Amazing New Product! Erstaunliches Neues Produkt! Products. Useful. Sleek. You will buy or possibly make them! vom blauen Filter der Liebe

Line Rider Draw a line, hit "play", watch the sled guy ride it. Simple. Friday. Flash. Fun. Wheeeeeeee!

Mark David Chapman Denied Parole BeatleFilter/Newsfilter: ATTICA, New York (AP) -- John Lennon's killer was denied parole for a fourth time Tuesday because of the "bizarre nature" of his crime. Mark David Chapman, 51, must remain at Attica Correctional Facility for at least two more years for gunning down the former Beatle outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980. Monday, Oct. 9th was John Lennon's birthday. more inside

Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk Happy Birthday to a jazz legend, a musical genius, and all around hep cat. Listen to some tunes, watch Straight, No Chaser and appreciate the momentary dancing note that was Thelonious Monk. As usual, via the Blue(s) more inside

Children's Letters To God "Dear God, I am Amareican, what are you?" "Dear God, I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention" "Dear God, if you let the dinasor not exstinct we would not have a country. You didthe right thing." via more inside

The Sound of The Universe Being Born Physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle calculates what the universe sounded like in the first 750,000 years of its existence. Then ratchets it up a few hundred thousand times (okay, 100,000 billion billion times) so we can hear it. "During the 100-second recording, the frequencies fall because the sound waves get stretched as the Universe expands. 'It becomes more of a bass instrument,' says Cramer" Something Bootsy already knows, baby! Kirk Out! Totally sampled and ripped from TheFi

Lucas to Feature Films: You're Dead To Me Now "We don't want to make movies. We're about to get into television. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, we've moved away from the feature film thing because it's too expensive and it's too risky." George says for the $200 million it takes to make a big picktcha, he'd rather make 50 little ones. And, that that's where movies are going. What do you think?

United States Constitution v2.0 On the heels of sanctioning torture and denying people the right to hear why they're being jailed, the fearless US Republican leaders have just said "The Hell With It" and pooped out New! Improved! Constitution 2.0! more inside

5,000 years of Middle East history in 90 seconds a flash-based movie showing who's occupied the Middle East lands over time. G'wan, learn something today. via the MetaFian Empire

US Republican-Owned Govenment Allows Torture, Gets Rid of Habeas Corpus Yes, an agreement to torture prisoners, deny them a hearing, and file it under the subject of "fighting terrorism" is on it's way to being passed. As one wag has it: "The bill simply removes a suspect’s right to challenge his detention in court. This is a rule of law that goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215. That pretty much leaves the barn door open." For Fuck's Sake people. more inside

The Nearest Simile Is Respiration a poem. via Poetry Daily more inside

Clinton On "Fox News Sunday" Fox "News" invites Former President Bill Clinton to talk about his recent Global Initiative conference. Very quickly though, the interviewer uses a variant of the Faux News tactic of "some people say" to blame Clinton for 9/11 ("Why didn't you kill Osama? Why didn't you stop this?") It's clear from the record that BushCo dropped the ball on anti-terrorism, but this is Fox's job - to obfuscate the facts and make the far right wing look good. Clinton tells them to STFU. more inside

Johnny Cash Prepaid Visa more inside

The Original Star Trek, Remastered for HDTV. It's! Fantastic and yet. Comforting! Familiar. via Retro Thing

Rebuild Iraq With The Best and Brightest Loyal Neoconservatives! A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting. via more inside

Jigsaw Monkey You have 5 minutes to put the picture of the monkey together. Friday Flash Fun For Freaks! Fantastic!

Do It Yourself Cell Phone Repair Learn something and save money! Oh, and your warranty is voided just for reading that. more inside

Valerie Plame Was In Charge of "Finding" WMDs In Iraq. The Bush administration didn't get the lies they wanted, so they ruined her career because they could. Booorrriiiing. Also includes crass, evil, crooked, self-defeating and possibly treasonous. YMMV. more inside

Curious George: Acoustic Song List? A friend of mine - Joey Joe Jones, Jr.-Shabbadoo? Anyway, he's compiling a list of songs to play on acoustic guitar. Thoughts? more inside

Mao Removed From History Books Nearly overnight the country's most prosperous schools have shelved the Marxist template that had dominated standard history texts since the 1950s. "The new history is less ideological, and that suits the political goals of today." Pilfered, as a stale crust of bread, from mr_crash_davis and The Blue more inside