm57 (via Twitter / Brad...
Aug 1st

Brad Farris: Watching: YouTube - Bill...

Brad Farris: Watching: YouTube - Bill Maher: The Decider http://tinyurl.com/yq3rrz (via Twitter /...
Aug 1st

Brad Farris: Listening to: Jan Garbarek...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Jan Garbarek - (Visible World) Quest http://tinyurl.com/2crscl (via...
Aug 1st

Brad Farris: Listening to: Lou Reed -...

Brad Farris: Listening to: Lou Reed - (Rock N Roll Animal) Sweet Jane http://tinyurl.com/yu3qll...
Aug 1st