July 29, 2010

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

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

  July 28, 2010

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

  July 27, 2010

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

  July 26, 2010

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

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

  July 25, 2010

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

  July 24, 2010

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

  July 22, 2010

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

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

  July 21, 2010

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

  July 20, 2010

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

  July 19, 2010

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

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

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

* 2005 study on effectiveness of tin-foil hats

  July 18, 2010

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

  July 17, 2010

* Biggest recorded collapse of the thermosphere
* Banks return to lawlessness after small fines
* Proposed House resolution on videos of police
* Mark Williams on the 13th and 14th Amendments
* DVD How To Cook Your Life [2007] zen buddhism

  July 16, 2010

* BP contracting professors for court testimony

  July 14, 2010

* German exports to China are up 50% in 1 year
* Social Proof for ambiguous social situations
* Families learn of engagement from a magazine
* Report from Beck University's Hope 101 class
* Magnolia [1999] Jason Robards last film role

  July 13, 2010

* USCG lifts ban on photography near oil slicks
* Corporations employed scientists to sell doubt
* Exact place where Berners-Lee invented the web
* "Just doing what I'm told.. just doing my job"
* Harvey Pekar dead at 70; worked with R. Crumb

  July 12, 2010

* Oil dependence: just another lifestyle choice

  July 10, 2010

  July 7, 2010

* Intimidator would take your fighting spirit
* Republicans outside the South are in hiding
* Money columnist explains capitalism to kids
* Retirement age would rise one month per year
* DVD Amarcord [1973] autobiographical Fellini

  July 6, 2010

* Prime Minister's 5th meeting with President
* Washington Times: "stimulus funding expires"
* Simulated harmonic signatures of Higgs Boson
* "Warrior gene" carrier was abused as a child
* Bamboo Charlie's collection of found objects

  July 3, 2010

* Critics select favorite buildings since 1980
* Research result inconsistent with world view
* Rand Paul denies proposing underground fence
* Documentary The Cove [2009] showing in Japan
* Herzog documentary The White Diamond [2004]

  July 2, 2010

* Paul Watson appears on Larry King Live [video]
* Outside Magazine on death of Sea World trainer
* Superpod of 1000 dolphins off the Isle of Skye
* Tomas Berdych beats Roger Federer at Wimbledon
* Leno's ratings lowest since Letterman left NBC

* RNC chairman Steele opposes war in Afghanistan
* NRA expected to endorse Senator Reid of Nevada
* From what country did the US win independence?
* Children invented language syntax & vocabulary
* Parasite-stress hypothesis for IQ distribution

  June 30, 2010

* First picture of planet outside solar system
* Senate candidate Sharron Angle spoke broadly
* US national debt vis a vis expiring tax cuts
* Pollster threatens DailyKos, FiveThirtyEight
* BP had AU 60 Minutes report canceled [video]

* Agnostic Ron Rosenbaum: atheism is "a theism"
* "Question of conversion" at Vipassana course
* Traumatic encephalopathy & erratic behaviour
* ASCAP misrepresent advocates of Free Culture
* Thriving food-cart scene in Portland, Oregon

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