stare at this then stare at something else... trippy.

Magic Yo | Yoism

This is a torrent trakker for only the craziest of the crazy things.

Conspiracy Central Tracker Info

Emory University psychologist Drew Westen put self-identified Democratic and Republican partisans in brain scanners and asked them to evaluate negative information about various candidates. Both groups were quick to spot inconsistency and hypocrisy -- but only in candidates they opposed.

When presented with negative information about the candidates they liked, partisans of all stripes found ways to discount it, Westen said. When the unpalatable information was rejected, furthermore, the brain scans showed that volunteers gave themselves feel-good pats -- the scans showed that "reward centers" in volunteers' brains were activated. The psychologist observed that the way these subjects dealt with unwelcome information had curious parallels with drug addiction as addicts also reward themselves for wrong-headed behavior.

I want the paper.

Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.

The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content accessible to minors. The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches.

In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for the records, which include a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.

Let the fireworks begin.

Bush wants Google search data

The day Judge Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court, I interviewed Kate Pringle, a partner in a New York law firm whom I met working on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Pringle was a law clerk for Judge Alito after she graduated from law school, so she knows him better than most of us. She's a liberal Democrat, but she nonetheless supports Alito's nomination, and she is going to testify in support of him later this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. So I thought it would be useful to reprint the interview. See below...

So this "Kate Pringle" person... No one from the Kerry campaign remember's her. I'm sure someone's combing thru the w-2s but I'm pretty sure she didn't work for the Kerry campaign.

Basically this whole thing is bullshit.

Blue Mass. Group :: A liberal who supports Alito: reprinting my interview with Kate Pringle

This is a really good piece about the Jack Abramoff case. And it has fancy dancy graphics about who, what, where, and why.

Lobbyist Accepts Plea Deal - New York Times

Worst weatherman ever! Cringfully bad.

Worst Weatherman

Tropical Storm Zeta... Quite a year for tropical storms.

Wunder Blog : Weather Underground

Screensaver linux distro. What will they think of next.

Linux screensaver for Windows

Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts - New York Times