Shop Til He Drops (out of the white house at least). Hate Bush? Love to Shop? Putting affiliate programs to good use, this site takes the standard affiliate commissions and donates it toward groups working to replace Bush in 2004.ÊTo stay within F.E.C. guidelines, none of the money will go directly to our candidate.Ê Rather, the money will be sent to democratic/progressive/liberal groups such as moveon.org. Quite a range of online stores represented, too. [MetaFilter]

Yahoo launches “Yahoo Labs” [bOing bOing]

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looks interesting, and they are hiring apparently.

Selected Experts?. Hmmm. I haven't received my letter yet. I hope it's just lost in the mail. [Lextext]

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hmm, imagine that, neither have I….. well any day now:)

Red Harry Kidd

Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

TrustUsTrustUsTrustUsTrustUsTrustUsTrustUsTrustUsTrust. “You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month” (PDF, 112k) “The Covert News Network”, on Project MOCKINGBIRD – “Watergate muckraker Carl Bernstein uncovered a list of over 400 reporters and a coterie of publishers and media moguls who had basically been rubber-stamping CIA propaganda since the 1950s.” Alex Constantine on Mockingbird. “Investigators digging into MOCKINGBIRD have been flabbergasted to discover FOIA documents in which agents boast (in CIA office memos) ofÊ pride in having placed “important assets” inside every major news publication in the country. “ ( from Geoff Metcalf on Mockingbird). Cheryl Seal on Mockingbird, with additional links. Enjoy the election! [MetaFilter]

Semi-Open Thread: Graduate School Reform. So much to blog, so little time. Consider this a semi-open thread. The suggested topic is graduate school reform. It's clear from the comments to this entry (on PhD attrition rates) that there are some people out there who would… [Invisible Adjunct]

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this is an interesting thread, doesn't do any major solving or proposing of solutions though…

my back has been acting up with all this cold weather, last thursday it started, i think i irritated it stretching, which for me is a predecessor to getting in shape, in any case, i finaly went and bought some ibuprofen today in hopes that it will just go away, which i thought it had by sunday and didn't feel any different monday. It really isnt' a bad back that prevents me from doing alot of stuff, but it is the bad back that makes me wince when i do certain things, primarily because it occurs in the area between my shoulder blades. Usually i get this once a year or so, when its cold, and then it goes away, well it has been cold and it has not went away yet…. weee!