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In the spirit of Zoolander's Magnum and Blue Steel line of looks, Caution: Openwire presents to you: Zoolander Bloggy-style!

Don't forget to send him your best Zoolander!
posted by bwg at 10:24 PM PST - 21 comments

Anthrax This! A message from the anthrax infected employee of the New York Post. I've never seen a newspaper cover like this before. Anyone have an reactions, thoughts?
posted by yevge at 6:43 PM PST - 30 comments

Spamthrax! Anthrax via e-mail? Don't panic, it's from SatireWire.
posted by ferris at 6:18 PM PST - 9 comments

David Talbot (Salon) rips Andrew Sullivan (WSJ, New Republic, Weekly Standard) a new one From Salon editorial "....It's repellent to be lectured about my commitment to America, which is deep and true, by an arrogant and self-important Brit.....earlier this year, Sullivan was exposed by the gay press for advertising for "bareback" sex (unprotected by condoms) in an AOL chat room.....if a right-wing theocracy ever came to power in America, guess who'd be the first person whose ass would be rounded up...." Don't they have more compelling subject matter to rant and rave about?
posted by Voyageman at 2:02 PM PST - 25 comments

Israeli Ultimatum: looks like the PA is soon to be history: Palestinian Culture Minister Yasser Abbed Rabbo, meanwhile, rejected Israel's ultimatum to hand over the suspects, saying the [Palestenian Authority] would not fall in to what he called an "Israeli trap".
posted by greyscale at 1:36 PM PST - 25 comments

Coded message in the Bert 'n Osama poster? So says former NSA instructor Robert W Koontz. Link picked up from Yahoo. Check out his own National Security Message Board.
posted by Geo at 1:02 PM PST - 36 comments

The Death of Alfalfa You've probably heard about how Alfalfa from the Little Rascals died young. Read more about it.
posted by BarneyFifesBullet at 12:51 PM PST - 15 comments

Let's stop wasting US$ 78 billion a year. Is software development really this inefficient? Aside from the main theme, there is also an interesting statement from a CIO towards the end of the article. "Those folks [involved in the open-source movement] are very knowledgeable, very good at what they do, and they're producing really great code," [...]
posted by HeikoH at 11:38 AM PST - 5 comments

civilization III interview with Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs. the return of turn-based games? :) looks like you'll be able to build the internet, small wonder!
posted by kliuless at 9:16 AM PST - 21 comments

A WEBSITE DEVOTED TO REBUILDING THE EARTH. Christopher Alexander is about to publish the long awaited The Nature of Order. At the OOPSLA 1996 conference he proposed "a view of programming as the natural genetic infrastructure of a living world"and asked the help of the software community to take over the profession of architecture and to generate tools that would enable us once again to create a living built environment. The patternlanguage.com site has not been the genesis bomb I was hoping it would be but it's early days yet.
posted by worldsystema at 7:55 AM PST - 17 comments

Muslim makes bin Laden a laughing matter. "My name is Shazia Mirza - at least that's what it says on my pilot's licence." It seems The Onion isn't the only one healing through comedy.
posted by harrycaul at 1:38 AM PST - 9 comments