The Mall Goes Undercover - It now looks like a city street.

The Mall Goes Undercover - It now looks like a city street. By Andrew Blum: "There's something a bit unhealthy about faux public places designed to attract rich people and make them feel comfortable. (At least the traditional mall didn't try to hide the fact that it was a shopping center.) The lifestyle center is a bizarre outgrowth of the suburban mentality: People want public space, even if making that space private is the only way to get it."

Shadowcrew: Web Mobs

Shadowcrew: Web Mobs: "They operate under names such as carderplanet, stealthdivision, darkprofits and the shadowcrew. They buy and sell millions of credit card numbers, social security numbers and identification documents, typically for less than 10 bucks apiece. And they create sites and services to breed more skilled, like-minded organizations. Here's how the growth of electronic commerce is threatened by the operations of these Web Mobs."

Mobile PC - Features - The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

Mobile PC - Features - The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time: "The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time"

Yahoo! News - Calif. Man Sets Off Nuclear Alert Detector

Yahoo! News - Calif. Man Sets Off Nuclear Alert Detector: "ESCONDIDO, Calif. - A man who recently had received radiation treatment for a medical condition set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police to close down a roadway in Escondido while authorities searched for a nuclear weapon."

The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans

The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans: "Americans say President Bush does not share the priorities of most of the country on either domestic or foreign issues, are increasingly resistant to his proposal to revamp Social Security and say they are uneasy with Mr. Bush's ability to make the right decisions about the retirement program, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll."

Screens hide crashes from curious drivers

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Screens hide crashes from curious drivers: "Seven-foot-tall by 10-foot-wide screens made of piping and vinyl material have been in use since late last year, intended to obscure accidents from passersby and keep drivers moving, officials said."

A Complete Waste Of Time

A Complete Waste Of Time WARNING: Do Not Read This If You Have Work To Do!!!!!!!!! :: MarkTAW.com: "A Complete Waste Of Time WARNING: Do Not Read This If You Have Work To Do!!!!!!!!!"

Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit

Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit || kuro5hin.org: "

I procrastinate. You procrastinate. We all procrastinate. Let's get back to work."

Salon.com News | The scandal sheet

Salon.com News | The scandal sheet: "Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater."

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Intersting trivia - France still has two islands in North America, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: "The islands represent the sole remaining vestige of France's once vast North American possessions". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

"I am now the proud possessor of a bottle of Prozac and a Bob Marley box set. "

A poignant piece (loosely) about Bob Marley from Katy St. Clair's column in the SF Weekly: sfweekly.com | Music | Bouncer | 2004-12-15: "I am now the proud possessor of a bottle of Prozac and a Bob Marley box set. "

Airlines Should Calculate Prices By the Pound (washingtonpost.com)

Airlines Should Calculate Prices By the Pound (washingtonpost.com): "So why shouldn't you pay an airline according to how much you weigh and how much space you take up?"

The American Conserative - Kerry’s the One

The American Conserative: "Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations."

Obligatory Bush Joke

Joke: "Q: What's the difference between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War?

A: George W. Bush had a plan to get out of the Vietnam War."

From the defective yeti.

MSNBC - Frequently Unasked Questions

MSNBC - Frequently Unasked Questions



"Most professionals at the C.I.A., the State Department and the Pentagon who’ve devoted their lives to working in the Middle East have a fundamental rule for dealing with its very complicated problems: define them realistically and address them individually. Don’t try to tie everything together with a nice bow (or even a Gordian knot) and pretend they can be solved with a single idea like “liberty.” As much as possible, unravel the problems, or, in diplo-speak, disaggregate them.



If the Bush administration had followed that rule, we wouldn’t be up to our eyeballs in Iraq, we would be much safer, and the president would richly deserve a second term for his administration’s performance in the immediate aftermath of 9/11."