Freaky ceramic figurines from the '60s [bOing bOing] ——- some of these are scary…..

THE EXIT POLLS. Taegan Goddard has them: South Carolina: Edwards 44, Kerry 30, Sharpton 10Oklahoma: Edwards 31, Kerry 29, Clark 28 Missouri: Kerry 52, Edwards 23, Dean 10… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] ——- otb said it… dean is done.

Nihilist Bear —– oh not really a nihilist… but it's somehow related i'm sure

the kids and cars safety act, it's right and it's worth it.

Ochs tree. Sheila Lennon still carries a torch for Phil Ochs. As do I. Nobody's music ever influenced me more. Outside of a small circle of friends still haunts me. Here's his site. More importantly, here's a story about The Ballad of Phil Ochs, the one-person musical performed by Zachary Stevenson. [The Doc Searls Weblog] […]

CBS, NFL a Bunch of Hypocrites. Okay, I was done with the Justin/Janet thing about a half-hour after the boob came out. But the statements being published in the news today are far more offensive to me than the tacky dance numbers of the half-time medley… [Eat Your Vegetables] ——- as i've said before, CBS […]

Sophisticated software for analyzing OA literature. Mike Martin, Iridescent Software Illuminates Research Data, NewsFactor, January 27, 2004. On Iridiscent, sophisticated text analysis software developed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to help “scientists easily identify obscure commonalities in research data and directly relate them to their own work, saving money and speeding the […]

Virginia Indigent Defense System Failing. From a press release from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL): A new study of Virginia's indigent defense… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] A new study of Virginia's indigent defense system released Monday concludes that the state is still failing miserably in providing constitutionally-adequate representation in criminal cases […]

Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders. Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreadershttp://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of Public Domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg (PG), Distributed Proofreaders (DP) is now the main source of PG e-books. In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site and as […]

SPECIALIST HUMOR. Anticipatory Retaliation posts a list of 213 mostly amusing quips and observations from a, likely apocryphal, “SPC Schwarz stationed with the Army in the Balkans.”… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] —– i was a specialist once, it is a strange rank. You are not a corporal, a jr. nco. yet you aren't a private either. […]