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Ralph Nader for President in 2008
YouTube - What do I believe?
Pat Condell is a self-proclaimed atheist with a biting sense of humor. NSFW, sure to offend the religious.

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Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends - Church - journalist Wayne Madsden
Holy--WTF! Pope John-Paul thought Bush might be the anti-Christ? I didn't agree with the Pope on a lot of things, but...
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YouTube - Why do Atheists care about Religion?
Very interesting reasons for his concern about religion in the U.S.

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Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
Once upon a time an earmark was just that — a mark farmers made on the ears of livestock for identification. No longer. An earmark is how politicians fund their pet projects — including some that reward their pet donors. In this year's spending bills alone Congress has inserted 12,881 earmarks worth over 18 billion dollars.
Health Journal - WSJ.com
Grumpy Old Men: Maybe It's a Question of Testosterone
Casual cryptography for web developers
Pro-Life at Home, Pro-Death in Iraq
Why are we still in Iraq? - Cartoon
Overcoming Bias: My Favorite Liar
I've had many instructors before and since, but few that I remember with as much fondness - and why my favorite professor was a chronic liar.
Jimmy Kimmel Gets Star-Studded Revenge - Movie News Story | MTV Movie News
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Drug-Resistant TB at Record Levels - New York Times
"Multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded and could soar even higher, spreading the bacterial disease elsewhere, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday in releasing findings from the largest global survey of the problem."
Underground Value: Notes From Buffett Meeting 2/15/2008
Origin of Scientology.
China Using Fish to Eat Pollution, Then Selling the Fish
Holy Carp! Don't eat carp!
Tips For Handling Telemarketers
US Adults Shifting Religions
Catholics are leaving the church in record numbers (with recent scandals, no surprise). But an "influx of Catholic immigrants" balances out the losses. Nondenominational Protestants are up, and the number of adults unaffiliated with an organized religion are way up. Buddhist, Muslims, and Pentecostals are the only growing populations, with Pentecostals leading that race.

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Memetic engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don't just stand there, think - The Boston Globe
we think not just with our brains, but with our bodies. A series of studies, the latest published in November, has shown that children can solve math problems better if they are told to use their hands while thinking. Another recent study suggested that stage actors remember their lines better when they are moving. And in one study published last year, subjects asked to move their eyes in a specific pattern while puzzling through a brainteaser were twice as likely to solve it.
CharityFocus Blog: Parable of the Shoe Salesman
Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get A Raw Deal?, 60 Minutes Reports On Bribery Conviction Of Don Siegelman In A Case Criticized by Democrats And Republicans - CBS News
Shocking expose and what appears to be a terrible injustice. What have we allowed to happen to this country?
Many In U.S. Drop Their Childhood Religion, Survey: Nearly Half Of U.S. Adults Left Faith They Grew Up With - CBS News
"The U.S. religious marketplace is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey finds." Damn! I thought I was unique.
YouTube - Jimmy Kimmels F@cking Ben Affleck Response to Matt and Sarah

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Do you see the polar bear?
Wubi arrives: a look at Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5
The Audacity of Hopelessness - New York Times
"WHEN people one day look back at the remarkable implosion of the Hillary Clinton campaign, they may notice that it both began and ended in the long dark shadow of Iraq."
YouTube - Response to: "Atheists have faith, just like theists."
Except the last few seconds, this was a very civil debate between what I guess to be a Christian caller and atheist Matt Dillahunty. I applaud Dillahunty and the caller (at least until the last seconds) for their civility during this discussion.

The Atheist Experience TV Show
Insurer that cut client's care fined $9M - Yahoo! News
A woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer has been awarded more than $9 million in a case against one of California's largest health insurers.
In 2 years as a Senator, Obama authored 152 bills - Hillary: 20 in 6 years | you.presscue
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ADHD Diet
"ADHD in many cases has been linked to diet, which includes food allergies and nutritional deficiencies--simply eliminating certain foods or adding others may reduce symptoms or eliminate them altogether. Hyperactive children are especially vulnerable as they are 'hyper' sensitive to sugar and other stimulants."
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Coma woman woken by husband's 'rollicking' as doctors were about to switch off life-support machine | the Daily Mail
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Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil: Scientific American
Fiction, and the true story is kind of interesting.
Daily Kos: I found the BEEF - Obama's Senate Record
George Clooney: The Last Movie Star - TIME
God, I love Clooney. He's such a character and so comfortable with himself. As sort of a joke, a reporter from Time invited Clooney to dinner at the reporter's appartment. To the reporter's surprise, Clooney accepted! This piece contains a wonderful video of the event. Hilarious.
Lion meets old friend
I found this a sweet story.
In-hospital stroke patients more likely to die: study
"A study based on thousands of Ontario residents found patients who have a stroke while they're already in hospital wait twice as long for a brain scan and twice as long for a clot-busting drug as people who come to an emergency room with a stroke. They are also more likely to die."
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Catholicism and Buddhism | Anthony E. Clark and Carl E. Olson | IgnatiusInsight.com
11 Firefox Extensions for SEOs You Didn't Know About
Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search
IEEE Spectrum: Video Viewer
Video of Dean Kamen's prosthetic arm research. He calls it the "Luke arm," to acknowledge his inspiration from Luke Skywalker.
Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online
Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
How was your cereal this morning?
I rec'd this by email, and I couldn't stop laughing!

How was your cereal this morning?
Cognitive Daily: Study finds some thoughts really do require language
"I don't need words to think about the shape of a car, or how to throw a football, or the taste of a chocolate chip cookie. In fact, things like that are probably easier to think about without using language. That's why the strong form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- that language is necessary for conscious thought -- doesn't hold up. But even if language isn't required for some domains, it's still possible that it is required for certain types of mental processes. It may even be required for some thoughts that aren't obviously related to language."
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The God Who Wasn't There
Saudi Arabia goes old school
"Oh, Saudi Arabia. That magical land where women can't drive and rape victims are punishable by lashing has decided to go old school in its latest example of misogyny: sentencing a women to execution ... for witchcraft."
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Mt Huashan Hiking Trail
This trail looks tough!
Mad About You - Theme Song Lyrics
South Beach Heart Health Revolution - by Agatston - Notes
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Nature editors reject peer review process that reduces gender bias - Scientific American
"Following a surprisingly unscientific line of reasoning, the editors at the most renowned and prestigious of science journals have rationalized away the need to fix an ailing peer-review system."
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Linux install that somehow integrates windows and linux--not a partition. Not sure I understand it :)
How corn is quickly becoming the new crude
"The pending global food crisis is due, in part, to a rich twist of irony: One of the factors driving up the price of T-bone steak, a dozen eggs and a carton of milk is a perfectly edible vegetable, a staple of many diets--corn...Adding to the irony, we're growing more corn than ever before. We're just not eating it...Corn is being diverted from human consumption, kicking off a domino effect of problems tied to food prices. It starts with ethanol produced from corn, which optimists hope will help solve the U.S. reliance on foreign oil, as well as provide a fuel that burns cleaner."
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Open-Heart Surgery Recovery - Research
Anemia
Anemia can be caused by many things, but the three main bodily mechanisms that produce it are: excessive destruction of RBCs, blood loss, inadequate production of RBCs.
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Laughter is the Best Medicine for Your Heart
"A team of University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers, led by Dr. Michael Miller, has recently shown for the first time that laughter is linked to healthy function of blood vessels."
YouTube - The Bright Side of Death
New use of the old Life of Brian Monty Python tune.

Seek Geo's ASL Vlog/Blog
VERY popular Deaf Vlog/Blogger. Has built a wonderful community of hearing and Deaf "seekies". Obviously has put a lot of time (and love) into the enterprise. Hats off to Geo....well, Geo never takes off his hat, so...Hats ON to Geo!
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What's wrong with the Bush and Clinton plans to suspend foreclosures. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
YouTube - George Carlin - Voting
NSFW! F-bombs, etc. litter this monologue by Carlin. Our politicians reflect the U.S. public....sad but probably true.

U.S. Finishes A 'Strong Second' In Iraq War | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
"BAGHDAD - After 19 months of struggle in Iraq, U.S. military officials conceded a loss to Iraqi insurgents Monday, but said America can be proud of finishing 'a very strong second.'"...More satire from The Onion.
Making a killing [graph] | you.presscue
CDC warns of deaths from 'choking game' - At least 82 youths, mostly boys, killed by self-strangulation, study finds
"Known also as the blackout game, the scarf game and space monkey, the self-induced strangulation claimed mostly pre-teen and teenage boys who used their hands, or, more often, belts, bungee cords or dog leashes to achieve a woozy high technically known as cerebral hypoxia."
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The Art of Linkbaiting | Performancing.com
How Grandma Sees the Remote
Oceanic Dead Zones Off West Coast are the 'New Normal'
"When dissolved oxygen is 1.4 milliliters per liter, it is considered hypoxic for most marine life -- so a "dead zone" forms. However, some of the data collected by the team from one area off Cape Perpetua on the central Oregon coast showed that dissolved oxygen was as low as 0.5 milliliters per liter in just 45 feet of water; 0.08 in 90 feet; and 0.14 at 150 feet depth. Data collected from other areas off the Oregon coast are similar." Scientist believe the dead zone on the Oregon coast is caused by global warming.
Are Atheists and Theists Morally Equivalent?
Interesting...I can see some of the arguments here, but any time we live by generalizations, we're in trouble, and likely to be prejudiced. Main point is to let atheists be atheists, and theists be theists. Talk with each other, listen to each other--even argue with each other. Just don't ignore each other or label one as better than the other.
Cancer and the bacterial connection - Los Angeles Times
"In the 1890s, a New York surgeon named William Coley tested a radical cancer treatment. He took a hypodermic needle teeming with bacteria and plunged it into the flesh of patients.

After suffering through weeks of chills and fevers, many showed significant regression of their tumors, but even Coley himself could not explain the phenomenon."
YouTube - Karate Slow Motion

The Truth about the Federal Reserve | Wake Up From Your Slumber
Peter T. Whitte, a National Geographic writer talking about when he interviewed a spokesperson for the Federal Reserve regarding where our "money" comes from: "We created it,' a Fed official tells me. He means that anytime the central bank writes a check, so to speak, it creates money. 'It's money that didn't exist before,' he says. "Is there any limit to that?' I asked. 'No limit. Only the good judgement and the conscience of the responsible Federal Reserve people.'
Where Does the Money Go? - Moyers Interview with Bittle & Johnson
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
"I think most people don't realize is that the country has been in the red 31 out of the last 35 years. In good times and bad....

Between 2001 and 2007, we spent about $600 billion on the entire war on terrorism: Iraq, Afghanistan, everything else. Over that same period, we added 2.3 trillion to the debt. So the war is certainly making our financial problems worse. But it's not the sole cause, and it's not the sole answer."
Daily Kos: Beautiful Dead Girls
Peace....
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U.S. Comptroller General Resigns
David Walker feels he can do more good in the private sector as CEO of a foundation than in the restrictive environment of the government. I hope he does continue to forcefully communicate his message of fiscal responsibility.
The 40 Most Inappropriate Children's Book Covers | Cracked.com
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Create your own UFO!
Nutrition Action Healthletter - Stevia: A Bittersweet Tale
"The bottom line: If you use stevia sparingly (once or twice a day in a cup of tea, for example), it isn't a great threat to you. But if stevia were marketed widely and used in diet sodas, it would be consumed by millions of people. And that might pose a public health threat."
Don't put lemon slices in your drinks!!!!

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Who's Counting the Dead in Iraq?
On March 18, two days before the U.S. invasion, Barbara Bush had an interview with ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer.

Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? Mrs. Bush declared. It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

Seems like if there were true, I'd be able to find the video.
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Did Barbara Bush really say this? I've heard reports...God, I hope not.
My Aspartame Experiment.com
Questions & Answers about Stevia - David Richard Stevia - Natural Sweetener
Golden Gate Bridge Suicide locations graphed
Very sad image.

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Man's effect on world's oceans revealed - Telegraph
"Almost half of the world's oceans have been seriously affected by over-fishing, pollution and climate change, according to a major study of man's impact on marine life."
Survival in Space Unprotected Is Possible--Briefly: Scientific American
"As far as certain death in a science fiction plot line goes, being ejected into the vacuum of space is more than a pretty sure thing. A shove out of the air lock by a mutinous lieutenant or a vicious rip in a space suit, and your average movie victim is guaranteed to die quickly and quietly, though with fewer exploding body parts than screenwriters might have you believe."
Scientists Find Solar System Like Ours - New York Times
'Choking Game' Turned Deadly for 82 Youths - washingtonpost.com
"At least 82 youths have died from playing the "choking game" since 1995, a new government report shows....Also known as the "blackout game," "pass out game," "scarf game," "space monkey" and other monikers, the activity involves intentionally trying to strangle oneself or another with hands or some sort of noose to briefly achieve an euphoric state."
John McCain Votes for Torture!!
Holy crap! What was McCain thinking? I absolutely don't get this vote by McCain. Seems to be turning his back on our military, who will pay the price for the U.S. position on torture.
Homeless: Can you build a life from $25? | csmonitor.com
"In a test of the American Dream, Adam Shepard started life from scratch with the clothes on his back and twenty-five dollars. Ten months later, he had an apartment, a car, and a small savings." Good for Adam!!!
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Pleas for condemned Saudi
"Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft...The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read. Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent. Human Rights Watch said that Ms Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened."
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Search Engine Optimization - SEO
Mutual Fund/ETF Expense Analyzer
Use this to calculate mutual fund fees.
FINRA Home Page
Do Statins Make You Stupid? - New York Times Blog
Great Wall of China Facts and Information | Virgin Vacations
How Stock Market Works - Monkeys and Goats
Synopsis Article on the book
Heart Disease Cure: Protocol
Atheist sees image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast
Avoid Hospitals on Weekends!
How to Speed Read on the Web | extreme webmaster evernerve
The Claim: If Possible, Avoid Hospitals on Weekends - New York Times
"There is growing evidence that hospital mortality rates are higher on weekends."
U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote
Surpised that Clinton didn't vote on this. What does that mean?
Gorillas Photographed Mating Face-to-Face -- A First
I'm not sure what this means or why it's a big deal...but it caught my attention.
Talk Like Frank Sinatra | The Art of Manliness
How Haggling Taught Me About Life | Wise Bread
Excellent, brief summary of how to make haggling a part of your role as a consumer.
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Cool night image of Paris, France.
business: Bush: The economy is sound for long term
How the stock market works. Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort.He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers; "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere! Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.
Yahoo has poison pill defence at disposal - Yahoo! News UK
Poison pills are defence mechanisms companies put in place to fend off unwanted takeovers, typically working by giving shareholders the ability to buy stock at a bargain price in the event a predator buys a stake above a certain level. That increases the number of shares of the target, diluting the percentage stake the predator holds and making a bid prohibitively expensive.
TVOKAY - TV Streaming - Documentaries - Maybe Logic
All perception is a gamble. Interesting.
TVOKAY - TV Streaming - Documentaries
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Symptoms: Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda - New York Times
"Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome β€” the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels, and elevated blood pressure." Yikes!
YouTube - Sarah Silverman "I'm F*cking Matt Damon" on Jimmy Kimmel
Posted it before...but it is so f*cking funny!!!!

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Edge: Cover Story - Publico Sunday Magazine
Fascinating brief statements by various scientists who have changed their minds about key scientific ideas. Worth reading.
10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine
Looks quite interesting. Includes studies of visual patterns of users.
The Funniest And Coolest Atheist Talk Ever Given (Julia Sweeney - Letting Go Of God) | Sahio
Tuck @ Denbigh Church of Christ: Parties and Prostitutes
"I belong to a church that throws parties for prostitutes at 3:30 in the morning!" I liked this story. Don't worry. It's not crude or obscene. Just a sort of touching story about one religious man doing something kind for a prostitute.
"Free To Choose" TV Series by Milton Friedman
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Unfortunate Naming. - Pictures - Geekstir - News, videos & pictures from the World of Geek.
List of countries by beer consumption per capita - Wikipedia
5min - Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand - Video
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
VERY interesting for the philosophically minded.
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) | Who We Are | Press Room | Press Release
"President Bush Eliminates Funding for Reading Is Fundamental's Historic Book Distribution Program Serving 4.6 Million Children."
Keokuk's Daily Gate City Online > News
First comment makes a point: "Under 5 grams which could be .01 gram to .499 grams. Pretty small amount...In the worse case scenario, its still about 2 years in prison a gram. So add up the total LOSS to society (40,000 a year per inmate for 10 years=400,000 plus trial, medical care, public defender, jail services, court services, police services...it probably adds up to a half million dollar waste of tax payer funds). What a waste, I guarantee you that no one in this world would have ever spent half a million on Mr Matous or his family to HELP them yet we'll spend like crazy to condemn them."
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Articles of Faith: Consumerism is a greedy society's religion
"House Minority Leader Boehner, a Republican congressman from Ohio, celebrated the recent passage of the economic stimulus package by saying, "The sooner we get this relief in the hands of the American people, the sooner they can begin to do their job of being good consumers." Your title: "consumer;" your mission: "buy stuff." Echoes of the president's call, amid the crisis of 9/11, to get out and "shop."

"The distance between "citizen" and "consumer" is the distance we have traveled. Where "citizen" has a certain dignity, even gravitas, carrying with it notions of responsibility and capacity for decision, "consumer" conjures something far more passive, lacking either dignity or responsibility, save responsibility to one's self and for getting the best deal."
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Poll: Leaving Iraq would boost economy - Stocks & economy- msnbc.com
"The heck with Congress' big stimulus bill. The way to get the country out of recession -- and most people think we're in one -- is to get the country out of Iraq"
Support Our Troops ≠ Support the War
Google Talkabout: Merry Christmas, God Jul and 圣诞快乐
Drug Ads Raise Questions for Heart Pioneer - New York Times
CNN Deletes Claim Tax Rebates are a Refund Advance | NewsBusters.org
"The (tax rebate) checks are an advance on next year's refunds, and most, if not all of the money, will be deducted from taxpayers' refunds in 12 months' time"....If this is accurate, Thanks for nothing!
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb
London Gold Exchange - E-gold, Digital Currency, eCurrency - buy, sell, convert
e-gold... Internet payments, 100% backed by gold
YouTube - The inevitable collapse of the dollar
I'm extremely concerned about the likely collapse of the U.S. dollar. I only know what I read or view on youtube :) but the arguments make sense. What to do? How do we protect ourselves, if indeed the collapse is inevitable?

Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection >> Scott Klarr
Fogonazos: Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls
Yowza! Quite an effect. Thinking about it give me some vertigo.
EastSouthWestNorth: The Children of Iraq
Awful images, both psychologically and viscerally. Parents do not want this for their children. Other forces conspire. Sick images of our time.
YouTube - Richard Hammond presents Bloody Omaha (The Graphics)
Give these guys a job! Awesome work! Film making has come such a long way.

The Physics of Pinewood Derby Cars
As a Pinewood Derby winner, I found this interesting.
Symptoms: Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda - New York Times
"Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome -- the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels and elevated blood pressure."
Last Touch - 2007 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest Winner
About the most powerful image I've see on the Iraq war...NSFW...Powerful, moving, made me weep....Here's the description: "Adem Hadei, Associated Press. A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy's ten-year old brother, Qusay, was injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year. Last Touch
Iraq War | The Onion - America
The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You | Cracked.com
Cave Bookcase - Design by Sakura Adachi
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How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA | TorrentFreak
Science Blog: Top Eight (8) Most Poisonous Animals
Euros Accepted signs pop up in New York City | U.S. | Reuters
"In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise."
Sci Tech News - from ABC News Online 10/07/2003 Marriage may tame genius
"Creative genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says."
YouTube - Authors@Google: Lawrence Lessig
"Lawrence Lessig, author of "Free Culture," visits Google's New York office as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on October 3, 2006"

Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don't Want You to Know - Health.com
STRIDA folding bike "a whole new way to move"
Kinda cool idea.
Deaf Blogs and Vlogs - DeafRead
My wife's blog Ear of My Heart won DeafRead's 2007 Best Blog of the Year!!!
Mr. Sandman's Sandbox - A Blogversary, A Conference, and Some Thoughts
"We then broke for lunch. Afterwards, when we all returned from our respective meals, there was a choice between an advanced vlogging workshop and LaRonda Zupp's presentation, Maintaining a Positive Blogosphere. I figured I had learned enough from Jon during his workshop and that I probably would be best off experimenting on my own first, so I sat in LaRonda's corner of the room....and was blown away.

All of the sessions were fantastic, but this was one of the most organized, interesting, and well-led presentations I've sat through. We first discussed why we participated in the blogosphere, then we talked about the pros and cons of doing so, and finally, we learned about different ways to reduce or eliminate conflict. Each time she brought up a new point, LaRonda used a personal example, either using people that were in the room, or bloggers/vloggers that we knew. Each time, it was a neutral or positive mention, but it made us that much more engaged in what she had to say. NAD, take note: if you need a presenter for a topic on psychology, mental health, or a related subject, look no further than LaRonda!"
.:: Mike Hirst ::. Official Site
Wonderful acoustic/folk guitar music. Recommended by Stav.
Los Angeles Times Homicide Map
ABC News: Magnets Attract Trouble in Boy
"Doctor Warns That Magnets Can Be Very Dangerous if Swallowed"...I saw something on Fox's House series on this...or maybe it was NBC's E.R. Makes sense; I never considered swallowing a magnet as dangerous before now.
Alizee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French pop singer. Very cute. I like the music I've heard so far, though it's just pop.
Obama vs. Clinton
Superb argument by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig on why democrats should vote Obama over Clinton. Superb video. Well worth watching. Got me thinking on a lot of different levels.
YouTube - Message To Ralph Nader
LOL!

Thought Nuggets
VERY funny.
Deal? No Deal, Chimps Say | LiveScience
"This reluctance to trade appears to be deeply ingrained in the chimpanzee psyche," said researcher Sarah Brosnan, a primatologist at Georgia State University in Atlanta. "They're perfectly capable of barter, but they don't do so in a way which will maximize their outcomes."
Catch a Shit - funny flash game. Catch falling poo to the crapper
Author Paulo Coelho
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Tips for Christians Battling Evil Atheists
Raspberry-sized Turtle - Cool Photo
Whoa!
DNC boost for sex biz : rockymountainnews.com
"Political tricks may not be the only ones turned during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August....The sex and adult entertainment industries are expecting a boom in business when an estimated 35,000 visitors descend on the Mile High City for the presidential nominating bash."
The Great British Venn Diagram @ Things Of Interest
Very cool use of the old elementary school venn diagram. Now I understand a bit of the difference between Great Britain and U.K.
Two Weeks for kina (+ infinity)
Study Sees Hazards in Baby Powder and Lotion - washingtonpost.com
"Parents who want to reduce their infants' exposure to phthalates, chemicals suspected of impairing male reproductive function, should not apply baby lotions or powders -- except for medical reasons. So concludes a study published in the journal Pediatrics."
YouTube - Gotta Digg
Cute...and catchy tune...As a digg.com fan, I think this is cool.

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Gamernode: News - Dr. Kawashima declines $22 million in Brain Age royalties
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