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Regrets, I've had a few

The Bush administration appears to be ramping up for another all-you-can-eat buffet for it's polluting cronies in the form of subsidies for polluters. Tell your congressman that you won't stand for it. (MoveOn)

French finger shadow-puppets circa WWI. Somebody should pdf these for modern consumption.

The Bad Design Blog

Great design: City in a Box by Patricia Weusten
(via minirobot)

It's good to be cronies. Bush administration offers immunity to Blackwater killers.
But you knew this was going to happen

Global warming and an invasive beetle put baseball bats at risk
(NYTimes)

Gotta love Honda's new glowing, skin-textured pod-car
(via Coudal)

Amazing 15-lateral play by Trinity U against Millsap this Saturday. Cal/Stanford has met its match.

"Unnecessary" quotation marks
also via the designobserver

Leadholder.com - the online drafting pencil museum

Hulger has some pretty cool old-style phone handsets (usb, bluetooth, wired)

Trigger-happy commando contractor Blackwater has modified its logo to reflect a slightly less "We will shoot anything foreign that moves" sentiment. Since when did they start caring about what anyone thinks?

FEMA loves FEMA
Unbelievable. Every time the Bush Administration hits a new low, the bring in more backhoes.

Very smooth, very professional. But something didn't seem right. The reporters were lobbing too many softballs. No one asked about trailers with formaldehyde for those made homeless by the fires. And the media seemed to be giving Johnson all day to wax on and on about FEMA's greatness. Of course, that could be because the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters.

LOLCode actually works

Eh... The place is a toilet
(via today's debut issue of the Guardian America)

[You're joking, right?] The CIA's new, official terrorist-buster logo

Written and released before the copyright lawsuits that put the damper on ubiquitous sampling for commercial releases, The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique is possibly the most sample-heavy record ever released with 105 samples appearing throughout the album (and 24 on the last track alone). Now they're all indexed and annotated at paulsboutique.info