Wider Angle: Links for 09.19.06

Don't pull your iPod out of the dock until you're completely sure it's done loading. The hard drive will break or crack or something.

An American Airlines flight crew threatened to divert the trans-Atlantic flight if a gay couple would not stop cuddling. [via Kent Jones]

µTorrent's web interface has gone public, enabling users to manage torrents on their home computer from any Internets-connected device. [via digg]

President Bush named Andrew Natsios to be the UN Special Presidential Envoy to deal with Sudan. Natsios headed Boston's Big Dig and claimed on Nightline that the Iraq reconstruction would cost U.S. taxpayers no more than $1.7 billion. For the rest of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, he talked about 9/11 and terra. [via Rachel Maddow]

TrueCrypt is free, open-source, on-the-fly encryption for your files that does more than you could possibly want or just as much as you need. [via TWiT]

"Yahoo's gotten Hollywood Records (owned by Disney) to release the new Jesse McCartney's album 'Right Where You Want Me,' as unrestricted MP3 files." I'll be on my unicorn in the McDonald's drive-thru.

The hacking of Diebold voting machines finally made it onto CNN. If only this report had been aired in 2003.

Here's a short and simple tutorial on how to get the best clipping paths in Photoshop.

HP has a slimming filter on many of their new digital cameras that re-processes the image to make the subject look thinner than in normal photos. It makes sense that this is for more than just stupid vanity; the convex lens of a camera does really make people look fatter, so it seems to just be slightly compensating for that distortion.

Napster is on the corner looking for a new daddy.

Great new Honda Civic ad from the UK.