Follow-up:

Slate looks at how Obama can kill the death panel rumors.

PolitiFact debunks each fabrication of the crazies point-by-point.

The Kaiser Family Foundation compares each proposal side-by-side.

What a breath of fresh air after all the pollution of the town hall meetings!

-janelane

RE: Healthcare "debate"

"No parole hearing has been held for me because I haven't requested one. I stood up and waved a gun for a reason."

Lynette Squeaky Fromme:To Be Released Today - It was announced earlier today that Lynette Squeaky Fromme aka Lynette Alice “Squeaky” Fromme who was a member of the Manson Family and who was supposed to be in jail for life for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, is scheduled to be released on August 16, 2009. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said that Fromme, who is now 60 years of age will be out on parole after spending 34 years at the Federal Medical Center at Carswell, Texas.

Lynette Squeaky Fromme:To Be Released Today

And the geek shall inherit the earth:

On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.

All your information are belong to us.

FRONTLINE/World Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground | PBS

As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

... maybe

In ur quantum box

The House of Chong | by Brett Alexander | Cheeb and Bong

Me thinks this spam.

Spam

North Korea's "dear leader"North Korea's "dear leader", Kim Jong-il, has life-threatening cancer, South Korean media claimed today, prompting fears for the country's long-term stability.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em. If they ever get their nukes together we're doomed.

Kim Jong-il 'has pancreatic cancer' |World news |guardian.co.uk

This is a collection of e-mails I have sent to people who post classified ads.

My goal is to mess with them, confuse them, and/or piss them off.

These are the ones that succeeded.

Richard Hamming:

If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work.

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

E-mails from an Asshole

So rather than using the current manufacturing process, where somebody melts metal and pours it into molds and machines those parts together into an electrical component, in the future, we’ll use microbes and proteins to “grow” them. In a cell, a particular genetic coding manufactures a particular kind of protein that it links to build, say, a cell wall. Well, supposing we modify that so rather than building a cell wall, it builds a substrate for an electronic component. It might be a simple modification to say, “OK, build this in a flat area.” Then you have another one that comes in and says “OK, every few microns we have an electronic lead.”

Mars may already be supporting life.

The next step — and this is one that is speculative — is creating synthetic life.

Life on Mars with Pete Worden | h Magazine