29 Jul 06 Net Crap (7/29)

• Gen. Wesley Clark (Former Dem Prez Nom) Discusses Secret 2001 Pentagon Plan to Attack Lebanon
  “Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Som
  (tags: military fascist whaddafuck neocon horrifying)
• Techdirt: RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn’t A Person
  Embrace the free-spirit initiative and open up your access point to anyone who wants to use it … this’ll help you out. Cool.
  (tags: copyleft censorship cool geekery funny goodideas)
• Alderman: Hybrids should park for free
  “Free public parking for your hybrid? Ald. Rey Colon (35th) thinks you — and the planet — deserve it, so he’ll introduce the appropriate ordinance today in the City Council.” Cool idea! Not that I own a hybrid, but cool idea …
  (tags: goodideas cool)
• The “Enchantment Under the Sea Dance” scenes from BTTF and BTTF2 … synchronized? Pretty cool.
  (tags: cool geekery movies)
• The second of two clips shown at the Comic-Con of a scene in the “Simpsons” movie coming out next year.
  (tags: movies tv cartoons cool)
• One of two clips shown at the Comic-Con of a scene in the “Simpsons” movie coming out next year.
  (tags: tv cartoons cool)
• “Earlier this month, the Duma approved (almost unanimously) a bill requiring Russian ministers to use the word rubles instead of foreign currency terms. Last Friday, Russia’s defense minister called the dollar ‘that thing you are not allowed to say’ while
  “Today, the economy minister almost used the word dollar, corrected himself by announcing a statistic as ‘700 million rubles,’ and then added ‘30 million not rubles’ instead of 30 million dollars.”
  (tags: censorship dumbass funny)
• An audio recording of Kevin Cosgrove’s last moments in the World Trade Center.
  Horrifying, explicit, and very much brings home the stark, sharp reality of what happened that day.
  (tags: terrorism horrifying)
• “A Good Samaritan Hospital emergency room doctor refused to give a rape victim a morning-after pill because he said it was against his Mennonite religion.”
  (tags: whaddafuck religion neocon dumbass horrifying)
• LiveScience.com - A New Wave: Scientists Write on Water
  “The AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), a circular tank created by Mitsui Engineering at their Akishima laboratory, is able form letters with standing waves.”
  (tags: amazing geekery goodideas science cool)
• Russell Crowe visits the Waiter’s restaurant.
  (tags: celebrity cool)
• Another Newspaper Decides to Drop Ann Coulter’s Column
  “Ann Coulter is gone from these pages… gone like the leaves in December, like the fringes of the polar ice caps, like the last vestiges of Tom Cruise’s rational mind. [...] Ann Coulter has been a very naughty girl indeed.”
  (tags: goodideas cool funny politics)
• Photographs of the World Trade Center two days after the planes hit.
  (tags: photos horrifying)
• CNN: Medieval book of psalms unearthed
  “The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations’ attempts to wipe out the name of Israel.”
  (tags: science religion politics)