October 25, 2004

Wikinews

Wikinews: "Wikinews is a proposed project with the goal to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view." It looks like MoJo lives, kind of, but we weren't the ones who ended up building it. Bummer. [via]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:47 PM PST - 4 comments

Natural Gas Boom Time

Natural gas provides a quarter of our nation's energy. Most of it is produced domestically as well. One arid region of Wyoming finds itself in the middle of this boom.
posted by split atom at 7:20 PM PST - 13 comments

limecat is not pleased

Limecat is not pleased.

In the grand tradition of oolong comes Limecat, who is not pleased.
Also available, Limecat Mini: "The world's smallest displeased cat. Five new colors."
posted by gen at 6:54 PM PST - 28 comments


Pamphlets for all.

The very cool Prickly Paradigm Press is starting to release its back catalog under the Creative Commons license. [via]
posted by kenko at 6:06 PM PST - 4 comments

Food Patriots Launch Pie Assault on Ann Coulter

"Al Pieda" Targets Ann Coulter
Members of the notorious culinary terrorist group "Al Pieda" launched an attack on Ann Coulter while she was speaking at the University of Arizona. The report says some pie got on her face but attendants were able to wipe it off before she received any nutrional value from the pie.
Not to be confused with the notorious math group "Al Gebra", who would have probably thrown a slide rule at her.
posted by fenriq at 12:06 PM PST - 26 comments

Switchers

Bush-voters switch to Apple John Kerry
posted by Robot Johnny at 11:34 AM PST - 26 comments

World supports Kerry: BBC World Service's online poll

World supports Kerry: BBC World Service's online poll results by language, religion, sex and age
posted by hoder at 11:24 AM PST - 16 comments

"Nazis looking for the Abominable Snowman".

Himmler's Crusade: The True Story of the 1938 Nazi Expedition to Tibet.
In 1935, the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler founded an organisation called Ancestral Heritage , to uncover the hidden past of the Aryan race he and his Führer regarded as the noblest and most vital force in human history. One of the scientific missions Himmler sponsored was a multitasked expedition to Tibet under the leadership of ornithologist Ernst Schäfer, an expert on rare Tibetan birds who liked to smear the blood of exotic kills on his face. Schäfer recruited an anthropologist to measure noses and skulls and to make face-masks; a geographer who specialised in the earth's geomagnetism; and a botanist who was also handy with a film camera. They managed to con their way into Tibet, past the British. The expedition is at the basis of a masterful story by Jim Shepard, the author of Love and Hydrogen (full text). More inside.
posted by matteo at 11:16 AM PST - 12 comments

Literary Seance?

Whay Would Bill Hicks Say? An essay contest that is attempting to channel a dead comedian. On the bright side, there are prizes and they encourage you to rant.
posted by metameme at 10:39 AM PST - 7 comments

Supreme Court Judge Hospitalized - ThyroidFilter

Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has been hospitalized for treatment of thyroid cancer. Doctors expect to release the 80 year old chief justice later this week. Rehnquist had a tracheotomy on Sunday after being admitted to Bethesda on Friday. More coverage abounds.
posted by bshort at 9:51 AM PST - 22 comments

Rock the draft

Rock the Vote last month sent out about 600,000 emails to prospective voters regarding the possilbility of a draft. Now GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie has sent a cease and desist letter to try to get RTV to stop. You can read Gillespie's letter(pdf) as well as Rock the Vote's head Jehmu Greene's response(pdf).
posted by bitdamaged at 9:12 AM PST - 22 comments

crime

Identity theft is epidemic.
posted by semmi at 9:06 AM PST - 17 comments

The greatest children's toy in the world

The greatest children's toy in the world? A railway run largely by children aged 10-14 with full sized trains. The Hungarian one is perhaps the best known, but there are others in the former soviet republics.
posted by biffa at 5:04 AM PST - 16 comments

Rodriguez v Bush et al

Someone finally gets around to lodging an attempt to prove to the standards of a court of law that Bush Knew about 9/11 in advance, among other evil deeds. Now what?
posted by aeschenkarnos at 1:46 AM PST - 28 comments

Free Speech on Demand

Freespeeches.net is the future of television. Videoblogging focuses the global scope of TV down to the substantive issues that matter. Freespeeches.net concentrates on politics, offering several brief, easily downloadable clips a week of voices ranging from Bush to Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik. (Ann Coulter's riff on "camel-riding nomads" is particularly grotesque.) See videoblogging.info for an introduction to this rapidly up-and-coming new medium, and then check out Underground Clips and Demand Media too. They watch TV so you don't have to.
posted by digaman at 12:55 AM PST - 16 comments

Army Reserve Training Transition

Transitioning the Army Reserve to train Iraqi troops in order to return coalition forces into rotation. Philip W. Young's photoblog offers valuable perspective from the trenches, and his most recent post this weekend discusses his and others' responses to this AP article.
posted by gkr at 12:54 AM PST - 3 comments

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