links for 2006-08-16
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Character actor Bruno Kirby dies
Veteran character actor Bruno Kirby has died in Los Angeles aged 57.
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BBC NEWS | UK | 10,000 bags misplaced at airports
At least 10,000 bags checked in by British Airways passengers have gone missing at airports since the UK security alert began, the airline says.
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Guardian Unlimited | Science | Pluto survives as solar system acquires three more planets
Science textbooks will have to be ripped up – the solar system is about to get a bunch of new planets.
Astronomers want to redefine our home in the Milky Way as a place with 12 – rather than nine – planets orbiting the sun. -
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Google launches home town wi-fi network
Google today announced that it would move into the provision of internet access for the first time, offering free wireless access to the inhabitants of its home town.
The online search giant will make the service available to the 72,000 population of Mou -
Native American Skull Unearthed at O.C. Construction Site – Los Angeles Times
The skull of a Native American has been unearthed by construction workers at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, halting a chapel expansion project as archeologists sift the dirt for artifacts.
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The Seattle Times: Health: Repairing the retina: Stem-cell procedure promising
Procedures using stem cells derived from human embryos could be utilized in a few years to repair disease-damaged retinas, new research by University of Washington scientists indicates.
UW scientists reported Monday that they have successfully used the s -
Stepping in “macaca” | Salon News
“This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is: He’s with my opponent. He’s following us around everywhere.”
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Governor Is Criticized For ‘Confederacy Month’ – New York Times
Governor Allen, a Republican in the last year of a four-year term, urged residents on Wednesday to salute the state’s ”four-year struggle for independence and sovereign rights” during the Civil War and to respect ”the honorable sacrifices of Confederat
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Battle of the Speeches Breaks out in Wake of Lebanon War – Informed Comment
I don’t know why they would want to claim it. It was such a stupid war. It was thick-as-two-blocks-of-wood strategy on all sides. It was moronic for the Israelis to plan it out last year. It was idiotic for Hizbullah to cross over into Israel, kill soldi
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Frameshop: ‘Macaca’ or ‘Macaque’
WARNING: This findings in this post contain language that many readers may find offensive.
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Lance Mannion: The king is a fink!
Ann Coulter is not the Lone Haranguer riding bravely through the night to yell up at the castle, “The king is a fink!”
She works for the fink. -
Stuck at Heathrow Airport Experience – designverb
My journey over to the UK was awesome, but the departing experience at Heathrow airport was an ever longing wait of frustration, anticipation, and stress. The news of the foiled attacks prepared me for long waits and many more surprises, but what happened
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Whiskey Bar: Home is Where the Sink Hole Is
It appears that Southern California (which originally was the product of an 1880s real estate bubble deliberately engineered by the Southern Pacific railroad) has arrived at the stage of “distress” and is quickly moving on to “revulsion.”
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