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BREAKING SURF John Roberts's Supreme Court Nomination Hearings President Bush nominated John Roberts for the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and this week the US Senate is holding confirmation hearings. Senators are grilling the nominee over a variety of fundamental and obscure issues of law and judicial philosophy, with a healthy dollop of political posturing thrown in for good measure. National Public Radio (NPR) has good coverage of the hearings, including audio podcasts of the highlights. In print, the National Law Journal has excellent and legally informed coverage. You can find more complete podcasts of the hearings at many online locations - for example, WBAI in Pacifica, Calif. has them all in one place. As always, if you have the time, we urge you to go to the source and listen to the hearings. Your favorite media outlet will probably spin this important story one way or another.NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4761752 National Law Journal: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp WBAI: http://archive.wbai.org/ Katrina Fallout: the Interdictor Blog Coverage of Hurricane Katrina has swamped the online media sites, pro and amateur. Here are some of what we consider the high points of the online coverage. The Interdictor blog comes from a group of guys who have tried to keep an ISP up and running in New Orleans. They have holed up in their facility downtown, and the blog relates their daily efforts to keep the service going, and to survive. The home page has links to several relevant photo galleries. Read from the beginning to get the whole story. The Aug. 27 entry begins: "Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm."http://mgno.com/ Throughout the crisis, Craigslist has been an invaluable resource for New Orleans residents, who have used it for everything from finding loved ones to finding a place to live while the city is evacuated. But there's also another Craigslist phenomenon at work that deserves note. Guys from all over the country are offering help, romance, and other favors to the unfortunate women of New Orleans. That's either very sweet of them or kind of creepy, we're not sure which. Maybe it has something to do with the city's nickname: the Big Easy. http://neworleans.craigslist.org/m4w/ Katrina Fallout: Refugee Experience Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, two emergency medical technicians, were attending a conference in New Orleans when the hurricane hit. They wrote up what they subsequently went through before finally managing to leave the city. Theirs is a depressing tale that focuses on the fact that, far from helping people evacuate, the local police forces actively impeded people from leaving the city by blocking bridges and lying to refugees. This account has been corroborated by various others, but this description is the most coherent write-up of a typical bad refugee experience. A lengthy discussion of what happened and the Bradshaw/Slonsky piece can be found on the Making Light blog.Bradshaw/Slonsky: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sfsocialists/3687.html Making Light: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006754.html#006754 The full environmental cost of Katrina can not yet be tallied. What is clear is that much of the Gulf Coast around New Orleans suffered severe effects to the geography and wildlife of the area. National Geographic's coverage focuses on this aspect of the story, with news of the destroyed oyster beds, the impact on pets, rodent populations, and the area's zoo animals. The photo section has the usual spectacular National Geographic shots of the story from many angles. Don't miss the prescient piece in the Related Web Sites sidebar entitled "Gone With the Water", which predicts the exact course of events that transpired as a result of Hurricane Katrina. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0902_050902_katrina_coverage.html Katrina Fallout: Supercomputer Hindcast A supercomputer at Louisiana State University crunched the numbers and produced a hindcast of what the storm surge generated by Katrina looked like. The storm drove a huge, five-meter-high dome of water ahead of it, water that eventually breached the levees and flooded New Orleans. The Times-Picayune has the background behind the simulation.Hurricane Katrina Hindcast: http://www.nd.edu/~adcirc/katrina.htm Times-Picayune: http://tinyurl.com/8af5w Apple iPod Phone and iPod Nano Announcements The long-rumored iPod/phone is called the Motorola ROKR E1 (did somebody else trademark iPhone?), a unit with all the modern cell-phone features and a 100-song iTunes capacity. In the US, Cingular, a cell-phone service provider, is selling the ROKR for $250 (see Cingular's site for a Flash intro). The phone will appear at other retailers this week. The rest of the world will get the unit later this month. Along with the phone, Apple announced an updated version of iTunes with a new look and feel, yet another upgrade to search capabilities, and parental controls. Finally, Apple also presented the iPod nano, a superslim cousin of the iPod mini in 2-GB and 4-GB versions, retailing for $200 and $250 respectively. To sweeten the deal, Apple is also releasing exclusive content, selling bundles of the first six Harry Potter audio books and a catalog of Madonna albums with selected iPod models. Ars Technica dissects the surprisingly robust iPod nano with plenty of geek-friendly autopsy pictures.ROKR: http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/ Cingular: http://www.makemedance.com/ iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/ iPod nano: http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/ BBC Releases Creative Archive Audio and Video Clips This week, the BBC took steps to begin its bold experiment in content sharing, allowing people to download, remix, and share about 100 clips from its television archive. The material is mostly short clips up to a few minutes long released under the Creative Archive License. As part of the experiment, BBC Radio 1 is running a VJ contest that encourages users to use the video material to make a three-minute mix. Winners will get cash and the opportunity to show the clip on TV. The BBC is again proving that its management thoroughly understands the promise of the Internet in making traditional media content available to its audience.BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4225914.stm Creative Archive: http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/ Radio 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/calc/radio1/competition.shtml Tech columnist Robert X. Cringely has launched a new interview show called "Nerd TV". Cringely sits down for lengthy and informative interviews with technical celebrities, much in the style of TV interview talk show hosts such as Charlie Rose. The catch is that the show is only available on the Internet. You can view the video, download the podcasts, or read the transcripts - and it's all under the Creative Commons license. Cringely's first show featured original Macintosh developer Andy Hertzfeld in a widely ranging interview. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin appeared in the second installment. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/ In Search of the Perfect Album Let us preface this item by saying that there is only one truly perfect album - "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, To their credit, some of these Plastic readers acknowledge this indisputable fact in an utterly pointless but fun discussion of perfect albums. Perfect albums are here defined as albums on which you would never skip any track while listening. The discussion is certainly full of the expected "my album is better than yours" religious arguments, but it's also a great guide to good music in any number of genres. Consider the lists offered by Plastic readers as a means to broaden your musical education. Yes, it's an interminably long thread, but great fun.http://www.plastic.com/comments.html;sid=05/08/15/08563882 Earth Flyby Movie from Mercury Probe The Messenger spacecraft is on the way to Mercury, taking the really, really long way around as it swings on a wide orbit around the Earth and twice passes by Venus. The probe is already returning spectacular pictures, a set of which the mission team has assembled into this beautiful movie of the receding, rotating Earth as the spacecraft passed by in August. It's a big download, but worth it. Messenger is scheduled to finally fly by Mercury during 2008, and gain orbit around the planet in 2011.Messenger: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ Movie: http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/images/flyby_images/mdis_depart.mpeg If any TV series defined the silly 1960s sitcom, it is "Gilligan's Island". A half century later, the series about the adventures of six hapless castaways still finds itself with millions of fans and a reality TV contest. The focus of the show's castaways was of course Gilligan, the first mate who in virtually every episode managed to frustrate their chances of getting rescued. Bob Denver, the actor who played him, was forever typecast as Gilligan. Despite several attempts to break out of the mold with other work, he never quite succeeded. Even at 70 years old, he was still Gilligan, and he was at peace with that. Denver passed away Sept. 2 from complications of cancer. Bob Denver's Gilligan Fan Club will tell you everything you want to know about Denver's career with an understandable focus on "Gilligan's Island". You can also find lyrics and sheet music to that infectious theme song, and instructions on how to build a raft, just in case. http://www.bobdenver.com/ ONLINE CULTURE Seth Stevenson and Chris Suellentrop are thirtysomething guys, of the generation that grew up in the "fulcrum point of gaming popularity". Guys five years older than them don't really "get" video games and guys five years younger than them can't imagine life without video games. Girls, too, we suppose. Here they are, recording for posterity in Salon how they play Halo 2 and get their behinds handed to them by 14-year-olds. They discuss the Xbox Live experience - the casual profanity on voice chat, the social environment, the cheating, the conspicuous lack of women. The entertaining article comes from the perspective of adults who must deal with a clear video-game generation gap.http://www.slate.com/id/2125300/ Second Life Opens Teen Version, Makes Basic Membership Free Second Life's multiplayer virtual world has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last few months, and is poised to grow even faster after the company started offering free basic memberships this week. Second Life has been growing by about 10% per month, and membership exceeded 48,000 recently. Second Life also targeted a new arena at teen minors. Teen Second Life has all the features of the original, but is policed to remove the mature content that makes sections of the original so popular. Second Life users generally seem to think that it's a great idea to segregate the kids. While the graphics and performance of Second Life may not be the most spectacular in the multiplayer genre, the combination of free basic membership and members' creative control over the environment makes it a netsurfing experience worth checking out.Second Life: http://secondlife.com/ Teen Second Life: http://teen.secondlife.com/ This press release from the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd, Wales, tells us early on that the internet doubles its size every two to three months. That's just plain wrong (see the BBC article), but we digress. We suspect that some flack added that to this intriguing study of men's and women's Web-site preferences. Men like straight lines and plain text. Women appreciate rounded shapes and colored text. Furthermore, the study confirms the expectation that men prefer sites designed by men and women prefer sites designed by women. Anybody who took a minute could have figured out through logic to trust some of these conclusions, but seeing it in black and white might be - for men, anyway - a wake-up call. Should marketers adjust their sites by the sex of the customer? Maybe they should. Press release: http://www.glam.ac.uk/news/releases/003056.php BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4184436.stm Mike has a problem. He's just been appointed the head of his company's IT department, which consists of himself and a roomful of antiquated equipment. In a series of video clips that start with an unfortunate server outage, this British 20-something, nerdy, wannabe cool slacker tries to get a grip and upgrade his hardware. Eventually he makes his case to the boss, his apparent skill boosted by his cogent analysis of the hardware's return on investment. (It's either that or the leverage afforded by the boss's indiscreet e-mails concerning his fellow directors.) Luckily, Intel's wide range of products saves the day and even earns Mike a sleepy assistant. This is all a giant commercial campaign, of course, but it's a funny one. You'll never look at your IT staff the same way again, and our heartfelt sympathy goes out to them. http://www.intel.com/business/enterprise/emea/eng/video/itfiles/ ONLINE TRAVEL Just How Terrified Are These Londoners? The civilized world admired the imperturbable residents of London after the coordinated terror attacks on July 7. As it turns out, some stiff upper lips are trembling. Not only are some Londoners frightened, but they are terrified - fucking terrified to be precise. Some were so fed up with the whole "we are not afraid" shtick that they have come together at this plainly titled Web site to share just how frightened they are. Non-Londoners are welcome as well. The resulting collection of amusingly captioned photographs, some obviously altered, shows those who have felt the need to express their fears in entertaining fashion. This defeats the initial anti-war tone of the project, but does raise a point: of course, the British are scared. They just have a long tradition of not showing it. This Pythonesque display of soiled drawers and other responses offers catharsis. Join in and share the fear. It's all for the good and is probably helping some folks to keep up their morale.http://iamfuckingterrified.com/ At the Intersection of Google Maps and Photography The Foundcity site marries Google maps with user photos. It is what Grafedia (see NSD 11.13) should have been. Foundcity is grounded in Google Maps and allows you to create a map of your daily life, including photos and GPS tags. You upload your data and tie them to a city map. Once your photos and info are up, all can share your street and life. So far, the results are a mixed bag, but that's true of all user-defined sites like this. Some people create vivid images. Others don't exactly entice you into their lives or cities. Currently, Foundcity only supports eight cities (and two of those are part of New York City), but it does plan to expand. The site should improve as more people visit and contribute.Foundcity: http://www.foundcity.net/index.php NSD 11.13: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v11/nsd.11.13.html#BS8 Tornado chaser Gene Moore flat out advises the visitor who scrolls down that he doesn't know if anyone can work as a professional storm chaser. That doesn't stop him from running after twisters and snapping some amazing tornado photos. Once the province of graduate students and research scientists, tornado chasing has blossomed into a mainstream extreme sport. The media has fueled the frenzy by paying good money for great images, inspiring meteorologists and weather junkies to risk lives for a timeless shot. Moore has photographed over 263 tornadoes in 30 years of storm chasing, published his images in Time and National Geographic, and is the Guinness World Record holder for most tornadoes sighted by one person. He might also hold the record of most windshields lost to hail: more than 40. Moore's site displays hundreds of tornado images annotated with chase logs that describe weather conditions, photography techniques, and how to dodge baseball-sized hailstones after the wind has ripped the roof off your car. http://www.chaseday.com/ ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Got the end-of-summer blues nipping at your heels? (Apologies to our six Oz subscribers and the Kiwi in the corner.) Ennui dogging you like a mangy Lab with a slobbery stick in its maw? We know the feeling. Allow us to suggest that you take a wander on over to la Pate a Son. Tank up on your favorite mood-enhancing beverage, perhaps, sit back, and watch the jellybean works. That's right, the jellybean works. This strange gadget spits a succession of what appear to be jellybeans into a fantastical grid. The grid starts with a selection of pipelines, most of which produce a sound when a jellybean passes through. The contraption produces synthesized musical meanderings that are as hypnotic as the jellybean parade on screen: plink, plinka plink, boinga, toot, plink, splat.... What, 4:35 already? Toot, plinka plink, shhh. Even better, this sucker's interactive. Build your own musical score. We can't wait to try it out on a four-year-old.http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/pateasonframe.htm Swiss artist Beat Brogle and Web developer Philippe Zimmermann put the artist's tools in your hands. The creative process is straightforward: go to their site; click on Movie Window; and enter your keyword in the Search box. One Word Movie takes it from there. The search engine scours the Internet for images that match your keyword and assembles them into a film that loops while it adds more images. When you tire of experimenting on your own, you can review the site's hit list - or not. The top entry is "sex" (you tried that one, didn't you?) and most others we won't print here (even though we know you tried those, too). The project is touring European and Asian museums and art festivals, where the crowd's creations are projected onto huge screens. Take a look at the Gallery to see the system in action in front of a crowd. http://www.onewordmovie.ch/ Victorian-Style Organic Collages Founded by San Francisco artist Alexis Mackenzie in 2002, Plantimal Collective features her art as well as the creations of a number of other Bay-area artists. Mackenzie's montages are witty and whimsical, quite Victorian in manner. She makes them all by hand, does not digitally alter them in any way. The collages manage to evoke the spirits of both Lewis Carroll and a kinder, gentler Hieronymus Bosch. Their only constant visual premise appears to be a grafting of the human female DNA onto the genetic structures of diverse bird species. The results are charming, hypnotic, even surreal, and entirely wonderful to contemplate for hours.http://www.plantimals.com/ The Indianapolis Museum of Art has created Cycles: African Life through Art. This online exhibit combines art pieces with audio and visual enhancements to communicate the representation of African life. Although Flash intros are usually tedious showpieces that add little to the presentation of a site, this one is not to be missed for the context it sets. Once inside the exhibit, the Flash also lets you rotate art to see it from all angles, especially valuable on sculptural representation. If you're not into the Cycles theme, you can alternately browse the collection geographically by clicking on the Africa icon in the corner of each section. http://www.ima-art.org/cycles/ Biblical Art Sale We Had to Comment on It seems slightly sacrilegious to ask why anyone would make a living selling hundreds of scans of old (read "old enough to be in the public domain and free of copyright") religious artwork, but ask we must. That's what you pay us for. Chant Art's artwork spans the gamut from inscrutable icons to non-descript but obviously holy illustrations. Where do the images come from? The titles don't help, unless you remember works called "A10_08.jpg" or "JOAN009.jpg" from art class. The thumbnails are handy, but the "Click to enlarge" link often presents an image that's basically the same size as the thumbnail. One important saving grace is the ability to post reviews of the images, and the one currently highlighted on the home page of this site is telling: "Four stars - This is actually a card of St. Therese (Lisieux) not St. Teresa (Avila). Though it is a very nice card :)" We're not sure St. Teresa of Avila would be as understanding - especially not if she had paid $2 for the download.http://www.holycards.com/holycards/catalog/index.php Audio and video from television's recent past has a home on the Net at Television Obscurities. Currently housing over 50 features and a boatload of clips, the site also serves as sort of a clearinghouse that directs you to available DVD compilations. Yes, you can actually buy "Tabitha - the Entire Series" on DVD today. You'd have to be some kind of freak, but there it is. The site is descriptive and detailed. There is room for improvement. If the site were able to offer more video and streamed it, it'd be golden. http://www.tvobscurities.com/index.php BOOKS & E-ZINES
http://www.2020hindsight.org/category/1945 Stop us if you've heard this. A despot believed ostriches could fly. When one of his senior officials was asked whether he also believed this, he said, "Yes, the ostrich flies but only at very low altitude." That's worth a smile. It becomes more than amusing when you learn that it's the joke most Iraqis are using to explain George Bush's attitude towards the state of the peace (or lack thereof) in Iraq. Iraqis laugh because when they hear the White House discuss "lowered expectations" for Iraqi democracy, they interpret it as meaning President Bush has learned that ostriches can't fly. You'll learn that info, and much more, at Watching America. This site presents foreign reporting on the US, translated for the English-speaker. The site presents a fresh perspective on all sorts of news, including an interesting piece on how video games like Grand Theft Auto may help spread violence to children in Colombia. The articles are short, but many will pique your interest and broaden your horizons. http://www.watchingamerica.com/ The hardest task for a writer is oftimes not the writing, or even the writing well, but getting the work published. The Internet has certainly helped many scribes find an outlet, but many want to see their work on professional-grade paper. The Book Writin' blog at Mediabistro's MBToolBox discusses tools and strategies for getting published. The content is excellent. The current blog, by Thomas Shess, tracks his journey to find a publisher for his novel. As useful as the weekly entries are, don't miss the resources and links on the right side of the pages. They're comprehensive and worth a visit just on their own. http://www.mediabistro.com/mbtoolbox/book_writin/ Fifty Word Fiction asks you to submit a short short story of 50 words and promises to make it appear on the Web, "as if by magic". As if it were that simple.... Given Fifty Word Fiction's verbiage limit, the results are bound to be uneven; a perusal of the site's content confirms said suspicion. Reading these stories reminds us of meeting strangers at a cocktail party. Here's Mr. Sophomoric, flanked by Miss Trite and Miss Trying Too Hard. There's Mr. Self-Conscious, cringing in the corner, eyeballing Ms. Precocious. Luckily, some entries blossom within the constraint, entries that surprise, delight, and even dazzle. They, in fact, make a visit to Fifty Word Fiction worth your while. Look for "Untitled" by Willa, "Sex and the Holy Spirit" by Charles Deemer, and "Four Chairs" by Alonso Cromwell, among others. http://fiftywordfiction.blogspot.com/ The Invisible Library of Fictional Fiction The Invisible Library is a collection of metafictional books: works of fiction mentioned in other books. It's a common conceit in the Harry Potter series - witness Gilderoy Lockhart's autobiography "Magical Me" - but since the Invisible Library hasn't been updated for a few years, it only contains titles found up to the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". It would be spectacular if the Invisible Library were a database that curious readers could search by pseudo-title when they ran across a suspect in one of their own libraries. For lovers of the imaginary, more recently updated and along the same lines is Wikipedia's Lists of Fictional Things.Invisible Library: http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_fictional_things Visual special effects, often abbreviated VFX or sometimes f/x, in movies are often taken for granted the better they get. They shouldn't be. Vfxblog blogs the world of VFX and lets us outsiders see the inner workings of the process through screenshots and interviews with the artists. The work is a lot more complicated than you might think. The shots VFxblog provides alone are spectacular enough to make a visit worthwhile, but the more you get into the interviews, the more you'll come to appreciate what you see on the screen. http://www.vfxblog.com/ SURFING SCIENCE San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation has created many educational scientific exhibits (and let us ride a Segway once). Understanding Genetics is another fine effort. Genetics is not only headline news, but raises political questions that only informed and educated voters can intelligently deal with. These days we need to consider the values and effects of stem cell research, of genetically modified foods, of "designer babies" - and the list is growing. This Web site is not only an excellent introduction to the basic science of genetics but it also examines the ethical questions embedded in the rapidly advancing field. Features include a section on ethical issues, an "ask a geneticist" page, and home activities oriented toward the younger members of your family. Like the Tech's other Web efforts, the site is lavishly illustrated and user-friendly. It's very much a public service for those in the general public who want a grounding in the basics of genetics, a science of constantly growing importance.http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/ugenetics/ The Science of Augmenting Visual Reality Augmented reality seems, at first blush, a subject more suitable for Timothy Leary disciples than for hard science. However, multi-focal projection techniques currently under development just might send you tripping. In NSD 11.23, we showed you how a projector can function as a second camera. Similar light tricks can take advantage of the way our eyes and brains work to provide enhanced visual experiences. Augmented Reality provides a suite of projects and techniques, with cool images and video of the results. It's heavy stuff, man. This place will either kill your inner geek - or make it stronger.NSD 11.23: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v11/nsd.11.23.html#SCI7 Augmented Reality: http://www.uni-weimar.de/~bimber/research.php There's nothing tricky or debatable at all about Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion. You learned all about them in school, and they're called laws because they are the rules of our physical world. Since we're all familiar with the macro world the laws govern, a couple of Flash games based on Newton's simple laws should be a snap to master. These particular games can be found on the site of the PBS series "Zoom". They're meant to teach Newton's Laws to young people. Go ahead, try them and see how well you do. Then, if you can find a kid willing to play against you, try again. Don't say we didn't warn you. 3 Puck Chuck, a multi-player, multi-level Flash game of collisions and decisions, is particularly good. It has seven levels and can be played solo or against an opponent. The physics seem quite accurate. http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/3puckchuck/ Eric Heller's digital art shows a world we can't see directly. His art explores the physics of quantum mechanics, its collisions and wave effects. The incredibly beautiful art, with the bright colors the creation process adds, always has flow and order. Some pieces are exciting, many are serene and calming. All, of course, can be purchased and if the colors are not to your taste or decor, Heller offers color-shifting on demand. No word on charm-shifting, though. Heller teaches physics and chemistry at Harvard, and with his art opens new doors onto the digital world. http://www.ericjhellergallery.com/ When we think science art, we traditionally think of beautiful images of space, zoology, or botany. Most of the rest of the sciences - anatomy, polymers, ions -- don't really attract the casual browser unless one happens to be their thing. Princeton University challenged its students to combine right brain and left brain to produce images of their chosen field of science as art. The results are stunningly spectacular; it must have been difficult to choose 55 of the 200 entries to highlight. Who knew that E. coli or chloroform could be so beautiful? http://www.princeton.edu/~artofsci/gallery/ Three grad students in mechanical engineering at MIT are focused on staying at the leading edge of automated catsup spewing. They designed the Catsup Crapper, and their biggest challenges appear to be getting the robot's little arms to spin around and to avoid cracking up when filming it in action. The Catsup Crapper looks like a ketchup bottle on roller skates. It zips up to a plate, pirouettes, and squirts ketchup. The three students created it with, unbelievably, design assistance from a professor at the School of Architecture. Their Web site is a paragon of "Show, don't tell," with only a couple dozen words of text. Run the video first - no further explanation will be necessary. You should also enjoy the innovative presentation of the inventors' biographies, and you won't be surprised to learn that two of them design toys for Hasbro. The Catsup Crapper won $100 at MIT's inaugural Unuseless Competition. http://www.catsupcrapper.com/ CORRECTIONS In last issue, we stated that the situation in New Orleans had led to "the first time martial law has been declared in the US since World War II." Martial law has not been declared in New Orleans, despite reports that confirmed that it had, among them from sources such as UPI (at ScienceDaily), WWL-TV, and White House press secretary Scott McClellan. Slate sets the record straight.ScienceDaily: http://tinyurl.com/8yqz5 WWL-TV: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL083105lawless.1242410b.html Slate: http://slate.msn.com/id/2125584/ |
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