• Via DCBlogs, an emissions reduction blog produced by Arlington County.
  

  
  
  




• Assessing Terry Gilliam: “The torture surgery contributes one of the most brain-curdling of the film’s many disturbing themes… The suggestion seems to be that a torturer need be no more sinister than your doctor”.
  

  
  
  




• SETI@Home Finds New Calling As Laptop Lojack: “The computer was then returned to its owner, marking what is probably the first time that SETI@home has made a significant find”.
  

  
  
  




• Tire Reef: “It seemed like a good idea at the time”
  

  
  
  




• Cities Put Revenue Over Driver Safety: “the pursuit of more revenue has led some places to shorten the length of yellow lights to increase the chances of someone getting caught running a red”.
  

  
  
  




• Nick Tosches: Autumn and the Plot Against Me: The mysterious origins of a Windows desktop image.
  

  
  
  




• Special Privileges: Brian of Nationals Farm Authority (who is also my brother-in-law) is quoted.
  

  
  
  




• Will food blogs kill cookbooks?
  

  
  
  




• When Lego Goes to War: “Over the last decade, I’ve seen Lego’s themes take them gradually to war”.
  

  
  
  

I don’t remember a time when there were not Lego kits available with some degree of implied violence, although I suppose the law-and-order context might distinguish the kits I had from the “war” themes the author writes about.

Some Video for You

• God, Inc. Episodes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and a fan-created Org Chart
  

  
  
  




• Comedy on Fox News: Who needs “The 1/2 hour news hour” when you can just give John Gibson a laugh track? Here’s one with Bill O’Reilly.
  

  
  
  




• Casino Royale: The Product Placement cut
  

  
  
  

From The Network, all-Greg-all-the-time edition

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  Is Chris Dodd White Enough?
  



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  Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow
  



• 
  Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush’s Billionaires: End corporate welfare now, please.
  

(fond of politics, that one)

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