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Courtesy of some alternative paper out of Buffalo called “The Beast,” here’s a list that’s absolutely beautiful in its bile-filled disgust for, well, everything. 🙂

South Korea (which I narrowly avoided moving to early this year when a job opportunity turned into a bit of a clusterfudge) is a country brimming with national pride and, some would say, an inferiority complex. So when one of their leading scientists announced he’d cloned a human being, they went a little nuts, and the fact that he turned out to be lying like a madman didn’t do their national self-esteem much good. The NYT lays it all out on the line.

Rumour has it Disney is going to buy Pixar outright, and in the process make Steve Jobs even richer than he already is, with an air of movie industry legitimacy to boot. the Times of London has the details.

The Internet Archive has a great documentary free for the downloading called “The Power of Nightmares.” It’s a three-part BBC special about the similarities between the neocons and Islamists like Bin Laden. Essentially, both groups use fear for their own ends. It’s a big download if you go for the mpeg2 files, but there also some relatively small mpeg4 files for the taking.

Ron Kovic was paralyzed from the waist down after he was wounded in Vietnam in 1968. His life was made into a (pretty damn good) movie, “Born on the Fourth of July,” and now he’s written an excellent piece on what wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq are going through.

Yup, it was done and broke since about the summer, due to the fact that I’m lazy and the site moved to a different server. But it works fine now, so feel free to mail me through the site again. Several upstanding Nigerian businessmen already have. 🙂

Yup, apparently the feds want access to Google’s search records, to prop up some anti-porn law. Because, as we all know, if you download porn, you’re a freedom-hater.

We’re all used to Apple fans speculating madly and bending reality to suit their particular taste of crazy. But a columnist at thestreet.com, not exactly a repository of “APPLE RULZ0RS!” types, is predicting Apple will dominate the world of online video downloads (and audio, which it already does dominate.) And he goes on to say that online video will overtake other form of couch potato-ism soon. Interesting.

Defective Yeti, always a good source of chuckles and yuks, has recreated a transcript of Bush’s tenure in office as a Zork adventure. Damn, that’s some funny stuff.

…by notable design cat Jeffrey Zeldman, no less. Apparently he’s sick and tired of all the Web 2.0 hype, and he’s aiming his prodigious design noggin at taking it down a peg or two.