July 2003
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July 31, 2003

· Fifteen ways to leave your lover
· A Legal Document Well Worth Reading
· Boy, you are so grounded, for the next 15 years!
· Little Red Sports Car #1
· Little Red Sports Car #2
· New on Fox: When objects impale people
· Photo: The Last Beetle
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July 29, 2003

· Expose (to the) Right: Maximizing S/N Ratio in Digital Photography
· What Do You Say To A Naked Model?
· BBC ‘proves’ Loch Ness Monster does not exist
· “If reporters who live by their sources were obliged to die by their sources, New York Times reporter Judith Miller would be stinking up her family tomb right now.”
· Reuters takes a by-lined local piece about a young woman and soldier returning home, then rewrites it into an anti-administration screed, keeping one single quote from the original ... and sticks the author’s byline back on it. Then refuses her request to remove it.
· Uday died carrying painkillers, numerous bottles of cologne, Viagra, unopened packages of men’s underwear, dress shirts, a silk tie, a single condom, two ladies purses, and $100 million in cash
· Your brain is in Atlanta. Your arm is in Australia. Now, draw something.
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July 27, 2003

· Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11
· Interesting Campaign Story about Bob Graham
· “It makes you wonder if at their next presidential debate, the Democrats are all going to show up wearing aluminum-foil helmets to protect their brain waves from the mother ship!”
· Challenging the Language of the Qur’an
· Scripty Goddess Lists 5 Things Wrong With BuyMusic.com
· To Paint or to Photograph? Two Thousand Answers from Charles Sheeler
· Photo: Swimmin’ Piglet
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July 25, 2003

· A Moving JPEG
· “...the purposeful self-defamation of the company image and product”
· Jimi Hendrix’s Family Feud
· The Key to a Successful Freelance Career: A Diary
· “He’s got to be a diplomat, an engineer looking at sewage and water, and he’s got to be a trainer, and a leader in combat.”
· “Decades of war, terror, and bleak economic prospects have killed or traumatized many of Iraq’s men, leading to a shortage of potential husbands.”
· “As my mother would have put it, when they were passing out moderation, you were hiding behind the door.”
· Recreation.gov
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July 24, 2003

· By 400-21, House Votes to Block Expanded FCC Limits
· Sensible Commentary on Bush and Iraq from a Democratic Leader?
· Cruisin’ Kabul in a Camaro Convertible
· A List of Sadly Partisan Reaction to the Deaths of Uday and Qusay
· On the other hand: “We should drag the bodies through the streets to prove they are dead to the Iraqi populace”
· Bay Area Photo Fair this weekend, “offering thousands of images by masters like Weston and Cartier-Bresson, local lights such as Michael Kenna and Lyle Gomes”
· Photo: President Caught Lying to Senator
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July 23, 2003

· Iranian government has officially ordered all ICPs and ISPs to ban the domain, hoder.com, along with dozens of other websites and weblogs
· Cracking Down on Phishin’
· A scientific comparison of the topography of Kansas to a pancake shows the state, known for its vast, even fields, is in fact really, really flat
· Interesting Portrait of Saddam, shown by members of the 3rd ID
· Something isn’t right in Googleville
· NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control
· Canon announced the EOS-1D on September 25th, 2001, and nearly two years later, Nikon finally tops it
· The Canon EOS 10D for less than $1400 ... er, less than $1300 ... um, make that less than $1200
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July 22, 2003

· Saddam’s Guerrillas: “Saddam outfoxed one President Bush and intends to outfox and outlast another”
· Officials Debate Whether to Seek a Bigger Military
· Making Music From Samples of Commercials
· Experts Debate Old Fart Age Limit
· RIAA Radar Zeitgeist: Indie 100: Top sellers on Amazon.com that are RIAA-safe.
· Access Denied: RIAA, MPAA Blocked From Techfocus Web Site
· The Mystery of Life, and the Power of Four
· The nation’s fastest-growing online city, at almost three times the national rate... Atlanta!
· The Rainmakers A/V page: 7 full-length songs, 3 QuickTime videos. “If seeing/hearing any of these songs inspires you to buy a CD or video collection, then that’s a consequence I’m willing to live with.”
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July 21, 2003

· Derek and Heather on an Arizona Road Trip
· “...it has been, as many have said, an historic week.” 4 totally generic posts in five days makes for an historic week?
· U.S. 666 Highway Signs Becoming Hot Items
· “The RIAA’s subpoenas are so prolific that the U.S. District Court in Washington, already suffering staff shortages, has been forced to reassign employees”
· “Coulter cultivates antipathy with the prowess of Martha Stewart in an herb garden ... In many ways, she is what she impales: a child of privilege from New Canaan, Conn., with a better understanding of polo than the subtleties of professional wrestling.”
· “Months of political tension in the House of Representatives erupted into open warfare today when Democrats stormed out of a Ways and Means Committee session and the panel’s chairman called in the Capitol Police”
· “Asked to name public places where there is no advertising, consumer activist Gary Ruskin racks his brain. Churches and other houses of worship, he says eventually. National parks. The U.S. flag.”
· Photo: The Hostile Residents of Fallujah
· Photo: Poor Purple Polar Bear
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July 18, 2003

· “Thirty-five senators have latched onto a little-used law in an attempt to overturn the FCC’s new media ownership rules”
· Erin gives us the inside skinny on AOL Blogs
· Publishing, permanence, and transparency
· 1964 Prototype for GI Joe looks a lot like a young Donald Rumsfeld
· 10 Lies We Were Told About Iraq
· Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy
· Why James Lileks (a) rules; (b) toils in relative obscurity; and (c) should be on every op-ed page in America.
· Upload a File, Go To Prison
· Photo: Swimming Colors
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July 17, 2003

· “Stump-speech pap” (from the comments at the Dean/Lessig Blog)
· “People, it’s over. Netscape is dead”
· But Mozilla says, ‘Bring It On, IE’
· An easy way to reduce the chances of prostate cancer by up to a third
· Proof that sometimes it’s easier to move than clean
· Translation Device: “What Your Cat Is Trying to Tell You”
· Maybe Tarantino can’t edit, but Miramax can split his film in two
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July 15, 2003

· Could the 3rd Division possibly get jerked around any more than they have already??? Yes. Their recently trumpeted return has been “postponed indefinitely.”
· Lush Windbag signed for NFL Broadcasts: “Football is like life and I know life”
· American Judge under Gag order .... in Baghdad
· 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector
· One of the world’s most influential Islamic leaders has condemned all attacks by suicide bombers at an international conference for Islamic scholars
· Inventor of MP3 format: “I don’t like the Napster idea that all music should be free to everybody.”
· Nagasaki University Old Picture Database
· Photo: The World’s Longest Slinky
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July 12, 2003

· While castigating the President for passing on bogus information, CNN’s Aaron Brown passed on a bogus Internet story
· A Polaroid a Day, Every Day
· 29,000 Rubber Duckies Take an 11 Year Long Trans-Arctic Journey
· The Mike Tyson of Sumo Wrestling?
· Independent Days
· Photo: Emese’s Fireworks
· Photo: When Advertisers run out of ideas...
· Photo: Has Celine Dion become a Bag Lady?
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July 06, 2003

· You think you’ve heard all the stories about crazy cat ladies. But you haven’t
· How To Beat Tim Russert
· “The entire focus of his existence is to cause pain and suffering. His presence on Usenet is merely a means to an end.”
· Hormel sues to defend the name of Spam
· Avionics based “soft walls” to protect cities from hijacked planes
· Guess what’s missing at the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy
· Photo: Sunset Ferris Wheel
· Photo: Satan’s Laundramat
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July 02, 2003

· NASA Photo: “it could be perceived as a superhero flying through a cloud, arm up, with a saved person in tow below...” Nope, try again...
· The Pixel Turns 50 Next Year
· Slashscreen: also alleviates the symptoms of an Instalanche or being MeFi’ed
· Wonderfully written tale of the 135 pound woman vs. the 72 ounce steak
· Zeldman’s Child Speaks
· Army Times Editorial: Bush gives Lip Service to military needs
· 10 things to celebrate; Why I’m an anti-anti-American
· Photo: Sunken Sea Plane
· Photo: “Buggy Rollin’ ” a personal transport body suit
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