Occasional Links

Bad stuff coming out of China.

Google's delusional arrogance.

Chinese jets for Chavez.

Travel like a human.

Grant redux.

Why surprises blind us.

Is China spoiling for a fight?

Your mind and your money.

Incentives rule the world.

Once bitten....

Sunday Links

Global warming mongers embarrassingly debunked.

How much per second?

Is there a genius in all of us?

Chromosome division is different between women and men.

Putin: why do we need so many stinkin' elections?

North Korea gets tough.

Can ancient Chinese medicine yield a cure for AIDS?

Some transitions are more equal than others.

Is China its own worst enemy?

How to hide molecules.

Venezuela down the tubes.

How to bail out GM.

Why ant colonies don't have traffic jams.

Dictatorship in Nicaragua.

Time travel in Google Earth.

Sunday Links

(Apologies for today's tardiness.)

Which Obama will we get?

Dubhe is not in the moving group.

Iran's new naval base.

The end of economic progress?

Dimensions.

Why Windows 7 will smash Vista.

Germany's richest woman in a sex-blackmail scandal.

Your new speakers will be made of carbon nanotubes.

Russia wants to help Venezuela get the bomb.

Where Caesar landed.

If it quacks like redistribution....

Red on women drives men wild.

Friday Links

Why the Republicans must lose!

If you're going to Mars, you better be prepared to stay.

Blowing up Jews in Russia.

10 things to do for a freshly laid-off developer.

The irony of Obama.

Did feathered dinosaurs precede birds?

Lighting up Berlin.

The current state of the cancer art.

Mexico's spreading drug violence.

18 ways to live below your means.

Check out some people in the Living Library.

Chavez expands his empire.

When spiders eat birds.

US Johnny still can't add.

Ready for a brain wipe?

Spend now, tax later.

Sunday Links

Palin is the poorest.

Introducing CostToDrive.

Chavez wants the bomb.

Who brought on the crisis?

The Spanish baby-jumping festival.

It's about the authenticity, stupid.

10 persuasion techniques.

Ever-new depths of shamelessness from the Macbeth family.

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the radioactive scorpion venom go down.

Biden's repeated lies.

Friday Links

What's causing the flyby anomalies?

Surrogate mothers are big business in India.

The madness of pundits.

Organ harvesting in Albania.

Obama's leftism.

Entire galaxy clusters are being pulled steadily outside the visible universe.

Chavez visits his friends in Russia.

Laid-off workers get revenge.

The 50-year low in the solar wind.

Cows that milk themselves.

Friday Links

Russian bombers in Venezuela.

Honeybees do the wave.

Feminism's greatest leap forward since Madonna.

What Google can do to your stock price.

The secret pop vs. soda civil war.

The next generation of neural nets.

Dreaming of a better world.

10 underground lakes and rivers.

Has Obama's Minsky moment already come?

How Bush forcefully muzzled the cur.

September 11th on the New York subway.

Friday Links

Monkeys are also rationalizing animals.

The UK family today.

Russia abjures an arms treaty.

Top 10 most disturbing movies.

How to deal with peaceful student protests.

High speed photography.

The coming Chinese space station.

Wine tasting exposed.

The 5-planet system.

How to find low airfares online.

Emerging nefarious botnets in the shadows.

All the US city lists fit to scroll through.

Sunday Links

Russian bombers in NATO airspace.

40 unusual web sites.

Segway crime-fighting.

Are relational databases obsolete?

Wheat would have been your best bet.

The Volvo plugin hybrid unveiled. Maybe competition can start to drive the prices down to the point that these beasts make economic sense.

The cheap way to get your Matrix cravings satisfied.

The 7 habits of highly ineffective people.

The knucklehead's guide to Jpeg compression.

The Soviet doomsday device is still armed and ready and run by a 1970's vintage computer.

Microsoft announces Linux support of Silverlight (Mac support previously announced).

The art of burning man.

Live nukes over America.

Chinese hackers get into British departments too.

Chavez buys rifles with night vision and pantomimes shooting US servicemen and women.

Friday Links

The yen carry -trade is unraveling.

ZTD—getting things done the minimal way.

Make an average face.

Did life begin on comets?

Columbia's civil war is expanding.

Could a new nanoparticle be an early-warning diagnostic tool for disease?

Cross-platform Microsoft.

10 surprising uses for aspirin.

An automatic coupon notifier plugin.

The interactive map of Springfield.

Google is now aggregating social networking data (and mining it).

5,000 year old chewing gum.

Where to get free books.

64-core CPU machines are here.

Is Hugo Chavez in control?

Weekly Links

Iran, oil, inflation, Venezuela, Russia, and all the trouble in the world.

Why do they hate us?

The nano-mechanical computer.

The lies of women.

6 productivity tips.

Alternative energy of the vampire sort.

Yet another potential HIV vaccine.

Three chick flicks and their unintended message.

Housing woes in the prime sector too?

Hard truths about energy.

The taxonomy of fallacies.

Printed circuit board do-it-yourself guide.

Chinese foodstuff quality control in perspective.

24 real-life sea monsters.

Does man control the weather, or does the weather control man?

Is reality coming back from the future?

The 12 kinds of ads.

Liquids are more fun.

Weekly Links

Ethanol production is eating our lunch.

China is blocking Flickr.

Decorative pencils.

World's cheapest car.

Nitrogen pollution is causing trees to soak up more CO2 from the atmosphere.

The feathered dino explained.

Rome reborn.

Talking jewelry.

23 ways to improve your work life.

Over a thousand parents named their daughters "Unique" during this decade. I guess they aren't.

The seven engineering wonders of the world.

Scramjet hits Mach 10.

Is Google scarier than the FBI?

Venezuela launches the sale of "Bolivarian" linux-based computers for the masses.

How motherboards are made.

The full panoramic view from Everest.

A new particle was discovered at Fermilab, one representing all three families of quarks for the first time.

The SEC just ended an important safeguard in the stock markets. Will this be another example of being condemned to repeat history?

In nature, bacteria emit proteins to sweep up nanoparticles into innocuous clumps.

Totalitarian communist and Gaiaist propaganda compared.

Thousands of pearls found.

Deja vu explained.

Too much sex in the Bible?

The Jefferson Memorial is sinking.

It's now legal for women to be topless in New York.

Space colonization may be hopeless. (hat tip: Luther McLeod)

Why the Soviet Union collapsed.

What people are doing online and which demographic groups participate.

How to give yourself a good life.

Chinese slaves freed.

Calculations with two qubits were successfully performed for the first time.

Floating sand.

Microinjection of materials into a single cell at the nano-level.