] Perhaps most importantly, keep in mind that eating just a
] single kernel of candy corn manufactured by a company
] other than Brach's Confections will give you a deadly
] case of full-blown AIDS.

Generic Candy Corn Will Give You AIDS

] As of late October, sources indicate that a central
] recommendation is likely, but not certainly to be
] resumption of manned lunar flights to develop advanced
] technologies that can support U.S. astronauts working
] beyond Earth orbit to not only the Moon, but eventually
] on near-Earth asteroids and Mars.

Holy shit...

Presidential review on space policy heading to closure | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

] Global Internet,
] Once a spring of liberty,
] Autumn chill so near.

This is the founder of Autodesk on how the potential for freedom represented by the internet could be rolled back over the next few years.

The Digital Imprimatur

] This is concrete evidence of the direct financial
] incentive that so-called "safety advocates" have to
] promote red light and speed camera technologies. The
] Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the
] leading U.S. proponent of the technology, is directly
] funded by the top 66 insurance companies.

[Politech] Speed cameras main purpose? To raise more revenue [priv]

] Welcome to Zork.
]
] You are in an open field west of a big white house with a
] boarded front door.
]
] There is a small mailbox here.

This is the most leet 404 error ever. Yes, you can in fact play this. Could be better designed, but in general, two thumbs up.

PHP Zork

Answer, not you...

] Nonetheless, from 1979 to 1999, 69 percent of the people
] who lost jobs as a result of cheap imports in sectors
] other than manufacturing were reemployed. The mean wage
] of those reemployed was 96.2 percent of their previous
] wage.

And this article is pro offshoring. They spend paragraphs spinning the hell out of it like a high school cheer leader. Look to your left, look to your right, one of you isn't going to work again.

Who wins when jobs move offshore? | CNET News.com

For those who missed it, for those that don't remember what happened, and for those who just like looking at drunk people.... Be sure to check some of the comments in the "why you suck" section.

Phreaknic7 :: Pictures!

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, head of oil giant Yukos, was seized by special forces at a Siberian airport Saturday. He was sent to Moscow and charged with a $1 billion (30 billion rubles) fraud and tax evasion.

Yukos -- as well as Russian businessmen and politicians -- said the arrest of Khodorkovsky, whose wealth was estimated by Forbes magazine at $8 billion and has funded two liberal opposition parties, was politically motivated.

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Putin bags another Oligarch. He's really consolidating his power. He effectively ended freedom of the press when he toppled Berezovsky's media empire, and renationalized the last independant television station... and then following Nord Ost, he has threatened to revoke freedom of the press for "bad coverage" when he is criticized. Now out goes Xodorkovsky. There will be more to come. Putin will never step down as President. When Bush says he can see into his soul, I believe it. One motherfucker to another.

The Oligarchs are all evil, bad men. Thieves on probably the largest scale the twentieth century has seen. But where Putin conquers, he does not bring reform. He replaces the toppled gang with his own... the FSB. The domestic branch of the former KGB.

Russia markets rocked by arrest: Putin bags another Oligarch

] Japan has always had a cachet of cool, but it was a type
] of subcultural cool that appealed only to certain tastes.
] This notion of cool has long been in vogue with readers
] of Beat Generation or cyberpunk literature. Now,
] however, Japan's cultural cool is appealing to a wider
] base of media fans that are, of course, consumers who
] express their cultural desires monetarily.

Killing in Translation

Foreign Affairs is pleased, therefore, to be able to open a window directly onto occupied Germany seven months after V-E Day, taking readers back in media res.

CFR reaches into the treasure chest for a true gem.

That Was Then: Allen W. Dulles on the Occupation of Germany