Another creepy video by Chris Cummingham with Aphex Twin doing the soundtrack. Check out this longer and higher resolution version of the trailer.

Rubber Johnny

Mike the Usurper wrote:
I'm not recommending the article, it's the usual NASA oops stuff. No, what I found interesting was the photo with the article. It'sa NASA huey gunship. Call me nuts, but the last thing I want next to a hundred odd tons of explosive fuel is a helicopter, that it's armed is just one more thing that can go wrong.

Yahoo changed the picture on this story. I'm including a link to the Gunship.

RE: NASA calls off Wednesday's shuttle launch

I'm not recommending the article, it's the usual NASA oops stuff. No, what I found interesting was the photo with the article. It'sa NASA huey gunship.

WTF does NASA need a gunship for!?

NASA calls off Wednesday's shuttle launch

Last week Healthcare Advocates sued both the Harding Earley firm and the Internet Archive, saying the access to its old Web pages, stored in the Internet Archive's database, was unauthorized and illegal.

Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit - New York Times

Last year, Mr. King was referred to Dr. Victor Aziz, a psychiatrist at St. Cadoc's Hospital in Wales. Dr. Aziz explained to him that there was a name for his experience: musical hallucinations.

Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod

In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales will support changes in the law concerning secret warrants for financial documents, library data and other business records, according to the Justice official. The changes would clearly limit the use of such warrants to national security investigations and would allow targets to mount legal challenges to the search, the official said.

I missed this somehow. Its nice to see an actual discourse.

Patriot Act Changes to Be Proposed (washingtonpost.com)

Now a PBS series which start airing tonight...

Guns Germs, & Steel: Home | PBS

Snurched, stolen, thefted, nicked and generally swiped from all around. I will unapologetically update as and when ... unless someone objects to being quoted in which case I will, in fact, apologise.

quotes on LJ from British citizens about the bombing.

you and me and the devil makes three -

London Pride is tolerant of dry, shady conditions. It grows to a height of 15-30 cm (6-12 inches) and provides rapid ground cover without being aggressively invasive, and in late spring produces a mass of small pale pink rosette flowers growing from succulent stems. It will grow well in neglected or unfavourable urban spaces where few other flowers flourish, and is a common garden escape. In particular tradition holds that it rapidly colonised the bombed sites left by the London Blitz of the early 1940s. As such it is symbolic of the resilience of London and ordinary Londoners, and of the futility of seeking to bomb them into submission.

London Pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From this month's Foreign Affairs:

Radical Islam is spreading across Europe among descendants of Muslim immigrants. Disenfranchised and disillusioned by the failure of integration, some European Muslims have taken up jihad against the West. They are dangerous and committed -- and can enter the United States without a visa.

Bush has said that we would be fighting the war with the terrorists "abroad", as opposed to at home. Its bad news for Europe that Europe is "abroad".

... back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Foreign Affairs - Europe's Angry Muslims - Robert S. Leiken