Crawling Chaos has some nice artwork (especially the backgrounds) and, umm, stuff.
If you’re too hip for that, Exploding Dog has cool pictures in a more cynical bent.
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Have the Commies won?
A list of 45 goals of the Communist Party that were exposed 40 years ago in “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen, who was head of communications at the FBI for 16 years. Includes such highlights as:
23. Control art critics and directors of museums. “Plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and violation of free speech and free press.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
40. Discredit the “family” as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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Second law of thermodynamics “broken”
New Scientist: Second law of thermodynamics “broken”.
“One of the most fundamental rules of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, has for the first time been shown not to hold for microscopic systems.
The demonstration, by chemical physicists in Australia, could place a fundamental limit on miniaturisation, because it suggests that the micro-scale devices envisaged by nanotechnologists will not behave like simple scaled-down versions of their larger counterparts – they could sometimes run backwards. ”
[via daypop top 40]
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Leonard Nimoy’s Nude Photography
Leonard Nimoy Photography is a site featuring Mr. Spock’s artistic nude photos. Of interest to the Jewish audience might be his Shekhina project, featuring a nude woman wearing Tefilin (phylacteries).
[ from newsqueak.com, in particular here ]
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Internet Forums and the Law
An article on Ynet describes a recent court case in Israel, a trial about defamation on an online forum. The judge showed considerable insight into the issues, ruling that the right for privacy does not extend to concealing someone’s online identity, and that internet sites should not be held to the same standards of accountability as newspapers with regards to libel. However, he did rule against a forum owner who posted bogus defamatory messages under another user’s nickname, and prevented that user from posting his protests that he did not post those messages.