Kelly Ripa Explains How She Does It All Workaholic Kelly Ripa explains how she manages work, family and kids. It's the highlights in her hair.

Sidney Blumenthal on Bush: "He was depicted as decisive, in command, somebody who completely grasped and was in synch with the needs of the difficult moment the country faced on September 11. In fact, he is manipulated by his staff, buffeted by the neoconservatives inside his administration, kept from important information, unknowledgeable about so much information, makes decisions on the most simplistic basis, never carries through on his own policies such as the Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East, operates in a closed, small circle, doesn

The Rubble telescope? Viewing Inside the Earth

Cap'n Crunch A fascinating (for me at least) story of one of the oldskool phreaker/hacker legends.

Tiny Transport.

Flashback A little odd flash to add flavour to your day. Don't worry about the low quality at the start, it gets considerably better when the music starts.

Thailand opens hospital for monkeys. Meanwhile, Thai elephants are holding up sugarcane trucks. [Via Fark.]

Early Photographs. A small collection of photographs from the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. more inside

Dennis Kucinich Campaign Commercial I doubt this will ever air on television. If it did it would be extremely controversial. Dennis Kucinich has a campaign ad that flashes the names of dead soldiers, shows a battlefield, grieving families and lists the corporations doing business in Iraq. My question to the group is if this ad is exploitive?