ai Quick & Dirty

Designs on the White House:

http://www.designsonthewhitehouse.org/ We’re calling on every American with a conscience, a mouse, and a good idea to send in your designs for a better John Kerry 2004 Presidential Campaign T-shirt.

Rumsfeld Approved Iraq Interrogation Plan:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=1&u=/nm/iraq_abuse_pentagon_dc The rules governing the secret operation were "grab whom you must. Do what you want," the unidentified former intelligence official told the New Yorker.

802.11b wireless flaw identified

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/05/13/wireless/index.php?redirect=1084460939000 "Any organization that continues to use the standard wireless technology (IEEE 802.11b) to operate critical infrastructure could be considered negligent," Professor Looi said.

Pynchon Mention:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/nyregion/09pync.html "He has done such a great job of hiding in the city that no one would recognize him anyway." [link via Legal Underground]

Mail to the Future:

http://www.mailtothefuture.com/public/logon?http://www.mailtothefuture.com/ " The purpose of this site is to allow you to send mail to yourself or others at a specified date and time.. in the future!"

Incredible Inhofe:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18915-2004May11.html "As I watch this outrage, this outrage everyone seems to have about the treatment of these prisoners . . . I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment." — Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)

Great Blogger Relaunch:

http://www.blogger.com/knowledge/2004/05/great-blogger-relaunch.pyra A new look and new features (including new templates and built-in comments, thank goodness!), but it still doesn't generate RSS feeds for aggregators.

Are Law Profs Dilettantes?

http://www.venturpreneur.com/weblogs/archives/000400.html Dilettantes rule! (Even if they do happen to be law professors.)

Market Solution for Gay Marriage in Wyoming?

http://www.tutissima.com/archives/000619.html#more "Gay marriage supporters need to establish voting credentials (typically citizenship and residence) in a low-population state where their votes will carry the most weight. Which brings us to Wyoming."

Limbaugh: Prisoner abuse "brilliant":

http://mediamatters.org/items/200405070002 "Sounds pretty effective to me if you look at us in the right context."

States with higher IQ vote Democrat:

http://americanassembler.com/features/iq_state_averages.htm 15 of the top 16 states with highest average IQ voted for Gore in 2000. (The data does not appear scientific, or at least it hasn't been confirmed.)

Good ol' girl who enjoyed cruelty:

http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1258&storyid=1302907 "She faces a court martial, but at home she is toasted as a hero."

Pentagon Refused Lawyer as Prison Adviser:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=3&u=/ap/20040508/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/prison_abuse_lawyer_rejected "It's always good to have a lawyer around so you've got a conscience for the command and an opportunity to vet questions," Unfortunately, I'm not sure "conscience" is the first thing people think of when they hear "lawyer."

Laptops Beyond Grade 8?

http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/040505laptops.shtml Maine still considering whether high school students should get laptops. But what about the dentures?

The Yes Men:

http://www.theyesmen.org/ "Honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else."

Troops abusing Iraqis for a Year:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/04/1083635134533.html An Amnesty International report "indicates that the abuses began when US-led coalition forces gained control of Iraq in April last year and took place throughout the country."

Chris Cooper, American Candidate:

http://americancandidate.com/candidate_homepage.php?id=616 The show goes on, and who could possibly make a better American Candidate than Dean Democrat Chris Cooper?

The Coziest Office Yet:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040510-632110,00.html "Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is clearly superior to its PC counterpart for most users."

What is Letterboxing?

http://www.letterboxing.org/faq/faq.html#001 Sounds like a little like Geocaching, but minus the GPS?

Media Matters for America:

http://mediamatters.org/ " Welcome to Media Matters for America, a new Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."

Steve Jobs advises Kerry:

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aIzb2nc.YIIE Jobs knows economic issues? Maybe. But I fear even Jobs won't be able to save Kerry from himself. Wait, did I just say that?

XP Users Cop a Feel of OS X:

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63256,00.html More on the thousands of XP users who are "skinning" their OS to make it look just like Mac OS X. Wonder why we don't see Mac users skinning their machines to look like Win XP...

CubicHell:

http://www.cubichell.com/ "PC load letter"? What the $%&# does that mean? Wielding the red Swingline with pride!

Bob Edwards Signs Off "Morning Edition:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=487&e=6&u=/ap/npr_edwards "Edwards, 57, didn't hide his disappointment at the reassignment, saying he had been looking forward to celebrating the show's 25th anniversary this fall. NPR said it made the change because it was trying to refresh the network's broadcasts."

Dean preps for talkshow:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1943&e=18&u=/variety/dean_preps_for_talkshow_04_292004 "He'd look at things like, What happens if you lose a sibling? What about when you're victimized by not having health care?" Lyttle said, arguing that Dean has the perfect persona for the small screen. This can't be true. It would be so wrong!

Treadathalon:

http://www.chapmanlogic.com/treadathalon/ Yesterday Christopher Bergland ran 154 miles in 24 hours. Wow. Congratulations on a new world record!