December 27, 2009

* Last surviving member of 1947 Kon-Tiki crew dies
* Microbes that keep the body healthy face decline
* Green revolution would eliminate Khamenei's role
* Three Senators place hold on Bernanke nomination
* Suspect used same chemical as 2001 "shoe bomber"

  December 26, 2009

* Singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt flirted with death
* Law enforcement relies on Microsoft forensic tool
* Software fraudster created Xmas 2003 terror alert
* Only two things have made flying safer since 9/11
* "Fireworks on jet" updated to "attempted bombing"

  December 25, 2009

* Vipissana and Reichian therapy focus on sensations
* John Cage heard two sounds in the anechoic chamber

  December 24, 2009

* Goldman Sachs bet against their clients interests
* Jim Lehrer lists 10 guidelines for his journalism
* Tulsa based Arrow Trucking Co abruptly shuts down
* MP3 Okie From Muskogee; December 1969, crossover
* 4chan founder Christopher "moot" Poole to speak

  December 23, 2009

* Liberal Senators unwilling to be obstructionists
* Tea Party pop hero opposes corporate health care
* Climate Skeptics vs Scientific Consensus graphic
* Cops enforce blogger ban at Wasilla book signing
* Brain interface transmits characters accurately

  December 22, 2009

* Air archive includes scuba tank filled in 1968
* China defeats CO2 limits; blame goes to the US
* Libertarian Rep. Bachmann got $250,000 subsidy
* DVD: aspiring masters engineer slave rebellion
* TV: Ratigan 4pm. Sanchez trumps Situation Room

  December 21, 2009

* Feingold explains support for manager's amendment
* Greenhouse gases may not be causing glacier melt
* Nuclear reactor design illustration wall charts
* Funeral for Iranian dissident Montazeri: video
* Final big-block V-8 rolls off GM assembly line

* Obama re-appoints Bush czar for cyber-security
* Technical explanation of pilotless bomber hack
* Face recognition webcam can't see blacks: video
* TSA screening manual "improperly redacted" [PDF]
* US ambulance industry promotes invisible bracelet

* Ancient bird first known to have venomous fangs

  December 20, 2009

* Insurance industry stock prices at 52 week highs

  December 19, 2009

* Reid files cloture on insurance industry welfare
* Franken amendment in defense appropriations bill
* Ratigan to apologize for yelling at Congresswoman
* Topless cyclists to protest NY bike lane removal
* Police detective pulls gun during snowball fight

* NFL's first display of prayer in endzone in 1977
* Finish Line: Holy Bible Stock Car Racing Edition
* Oil field straddles border created by WWI victors
* Son of prominent Iranian killed during detention
* Chunnel closed to trucks & trains due to weather

* NY Times lament for Saab; models had odd touches

  December 18, 2009

* Use reconciliation to pass good parts of the bill
* Sen. McCain has never seen member denied a minute
* Libraries of medieval, early modern women writers
* Google Maps use landmarks in leiu of street names
* Known cases of Google de-listing offensive pages

  December 17, 2009

* I passed the CCENT2 exam for CCNA certification
* I have a copy of the recently published Red Book
* April Tea Party "Patriot Caucus" in Pennsylvania
* Unusual rate of male pseudohermaphrodism in Gaza
* Insurgents hack video feed of pilotless bombers

  December 15, 2009

* Second sensory apparatus discovered in human skin
* Octopus cleans, carries coconut shell; used later
* Pentagon: climate change national security threat
* Naomi Klein in Copenhagen: US role is destructive
* Asian students suspend South Philadelphia boycott

* San Francisco Network Engineer Terry Childs trial
* Mid 1960's Playboy Club videos; 1968 Bunny Manual
* Israeli minister cancels UK visit due to warrant
* Israeli settlement freeze would not be announced
* Previously interested only in self-preservation

* Videographer arrested for causing cops distress
* Ansel Adams didn't publish Los Angeles pictures
* 60,000 card carrying cannabis users in Colorado
* Rep. Bachmann hails Charge of the Light Brigade
* Sen. Franken: read the bill before standing up

  December 14, 2009

* Fox News: all Americans should be "very afraid"
* Estrogen replacement traded on fear of illness
* Jenny Sanford as model for handling broken vow
* Lawsuits net 22 million old White House emails
* Culture "wants to make infinity comprehensible"

* Illegal Alien Christmas Song pretends to humor

  December 13, 2009

* Profits from environmental destruction blessed
* How Monsanto manipulates the world food supply
* Few new jobs while bailed-out banks don't lend
* Berlusconi's nose & two teeth broken in attack
* Hill people haven't been ruled for 2000 years

  December 12, 2009

* Americans for Prosperity heckled in Copenhagen
* Congressman's office is inconveniently located
* John Young spoke with Army Security Specialist
* Out-of-state concealed weapon permits of HR218
* "Battery" charges for taking picture of police

* Openly gay Annise Parker elected Houston mayor
* Peer-reviewed journal article to show an error
* ESA Mars Express Orbiter images Phobos, Deimos
* Credit and debt as "knowledge of good and evil"
* Denver Post pictures of Daniel Suelo near Moab

* Technology can be in balance when money ceases

  December 11, 2009

* Taibbi tells Colbert about serial ponzi scheme
* National Association of Free Clinics: Missouri
* Maddow shows Rick Warren bearing false witness
* Toughest Sheriff files complaint against judge
* Friend of Cory Doctorow arrested at US border

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  December 10, 2009

* Tea Party would require Christianity at school
* Volcker: banks don't contribute to the economy
* Seven human behaviours exploited by con artist
* Republican not impeached after lying about sex
* GOP: justice system too weak to try detainees

* Feingold: on replacement of the public option
* How Obama dealt with Bush in his Nobel speech
* Rick Warren's letter to the Pastors of Uganda
* Creationist Hovind's doctoral thesis released
* Amendment prohibits establishment of religion

* Palin plays victim on question of Gore debate
* More "poor me" than self-deprecating underdog
* Tesla: "We have a message from another world"
* "Genes evolving faster because of technology"
* eBay unfairly used seat on Craigslist board

* Blogger enjoys 730Kb/sec from Antarctic tent

  December 9, 2009

* Henry Miller lived in Hollywood after US tour
* Vervet Monkey "syntax" combines several calls
* Mormon Senator wrote song lyrics for Hanukkah
* Portland building code allows for granny flats
* Today's weather report shows 10F low yesterday

* DVD Burden of Dreams; Herzog and Fitzcarraldo
* Video: Grayson is brief in response to Cheney
* Keillor reads from Charge of the Light Brigade
* Obama declines Nobel lunch with King of Norway
* Pics of lysfenomenet over Norway; missile test

  December 8, 2009

* Atheist to be sworn in, despite constitution
* Xenophobic Brooklyn Hasids prefer no cyclists
* Fossil-fuel lobbyists in Copenhagen incognito
* EPA moves to regulate CO2 under Clean Air Act
* NSFW: health care reform likened to abolition

  December 7, 2009

* Thomson likely site of indefinite detentions
* Ratings "journalists" staffed by Wall Street
* Tea Party tops GOP in generic three-way poll
* West Bank Rabbi's "Guide to killing non-Jews"
* Primer on Lady Gaga; in hairbow, sans shades

  Strength is not brute force. Strength is not
  turning down help when you need it. Strength
  is not acquiring as much wealth as possible.
  Strength is not ignoring suffering in others
  while blaming them for it. Strength is not
  telling people to be afraid. Strength is not
  my way or the highway. Strength is not going
  it alone. Strength is not inspiring animosity.
  Strength is not holding this world dear while
  speaking of another. Strength is not rushing
  into battle without first knowing an opponent.
  Strength is not proud, ignorant, or defensive.

  December 6, 2009

* Switzerland has 4 minarets & 300,000 muslims
* Mayor: "muslim president" pre-empted Peanuts
* Palin left Hawaii because she was a minority
* Immunity for DoJ lawyers who counsel torture
* UK scuttles drug report to manage perception

* Basij and police surround Tehran University
* Evo Morales re-elected in Bolivia. GDP spike
* MP3 Release, Pearl Jam [1991]; after silence
* Emails between John Young and Yahoo! lawyers
* No one may get up when Pilot is in the john

  December 5, 2009

* Los Angeles Episcopalians elect woman bishop
* Michael Brown to teach class on "Patriot Act"
* Commanders asked Rumsfeld for men in 2001, 04
* Elderly Nepalese cabinet at Everest base camp
* Volunteers to watch live CCTV footage online

* Jeff Buckley's 1996 handwritten note to fans
* Right wing email about Arabs in "full attire"
* Stolen emails reveal no scientific conspiracy
* Karl Rove interrupted repeatedly in Milwaukee
* VW 4-seat 2-cylinder diesel, electric hybrid

* Book emanations indicate need of preservation
* Swiss represent US in Tehran absent relations
* Teens arrested in Japan for attempted murder
* Genome Wide Association Studies "fall short"
* MP3 All Her Favorite Fruit from the colonies

  December 4, 2009

* Republican chairman strongly opposes Bernanke
* US boundary saves corporations from liability
* Ayn Rand's 1998 interview with Wired magazine
* Video tour of the International Space Station
* Galileo's sketches and engravings of the Moon

* 3 Secret Service agents on leave after breach
* Ruins of Pompeii on Google street view [fixed]
* Elderly Portuguese writer criticizes the Bible
* Ex-Fox News host: partial-news, mostly-opinion
* Defense of fundamental rights on the Internet

* DVD Cobra Verde; Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin
* Study finds Stradivarius varnish was ordinary
* This is a chihuahua standing on 8 cheesburgers
* Aetna price hike expected to force out 600,000
* Goldman Sachs executives apply for gun permits

* Matt Taibbi: Wall Street is in the White House

  December 3, 2009

* "Trigger" puts off public option indefinitely
* Republicans: "Climate-gate" undermines theory
* Republicans embarrassed by Senator Al Franken
* Americans for Legal Immigration dislike Dobbs
* Shatner "how do you know"? Rush "it's my job"

* LHC loses power yet again; magnets still cold
* DOJ #2 resigns; returns to courtroom for RIAA
* Dubai was Vegas-style promised-land: pictures
* Data retention protocol & interface standards
* Google launches Domain Name Service [8.8.8.8]

  December 2, 2009

* Land of the Afraid: wars until the end of time
* Democrats willing to convene Senate on Xmas Day
* Republican memo documents parliamentary tactics
* Republican unsure of Bernanke's re-confirmation
* Senator Al Franken's position on Net Neutrality

* Blackwater's Erik Prince Vanity Fair interview
* Somali Pirate stock exchange hosts 72 companies
* Salvation Army requires proof of US citizenship
* Serco runs Aussie immigration detention centers
* Sandtrapped Mars Rover's churning wheels reveal

* When he'd made himself thin as a gas, he sighed

  December 1, 2009

* Voters should have no trouble banning divorce
* EU draft document on the division of Jerusalem
* Obama campaigned on Afghanistan War escalation
* Little Green Footballs blogger Charles Johnson
* Pictures of Robert Crumb drawing self-portrait

* Edward Burtynsky photography exhibition "Oil"
* British Nat'l Party not accepting new members
* Birth of a new species among Darwin's Finches
* Ray Comfort's Charles Darwin Bible plagiarism
* "Friendly Atheist" interviews "The Banana Man"

* Pitchfork names Kid A best album of the 2000s