links for 2007-01-26

A friend of mine dives under the hood of the website from the TV show Heroes and show you how to get to the secret area.

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) President Neil G. Giuliano today criticized CNN host Glenn Beck for his flippant and gratuitous on-air use of an anti-gay slur during his Jan. 22, 2007 program.

a visualization of the connections between the most influential writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians of Western culture

Yep – a while back, Prince researchers discovered that Diebold uses the same key for all their machines. And using a picture of said key from Diebold’s own website, they were able to go to a hardware store and buy a key that opens every voting machine in

Many Al Qaeda operatives are converts who were US citizens born in America – The New Yorker examines how they ended up plotting against their own people.

This went on my Amazon Wishlist.

Analysis of the most frequently used words in Bush’s SOTU address, compared to the Democratic response and to previous years.

You can’t stop looking at things through your designer eyes. Everything you do is clouded by this thing that lives inside you.

Children living in red states — those in which a majority of the citizens voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election — may be worse off in terms of health than those living in states that voted Democrat, according to a new book.

“Millions of American children are without health insurance, millions are reported abused and neglected, millions are left unsupervised everyday after school, and millions have parents in a prison system that is crushing families.”

Yep, we’re pretty effing lame on child care issues, which is to be expected from a state that claims to care about families while abusing their children.

Here’s a supreme being able to make a lion and a lamb cuddle but unable to abide two men kissing. Who would want such a god anyway?

Say you know a guy who likes to kick his dog. Every morning you see him out walking his dog and whenever the dog stops to sniff around the guy gives the poor mutt a swift kick in the ribs.

If you can see your pennies piling up on account of a light you left on in the bathroom, you can bet you’ll remember to turn it off. It’s the real-time feedback that’s key.

A “data cable” made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system.