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War Critic Republican Ron Paul Exceeds...

Dark-horse Republican candidate Ron Paul will report third quarter fundraising totals that exceed...

Oct 2nd

Bad For Business: Execs And Managers...

The Republican Party, known since the late 19th century as the party of business, is losing its lock...

Oct 2nd

US plan for air strikes on Iran 'backed...

A plan by the Bush administration to launch surgical strikes on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard...

Oct 2nd

RSS: Turn Your Subscriptions into a...

Filter all of your RSS feeds through web application FeedHub for a single, customized RSS feed...

Oct 1st

Paul Boutin's GOOG-411 Test

Paul Boutin says: “While everyone else is pontificating on what the GOOG-411 billboards around...

Oct 1st

Brad is allowing twitter to update my...

(via Brad Farris’s Facebook Status Updates)

Oct 1st

Twitter: Allowing twitter to update my...

Oct 1st

How to filter out press releases from...

If you get too many press releases emailed to you, try Merlin Mann’s trick of creating a...

Oct 1st

Ask The Readers: What Are Your Guerrilla...

We’ve all got our methods of cutting through distraction—whether at home, the workplace, or...

Oct 1st

How to read the PLU codes on your...

Filed under: Vegetables, Fruit, On the Blogs, America Have you ever wondered what those PLU (price...

Oct 1st

Studying global warming through old...

Researchers are studying the painted sunsets by artists like Turner, Rembrandt, and Rubens to get a...

Oct 1st

Searchers Say They Have Fossett 'Ping'

From this morning’s Military.com news… Teams on the ground and in two aircraft kept up...

Oct 1st

HOWTO make a robotic ElmoSapien chimera

The ElmoSapien project shows you how to eviscerate an Elmo handpuppet and stretch its skin taut...

Oct 1st

Gore's call for a carbon/jobs Marshall...

Al Gore (TED2006 speech) at last week’s Clinton Global Initiative: “The key to...

Oct 1st

Here's to the Crazy Ones

By Marc Hedlund I love this remix of Apple’s “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” ad...

Oct 1st

Vedivi - free personal VPN lets you...

Wallcooler is a free personal VPN (Virtual Private Network). Install the program on both computers...

Oct 1st

Guerrilla librarians free the $86k...

Carl sez, “A couple of weeks ago, we wrote to Marybeth Peters, the Register of U.S....

Oct 1st

Twitter Updates Now Connected to...

Facebook adjusted their API last week, which now enables Twitter to directly update online status...

Sep 30th

Woman dies in security custody at...

Gothamist reports (via a story in the NY Post)… Manhattan resident Carol Ann Gotbaum, who is...

Sep 30th

New Blade Runner: OMG Deckard is a...

The NYT’s Fred Kaplan has a piece about the “new” Blade Runner today —...

Sep 30th

Health: Boost Your Energy By Simply...

Ever have one of those dragging days? The Happiness Project suggests you can get an instant...

Sep 30th

Geek exercise challenge: Walk to...

Out-of-shape? Middle Earth geek? Why not walk to Rivendell, and join a worldwide community of...

Sep 30th

Google May Blur Canadian Faces and...

KingK writes “Reuters reports that Google is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View...

Sep 30th

Bad signs of the world: Flickr pool

I just lost half an hour of my life to the highly amusing “Bad Signage” Flickr pool,...

Sep 30th

Amazon MP3 Vs. iTunes Music Store

Ali writes “As discussed here recently, amazon.com has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a...

Sep 30th

Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US...

I am a new graduate student in Computer Engineering. I would like to get my MS and possibly my Ph.D....

Sep 29th

DIY Creations: Make Noise Reduction...

You can head down to your local stereo store and get fleeced for about $150 (or more) to buy a...

Sep 29th

ABC reporter files from inside Burma via...

Mediabistro snip: When ABC’s senior foreign correspondent Jim Sciutto crossed into Myanmar...

Sep 29th

Firefox: Run Faster Without Rebooting...

If Firefox has a flaw to get bummed about, it’s that it slows down your machine after a few...

Sep 29th

New AT&T terms of service: We'll...

AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can...

Sep 29th

TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools

Twitter is a great service, but it would be nothing without the other sites, tools, and apps that...

Sep 29th

Bird's-Eye View May Include Magnetic...

BoredStiff writes “Heard on NPR and reported in ScienceDaily: a study finding that migratory...

Sep 29th

Recently Listened: Billie Holiday – Comes...

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: Led Zeppelin – Night...

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: The Clash – Rock the...

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: Santana – Europa (Earth's...

Sep 28th

Version Control: Get a better...

Get a better understanding of version control at weblog BetterExplained. Got it? Now set up your own...

Sep 28th

Texas legislator explains her fraudulent...

Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle (R) says she is concerned about the same person voting...

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: Thomas Newman – That Next...

Sep 28th

Alarms: Schedule Wake Up Calls and...

Schedule free wake up calls and reminders online with web site Wakerupper. Just enter the time and...

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: The Doors – Maggie M'Gill

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: No Doubt – Hella Good

Sep 28th

Recently Listened: Arthur Fiedler & The...

Sep 28th

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BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 28th

Backup Pal - one button backup for your...

Backup Pal is a one button mobile phone backup device which archives contact information from SIM...

Sep 28th

Spiral-cut fried whole potato: Korean...

Tornado Potatoes — new street-food from South Korea. It’s a spiral-cut potato, deep...

Sep 28th

Spiral-cut fried whole potato: Korean...

Tornado Potatoes — new street-food from South Korea. It’s a spiral-cut potato, deep...

Sep 28th

Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to...

StCredZero writes “Wild. Fuji has created a photocopier that automatically translates...

Sep 28th

Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job

Stony Stevenson writes “According to a new online survey by Harris Interactive, more than half...

Sep 27th

Recently Listened: The Termites – I'll Be...

Sep 27th

Recently Listened: Fleetwood Mac – Not That...

Sep 27th

Verizon flip-flops on censoring...

Verizon Wireless found itself on the receiving end of public outrage after it decided not to allow a...

Sep 27th

Single Inbox: Manage All Your Social...

PR guy Steve Rubel uses his Gmail account to interact with all his favorite social networking apps...

Sep 27th

How To: Build a Workbench on the Cheap

DIYer Bruce Maki describes how to create a simple but sturdy workbench for less than $20. For...

Sep 27th

Giuliani humiliates woman who's...

Rudy Giuliani doesn’t like cell phones. In one recent speech, he humiliated a woman in the...

Sep 27th

A simple public choice theory of Russia

This one is crude, but it cannot be dismissed: Putin doesn’t run a country, he runs a...

Sep 27th

In a Democratic debate, rivals assail...

HANOVER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidates pounced on rival Hillary...

Sep 27th

Google's 9th Birthday

Two weeks ago, AFP informed us that “Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet....

Sep 27th

Devilicious Fried Chicken

Fried chicken is always a safe comfort food when you have no idea what to eat or if there’s...

Sep 27th

Darth Vader Projector Alarm Clock - a...

Darth Vader Project Alarm Clock. Apparently this is the first Star Wars clock to project the time...

Sep 27th

Titan missile silo for sale

Got $1.5 million lying around? You can buy this Titan Missile Silo and wait out the apocalypse. Not...

Sep 27th

Justice Department's Bio-terror...

destinyland writes “University professor and artist Steve Kurtz publicizes the history of...

Sep 27th

Sling goes SOLO: the new Slingbox SOLO

There’s a new Sling in town. The SOLO supports HD video out of the box with component video...

Sep 27th

Digital photo of pursesnatcher

Joe Cunningham was on a sidewalk in Minneapolis when he witnessed a mugger trying to take a...

Sep 27th

Clever Uses: Clean Inkjet Printer...

Dried ink on printer cartridges can render your expensive ink unusable, but blogger Bucky decided...

Sep 26th

The Handheld Calculator Turns 40

Ian Lamont writes “The handheld calculator turns 40 years old this year, and the Smithsonian...

Sep 26th

WebRunner 0.7 rocks

By Marc Hedlund Mark Finkle has been pushing out builds of WebRunner, a Mozilla-based tool for...

Sep 26th

Man lives after chair leg penetrates eye...

Seen above is an X-ray of Shafique el-Fahkri, a 20-year-old student who was attacked outside of a...

Sep 26th

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Put...

An always-on server can come in all kinds of handy for running automated tasks, syncing your data,...

Sep 26th

Recently Listened: Pink Floyd – Shine On You...

Sep 26th

Space Rope Trick Experiment Goes Awry

Tjeerd writes “An experiment that envisaged sending a parcel from space to Earth on a...

Sep 26th

Thoughts on a Land without Gay People

Commenters have been chiding me over my glib Staubach post on the day after Iran’s president spoke...

Sep 26th

Recently Listened: Rush – Here Again

Sep 26th

Harvard lawyers shred Harvard Coop's...

Copyright lawyers from Harvard’s Berkman Center have written an article in the Harvard Crimson...

Sep 26th

Content Distribution Networks have...

By Jesse Robbins I learned from Dan Rayburn that the Content Distribution Network (CDN) market...

Sep 26th

Do you blog like a terrorist?

Noah Shachtman of Wired News (who just got back from Iraq) says, You might think your anonymous...

Sep 26th

Burma regime cracks down on protesting...

As feared, the military regime that controls Myanmar (Burma) has begun to forcefully crack down...

Sep 26th

How To: Make Better Coffee

This morning’s cuppa joe a big letdown? Self-described “coffee snob” Brett...

Sep 26th

How To: Change Your PC's Registered...

When you’ve inherited someone else’s PC and want to make it your own, you can change...

Sep 26th

Digital Camera Enhancer - free digital...

Digital Camera Enhancer. A nice free utility to help improve the quality of your digital...

Sep 26th

Facebook Statistics for Applications

Facebook just went live with statistics for applications in the last 2 hours. Having applications...

Sep 26th

Food Lovers' Guide to Portland,...

I didn’t need to read Eric Asimov’s NYT story on food and drink in Portland, Oregon to...

Sep 26th

More Money Down the Iraq Drain ...

Robert Scheer - In for a penny, in for a pound. What the heck — the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Sep 26th

Recently Listened: Bridget Saint John –...

Sep 25th

Recently Listened: The Living End – Maitland...

Sep 25th

Cops complaining about cops writing cops...

Jake says: Apparently, police corruption isn’t worthy of hiding any more. Here’s a...

Sep 25th

Recently Listened: Casey Dienel – The La La...

Sep 25th

Recently Listened: Steel Train – Gypsy Waves

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: Dave Alvin – Ashgrove

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: Mark Aaron James –...

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: a-ha – Cannot Hide

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: Rippingtons – Summer...

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: Wayne Fontana – Groovy...

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: Porcupine Tree –...

Sep 24th

Recently Listened: Rod Stewart – Dirty Old...

Sep 24th

How To Identify An Insurgent:  Shoot Him

Since there are only fifty-two cards in a deck, the Pentagon came up with a new way to identify...

Sep 24th

Gmail 2.0

Garett Rogers reports that Google prepares a new version of Gmail, according to a message from the...

Sep 24th

Building the Drone Hive

British-based BAE Systems is proposing a sea-going mother ship for unmanned vehicles (UXV) of...

Sep 24th

Would carbon tax revenues be too...

Every now and then I come across arguments I have not heard before, and then I pass them along: ...

Sep 24th

Go Ajax, Young Man

Aaron Newton and Jep Castelein wrote in pointers to a recent Joel “on software”...

Sep 24th

OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop...

theodp writes “Starting November 12, The One Laptop Per Child Project will sell its affordable...

Sep 24th

eBay Feedback Scores No Longer Working

We are eBay fans, and have been so for years. We’ve bought all sorts of stuff on eBay, and...

Sep 24th

Simpsons film references -...

This giant image file (of unknown provenance) compares cells from classic movies with their...

Sep 24th

Copyright and tattoos: who owns your...

Jordan Hatcher did a fascinating presentation on copyright and tattoos at Gikii, last...

Sep 24th

How CBS interviewed Iran's president

I watched the 60 Minutes interview of Iranian president Ahmandinejad with amazement. At the end of...

Sep 24th

Tzipi Livni Aboutface: Now Against...

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, now grandstanding at the UN, is the daughter of Eitan Livni,...

Sep 24th

Would Clinton Leave Iraq?

Last month after a Dem presidential debate, I wrote that, “The Dem Primary Won’t Be...

Sep 24th

The Gingrich Groundswell

From David Broder: In the years since I first met him in 1974, I have learned that it’s wise to...

Sep 23rd

The Notion: A Homegrown Doomsday...

Six nuclear warheads went undetected for 36 hours last month while transported across the country....

Sep 23rd

Critical Acrobat Reader security flaw...

A security researcher has found an unpatched exploit in Adobe’s Acrobat Reader software, used...

Sep 22nd

Tracking Zebras by GPS

Wireless networks have been used before to track animals, such as elephants,koalas, and even...

Sep 22nd

Virgin Mobile offers multi-party SMS...

Virgin Mobile USA has just launched a multi-party text messaging service. The new, free-to-join...

Sep 22nd

Facebook's Impact on the Widget Economy...

Facebook’s Impact on the Widget Economy  — Last night I attended a technology event, Refresh...

Sep 22nd

Serbia warns of violence if U.S....

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned the United States and Kosovo...

Sep 22nd

Do You Need a Permit to Land on the...

Billosaur writes “With the recent announcement of Google’s X-prize for a successful...

Sep 22nd

New Cave Entrances Seen on Mars

Riding with Robots writes “The Mars Odyssey orbiter has come across what look to be openings...

Sep 22nd

Naomi Wolf on Colbert Report: 10 steps...

Naomi Wolf was on The Colbert Report last night talking about her book, The End of America, A Letter...

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: Zebra – Hard Livin'...

Sep 21st

The press needs to tell us more about...

International data have long been easily available; they show Americans spending more but slipping...

Sep 21st

Japanese man documents the life of a...

Michael says: “A man in Japan has been taking a photo of the same vending machine...

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: The Good Luck Joes –...

Sep 21st

Bob Dylan on Facebook

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars We are huge Bob Dylan music fans so this facebook application was very fun...

Sep 21st

Hillary Confirms Commitment to Health...

The big news from Hillary Clinton’s Monday health care speech in Iowa is that she is going to make a...

Sep 21st

9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social...

This is a continuation from The Problem with Social Web Applications. “web applications are...

Sep 21st

What Actually Happened in the Syrian...

One of the stories that’s been intriguing the heck out of me over the past couple of weeks is that...

Sep 21st

Dan Rather Suing CBS Over Bush Draft...

With all the injustices we American live with, it is hard to get too upset about an injustice done...

Sep 21st

Jena

Three years ago I was standing with two friends outside the courthouse in Scottsboro, Alabama,...

Sep 21st

Rice says diplomacy preferred on Iran...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diplomacy is the United States’ preferred path to try to resolve...

Sep 21st

The single function cell phone concept

Following Times Online columnist Jeremy Clarkson’s rant against phone manufacturers for not...

Sep 21st

Senate Republicans Still Want Us In Iraq

The Levin/Reed amendment to the defense appropriations bill just failed to pass, 47-47. The bill...

Sep 21st

If Romney Did Talk To Minority...

In an interview with the Times of London published yesterday, Romney admitted to adjusting...

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: Tracy Lawrence – The Man I...

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: The Goo Goo Dolls – Give a...

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: Spokane – Dark Eyes

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: Gomez – How We Operate

Sep 21st

Saitek The Latest Attempt To Improve...

Saitek’s “Cyborg Command Unit” takes the best part of the keyboard (That being...

Sep 21st

Ajax Experience East Update

Here are the latest updates on the upcoming Ajax Experience East show in Boston Oct. 24-26: ...

Sep 21st

Amen

From a reader … Last night, news broke that the FBI had been taping phone calls placed to the...

Sep 21st

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BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 21st

Now everything you eat can taste like...

Filed under: Pork, On the Blogs, New Products, CondimentsWhile I am not passionate about bacon the...

Sep 21st

Recently Listened: Kitaro – Orochi

Sep 20th

Recently Listened: Kitaro – Tenku

Sep 20th

Recently Listened: Pink Floyd – Money

Sep 20th

Recently Listened: Led Zeppelin – South Bound...

Sep 20th

Recently Listened: John Lee Hooker – Father...

Sep 19th

Recently Listened: Beck – The Golden Age

Sep 19th

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BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 19th

State Dept. official investigated

WASHINGTON — A congressional committee has opened an investigation of the State Department’s...

Sep 19th

Purdue to test the limits of text...

Purdue University will conduct what is believed to be the first large-scale, real-world test of...

Sep 19th

Google Docs: Presentations Are Here

Google Docs has been updated with a new presentation file type: Starting today, presentations —...

Sep 19th

Rudy Giuliani: A Betrayal of Trust

Rudy Giuliani: A Betrayal of Trusthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v…When Rudy Giuliani had the...

Sep 18th

Recently Listened: Steve Earle & The Dukes...

Sep 18th

Recently Listened: Lime Spiders – Children Of...

Sep 18th

Twitter: Listening to: Rare Earth - Hey Big...

Sep 18th

GOP Senate Leader McConnell hurting in...

McConnell is up for re-election. This is getting interesting. More than half of Kentucky voters...

Sep 18th

Facebook released FBJS

Marcel Laverdet of Facebook blogged about the release of FBJS 1.0: If you are already used to...

Sep 18th

Congress, We ARE Watching

OpenCongress.org is announcing a new widget today called: “Congress, I’m...

Sep 18th

Recently Listened: Howie Day – You & A...

Sep 18th

Recently Listened: Ben Harper – Diamonds on...

Sep 18th

Toxic Chickens Home To Roost

Consider who gets harmed when anti-government conservatism holds sway. (via Brad’s shared...

Sep 18th

Facebook JavaScript Now Live

Facebook has announced that Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) is now out of beta and into version 1.0. ...

Sep 18th

Google Launches Powerpoint Competition,...

fullstop writes “Google has finally launched their online presentation tool to complete its...

Sep 18th

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BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 18th

Google Presentations Finally Launched

File manager Google has finally released the presentation app. You can only import Microsoft...

Sep 18th

Musharraf to step down from army role

Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf will resign as army chief if he wins...

Sep 18th

Key Senators Urge Shifting...

Three senators who are considered potential swing votes on war policy said that a weekend visit to...

Sep 18th

AJAX or Flex?

It’s a question that a lot of companies appear to be asking - “Should I use AJAX or...

Sep 18th

Man wakes up during autopsy

Carlos Amejo, 33, of Caracas, Venezuela, was reportedly declared dead after a car wreck but woke up...

Sep 17th

The evolution of Sugar Bear

The evolution of Honeycomb Super Sugar Crisp cereal’s Sugar Bear, from kissable little mascot...

Sep 17th

Universal Offers iPod-Resistant Music

dprovine writes “Universal is now offering music through Spiral Frog as free downloads...

Sep 17th

Recently Listened: Jimi Hendrix – Burning...

Sep 17th

Vicente Fox On Bush: "The Cockiest Guy I...

At the White House, the president has got to be muttering “some friend” when he pores...

Sep 17th

Planning for Defeat

Writing in The New Yorker, George Packer says “the inadequacy of the surge is already clear,...

Sep 17th

GOP Politician Sent Email Asking How to...

Gillian Flaccus of The Associated Press writes, “A conservative Los Angeles County politician...

Sep 17th

Alan Greenspan Claims Iraq War Was...

Graham Paterson reports for The UK Times: “America’s elder statesman of finance, Alan...

Sep 17th

Israelis side with detainees at Gitmo

With the U.S. Supreme Court set to take up Guantanamo detention policy again when its new term...

Sep 17th

“Not surprisingly, the terrorism problem persists and the...”
— Rami G. Khouri

Sep 17th

Recently Listened: Steve Earle & The...

Sep 17th

Mass malaise is what breeds terrorism

My rather surrealistic trip this week from Beirut to London to Boston coincided with three sharply...

Sep 17th

Bush Surprised By Greenspan Criticism

President Bush was surprised by the criticism leveled against him and his administration by former...

Sep 17th

Steven R. Shapiro: UC Irvine Gets an "F"...

Erwin Chemerinksy is one of America’s leading constitutional scholars and teachers. He is...

Sep 17th

Workers Cause More Problems Than Viruses

Technical Writing Geek writes “A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections...

Sep 17th

Mama Rita’s Peach Cobbler

Don’t get deluded, we’re still on the road. After indulging ourselves in fabulous food in California...

Sep 17th

Recently Listened: Dragonfly – Boys Don't Cry

Sep 17th

Iraq To Eject Blackwater Over Killings

The Iraqi government said Monday that it was pulling the license of an American security firm...

Sep 17th

Iraq: Ugly Situation

“It seems like things are going to be really ugly within the next few months, and casualties from...

Sep 17th

2007-09-17 0545

BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 17th

New iPod Checksum Cracked, Linux...

An anonymous reader writes “After 36 hours of reverse engineering, the method for producing...

Sep 17th

Sprint Nextel device boosts cell phone...

One of the big complaints lodged against wireless phone companies is poor signal quality inside...

Sep 17th

The iPod meets the iPhone: a review of...

Apple has drastically overhauled the iPod with the release of the iPod touch. Ars goes hands-on with...

Sep 17th

Tor anonymity server admin arrested

Over at CNET, Chris Soghoian (huh, he’s blogging there now) blogs: In a recent blog...

Sep 17th

iPod Touch Dissected For All To Enjoy

… (via Brad’s shared items in Google Reader)

Sep 16th

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BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 16th

Wesley Clark Warns Against War with Iran

You don’t have to plunge too far beneath the lines to see that Wesley Clark, in his WP op-ed,...

Sep 16th

Bill Maher Slams Google, Yahoo & iPhone...

Bill Maher went for a web-centric New Rules segment on Friday, slamming Yahoo, Google, Bebo,...

Sep 16th

Iraq war, low expectations bedevil...

War hero who staked campaign on one last Iraq escalation says, ’I wouldn’t be in it if I...

Sep 16th

Overtreated

Eventually, Medicare should completely transform the way it pays physicians and hospitals.  Instead...

Sep 16th

What is going on with the UC...

First this: In a showdown over academic freedom, a prominent legal scholar said Wednesday that...

Sep 16th

Nokia, Samsung and others back Common...

Nokia, Samsung and others are backing the creation of a common flash storage technology, dubbed...

Sep 16th

Google Maps in Your Sidebar

Mini Map Sidebar is probably the greatest Firefox extension for maps and geographical information....

Sep 16th

Gingrich calls Petraeus's report "wholly...

I think Newt is exactly what the GOP needs in this presidential campaign. It’s just not crazy...

Sep 16th

Rep. Doggett: Congress must Respond to...

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) on Iraq: Plus: The International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN is...

Sep 15th

Giuliani Uses Petraeus in Attack Ad

Images of Gen. David Petraeus appeared in an ad the Giuliani campaign began running yesterday...

Sep 15th

All Largely About Oil

ALL LARGELY ABOUT OIL….Bob Woodward plucks a sentence from Alan Greenspan’s forthcoming...

Sep 15th

Private Powell

Here’s a bizarre new interview with Colin Powell. He simultaneously warns against a...

Sep 15th

The Notion: Greenspan, Iraq & Oil

In his memoirs, the former Fed Chair writes that Iraq war was largely about oil (via...

Sep 15th

Blowback

So Americans are supposed to be thrilled that we’ve got crack Sunni militias on our side in...

Sep 15th

Indiana Jones LEGO Boxes Leaked

Cool Toy Review nabbed these first shots of the Indiana Jones-themed LEGO sets that will be...

Sep 15th

Is the Surge Working? Ask the Data, Not...

One of the most important political questions of the day is whether the troop surge in Baghdad is...

Sep 15th

Clinton gets Clark endorsement

Blog: On a day when Hillary’s support for the military is attacked, she gets endorsement from...

Sep 15th

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BradFarris posted a photo: (via Photos from BradFarris)

Sep 15th

Kathleen Reardon: Excuse Me, General. ...

Upstairs I hear several teenagers staging a Warhammer match. “You can’t do...

Sep 15th

Analysts: US Strikes on Iran Predicted...

The Guardian UK’s Julian Borger and Ian Black published a “special report”...

Sep 15th

Sri Lanka fighting kills 21 in north and...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan soldiers killed 15 Tamil Tiger rebels in a clashes in the north and...

Sep 15th

How to Stop Commerial Use of Copyleft...

An anonymous reader writes “The Guild Wiki, an extremely popular fan-made wiki for documenting...

Sep 15th

CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in...

An anonymous reader writes “Michael Geist is reporting that the Canadian Recording Industry...

Sep 15th

Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created

An anonymous reader writes “A new polymer has been developed by Professor Terence Cosgrove...

Sep 15th

Twitter: Crap! My eyes are dilated, and I...

Sep 14th

Well-Known Murdoch Critic Leaves WSJ

While at the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Tunku Varadarajan was one of Rupert...

Sep 14th

Twitter: I'm getting my eyes examined this...

Sep 14th

Recently Listened: Merle Haggard – Son Of...

Sep 14th

Iraq leaders meeting only half of goals:...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A day after U.S. President George W. Bush cited enough progress in Iraq to...

Sep 14th

The Lesson Of The DMV

Those lines show how crippling government through tax cuts hurts the economy. (via Brad’s...

Sep 14th

Kurtz: Fox News is ‘entitled’ to...

On Wednesday, during an appearance on Glenn Beck’s CNN Headline News show, Washington Post media...

Sep 14th

Electoral Vote Shuffle

A GOP scheme begs the question: Why should states run federal elections? (via Brad’s shared...

Sep 14th

John Edwards - Response to President...

John Edwards - Response to President Bush After President Bush made yet another argument for...

Sep 14th

Clinton Asked Whether Candiates Should...

Clinton Asked Whether Candiates Should Take Money From Insurance Companies - The Huffington Post ...

Sep 14th

Computer Glitch Prevents Searching for...

In the Senate the lobbying data is maintained by the Senate Office of Public Records (SOPR) which...

Sep 14th

Take This Doughnut Quiz Now

Today is National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day, and to honor college students’ commitment to...

Sep 14th

Snow Snipes At CNN’s Malveaux: ‘Your...

On CNN’s The Situation Room yesterday, Tony Snow got testy in an interview Suzanne Malveaux, snidely...

Sep 14th

Recently Listened: The Gourds – Mister Betty

Sep 14th

Media Misrepresent Democrats' Options on...

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting reports: “Following a pattern set when Congress passed...

Sep 14th

Bush Speech Full of Contradictions

Glenn Kessler reports for The Washington Post, “In his speech last night, President Bush made...

Sep 14th

MoveOn: Bush's betrayal

Blog: MoveOn tries again in a television spot, this time focusing the “betrayal” on...

Sep 14th

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Teaser Shot

One of the people at Art Lebedev, makers of the upcoming “Optimus Maximus” keyboard with...

Sep 14th

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Sep 14th

Blotter: Foley Unlikely to Be Charged

An epilogue, of sorts: Disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley, whose e-mails and instant messages...

Sep 14th

The $1,536 LED Keyboard, In The Flesh

An Optimus Maximus, au naturel: no fancy lighting, no professional photographer, no extreme...

Sep 14th

Brian Williams Calls Out Petraeus on Al...

This week has been marked by two big news events: The Petraeus hearings in Washington, and the sixth...

Sep 14th

12:

Number of times President Bush referenced al Qaeda in his Iraq speech last night, which lasted just...

Sep 14th

Move Over GWOT, Hello SATE, Goodbye Iran

The Global War on Terror has suddenly become the  “Struggle Against Terrorists and Extremists” Who...

Sep 14th

Iran leader says U.S. policy has failed

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday U.S. President...

Sep 14th

World's Worst Polluted Places 2007

Environmental health organization Blacksmith has announced its 2007 top ten list of the...

Sep 14th

Mashup Video: Maher Interviews Dodd With...

In this video mashup, “right wing closed captioning” explains the interview between Bill...

Sep 14th

A High-Tech 3,700 Sq. Ft. Home For...

Forget geodesic domes or tiny eco-friendly prefabs: the ultimate geek home, short of a disused ICBM...

Sep 14th

A scale that does justice to food

(Credit: HealthTools) Next to dentists, scales are our worst enemies. Not the fish or music...

Sep 14th

Want Safer Toys? Be Prepared For Price...

Someone is going to have to pay all the extra costs of making toys safer. For now, toy makers and...

Sep 14th

Jeep J8 marks brand's return to military...

Filed under: SUVs, Trucks/Pickups, Jeep, Military Click image for high-res gallery of the Jeep J8 ...

Sep 14th

Google Presently Powerpoint Clone Could...

Google’s long awaited Powerpoint clone could be days away from launching, according to a report at...

Sep 14th

Ten Taliban killed in Afghan firefights:...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops killed 10 Islamist Taliban guerrillas in...

Sep 14th

'Brim Light,' for the coal miner in you

(Credit: S&F Products) Wow. This one ranks right up there with the “Light Head...

Sep 14th

101 Ways to Save Apple: Ten Years Ago at...

Way back in 1997, James Daly wrote an article titled “101 Ways to Save Apple”,...

Sep 14th

Temporary Geek Tattoos - for when a pen...

Nothing says Mr Cool more than these Temporary Geek Tattoos. Honestly. You’ll have da ladeez...

Sep 14th

Google readies PowerPoint killer...

Google readies PowerPoint killer  — Slideshow program will be with you, Presently  — SURE AS EGGS...

Sep 14th

Where’s the Library??

A Kid’s-eye View of Laptop Design “A group of kids from one of our local elementary schools has...

Sep 14th

Mark Kleiman: Consequences

Occupying Iraq hasn’t made us safe from terrorist attack. It has weakend our position in the...

Sep 14th

Cenk Uygur: Screw the Moderate...

The Democrats should play politics. That’s normally considered a dirty word, but in this case...

Sep 14th

Breathless in Brooklyn: Oil Spills in...

When they found one of the world’s largest oil spills beneath New York City, state, federal,...

Sep 14th

Facebook Sticky Notes

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Sticky Notes Did you know that the first Post-It note was sold 30 years...

Sep 14th

Can't Make It Much Clearer

The plan is to occupy Iraq forever. From tonight’s presidential address: [Iraqi leaders]...

Sep 14th

Clinton Asked Whether Candiates Should...

In the video, Charlie Rose asks: “As you know, those interests helped defeat the health care...

Sep 14th

Rob Polner: Giuliani and the Generals

How interesting to hear Rudy Giuliani decrying “these terrible attacks” on...

Sep 14th

Online Video Popularity Still Climbing

Ant writes “Macworld reports that people in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of...

Sep 14th

Thompson Has "No Opinion" On...

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson gave no opinion Thursday when asked about efforts by...

Sep 14th

First sister of Facebook

Things are progressing well here in the hospital — Milan is sure taking his sweet time getting here....

Sep 14th

From an article about teen Christians...

From an article about teen Christians campaigning against pop culture: “At one point in Jared...

Sep 13th

Joseph A. Palermo: Bush Wins!

Even with Karl Rove back in Texas Bush’s people know how to get what they want from the...

Sep 13th

Dems Consider New Tools To Force Bush's...

Facing mounting pressure to produce results on the Iraq, Democratic leaders are considering a...

Sep 13th

Schwarzenegger Rejects Bill That Would...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have allowed Californians to vote...

Sep 13th

Twitter: Done with work, I'm headed home. I...

Sep 13th

Twitter: Bees can be used to detect bombs?...

Sep 13th

Sort out post

Okay, with the confusion of the bungled AP report, I need to try a “reset”. ...

Sep 13th

Recently Listened: Erykah Badu – Bag Lady

Sep 13th

Recently Listened: The Beach Boys – 409

Sep 13th

Bush speech to the nation: advance...

The White House has released part of the text of President Bush’s upcoming address to the...

Sep 13th

Bill Moyers Journal | 9/11: For the...

Six years later, a critical question continues to haunt America’s national psyche: How could...

Sep 13th

Greenspan says didn't see subprime storm...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he was late to see the...

Sep 13th

Greenspan says didn't see subprime storm...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he was late to see the...

Sep 13th

Dean hits Boehner on "small price"

Finally. House Republican Leader John Boehner’s comments yesterday are deplorable and he should...

Sep 13th

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Sep 13th

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Sep 13th

Recently Listened: New Riders of the Purple...

Sep 13th

Don't Tread on Me

File this under Gross: The health department does not consider a person’s shoe or boot a...

Sep 13th

“Today’s report is proof positive that the Bush...”
— Dennis Kucinich

Sep 13th

“Enough is enough. We don’t need to `begin’ to...”
— John Edwards

Sep 13th

“Not talking doesn’t make us look tough – it makes us look...”
— Barack Obama

Sep 13th

“Mr. President, it has been nearly four and a half years...”
— Hillary Clinton

Sep 13th

“Moving us in 10 months to where we were 10 months ago is not...”
— Chris Dodd

Sep 13th

The Paleolithic Diet "is the diet that...

The Paleolithic Diet “is the diet that man evolved on, the diet that is coded for in our...

Sep 13th

Unionized Nurses Flex Their Muscle

The Los Angeles Times’s Lisa Girion says, “Nurses aren’t just taking orders...

Sep 13th

US Suffers Decline in Prestige

Stephen Fidler reports for The Financial Times, “The US has suffered a significant loss of...

Sep 13th

Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the...

Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service: “Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central...

Sep 13th

Jimmy Carter | Nuclear Steps Undermine...

Jimmy Carter writes for The Daily Times: “By abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements...

Sep 13th

To the moon, Google

Google wants to send you to the moon. (via Brad’s shared items in Google Reader)

Sep 13th

Petraeus Expressed Desire for Presidency

Patrick Cockburn of the Independent reports, “The US commander in Iraq, General David...

Sep 13th

Recently Listened: Supreme Beings of Leisure...

Sep 13th

Bomb-detecting bees work for food

(Credit: Inscentinal) Another member joins the anti-terrorism team: working bees. Bees—or ...

Sep 13th

Recently Listened: Genesis – Wot Gorilla?

Sep 13th

Steve Young: O'Reilly Can Get the Same...

Depite what journalist Bill O’Reilly said today about MoveOn.org receiving a special discount...

Sep 13th

Poll: Lamont Would Beat Lieberman In...

Daily Kos commissioned the following poll from independent pollster Research 2000: Research 2000...

Sep 13th