Neil Guy has posted his stunning Burning Man photos. [via BB]
Firefox 2 is out as of yesterday (update now!!) and TechCrunch has a list of the recommended add-ons to make your experience even funner. Lifehacker also has some config tweaks you can easily make yourself. The wonders of open source software. (If you're still using Internet Explorer, stop it.)
Countries should form armies of skilled athletes and funk masters to battle like breakdancers.
Dumb slut Patricia Heaton of Everybody Loves Raymond features in an ad opposing Michael J. Fox's appearance in a campaign ad for pro-stem cell legislation and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. Rush Limbaugh is on her side.
The first four minutes of the Borat movie.
Los Angeles hospitals have been releasing patients on Skid Row and driving away. Now diseases are beginning to spread from the unhealthy patients dumped on the street. [via BB]
Hand-stitched felt pillow covers with a Pac-Man ghost. Very cute. [via Wonderland]
Digg was shopping around for buyers and looking for at least $150 million. News Corp was interested, among others, but Digg's user numbers and growth are in question. For now, they'll stick with a second round of financing for over $5 million.
The Mars Spirit rover has transmitted an amazing panorama of the planet.
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Read Wired's The New Atheism, this month's cover story, for free online. "The probability of God, Dawkins says, while not zero, is vanishingly small. He is confident that no Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. Why should the notion of some deity that we inherited from the Bronze Age get more respectful treatment?" [via Plasticbag]
Architecture of control, or engineering obedience?
Bush uses The Google, also doesn't email, as that would require reading. "One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes."
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, lost the ability to speak in normal situations, so he retrained his brain to remap the neural pathways. Brainhacking is awesome. [via kottke]
Outside.In is a local news/info/review aggregation site that should have been done a long time ago, but that doesn't diminish its relevance. Feeds for Park Slope, Manhattan, Boston, LA, Chicago. [via A Whole]
Iraq's own version of The Daily Show, "Hurry Up, He's Dead!" "In a recent episode, the host, Saad Khalifa, reported that Iraq’s Ministry of Water and Sewage had decided to change its name to simply the Ministry of Sewage — because it had given up on the water part."
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