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http://www.abba-to-zappa.com/ Rather cute pixelated musician caricatures. (Are just the images available anywhere?) 09:31

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102786/ The best bits from Clinton’s autobiography. He thinks Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is “he greatest novel written in any language since William Faulkner died.” I’m with Andrew Sullivan on the couch question though: I find it very unlikely that he slept there for months. 21:59

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/2/441e.html#441e.a_1_
A The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act makes it illegal for foreign nationals to promise to contribute money to candidates—?! 00:08

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1 Destructive review of Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots & Leaves. (Louis Menand) 22:36

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/business/22google.html “Separately, there was an indication yesterday that Google’s vaunted corporate culture may be under stress as a result of competition and the stock offering. As of yesterday afternoon, typing the words ‘out of touch management’ into Google caused the search engine to list as its first result a page describing the company’s top management.” (Google: out of touch management.)

(Kottke update.) 21:58

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/ Long Christopher Hitchens piece on Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11. 20:12

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/magazine/20METALLICA.html Fascinating account of an upcoming Metallica documentary that evidently focuses on their therapy sessions. 01:45

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3819203.stm Ha: Missy Elliot cancels tour dates because “due to the unusual number of artists presently touring Europe,” there are not enough tour buses available. 21:41

http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/why-firefox.html Firefox advocacy: “Why Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox are good porn browsers.” (See also the Pornzilla project’s bookmarklets, and the “list of bugs that impact porn surfing.”) “Pornzilla is not an official mozilla.org project. Since nobody has contributed to our testing budget, these tools have only been tested with free porn sites.” 20:40

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102639/ The surprisingly interesting 20th century social history of milk. 19:05

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/dining/16BEER.html “And the most wonderful thing about beer is that it has that ability to ‘reset’ your palate. Take cassoulet, for example: Rustic southern French reds are good, but French beer is a much better choice. Cassoulet can be like cement, but beer busts it up and makes it seem so much lighter.” (“When the Right Wine Is a Beer.”) 23:37

http://www.metcheck.com/tube/ Weather forecasting for the tube! 22:41

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3808431.stm At age 10, Fidel Castro, wrote to Roosevelt and asked for a ten dollar bill… 21:50

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i41/41b01501.htm Americans are adopting British idioms? 22:31

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/33296493.html “Had I actually killed myself, I can only imagine what the local papers would have said: Local Man Runs Self Over.” 18:32

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040531/040531-3.html Researchers can’t do stats right: study finds that the reported probability that a result was due to chance is wrong 11% of the time. 02:40

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040611.html Interesting Straight Dope on military budgets. (Not mentioned here is that Australia, for all the fears about being attacked by Indonesia, etc., spends far more on its military than any other country in the region: more than twice as much as Singapore, and probably as much as everyone else combined.) 19:27

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/opinion/13SUN1.html Gambling machines are better regulated than voting machines (editorial). (Why aren’t the makers of gambling machines in the voting machine market? It would seem that similar (and simpler) technologies are involved: they count things, they report things, and even better, they probably also have reasonable security given that they also have a great incentive to detect cheaters…) 22:10

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102264/ Reagan and the market for “Russian” pro-wrestlers. 19:33

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102303/ The National Enquirer doesn’t make stories up (anymore), but still few people believe that what it prints is true. 04:46

http://www.epa.gov/air/aqtrnd03/dl_graph.html Graphs and tables from the EPA’s National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report (2003). Comparison of 1970 and 2002 Emissions. 23:14

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102203/ 18:36

http://boysbriefs.blogspot.com/2004/05/all-grown-up.html 01:27

http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/proofrea.htm 01:50

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_
id=2724755 Panel of economists performs cost-benefit ranking of proposals for improving the lives of people in developing countries. The four ranked highest: HIV/AIDS control and prevention measures, combatting malnutrition, trade liberalisation, and malaria control. (See also the UN’s development goals.) 22:05

http://slate.msn.com/id/2101705/ “A bad week for the Bushies”: even Abu Ghraib has disappeared from the front pages. 18:27

http://christianexodus.org/ Like the Free State Project (motto: Liberty in Our Lifetime)—but Christian! (I’m tipping the Christians get their state going first.) 19:44

http://slate.msn.com/id/2101575/ “The Stalinist roots of John Kerry’s new slogan.” 18:26

http://slate.msn.com/id/2101383/ US politics: pander to interest groups by suggesting that you’re considering “their” candidate as your running-mate! 00:32

http://slate.msn.com/id/2101274/slideshow/2101388/ On flag design. 00:20