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| milky
:: My good friends at Milky Elephant redesigned their site this week. You might particularly want to read about the wonderful adventures of Ellie in Europe.
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| what's going on
:: Here are a couple of pointers to weblogs that I'm finding indispensable for understanding what's going on in Iraq at the moment: History professor Juan Cole's Informed Comment provides a lucid daily analysis of the latest occupation-related news, and Baghdad Burning, written by a 26-year-old Iraqi woman, describes what it's like to live in Baghdad right now.
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| intelligence continues to be manipulated
:: A couple months ago, an Iraqi scientist named Mahdi Obeidi led the CIA to the remnants of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program buried in his back yard. Although the Bush administration was cautious in what it claimed Obeidi's revelations meant, it's not unlikely that they hoped he would provide material support of their apocalyptic pre-war warnings.
Unfortunately for the administration, Mr. Obeidi's testimony has had the opposite effect, supporting the IAEA's assessment of Iraq's nuclear capabilities and refuting administration claims about Iraq's purchase of aluminum tubes, an often-cited piece of evidence that a weapons program was in motion.
What happens when the goose's golden eggs turn out to be copper?
[Former U.N. inspector David] Albright and others suggest that, with the Obeidi case, the message being sent by the Bush administration to Iraqi scientists being interrogated in Iraq is a troublesome one: if you don’t tell us what we want to hear, you won’t be rewarded. In fact, things might even get a little unpleasant for you.
Read more here, and check this Talking Points Memo post for further background.
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Hybrot
:: Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Create Robotic ‘Semi-Living Artist’
"Working from their university labs in two different corners of the world, U.S. and Australian researchers have created what they call a new class of creative beings, 'the semi-living artist' – a picture-drawing robot in Perth, Australia whose movements are controlled by the brain signals of cultured rat cells in Atlanta."
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| Bay area museum free days
:: A resource listing the free days for bay area museums.
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| touch that dial
:: My favorite way to listen to the radio is on scan: listening to incongruous snippets of sound from dozens of stations leads to juxtapositions that can be funny, sublime, or just annoying. Now there's an application called N.A.G. that gives you the equivalent of multiple scanning radios that you can conduct. Give it some search terms, and it'll connect to the Gnutella file sharing network, find songs that match your terms, and start mixing them together as they download. Found at Boing Boing.
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