Virtual suicide: Delete your "social networking" memberships and get real again. - AdBusters"...virtual suicide sites like seppukoo.com and suicidemachine.org have started a counter movement, provoking users to kill their online selves and reclaim their real lives."
Feds allow prison cell phone jamming test- AP
"Testing" for what? I don't like where this line of experimentation is heading.
Dean Baker critiques David Brooks economic analysis - Beat the Press
"Working class men are ill-prepared to deal with the effects of incredible economic mismanagement that has made them its primary victims. It has been conscious policy of David Brooks and his peers to weaken welfare state supports, making income and well-being almost entirely dependent on employment. Now, because David Brooks' highly-educated peers are incompetent economic managers, millions of working class people (disproportionately men) are facing extended periods of unemployment. And, naturally Brooks sees their difficulty in dealing with this crisis as a failure of working class culture."
Human genome researcher gives God a failing grade in bio-engineering. - New Scientist
"The reason? Our genome is an unmitigated mess."
People don't become serial killers because of Dungeons & Dragons. - Boston Phoenix
They kill because they're murderous sociopaths with poor impulse control.
"America is on its way to becoming a country of serfs ruled by oligarchs." - Paul Craig Roberts
Waddaya mean "on it's way"?
Small spinning asteroids are piles of rubble and dust that ought to fly apart but don't. - Technology Review
NASA wakes Endeavor crew with Serenity theme song - Topless Robot
Considering that Obama is killing the manned space exploration program soon it's darkly appropriate.
A layman's observations about the junkie populations of Europe and the US - Rick Steves @ Seattle Post-Intelligencer
How Darwinian natural selection works. - ABC News
"Bohlig took off his backpack and a layer of clothing then decided to pose for pictures near the rim of the crater. He was backing up when the snow gave way and he fell."
