More stuff you should be reading instead of downloading porn… #

Politics #

• If true, this report of Abu Ghraib-like prison abuse in the US is horrifying. (via Reason)
• David Corn has an article on some unsung American Heroes we should be honoring this weekend.
• The Poor Man previews the new Bush ad, John Kerry’s Coalition of the Shrilling. Fun-NEE.
• Kevin Drum cries for the CIA. Those poor spies… always getting left out in the cold.
• Professor Lawrence Tribe looks at the meaning of the Supreme Court’s decisions on executive power. (via SCOTUSBlog)
• Shoulda known. Remember that image of Iraqis toppling Sadaam’s statue? That iconic image, that symbol of Iraq’s liberation and how happy the Iraqis were that Sadaam was gone? Turns out it was staged by our Army’s psy-ops. Atrios quotes the LA Times article, and we get a more detailed view – with pictures! from Sid’s Fishbowl.
• Atrios also he points us to this Crossfire exchange in which Bob Novak squirms in his own juices and to Rumsfeld’s latest baldfaced lie
• Brad DeLong $#@!s-up the administration. Also, DeLong quotes some talking points on Farenheit 9/11 that won’t be on TV.

• Orcinus notes the continuing work by the AWOL Project to ferret the truth out of Bush’s TXANG records. Culture #

• Brilliant lunatic Marlon Brando dead at 80. The Columbia Union points us to a suitable tribute. Reason’s Hit & Run has some comments and a list of movies to watch in tribute.
• This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics, a blog with a name that’s WAY too long, notes that the he-men of Old Hollywood action films are being replaced by sensitive guys like Toby Maguire, he of the new Spiderman 2.

• Creative Commons has a new Wiki dedicated to cataloging open and non-open content on the web. Science & Tech #

• The Hubble Space Telescope has quite possibly discovered a hundred new planets. (via Slashdot)
• See the latest images from Saturn at the Cassini-Huygens home page.
• Boing Boing shows us an intriguing story about researchers who have come up with an algorithm that can detect Photoshopped images.
• Boing Boing also had an item about Sony’s Librie e-book reader, which I had previously noted with some interest in this blog. The downside of this marvelous technology, it seems, is that Sony has bundled it with a viciously restrictive Digital Rights Management scheme that makes your purchased e-books self-destruct in 60 days. Why in the world would Sony think consumers would accept this?

• This iPod mini wedding cake is just silly. My own wedding is coming up in a couple of months, and no way would I approve an iPod cake. A Treo 600 cake, though…

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